Last night I went to the BBC Proms in the Park in Glasgow, one of five Proms concerts taking place across the UK. The various BBC symphony orchestras were playing in Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, Swansea and the traditional home of the Proms, the Albert Hall. It was actually a bit of a last-minute decision to [...]
In a lot of ways, this Glasgow-based film should be too twee for words. All the standard Scottish cliches are there: the decent man laid off after a lifetime in the Clyde shipyards; the wee wumman that’s never worked and stands by her man no matter what; the men constantly propping up a bar who [...]