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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. […]

Join the Glasgow Chase

How well do you know your city? Where do you find the best music, art, architecture or cinema in Glasgow? To test your local knowledge join us for our latest treasure hunt at the Buchanan Street Apple Store at 6pm on Thursday 24 July. Bring your iPhone or iPad and be prepared for some surprises. […]

Introducing Clydeside Promenade: The Story of Glasgow’s Living Force

“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. […]

Your key to Glasgow’s Landmarks, even when doors are closed

The buskers in Buchanan Street are tuning up for an early evening show. Sounds promising but there’s no time to stop, we’re hot footing it to the Lighthouse to get the key to the doors of Glasgow (or some of them anyway). And then give it away. […]

From here to there with Leo and Anto

“People just wanted to sing – that’s a great Glaswegian trait”. On the road from here to there, Leo Moran tells Anna Levin what it’s like to tour Scotland with Anto Thistlethwaite while the rest of the Saw Doctors take a break. Over to Anna… […]

Music and art rise from Glasgow School of Art fire

After initial despair a new sense of hope is emerging as musicians and artists unite in what's likely to be the first of many fundraisers in aid of students' affected by the Glasgow School of Art [...]

Jukebox Journeys Kiwi edition. Part one: Coroglen Tavern

In her first dispatch from New Zealand, our roving blogger Gemma Brown tracks down a gem of a jukebox and a hot music centre in the stunningly beautiful Coromandel Peninsula. Over to Gemma… […]

Spar or spa? Time to pause in Edinburgh’s poetry garden?

Not many people know this. Edinburgh’s poetry garden is hidden in the city centre, in the heart of Scotland’s capital. Take a moment and you will find it in that bright green breathing space between the shops, banks and offices of St Andrew Square. This weekend, poetry works its way in to Spa in the City. […]

Why fly when you can take the Orient Express?

“Surely this cannot be right.” My travelling companion is not the only one looking doubtful as we emerge from a tunnel in the dark. We’ve been told the next train to Istanbul is due to arrive but where is it? More to the point, where is the platform? […]