Things to do in Glasgow

The Album Pathway, created by Glasgow artist Jim Lambie, pays homage to the iconic Barrowland Ballroom and its role in Glasgow’s musical history. Arranged like the spines of records on a shelf, the Pathway lists the names and dates of bands who played Barrowland from 1983 until the Pathway was installed for the Commonwealth Games…

Rock Against Racism was founded by a collective of musicians and activists  to combat fascism and racism through music. Between 1976 and 1981, under the slogan Love Music, Hate Racism, the collective put on concerts with reggae and punk bands on the same stage. The gigs attracted large multicultural audiences. Although RAR didn’t have an official photographer, Syd Shelton managed…

Next Thursday 22nd December Mono will host a benefit in aid of Glasgow Night Shelter. It’s free entry and donations are welcome. The Primevals, Dumb Instrument & Rulers of the Root perform and there will be guest DJs. Primevals frontman, Michael Rooney, has compiled a very fitting guest playlist for us. Thanks Michael.  

Just like the contradiction at the heart of their name, Glasgow/Edinburgh power duo Honeyblood are an amalgam of contrasting elements, teaming the sweetest tunes with the most visceral backing tracks to widespread acclaim over the past few years. We spoke to frontwoman Stina Tweedale ahead of their gig at Saint Luke’s this weekend about some…

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to be at the birth of one of rock n roll’s bastard offspring then this book is for you. Martin St John was Primal Scream’s leather gloved flailing skeleton, bashing away on the tambourine in the 1960s obsessive, garage psyche, mid-eighties period. This Thursday 24th…

We’d like to say a very big THANK YOU to Olaf Furniss and his team for the very first Music Tourism conference in Glasgow. It was an honour to participate and we thoroughly enjoyed 2 days of events including guest speakers, an intimate gig at Tenement TV and a look behind the scenes at beautiful Saint Luke’s and the SSE Hydro. Best…

We’re really pleased to host a joint event with our friends at Monorail on Wednesday November 16th at 7pm to celebrate the launch of Psychocandy by Paula Mejia. Paula will be joined by Douglas Hart, we’d love to see you there. We have a guest blog from Paula and a brilliant Spotify playlist from Douglas featuring ten songs The…

On Saturday 29th October we’re hosting an event at the Admiral Bar in conjunction with Divine to celebrate the launch of Stuart Cosgrove’s brilliant book, Detroit 67, it’s highly recommended. To kick the weekend off Stuart has very kindly penned a guest blog for us…thanks Stuart! Detroit 67 is published by Polygon Books at £9.99 I can remember exactly where I…

So we’ve heard from Malcolm Middleton. Now the other half of the Arab Strap partnership, frontman Aidan Moffat, tells us about reviving lyrics he wrote twenty years ago and what we can expect from this weekend’s gigs. “There’s a full set and hopefully we’ll find some requests. We’re going to have a wee box where you can post them…

This weekend, KT Tunstall performs at Proms in the Park on Glasgow Green, backed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Tunstall has toured with Jools Holland’s Rhythm & Blues Orchestra before, but this is the first time she has ever been backed by a classical orchestra.“It’s well posh, it just feels so fancy,” she says with her customary enthusiasm. That infectious enthusiasm has been tested over the past couple of years. Her return to pop music with new album KIN was by no means assured when Tunstall found herself exhausted by the death of her father, the end of her marriage and a disillusionment with the pop industry. But a life-changing move to California rejuvenated her mojo and ultimately set her back on the pop path. We met up with KT recently in Glasgow, when she returned to play the BBC Quay Sessions and found her ready and willing…