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St Peter's Seminary at Cardross. "A Future Reclaimed"
Hinterland at Cardross. March 2016Above the town of Cardross on the lower Clyde, hidden among trees, lies the crumbling ruins of one of Scotland's most original and dramatic buildings. Fifty years ago...
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Glasgow Spectator Sports Part 1. More Than Just Football?
What to do in Glasgow when the football is not on.It is 18 months now since the 2014 Commonwealth Games finished in Glasgow. By most accounts the games were a spectacular success, with all of the...
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Glasgow Spectator Sports, Part 2. More Than Just Football?
It is 18 months now since the 2014 Commonwealth Games finished in Glasgow. By most accounts the games were a spectacular success, with all of the sports on display getting great crowds attending from...
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Glasgow International 2016, a Festival of Contemporary ArtYet again Glasgow International rolls into town, a two week festival of international contemporary art, which arrives here every second year....
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Counterflows Music Festival, Glasgow. April 2016
Review of Counterflows Festival, Glasgow. April 2016I do enjoy the Counterflows Festival when it arrives in Glasgow. This is now the fifth year of this celebration of marginal, underground and...
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Glasgow Spectator Sports Part 3. Basketball.
It is 18 months now since the 2014 Commonwealth Games finished in Glasgow. By most accounts the games were a spectacular success, with all of the sports on display getting great crowds attending from...
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Review - Scottish Ballet. Swan Lake.Theatre Royal, Glasgow. April 2016Scottish Ballet have not performed Swan Lake for over 20 years now, and this new production, choreographed by David Dawson, is not...
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Glasgow Spectator Sports Part 4. Rugby
Glasgow Spectator Sports. More Than Just Football?I spend most of my time as a spectator of sport in Glasgow at football matches, more specifically at Firhill watching Partick Thistle. With my team...
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Glasgow Spectator Sports Part 5. Football.
I spend most of my time as a spectator of sport in Glasgow at football matches, more specifically at Firhill watching Partick Thistle. With my team being out of action a few weekends in April with...
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This Restless House. Citizens Theatre. May 2016
The Oresteia by Aeschylus and This Restless House by Zinnie HarrisThe Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, in collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland, are currently performing a new trilogy of...
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Tectonics Festival, Glasgow 2016
Tectonics Festival, Glasgow 2016The Tectonics Festival started life in Iceland, and has been playing in Glasgow for several years now under the leadership of conductor Ilan Volkov. As in previous years...
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Glasgow Spectator Sports - Summary
Glasgow Sports - What are the options?I spend many Saturday afternoons watching Partick Thistle play football at Firhill Stadium in Glasgow. There are other options in Glasgow though if you fancy...
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The 12th World Festival of Youth and Students. Moscow 1985
The 12th World Festival of Youth and Students. Moscow 1985In 1985 I was lucky enough to attend the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, and I recently came across the diary that my 14...
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Spectator Sports in Glasgow, Part Six - Boxing.
"History in the Making" - Ricky Burns vs Michele Di RoccoThe SSE Hydro has always looked like the perfect stage for professional boxing contests, and last night it was the venue for local favourite...
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Going Doon The Watter
Doon The WatterSailing "doon the watter" has a long history in Glasgow. Particularly during the Glasgow Fair in July when there would be a rush of people going down the Clyde, whether for day trips or...
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Bruce Springsteen - The River Tour. Hampden Park, Glasgow. June 2016
Live Review:Â Bruce Springsteen - The River Tour. Hampden Park, Glasgow. June 2016As a long time fan of Bruce Springsteen I would enjoy seeing him perform two hours of Christmas Carols but The River,...
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Adam Ant vs Coldplay
I am not a big fan of Coldplay, but for some unfathomable reason my teenage son has taken a shine to them. So when he found out that they were playing in Glasgow he was keen for us to go along to see...
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Malcolm Middleton. Ladyhawke. Channeling '80s Synth-pop
Live Review - Malcolm Middleton. Glasgow Art School. 27 May 2016Now 10 years after Arab Strap played their retirement gig at the Glasgow ABC, Falkirk's pop-miserablist Malcolm Middleton is touring to...
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Belle and Sebastian at 20. Glasgow University Union, Glasgow
Belle and Sebastian, gig review. Glasgow University Union, Glasgow. 15 June 2015"Belle and Sebastian were the product of botched capitalism. It would be nice to say they were the children of socialism,...
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016. Moon Dogs.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016. Moon Dogs.The annual Edinburgh International Film Festival is in full swing just now, celebrating its 70th edition. I have never before been to see anything...
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