Canal through the town centre

[sonic youth]

but you've got two decent music venues not very far away :?

[Simon Pieman]

Trains from Bristol are shit late at night.

[sonic youth]

but you've still got two decent music venues nearby.

[Simon Pieman]

But trains from Bristol are still shit late at night. Perhaps they could route the canal so we could go by boat

[sonic youth]

therre you go problem solved.

we should be running this town

[axs]

Most Cities and Towns have rivers and canals running through them, I don't hear about a lot of people falling in and drowning all the time so I can't see it would be a big issue.

I'd love to have a canal in swindon but it seems like something that should have been there all the time, not the kind of thing you can just re-introduce without completely srewing up loads of other town planning.

[flammableBen]

I think it's an ace idea. If everybody always found better things to spend money on then we'd have nothing to do but less starving African children. I say put the Canal Back.

[jimbob]

wank idea-absolute waste of money

[Reg Smeeton]

Reg only goes out in the south side - like all the cool kids  

 It is rare to venture north oif the track.   I was talking to a fella in the pub last night, who I haven't seen for a while and he was explaining that in the last year he and a couple of mates had been on a mission to visit every pub in Swindon.    Not clubs but pubs.  He reckoned there were 93, this included a place in Manchester Road....which I hadn't heard of, and frankly disputed its legitamacy, consisting of the front bit of a house occupied by two old crones a nd a bunch of Somalis.

 They give each pub some sort of rating...only visit on a Friday night, for fair comparison.

 They're doing pubs within a 7 mile radius of Swindon foir this year.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

How about spending that money on a decent music venue or two. We could do with a carling academy.

Well 12Bar is decent enough. If people want a live music venue then they will have to get off their arse and go to some local gigs otherwise it will never happen. You have to show that you are interested in live music. Sadly not many people in Swindon are.

[lebowski]

well said iffy's onion bhaji, an informed view there.

AMG have never, ever, built their own "carling academy" music venue or even started one from scratch. every single one has been as a result of AMG taking over an existing, successful venue, re-furbishing it, and then re-launching.

swindon's music scene is served pefectly by the venues it has already.

[jayohaitchenn]

I think it's an ace idea, and thats nothing to do with the fact that my house (that i own) would back right on to it!  

Money, Money, Money, in a rich man's (me) world!!

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

well said iffy's onion bhaji, an informed view there.

First time for everything i guess    

[STFCDude2]

There is a divide from north and south almost due to the railway

is there? news to me

wouldn't suprise me though, those dirty south swindoners

Does that make me a dirty fucking northerner, cos I live in Haydon Wick?!

[axs]

Yes.