U2 - Murrayfield - 87
Cranberries - Glasgow Barrowlands - 94
Pink Floyd - Rotterdam - 94
Oasis - Loch Lomond - 96
Radiohead - Avanches - 2005
Top5 gigs
Malts
1. Laphroaig Cask Strength
2. Bowmore 18 Cask Strength
3. Highland Park
4. Laphroaig Quater Cask
5. Springbank 10
not bad Bob, three Islays in there ... no Lagavullan makes bunny cry.
Highland Park is for me mouthwash & would put Bunnahabhain up against the Springbank ...
personal preferencs of course ..
westering home .....
Curry
1. West Sumatran Fish Curry
2. Vindaloo (the real one, with pork)
3. Anything made with Keith Floyds red masala
4. The Green Thai Curry at Lilly's in ZH
5. The Tom Yum Gai soup at the Thai in Horgen
Just got back from Islay - Bunnahabhain was one we didn't manage.. Like the Caol Ila though - new to me. In fact I think I'll have one now....
Slante !
5 bands that I'd love a free access-all-areas backstage pass to go and see, up close:
- Shakira
- Robbie Williams
- Muse
- Crowded House
- fsol
May as well throw in the Stones too and RHCP, before they're both too senile...
very jealous of number 3!!!!! was just about to highlight your counting problem
Swap the Highland Park for a cask strength Talisker then you have a good top 5 .
more haste less speed ....
yep, Rotterdam was good, my brother was working there at the time, so weekend away & he sorted the tickets.
on a Floyd related note, sat in on an impro with Sam Brown in a pub in Pittlochrie back in 2001 ... what a voice .... still a sexy chica too ...
you have no idea how jealous I am ...
haven't been to the Isles in a long time. will need to console myself with a trip to the Rappi with you & GG soon ..
Weirdest things I've eaten:
- seagull
- chocolate dipped scorpions (tasted like a snickers bar)
- ostrich butties (bbq'd ostrich, white bread, tomato sauce, fried onions)
- chickens feet
- pickled jellyfish
Honorable mention: I also saw sparrow soup on the menu in a restaurant in Jordan, but flagged that...
There's also urban legends here of Sankt-Galler hundwurst, but I've never seen it in a shop anywhere...
Draught Ales
1. Samuel Smiths Old Brewery Bitter
2. Batemans 3B
3. Bass (when straight from cask)
4. Theakstons Old Peculiar
5. Wadsworths 6X
Wednesday night is Rappi night .
Did I mention there's a chicken courier right niext door?
What's with you haggis eaters ganging up on the Orkney Islanders eh? Then again, it is an acquired taste but I like iodine .
Top 5 Funny Stand Up Guys
1. Billy Connolly (by a long way)
2. Adam Hills
3. Rhod Gilbert
4. Ricky Gervais
5. Jimmy Carr
they are not proper Scots ... just a bunch of Norwegian squatters
Hm, I'd lead with
1. Tim Taylors Royal Oak
2. Black Sheep Riggwelter
3. Old Speckled Hen
4. John Smiths Magnet
5. Marstons Owd Rodger
My old man works in a maltings, I used to get crates of booze for nothing every Christmas cos all the breweries would load him up with freebies and he didn't always want it all - perfect...
My thanks there were for your Bono comment. I can understand the McCartney one too.
He hasn't lived in Africa. I have.
I have seen how little of the money you might give to the big charities actually gets to where it counts.
I'll shut up now...
Top 5 things you should be doing right now:
1) My laundry
2) Making my dinner
3) Going grocery shopping for me
4) Making sure the beer in my fridge is cold
5) Making sure my flat is clean
top five scenes in movies from my lifetime.
1. jurassic park t-rex (preluded by the bronto!) ... the first time you saw it!
2. christopher walken / dennis hopper sicilian story in true romance
3. The USS Indianapolis speech in Jaws! I ́ll never wear a lifejacket again (... but why????). Quint is ace.
4. a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away... my first mind bending moment. but in contrast, also... the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... spock buys it in wrath of khan. sob.
5. Indy shoots the guy instead of fighting him. Was it stomach trouble?