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A Taste Of Divine: Remembering The Legendary Glasgow Club

A long time ago, in a city far, far away (if you live in London), in the downstairs bar of Glasgow Art School ('The Vic'), a club called Divine began. Two weeks ago the Vic saw what was then very possibly the last night of Divine and, as you read this, the Vic itself (situated opposite the famous Rennie Mackintosh-designed main building of the Art School) is being demolished.

Over 21 years, Divine became a unique hub for a generation of Glasgow musicians and artists – as well, of course, as a crowd of devoted regulars. Pretty much anyone who was in a band in Glasgow went to Divine once, and many went all the time. Pretty much anyone (Evan Dando, Courtney Love, Pete Shelley - among many others) who was playing in Glasgow went too.

In part, this is a story about a dark time before the internet, before Facebook, before illegal file-sharing, before everyone had a mobile phone. It's also a story from a time before endless reissue campaigns and, latterly, the 'digital revolution', had made almost everything available to everyone everywhere, all the time.

Finally – it's a story from a time before everyone was a DJ. Despite what you will read below, Andrew Divine – whose day job is as a graphic designer based in the music industry (he designed the sleeves for all Belle & Sebastian's Jeepster releases) – sees his DJing as simply a function of his love of music, as a way of enthusing about whatever he might be listening to, of not letting his vast collection of vinyl gather dust. Self-effacing to the point of shyness, he almost had a seizure when I turned on the recorder for the interview.

He's a DJ's DJ (though he'd no doubt balk at that). There's a track on DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's Product Placement sourced from Andrew, and when Erol Alkan was looking for a copy of Nancy Sinatra's 'Kinky Love' the only place in the country he could find one was on Andrew's shelves.

This might not, in broad terms, be a unique story. But it's the kind of story that often goes unrecorded, woven as it is from ephemeral things: going out, and bright lights, and dancing, and choosing an outfit, and sharing your new favourite record with a friend. Ephemeral things that, looking back over more than twenty years, we realise have become the fabric of our lives.

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Stephen Pastel (The Pastels, Geographic): The Glasgow club scene in the early 1980s was as far as I could see, pretty hopeless. Most clubs and bars seemed to be owned and run by gangsters or philistine aspirationals. Not surprisingly, most of the influential, good things came from outside of this - naive kids running their own nights in odd, unusual places, and expanding out from their own contact lists.

Potty Training a Puppy - I live in a first floor flat.. How can I ...

Potty Training a Puppy - I live in a first floor flat.. How can I train my puppy to eventually go to the toilet outside?

by Jazmine
(Norfolk)

Hello, I have not had my puppy for very long, only a few days in fact. I am currently encouraging him to do his business on some newspaper in my hall. He caught on to this very quickly and 9 times out of 10 he will do it on the paper. My question is that I live in a 1st floor flat and I eventually want him to be going to the toilet outside. I work 7 hours a day so I plan to take him outside first thing in the morning, my parents are going to come round mid day to let him outside for a little while in our communal garden, and I will be walking him and night times as well. I want him to be able to signal to me at the door when he needs the toilet during the night etc how is the best way to do train him to do this? I know it will take a while but I just need some ideas on how to encourage him to go outside bearing in mind we do need to get down one flight of steps each time. He is only 10 weeks at the minute but I just want a few ideas? Thank you in advance for any reply.

Hi - and firstly I want to congratulate you for taking the first step to potty training success which is starting early - I have a couple of potty training techniques that I am pretty sure you will be happy to hear about and use with your little puppy. I will start with some basic information and will then give you the techniques that I would use if I was in your exact same position...

Puppy Paper Training

Although puppy paper training is a fairly popular method to potty train (house train) puppies and dogs - many owners forget the main purpose of potty training and that is to get your puppy to pee or poop outside. Many owners start paper training and never actually move on - so their puppy continues to pee or poop on the floor. Another problem with paper training is that how is a puppy supposed to know the difference with your favorite newspaper open at the sports section and the paper he is supposed to pee or poop on.

Puppy Pad Training

This is a slightly better potty training method - the pads are treated with a special hormone that stimulates a puppy's bladder making him want to pee or poop on the pads rather than on the floor.

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