This week, my selfless and altruistic campaign to keep the great British pub in business took me north across the border to Glasgow. It was, of course, necessary to sample a good few contenders, but my nomination for Pub of the Week goes to MacSorley’s on Jamaica Street. Built on the site of a former pub at the end of the nineteenth century, it is today famous for live music on most nights of the week. It’s a pub like a pub should be.
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It looks like a very fine establishment but I must take exception to their sign over the door. Promoting “Live Music” with a windup victrola is a weird contradiction. For that matter the youth of today probably don’t know what any record player looks like, much less how a 78 rpm disk stores sound in its grooves. What exactly is the symbol for a music machine in the 21st century? A flash drive?
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