[ELECTRON] City Strolls Update: "Let the voice of the people be heard!" Glasgow Keelie & Workers City

[Bob]

I was at college in Liverpool around 1990. We used to come up to Glasgow
to gig with our band. Glasgow was awash with culture of all sorts. So
long as you weren't a local busker (Banned) there was all sorts of
European street activity. You could hardly go to the bog in the pub but
there would be someone performing in it. Frank Sinatra and Pavarotti
gigs for the well heeled and "Glasgow's Glasgow" (and oor band) for the
plebs. We definitely felt like the poor cousins from L'pool in this city
of cultural affluence. Must have been a great party for some.

"1990 has been a year of fun, entertainment and enjoyment for the people
of Glasgow and that's what we wanted it to be." (Pat Lally, former
leader, Glasgow District Council)

"1990 was a year when an intellectually bankrupt and brutally
undemocratic administration projected its mediocre image on to the city
and ordered us to adore it." (Michel Donelly, one- time assistant museum
curator. Peoples Palace, Glasgow)

It was very difficult to raise a voice above all of this "cultural"
noise then. But there was indeed another voice, and some of their views
were recorded for posterity and still cut through the mediocrity of much
of what is being created today in the name of art and culture.


Workers City -  www.citystrolls.com
Full book on-line

The Glasgow Keelie - http://keelie.strickdistro.org/
1990, Culture Clash

While we all watch television business gets organised.

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