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Once again we are delighted to be able to offer our Celtic Connections Trad Trail guests a complimentary dram of whisky at the start of our tours. For the last few years, Tomatin have generously provided bottles of their Legacy single malt which we have enjoyed sharing with our guests. This year, in addition to…

The Stobcross Crane and OVO Hydro arena: Clydeside’s past and present . We have teamed up with Mharsanta Scottish restaurant to run Shipyard Bards, Tall Tales, Whisky and Dinner, a musical celebration of Glasgow’s shipbuilding heritage taking place in January 2022. For more than a century, the Clyde’s shipbuilding industry was not just a byword…

As you can’t have failed to notice, Glasgow is hosting COP26. This got us thinking about the role music can play in promoting sustainability, and about how music links in with environmental and wellbeing themes. A good local example of this is one of our favourite stops on the tour, Barrowland Park, currently designated a…

As the city gears up for COP26, we, along with many of our colleagues, have signed Music Declares Emergency. Over the next couple of weeks our blog will highlight some of the events taking place around Glasgow to keep minds focused on the climate emergency. Lynnie Carson Singer/ songwriter Lynnie Carson has penned a song…

Our co-founder and lead guide, Fiona Shepherd is one of the award nominators for this year’s Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA). Their 12th annual awards ceremony will be taking place at Glasgow’s Saint Lukes on Sat 27th November 2021 — after last year’s virtual awards ceremony, SAMA’s return to a bricks-and-mortar venue feels like a…

Synth pop pioneers Soft Cell will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of  Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret with a series of UK live shows starting 10th November at Glasgow Academy.  Soft Cell will perform the classic album in full for the first time at the shows, as well as debuting material from their first new album in…

We’re delighted to see the Glasgow Americana festival return from the 29th September- 3rd October 2021. Festival director Kevin Morris said: “I am so proud of this line-up, which was put together at short notice, and glad to be given the opportunity for the 15th Glasgow Americana festival to actually happen. The fact that a…

We were delighted when our pal, singer-songwriter Lynnie Carson, got in touch to tell us about writing a song for a new play, Rose about the Scottish footballing legend Rose Reilly. Rose written by Lorna Martin, directed by Maureen Carr, with Christina Strachan as Rose opens at Oran Mor in Glasgow on Monday September 13th…

We’ve been enjoying the return to live music in Glasgow and Edinburgh recently and wanted to share a blog from friend of the music tours, David Beckett, about the time the legendary Son House played Leith Town Hall. Over to David… I was barely into a year of what turned out to be a fifty…

Like the majority of her peers, Geordie indie diva Nadine Shah has keenly felt the lack of touring activity through the national lockdowns. But while she hasn’t been doing the job she was born for, she has experienced some key life events on the pandemic rollercoaster – not least leaving London, moving back home to…

Nominations for the 2021 Scottish Album of the Year Award are well underway at a time when it has never been more crucial to celebrate our musicians. The award can certainly be life-changing – just ask 2015 SAY winner Kathryn Joseph who built on her win to become one of Scotland’s most acclaimed artists. She’s…

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,…