“This one gonna be lively”, Gemma Brown’s latest blog post predicts a hot summer (whatever the weather) as JA Live and Fire in Babylon team up again, this time they will be hitting the road with a series of ruff and tuff West Indian infused events! […]
A proper Glasgow debut was a self-set milestone of the Russian Ninjas...
At the start of the 10 week countdown to Scotland’s biggest rock festival, music blogger Nina Glencross tracks the bands who are out there, getting the T in the Park show on the road. […]
It's an amazing show: dance, music, art, dresses - and quite a few hats! And through it all, the long, long love story of Fergus and Meg. Timeless style Introducing Fergus and [...]
“The venue brings events and activities that are rare to this area. I was really shocked not to have heard of it before”. Gemma Brown shares some newly discovered home truths. […]
“People come to Edinburgh because it’s ‘nice’, not because it’s exciting. But I think the city is tantalisingly close to solving this problem.” That was Rupert Thomson programme director of Summerhall talking to The List about Edinburgh’s chronic shortage of live music venues last year. […]
We did it. Glasgow Music Tour is the first UK tour to go live on a new international platform for audio tours. So we’re up there with Paris, San Francisco, New York …Barras meet the Bohemian Slums of Montmartre! […]
Summer seems a long way off but as snow falls Gemma Brown thinks warming thoughts of a creative event which has a very simple aim: “Making Scotland Happier”. Let’s all go Doune the Rabbit Hole. […]
We had some last minute panic. What if it snowed? What if no-one turned up? How would we stop people filling in all the answers in a bar without setting foot on the streets? And where would we find a poison bottle? […]
“If you threw a dart at a map of Sauchiehall Street, you would almost certainly hit a cinema”, says Gordon Barr. We don’t have a dart to hand but we do have a map. And Gordon to tell us stories of fine old picture palaces with fine old names – Regal, Gaumont, La Scala – that once drew thousands of people to the flickering fantasies of the big screen in the heart of Glasgow. […]
Another day, another petition. But does signing your name on a good cause make a difference? Well, it can work sometimes (we’re remembering Glasgow’s recent George Square campaign and the impact of last year’s rapid social media support to Stop the Arts Tax). So we took note when an email arrived from Change.org with four causes well worth supporting: two in Glasgow, one in Edinburgh and one in St Andrews. […]
They lived, loved, and died young. Half a world and almost 200 years apart, the two national bards Robert Burns and Bob Marley now inspire joint (no pun intended) annual celebrations of their birthdays. Gemma Brown reports on one of the best – and where else but in Glasgow’s Jamaica Street. Och Aye n Aye! […]