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.