Talking Feet

Welcome to the Walking Heads Talking Feet podcast. We’ve been pretty quiet over the last few months but we’ve been busy plotting out the year ahead and take the podcast across Scotland. We have also been working alongside friends and creatives in the podcast community to help develop new strands & content, which we will hopefully be previewing in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we are back in Glasgow, being led through the city by two of our very knowledgeable tour guides, in a crossover episode looking at two main themes of our audio walking tours. Broadcaster Jim Gellatly, who listeners should recognise from our first episode and the Glasgow Music Tour, is joined by GSA Professor Johnny Rodger from our ‘A Brisk Walk’ Tour, looking at Dereliction & Architecture in Glasgow. Sauchiehall Street holds so many key destinations on Glasgow Music Tour, two of which being the 02 ABC and GSA, which were tragically devastated by the fire of 2018. While we wait to hear when and how they might come back to life, new music venues are opening along this famous street, which also features in our A Brisk Walk Tour. We asked Jim and Johnny to bring us up to date with what is happening in Sauchiehall street and what it says about Glasgow life.  Bringing together their knowledge in these areas makes for a particularly engaging conversation with some surprises and many memories, including, of all people, John F Kennedy on Sauchiehall Street, can you believe?!You’ve been listening to the Talking Feet podcast, produced by Walking Heads. Recording, editing and mix by Amanda Mitchell.Do check out and have a  listen to our Glasgow Music Tour and A Brisk Walk Tour, which are both hosted on the Guidigo app, just search for Walking Heads. It’s also available on our website and on Bandcamp. Download the Guidigo app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. We will be bringing A Brisk Walk and other elements of our Glasgow Music Tour to this podcast feed as well in the coming weeks. Is there someone in particular you’d like to hear on our podcast? Contact us via social media or email for suggestions. We will be venturing away from Glasgow in our next few episodes, exploring themes from our other walking tours in arts & culture across Scotland. Coming soon, we will be looking at the comedy circuit in Scotland, exploring Architecture in the Highlands, the Creative Community in Aberdeen and Traditional Scottish Music in Glasgow. We are also developing a mini series on mental health in Scotland so make sure you subscribe to this podcast. If you’d like to chat with us about arts, culture & community in Scotland or know someone who might, please do get in touch! We are also making some changes to our walkingheads.net website to give Talking Feet a more prominent home and make room for additional content so keep an eye out for that.You can subscribe to our podcast on all the major platforms, like iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher and Acast. If you have any feedback for us or enjoy what we are doing, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or on whatever platform you use. Reviews and ratings are very important in sharing what we do with a wider audience and we greatly appreciate it.Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net. 

For our 9th episode,  we invited two locally based DJ/Producers into the studio - Rebecca Vasmant and Patrick Pothul. Rebecca juggles a busy DJ schedule with a slot on Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM and production with Scottish National Jazz Orchestra trombonist Chris Greive in Glasgow Jazz Experiment. Patrick also DJ’s regularly across Glasgow and runs the Glasgow-based Hip Hop label, Handpicked.Aside from their involvement in running labels, club nights, radio shows and producing music, They’ve been friends for a number of years in Glasgow. They play together a lot as well we knew the camaraderie between these two would make for some great listening. They discuss early forays into Glasgow’s clubbing culture, fond memories of the now closed but much loved Soundhaus, their various creative projects and breaking through different genres of music in a city known for it’s love of House & Techno. You’ve been listening to the Talking Feet podcast, brought to you by Walking Heads and produced by Inner Ear. Rebecca can be found hosting Worldwide Glasgow on Worldwide FM. Rebecca will also be playing alongside Gilles Peterson at the Sub Club on November 2nd, following the launch of a new night in collaboration with the Sub Club showcasing the fresh and growing Jazz, funk, latin and world music scene in Glasgow. Find out more on Resident Advisor. You can find Patrick and Handpicked on Subcity Radio hosting their regular radio show plus a monthly event at Bloc on Bath Street in Glasgow. You can check out label releases on the Handpicked Bandcamp page.Do check out and have a  listen to our Glasgow Music Tour, which hosted on the Guidigo app, just search for Walking Heads. It’s also available on our website. Download the Guidigo app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Is there someone in particular you’d like to hear on our podcast? Contact us via twitter for your suggestions. We will be venturing away from Glasgow in our next few episodes, exploring themes from our other walking tours in arts & culture across Scotland.You can subscribe to our podcast on all the major platforms, like iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher and Acast. If you have any feedback for us or enjoy what we are doing, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or on whatever platform you use. Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net. 

In our 8th episode, the Talking Feet team is joined by fellow podcasters Halina & Phoebe from PodcART. They host the New Music podcast together and are very active within music in Glasgow but inhabit different areas of the community. In this episode, Halina & Phoebe opened up about where their music experiences in Glasgow began, where they are now and enlightening each other of music spaces & places. They also discuss their upcoming creative endeavours, DIY events and make comparisons to the rest of the UK. And although they make some genuine, positive and constructive criticism of Glasgow’s scene, they ultimately come back around to what makes this dear green space so dear to them. You’ve been listening to the Talking Feet podcast, brought to you by Walking Heads and produced by Inner Ear. You can find out more about PodcART at podcart.co, p o d c a r t . c o. You can subscribe to the Podcart New Music Podcast on all major platforms. You can find out more about UNKNOWN on twitter on the handle UNKNOWNGLASGOW, all one word, all caps. The first event is on the 20th of September at Bloc on Bath Street, from 11-3 and is titled Knowledge & Understanding. The event is free entry and all proceeds/donations will go to the GSA People of colour society. Do check out and have a listen to our Glasgow Music Tour, which hosted on the Guidigo app, just search for Walking Heads. It’s also available on our website. Download the Guidigo app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Is there someone in particular you’d like to hear on our podcast? Contact us via twitter for your suggestions. Continuing in the theme of our Glasgow Music Tour, we are joined in our next episode with two DJ/Producers based in Glasgow - Rebecca Vasmant and Patrick Pothul. Rebecca juggles a busy DJ schedule with a slot on Worldwide FM and production with Scottish National Jazz Orchestra trombonist Chris Greive Glasgow Jazz Experiment. Patrick also DJ’s regularly across Glasgow and runs the Glasgow-based Hip Hop label, Handpicked. You can subscribe to our podcast on all the major platforms, like iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher and Acast. If you have any feedback for us or enjoy what we are doing, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or on whatever platform you use. Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net.

In this seventh episode, the Talking Feet team captures the conversation between by Robert Kilpatrick of the Scottish Music Industry Association and SAY Award, and Stina Tweeddale from the band Honeyblood. Bringing together the perspectives of an industry professional and a performing artist, we get an informative and engaging glance at how the music industry and scenes function in such a unique city, touching upon much of the magic that makes experiencing music in Glasgow so vibrant and exciting. They make connections between local community support and global influence, and discuss how Scotland/Glasgow sounds have helped to shape the development of modern music. They also talk about emerging artists to keep an eye on, celebrate the local record labels, make comparisons to other cities like London and of course, in keeping with our Glasgow Music Tour, they discuss the venues that serve and support live music in the city. The Talking Feet podcast is brought to you by Walking Heads and produced by Inner Ear. You can find out more about the Scottish Music Industry Association at smia.org.uk and you can find out more about the Scottish Album of the Year Award at sayaward.com. You can find out more about Stina and the band Honeyblood on social media and at their website, honeyblood.co.uk Do check out and have a listen to our Glasgow Music Tour, which hosted on the Guidigo app, just search for Walking Heads. It’s also available on our website. Download the Guidigo app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Is there someone in particular you’d like to hear on our podcast? Contact us via twitter for your suggestions. You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Mixcloud, Soundcloud and Buzzsprout. If you have any feedback for us or enjoy what we are doing, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or on whatever platform you use. Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net.

In this sixth episode, the Talking Feet team tells the untold story of Edinburgh’s live music scene with Stephen Allen of the National Museum of Scotland and Jonathan Trew from Glasgow and Edinburgh Music Tours. We explore both the RipItUp exhibition at NMS, the new Edinburgh Music Tour and their aim to reveal hidden or forgotten stories of Edinburgh. Interestingly it proves impossible to discuss live music and culture in Edinburgh without also referring to Glasgow, where we return to in our next episode. More on that later but for now, we find ourselves in the National Museum of Scotland where together, Jonathan and Stephen make the point that popular music is an art form, a gateway to a wider world, it helps shape society... You’ve been listening to the Talking Feet podcast, brought to you by Walking Heads and produced by Inner Ear. You can find out more about the Edinburgh Music Tour at glasgowmusiccitytours.com/edinburgh and launches Saturday 16 of June. The Rip It Up Exhibition at NMS is on from 22 Jun - 25 Nov 2018. You can find out more on the NMS website at nms.ac.uk/ripitup. Do check out and have a listen to our walking tours in both cities - the Glasgow Music Tour and the Edinburgh Comedy Tour, both hosted on the Guidigo app, just search for Walking Heads. It’s also available on our website. Download the Guidigo app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Is there someone in particular you’d like to hear on our podcast? Contact us via twitter for your suggestions. You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Mixcloud, Soundcloud and Buzzsprout. If you have any feedback for us or enjoy what we are doing, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net. Coming soon, we caught up with Robert Kilpatrick of SMIA and Stina from Honeyblood. Keep your ears to the ground for our next episode.

In this fifth episode, the Talking Feet team has been exploring the exciting creative community activism that’s gaining strength in Edinburgh, and throughout Scotland. We’ve been enjoying that spirit in the live music scene in Glasgow but for latest episodes we ventured east to find out what’s going on in Edinburgh. We met up with Andy Summers and Morvern Cunningham in a corner of Leith buzzing with activity ahead of the 2018 Architecture Fringe, which features our ‘A Brisk Walk’ audio walking tour, to find out more about the events they have been involved in and the use of common space in our Scottish cities. You’ve been listening to the Talking Feet podcast, brought to you by Walking Heads and produced by Inner Ear. You can find out more about the Architecture Fringe at architecturefringe.com which also features ‘A Brisk Walk’ which is our audio walking tour exploring dereliction in Glasgow. Architecture Fringe takes place across Scotland between 8th and 24th of June, check out their website for more details. Do check out and have a listen to our ‘A Brisk Walk’ audio tour, which is hosted by Guidigo, just search for Walking Heads. It’s also available on our website. Download the Guidigo app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Is there someone in particular you’d like to hear on our podcast? Contact us via twitter for your suggestions. You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Mixcloud, Soundcloud and Buzzsprout. If you have any feedback for us or enjoy what we are doing, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net.

In this forth episode, we are joined by Catriona Reilly and Fraser Bone. They both DJ regularly in Glasgow but across the UK, promote club nights, run radio shows on local independent station Subcity Radio and very active in the LGBTQ+ community in the city. On top of all this, they both work in venues in Glasgow - Cat is the booker at Stereo on Renfield Lane and Fraser works in Bloc on Bath Street. We knew they’d provide an interesting and unique insight about the music scene here in Glasgow and they did not disappoint! Talking Feet is brought to you by Walking Heads & produced by Inner Ear. You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and the usual places. Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net.

In this third episode, we celebrate the 6th Birthday of the Walking Heads Glasgow Music Tour by going back to where it all began. The tour was launched in January 2012 at King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, with tour guides and hosts, Dougal Perman and Jim Gellatly. So to celebrate, it seemed fitting to head down to the venue and catch up with two guys who know Tut’s inside out - Tam Coyle, the first booker for the venue and Davie Millar, the current venue manager. Both share their experiences of working in such an iconic and well known venue in a unique music city like Glasgow. You’ve been listening to the Talking Feet podcast, brought to you by Walking Heads and produced by Inner Ear. You can listen to the Glasgow Music Tour on Guidigo, just search for Walking Heads. It’s also available on our website. Download the Guidigo app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Special thanks to King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut for all their help with this episode. Is there someone in particular you’d like to hear on our podcast? Contact us via twitter for your suggestions. You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Mixcloud, Soundcloud and Buzzsprout. Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net.

In this second episode, we invited two local artists with common ground to share their experiences with music in Glasgow. We were joined by Darren McGarvey, who performs under the name Loki, to have a chat with rising talent, Joe Heron, known to many as Shogun. We will hear about early gigs, influential venues and look at not only the common ground but their individual experiences of Hip Hop and Grime in a city often known for bands or house and techno. To kick things off, the guys discuss their time performing in Glasgow. Please note that this episode includes explicit content and swearing. The Talking Feet podcast is brought to you by Walking Heads and produced by Inner Ear. Is there someone in particular you’d like to hear on our podcast? Contact us via twitter for your suggestions. You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Mixcloud, Soundcloud and Buzzsprout. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net. Our intro/outro music bed is by Ryan Gibson and our podcast artwork is by Rae-Yen Song.

In this first episode, we are joined by Jm Gellatly who leads the Glasgow Music Tour. No one knows the new music scene better, but we've often wondered where Jim's relationship with city's music scene began? He joined Dougal Perman in the Inner Ear studio to talk about Glasgow music. Together, they explore what makes Glasgow a music city and visit key venues in the scene. Find out more about the Glasgow Music Tour and our other audio walking tours at walkingheads.net and follow us on twitter on @walkingheads.