Music Declares Emergency: No Music on a Dead Planet Glasgow Music Walking Tours Blog
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…
October 25, 2021
SAMA- Scottish Alternative Music Awards Sat 27th November: Glasgow Music Walking Tours Blog
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…
October 18, 2021
Soft Cell Q&A: Glasgow Music Walking Tours Blog
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…
October 5, 2021
Glasgow Americana Festival 2021: Glasgow Music Walking Tours blog
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…
September 22, 2021
A song for Rose Reilly by Lynnie Carson: Singer-songwriter Lynnie Carson on her song about the Scottish footballing legend, the subject of a new play
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…
September 8, 2021
Son House at Leith Town Hall 1970, by David Beckett: Glasgow Music Walking Tours Guest Blog
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…
August 27, 2021
Nadine Shah: Glasgow Music Walking Tours Guest Blog
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…
August 10, 2021
Kathryn Joseph: Glasgow Music Walking Tours Guest Blog
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…
August 2, 2021
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
Help Musicians Scotland Free Online Event: Guest Blog Glasgow Music Walking Tours
Thanks to Étáin Sweeney from Help Musicians Scotland for getting touch to let us know about a free online event for anyone working in the music industry on Wednesday 28th July, 1.15pm. It’s not unusual to feel anxious at the thought of returning to ‘normality’ and the session explores how to face the unique challenges…
July 23, 2021
Happy 7th Birthday Barrowland Park Glasgow Music Walking Tours Guest Blog
Our tour guests love Barrowland Park and to celebrate the Park’s 7th birthday we’ve got a great blog from our good friends Fans of Barrowland Park — and they’ve even managed to pull off a brilliant intro from none other than Bobby Gillespie! To mark the occasion we’re gifting a copy of Utopian Ashes, the…
July 19, 2021
Great restaurants for our Merchant City Music tour
Much as we all like those listicles which spell out ‘The Best Restaurants in Glasgow’ or ‘The Best Bars in Glasgow Ever’, we all know that one man’s best is another’s bleurgh. So we decided to come up with something more useful and do a blog detailing some of the many great restaurants that are…
July 9, 2021