The Barrowland Ballroom
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Gene with James Walsh
6 March 2026, The Barrowland Ballroom Several months ago, the marketing campaign for Gene’s tour started to appear regularly in the social media feeds that form part of the daily information input. Gene, a band I was slightly familiar with having tracks on various compilation CDs purchased in the 1990s. Could I name a song…
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Idlewild with Jill Lorean
The 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 celebrating 30 years of existence and to promote their self-titled album released only a few months earlier. A thirty-year career that had delivered over a…
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Heaven 17
The 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 output in the live setting. There have also been many, many surprises, as relative newcomers have exceeded all expectations, especially some of the ‘support’ acts.…
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The Zutons – Live
The Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow, With The Covasettes Every Zutons gig should come with a Health Warning, a very positive health warning that is, with their music reaching parts of the body many acts can only aspire to. From the moment they strolled on to the stage at the Barrowland and launched into signature tune Zuton…
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Barrowland Ballroom, 6 February 2025 We’ve been fortunate to see The Brian Jonestown Massacre a few times over the past couple of years, each time at the iconic Barrowland Ballroom. Almost thirty-five years since they started out, they can still fill this hall with devotees young and old. In truth, the previous couple of gigs…
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
With Ciel The Barrowland Ballroom, 7 December 2024 In the mid to late eighties, The Jesus and Mary Chain unleashed two classic albums, Psychocandy and Darklands that defined not just the band, but a genre of music that continues to reverberate on occasions like that at The Barrowland Ballroom, 40 years after they first exploded…
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Public Service Broadcasting
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Public Service Broadcasting For those unfamiliar with the band, their stage names hark back to an era of P J Wodehouse – J. Willgoose, Esq., Wrigglesworth, J F Abraham and Mr B who are the beating heart of the band. They extend this image…
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Johnny Marr
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Johnny Marr at The Barrowlands, Glasgow with Gaz Coombes supporting. August 10 2019. That’s the last time we seen Johnny Marr live, supporting Primal Scream at Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh. It would be no exaggeration to say that he left the stage…
