Afternoon all, As I take a welcome seat in my own room after a very hectic week i don't have to think back too far to remember the end of the first ever Scottish madmeet (it ended only a few hours ago in fact). Unusually, I turn up at the appropriatley named 'Lauders' bar ever so slightly late as MrG, Peter and bro and RobW sit in glorious 'Vote for Fred' T-shirts whilst tucking into chips...while our man Iain ( on lunch break) puts the rest of the pub goers to shame in his Armani threads! ;o) Poor young Rob shows us his cut hand thanks to a bit of dodgy driving by a bus driver and a pair of scissors, and the poor barmaids couldnt go anywhere without being under the watchful gaze of MrG and Peter. I honestly felt sorry for her. ;) So as a full size jazz/stage band begin blattering out hits of yestermillenium, we head off...not before a few Vote for Fred leaflets find themselves onto the toilet walls, and the desk of the bemused sound guy. And onto the street, with Drip Fed Fred blaring out of a bag we begin our leafleting campaign. I find my tactics in this (as used in london) very clever indeed. Glasgow's latest shopping development, The Buchannan Galleries was next on our hit list. Woops. We thought it would be a good idea anyway....but the security gaurds didnt. Especially the one that followed us up the escalator and told us off. did that stop us? Did it f.... Another pub is visited, peter sets off on a private mission, returns and we head off to the streets yet again. A great Glasgow place, 13th note was dropped into. I think this one gets the award for 'Most Vote for Fred leaflets in one place'. Cos at this point, we had had a good few and were begining to frequent the toilet a little more than usual. On every trip, another handful of leaflets were taken... Then we set of for food, Abrakebabra the destination. However, Rob was almost treated to a free dinner courtesy of HRH. No sooner had we got have way up the sauchie, a meat wagon sweeps round the corner, two of Strathclyde's 'finest' swoop on poor Rob.... MrG gets told to stand aside as the 'polis' mens hands squeezed into the latex gloves......no, i am just joking. He wasnt subject to ruthless violation such as that...but he was questioned and forced to give details and threatened with being booked for breach of the peace, and told not to do anything with his flyers. His crime? Putting a tube of prit-stick to his forehead. So , eventually we made it to the fine abrakebabra where we then fired cash into the Jukey and the place rocked to a rousing rendition of Lovestruck, with 4 Scottish singers . More leaflet hand outs as we make our way to O'henrys. A spilt lager and an increasing premature divorce from mind and body later, in comes Mr Mason with a couple of mates and his good lady. For some reason I found myself in central station on my tod, handing out leaflets to some girls in an extremely surreal conversation which centered around how sexy Fred was, and if I was Fred. Still, as long as the message got through.. Back to the pub as we head to the final establishment of the night, The Drum and Monkey. After chucking out time, Rob's bus didnt turn up and so Colin offered us space to crash at his house. So more leaflets as we went to the taxi rank, and almost a fight between one or two of our members and the chippy owner..and also the odd shouted swear-word from one of our number who shall remain nameless but who has a thing for a lass called Faye from a certain singing and dance routine group. And so, a good nights kip at MrG's and a read of the News of the World later, off we went on our merry way, the first Scottish Madmeet, and one which was extremely effective. A good number of people took a great interest in it, Madness fans of old, TFI viewers, lots of folk now know that there is another top class Madness single on the verge of hitting the shops. As Rob says "If we only get one person to buy it cos of this stunt, it'll have been worthwhile!" So, a mammoth event and a mammoth review. I bid you all good day, Stoo - ______________________________________________________________ Visit the Total Madness Mailing List website for: latest news, madmeet info, list charter, games, and more ... http://members.xoom.com/totalmadmail/ Contact the TMML Moderators at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the message body put: unsubscribe total-madness
