With this episode I just hit record and started talking! I'm frustrated and disappointed by the Summer Nights at Kelvingrove Bandstand being cancelled. Surely this is the ideal venue to trial live outdoor concerts at? Glasgow is a UNESCO city of music, a UNESCO creative city. We love music, we live for music, we really need it. Not just for the eco…

Barry McLuskie and Alan Clarke joined me again to record the second Teenage Fanclub Fanclub podcast. This time we focused on 2005's Man-Made album. "We hardly took any equipment, just some guitars and a pair of drumsticks." - Norman Blake As we recorded the Long Way Round podcast in February, the three of us found we had been listening to (and grea…

Just over a year ago I put on an intimate show at The Doublet Bar in Glasgow for Starry Skies. This was my contribution to their album crowdfunder. You could book a house/flat show, but I booked the upstairs function room in one of my favourite bars, charged people £10 a ticket and every single penny went to the band. Little did the band or I know,…

Douglas MacIntyre (Port Sulphur) and Professor Ross Sinclair from Glasgow School of Art recently collaborated on a cover version of Josef K's 'It's Kinda Funny' for an Into Creative project in aid of Tiny Changes, the charity set up in memory of Scott Hutchison. We discussed Port Sulphur's cover of Josef K's It's Kinda Funny with Ross' accompanying…

In part 2 of the first Teenage Fanclub Fanclub feature, Alan Clarke, Barry McLuskie and I continue our conversation around creating a sister album to 2003's Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds - A Short Cut To Teenage Fanclub We decide to take the longer way round to Teenage Fanclub and each choose a song from Raymond, Gerry and Norma…

I caught up with fellow Teenage Fanclub Fanclub members Barry McLuskie and Alan Clarke to discuss our shared love of the band. For this episode Alan came up with the idea of creating a new compilation album, a sister to 2003's Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds - A Short Cut To Teenage Fanclub We each chose a song from Raymond, Gerry…

I chat with Tam Coyle, Stevie Watt & Craig McAllister about their memories of The Stone Roses first visit to Glasgow in June 1989. Tam was a young promoter who had to leave the Roses at 4.30am as he was working the next day. Stevie was helping Tam and DJ'd before The Roses and took them to his house so they could do an American phone interview. Cra…

The Bluebells seminal debut album 'Sisters' was lovingly remastered and reissued by Past Night From Glasgow in late 2020. I sent off an email with a few questions to Bobby Bluebell, with the intention of writing a feature length blog on the album. Bobby very kindly sent an audio recording back and rather than transcribe it, I thought it would make …