Kelvingrove Bandstand
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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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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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Louis Berry
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… In this post we review Louis Berry and two, as yet un-named, support acts who kept us entertained before curfew at Stereo last night. Saturday nights in Glasgow. The streets and pubs are heaving with the usual mix of weekend revellers. Yet, beneath…
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Echo & The Bunnymen
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Why do we listen to music? To hear songs that we know and love? To listen to what’s new, what’s been recommended or what we’ve previously missed? To blank out the rest of what’s going on around us at the time? Why do…
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The Teskey Brothers
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Summer Nights at The Kelvingrove Bandstand have become a staple diet for many gig-goers over the past 10 years, with an eclectic mix of acts performing on stage to sold out audiences of 2,500. Last night it was the turn of Australia’s The…
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Johnny Marr
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Johnny Marr strode on to the stage and looked to the heavens. Where 20 minutes earlier, the grey skyline across Glasgow had tipped rainwaters onto the expectant audience, the clouds had now dispersed to be replaced by a hoped-for, blue-sky summer’s night. He…
