Chris Thomson
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Last Night From Glasgow 10th Birthday
with Mark W. Georgsson, Billy Reeves, Brontes, Pearl Charles, Amy Duncan, Countess of Fife, Grahame Skinner, Sister John, Chris Thomson, Xan Tyler and The Bluebells 9 May 2026, Cottiers Where has the last 10 years gone? I’m sure Ian Smith and all those who have been involved with Last Night From Glasgow during that time…
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LNFG 9th Birthday & The Cowboy Mouth Album Launch
Live gig review of The Cowboy Mouth who were promoting their latest album in conjunction with the ninth birthday party celebrating Glasgow label, Last Night From Glasgow The beautiful, converted venue of Cottiers, a building built to serve as the parish church of the Dowanhill United Presbyterian Church in the 1860s. A crowd who seemed to have followed…
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James Grant and Friends
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… James Grant’s first foray into the ‘music industry’ was in 1982 with Friends Again. Forty two years later and, if last night’s show is anything to go by, he has matured wonderfully well as both a musician and raconteur of his life and…
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Music Makes Scotland
Ahead of tonight’s gig with James Grant and ‘Friends’, it gave me time to listen back to some of the artists and bands who nurtured my love for home grown music in the late eighties and nineties and continues to do so four decades on. Some became commercially successful and internationally known, Orange Juice, Simple…
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Sweet Deceit
Everyone knows not to judge an album by its cover. However, sometimes we can’t resist the visual attraction created to tempt the unwary customer. Have you ever bought an album just for the cover? How did it turn out? One such album for me was The Bathers – Sweet Deceit. Released in 1990, it has…
