King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
The best live venue in the city according to, well, everyone.
Nice and Sleazy’s
Grimy and filthy – the dirtiest but best sounding rock ‘n’ roll bar in the city.
Tinderbox
The biggest cups of coffee in the city for joyous, bottomless slurping.
SECC
It’s called a conference centre for a reason - gigs here are vacant.
Wetherspoons
No music, no atmosphere, your mum drinks here. Say no more.
Starbucks
There are five of them – all exactly the same, as lifeless as each other.
The various lefty art colleges situated within Glasgow’s intimate surroundings have traditionally fostered a tight-knit commingling of the music and art scenes. Hence such left-of-centre acts as Errors and Dananananaykroyd, whose joyous evasions of genre norms are making Glasgow as fun a place as it ever has been.
Alumni: The View, Belle & Sebastian, Bis, Mogwai, Glasvegas
Pub fact: Organisers at Club Night Optimo have banned cameras after employers started scouring blogs for snaps of absent-on-Monday employees.
Twin Atlantic
King Tuts
09/03/08
They've supported Smashing Pumpkins and Biffy. They're gonna be HUGE.
Foals
QMU
10/03/08
The debut album is finally coming out. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait.
Be Your Own Pet
Oran Mor
20/03/08
Hooray for a new album! Hooray for seeing more of Jemina...
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