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Article: Everything but the boy
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- August 15, 2004
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IN THE Shanghai Shuffle in Sauchiehall Street, they are partying
like it's 1999 all over again; or it's the end of the world as we
know it; or - even more momentous - it's the eve of the Glasgow Ferr.
But it's none of these things. It's a soggy, there-goes-summer,
completely unremarkable Tuesday night, the Chinese-and-chantering
restaurant is packed, and Kathleen McDermott is, as they say, giving
it laldy.
McDermott was choosing a number 43 from the food menu and a number
26 from the karoke menu before she found fame in Morvern Callar, and
two years on she's still doing it. A girl's gotta work: for her the
grub's free, so are the Vodka Ices, and she gets paid to belt it out
for the ...