SAY IT LOUD Don Letts -There and Black Again: Glasgow Music Walking Tours blog
This coming Saturday, Jul 31st, the fabulous Don Letts is in conversation with our co-founder and lead guide, Fiona Shepherd, at Broadcast in Glasgow. To celebrate we have not one, but two copies of his autobiography There and Black Again to give away over on our FB page. Don Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster,…
July 28, 2021
Cat Step Sounds by Alison Irvine: Glasgow Walking Tours Guest blog
Our first guest blog of 2021 is from the writer, Alison Irvine. Alison wrote her brilliant new novel Cat Step at the same time as she was writing about the Barrowland Ballroom for the beautiful Barrowland Ballads book, which we previously covered on our blog: https://glasgowmusiccitytours.com/blog/category/barrowland-ballads/ photograph by Chris Leslie We know Alison loves her…
January 5, 2021
Glasgow Jazz Festival 2018: Competition
We’re very excited about the 32nd Glasgow Jazz Festival, the longest-running music event in the city. To celebrate its return we have a competition on our Facebook page to win a pair of tickets to see the fabulous Orchestre Poly-Rythmo at the Old Fruitmarket on Friday 22nd June. From Wednesday 20th-Sunday 24th June there…
May 3, 2018
BMX Bandits Forever and Ever by Duglas Stewart
We’d like to say a huge thank you to Duglas for taking the time out to write another guest blog for us. In this piece, Duglas takes us in detail through some of the key tracks and influences on the long-awaited new BMX Bandits album, BMX Bandits Forever And Ever, and also casts some light on the circumstances…
May 13, 2017
Christmas Competition!
We’ve selected a few of our favourite books this year for one bumper bundle for one lucky winner. To enter all you have to do is sign up for our newsletter: we promise not to bombard you with information. A winner will be picked at random & the closing date is Sunday 11th December. Enter…
November 28, 2016