13th Note

scummy but cool

Advantages: great music, cheap
Disadvantages: bit tatty

Noteworthy

Advantages: Seeing bands play before they become famous, amusing toilet graffiti, some cracking hairstyles
Disadvantages: As it gets more popular, it gets less intimate and more expensive

The 13th note has gone up in the world. What used to be a small dingy two level pub graced by buskers and skint indie-kids looking for a cheap pint, is now a well known venue for up and coming bands. It now boasts two branches - a cafe, bar and band venue, on King Street and a pub and nightclub venue on Clyde Street, by the river. The cafe/bar is friendly, although the clientele are a little more upmarket, and not quite as welcoming to visitors outside their social circles as they used to be. Downstairs, where the bands play, is cramped and dim, reminicent of the old days, but it's worth it - the atmosphere is buzzing, the music is loud, and the prices keep going up. . . Although the Note is known for it's support of new indie bands and performers, other styles are also recognised and played, including jazz. They have established ...

avitallly 22.05.2001 · Read full review
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90 Years on - Remember the dead of Jallianwala Bagh

Advantages: Very moving and important monument
Disadvantages: Can leave you feeling rather uncomfortable

painting of the massacre with bodies and blood splattered about the gardens. It's horrible and fascinating in equal measure. Our next stop was at the Martyr's Well which is now fully enclosed but at the time of the shooting was open. Many people preferred to take their own lives by drowning in the well rather than wait for the soldiers' bullets. On the other side of the gardens is a collection of brick walls with bullet holes framed on them. The walls are lower than the surrounding gardens and we learned that after the gardens were bought for the public as a memorial to the Massacre, the level of the ground was raised by several feet. The main monument stands at the centre of the far end of the gardens and was inaugurated on April 13th 1961 - again, note the significance of the date. It's a tall red sandstone column that I assume ...

koshkha 13.04.2009 · Read full review
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Spongly Abroad

Advantages: REally nice place, with plenty of concerts coming to town.
Disadvantages: Food ain't so great

concert hall scale as the SECC. This also has an excellent atmosphere, along with several floors and a lot of space. The only downside with all the venues but the 13th Note is that the drinks are, as usual, really expensive. For those who like shopping Glasgow has plenty of space to do that, especially on Sauchiehall street, which has all of the major chain stores. Still, it is worth going slightly out of the town centre to find some really cool little shops which are much more reasonably priced or more specialist than the major shops. For second hand records I can recommend Missing on Great Western Road, and for general strangeness I would advise that you pop along to Eurasia Crafts, also on Great Western Road, as quickly as you can. Another small point which may influence my fellow countrymen is that you really can understand what ...

Spongly 10.01.2001 · Read full review
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