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Through 100 years of music to the Barrowland, exploring old legends and new haunts.
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From Charles Dickens to Billy Connolly, a rich history with musical variations...
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Cobbled ground, vaulted roof, old market hall – and music, music, music.
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The Kinks, Bowie, Oasis, U2, Simple Minds, Mogwai: who hasn’t played the Barrowland?
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Time for T
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More time for T
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A global meeting place
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Cafe, record store, laid-back new music hangout for DJs, bands and local regulars.
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Essential starting point for up and coming musicians
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Old kirk with lurid past and edgy new talent
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The weird and wonderful Panopticon
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(Maybe) Glasgow’s oldest bar offers a heady brew of alcohol, music and politics.
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Meet you at the corner
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Blood, sweat and reels
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Art Deco cinema beams new music
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Now closed – but the legend lives on
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Voted one of world’s best dance clubs. Sub Club stirs strong emotions.
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Former ‘adult cinema’ reborn.
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Centre of booming rock industry, Cathouse Promotions can boom!
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Hidden gem, new indie music meets Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
3 min
The truth about that Oasis discovery?
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Hip hangout for upcoming bands. And a 'killer jukebox'.
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Ghosts of much-loved, long-gone Locarno Ballroom and Tiffany’s disco.
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Behind the yellow truck: Scotland’s biggest club, indie rock, pop and hip hop.
5 min
To be continued, we hope
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Legendary haunt of Franz Ferdinand
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The world waits. For the second time
8 min
The sound of Scotland's best known musical instrument echoes around the world
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From Charlie Chaplin to the Mighty Boosh: Scotland’s privately run music hall theatre
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Below Cineworld, almost mythical Apollo (or Greens Playhouse). EVERYONE played here.
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Where to hear Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, Elgar and Elvis, but not all at once.
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A global brand gains a distinctly Glasgow identity
7 min
Rock the boat
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Prosperity and poverty, a journey down the historic river running through Glasgow
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Creative Clyde brings new meaning to Clydebuilt
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Monumental music arena
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Spontaneous and welcoming, a contemporary twist on Traditional Scottish culture
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But the music never ends
53 sHow will Glasgow sound after Covid-19?
The question hangs over a city famous for its live music. Thriving venues have been closed and silent for over a year.
Nothing can quench the creative spirit of Glasgow. Live music has been an essential, unchanging part of Scotland's largest city, Britain's first UNESCO City of Music.
Yet change is also part of any city. Even before Covid, new forces were reshaping the city's night time economy. For better and worse. Fires, dereliction, property development and regeneration all made their mark on the streets our guide DJ Jim Gellatly leads us round. .
Streets echoing with the sounds and memories of names like Franz Ferdinand, Mogwai, Hue and Cry, Simple Minds... social history built into bars, basements, concert halls ... Glasgow Green.
Once the city opens up again, we will have to explore and discover a changed landscape. But music is an inescapable part of the past, present and future of Glasgow. And that is what we celebrate here.
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