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Post by snakelady on Mar 26, 2017 7:47:42 GMT
From the Quo homepage:
Quo named Saturday night headliner at the BMW PGA Championship Quo will play the Village Show Stage at the 2017 BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club on Saturday May 27th. Special Twilight and Early Bird ticketing offers, and hospitality packages are now available for fans from the links below. Jamie Birkmyre, Director of the BMW PGA Championship, said: “We are absolutely thrilled to have The Quo as part of our line-up this year on the BMW Show Stage and we cannot wait to see the crowd enjoying some classic anthems from this iconic English rock band. “With our Saturday night entertainment coming from The Quo, and Sunday evening closed by Indie pop stars the Kaiser Chiefs, the BMW PGA Championship weekend is a blockbuster package with something for everyone to enjoy. The atmosphere will be electric and once again I have no doubt it will be an enjoyable week for all spectators, professional golfers, officials, and everyone associated the tournament.” Official Hospitality packages are now available in Clubhouse, the Village Pavilion and now the Championship Pavilion, a fantastic new hospitality area which overlooks the 18th green, renowned for providing one of the best greenside views of golf anywhere in the world. www.eventbrite.co.ukwww.europeantour.com
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Post by smokie on Mar 26, 2017 23:22:38 GMT
Yes me snakelady ! But not a very good one. Where I'm from, it's not a posh game but a working class kind of game. My older brother stays almost in Surrey and so it's not too far from him but it's nearly 500 miles for me. I know he wouldn't be too enamoured if I invited myself to his house and then disappeared on the Saturday to go to the golf and then to go and see Quo as he really dislikes both. Really dislikes. My younger brother wants to go though. He's a golfer and a Quo fan too. Don't know where he got that from
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Post by mortified on Mar 27, 2017 5:28:38 GMT
....it's nearly 500 miles for me. And I would walk 500 miles.... I saw this a couple of weeks back on the main site. Its the reason Rhino's gig on the same day (in Paris?) was cancelled. I'm no golfer; I don't even watch it. But my wife says Wentworth is as pleasantly posh as it gets. I think its near Heathrow where she used to work from. Too far for me. Although that's saying something from someone who was talking about going to see ZZ Top in Wichita Falls, Texas last week!
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Post by snakelady on Mar 27, 2017 6:50:45 GMT
I've never played golf in my life - I'm not a pensioner yet and that's when most people here pick it up - so can't judge how exciting it is when playing yourself. What I do know though is, that it's exceptionally boring to watch on the telly. smokie - why not make a family weekend of it ? Visit your older brother along with the younger one. Play a round of golf with him and then go to the gig together. The older one can take all of you to a nice restaurant the other night - for the family meeting bit. Et voilà - everybody happy (or at least the majority ..)
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Post by LOZ on Mar 27, 2017 8:52:28 GMT
wentworth is a beautiful place. my rog is a golfer and we went to the celeb v pro`s a couple of years ago. I had loads of pics taken with some of the stars and loads of autographs. the houses (I mean mansions)along side the course are stunning (bruce forsyth lives in one of them)
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Post by smokie on Mar 27, 2017 12:24:58 GMT
That's a nice suggestion snakelady.
Before the concert at Wentworth was announced, I had arranged to visit him earlier in May and I think two visits so close together would be too much.
For him!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2017 19:46:13 GMT
I do enjoy a round of golf, I play in a society during the summer. It's all lads who play in the same snooker league during the winter. We take it quite seriously but do have a good laugh at the same time.
Bit far for me to travel to this gig though.
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Post by ant on Mar 28, 2017 8:18:28 GMT
As Butch Oscar once said, a good walk ruined!
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Post by mortified on Mar 28, 2017 9:51:40 GMT
As Butch Oscar once said, a good walk ruined! My dad actually said something similar once. We have American relations and they come over from Texas from time to time just to play the Scottish courses. He went with them once round Gleneagles caddying (or whatever the expression is) and said that the golf just got in the way
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Post by snakelady on Mar 28, 2017 16:36:34 GMT
As Butch Oscar once said, a good walk ruined! My dad actually said something similar once. We have American relations and they come over from Texas from time to time just to play the Scottish courses. He went with them once round Gleneagles caddying (or whatever the expression is) and said that the golf just got in the way .. with @bam having mentioned snooker and golf - Isn't Gleneagles home course of Stephen Hendry (although he obviously spends more time in China these days than in Scotland) ? I've heard he's nearly as good at golf as he was at snooker. Ever met him there ?
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Post by smokie on Mar 28, 2017 21:16:46 GMT
My dad actually said something similar once. We have American relations and they come over from Texas from time to time just to play the Scottish courses. He went with them once round Gleneagles caddying (or whatever the expression is) and said that the golf just got in the way .. with @bam having mentioned snooker and golf - Isn't Gleneagles home course of Stephen Hendry (although he obviously spends more time in China these days than in Scotland) ? I've heard he's nearly as good at golf as he was at snooker. Ever met him there ? He did live there but I'm not certain if he still does. Think he played, or still plays to a pretty decent standard though, eye to ball co-ordination helps there I suppose. I've played one of the courses at Gleneagles and it was magnificent. Superb setting, beautiful countryside and a fantastic course. Poshest place I've ever been to and felt a bit intimidated by it all at the beginning but eventually settled down and enjoyed the day. Played really good too but not good enough, got beat on the 17th but I'm just about over that now. Just about.
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Post by mortified on Mar 29, 2017 7:40:21 GMT
Stephen Hendry also used to live in South Queensferry, where I lived and got married. So did Jim Kerr. Not sure either of them still do. They do say Stephen Hendry would maybe have made a pro golfer as well if he'd started earlier. Smart a$$.
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Post by smokie on Mar 29, 2017 12:53:50 GMT
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Used to be (perhaps there still is) a great fish and chip place in SQ.
I can still see the face of the little Italian chap lighting up when we trooped off the supporters bus and into his place just before 10pm one Wednesday night.
He was delighted.
Off topic I know, sorry
The Italians have reportedly one of the healthiest diets in the world but the ones that came to Scotland gave us deep fried food and/or ice cream!
In the town that I live, there's seven such places and six are operated by family of Italian decent. The other place was Italian owned until fairly recently.
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Post by mortified on Mar 29, 2017 14:32:57 GMT
There used to be two Italian fish and chip shops. One at the foot of the hill before the village High Street - which is still there - and one through the other side of the village towards the rail bridge. That's gone now. Boarded up the last I saw which was a few weeks ago. I think they had a fire but I'm not 100% sure. It was next to a tiny pub called "The Anchor". I'm Edinburgh born and bred but I lived in South Queensferry for 17 years until 2008. Didn't like it at first; seemed like the ar$e end of civilisation compared to the city but I grew to love it as it expanded and got less touristy tacky. I'd go back in the blink of an eye but its too expensive now. And the new bridge won't help! I'm on the dark side of the bridge now (gulp).
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Post by gogs on Mar 29, 2017 15:53:21 GMT
mortified Are you hinting at being in the kingdom of Fife? I was born and bred in Dunfermline, but escaped at 17. Throw a stone in the air in Fife and the chances are it'll land on a golf course. Same for East Lothian of course. SH is originally from Dalgety Bay and learned his snooker at Joe's Snooker Club in Dunfermline. Sadly long gone replaced by a soulless place on the outskirts of town. Curiously, several Italian Cafes and Chips Shops there too; Malocos, Giacomos etc. Played a bit of golf as a teenager, but I wasn't any good and played only occasionally in my 20s/30s. My clubs are still hung up in the garage gathering dust, and as my son doesn't show any interest, I'd be as well flogging them. There are 2 courses near me now and both are incredibly la di da. Not for me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 17:49:39 GMT
Nope...but I used to drive one back in the early 80:s....
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Post by quodlibet aka granny on Mar 29, 2017 18:13:13 GMT
Nope...but I used to drive one back in the early 80:s.... Wrong kind of driving.
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Post by mortified on Mar 30, 2017 5:39:54 GMT
mortified Are you hinting at being in the kingdom of Fife? I was born and bred in Dunfermline, but escaped at 17..... Yep. I'm in Dunfermline now. Bit of a coincidence that. I moved to North Wales (to join my fiancee and her daughter) and worked remotely at home for my employers for 4 years but then they said I had to go back. My (now wife) had to find a job doing her specialist payroll stuff and we ended up here. She works pretty much across the road from Pitreavie Golf Club. I commuted to work in Edinburgh. Which I found a challenge at first! But I got used to it. Seems there are a few Quo fans from the Arctic tundra around
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Post by snakelady on Mar 30, 2017 7:28:39 GMT
mortified
Used to be (perhaps there still is) a great fish and chip place in SQ.
I can still see the face of the little Italian chap lighting up when we trooped off the supporters bus and into his place just before 10pm one Wednesday night.
He was delighted.
Off topic I know, sorry
The Italians have reportedly one of the healthiest diets in the world but the ones that came to Scotland gave us deep fried food and/or ice cream!
In the town that I live, there's seven such places and six are operated by family of Italian decent. The other place was Italian owned until fairly recently.
Erhm, it's rather the other way round. The Italians had to adjust to the Scottish diet to be able to sell any quantities of food to the natives. They'd probably have gone bankrupt otherwise had they tried to sell you all those yummy veg dishes and soups they have .. .
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Post by snakelady on Mar 30, 2017 7:33:51 GMT
Nope...but I used to drive one back in the early 80:s.... Ah, those were the days - you either drove Golf or Kadett back then .. I was firmly on the Kadett side ! (actually drove three generations of it, till they switched to Astra ).
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Post by ant on Mar 30, 2017 7:39:51 GMT
Bit of a roundup of the various threads - who said Quo fans meander? In the next town where I lived in County Durham (i.e. in Bishop Auckland) there was an italian cafe called Rossi's (no, not that one, and pronounced ross-eyes - they also had a branch in Southport). That family first went to Scotland in the very early 20th century before coming to Bishop in 1929. I wonder why so many itallian families went to Scotland around tat time. Visited South Queensferry on the way to the Kingdom of Fyfe on holiday last year. The engineering of the 3 bridges there is amazing to see and represents the very best of British engineering over the past century and a half. The Kingdom of Fyfe is wonderful! Fantastic place, great people, beautiful countryside and coast. Love it. This ISN'T a political statement, but I really hope that the English and the Scots can find an amicable way to live together and we remain one country - I love Scotland and the Scots and often think that my part of England (the North East) is much more like Scotland in attitude, etc. than England. Still hate golf, tho'
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Post by smokie on Mar 30, 2017 8:17:17 GMT
mortified Are you hinting at being in the kingdom of Fife? I was born and bred in Dunfermline, but escaped at 17..... Yep. I'm in Dunfermline now.... I commuted to work in Edinburgh. Which I found a challenge at first! But I got used to it. A challenge?
If I had to do that commute everyday then I'd go off my head.
Anytime that I've been on that road in the morning it's a moving car park from Pitreavie, on the bridge and all the way along the city bypass.
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Post by mortified on Mar 30, 2017 8:23:51 GMT
Nope...but I used to drive one back in the early 80:s.... Ah, those were the days - you either drove Golf or Kadett back then .. I was firmly on the Kadett side ! (actually drove three generations of it, till they switched to Astra ). I don't drive but the Opel brand I think was really the Vauxhall in the UK. There were very few Opel cars around. It was the Vauxhall Kadett. For some inexplicable reason. My dad had one back in the 80's.
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Post by mortified on Mar 30, 2017 8:28:25 GMT
Yep. I'm in Dunfermline now.... I commuted to work in Edinburgh. Which I found a challenge at first! But I got used to it. A challenge?
If I had to do that commute everyday then I'd go off my head.
Anytime that I've been on that road in the morning it's a moving car park from Pitreavie, on the bridge and all the way along the city bypass.
Torture
Yeah, it's a bit of a car park all the way. I used to go in really early on the bus to avoid it but coming home there was no escape. And it got worse when they started building the new bridge (which they're still building!). I eventually went by train despite the additional expense.
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Post by mortified on Mar 30, 2017 8:40:43 GMT
This ISN'T a political statement, but I really hope that the English and the Scots can find an amicable way to live together and we remain one country - I love Scotland and the Scots and often think that my part of England (the North East) is much more like Scotland in attitude, etc. than England. It's a difficult one. Political, and particularly financial, scaremongering on the run up to the referendum had a massive effect and, now that promises have not been delivered almost 3 years down the line, independence has to be a real possibility because it was quite close. However, I don't think most Scots have the stomach for yet another referendum just yet. Timing will be everything depending on which side you're on. Brexit is in the way, although it's being used as leverage to have that referendum, which I think is unwise. People can see through that. We may have voted to stay in Europe but we also voted to stay in the UK. We can't have it both ways. Although we are trying! The differences are national; there is no question about that. A huge majority up here feel Scottish as opposed to British and always have. But even in England there is a great divide between, say, the north and the south. The south east in particular is almost like a different country. In terms of finance and even the weather, it is. But unfortunately that's where the power and the influence is. We all feel it and we all resent it. Is this what they call going off on a tangent?
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