The Bell (Glasgow)

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

Dear readers - today we’ve got Calum taking the reins in a writer’s edition. It’s been a month since we welcomed him to the team and thought it was nigh on time he introduced himself — and the pioneering food assessment concept of Humble Yum™ — properly. But first, your Glasgow in brief. Hi everyone, Calum here! They've let me loose with a writer's edition which will tide me over until I can meet as many of you as possible at an exciting event we're going to announce in the next few weeks.

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

Booze, bottlings and Bucky  |   |  “Look, someone’s smashed a bottle of tonic,” I say to Mark, my photographer. “That’s not Buckie,” he replies, “it’s blood”. I look closer at the thick droplets splattered on the otherwise pristine marble floor, mixed in with bits of broken glass. He’s right, the splashes are a muddy red, more crimson than the dark purple hue of wreck-the-hoose juice. We raise our gaze, belatedly noticing the blue curtains, paramedics and police.

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

Did you know the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on earth (sorry cheetahs)? Or that they’re the avian version of Stone Cold Steve Austin, known to smack other birds out of the air, killing them instantly? Or that populations of peregrine have bounced back since a low in the 1960s when they nearly vanished from the UK?

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

Taggers say they're reclaiming walls. Locals say they're destroying a 47 year-old mural  |   |  On a balmy morning last month, I hop on my bike and set off towards the city centre. Almost immediately, I’m tailed by two police officers on off-road motorbikes who eventually stop me for questioning. After checking if my hoodie is a baseball jacket (it’s not), and asking what my bike lock is (it’s a bike lock), they let me off with a slap on the wrists for cycling in a one-way zone.

4 weeks 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.