It's on the way...

Here's a wee image I've designed in about 30 seconds.

At some point in the next few weeks I'll be trying out some even more fan-dangly image design to create the official image of the Glasgow Generations podcast, possibly by merging an old photo of my Dad and a new one of me, if I can work out how to do that.  So this one'll do for the meantime, and you'll likely see it attached to the first episode which we'll be recording tomorrow night if all goes to plan.

I'm hoping to get the first one uploaded and ready for your ears by Wednesday, and as soon as the first one's out there I'll be setting it up in iTunes, the Top Ten Glasgow Guide and pretty much every podcast directory in the online interweb world.

So I'll post again once the show's ready, and feel free to share your Glasgow memories until then.

Arrabest

Aye, cum awa in fae ra cauld!

Hello there, and welcome to Glasgow Generations.

My name's Scott Docherty, and in the coming weeks, months, maybe even years, I'll be recording with my Dad, Charlie Docherty, a wee podcast designed to cast your mind back to what it was like growing up and living in Glasgow after WWII.

Over time you'll hear my Dad's memories of the tenements in the Townhead area of the City, playing kick door run, fitba and marbles in the street, jumping the backcourt dykes avoiding the middens below, watching the Queen's Coronation on the street's first TV, trying to catch the jeely pieces flung down fae ra windaes, going to the Carlton and the Grafton to watch a Western, enjoying the lemonade stalls at the street parties while running after the rag and bone men, and hearing about the No Mean City beyond.

There'll be reflections on how music's always been at the heart of Glasgow, what the old games between the Auld Firm were like as a kid as well as what it felt when the real Hampden Roar was raised.  Anything and everything really, and the hope is that as you listen away, you'll remember a few things of your own you might want to share, and I'll be setting up a Skype line & contact form so you can leave a wee message or email we can put into the episodes.

So the first one should be available soon and I'll post whenever a new show's out.

Yours aye...