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Capital losses: Edinburgh’s live music under threat
Here’s an odd tale of two cities. In Glasgow, home-grown live music thrives (as our music tour testifies) while in Edinburgh it struggles to survive. In support of The Bongo Club, the latest Edinburgh club threatened with closure, we came up with these thoughts. And some questions. […]
Glasgow music tour: the story that keeps evolving
Here we go. Glasgow Music Tour is now officially on the road and travelling. Walking Heads celebrated the launch of our audio walking tour in true Glasgow style at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut last [...]
Cry Parrot New Year Festival at Glasgow’s Nice N Sleazy!
Let Glasgow music promoter’s Cry Parrot help clear away your post Christmas blues with their inaugural New Year Mini Festival. The three day event takes place at Walking Heads Glasgow Music Tour destination and one of the best small venues in the city for alternative and independent music, Nice N Sleazy. Music blogger Breda Doherty tells us more… […]
Dancing on tables: Ally McCrae’s mini tour of Glasgow’s live music haunts
“The gig pretty much started and ended with people dancing on the tables.” For excitement, innovation and a real joy in live music, come with our guest blogger, BBC’s Ally McCrae, to some of his favourite Glasgow haunts… […]
Happy Particles to release debut album on Christmas day
What’s that lurking beneath the Christmas tree? Guest blogger Breda Doherty gives us a sneak preview of the lush sounds of a long-awaited debut album being released on Christmas Day… […]
All aboard the Rockness Express? The Year of Creative Scotland 2012
Here’s good news for the arts. And – we’re delighted to say – specially good news for music, in our latest blog from Joe Carr-Hollands on The Year of Creative Scotland 2012 which begins a minute after midnight on Hogmanay… […]
Eli and Oz Records
As a provider of unique new media content, we here at Walking Heads are always on the lookout for other exciting new ideas that utilise the web with imagination. Recently formed record label Eli and Oz have done just that by creating an interesting and original way to release the best Scottish unsigned bands out there. Let Joe Carr-Hollands explain… […]
Found in India: the longest weekend ever?
“Daily life is soundtracked by a cacophony of car horns. After a few minutes in a taxi, you see why”, Tommy Perman’s guest blog describes what Found discovered on a whirlwind tour of India. […]
Roddy Frame comes home to Glasgow’s 02 ABC
Roddy Frame recently returned to Glasgow, to play to a packed audience in Glasgow’s 02 ABC, a fitting choice given that the East Kilbride native first opened the venue back in 2005.
Another Successful MOBO Awards in Glasgow City of Music!
So the MOBO awards 2011 are all over but it’s no surprise they were moved back to the SECC after a brief hiatus in Liverpool last year which never really matched the intensity or charm [...]