Glasgow Jacky
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Kungens Män + The Janitors + Dead Otter
Ivory Blacks, 16 September 2025 After what seemed like an eternity, I was back on the #AtoZMusicalTour with a visit to one of my favourite venues in Glasgow, Ivory Blacks. Getting there early was a pre-requisite as the lineup included three bands, Glasgow’s Dead Otter who were on warm up duties and Sweden’s The Janitors…
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Big City 2025
With Rev Magnetic, Skloss, Tristwch y Fenywod, Prolapse, Snapped Ankles, Grufff Rhys and Lankum Kelvingrove Bandstand, 16 August 2025 After a few weeks of sold out shows at the Kelvingrove Bandstand, the curtain was finally drawn on this year’s Summer Nights at the Bandstand with the Big City 2025 Festival. One benefit of events like…
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The Cathode Ray
With The Letting Go Nice’n’Sleazy, 15 August 2025 The Cathode Ray and a happy series of circumstances. Serendipity can be a wonderful thing at times. You become a member of a record label, in this instance Last Night From Glasgow who have been furnishing you with any number of great albums for the past few…
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Franz Ferdinand
With English Teacher and Cowboy Hunters SWG3, 13 August 2025 There’s very little to beat a hometown boy returning with his band to entertain a few thousand fans who had headed to SWG3 on a sunny Glasgow night. In Alex Kapranos, Franz Ferdinand has the consummate frontman. Whether on vocals or guitar, whether singing or…
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Stiff Little Fingers
With Cherym Kelvingrove Bandstand, 12 August 2025 A ‘blast’, no pun intended, from the past. 1977 to be exact. Along with The Clash, The Damned, The Sex Pistols, The Jam and other punk and ‘new wave’ bands who broke through around that time, they build up a considerable following of fans, not just in their…
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Elbow
With Zoe Graham Kelvingrove Bandstand, 9 August 2025 It’s a sunny Saturday night at the Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, a perfect night for an outdoor gig with headliners Elbow, the main draw of this year’s Summer Sessions at the venue. The last of three sold out nights for the band who formed in 1990 and…
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Public Service Broadcasting
With Andrew Wasylyk Kelvingrove Bandstand, 6 August 2025 For anyone unfamiliar with Public Service Broadcasting, over recent years they have cultivated a niche in the musical market, recording and touring a series of ‘concept’ albums based around a range of topics including The Race For Space, Every Valley, about the Welsh Mining Industry and last…
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Teenage Fanclub
With Constant Follower Kelvingrove Bandstand, 31 July 2025 Summer Nights at The Bandstand. How often have we attended these events wrapped up in clothes more suitable for winter evenings? For bands like Teenage Fanclub who have played in Kelvingrove Park before, it’s almost become the norm that the first few words on stage have more…
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Peter Capaldi
With Lousie Connell Stereo, 30 July 2025 I’ve been to a few gigs in Stereo over the past couple of years. A basement venue in the heart of the city. 300 of a capacity and, up to this week, I don’t think the capacity was ever seriously stretched for all the bands that had appeared…
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999
With Clox Pitcher – The Düsseldorf Rock’n’Roll Headquarters, Dusseldorf, 24 July 2025 The end of our own #RaceAcrossEurope odyssey took us to The Pitcher Bar in the back streets of Dusseldorf. More accurately, we were heading to ‘Pitcher – The Düsseldorf Rock’n’Roll Headquarters’. The exterior artistic work provides a clue as to what might be…
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Gregory Porter
Kurpark, Wiesbaden, 22 July 2025 In seeking a definition for ‘eclectic,’ I found the following – ‘deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.’ A few words which more than adequately describes the musical acts we had seen over the previous couple of weeks across Europe. From indoor arenas to inside…
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Ezra Collective
with Kokoroko The KKL, Lucerne, 21 July 2025 A few weeks prior to seeing Nick Cave in Naples, southern Italy, and Gregory Porter in Wiesbaden, middle Germany, we were looking for a stopover to break up the journey between both and decided upon Lucerne in Switzerland. No point travelling all that way and not to…
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Nick Cave
Pompeii, 19 July 2025 The Amphitheatre of Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving Roman amphitheatres. It is located in the ancient city of Pompeii, near Naples, and was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, that also buried the city of Pompeii and the neighbouring town of Herculaneum. It was also the stage setting for Nick Cave and…
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Nile Rodgers and Chic
With Son Mieux, Cattolica, 18 July There is something very distinctive about songs that Nile Rodgers has an input into. They always involve beats that force the body to move in time to the rhythm coming from whatever source is playing the music. Radios, stereos, headphones, or a sunny evening in Cattolica on the Adriatic…
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Queens Of The Stone Age
With The Kills and The Amazons Bassano Del Grappa, 16 July A number of lucky factors had brought us to Bassano Del Grappa to see Queens Of The Stone Age, namely the venue was enroute between Munich and Catollica, with a minor detour on our #RaceAcrossEurope The were a band we hadn’t seen live before…
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Patti Smith
Munich, 13 July Under the big tent in Munich, part of the Tollwood Summer Festival, the audience who came to witness Patti Smith were, mainly, of a certain age / maturity. People who had been following the godmother of musical protest for a generation or more, a lot more. On stage for the best bit…
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The Kills
Tvornica Kulture, Zagreb, 12 July With Ki Klop in support The straight-line distance between Glasgow and Zagreb is a little over 1,100 miles and, as part of our own #RaceAcrossEurope tour, we were in the city to see The Kills deliver an electrifying set that had the locals swaying, cheering and idolising two people who…
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Yamato The Drummers of Japan
Opera House, Graz, 10 July Pictures taken from Yamato The Drummers of Japan website. ‘Serendipity – the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.’ If there is one word to describe why we found ourselves in Graz to see Yamato, The Drummers of Japan, then serendipity would be as…
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Amyl And The Sniffers
With The Bigoter X-Tra Zurich, 8 July Next up on this year’s Interrail European Tour took us to Zurich to watch the bundle of energy that is Amy Taylor front her band Amyl And The Sniffers. As if they have recently materialised from the Australian Outback, they are on the lips of everyone with a…
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Nine Inch Nails
With Boys Noize Accor Arena, Paris, 7July A different city. A different country. A different headline act. The same expectation and excitement. The first gig on our personal #RaceAcrossEurope tour, saw us take in the magnificent Accor Arena in Paris to see Nine Inch Nails with support, and some added musical accompaniment when required by…
