Who remembers the Jocks & the Geordies from the Dandy? It got me thinking and there's always been this kind of affinity with the Scots and the people from Newcastle. Growing up in the 90's I used to listen to hardcore music and there was a DJ from Newcastle called Bass Generator that used to always come up and play in Scotland. He used to play at the REZ and Judgement Day events in Edinburgh and at the Fubar club in Stirling. Had some fucking amazing nights there. Then there was the story about a group of guys from Newcastle that used to drive North every Friday night in their van until they could tune in to Tom Wilson's Stepping Out radio show on Forth FM. You never really hear much these days about the Geordies and Scots being bros, but maybe I'm just getting old and out of touch? Is it still a thing?
by Jagdtiger44
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To ignore the text of your post for a moment, you’ve just reminded me that these Beano and Dandy mini comics existed and that I got a big stack of them from the cat protection shop when I was adopting my cat 19 years ago.
It would appear some of them have not aged particularly well.
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Did the Geordies also whack the Jocks with Black Puddings or am I getting confused with the Goodies ?
Like how they also have the posh kid thing going on with the wee school caps. Used to read this as a kid. Probably influenced my views on life 🙂
DC Thompson really got on with the makers of Viz as well🤣🤣
Not sure how wide spread this is but thinking on it I’ve always found there’s a reflexive fondness for Geordies and Newcastle in Scotland. Nothing major, juts a general sense of “grand bunch of lads” and “nice town, fucking freezing though”.
Personally speaking I to have found Geordies to be a grand folk from a town which is nice but inexplicably baltic.
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