Glasgow – The Drouth

14th January 2026

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PowerShift: the real energy question by Indra Adnan and Pat Kane, Spring Consortium

The Spring Consortium propose powerful cohesive and holisitic steps across the board as THE way to confront locally the daily worsening global polycrisis which faces us in energy, sustainability rising fascism and revived imperialism and climate meltdown. The first big event is SATURDAY JANUARY 18TH at CELTIC CONNECTIONS in Glasgow - Get involved!

14th January 2026

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KILBRYDE: Raymond Burke’s new novel reviewed by Federica Giardino

Raymond Burke's new Bildungsroman about growing up in the new town of East Kilbride outdoes Scott and Gray at the same time: having the scope of both a historical novel and an existential modernist confession - Federica Giardino reviews...

11th May 2025

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ANALOGUES OF McEWAN by Johnny Rodger

The recent opening of the exhibition of drawings 'Tracing Rossi' at the Stallan Brand studio gallery in Glasgow offered an opportunity to examine author Cameron McEwan's in-depth published study of the influential architect Aldo Rossi. Via discussion of a relatively obscure and neglected project by Rossi, the book 'Analogical City' makes weighty claims for architecture as a poetic, political and above all, critical practice. Johnny Rodger reviews.

19th April 2025

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STREET CLUTTER by Maria Burke

I am a walker – I love walking. I love the freedom of roaming around, being curious, looking for often-missed details. I walk on mycommute to work; I walk to get my steps in; I walk to take photographs for content for my Twitter and Instagram pages; I walk out of necessity because inner-city parking is too costly and too stressful and public transport is increasingly getting more expensive. I am a proud pedestrian.

13th December 2024

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MAUD SULTER’S ‘You are my Kindred Spirit’ by Federica Giardino

Scottish artist Maud Sulter (1960-2008) worked in multi-media as a photographer, filmmaker, poet, playwright and visual artist. Born of Scottish and Ghanaian parentage, she was raised in the Gorbals in Glasgow by her Scottish mother, and much of her work - including that now on show at the Tramway - is an exploration of of her sexuality, gender and identity as a black woman. Federica Giardino reviews the show and ponders on the cultural richness and the 'poignant questions' her work highlights.

29th October 2024

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NEW ALBUM: reviewed by NORRY WILSON

Since their first gig two years ago, Glasgow band The Tenementals have played solidly round the city and elsewhere to full houses and released several singles. With a line up of eight musicians, and sometimes more, they sing the history of Glasgow into being and conjure up the glories and the disasters, and the pride and the shame of it before the citizens. Norry Wilson of Lost Glasgow will introduce them on stage at the launch of the first album in Oran Mor on Wednesday 27th November. Here he tells us why he is delighted to present them on the occasion of the release of their first major recording. (plus free track!)

11th March 2024

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Another ‘Poor Things’ is Possible
by David Archibald

As Emma Stone picks up an Oscar for Best Actress in Yorgos Lanthimos' film of Alasdair Gray's novel Poor Things, people are dancing in the streets of Glasgow! David Archibald reviews a film that coulda, shoulda, woulda...

23rd January 2024

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WELCOME TO THE SHIPWRECK by Rory Olcayto

Rory Olcayto's assessment of the Glasgow problematic is highly controversial and has been doing the rounds and garnering much critical attention. The straight-talking, complacency-busting analysis and vision for a metropolitan city cannot possibly please everyone, and that, it seems, is precisely the partisan, feather-ruffling intention of the former Architects Journal editor. It was, indeed, first delivered as a talk to the Royal incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Here it is now as a readily accessible text: a provocation to civic and urban action.

14th October 2023

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In Praise of Sturdy Buildings:
A Report for Wyndford Residents Union
by
Fraser/Livingstone Architects

In all campaigns and struggles with authorities it is important that the process is documented and made accessible so that lessons can be learned. This is no mere footnote to the struggle of the Wyndford Residents Union to save their homes from the wrecking ball. They commissioned Fraser/Livingstone Architects to produce a Report on the condition of the estate to respond to those reports produced by the authorities. We're delighted to reproduce that Report here with an introduction/preface by Malcolm Fraser.