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Profile - Glasgow Mod Weekender 2009

Occupation Although many clubs around the city specialise in the same retro sounds, the Glasgow Mod Weekender is a definitive four-day event that offers a comprehensive celebration of Mod music and styles. This will be its seventh year. For younger…

Christmas and Boxing Day Clubs

There’s not much reason to get excited about Christmas this year, or at least so the briefest exposure to the nation’s media would have us believe. Now we’re not advocating the senseless squandering of cash here, but hey, it’s Christmas, right? And what…

Mod Weekender

‘Everybody has this stereotypical idea of what music a Mod has to like,’ says Mikey Collins, who runs Glasgow clubs Friday Street and Afterglow, and is one of the driving forces behind the city’s Mod Weekender. ‘People think you just like The Who, The…