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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.

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Or, are you a member of the “Transition Generation”, those who have witnessed the technology shift from analog to digital?

Maybe you still maintain a turntable, cassette deck or VCR, which you use to listen to your tunes and watch movies just as you have for decades. But it’s more likely that you’ve been staring at those piles of records and tapes and wondering if there’s some easy way to transfer them to the latest technology. You have imagined on more than one occassion how nice it would be to have your music collection or VHS tapes in a format that can play in your car, Home Stereo , MP3 player, iPod*, portable CD player, computer or DVD player — without having to buy them all over again.

The consumer electronics audio industry has responded with a plethora of affordable transfer devices. BUT, with all of the choices which one is the best for your situation? Well do not fear, Price Delight’s Technical Support Department has provided the following list to help you determine the solution that is right for you.

OPTION 1: RECORD VINYL AND CASSETTE TAPES DIRECTLY TO CD With this unit you can convert all of your vinyl records and cassette tapes to CD in minutes with just a few simple steps. It records those records and tapes into a digital audio format for High Quality sound on a smaller, more modern compact disc. This unit does not require a computer, a stereo or any technical expertise. And the ANQ-800R does not retire to a closet somewhere when you are done recording. It is a complete audio entertainment system in a nostalgic style that includes a 3-speed record player, a cassette tape player and an AM/FM radio.

OPTION 2: RECORD VINYL DIRECTLY TO CD With any of the following units you can convert all of your vinyl records to CD in minutes with just a few simple steps. They record those records into a digital audio format for high quality sound on a smaller, more modern compact disc. These units do not require a computer, a stereo or any technical expertise. And these models do not retire to a closet somewhere when you are done recording either. Each one includes a 3-speed record player and an AM/FM radio in a modern black finish design.

Victoria GDI- C2CDRW 3-IN-1 Entertainment System with Built-In CD Burner All of the following models are the fastest and easiest way to convert your vinyl records to an MP3 format and transfer them to your computer’s hard drive. From there you can transfer tem to any MP3 player or burn them to a CD using any free MP3 conversion software available on the internet and your computer’s CD burner. Each unit includes software that allows you to clean up the sound of your records. It’s like magic! Before you know it, you’ll be listening to songs you haven’t heard in years in your car, on your iPod* or your MP3 player.

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