Basement Bar Quiz

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Based on Byres Road below Tennent’s Bar the Monday night quiz is a haven of, well… drunkenness. Every week at 8.30 (ish) the lights go down and the music goes up. Students buy individual drinks instead of rounds and the chaos begins.
Come along and see what the fuss is about. Free entry and the chance to win beer should be enough reason for anyone to visit.

The last weekend of the month and all the money has gone. The chocolate has all been eaten and I resort to sniffing the tinfoil I saved from my Easter eggs. The milk has turned sour and I’m down to my last three teabags. I blew my last two pound coin on a lottery ticket and a bag of chocolate raisins. They were charity sweets. They weren’t very good. Mylene Klass didn’t draw the right numbers. My shoes have holes and my pockets have holes. Working on a Sunday is unholy. I am broken, defeated, tired and thirsty. I finished the potato curry yesterday and the guy in the corner shop has now decided that my credit is no good.
Tomorrow, however is payday. The one day when we can consider chucking our jobs and living like politicians. We can buy as much chocolate as the man in Tesco will sell us and drink until the pubs throw us out. We can watch football and listen to long dead musicians. We can buy sewing kits and rubber stick on soles. We can throw the bums a dime, because we are in our prime. We can also go down to the Basement Bar (where they still serve Animee beer for £1 per fey bottle) and take part in a quiz to win yet more beer and lift our souls. We can forget about our worries until we get to work on Tuesday morning and realise that the coffee machine is still broken. We can do all these things and more.
Well…. you can. I have to stay sober enough to actually read out the questions. This is a heavy responsibility. Help me shoulder it at 8.30pm tomorrow night underneath the broke Byres Road. Be there or read this and wonder what on Earth I am rambling on about. (I was going to swear there, but my mum reads this.) (Hi, Mum).

Now that he has become an internationally renound Disco Jockey with his band Swanfunk and the Hot Chip, Jamie is harder to get hold of. Luckily, I have a direct line to his phone and also have his work email address.
I have yet to confirm that he is ‘hip for the quiz’ but I’m sure he’ll be in touch shortly to tell me about the St George’s Day theme he has decided on, or the new set of dingbats he has found online. Dedicated.
He’ll be supplying you with theatrical links and enjoying some drinks throughout the evening. You can drink cheap Animee beer until you think like a French person and you might even win a case of beer (undecided type as of yet).
It all starts at around 8.30pm on Monday night in the bar they call the Basement underneath the beguiling Byres Road. Be there.

On Monday evening Sandy will be the king of the castle. He’ll also be spinning the discs and asking questions of you at the Basement Bar quiz.
I’m assured that he is ‘hip’ for it and may even decide to finish his hamburger before taking the stage. He’ll probably remember to mark your answers and to give away some beer (most likely Budweiser) to the winning team. It would probably be a good idea to be there, as 95% of quiz winners have attended the quiz over the past few weeks.
It all kicks off at 8.30pm on Monday. It happens below the radar of the omniscient Byres Road in the bar they call the Basement (with the dodgy sign). Don’t trip over the A-board on your way down.

Having eaten sixteen Cadbury’s Easter eggs this morning I am still feeling good enough to keep on going. I’m not proud. Or full up. Assuming I don’t die of diabetes and chocolate related illness then I will be doing the quiz on Monday night. It’ll be full of the usual poor taste and cheap beer. I’ll be starting at around 8.30pm to clear up your bank holiday blues and listen to cheap gags about Celtic’s title win and the flat above the bar going on fire. On the plus side, I’ll also be giving away beer.
Come down to the un-Orthodox Basement Bar beneath the burnt-out Byres Road in Glasgow’s bohemian West End to celebrate the coming of the Messiah and all that. Monday night, 8.30pm – be there or listen to a Divine Liturgy somewhere else.

Oh man. I nearly forgot.
Your very own April fool Jamie will be doing the quiz tonight. After receiving a drunken phone call from him in the wee small hours I’m sure that he’ll be on top form and ensure that you have a wonderful evening.
He’ll be giving away beer and stuff too.
Rabbits.

Sandy is currently on tour in Amsterdam. I’m sure he’ll come back with tales to tell of Anne Frank’s house, Koninklijk palace, the Rijksmuseum and listening to Jordaan levensliederen into the wee small hours.
Either that or he’ll have spent his time getting high and sleeping with prostitutes – but surely you go abroad to get away from the usual daily grind.
Anyway, he has confirmed that barring flight delays or a particularly heavy trip he’ll be coming back down to Earth at Monday night’s quiz. He will be backed up by the Man Utd game on the telly too so really you have no excuse for not being there. Especially since the days are now getting longer and the nights shorter. It all starts at 8.30pm in the bar the call the Basement underneath the vernal Byres Road. Be there or else.

Easter is less than three weeks away and I have been stocking up on cheap, cheep Easter eggs from Sainsbury’s. Unfortunately, my mother has missed the special offers, and when buying my usual 25 eggs she’ll be hit with a huge bill. This is the price she pays for not heeding my emails about the offers on Easter eggs in local supermarkets. In an attempt to get her to buy them anyway I’m going to try and do some subtle hint dropping. Have you ever noticed how photogenic tinfoil from Easter eggs is?
Anyway, none of that is important to you people. What is important to you people is that I will be doing the quiz and calling you ‘you people’ throughout the evening of Monday the 19th March. Sadly, the quiz will see the reintroduction of the Eric Abidal bonus point, but it will also be the scene of huge celebrations when one team wins a case of beer (possibly the up-market San Miguel – but this has yet to be confirmed).
It all starts in the world famous Basement Bar which lies beneath the psychiatric abyss of Byres Road in the wild West End. It’ll kick off at 8.30pm, but arrive early to get your burger fix or just get quietly morose in the corner (Stevie!).

Jamie will be back on Monday to do the quiz. I’m sure he’ll be supplying jelly and ice-cream like the last time. He tells me that he’s ‘all sorted’ for Monday night so you can expect him to have polypockets coming out of his ears. He’ll be taking the stage at around 8.30pm in the Basement Bar. He’ll talk quietly so that you can continue to enjoy the benefits of Sky Sports on the big screen. He’ll also give away beer. What more do you want from a Monday night?

I have good news and bad news. I’ll give you the bad news first. Talksport have a rugby show and it appears to be permanent. I hate rugby.
The good news, on the other hand, is that I am doing the quiz for you this evening. I know this means that you’ll all be rushing down to the Basement and will be missing classic television like Dirk Gently, but I promise to try to make it worth your while.
There will be the usual stuff going on. I’ll be giving away a case of Kronenberg and playing some classic choons. So why don’t you all mellow down easy and freak out, yeah?
It’ll all start at 8.30pm in the Basement Bar which is still the lowest down son of a gun I know.