And so we reach the Merchant City. On our Clydeside Promenade we encountered yet another aspect of Glasgow’s hidden culture, a side of the city that it has not wanted you to know about, until recently anyway. A side which is deeply rooted in its past, buried under years of commercial development and regeneration – Glasgow’s role in the slave trade. […]
Continuing the search for Glasgow’s hidden culture, it’s time to head East. Last week, we looked extensively at the work of the East End Social, a music events project run by Bridgeton based indie record label Chemikal Underground for Culture 2014. In their own words it is, “A celebration of Glasgow, its East End and the love of music that unites us all.” On our Clydeside Promenade tour, Chemikal Underground director Stewart Henderson explains, “Just like a lot of cities all over the world, the East End has been an area of the city that has been underdeveloped and under-resourced for such a long time. […]
As our Clydeside Promenade audio tour clearly illustrates, Glasgow is a lively city, almost bursting at the seams with culture, particularly at the moment with many projects and events taking place across the city under and in light of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural programme. Much of the city’s story is well known – the old industrial heritage, the new more modern metropolis, UNESCO City of Music – but some aspects of Glasgow and its culture are well hidden. Over the next few days we explore some aspects of Glasgow’s hidden culture that even the locals may not know about. […]
“Glasgow has really transformed over the last 30 years, it’s a different city now from the city it used to be back in the 70s and 80s and a large part of that change has been down to the music, the culture and the art that the city is now associated with,” says Stewart Henderson, a man of many titles including SMIA chairman, former bassist of The Delgados, Chemikal Underground director and, now, one of the head organisers of East End Social, an arts and music events project run by the label in conjunction with Culture 2014. “We are an incredibly sophisticated city, culturally.” […]
Our Clydeside Promenade audio tour explores so much of the river city’s history – but what about her-story? Over the centuries, the historical representation of women in Glasgow has been somewhat slim. Achievements have been swept beneath the metaphorical rug of history. Key women are not celebrated in the same way and to the same extent as their male counterparts. […]
“Why, I wonder, should it feel so moving just to be here?” asks writer Peter Ross. “Well, the Clyde is not Scotland’s longest river, and it is not the most beautiful, but it is, I would say, the river which lives most vividly within the minds and imagination of the Scottish people. It carries a freight of meaning.” And it is this very meaning that we explore in our brand new audio tour, Clydeside Promenade. Venturing along the river from Govan to Bridgeton, the tour takes in stops such as Water Row, Govan Pontoon, Broomielaw, St. Andrew’s Suspension Bridge and on through wilder reaches of Glasgow Green to the East End. […]