The Bottom Line
- Local indie tunes and insider tips combine for in-the-know feel
- Annotated downloadable map
- Sponsor mentions are just a podcast "given"
Description
- George Square and Glasgow band, Raising Kain, belting out "Daddy Daddy" (4 music minutes).
- Humorous anecdotes highlight a stop at the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art.
- Glasgow School of Art and Sound Development Agency (3 music minutes).
- Note for future: have "..an experimental, mind-bending night out" at nightspot Nice N' Sleazy's.
- Explore early Oasis and Blur venue King Tut's while Chemical Underground label founder chats.
- SDA's "Generator" and the hot and hearty Horseshoe Bar (3 music minutes).
- Learn about the "clockwork orange"; cool but unnamed indie tune (3 music minutes).
- Unkle Bob's serenades with "One by One" (3 music minutes).
- Clyde Street's Bar Fly and Mono Cafe; Raising Kain's spirited "I Never Look Back" (3 music minutes).
- 13th Note: David Bowie supposedly stole a star from this stellar venue's ceiling.
Guide Review - iToors Podcast: "Glasgow - Sounds of a Music Capital"
Podcasts are still an iffy travel aid; many podcasts are homemade, albeit enjoyable, affairs with too much cast and not enough pod. iToors' musical Glasgow walking tour podcast is a refreshingly professional exception. Perhaps the most fun to be had with podcasts is in pre-travel planning -- feel like you're there before you go, as you can with iToors' Glasgow tour. Let's roll...
Podcast Details
Through 13 stops along Glasgow's growing musical community beat, iToors treats you to a terrific tour narrated by Jim Gellatly of Glasgow radio Beat 106, with stirring soundbites from Glasgow bands Unkle Bob's, Sound Development Agency and Raising Kain.
The podcast tour is thoughtfully done; Gellatly advises map-checking stops periodically and provides plenty of the trivial asides that make a guided tour worth taking. Music venue interior descriptions and precise directions will serve to orient the listener; visits to spots like a guitar workshop and a thrift store featuring rock star castoffs personalize the Glasgow music world. Interviews with musicians and producers lend crucial background credibility to the production's merits.
The podcast winds up with helpful and related Glasgow web sites; prepare to jot if in an armchair, as I was on my first listen. Made me want to book a flight straight to George Square for this tour of Glasgow's raucous music world.
