20th September 2019
Andrew QuinnDeputy Editor-in-Chief Local duo to play the QMU having released half of their debut album earlier this year. The Ninth Wave are one of the stars of the line up at the Queen Margaret Union for this year’s Freshers’ Week. The post-punk band, comprised of singer and guitarist Haydn Park Patterson and singer and ...
20th September 2019
Katrina WilliamsDeputy Culture Editor – Books Tuesday’s poetry night at Inn Deep is a longstanding tradition. But tonight, there’s something even more special about it – Sean Lìonadh, Glaswegian poet and creator of the viral video “Time for Love”, is celebrating the launch of his new poetry collection, Not Normal Anymore. I had the chance ...
20th September 2019
Rachel Gillett Writer Is your year in student halls a cherished memory, or the stuff of nightmares? I moved into Queen Margaret Residences at the start of the 2014 academic year. I was moving from Edinburgh and living away from home for the first time, like many first-time students do. It was scary, and I ...
20th September 2019
Katrina WilliamsDeputy Culture Editor – Books From Warcraft to Overwatch, eSports has grown into a global phenomenon. Up until recently, bringing up eSports in any sort of sports-related discussion would be considered a mockery by the masses. However, as the popularity of eSports rises worldwide – with the industry making over $900 million in revenue ...
20th September 2019
Ollie RuddenDeputy News Editor Glasgow’s town centres and historic buildings have received significant investment to better serve their local communities. Glasgow City Council have approved a £3m funding project that will involve the regeneration of the city’s town centres and other historic landmarks. The Scottish Government’s Town Centre Fund, worth £50m, was created to increase ...
20th September 2019
Max Kelly, Jack Corban and Bethany Woodhead Travel Editor, Deputy and Editor-in-Chief The Glasgow Guardian debunks some of the city’s most stubborn stereotypes. Billy Connolly famously said that the best thing about Glasgow is that “if there’s a nuclear attack, it’ll look exactly the same afterwards”. However, there are a lot of misconceptions about Glasgow ...
20th September 2019
Ollie RuddenDeputy News Editor The University of Glasgow is set to receive £2.2m for research projects through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). This money is part of a greater sum of £11.8m given to universities across Scotland. GCRF is a £1.5b fund in the UK which is used to support ground-breaking research that aims ...
20th September 2019
Amy RodgersWriter Writer Amy Rodgers has a chat with Hannah Read – aka Boosterhooch – one of the organisers behind new club night Bitter. Here in Glasgow we are very blessed to have such a thriving music scene. So much so that there seems to be a new club night popping up every weekend in ...
20th September 2019
Emily HayCulture Editor Emily Hay explores the ways in which industrial Glasgow has been creatively reimagined. Glasgow is an industrial city – anyone who knows anything of Scotland’s history can testify to that. With this knowledge in mind, when people once thought of “literary” Scotland they would only imagine the cobbled streets of Edinburgh, the ...
