Best of Glasgow with the Rooks

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We speak to Glasgow band the Rooks on their Best of Glasgow ahead of their King Tut’s headline on 22 February which sold out in three minutes.

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00:00You're first. Oh, I need to go first?

00:02Aye, you go after, right?

00:03Sorry. Awfully boring shout.

00:05Em, I'm Ory.

00:06I'm from Merseyside.

00:07I just, I just die.

00:08Cannae go wrong.

00:09I'm quite basic.

00:10I'm, eh, Sarty.

00:11Bath Street.

00:12Aye, eh, Sylvan.

00:14Up on Woodlands Road.

00:15Good. Mediterranean Lakes.

00:16Aye.

00:17Good shout.

00:18Really?

00:19Depends whereabouts we are.

00:20Em, the State and Suckey Hill Street.

00:23Well, I'm just off Suckey Hill Street.

00:24Central.

00:25The Alison Arms.

00:26Southside's good.

00:27Minipop's not good.

00:28No, you're wrong, you're wrong.

00:29The State probably for me.

00:30Aye.

00:31But we were just in...

00:32Queen's Park Cafe.

00:33Queen's Park Cafe.

00:34We were just in there.

00:35Really nice.

00:36There's a theme here that's the State's mind.

00:38It's just good, nice, big round bar.

00:41Old building, tall ceilings, great.

00:42It's quite central.

00:43You can start there and go elsewhere.

00:45Favourite coffee spot?

00:46Filton's on the Southside.

00:48It's a wee cafe.

00:49It's good.

00:50Just good, solid breakfast, good coffee.

00:52Simple.

00:53Smile Cafe.

00:54Aye.

00:55Bath Street.

00:56Got to be King Tut's for having us in today.

00:58For me, probably Barrowlands.

01:00I don't feel it's a cliche answer, I think,

01:03because it's everyone's favourite for a reason.

01:05Aye, it's repeated for a reason.

01:07Barrow's probably the same.

01:08That's where we want to play next.

01:10City Chambers.

01:11I don't know, I think it's quite grand.

01:13It sort of frames the city, doesn't it?

01:15It's quite sturdy, that.

01:16Was it Merchant House you were talking about?

01:18Aye, Merchant House.

01:19Just across.

01:20We played, we like,

01:21blagged a really well-paying function gig in there one night,

01:25and it's just, like,

01:26the craziest green room I've ever been in.

01:28It was sordid.

01:30Victoria.

01:31Artifact.

01:32Aye, Mitchell Library.

01:33Just great.

01:34Great inside that.

01:35Nice and quiet.

01:36The bandstand at Kelvin Grove.

01:38Summer.

01:39Good gig.

01:40Sun setting.

01:41Nice.

01:42Amphitheatre.

01:43Nice.

01:44Queen's Park, maybe.

01:45Kelvin Grove's probably saving us wine.

01:46For that summer reason.

01:47See, even if you've not got a ticket,

01:49and somebody's not at the bandstand,

01:51you can just sit up the top of Kelvin Grove,

01:53and it's a beautiful place.

01:54Nice in the summer.

01:55Billy Connolly's been saved.

01:57I'll go Edwin Morgan.

01:59Okay.

02:00I'll go Edwin Morgan.

02:01That's a good one.

02:02Just plenty names, like,

02:04names of city and all his famous poems.

02:07You can put yourself in them, which is good.

02:09It's very...

02:10There's a time and a place in that.

02:12Claude's weeging this about him,

02:13so I'll go him.

02:14Paolo.

02:15Do we get Paolo?

02:16Paisley?

02:17P.A. Postcode.

02:18Do we get that?

02:19Or I'll say Jim Carr from Adar.

02:21Honestly, Billy Connolly.

02:22Like, it's basic, but again,

02:23like, the bar is basic for a reason.

02:25And there's so much more to Billy as well.

02:27Like, his stand-up is great.

02:29If you watch a few of the films,

02:31one that came out recently,

02:32Big Banana Feet,

02:33he's a great writer as well.

02:34It just feels that you know him.

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