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About Me

Figure8 are a 2 piece life changing acoustic event that normally occurs in shifty bars in Glasgow somewhere.If you want music you can get drunk on, music that will whisper dirty sweet nothings in your ear and music that will take you home and throw your junk about good style....then you need figure8.Prior to gigs while being mere mortals they go by the names of Stuart Nugent & John Elliott.Cleanupmyspace.com

My Interests

Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Laphroaig, Elliott Smith,Tennents Lager, Bruce Springsteen,Bukowski, Neil Finn, Grant Lee Phillips, Johnny Cash, Red House Painters,great football, Spain in general, Nandos, Cherry bakewells, babybel cheese badboys, converse, cowboy shirts, flares, Raymond Carver, REM, Alasdair Gray, Easterhoose, Ibrox, Everywhere in the US except Springfield MA with the exception of the $5 pitchers and Mimi Miyagi's diddys at the mardi gras.

Music:

Anything with sincerity...

Movies:

The Last Waltz, The Blues Brothers, No Direction Home, Don't Look Back, Big Time, Down by law and Orphans Opening Scene Of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie
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Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy and anything remotely funny.

Books:

Anything by Buk or Alasdair Gray I adore.

Heroes:

Tom Waits for musically sticking to his guns, Bob D for just being plain fuckin dynamite,The Boss for being fantastic despite people thinking he isn't and Leonard Cohen just cos I love him and I know it'll upset someone. Mark Kozelok from Red House Painters and the sadly departed Elliott Smith.

My Blog

desert island books

okay so we've used this idea before but it's good fun. Your stuck on a desert island and the desert island in question has a book club voucher which you can use to redeem for any five books in the uni...
Posted by Figure8 on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:57:00 PST

phone message

Some burd has left a message on our wee voicemail thingmy, to be honest I don't even know who it is. Sounds like her name is 'Caris' or possibly 'Harry' if she has a hair lip. Anyhow, it's getting on ...
Posted by Figure8 on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:27:00 PST

writers block??

Okay so heres a ridiculous blog, A new song which is not quite fully formed yet was in my front room when I got home today. The working title and hookline of the chorus is the phrase 'the ...
Posted by Figure8 on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:12:00 PST

'a nostril shouldn't have this much fluid'

right just seeking some advice from the world in general.. I have the most horrendous cold/flu like symptoms, I'm coughing like a beagle that's doing overtime and have nostrils like Robert...
Posted by Figure8 on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:18:00 PST

late night swally

Cava??Who the fuck drinks the stuff??? Just back from the boozer and still at that stage where I need more. Sadly old mother hubbard does more shopping than me so on the swally front there is 2 items....
Posted by Figure8 on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:31:00 PST

Upcoming Gigs:

The Terminal Bar -Jan 24th 20:00
Posted by Figure8 on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:28:00 PST

top 5 Desert Island albums/songs

In a unabashed fit of attention seeking and ode to a conversation about the high fidelity book/movie try this for a badass question. Mull it over and respond if you feel like it.... Your stuck on a de...
Posted by Figure8 on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:54:00 PST

the day was spent in a bathrobe

...so we played the gig yesterday and it was dynamite,the place was heaving and copious volumes of swally were consumed (See photos for the evidence!). Big J came in and gave us a couple of gem ...
Posted by Figure8 on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:37:00 PST

our last gig of the year

so the year is nearly over.... messrs nugent and elliott will be playing their years finale on the 30th in clutha vaults at 16:00 - hopefully the lager will flow like wine and the laphroig will go dow...
Posted by Figure8 on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:45:00 PST