Murray Leith and Jo Laing
WITH the lockdown still upon us, we at Glasgow Irish Bands And Gigs thought it would be a good time to get up close and personal and find out a bit more about some of...
Mickey Mullan
WELCOME to summer! It might not feel like it, but in my head, I am sitting in the garden, the barbecue is on, and I’m listening to The Undertones’ Here comes the summer. In reality, this year, it’s...
Mickey MullanAS ANYONE who knows me, knows that I love what I do for a living, I not only love the work and social side of a pub, the music, pints with the lads and cocktails with...
Murray Leith and Jo LaingThis month, Glasgow Irish Bands and Gigs catches up with Damien Quinn, a folk singer from Newry in County Down (above)—who has supported the likes of The Dubliners and The Wolfe Tones—about his...
Murray Leith & Jo Laing
THE Finns—brothers Hugh and Ciaran—are a highly successful folk music duo from Laois, Ireland. Their roots lie in traditional Irish music, but their original songs have been described as alt-folk roots, or indie folk music,...
Johnny Foley
IT BECAME very clichéd to wish upon the end of 2020. The year where the world essentially stopped, and as welcome as that New Year’s rendition of Auld Lang Syne will have been, there still remains a sense...
Ian Colquhoun
NEIL Lennon was the last Hibernian manager to win his opening three league matches as manager. In fact, the Irishman’s Hibs side won their first five league matches of season 2016/17. One has to go far back in...
Michael McKelvie
"I LONG for the days when we worked at the hay.” These are the first lines of a poem I wrote several years ago and it came back to me while I...
Davy Rispin
WE RECENTLY got our long-awaited Provincial Championships back with plenty of excitement and anticipation prior to the action. It is fair to say that in the aftermath of the matches, the enthusiasm...
Murray Leith and Jo LaingGLASGOW Irish Bands and gigs are staying closer to home this month. We caught up with the talented musician Liam McGrandles, a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Denny in Stirlingshire. With almost 20...