At 5pm last Sunday, after a hectically busy weekend, the People’s Palace finally fell silent. The last visitor departed, perhaps with an affectionate backwards glance at the exhibits and the interior. The doors were locked, and the staff gathered, lost in thought.
THE year 2014 saw more than a few landmark events in Scotland. The independence referendum, for one; then there were the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, and the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. And, after dark one night in April that year, thousands of people gathered for the public launch of two huge sculptures known as the Kelpies.
The new Nick Cave album, which will be out on August 30, will be followed by a tour that takes in Glasgow’s OVO Hydro in November
No wonder Nicola Sturgeon looked so happy in those photographs taken early that morning at the Emirates arena in Glasgow. Her first general election as leader of the SNP had just gone stunningly well.
Stewart Robertson, who has died aged 75, was an internationally renowned conductor who was known for a huge number of orchestral and operatic world premieres. No matter where he worked, however, he remained true to his Scottish Calvinist roots.
Kenny Anderson, long one of Scotland’s more captivating musical talents is about to take the road again, this time with songs from his latest album, I DES. The ‘Any Port in a Storm’ tour, which starts on April 5, will take him to such places as Troon, Portree, Findhorn, Stornoway and St Andrews.
IF you want to stage a speaking tour that looks back at the songwriting craft of the Beatles, who better to co-present it than Bob Harris OBE, one of this country’s pre-eminent music broadcasters?
THE opening chapter of Derek Forbes’s memoirs captures all the heady glories of being in a hugely successful touring rock band – but also the crushing blow of being asked to leave.
