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That potent combination caught the attention of music mogul Alan McGee (who signed Primal Scream and Oasis, among others, to his former label) when he saw Glasvegas playing third on the bill at Glasgow's tiny King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2006. "The night was more exciting to me than when I saw and signed Oasis at the same venue," McGee wrote on his blog for the Guardian. Lisa Marie Presley was inspired to seek out the band in Scotland last year after hearing their demo online. By this June, influential British music magazine...
...long way from the band's roots in the hard-scrabble streets of Glasgow's East End. Allan, his cousin Rab (guitar), Paul Donoghue (bass) and Caroline McKay (drums) hail from Dalmarnock, a gritty neighborhood where male life expectancy is just 58 years, almost two decades below the British average. The hardest gig, Allan says, was his first, in front of his mother. "Picking up a guitar in the first place was braver than any of the songs that I wrote," says Allan, a semiprofessional footballer until the band took off. "When you're a kid, drinking, playing football...
...West now realizes science does not have all the answers? I hope that as India embraces science and all its benefits it does not develop a "consciousness that their old beliefs are antiquated and will pass." That, I am sure, would be a terrible mistake. Thomas G. Lamont, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND...
...years, [Indian Islamist terrorists] have expanded the ambit of their grievances from purely domestic issues to global issues like the U.S.-led war in Iraq. They are a part of the pan-Islamic agenda." Last year, two brothers, Indian Muslim doctors from Bangalore, were implicated in the abortive Glasgow attacks...
...very good position, but we mustn't let it go to our heads," says Ed Vaizey, a member of the Conservative shadow cabinet. "This [Glasgow East result] can only put massive pressure on Gordon Brown's leadership...