ep 8 - Chris Cornell. Jam nights. Scottish weather.

originally aired on YTube April 7 2025

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How's it going guys? It's Mexicati here, and it's time for lovely stuff, episode numero act. Alright, today I want to tell you, I'm really excited to tell you about this. I've finally got a uh recording session with the lovely Charlotte Marshall. She's from Australia, she's a bassist, but most of all, she is probably one of the most phenomenal uh vocalists you'll ever hear in your life. Check it out online, you'll find her on YouTube, Charlotte Marshall in the 45s, that's the name of her uh originals band. She also plays with a country band in Glasgow called Tight Fit with Alex Cowan, who's also phenomenal. She's got a few weddings, uh wedding bands on the go, and like I say, she also does her own stuff with uh the 45s, and she also plays with uh just basically anybody. She's just one of these musicians. Uh I've not been yet, but she she even hosts like a is it a Samba night at a place called Boteco in Glasgow, down in the Trondate. Um and I don't know what goes on there, but it sound from the videos and the wheels that I see, it looks and sounds like a bloody party that you would never expect to it it it feels like you're in New Orleans just watching the videos, you know. It's that kind of um I mean I don't know how I don't know how she's got such a massive repertoire of various music, you know. But the main thing that I know Charlotte for is her beautiful soul and blues voice, and that's why I invited her to play on a track called Our Love. Now I've never done this on this podcast before because it's usually just me rambling shit, but I'm so excited about this song that I want to play a basic mix. I'm I'm talking about this is a mix that was like I put down like a minute after she left. Like it's not really edited, there's almost no there's no like uh mastering or proper mixing involved in this. I just want to give you an idea of what she sounds like because it's just and I and and crazily I'm not a great singer, you know. I sing, but I'm not a great singer. But um I think that her our voices actually work quite well together. Just have a listen to this. This is a bit of the um third chorus from a song called Our Love, which will be out in about uh a month.

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Be mad in the morning as a time for show. Hello, I'm trying to move time.

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We say it's time forever. We both know it ain't true. Give you in the fire, cause nothing's good to prove like a love.

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So I hope you all enjoyed that. Um so that was me Mexicatic with uh Charlotte Marshall. Um, and I honestly I fucking loved the session. We had such a great laugh because we both do the same job. Uh it's it's um I wish there was more women uh doing the job because there needs to be more more women out there being represented in the in the scene, especially in Glasgow. You know, it's all it's just guys everywhere. And I not that it's I mean, if if people are talented, they're talented. If they're not, they're not, but it's just uh Charlotte's really flying the flag for women being able to get up there. And I've spoken to a uh a few girls that are just like oh I shouldn't girls slash women, whatever, you know, or you know, whatever. I I don't want to get down that whole fucking rabbit hole, but you know, um I've spoken to a few people who genuinely feel inspired by what Charlotte does because she's week after week at the wolf. I don't mean to like gush, you know, but you I've talked about her before a couple of times, but you know, she's just an amazing musician and a lovely person, and um you know, she gets up week after week and leads mostly a band of uh guys um and she directs them, you know, she picks the set list as she goes and she organizes who's getting up with who at the jams. I just think she's she's brilliant. She's and the thing is, I used to do that job. No, I'm the wolf-bitted box, and I know how hard it is to organize, you know, jams. It's just it's pretty tough, you know. It's hard enough to organise your own band sometimes. But when you're organize, it's I no, not even that, it's hard enough to organise yourself. Your own life is hard enough to organise, and then you get to the point where you're organising shit for like three people, and then you know, me and Charlotte are doing things, and everybody who hosts a jam knows what it's like. You're trying to arrange um a situation where okay, this guy can sing, but he can only play well, you know, he only knows how to sing like three or four songs, and then you're trying to put him up with you know other guys who know those three or four songs, but you also want to get him up with the drummer who knows how to play a fucking four on the floor, you know, or a or or or hold a fucking groove. And if you've got new drummers coming in, you don't know whether they can do any of that, you know. You don't know somebody until you played with them. That's that's another beautiful thing about music, man. Like I feel like I connect really click really quickly on a personal level with people through playing with them. You know, I've I've found like people who have become my best pals over the last uh 10 years of uh being in or 15 years of being on the that well, it's actually longer than that, it's probably like 18 years of being in the Glasgow scene. Um and just and the jam scene and the gig scene, and just like you get you know, you get to jam with somebody that you might think you would never talk to in normal life, um but you connect with them over a groove or some kind of riff, and you go, and they put a push in and you put the push in, uh, or you might miss a beat, you drop a beat, or you even if you make a mistake, it's quite incredible because you can look at them, you can look around the round at the band. Like even if I make a mistake and I look round at the band to see if anybody noticed, and if I see that the bass player or the drummer has noticed, then they kind of like go, ah, it's cool, man. I got you. You kind of hold each other up, you know. The whole band, no matter how many people are in it, it feels like a tripod, you know, where if one leg goes, there's others, you know, the other two will kind of hold it up just for a second. Um I don't know if that makes sense because if one leg of a tripod goes, the whole thing's fucked. So I guess it is more like a yeah, it's like a four-legged table. I should have really thought through this analogy. If you've got a table with four legs and one of them, you know, gets a bit bandy for a second, it you know, turns into rubber. You you can the other three will hold it up. There's so there's such a better analogy here, isn't there? I could have said anything about you know, anyway, fuck it. It's just one of them ones where you hold each other up, you know, and if the drummer drops a stick, the bass player will play a little bit more groovy, just just in order to get through that like couple of seconds till he till he gets back on track. But anyway, that's that's how I feel about playing with people and and the the people that I've met through music over the years. It's when I look back and think like what would my life be like without music and without the people that I know through music, I just think it'd be fucking depressing, man. Honestly. But I'm not saying that you have to be a musician, because it um like to to experience that because there's probably people that feel like that through sports or you know, whatever you're into, like the chess club, book club, you know, whatever people do. Uh you know, there's there was a mountain mountain a mountain biking um fraternity that I nearly got into, but you know, when it got to the winter, I was like, right, fuck this, I'll see you. I'll see you in um May next year. And they were like, What? You're a fair weather biker, you're not a real biker then. I was like, Well, I like to dip my toe in in the summertime when it's when it's decent weather, which by the way, if you listen to this from any country that isn't Scotland, you need to realise that we only get you know, summer for us is like you blink and you miss it. So you only get like well, we've been doing alright this month, to be honest. April. For April to have like four days of blazing hot sunshine, well, for us blazing hot, it's like 14 degrees Celsius. Um, I know you you know most of you deal in Fahrenheit. I don't even know what that would be, but uh yeah, we we only get like uh two months of summer a year, but the problem with it is it's not exactly June and July, it's two months of summer spread out over the year. So you might get a month of summer in you might get a week of summer in April, and then two weeks in May, and then you probably get the whole of fucking June will be raining again for some reason, you don't even know why. It's just and then July is usually fine, and then August goes to shit again, and then you come in September, and then for some reason you got your you're sitting in your little sun trap in your back garden, you know, drinking coffee and reading a book, and on the last week in September, because you're just trying to get those last rays of uh Scottish sunshine before it gets to October when it starts fucking snowing. You see, you never know what's gonna happen. You think Scotland is genuinely the only country I've ever been to where you could have four seasons in one day, four seasons of uh of weather in one day. So, what the hell? I was talking about jam nights and I'm now I'm talking about Scottish weather. Jesus Christ. So, next thing I wanted to tell you about was um you know my covers band three card trick. Last week we played uh uh Did I say that too fast there? You know my covers band three card trick. Uh if you want to find out more about three card trick, you would go to threecardtrickband.co.uk and that is where all of our info is, all the new videos, details of there's actually an online availability checker if for some reason you wanted to book us for an event, weddings, birthdays, you know, Christmas, whatever, bar mitzvahs, funerals, uh, divorces, divorce parties. We did one divorce party, and it was for a guy whose wedding we played like four years earlier. Needless to say, I charged them half price for that one. Uh, it was just funny. Um, yeah, so three card trick is my covers band, and we play in Glasgow and Edinburgh quite a lot, and all over the country as a wedding band. Uh Glasgow and Edinburgh is the pub gigs usually, uh, and then you know, all over the country, um, including north of England most of the time for um some weddings. But anyway, we played last week uh at Stramash, but Dean wasn't there uh because he really took the two-week holiday thing seriously. I remember last week I was telling you we're on um holiday for two weeks, but I couldn't resist playing my solo gigs, just acoustic solo stuff. So I was actually in um uh Monday last week. I was at a place called the fuck was on Monday. Let me just check the diary. It doesn't matter because it's in the past. Is it it doesn't matter, it's in the past. What film was that again? That was some Disney film. Oh sorry. I saw Monday, um Jesus, this was two weeks ago, right? Monday the 24th of March. I was at the Howland Wolf on my own, uh 11 to 1. They're paying really well right now for solo slots. If any of you guys are in Glasgow and you want a solo slot, get in touch with Darren at the Wolf. Paying really good for two hours. You've got to put the work in, you've got to engage with the audience, you've got to play songs within the bracket of like blues and rock and roll and a bit of country. But honestly, man, it's my favourite, one of my favourite gigs to do. Then Tuesday, the 25th, I was at Malone's. That was great, just played requests all night. Malone's is in the back alley behind Wolf. Um, I love that place. Used to be called Universal, if you remember that back in the day. And then on Wednesday, the 26th, we were at Stramash in Edinburgh, and uh Dean, it was a band gig with me and Gibby, but Dean wasn't there uh because he he's really taking the two-week holiday thing seriously. So we were playing with Alex Waite of the Lockhearts, and what's great about playing with Alex is obviously he's an amazing singer if you've ever seen him, but he's got like a seriously vast repertoire, but it seems to be almost it's it's quite it's a little bit different to ours. Like he plays he sings a lot of like Sting in the Please, and uh he does he does ACDC in the original key, which is absolutely insane to me. Um, what else did he do? Brian Adams, all this most of the stuff that he he does is in the original key, and for that to be in the original key of all these old rock songs, like like you know, sweet child of mine, living on a prayer, you know, summer of six to nine, they're all really high songs to sing from well for most people, you know, but he just nails it every time. Um and at one time he was telling me, like, uh, he said, Oh, I've got four gigs this weekend, but I've got a sore throat. I don't know how you do it. And I was like, Well, I do it the way that most normal fucking human beings do, which is take it down at least a semi-tone or a full tone, you know, or use a capo and take it down further. You know, I mean use a capo and play it in B instead of D or something like that, you know. You can do it that way if you wanted to. But um, I know you might have questions about what I just said there, but you know, just ask me in the comments and I'll explain. So, playing with Alex is great, so we just took turns about. I was like, I'll do a tune, you do a tune. And uh he's a great bass player as well. The problem with Alex is he doesn't give himself enough credit as a bass player because he's such a great singer. There's a few other people like that, like John McIntyre from The Rocks, phenomenal singer, phenomenal guitar player, but his guitar playing gets left behind because people focus on his voice. I think there's probably a few people like that, like Richie Cotson, um obviously he's super famous, like you know, but he is known mostly as an incredible guitar player, but if you really listen to his voice, he sounds like Chris Cornell, and in some ways he can do things that Chris Cornell can't do or or never did do, technically speaking, uh just with some kind of quick falsetto stuff that he does. Um there's a great uh live video, live live show that uh Rachie Cotson put up on YouTube years ago, and uh it's one of my favourite things to watch, but I can't remember. It was the one where the album, I think it was the one after the album Cannibals came out, and I actually prefer the live versions on this YouTube video to you know the actual album versions, um, because as much as the album versions are great, it's just the energy of the three-piece just rocking them out live, it's just incredible. Plus, his vocals are just on point across the board. People ask me like a lot, like if you could sing like anybody in the on the in the world, like living or dead, who would it be? And I was like, Well, why would you want to sing like a dead guy? You're gonna be mute. So but I would always say uh Richie Cotson, you know, maybe not if it if it if it wasn't Richie, it would be uh Chris Cornell. I just think those two those two guys, Steven Tyler, talking about great great vocalists, and and also to boot, he's a great harmonica player and just uh uh an incredible frontman. I accidentally saw uh Chris Cornell live, and this is before I even loved him as much as I do now. I always loved Soundgarden and I always loved uh Audio Slave, but not quite enough to like buy a ticket to go and see them because I'm I'm talking about like years ago, I'm talking like 20 years ago. Um that would have been about 2005, right? So what happened was I had a mate from Perth that I went to Perth College with. This is Perth in uh Scotland, not Australia, um, although I would have much preferred that. But I had a friend from uh Orkney called Owen Muir, and he was a fantabulous uh keyboardist, not keyboarder, as I recently learned, you know, uh it's keyboardist, and then so we got Patty and we started playing in bands together and that and played a duo, playing little pubs in Perth just to pay for the student loans and that, and booze. And uh what happened was he for my birthday bought me tickets, bought us tickets to go to see Aerosmith live in Dublin, a big field. It was almost like Glastonbury, but it was uh it was in Dublin, it was a giant field, and we were it was probably the first outdoor concert I'd ever been to. No, that can't be true because I'd been to Rednam Leeds before, but it was certainly the first outdoor one I'd ever been for a singular band, uh, especially in Dublin. So went there and we had no idea because it just said on the ticket, Aerosmith plus guests, you know. So we were like, oh well, who cares? You know, it's Aerosmith, you gotta see them once in your life. So we got there, and uh the first band on was a local band, and God, you know, they were fine, you know, they were fine. That's it. Um but you know, obviously you we'd you'd love to have done that slot. I mean opening for Aerosmith as a local band from Dublin. Jesus, they must have been on Cloud Nine, and they were they were no, they weren't just fine, they were great, and they fitted the kind of uh musical aesthetic of the of the night. They were kind of similar, they had that classic rock thing going on. Uh and then the next band on, let's let me know if you remember these guys. They were called The Feeling. The Feeling. And they had that song, I love it when you call, I love it when you call, I love it when you call, but you never call it all. Remember that one? I think that was well it must have been obviously a about No, I'm trying to I'm I'm trying to remember exactly what year this would have been. Cause um I thought they were more like late noughties. But I remember this gig being must have been about 2005. Um I'm gonna have to Google that. But so the feeling went on after they were rocking, by the way. I thought they were just gonna be like like a kiddie, you know, like McFly busted type of thing, but they fucking rocked live. Uh I haven't heard from them since, like, so I don't know what's going on with them. And then the bands that came on after them, this is the point at which I started going, oh shit, it's getting real. So the feeling left the stage and they started setting up the gear for the next band, and I started to recognise the amps and the kit and then just the configuration of what was going on on the stage, and then the guitars that were like sitting there, and I was like, Oh shit, I recognise this, but I don't know who it is. Then the band comes out and they start the first song of the set, and I recognize the guitar player instantly, had this beautiful black Gibson Les Paul, I think it had gold hardware on it and white binding, and um the song they started with was Casino Royale. Um sorry, the theme from Casino Royale, you know my name, so you know who I'm talking about now, and then he just comes out like a fucking oh my god, it was like it was you know it's hard to describe because like I said, I wasn't like a huge I wasn't like infatuated with the guy at the time, but I knew who he was and I knew what he'd done in the past, Soundgarden and Audio Slave and that and Temple of the Dog, but I was just like, What the fuck? This guy is like the epitome of a rock star, like a showman rock star who doesn't even need to do any showmanship. You know, he just stood there in front of this. I remember it exactly, man. He had the straight leg stand and he was wearing like uh just his usual kind of wife beer kind of I think he started off with a black shirt and he had the short hair, which he'd had for years, obviously, because you hadn't had he hadn't had long hair for a while before that, and uh comes on, he's just like in the middle of the stage, he didn't talk to the crowd at all, um at least for the first half of the set, and which was what the main bit of the I remember, and he was just like he came on to that song, and then the whole set was like the best of Chris Cornell, everything he's ever done. So it was like you know my name, he played um Down in the Upside, he played pretty what did you do, Pretty News? Some of the stuff he did was um from his originals albums that were just around about that time, like no such thing. Um and and uh Arms Aro Arms Around Your Love. I mean, I don't care who sings that, it's a beautiful song, but I'm glad that Chris did you know write it and sing it because it just it gives me shivers right now just thinking about that song. Every time I hear that song, I hear a different lyric or a different like sound or a different melody or guitar part, and it's just the sentiment of it. It's like arms around your love, it's about seeing a girl that you thought you didn't want anymore, but you I th I think that's about that. But but you you see her for the first time with another guy, and you go, Oh shit, I made a big mistake here. Um I just I think it's a beautiful song, man, you know. And he wrote so much, so many beautiful lyrics, uh Chris Connell, but one of my favourite ones was that it's just so weird that it ended up being the title of his greatest hits album, which was um Nobody Sings Like You Anymore or No One Sings Like You Anymore. Obviously, from arguably his greatest hit with Soundgarden, obviously Black Hole Sun. But uh the fact that he wrote that lyric, do you know what I mean? It's so weird that that would be so fitting to I'm getting emotional now, but to to put on a an album of greatest hits of all his music, and then to have one of his lyrics, which actually you know posthumous posthumously describes himself, is pretty mind-blowing. No one sings like you anymore, and it's fucking true, but it's kind of not because I just talked about how Reggie Cotson sounds like him. So I kind of shit on my own point there, didn't I? Uh yeah, anyway. Oh, yeah. Sorry, I meant to say that um when we saw uh Chris Connell, he also played, as much as he was playing like the best of like Soundgarden and his own stuff, uh he also did a couple of Audio Slave songs. Um I think he did like three or four. Definitely Like a Stone, I Am the Highway. Uh did they do show me how to live? It was mostly stuff from the first record, um, the self-titled Audio Slave record. But you know what was really surprising? He even did a cover of Bully in the Head, or was it Bomb Track? Yeah, it was one of those ones from the first Rage album, and I was like, what fucking what a legend. You know, he wasn't even in that band, and yet he knows that people relate him to Rage Against the Machine. So that was that was such a fuck because I've never seen Rage. They were one of my favourite bands growing up, and we nearly saw them in Edinburgh, but the gig got cancelled uh like a few years ago there, and it never got rescheduled, so I don't think I'm ever gonna get to see Rage Against the Machine. So and I'm obviously never gonna see Audio Slave now because Chris isn't with us anymore. So that to me is a really important memory to have, is like Chris Cornell Singing Rage and the Audio Slave songs, because it's because like I say, it's the closest I'm ever gonna get to the real thing. Um yeah, like I said, it's yeah, I always get emotional thinking of Chris Cornell because I almost I often feel guilty that I didn't really enjoy his music growing up, you know. I well I did like I say, I did, but I wasn't like infatuated with it. I wasn't like uh what the fuck is this? I need to know everything about this guy. I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. Sounds like Soundgarden to me was like a weird Nirvana. Whereas it was actually the if you listen to all the grunge bands now, like Alice and Chain, Smash and Pumpkins, even though they don't like to be described as grunge, nobody likes to be pigeonholed as any kind of fucking style of music, do they? But um, you listen to all those bands, it was actually Nirvana that was the stand that was the um the odd one out, you know, because all the other bands, the the bands from the grunge era, that whole Seattle scene um in the early 90s, maybe even even started in 89. But um, yeah, all the bands from that scene, they were doing, they were purposely doing something weird um to to kind of they were trying to uh under what's the word? They were trying to um undermine the uh the the hair metal scene that was going on in the 80s that kind of went on for a bit too long. Uh not that I was there at the time to see it, but when I look back and see what was going on there, it was like fuck me, that was a lot of hair and a lot of metal and a lot of uh painted guitars and a lot of shred solos and a lot of fucking 5150s, um, and a lot of uh humbuckers and strats, which are getting really snobby about there, considering I own a Tom DeLong signature copy, you know. But uh anyway, I don't use it for those reasons, so that's fine. Um but yeah, so these grunge bands came about in the early 90s to overthrow that kind of movement, uh the hair moon metal movement, and and they succeeded obviously, but it was because Nirvana were the ones that came out and went, and Kurt was just like, Well, fuck it, I love playing loud rock guitar, but I also love the Beatles, and I love the song structures of the Beatles and pop bands and things like that, and and ABBA, you know. It's kind of true that Nirvana were the most simple version of Grunge, but you could also call them an accessory drug, you know, an accessory drug too into Grun, which if I'd stuck with them, if I'd stuck with the Grunge thing a bit longer, I probably would have gotten into Soundgarden a little bit more. But I always just felt like the chord changes, like even in Pretty Moose, which is one of their most poppy songs, um, it's that bit I don't like what you got me hanging, and that chord on the From was always just a bit weird to me. But you've got to remember that I was coming from a like I was listening to the Eagles Oasis, you know, all the Brit Pop stuff, and then uh Nirvana was the first weird, like remotely weird band I heard, and then it then you listen to Soundgarden, that's miles away, that's like from here to the moon, compared to Don't Look Back in Anger and Wonderwall, or it or things like um about a girl, or even Smells Like Teen Spirit, it's just the same four chords all the way through, but the melody matches the chord, whereas like Soundgarden, they just went they were just on another fucking planet altogether, man. And it wasn't until um well I wouldn't say it wasn't until after Chris died, because I I seriously got into Soundgarden uh like years before he died, it was after Audio Slave broke up or whatever, and I was just like, okay, well, so Audio Slave isn't there anymore, which I bloody loved. Um it was a combination of Tom's riffs and and and Chris's uh vocals. So I got into Audio Slave and I was like, right, I've got to see this guy, but he's obviously he's not here anymore, so I can't see him live, but I did, so that's the closest thing. Um am I going on about Chris Cornell a bit too much? I don't think we can talk too much about Chris Cornell or Rage Against the Machine or Audio Slave or Grunge or fucking anything really. What's what's what's too much really when you're talking about something that you're passionate about? Um speaking about passion, guys, I need some more of you to talk to me in the comments or even email me. Send me like direct send me direct messages or just message in the comment uh comment section just any questions you've got about any gear that I'm using, any gigs that we're playing, any anything I'm talking about here on the podcast because I want to get some more interaction going on. Um I'm watching Paramount on the tell right now and uh Haley Williams is just yeah she might be the hottest woman on the planet, apart from Av Levine, obviously. But um Wells did it. Oh, I wanted to talk to you about Lucky Strike. Yeah, we were playing a Lucky Strike the other night, um, which is a bar in Glasgow. We were playing it on Friday the 4th. Friday the 4th of April, and uh it was um it was good. We did filming and recording and what songs did we do? I was gonna tell you that as well. Er Yeah we did What's My Age Again, Holiday by Green Day, Dance Dance, Fallout Boy, Thunderstruck ACDC, Teenagers, My Chemical Romance, In the End, Killing in the Name, and Scare Boy. Right? So obviously we've got like a our pro our pro shot video that goes up, that goes up every couple of years. Coast Entertainments, that's our agency, they fund it, they direct it, you know, they promote it, and that's what they um that that's like the bear that's like the um the the juice. That's like the the bones and the the bones of the promotion are always that. Sorry, I'm I'm a bit confused now because the girl that's singing looks like Megan Fox, but it said that she was Oh, it's Maggie Linderman. What the hell's going on here? I'm gonna have to move that on because uh if she keeps singing on the screen, I'm not gonna be able to talk to you. So Lucky Strike. So we did those songs. Uh Dean sang a few and I sang a few. Um but the problem was like we just wasn't that busy. But we weren't really filming the audience anyway. We were filming us, you know. So there was probably like um let's just say 50 or between 50 and 70 people in the in the room. And it was probably about I don't know what the capacity of Lucky Strike is, maybe 200. So we did that, and then uh but the recordings are sounding great, so I'm looking forward to uh showing you what they what they sound like. This week, by the way, if you're looking to see three-card trick live in Glasgow or in Scotland, we're gonna be at Stramash, Edinburgh on uh Wednesday from midnight. We're gonna be at the Howlin' Wolf Glasgow on Thursday from uh 11 till 2. Me and Gibby are going to see a band called Vukovy at SWG3 on Friday night, so that'll be funny. Uh that sorry, that'll be fun. Won't be funny, it'll be fun. Uh we've got a wedding on Saturday, and then we'll go uh oh right, okay. So this this Sunday the 13th, I am playing a solo gig at a place called the Victoria Bar, which is adjacent to the Clutha. It's actually connected. If you go in either bar, you can walk through to the other one through the back bet. Well, actually the Clutha's in the back bed now, in the bit that used to be the outdoor smoking area. So that is the bar now, and obviously they've got the roof over their heads for uh sound reasons, uh, and obviously to keep the rain out, you know. Um so I'm gonna be at the Victoria Bar, which is attached to the Clutha, on Sunday, the 13th of April, and that's gonna be 5 o'clock, 5 pm. And I'll probably be doing like 45 minutes of um classic rock, all the stuff that I used to play with the band when I was in there, like Sweet Home Alabama and ACDC, and what else did I do there? Clapton Hendricks, but all just acoustic. So if you want to come down, it's free, it's free by the way, but the reason we're doing this is because it's a full-day event. So the whole I think the first act is on at like midday, but I managed to wangle myself a nice tasty little five o'clock slot. So uh it's because the Victoria Bar is now 150 years old. So we're celebrating 150 years of Glasgow, of one of Glasgow's uh oldest bars. So yeah, I'm really I'm really fucking blown away to be a part of it. Like uh I really don't know why I was asked in the first place. Because well, I mean maybe it's because I'm one of the um oldest guys who played the old version of the Cluther before the helicopter crash in like what was it, 2012? Oh, that was a tragedy. Um so a helicopter crashed on the roof. Was it a police helicopter? Some kind of I don't know what it was, but a helicopter landed on top of the roof of the Clutha and then uh crashed through the roof and like a load of people were killed. It was an absolute tragedy, man, but you know um the pub was shut for years obviously and they didn't know what they were gonna do, just close it down or sell it and you know build flats with it. But no, I mean I I did a wee tribute gig to them at the Scotia and a few months after it happened, where we just donated the proceeds of the gig to the the Clutha Trust. Um which is managed by a guy called Alan Crossing. Oh, this has been a fucking depressing one today, hasn't it? We're talking about Chris Cornell dying and uh talking about the fucking Clutha tragedy and anyway let's move on. So we're we're we're in celebration mode again. So the Victoria Bar has been there for 150 years now. So I'm playing there on Sunday, the uh 13th, from 5 pm. And like I say, I'll be playing all the old school. Uh I might even play some um some Ain't got no money. Bye Kenny Oh Jesus Christ. I definitely should know this one. Again, it was a guy that wasn't around for. It was a guy that I wasn't around for, but um you think it's easy to do a podcast until you start having to know facts? Frankie Miller, Jesus, sorry. Obviously, his big hit was Darling, but I like the song Ain't Got No Money because they're always dedicated to other musicians in the audience. This one's called Ain't Got No Money. This one's for any other guitar players out there, you know. Ain't got no money because either you can't make any because the fucking industry's fucked, or because you spent all of it on guitars. So, anyway, guys, that's me. I'm gonna keep the podcast to about 30 minutes from now on. Uh, the elsewhere to go and see is uh thanks for listening to this one. Um I've I've I've actually recorded this one about three or four times, but it just it's I sometimes just go on like rants that I would never you know I wouldn't inflict on anyone. So you delete, you start again, you delete, you start again. But um here we go. So thank you very much to Charlotte, thank you very much to the guys at Lucky Strike for uh doing the video with us. It was Sam Gallagher did the audio, Shep did the video, and that's Shep, uh Andrew Shepherd. Uh we've got Dave uh on the sound, and uh Chris is the main booker now. So message the guys at Lucky Strike if you want to see more uh rock music in the town of Glasgow City, and uh I will see you next time on the podcast. Thanks very much for listening and apologies for the depression, but uh yeah, we'll make it a bit more of an upbeat one next week. Thanks very much, love you guys. Oh, also don't forget to check out my new album Rogue Biology on Spotify, and I've got loads of other stuff. Um it's either under Mexi Garry, the new stuff's under Mexi Garry, but the old stuff's under my actual name, Gary Johnston. And next week I want to talk to you about fucking P90s, P90 uh guitar pickups, because they're very underrated and not enough people are using them. Because not enough guitar manufacturers are are are putting them in, because most famous people don't use P90s. Name me some people, some famous people who are famous musicians who are who have made P90s famous. That'd be a good one for the questions. Right, go on. See you later. Bye, love you.