Live music in Glasgow
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:25 pm
Just back from an overnight stay in Edinburgh. We went to the Jazz Bar to see the Steve Fishwick Quintet - niiiiiice! This venue puts on three, four, sometimes five gigs a night and charges at the door - it was £8 for the Quintet and there were about 80-100 people there.
I wonder though why there's nothing like it in Glasgow. Is it still 'illegal' to charge for live music in the City's pubs? I understand that this was due to an old bye-law going back to the music-hall era that was never rescinded.
Glasgow trumpets - no pun intended - its status as an UNESCO City of Music but there are often times when there's bugger all on. Edinburgh, with a smaller population, can sustain the Jazz Bar - among other venues - so why not here?
Answers on a postcard please in 9/8 time.
Durachdan,
Eddy
http://www.thejazzbar.co.uk/
I wonder though why there's nothing like it in Glasgow. Is it still 'illegal' to charge for live music in the City's pubs? I understand that this was due to an old bye-law going back to the music-hall era that was never rescinded.
Glasgow trumpets - no pun intended - its status as an UNESCO City of Music but there are often times when there's bugger all on. Edinburgh, with a smaller population, can sustain the Jazz Bar - among other venues - so why not here?
Answers on a postcard please in 9/8 time.
Durachdan,
Eddy
http://www.thejazzbar.co.uk/