15th March 2023
Shame emerge from small gigs in Brixton pubs to Glasgow’s SWG3 on their headline UK/EU tour. The environment of SWG3 is very fitting for a post-punk gig. The steel piping on the ceiling, grey walls and overall warehouse structure reverberates the noisy distortion and echoey vocals of post-punk appropriately in a slightly sinister, joyously decadent ...
1st March 2023
The Glasgow Guardian unpacks Glasgow’s status as the cocaine capital of the world and its stemming class divide. Scotland. A picturesque land of babbling brooks, evergreen trees, snowy mountain tops and even snowier noses. According to a 2022 Vice documentary, Scotland is now the cocaine capital of the world, in particular Glasgow, with Scotland having ...
28th February 2023
With nightlife playing such a crucial role in the university experience, The Glasgow Guardian explores the problems surrounding the all-powerful gatekeepers of the club. Those two dreaded words: “not tonight”. No rejection stings more than that which ends a night-on-the-town before it gets started. The gatekeepers of Thursday nights are pervasive in Glasgow culture, but ...
22nd February 2023
Scottish Swimming’s vision is ‘everyone can swim’. But with rising energy costs, leisure facilities with high operating costs, such as swimming pools, are at risk of closure. According to a recent poll conducted on behalf of Scottish Swimming, 94% of Scots agree that swimming pools are necessary for safety by teaching people to swim with ...
21st February 2023
ART ELIZABETH PRICE: UNDERFOOT | HUNTERIAN | UNTIL APRIL 16 | FREE Solo exhibition focusing on the textile heritage of Glasgow’s industrial age TUAN ANDREW NYUGEN | CCA | UNTIL MARCH 25 | FREE Fragments of a story about the memories and desires of West African colonial soldiers sent to combat Vietnamese liberation uprisings in ...
30th January 2023
A review of the brand new exhibition surrounding the remarkable life of Mary Queen of Scots. “Heroine or whore, martyr or heretic, victim or villain”. Upon entering I am met with a floor to ceiling print of the infamous Scottish Queen with these words emblazoned alongside. From her likeness bursts out images, impressions and interpretations ...
30th January 2023
The 1975 at their very best, honouring old and new hits outside the social boundaries of British indie-pop The 1975 at their very best have a way of bringing together a diverse cast of people under one roof. A sense of community was already felt while queuing up outside the illuminated OVO hydro with groups ...
18th January 2023
A survey found that people living in Glasgow have low happiness levels relative to most of the UK. Views Columnist Ellie writes about why she loves the city, regardless. I love Glasgow. I grew up in a small village in the Surrey Hills with a corner shop that shut at 2pm. The most exciting thing ...
1st December 2022
Features Editor Athina Bohner speaks to dozens of Iranian anti-regime protesters demanding freedom for Iran. On 19 November 2022, impassioned voices demanding “freedom for Iran” engulfed the streets of Glasgow, as over 1,000 protesters of all generations marched from Kelvingrove Park to Glasgow Green. While proudly singing pro-democracy songs in Farsi and waving Iranian flags ...
22nd November 2022
Councillor Holly Bruce’s motion includes the addition of lighting in Kelvingrove Park and hopes to expand public transportation. Greenspace Scotland and Glasgow City Council have began discussions on adding lighting and other safety measures to Kelvingrove Park as a part of Councillor Holly Bruce’s feminist city planning motion. Councillor Bruce’s motion amends the City Development ...
