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Tearing Down Statues - Glasgow Next?

Is It Time To Remove These Glasgow Statues?While American cities have recently been taking down Confederate statues, it has been greeted with both protests and with cheers. Some people have been...

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Disused Train Lines and Ghost Railway Stations of Glasgow

Your Complete Guide to the Disused Tran Lines of the West of Glasgow - Autumn 2017Many of the world's city centres are grinding to a halt due to traffic congestion. Pollution levels are climbing due to...

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Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov. Tron Theatre, Glasgow.

Review: Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov. Tron Theatre, Glasgow. October 2017Just writing down the date at the heading of this piece, "October 2017", is a reminder that this month marks the centenary...

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Sonic-a 2017 Review

Review: Sonic-a 2017. The Glasgow Music Festival "For the Visually Minded".Curated by Cryptic.Sonic-a is always a highlight of the calendar for me in Glasgow. The biennial festival is a mash-up of...

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Shabazz Palaces - Glasgow. Live review

Shabazz Palaces, Art School, Glasgow. 8th Nov 2017American experimental hip-hop duo Shabazz Palaces create albums that can appear opaque and intriguing, but performing live present a surprisingly...

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Banararama - Original Line Up UK Tour 2017. Live review

Banararama - Original Line Up UK Tour 2017Live gig review. SEC Armadillo auditorium Glasgow. 12th November 2017Bananarama - don't it make you feel good?In the 1980s Bananarama produced a string of...

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Pussy Riot - Riot Days. Live review. Glasgow Art School

Pussy Riot - Riot DaysLive reviewGlasgow Art SchoolNovember 2017Maria Alyokhina, of balaclava-clad, performance art troup Pussy Riot, spent two years in jail for a 40 seconds long protest in a Moscow...

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Olde Glasgow Hospitals

"Nothing is permanent, except change"As I write this in late 2017, demolition teams are working on the sites of the western Infirmary and Victoria Infirmary hospitals in Glasgow. The recent opening of...

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Me and The MacPhees, a Lochaber History.

I was recently up at the Clachaig Inn in Glencoe with my family. It reminded me of all the old stories that my granny told me about her relative that used to be the innkeeper there. She always said...

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Celtic Connections 2018. Live review

Julie Fowlis, Live Review. City Halls, Glasgow.Max Richter, Live Review. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Celtic Connectios 2018. The 25th anniversary edition.Julie Fowlis, City Halls, Glasgow. Celtic...

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Celtic Connections 2018. Marnie. Peter Broderick

Marnie. The Hug and Pint, Glasgow. Celtic Connections. 28th January, 2018. Live Review. Helen Marnie, once of Ladytron, has been performing solo for a couple of years now as Marnie, and played a...

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Bert Dobbie

This is a fuller version of the obituary for Bert Dobbie, that appeared in the Glasgow Herald, 26 February 2018.Bert Dobbie, skiing in Glencoe, 1945Robert Dobbie, known as Bert, was an engineer,...

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Something old, something new. Weekend Glasgow concert reviews

Live gig review -Lee 'Scratch' Perry. St Lukes, Glasgow 10th March 2018Superorganism. CCA, Glasgow, 11th March 2018Saturday night's gig was my choice, Sunday night was my brother's. Our musical tastes...

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Young Fathers. Barrowlands, Glasgow. March 2018

Young Fathers. Barrowlands, Glasgow. March 2018. Live gig reviewI have said it before, but it is worth saying again, Young Fathers are by far the best live act on the go just now. They are growing...

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Chrysta Bell. Glasgow gig.

Live review - Chrysta Bell. Oran Mor, Glasgow. 8th April 2018Brought to public attention by her role as special agent Tammy Preston in the latest series of David Lynch's Twin Peaks, Chrysta Bell seems...

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Glasgow International 2018 - Ah, but is it art?

Glasgow International 2018. Festival of Contemporary ArtA quick first impressions review of some of the stuff that is on at the sprawling Glasgow International art festival in the city for the next two...

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Bridgegate, Saltmarket and the Glasgow Fish Market

District 14, GlasgowSaltmarket from Bridgegate, by Thomas Annan. 1868In late 19th century Glasgow the area bounded by Stockwell Street and Saltmarket, the Trongate to the north and the Clyde to the...

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1967. Scotland versus USSR

With the 2018 World Cup final happening later today in Moscow, without Scotland, here is a look back to happier footballing times for our small country - 1967.In April 1967 Scotland declared themselves...

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The Faroe Islands - Sport and Identity

I recently returned from a holiday to the Faroe Islands, and was not surprised to hear that 1 in 3 young people there are active members of sports clubs. We saw modern sports halls, football pitches,...

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Saint Mungo, Saint Kentigern, Saint Enoch and Glasgow.

Two new murals in Glasgow city centre have been getting a lot of attention. These modern depictions of Saint Mungo and his mother, Saint Enoch, have been painted by Glasgow-based Australian street...

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