McChuills on opening up as a venue and Glasgow’s evolving music scene

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Glasgow is famous for its thriving music scene which has evolved from the popularity of genres and venues over the past few decades. We spoke to the people who run McChuills, a grassroots venue on High Street, on its relationship with music.

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00:00 I've kind of noticed there's a lot of sort of kind of punkier heavier bands coming through

00:04 and I think for a while it was very indie just in mainstream music very indie orientated very

00:09 sort of placid and there's a kind of injection of sort of like fire and a bit like the heavier

00:15 riffs and the grunge things kind of coming back. Mother Half's brother always said to me that he's

00:19 noticed that music kind of goes like in ways where it's really happy sort of music and then it gets

00:25 really sad kind of music and you've you know working here I've noticed that in just the time

00:29 I've been here as well. So I think we're kind of getting a bit of a wave of sort of like heavier

00:34 stuff coming through now which I love but you know we're still obviously getting all the kind of more

00:40 mainstream stuff in there as well but that's one thing and I think you're always just going to get

00:44 folk who just love a bit of disco. Yeah you see things getting popular like certainly at the

00:50 moment rock and roll sort of music or dance music you know where in certain times over a 30 year

00:58 period for a younger generation they can become more popular as in they're more dance orientated

01:05 or they're more guitar orientated and certainly at this time it's guitar. Yeah. You know that

01:12 seems to be what's driving you can see the same type of crowd that you would think maybe 10 years

01:21 ago or something like that would have been more a dance kind of thing you know but they're involved

01:25 in bands and it's interesting to watch how that progresses and then ultimately something else

01:34 comes. Yeah that'll happen, something else will come through. We've got a lot of bands playing

01:40 but I think really we kind of took the decision during lockdown when we had a lot of time on our

01:47 hands as everybody does. Yeah. Was that we what we had was 120 capacity venue I think we looked at it

01:55 and said you know like how can we make this small venue the absolute best we can make it. So first

02:04 of all bringing up the light and sound systems I mean we've used every part of the building we

02:09 possibly can. Yeah. You know like our office is behind us and we switched that in half the size

02:19 so that we could put in a green room and we've put a small bar in the venue because we think

02:26 it's important that people don't have to leave the venue to get a drink if they want to watch a band.

02:32 Make it somewhere people want to play. Yeah.

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