Post by 4th Chord on Aug 3, 2018 22:51:13 GMT
Decided to take some time out today and jumped on a bus into town and went to the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street to check out the special exhibition - Rip It Up - The Story of Scottish Pop.
Absolutely brilliant - loads of memorabilia, including some very cool AC/DC stuff, Nazareth and loads of clothes, stage props, guitars, handwritten lyrics, from bands like Del Amitri, Simple Minds, Proclaimers, Garbage, The Skids, Rezillos, Big Country, Fish and much more. Very, very nostalgic for me as so many bands from when I was growing up. Highlight for me was a doodled on and signed Gregory’s Girl script that belonged to my schoolboy crush Claire Grogan.
If you find yourself in my fair city, do check it out. It’s free for the museum but a tenner for the exhibition - well worth it.
www.nms.ac.uk/ripitup
www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/19/60-years-scottish-pop-biffy-clyro-orange-juice-ivor-cutler-rip-it-up
At the end there’s three big screens with clips of various gigs, and it made me realise just how much we’re affected by the music around us at that time in our lives. Watching the gig footage the audiences are totally in the moment, know every word and having the time of their lives. Whether it’s Biffy Clyro, Amy Macdonald, Simple Minds, Eurythmics whoever, the bands we loved stay with us, just like Quo, the ‘classic’ period of any band is just the period of time that we were those fans in the audience....
Absolutely brilliant - loads of memorabilia, including some very cool AC/DC stuff, Nazareth and loads of clothes, stage props, guitars, handwritten lyrics, from bands like Del Amitri, Simple Minds, Proclaimers, Garbage, The Skids, Rezillos, Big Country, Fish and much more. Very, very nostalgic for me as so many bands from when I was growing up. Highlight for me was a doodled on and signed Gregory’s Girl script that belonged to my schoolboy crush Claire Grogan.
If you find yourself in my fair city, do check it out. It’s free for the museum but a tenner for the exhibition - well worth it.
www.nms.ac.uk/ripitup
www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/19/60-years-scottish-pop-biffy-clyro-orange-juice-ivor-cutler-rip-it-up
At the end there’s three big screens with clips of various gigs, and it made me realise just how much we’re affected by the music around us at that time in our lives. Watching the gig footage the audiences are totally in the moment, know every word and having the time of their lives. Whether it’s Biffy Clyro, Amy Macdonald, Simple Minds, Eurythmics whoever, the bands we loved stay with us, just like Quo, the ‘classic’ period of any band is just the period of time that we were those fans in the audience....