Before the stadium concerts and international hits, Simple Minds were a group of Glasgow teenagers absorbing punk, electronic music and new sounds from Europe. Their journey from small city venues to the forefront of music in the UK, then global fame, became one of Scotland’s great cultural success stories.
Scottish superstar DJ and producer Calvin Harris played his biggest ever Scottish homecoming over the weekend as 100,000 fans turned out for two electric nights at Barclays Hampden. Glasgow was in party mode at the National Stadium across two sold-out performances with trains arriving at Mount Florida full of fans in cowboy hats, glitter and neon outfits.
Scotland’s only hot-air balloon festival will return to South Lanarkshire this August for a weekend of launches, live entertainment and family activities.
Glasgow is set to become home to the world’s first zombie containment and conservation facility. This Autumn itison GlasGLOW, Scotland’s biggest Halloween event, returns for its ninth year running over the 16th October – 1st November with its brand-new theme – Zombie Zoo.
Calvin Harris returns to Scotland this weekend for two enormous concerts at Hampden Park. It is the latest homecoming in a career that has carried a former Dumfries shelf-stacker to the summit of global dance music.
Tom Holland’s fourth Spider-Man film arrives in UK cinemas with Glasgow doubling for New York during an explosive chase involving armoured vehicles, police cars, fireballs and high-flying stunt performers. The Hollywood blockbuster swings into UK cinemas today, ahead of what is anticipated to be the biggest film opening weekend of the year.