A City Perfect, In Every Detail
Forty years ago, Glasgow band The Blue Nile released their first single. Their work was rooted in Glasgow itself, and the changes wrought by the shock of Thatcherism.
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Kieran Curran
Kieran Curran is a writer and musician living in Glasgow.
Glasgow’s Radiophrenic Workshops
Glasgow’s Radiophrenia music and sound festival evokes a public broadcast modernism – but also risks being trapped inside an experimental ghetto.
Building Urban Myths
Jimmy Cauty’s exhibition ESTATE makes model villages out of some of Scotland’s best known housing projects – raising questions about working-class housing and the mythologies it inspires.
Come to Milton Keynes
The sugary pop of 1985’s ‘Our Favourite Shop’ by Paul Weller’s The Style Council carried a brutal critique of the fantasies and realities of Thatcherism in the South of England during the tumultuous 1980s.
Rock in Opposition
A new book on the experimental group Henry Cow concentrates on their attempts to combine socialist politics and avant-garde music.