Err, is there anyone here either?...

So here's the thing:

You'll see that we finished up our little podcast in February of this year. It's now closing in on the end of 2014. That's a ferr bit later.

"What's the relevance of that", you ask?

Well I'll tell you, seeing as how you asked. It's just that, even though we've not gone near a microphone for about eight long months, you wacky folk are still downloading the last one we did. Even more weirdly you're also still downloading the other episodes we spewed out into the ether.

I mean, what's wrong with you all?

The reason I'm writing this, therefore, is to test the water and gauge whether it'd be worth resurrecting Glasgow Generations. Anyone up for it? I know Faither is!

So let me know here and via the site, or on my Twitter orFacebook, and if more than one person replies we'll have a think.

In the meantime, if you're missing my dulcit tones you'll be delighted to know that I'm in the middle of recording an audiobook edition of Wee Glesca, my pocket guide to Glasgow that, again pretty weirdly, raced to become the number one best-selling Glasgow travel guide on Amazon. Who'd have thunk it, eh?

Click here for the download edition

Click here to find it on Amazon

So arrabest and (maybe) see y'all again sometime soon!

Festive Love from iTunes

It just goes to show you.  All those long, droning conversations you might have with your parents from time to time can actually prove interesting to other folks out there.

All we're doing here with Glasgow Generations is to record me listening to my faither yap on about growing up in the City, so when I noticed today that iTunes have not only listed our little cyberspace adventure, but also featured it in their New Releases section of podcasts, I'm still scratching my napper!

Hopefully more people will catch on to the show as we record more and more over time, and as before, we'd love to hear your own stories and memories about the old Glasgow.

The First: "Rambling"

The First: "Rambling".

In this, the first episode of the new Glasgow Generations podcast, you'll hear Scott Docherty talk Glasgow with his dad, Charlie Docherty. You'll hear lots of rambling bits and pieces about the Townhead area Charlie was brought up in, some of the bombs that either exploded or didn't explode in the City during WWII, a little about the teacher's strap & punishment exercises, oh, a great deal about banana rationing! To be fair, we do say at the outset that it'll be pretty general to begin with, so surely we're off the hook on that one (erm...), but no doubt in time we'll get far more specific about the history of Glasgow if we work out how to keep faither on track!

The photo you might see attached to this episode is of Charlie and his motley crew from school, circa 1949-ish, including Brother Gabriel and another particular teacher who, after listening to this show, may sue us for defamation!

Welcome to Glasgow Generations, and feel free to share your own memories of the City with us.

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...