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About Fay

Editor in Chief for Walking Heads, Fay is a blogger, writer and editor with a special interest in what makes cities tick.

Dressed to kill: Hard Rock Couture

Michael Jackson’s jacket came out of Hard Rock Café vaults in London specially for the occasion.  Preparing the iconic red garment for exhibition, Kim wanted to give it a hug, but she didn’t. […]

Dancing in the streets with the Merchant City Music Tour

Take to the streets.  There’s a fantastic range of walking tours and trails for you to explore the nooks and crannies of Glasgow’s Merchant City during the next four days. Not to mention (though, ahem, we will) our own Merchant City Music Tour. […]

Our DIY guide to a meandering mooch round Glasgow

An interesting question in the post from two adventurous Belgian visitors who have just downloaded Glasgow Music Tour in preparation for a visit to the city in July. […]

Soul food: special offers for Glasgow Music Tourers

It’s all about the music of course but you can get very hungry exploring Glasgow’s vast live music scene: going underground and uphill, down side streets and along the river. But fortunately there are plenty of places to stop and rest and we’re delighted that two of our favourite venues are offering special deals on meals for Glasgow Music Tour explorers. […]

Pride of place: street art in Leith

We’re on the trail of a bold new street art project in Leith – a graffiti grand design – far from city centre art galleries. It’s tucked away down a side street so you have to seek it out which adds to the adventure. […]

Stirring tweedy tales from the Underbelly

“It would get vicious hot in there, vicious hot…” The sight of Vic Galloway in a three piece tweed suit at The SAY Award in the Barrowland brought to mind a good Bruce Morton story from our Edinburgh Comedy Tour. […]

See Glasgow Music Tour – See Glasgow

Stop press: See us, See Glasgow! Seriously, we’re feeling quite grown up this morning – Walking Heads has just been accepted as members of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau. […]

Less busking in the City of Music? Ukele if U want to!

Should Glasgow ‘crackdown’ on buskers for the Commonwealth Games next year?  We asked the question on our Facebook page yesterday and got some lively responses. […]

Hats off to Fergus and Meg

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 [...]

Please don’t bring The House down

“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. […]

Glasgow Music Tour leads the way

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! […]

Murder mystery and high tea on the great Cinema City Treasure Hunt

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?  […]