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Top 10 Gigs and Albums of 2025
Read more: Top 10 Gigs and Albums of 2025So many to choose from in both categories The Gigs Of The Year 2025 was another busy year for gigs, though I didn’t manage to close off #Chapter2 of our #AtoZMusicalTour with the letters U and X still […]
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Miki Berenyi with F.O. Machete
Read more: Miki Berenyi with F.O. MacheteNice’n’Sleazy’s, 20 December It’s now almost a week since attending, what looks like, my last gig of the year with headliner the Miki Berenyi Trio and local support F.O. Machete. […]
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Tom McRae with Radhika and special guest Boo Hewerdine
Read more: Tom McRae with Radhika and special guest Boo HewerdineKing Tuts Wah Wah Hut, 17 December Arriving just after the doors opened at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut on a midweek night in Glasgow, I half expected Tom McRae’s […]
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The Creeping Bent Organisation with
Read more: The Creeping Bent Organisation withRadhika & Future Pilot AKA, The Secret Goldfish, The Leopards, QUAD90, The Bluebells and Port Sulphur Mono, 12 December The Creeping Bent Organisation Let’s put the record straight at the […]
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Stereophonics with Finn Forster
Read more: Stereophonics with Finn ForsterThe OVO Hydro, 10 December For a few years either side of the millennium, Stereophonics were establishing themselves as a band who produced anthemic songs for their growing fanbase to […]
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Idlewild with Jill Lorean
Read more: Idlewild with Jill LoreanThe Barrowland Ballroom, 7 December The Barrowland Ballroom welcomed, for the umpteenth time, one of Scotland’s enduring musical icons with Idlewild taking to the stage as part of a tour […]
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Marconi Union
Read more: Marconi UnionNice’n’Sleazy, 6 December Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. Often “peaceful” sounding and lacking composition, beat, and/or structured melody, ambient music uses textural layers of sound that can […]
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Dirty Three
Read more: Dirty ThreeClassic Grand, 30 November The Classic Grand building has been in place for over 160 years, initially opening as a warehouse, circa 1860. Classic in design, it’s seen many changes […]
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My Bloody Valentine
Read more: My Bloody ValentineOVO Hydro, 27 November My Bloody Valentine and the OVO Hydro, with a capacity of over 14,000 on a good day, seem like odd companions for one of the most […]
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Heaven 17
Read more: Heaven 17The Barrowland Ballroom, 13 November Over the past few years, as I’ve been documenting our #AtoZMusicalTour, there have been any number of highs as musical acts have outperformed their studio […]
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Dead Otter with The Kryss Talmeth Experience
Read more: Dead Otter with The Kryss Talmeth ExperienceThe Old Hairdressers – 8 November Saturday night and once again heading to The Old Hairdressers, nestling in a quiet lane, yards from the mayhem of Glasgow Central Station with […]
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Daiistar and Dallas Love Field
Read more: Daiistar and Dallas Love FieldThe Old Hairdressers – 5 November The Old Hairdressers, nestling in a quiet lane, yards from Glasgow Central Station. A venue which has been visited on a few occasions now […]
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Sister John and Mull Historical Society
Read more: Sister John and Mull Historical SocietyCottiers – 31 October There’s something imposing about gigs taking place in former places of worship. At Cottiers, the archways, and what would have been the pulpit and focal point […]
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Man of Moon with Duncan Marquiss
Read more: Man of Moon with Duncan MarquissMcChuills – 30 October Duncan Marquiss One man, a couple of guitars, a series of loops and a microphone, sporadically used to say hello. There is something awe inspiring when […]
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Smote with Dragged Up
Read more: Smote with Dragged UpThe Hug & Pint 20 October Every day is a school day as they say. In starting to write this post, I found out that The Hug & Pint is […]
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The Golden Tree and The Cowboy Mouth
Read more: The Golden Tree and The Cowboy MouthThe Glad Cafe, 17 October The Cowboy Mouth and The Golden Tree In the previous week, Glasgow’s southside had played host to a double header for the Scotland football team […]
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Helicon with Spacial Awareness
Read more: Helicon with Spacial AwarenessKing Tuts Wah Wah Hut,11 October Spacial Awareness Such is the respect shown by Helicon for Spacial Awareness that they themselves penned this description of their opening act. Spacial Awareness […]
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The Bluebells with Gerard Love
Read more: The Bluebells with Gerard LoveStrathaven Hotel, 3 October Heading to the Strathaven Hotel required more hope than judgement as Storm Amy made the journey that bit more treacherous than it would normally have been. […]
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QUAD90 with Mackenzies
Read more: QUAD90 with MackenziesThe Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 26 September QUAD90 As you peer across the musical landscape within this blog, there are bands who tick the boxes of psychedelic, shoegaze, soulful pop, chamber […]
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Red Rum Club with Brogeal and ItsYesAndMaybe
Read more: Red Rum Club with Brogeal and ItsYesAndMaybeSWG3, Glasgow, 25 September The Red Rum Club The Red Rum Club describe themselves as the ‘Mariachi Merseysiders’, though they also tick the box for being an alternative rock band with […]
