Life Without Buildings were a short-lived but lovingly remembered band whose afterlife means that may be long gone but are not forgotten. Formed in 1999 and disbanded in 2002, they were were part art-project, part pop band, equally at home on the two King Street venues that played an important part in their short […]
moreChris McClure is one of Glasgow’s most remarkable performers. Still performing at the age of nearly 80, his career began in the social clubs of the 1960s. He was briefly part of the burgeoning beat group scene before returning to a more middle of the road oeuvre as Christian, the name under which he has […]
moreFormed in 1995, Mogwai approach their thirtieth anniversary with a renewed vigour, following the success of their 2021 album, As The Love Continues, which yielded their first number 1 on the UK album charts. Their story is quite well documented, not least in Stuart Braithwaite’s forthcoming book, Spaceships Over Glasgow, but a shortened version goes […]
moreLena Martell was the first Scottish woman to top the UK charts as a solo artist in 1979, when her version of Kris Kristofferson’s One Day at a Time was a global hit, selling 2.5 million copies in the UK and also topping the charts in three other countries. Martell’s short period as a pop […]
moreNever has an artist typified the eccentricities of Glasgow’s music scene as the late great poet, troubadour, and teacher Ivor Cutler. Born in Govan in 1923, Cutler started writing songs and poetry in the 1950s and found a platform for his work through BBC radio. His unconventional songs, which typically involved his deep Glaswegian baritone […]
moreLike many of their contemporaries and indeed, predecessors, Wet Wet Wet’s huge commercial success from the release of their debut single, ‘Wishing I Was Lucky’ in 1987, has seen the band largely overlooked or seen as an uncomfortable sideshow in histories of Scottish pop. The conventional narrative focuses on cheesy grins, tabloid tales of drug […]
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