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Franz Ferdinand // 12.02.03

Franz Ferdinand stomach punched popular culture in 2003. With the Laverne and Shirley themesong (“We’re gonna make our dreams come true. Doin’ it our way”) as inspiration*, Alex Kapranos and Paul...

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Vivian Girls // Fidelity // Felicity

A sound-check with Vivian Girls is simple enough. It's just three bored, otherwise occuppied girls in an empty basement, one curious interviewer and a sound technician with an inconsistent floor-tom...

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Foreign Beggars // Rhymes with Glasgow

Interviewing Foreign Beggars after their show seemed easy enough at first, yet after watching them produce roughly 30 minutes of devastating hardcore hip hop consisting of both fast raps and...

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Marble Valley // Perty

"Feels good being back on Sauchiehall Street, I remember this street when it was just dirt, but that was in a previous life."Although Marble Valley have been around since 1997, you might consider them...

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GFF // Part 1: Scouting Party

Bad pop songs and afterschool specials are continually telling us that “children are our future”. The young people programming this year’s Glasgow Youth Film Festival have said “fuck that”, their...

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GFF // Part 2: Second Course

“Welcome to the feast!” proclaim the Glasgow Film Festival’s organisers. And what a feast it is; now in its sixth year, it has grown from its humble beginnings to become one of the largest festivals...

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Shock Closure of Hetherington Club Special Report

Subcity Radio News report on the closure of the Hetherington Research Club at Glasgow University. The Postgraduate Club, which serves mature, international, and postgraduate students at the university...

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Shock Closure of Hetherington Research Club update

Since our initial report last night on the closure of the Hetherington Research Club, an official announcement has yet to be made however, debate has continued on the club’s Facebook group: With...

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GFF // Findo Gask

Findo Gask are Glasgow's Best Boy Band. Soo pop and boys that Smash Hits could have given them a gong. With their triple threat of sweet harmonies, addictive electro-pop and...erm no synchronised...

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Shock closure of Hetherington Club update

It has been four days since the club's closure and speculation and passions are still rife over the buildings future as a space for Post Graduates. The Hetherington Club's management have released a...

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Yeasayer // Pied Pipers of Paris

The Yeasayer greenroom was littered with half eaten chickens and bottles of beer, the decadent backdrop of the Oran Mor’s stain glass dappled hall lead me to expect Robert the Bruce to come stalking...

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GFF // Zombie Zombie

When you’re a kid, gross-out horror can be pretty cool. Watching cert.18s around your mates house, rewinding head slicing, dog-skinning, eye-slicing, flesh-eating, psychotic-doll-mutilating,...

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GFF // Part 3

Mark Cousins is a cinematic polymath. He’s a film critic, writing for such notable publications as Sight and Sound and Prospect. He’s a film historian – his Story of Film book should be on the shelves...

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SRC Elections // VP Media & Communications

Glasgow University SRC's Elections are only a matter of days away, and soon University Avenue will resemble a Dystopian future, where the pavements dissapear under the flyers for a thousand different...

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SRC Elections // VP Learning & Development

In the second of our podcasts dedicated to the SRC elections we look at the role of VP Learning & Development. The elections take place on the 3rd & 4th March, and their manifestos can be...

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SRC Elections // VP Student Support

VP Student support is one of the most contested SRC positions this year with four candidates in the running. They are Fraser Sutherland, Andrew Yates, Saud al Taj and Ronan Radin.Student Support is...

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SRC Elections // President

Compared to last year, with Laura Laws unopposed, the office of SRC President is hotly contested with three candidates running. Tommy Gore, the current Clubs and Societies officer; Philip Neal; and...

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SRC Elections // Word on the Street

With all the nonsense on the go outside you might have stayed inside or steered well clear of the people in the bright t-shirts. We ventured outside and poked a mic in the face of all the candidates...

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SRC Elections // Results

Subcity Radio presents audio from the SRC Elections Results. The podcast features live audio from the announcements of the four sabbatical elections, as well as reactions from the candidates after the...

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Debate is Free // General Election Special 2010

With a general election looming Subcity Radio invited six politicians to face an audience of young people from across Scotland. On the panel were: Patrick Harvie, MSP and Co-Convener for the Scottish...

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Baroness // Woah. Where?

Something is happening in Savannah. There's a journalistic cliché about 'sonic landscapes' that gets thrown around when... well, whenever. In response, Baroness and fellow Savannah progressive sludge...

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Municipal Waste // Wrong Answer

When people talk about the 'Thrash Metal Revival' they make two mistakes: the assumption that thrash metal was dead and the assumption that someone is bringing it back. Thrash metal wasn't dead,...

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David Bazan // Autotrophic Agony

I fought against the bottle... but I had to do it drunk.There's something in that. A sort of weary wisdom. Something that David Bazan, despite his protests to the contrary, shares with the author;...

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Dirty Keys // Dirty Keys Please

Dirty Keys formed in late 2009 in Glasgow, under the leadership of local scene veteran Dave Gillies, sometime member of, amongst others, Jonny and the Robots, Izo Fitzroy & The Royal Bastards and...

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Finlay Archibald // Glasgow Cen Pirate Party PPC

Debate is Free is interviewing candidates standing in the various Glasgow constituencies in the upcoming UK General Election. First up is the Pirate Party's only Scottish candidate: Finlay Archibald...

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RM Hubbert and Wounded Knee // Garden Party

We decided to open up our back-garden to Subcity's club night regulars, punks, older dudes, passerbys and even a bunch of kids. Falling somewhere between field recording, musical performance and...

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Theatre Guide // Dirty Paradise

Glasgow Theatre/ Dirty Paradise As part of the Current Affairs cultural coverage, Subcity Reporter Ruth Wells attended the latest production at the Tron theatre, a monologue performed and written by...

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Report // "Final door closed upon" Hetherington

The Hetherington Research Club closed its doors overnight in Febuary. Since then a new committee has formed with the hope of getting the club reopened. After a rejected business proposal, it seems...

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Report // Otago Lane Protest Marches On

Last Saturday, hundreds of people, including students, local residents and politicians, turned out for a march in protest against the planned redevelopment to Otago Lane. The lane is home to several...

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Update // Principal's Open Session 11/11/10

Given the concerns in recent weeks over the future of Higher Education in Scotland and the rest of the UK after the release of the Browne Report and student protests in London. The University of...

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Student's future in doubt after London demo

The aftershocks of the National Union of Students demonstrations in London this week continue to reverberate in Glasgow. With the borderline riot at Conservative Party Headquarters at Millbank, one...

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Eric La Casa & Jean-Luc Guionnet // House

Two of Europe's leading field recordists: Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guionnet, produced what Barry Esson (a curator of the Instal festival) describes as “a series of un-edited, one-shot subjective...

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London NUS Demo 2010 Special Report

The National Union of Students organised the Demolition 2010 demonstration against the Coalition government's proposals to reform the Higher Education sector. On the table were proposals to raise the...

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Protesters Arrested at GU Conservative Dinner

A large police presence was in place to deal with an impromptu protest by activists of the anti-cuts movement. The picket took place outside the GUU to coincide with the Young Conservative annual St....

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Update // World AIDs Day 01/12/10

World AIDs Day started back in 1988 as a memorial to the victims of the disease. Despite us knowing a lot more about HIV/AID's attitudes and fears about the disease have remained largely unchanged....

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The Pop Goes The Revolution Sessions

Pop Goes The Revolution is now in its third series at Subcity Radio, curating unsigned and independent music from Scotland and the rest of the UK since 2008. As part of a one off the show brought in...

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Students Occupy Gilmorehill Building

On the 8th December students from Glasgow University spontaneously occupied the James Arnott Theatre at Glasgow University. Between 70 and 100 students occupied the building to oppose the planned rise...

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Update // Hetherington Research Club Occupied

The Hetherington Research Club was occupied early in the afternoon on the 1st of February by the Glasgow University Anti Cuts Action Network. This latest occupation is in response to the cuts taking...

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Update // Students and staff rally over cuts

On the 11th of February over 300 students attended the packed out Queen Margaret Union's main venue - Qudos - to hear more about proposed cuts to services and departments across the University of...

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Update // Staff and students speak out on cuts

Staff and students united this week to share their concerns about the proposed cuts at the University of Glasgow. Staff and students already beleaguered by the University's recent restructuring came...

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Update // Aaron Porter mobbed by demonstrators

The National Union of Students president: Aaron Porter was "kettled" by demonstrators at the UK Young Labour conference on Saturday 12th February 2011 outside the Boyd Orr building at the University...

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Update // Rectorial Hustings 2011

On the 16th of February the Rectorial Hustings took place in the Debates Chamber of the Glasgow University Union. The two candidates for Rector, A L Kennedy and Charles Kennedy, debated for over an...

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Update // AL Kennedy for Rector interview

AL Kennedy is one of two candidates standing in the 2011 Rectorial election and whilst she may not be as an instantly recognisable household name as her opponent Charles Kennedy, it certainly doesn’t...

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Update // Charles Kennedy for Rector interview

Charles Kennedy MP is one of two candidates standing in the 2011 Rectorial election and although he is no longer at the forefront of politics, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats has been a...

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Election // James Foley v GUU controversy

As the polls opened today on the Glasgow University campus, controversy was swift to follow as the first votes began to be cast.The current candidate odds on to win the position of SRC President -...

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Update// GUU forced to apologise after naked stunt

The Glasgow University Union was today forced to formally apologise to the Free Hetherington after GUU Board members were photographed in the building after stripping naked and parading around with...

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Update // Hetherington altercation over recording

A first year international student was involved earlier tonight in an incident with members of the Hetherington Research Club occupation, who objected to him recording an occupation meeting. The...

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Update// Mike Russell concerned about Uni reforms

SNP Education Secretary Mike Russell paid a visit to the University of Glasgow after a week that saw dozens of police attempt to evict occupiers who had taken over the derelict Hetherington Research...

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Update// Nursing closure will affect frontline NHS

Subcity Update recently spoke to Labour shadow health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie on the proposed closure of the Nursing department at the University of Glasgow. Baillie had recently submitted a motion...

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Update// Patrick Harvie - Glasgow SMG must change

Subcity Update spoke to Green MSP candidate for Glasgow: Patrick Harvie shortly after he met with University chiefs to discuss the recent controversies that had dogged the institution since it became...

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