Different tours
Old buildings reborn with new music
Past, present and future jostle together in city streets. We wander up an alley to find a beautiful Charles Rennie Macintosh building squeezed into an improbably tight space. Linger by the Finnieston Crane on the Clyde to hear music in the wind. Pause by an old factory in the East End to discover a new arts hub emerging inside. […]
Backstage Gossip: well beyond the Fringe
Backstage Gossip with Susan Morrison and Bruce Morton, takes us behind the scenes and well beyond the Fringe. Our research director Fay Young introduces the latest Walking Heads audio tour. […]
Win two tickets to The Stand every day during Fringe 2016
Do you love comedy? Then here’s an offer you surely can’t refuse. Don’t miss this chance to win two tickets to top late night shows at The Stand Comedy Club every day during Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a daily draw from 2 – 26 August (tickets available from 4 – 28 August). […]
Barony A Frame: a symbol of local pride
It’s visible from a long way off. We catch tantalising glimpses of it as the road winds round fields and farm buildings and then finally we arrive. Dark and stark against a cloudy June sky, the Barony A Frame towers above us; a monument to a way of life that has disappeared but also – almost against the odds – a symbol of local pride and hope. […]
Cinema City: Glasgow Film Festival 2015
As Glasgow gets ready to celebrate a long love affair with cinema, guest blogger Lucy Brouwer prepares for Glasgow Film Festival 2015 by exploring what’s on this year – while reliving the adrenaline high of festivals past. […]
Happy Birthday King Tut’s: the biggest 25th party ever?
“There’s soooo much more to King Tut’s”. At the start of what may be the best and biggest 25th birthday party on record, we offer a celebration clip from one of our favourite stopping points on Glasgow Music Tour. […]
Walking and talking Glasgow music with Jim Gellatly
Meet Jim Gellatly, not just the voice of new music in Scotland but the voice of Glasgow Music Tour. Let’s join him now on Jim Lambie’s album pathway looking for his first gigs at the Barrowland. […]
Art stands firm on the Clyde
As the Clyde flows through Glasgow so it flows through the city’s art. The river banks have played host to an array of public art works inspired by the history, culture and powerful symbolism of the river, writes Lucy Brouwer. […]
Glasgow’s Hidden Culture: Part Two
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. […]
Glasgow’s Hidden Culture: Part One
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. […]
East End Social: music beats in Glasgow’s industrial heart
“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.” […]
Meet the ‘Glasgow Girls’ who helped make the city
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. […]