Jacks story reminds me of the dude who went into the Phoenix in Inverness
about 5 years ago, checked out the menu, went off & held up the Britannia
BS, came back & ordered his grub, & guess what? He got collared too!
Drifting reluctantly back on-topic...why do coffee houses close at half-five
or six? If you don't drink, have kids/teenagers/aunties in tow what fate
awaits you in our towns. And have you ever tried to fire up a tune in
McDeadcows? Eeeesht!
I used to trawl the acoustic guitar NG & they were always banging on about
coffee house gigs, house concerts & such if my memory play me not false.
David?
Jonathan
-----Original Message-----
From: David Kilpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 August 2001 13:25
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses
Jack Campin wrote:
>
> C'mon, even Kelso has a coffee bar, and there's been an explosion of them
> in Edinburgh in recent years (*how* many Starbucks do we have now?). But
> they're a lot less likely to want to host traditional music than a pub is.
>
Kelso has several (at least five). It has a Christian coffee bar, which
was the subject of a real wild west hold up recently when a kid with a
replica gun held the entire staff and customers up, got them to empty
their pockets, cleared the till, took their watches and jewellery - and
got nicked, of course, since he was known to everybody there.
However, there is a catch: they all close at 5.30pm and don't open on
Sundays, etc, in best local fashion. It's quite possible that if there
was an EVENING coffee bar there would be fewer drunk 14 year olds
blocking the path across the kirkyard.
David
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