Provided by one of Scotland's finest exports, the bonnie Vendetta Vain. Ya see, we grow em' talented here in the heather.

As well as our thirving burlesque we also have superb theatre...

Tron Theatre
Rhymes with Purple
The Arches
Vanishing Point
NTS
Tramway
Traverse
The Fringe
CCA

To name a few...and the best funking nightlife this side of Christendom! Seriously, our night clubs are the shiz!

Optimo (practically world famous!)
VEGAS! (You must have heard of it?)
Death Disco
Utter Gutter
The Cathouse
The Art School
All Tore UP

That's a just a very small selection of the best nights and venues in Glasgow that I plucked from the top of my head.

Slightly off topic but I felt a further incentive to visit this bloody brilliant place would be beneficial. Glasgow in particular is a wonderful city, with soooo much going on, buy me a gin and I will gladly be anyones tour guide

xx L.B xx

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Yes and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, City Halls and Old Fruitmarket are also excellent venues. *coughs* With the best Stage Crew you could ever ask for, all of whom are hard-working, helpful, charming, witty and beautiful.

So I've heard, anyway...

Living in Newcastle (and actually walking past hadrians wall often!) I regularly have to suck up the expenses and travel down south and up North.

I love going to Scotland, but as I was discussing with Wild Card Kitty yesterday, all of a sudden it has become very expensive to get to. Last year I could easily get a train ticket in advance for about £15 return, now it's £60 easy. The Megabus however is a wonderful thing except for my recent adventures on it

However, I've just booked tickets for London next week for £120 return. Considering I do this trip probably twice a month it's ranged from £20 return to £200.

I will travel where the work is, quite simply. It doesn't do me much good; late nights and sleeping in strange places plus sitting still for too long does terrible things to me but I feel happy to travel to do events. This is also why I no longer do unpaid work and it upsets me when promoters believe I'm above myself. Considering the travel involved, which takes nearly a day in most cases; I believe I am perfectly entitled to be paid.

But seriously, the UK is such a small country it's worth travelling about to see different events. Next month I have to travel Edinburgh to Newcastle to London, to Brighton, to Portugal, to Brighton, to London, to Newcastle in five days so a simple jaunt on a train or a coach really is a piece of piss

I actually believe I'm in a great place for work, London is three hours away; Edinburgh is two. Manchester is a stupid five hours away because of the rail network which is why I rarely work there and Nottingham is about four hours away. I would like to live in London one day, but feel I'd probably live in Scotland before the big smoke!

So everyone who can; get off your bottoms and come see the amazing events happening this summer up North! National Express always run special tickets for the fringe festival so I'm sure there are bargains t be found!

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And thank you for that, Ms Burn. Perhaps we can sort out some sort of burlesque exchange program between ourselves and the other areas because, as has been said many times, the Scottish burlesque scene just has way too many unique performances and events to offer the wider British burlesque scene for it to go as unnoticed. A little research is needed but as Miss Carrie, Lucille and Beatrix have pointed out it can be done extremely inexpensively. Perhaps the only reason people feel reluctant to do this is because it's unfamiliar territory. Hopefully after one visit any people attending would realize what an open, friendly and enthusiastic burlesque scene we have here and will come back.

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Ho is London quicker to get to from Newcastle than Nottingham?? Even with a direct line it shouldn't be that quick - it's 2-3 hours to London from Nottingham!

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the trains that go from newcastle to london are really fast.

Sometimes due to waiting times when you have to change trains you can add a good hour if not more onto a journey

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Am i getting confused or has this thread been moved to the Scottish Forum?

Doesn't this just demonstrate what the problem is? Our conversation about the distance of the Scottish scene from the rest of the UK has been shifted North of the border to where most of the non-Scottish Scene forumites won't see it!

Yet again we're all alone up here!

helooooo....

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I moved it over to this forum because I thought it was more relevent. However I've just moved it back into the Burlesque Chat forum because I forgot that you had to be a member of the Scottish Scene group to reply to it.

Sorry, my bad!

The girl who setup 'Burlesque Antarctica' also had the same problem!

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I'm sure there's a Megabus service to Antartica, no?

Weirdly enough but certainly fortuitous the next Rockaburley (September 20th) is again followed by a Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School on the Sunday - coincidence....actually yes, but all the more reason to join us!

As well as that, Rufus and I will potentially have a piece of theatre in the works that week that should be ready to announce shortly.

It's all happening!

xxxx

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