Glasgow

Glasgow (Scots: Glesga; Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 635,640. Historically part of Lanarkshire, the city now forms the Glasgow City council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and is governed by Glasgow City Council. It is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands.
==Links to Peel==
Peel had links to Scotland through his granny, Joan Murray, who was a Glaswegian. He would often visit Scotland to do his roadshow, especially Glasgow and Edinburgh, and he also hosted some of his BBC Radio One shows from there.
In 1995, Peel did an interview with Damien Love where he talked about Glasgow:
"Unfortunately, I don’t get up to Glasgow as often as I would like, and every time I go there, I think: what an excellent place this is. ‘All of the places you’d want to go to are within walking distance of each other. How do I say this without being insulting? Glasgow does have that kind of faintly village feel, in the sense that you keep bumping into the same people. ‘It’s just nice the way that you’ll bump into people in pubs and they’ll buy you a drink, and then you’ll all go for a Chinese meal. What’s the name of that really big place at the bottom of Sauchiehall Street, and there’s a kind of back room? You have to go along a long corridor, and there’s a huge bloke who kinda meets you at the door? As soon as I walked in there, he started berating me for playing such crap on the radio. It’s just small stuff like that that makes you think: yeah, this is a good place to be. ‘If I could think of an excuse to get up to Glasgow again, I’d be up there like a shot. I’m so disenchanted with London, if I could think of some sensible way of doing regular programmes from Glasgow, I should be very happy to do so…" 
Lonnie Donegan, hero of Peel's youth, was the first of many artists admired by the DJ who were born in Glasgow but brought up elsewhere. During the 1960s, few major pop acts emerged from the city (exceptions were Lulu and Marmalade) and the pop package tours of the era sometimes avoided Scotland altogether, leading to aggrieved letters from Scottish fans in the London-based pop weeklies. But there was a thriving folk scene, which didn't only include artists from the local area. The original Incredible String Band consisted of two Edinburgh-born members and a Londoner, but they were living just outside Glasgow and running their own folk club in the city when they were discovered by Joe Boyd in 1966.
Peel had listeners in Glasgow during his time on Radio London. One of them, Tom Cairns, wrote to him suggesting that listeners to the Perfumed Garden should wear a badge so that other listeners to the show could identify them. Peel approved of the idea and read out the letter on the air. Despite its industrial image, the city had traditions of artistic creativity and bohemianism long before the hippy era (the first editor of International Times, Tom McGrath, was a Glaswegian and later ran an arts centre in the city) and this continued into later decades. The "Glasgow's Miles Better" campaign of the early 1980s sought to re-brand the city as a cultural centre and coincided with the rise of a wide-ranging music scene, including labels like Postcard Records and Chemikal Underground, plus a host of Peel session artists - see the list below.
==Session Artists==
The following artists from, or in some way associated with, the Glasgow area recorded sessions for the John Peel Show:
*AC Acoustics (5 sessions, 1994-2002)
*Adventures In Stereo: (1 session, 1997)
*Aereogramme: (3 sessions, 2000-03)
*Altered Images: (3 sessions, 1980-81)
*Astrid: (1 session, 2001)
*Badgewearer: (1 session, 1995)
*Bangtwister: (1 session, 1997)
*Belle & Sebastian: (5 sessions, 2001-04)
*Bis: (5 sessions, 1995-2000)
*Blue: (7 sessions, 1973-77)
*Scott Brown: (1 session, 1996)
*Cado Belle: (1 session, 1976)
*Camera Obscura: (5 sessions, 2001-04)
*Ivor Cutler: (22 sessions, 1969-98)
*Dawson: (2 sessions, 1990-92)
*Del Amitri: (2 sessions, 1984-85)
*DJ Twitch: (1 session, 2003)
*Donovan: (2 sessions, 1968) (born in Glasgow but brought up in Hatfield, England)
*El Hombre Trajeado: (3 sessions, 1998-2001)
*Endgames: (2 sessions, 1981-82)
*Eska: (1 session, 1997)
*Dick Gaughan: (3 sessions, 1973-77) (born in Glasgow but spent most of his life in Edinburgh)
*Humblebums: (1 session, 1970)
*Bert Jansch: (1 session, 1968) (born in Glasgow but brought up in Edinburgh; made his first infornal recordings in a Glasgow folk club)
*Jesus and Mary Chain: (6 sessions, 1984-98)
*Leopards: (2 sessions, 1997-98)
*Lung Leg: (2 sessions, 1995-96)
*MacKenzies: (2 sessions, 1986)
*Macrocosmica: (1 session, 1997)
*John Martyn: (7 sessions, 1968-78)
*Frankie Miller: (5 sessions, 1973-79)
*Mogwai: (5 sessions, 1996-2003)
*Motor Life Co.: (1 session, 1998)
*Orange Juice: (2 sessions, 1980-81)
*Orchids: (2 sessions, 1990-94)
*Pastels: (4 sessions, 1984-99)
*Pink Kross: (1 session, 1995)
*Positive Noise: (2 sessions, 1980-81)
*Primal Scream: (2 sessions, 1985-86)
*Primevals: (1 session, 1985)
*Radio Sweethearts: (1 session, 2000)
*Restricted Code: (1 session, 1981)
*Secret Goldfish: (2 sessions, 1997-99)
*Simple Minds: (2 sessions, 1979-82)
*Sluts Of Trust: (1 session, 2004)
*Sophisticated Boom Boom: (3 sessions, 1981-83)
*Speeder: (1 session, 2000)
*Al Stewart: (7 sessions, 1968-74) (born in Glasgow but brought up in England and educated at public school)
*Stone The Crows: (4 sessions, 1969-72) 
*Strawberry Switchblade: (2 sessions, 1982-85)
*Suckle: (2 sessions, 1997-2000)
*Urusei Yatsura: (3 sessions, 1995-97)
*Wake: (1 session, 1983)
*Yummy Fur: (2 sessions, 1995-98)
==Glasgow Compilations==
(mini album - Second City Statik - A Glasgow Compilation) Statik
*13 May 1980: Restricted Code: The New Messiah
*17 May 1980 (BFBS): Positive Noise: Refugees
*24 May 1980 (BFBS): Alleged: Despair
*24 May 1980 (BFBS): Restricted Code: Seeings Much Better (With Your Eyes)
*02 June 1980: Positive Noise: 'The Long March
*05 June 1980: Positive Noise: Refugees 
*07 June 1980 (BFBS): Positive Noise: The Long March
*09 June 1980: Alleged: Two Out Of Three
*12 July 1980 (BFBS): Positive Noise: The Long March
*18 August 1980: Positive Noise: The Long March 
(LP: The Kazoo Collection) Glass
*08 October 1994:: Urusei Yatsura: Guitars Are Boring
(LP - Prole Life: A Souvenir From Glasgow) Cherry Red
* 08 July 1995: Yummy Fur: The Grand Monophonic Yum Yum
==See Also==
*Two shows from Glasgow: 07 October 1994 / 08 October 1994
*Creeping Bent (indie label based in Glasgow)
*Chemikal Underground (indie label based in Glasgow)
*Bellshill (town 10 miles south east of Glasgow)
*Pat Nevin
*Ken Garner
*Marmalade
*Rikki
*Franz Ferdinand
*Clouds
*International Times: Perfumed Garden Column
*Disc & Music Echo: Peel Columns
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*(Glaswegian): Glasgow groups with wide a-Peel
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