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James Porteous meets up with Red Bull’s X-Fighters, as they descend on Glasgow’s George Square ahead of the freestyle motocross series’ finale in London.

James Porteous

When talking to friends and colleagues about Blue Man Group, there is a vague knowledge that they exist, and that they are very well known in general, but also an odd confusion over what they actually get up to on stage. Admittedly, the name does give a clue to their appearance, but there’s still a strange sense of mystery for such a massive live act.

Fraser Gibb

When you leave a gig singing the chorus to a support act’s song, you would think something had gone terribly wrong for the headliners.

James Porteous Hearing the interior of the SECC described as anything other than a monstrous collection of ironwork is a fairly uncommon event. Yet the man sitting beside me, Sean McKeown, Artistic Coordinator of Quidam, has just been overwhelmingly complementary about the place. Bizarre, considering the reputation for beauty and spectacle that Cirque du Soleil [...]

James Porteous Large crowds gathered at Garscube last weekend to attend the University of Glasgow’s largest annual fundraising event, the Vet Rodeo. Now in its 49th year, the Rodeo plays host to numerous attractions for children and adults alike, with all profits from the event being given to nominated charities. This year, money was being [...]

The Glasgow University SRC has aligned itself with members of the alcohol and retail industry in questioning the Scottish Government’s proposed controls on the sale of alcohol. President Gavin Lee made the comment in response to the SNP’s plans to implement minimum retail pricing on alcoholic drinks. The plan, developed to help curb Scotland’s reputation [...]

James Porteous The news that Daily Record and Sunday Mail workers are taking further strike action, in response to the threat to jobs at the newspapers, is a worrying continuation of a more prolonged employment issue in the media. With recent circulation figures suggesting that fewer papers than ever are being sold in Scotland, and [...]

James Porteous The number of unopposed and vacant positions, in all but one of the current student elections, is a damning indictment of the level of student participation at Glasgow University, and the entire electoral process that serves to fill the numerous positions. As a result of various technical and apathetic reasons, two of the [...]

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James Porteous The actions of wildcat strikers, in reaction to the employment of foreign workers at Lindsey Refinery, are at best absurd, and at worst a shameful indication that flagrant xenophobia is acceptable in Britain today. Although at first glance it is hard to see why a French-owned refinery in the UK would choose to [...]