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The UK's most important avant-garde music festival is in a Maryhill community hall

6 days ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Henry Ivry

I wish I could say that it was love at first sight for me and Counterflows, Glasgow’s longest running experimental music festival. But it had been a week since I’d left the glass and chrome of Toronto’s condo skyline behind when I first walked into Maryhill’s Community Central Hall in March 2022, to check out what a friend insisted was the most important and exciting experimental event in the UK. How acclaimed could it be, I wondered? I’d never heard of it.
What's going on with the Met Tower?

1 week ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Calum Grewar

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Flourish House’s radical work ‘saves lives’. So why is the city cutting its funding?

1 week ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Eve Livingston

One Thursday afternoon in March, on the top floor of an old church on Ashley Street in Woodlands, a motley crew gathered nervously in a tight circle, agendas in hand. Broad Glaswegian tones mingled with accented English as more than 40 people, ages ranging from 20s to 70s and from an array of different backgrounds and ethnicities, said their hellos and jostled for a seat.
Is Rangers going MAGA?

2 weeks ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Calum Grewar

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Is it time to move on from Mackintosh?

2 weeks ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Robbie Armstrong

Dear readers — we’ve got Mackintosh on the mind at the moment. We’re not sure if it was the pews stooshie, the recent sale of his silverware and a watercolour at auction, or the talks of the Lighthouse reopening as a climate tech hub (editor's note: or the fact Mackintosh is omnipresent in Glasgow). Either way, we’ve been debating the approach to his architectural legacy in the office, and safe to say we don’t see entirely eye to eye.
Pews it or lose it: the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society is at war

1 month ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Robbie Armstrong

At the start of April, Michael Dale, the chair of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, returned from a three week holiday in Japan to “all hell breaking loose”. The Sunday Times had published an article claiming that a pair of historic Mackintosh-designed church pews had been “sawn up and sold for £40”. And who was accused of hawking such precious artefacts as scrap? Dale, along with fellow Society director Stuart Robinson.
A day doon the Clyde, meditations on social media and sandwich philosophy

1 month ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Robbie Armstrong

A different sort of weekend read in your inbox today, folks. We've got some news to share tomorrow, which we’re a wee bitty excited to tell you all about. It's been one of those weeks here at Bell HQ, so in the meantime we thought we'd give you something a bit lighter for your perusal, before things heat up again soon — we promise. Last week, what with Spring truly blooming, I hopped on a late morning train out of Glasgow.
The ‘lift and shift’ method that gives Scottish TV jobs to London production companies

1 month ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Robbie Armstrong |Eve Livingston

Hello readers, we hope you’ve been enjoying the sunshine. Here’s hoping this isn’t Glasgow’s premature summer… (Editor’s note: it definitely is). In this week’s briefing, we’ve got the lowdown on the axing of Glasgow’s favourite soap opera, a recommendation for fair weather taproom pints and a review of an Alasdair Gray-inspired comedy night. Now, onto your briefing.
Conspiracies, closed doors and conflict: where’s Castlemilk’s supermarket?

1 month ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Robbie Armstrong

Maureen Cope is a short woman with a big laugh, bright eyes and unfinished business. She supposedly retired last year, after 35 years at Ardenglen, one of the big four housing associations in the post-war peripheral housing estate of Castlemilk. But the 78 year-old has a final bone to pick in the area where she’s spent most of her life and career as a community activist and organiser. Closed mouths, you see, don’t get fed. And Castlemilk, home to over 14,000 people, needs feeding.
The £30k war over Cathkin Park

1 month ago | glasgowbell.co.uk | Eve Livingston

When the Friends of Cathkin Park group was founded in 2020 to protect public access to their local green space, members envisaged some standard community meetings and flyering. No one thought things would go this far. Yet four years later, the group were piling on an early Queen Street service to Edinburgh, on their way to support another Crosshill resident for his day in court.