Radisson RED has been building a pedigree of big names playing there, from Tom Walker to Arielle Free, George Bowie and Baby Strange, as well as club nights with international DJs. He’s already sold out the iconic Kelvingrove Bandstand in August –those tickets went in less than 24 hours – and has a hefty run of shows to come, while the dream is Hampden. The RED Sky Bar, perched on top of Radisson RED Glasgow and with panoramic views over the River Clyde, Squinty Bridge and Finnieston Crane, will provide the setting for the shows on Tuesday, November 1. On 26 June 2020 Beattie released his first music video for the song " Salamander Street", about a former classmate who became a prostitute in Edinburgh.

We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. All I really wanted was to put a band together and make a proper, live, studio record and that’s exactly what we did.

He said: “I love the venue – it’s really something special – and we have had some great times at Radisson RED. Beattie grew up in Musselburgh, East Lothian [2] and released his first single "We Are Stars" in 2017.

These songs are songs I wanted to record, not songs dictated by a label or by trends or anything else - they are just my view of the world. There have been times in my life where I just thought getting music into the market was completely beyond me, so to have come this far on such an incredible journey is just something I have gratitude for every single day.

Get all the latest Glasgow news and headlines sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter. I grew up in a post Thatcher Britain, in a fairly rough part of Scotland, raised by my dad, and experienced the poverty and roughness of those times first hand,” he comments. In 2019, he uploaded the anti- Brexit and Conservative Party song "Boris Song" onto YouTube, becoming viral.

It was all about the energy in the room and our producer Chris Marshall did a phenomenal job of a getting the absolute best out of all of us. On Sunday 26 March Beattie performed 2 songs, Heart Stops Beating and Salamander Street in the centre circle at Ibrox park for the Rangers Football Club Legends match. Gavin was the inspiration behind Shane Meadows’ ‘This Is England,’ and working with him was a dream come true. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you.Culturally, it was a very specific period in history, where you could almost feel the class divide on the local streets.

It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times.His second album Vandals, out today, will rocket him to a whole new level – sure, he wowed a huge crowd on the main stage at TRNSMT last year and sold out two nights at SWG3, but that’s just the beginning. The artwork utilises a photograph by Gavin Watson, whose images of Thatcher-era Britain capture a fragmented nation.