MacFarlane, 53, added: "David's lawyers were concerned we might end up in court if slogans like Tongs Ya Bass belonged to someone. If you see this in the TV listings, local videoshop, wherever, Get It! You will not find a more accurate movie that conveys the state of Glaswegian upbringing as it was and still is today. The violence, the course language and the way the young 'gangs' live and breathe on machismo and fights. The film shows an artist boy who is somewhat out of place in the world he finds himself living in. With his rather maniacal brother Bobby who just loves to go and fight the 'TONGS'. There is a younger brother in this family who becomes more of a central character as the film progresses. I don't want to give the story away so I will just say, if you want a true drama with no frills, fluff or effects, violence shown as it is, brutal and frightening (although I dont mean to put you off as it is highly watchable and not TOO brutal) -the utter desperation that some people live in and not only when this film is set in but today too. I know, I have lived in a similiar world. Nothing has really changed. If you want to find out just what this is like..GET THIS MOVIE! If you are from Glasgow or most places in central scotland - GET THIS MOVIE! Thats all :) On Fair Saturday we have something called Bastille Ya Baz! We will not go into the fact that the organisers cannot spell the good Old Glasgow word "bass". Gsw. 1990 Douglas Lipton in Hamish Whyte and Janice Galloway New Writing Scotland 8: The Day I Met the Queen Mother 58: The Calton Tongs adopted the title 'Tongs' after some of the local Calton youths attended a movie called 'Terror of the Tongs' in a picture hall near Fielden Street in the East End of Glasgow during the 1960s. The first person to shout 'Tongs ya Bas' was 'Terror McCabe' who had been in attendance at the movie 'Terror of the Tongs , he also adopted the name 'Terror ' from the movie......... During the late 1970s ,early 1980s the prefix 'Real' was added to the 'Calton Tongs' title...as a sort of registered trademark... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongland,_(Gang_Area) I think I'm reasonably well qualified to write about the accuracy and veracity of this 1996 film based on the Glasgow gang wars of the mid-60's. I was born and raised in the East End of Glasgow although I was a little too young to be affected by any of the gangland issues of the times. Our family lived out in the suburbs where the Council liked to dump the less well-off in a neighbourhood or scheme as we called it, named Provanhall in the district of Easterhouse. I do remember seeing the graffiti of the different gangs sprayed on the walls and also the big amnesty spearheaded by popular singer Frankie Vaughan where all the gang-members were invited to lay down their weapons.

There are still trouble spots, such as an abandoned school 100 yards down from his shop, where a fight broke out a couple of weeks ago. But even here, incidents have tailed off. A saying, a war cry, a slogan that at one point seemed to appear on walls in every corner of the city. Over the years it has become universally linked to the city of Glasgow and the gangs that have lurked within. Read More Related Articles As Lex is the central protagonist we are often given his perspective of events. An earlier gang encounter at a fairground is received from his point of view, which is then followed by a man leading an elephant across a field. Such surreal imagery is almost a childlike representation of events. Shaky camera movements during his drunken stupor are further indication of the camera allowing us to identify ourselves with him.Mohammed Saddiq, 39, who owns newsagent in Calton believes that the area has improved dramatically years he has been there. "The previous owner told had experienced a lot of problems but it's quiet now.

The numbers dropped but the Cumbie endured and, then in the late 80s and 90s they became trendsetters, pioneering a new style that defined a generation. Read More Related Articles Former Simpsons scriptwriter David X Cohen is working on an adaptation of two books by Scots author Colin MacFarlane, The Real Gorbals Story and No Mean Glasgow. But the old territorialism was also still rife and new battle lines were soon drawn in the new estates.It was a recipe for disaster and the only mystery was whose mum would be visiting a cemetery and whose mum would be visiting a prison. From that day forward the Calton team became The Calton Tongs with Terror McCabe christened 'Terror of the Tongs.' Martin said: "These gangs are held together often just by loyalty, so as soon as the main ones who hold that together are out the picture, that is a time for those on the to get the breathing space something with their lives."