San Jose’s Best of Glasgow

National World - LocalTV

06/02/2025

We speak to punk band San Jose on their Best of Glasgow.

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00:00Oh, no, we'll get cancelled, man. You can't be saying Starbucks, man. It'll be over.

00:04I'm gonna go with a pretentious choice.

00:07It's a place called Five March. It's amazing.

00:09And on the inside, it feels totally empty and devoid of character, man, but it's beautiful.

00:14It's actually, like, really nice and the food's amazing.

00:17Kokoro. Kokoro.

00:19Kokoro's fire, man.

00:21I like it. It's a good place. Not too expensive.

00:24Honestly, I quite like Block.

00:27After party on the 7th at Block.

00:30But it's also really good.

00:32The hot dogs are class, aren't they?

00:35Five are hot dog, mate.

00:37Do you know what, man? Not just because we're here, but you have to say McCool's.

00:40We've been on a journey as a band with McCool's.

00:45This is the first pub that ever let us play kind of semi-naked.

00:48And I think that kind of, I don't know, that gives them a few points in my books.

00:53Gate, across from the Barlands, that's, like, that's my favourite pub.

00:57Because it's kind of, like, a few minutes from where I stay and where you stay, so it's kind of...

01:02I need to agree with Callum. Here's pretty class. It's really good here.

01:06But I also really like the wing docks.

01:09Just purely because I really like the outside section of that bit as well.

01:13It's, like, no too big. It's no too small.

01:16It's, like, the perfect size. Do you know what I mean?

01:18Bodega and Deniston.

01:20That is the best coffee shop. They have empanadas, man.

01:23And there's a little guy who works behind the counter and he's lovely.

01:26And the flat white's amazing.

01:28I know, it's so creamy.

01:29It's class, man. Class. Bodega, it's man.

01:32I don't like coffee at all. I hate the taste.

01:35So, like, I've never been to any coffee shop.

01:38I've gone to Costa for some sweet treats, but, like, never anything serious.

01:44So I fairly can't answer this one.

01:46It's an old bank building.

01:48It might still be a bank.

01:49And it's got the big Roman pillars.

01:52And it's, like, what? Renfield Street, maybe?

01:57I love that one, man.

01:58But it feels, like, imperial.

02:00Gotham City.

02:01Yeah, it feels pretty evil, man. It feels evil.

02:03I think it's... OK, it was street.

02:05It's kind of west from, like, central.

02:08It's the... It kind of sloped up.

02:11I don't know what it used to be, like, Ministry of Defence.

02:13It's, like, the Jedi Temple.

02:14Oh, the Jedi Temple.

02:15Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was good. I really like that one.

02:17Yeah, I really like the concert hall.

02:19I think Destin is, like, up and coming, man.

02:22That's, like, the... The gentrifiers are moving in.

02:24And we love, like... I mean, I guess, suppose we are the gentrifiers, in a way.

02:29This is a really pompous answer.

02:32I used to go to Kelvin Grove in the summer a lot,

02:34and I'd always go up to, like, Park Circus, Park Terrace,

02:37cos it just overlooks it.

02:38Very fancy, very posh, but it's very...

02:41That's where your heart is.

02:42..very beautiful, man. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

02:44The dream. The dream.

02:46Glasgow Green.

02:47I really like Glasgow Green.

02:48Glasgow Green.

02:49It's kind of empty, though, man.

02:50Yeah, but it's, like... It's kind of empty.

02:51There's not really anything going on.

02:52Aye, but Bella Houston Park also, as well.

02:54That's one of the greats.

02:56But, like, I just like these places, man.

02:58It's got to go with quite a lot.

02:59I would say...

03:00My favourite outdoor space is...

03:02This is another pretentious answer.

03:04You know when in deep, when you go downstairs and there's the water?

03:07Yeah.

03:08That's my favourite bit.

03:09There's a bit across from the water, man, across from the river,

03:12it's, like, a tiny open bit of grass,

03:15and it's just right next to the river,

03:17and you can see the whole of Undeep, and that's class.

03:19That one circle.

03:21I love the necropolis, because, like, the view.

03:23It's a great view.

03:25Oh, man.

03:26I'm going to say Voiture's.

03:27They're, like, a three-piece, like, psychedelic band, man.

03:31They're amazing.

03:32They are, like, the benchmark for me in terms of guitar playing.

03:35Like, I need to try and, like, force myself to get to that level,

03:38which I don't think are actually as achievable.

03:404 and 2.

03:42I'm going to go a wee bit old school and say the Blue Nile.

03:45I was going to say, what's the guy, the bardic thistle guy?

03:49Kingsley.

03:50Corto Alto, but I've never listened to them, really,

03:52so it's just the first name that popped up.

03:54I think they're from Glasgow.

03:55Ross Neil Reid.

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