Glasgow Generations

The Ninth: "Muscular"

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:09:52 PDT

The Ninth: "Muscular".

This one was supposed to be all about Glasgow's unfortunate tag as the "No Mean City", but as expected, we digress into the usual nonsense including the Burns Howf and the Muscular Arms, Maggie Bell and Stone the Crows, playing "jorries" and working out what "gird wi a cleet" means. Charlie gets corrected once again by our ever-vigilent listeners, and we yap about the only cinema in Glasgow that was located up a close.

Don't worry though, we do manage to cram in a minute or two about the dark crimes and gangs of old, and Charlie even recalls with fondness the only time he was beaten up as an adult. So it all ends well really...

The Eighth: "Dizzy"

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:19:04 PST

The Eighth: "Dizzy".

In an embarrassing family meltdown of an episode, Faither takes us through his drunken exploits at the Majestic, the Locarno and various other haunts from ol' Glesca in the 50s and 60s, including what happened when the dance halls closed and everyone staggered into midnight mass.

This one was supposed to be all about music though, so as usual, that guarantees that we stay on the subject for at least two minutes. Keep the emails coming into glasgowgenerations@gmail.com and we'll try and prompt the auld yin to keep him on track next time...

The Seventh: "Beatstalkers"

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:48:08 PDT

The Seventh: "Beatstalkers".

So after six episodes bursting with many droning tales of lacklustre 'lore in ye olde Glesca, Faither finally gets into his stride. This one marks the start of no doubt twenty shows about his life in music. We start off here yapping about Radio Luxembourg and the pirates of Caroline; we dance around the old Eglington Plaza and the Maryland Jazz Club; get out the old Dancette to play the dusty 45s and 78s; listen to Victor Silvester, Dean Ford and the Gaylords, and, well, a ventriloquist on the radio; and finally sit down before the TV to watch the 6.5 Special and reminisce about getting beaten up at school for defending Tommy Steele.

Music to your ears? Erm...

The Sixth: "C'moangetaff"

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:54:52 PDT

The Sixth: "C'moangetaff".

Out of the depths of silence and the choppy seas of disinterest, comes our new instalment of rambling Glasgow folklore, proving that after a truly unearned Summer break, we're finally back to work. And this one's all about ra graftin: going to the steamie and making up the coal fire in the morning, putting on your first pair of long trousers and a decidedly dodgy sweater, getting treated like a glorified slave at work, before getting fired for annoying the wife of the boss and ending the day scrambling back to yer mammy in the pitch blackness of the tenement.

A grand day's work in Glasgow indeed. After all that, some might suggest another break would be a great idea!

We're still alive...

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:55:10 PDT

Yes that's right, despite many hopes to the contrary, we've not ended our little Father and Son venture into cyberspace yet.

In fact, my Dad and I will be sipping more coffee at the microphone tonight to record our Sixth episode, and I should have it available to download tomorrow at some point, provided of course, that I remember how to do so!

Thanks for all your emails and support in the meantime.

The Fifth: "Peas"

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:26:46 PDT

The Fifth: "Peas".

It's been a while, so to treat you all for waiting so patiently, this time around we've made sure to talk about the usual nonsense. There's a wealth of useless memories about eating mushy peas at the Barras, playing 'stage coaches' in a coalbunker, the magnificent toys you used to get for handing over rags in the street, why the Broons became the world's first reality series (way before those crazy Osbournes got in on the act), why Faither should have built his career on designing bikes, and there's even some introduction to future episodes where he'll try and convince you that he was the precursor to the Beatles.

A welcome return? Err...

The Fourth: "Fleapit"

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:49:47 PST

The Fourth: "Fleapit".

Once again we run out of time yapping on about the street games of old in Glasgow. Maybe it's because we diverge into wandering tales of camping in Benderloch and faither's early romantic liasons (ahem...), but at least we manage to cram in some stuff like playing 'P or a K' and 'Red Car' in the street, the local boxing club in Townhead and going to the Saturday morning swimming baths before picking up a well-earned penny bag of broken biscuits from the local baker.

What will really attract your attention however, is Charlie's living-on-the-edge story about keeping a notepad of the street's car licence plate numbers! We cap it all off with some chat about the cinemas of old like the Grafton and the Casino, but no doubt we'll spill all of this nonsense into the next one as usual.

May The Fourth Be With You

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:35:49 PST

Just a wee note to let you know that my faither and I are planning on doing the fourth episode of the podcast on Tuesday next week, so it should be ready for download on Wednesday.

More on the Glasgow street games of old and a move into some picture houses that are no longer with us. See you soon.

The Third: "Sugarolly"

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:02:28 PST

The Third: "Sugarolly".

This time around it's all about the street games in old Glesca. We hear all about the wee toerags wreaking havoc with the tenement folk tying their doors together with rope, catching hudgies at the BRS depot in Lister Street, being chased by Limpy Dan from the Kennedy Street playground, making what sounds to have been a very early poor man's version of soda stream drinks except with a particularly dodgy ingredient, and playing endless football through dinner which consisted of jeely pieces thrown down by the parents from the windows above.

Ah yes, you might get your PS3s and your HD TVs nowadays, but if the kids of today were to listen to this episode, without a shadow of doubt they'd choose "kick the can" or "dreep the dyke" over all your fancy technology any day. Ahem...

The new one's on its way

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:14:52 PST

This is just a wee post to let you know that we're getting back into the game tonight. My faither and I will be dusting off the microphone and hope to mull over the old games he used to play in the streets of Glasgow growing up in the 40s and 50s.

Look forward to me trying to understand the stories about making "sugarolly", catching "hudgies" at the BRS depot on Lister Street, and playing "P or a K" with the lassies (apparently that's "Punch or Kiss"!).

The new episode should be available tomorrow at some point, all going to plan, and I'll let you know once it's up. Thanks for the emails to glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com in the meantime, and keep them coming in so we can read out your memories of Glasgow on the show.

Happy New Year

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:21:05 PST

Yup, happy 2010 folks. That's it for now. See you soon.

Huv a guid wan anawarat

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:15:26 PST

That's us signing off for 2009 and the end of the first decade of the 21st Century.

I've completed a wee post to end the year and another to end the decade, so check out the link, and I'd like to thank you for listening to our new podcast - let's hope it begins to take off in the New Year.

Have a great festive break and we'll see you soon.

The Second: "Coal"

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:44:30 PST

The Second: "Coal".

This one's all about Christmas and Hogmanay in Glasgow back in the day, and I think you'll soon come to the understanding via Charlie's fading memories about the festive period, that when he was growing up in the City, the real celebration was at the Bells rather than around the Christmas dinner table.

He really tries his best to call up some recollections of the homemade toys and penny caramels, visiting the genuine Santa at the old Lewis's store in Argyle Street, and saving for some Italian treats at Christmas, but what becomes clear is that back in the 40's and 50's in Glasgow, the New Year parties were far more important, with the spinning of bottles until 8am, the first footing of all the tenement neighbours, the walking through the East End to find another bash, and the strange tradition of polishing coal...

...That said, the main revelation in this episode is actually the choice of faither's first record, but it's probably best to keep that one quiet. Have a great festive break on us and we'll see you in 2010!

Some Christmas Memories

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:48:17 PST

Alrighteo, this is just a wee quickie to let you know that we'll be recording the new episode of the podcast tonight, so it should be available tomorrow at some point.

This one will be focussed on Christmas fun in Glasgow back in the day, and how it used to be Hogmanay that stole the headlines at this time of year rather than Santa Claus. Just wait till you see the photo of my faither meeting ol' saint Nick in Lewis's in Glasgow during the 50's - it's a cracker!

Cheers for now.

Festive Love from iTunes

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:53:04 PST

It just goes to show you. All those long, droning conversations you might have with your parents from time to time can actually prove interesting to other folks out there.

All we're doing here with Glasgow Generations is to record me listening to my faither yap on about growing up in the City, so when I noticed today that iTunes have not only listed our little cyberspace adventure, but also featured it in their New Releases section of podcasts, I'm still scratching my napper!

Hopefully more people will catch on to the show as we record more and more over time, and as before, we'd love to hear your own stories and memories about the old Glasgow.

Glasgow Generations on iTunes

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:52:36 PST

As the momentum begins to roll on, you'll be pleased to know that iTunes has caught us up already, and you can now download and subscribe to the podcast for free at iTunes.

Just click the link here iTunes and you'll be taken to our new page. You can subscribe there and it'd be great if you could leave us a wee review and rating to help us climb the charts and get us noticed - the more the merrier!

Hopefully soon it'll get featured in iTunes and we'll start to show up in more places online, as whilst it's just enough to be recording my Dad's memories for the family, it's also a wee bonus if more people listen & like the show.

We're planning the next episode already, and are thinking of giving it a cheeky wee festive theme given the time of year, so look forward to my Dad droning on and on about how he only got one wooden toy and an apple in his stocking every year, and that despite this, "Christmas meant more in the old days!"...

The new one'll be recorded and available hopefully sometime around the 16th, and I'll post once it's ready.

Wee technical update

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:51:49 PST

Just ignore this email. It's a wee technical message to add the blog to Podcast Alley.

Cheers.

My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-3db2d43f8f20df8d6849418e435ea28e}

The First: "Rambling"

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:06:56 PST

The First: "Rambling".

In this, the first episode of the new Glasgow Generations podcast, you'll hear Scott Docherty talk Glasgow with his dad, Charlie Docherty. You'll hear lots of rambling bits and pieces about the Townhead area Charlie was brought up in, some of the bombs that either exploded or didn't explode in the City during WWII, a little about the teacher's strap & punishment exercises, oh, a great deal about banana rationing! To be fair, we do say at the outset that it'll be pretty general to begin with, so surely we're off the hook on that one (erm...), but no doubt in time we'll get far more specific about the history of Glasgow if we work out how to keep faither on track!

The photo you might see attached to this episode is of Charlie and his motley crew from school, circa 1949-ish, including Brother Gabriel and another particular teacher who, after listening to this show, may sue us for defamation!

Welcome to Glasgow Generations, and feel free to share your own memories of the City with us.

It's on the way...

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:43:02 PST

Here's a wee image I've designed in about 30 seconds.

At some point in the next few weeks I'll be trying out some even more fan-dangly image design to create the official image of the Glasgow Generations podcast, possibly by merging an old photo of my Dad and a new one of me, if I can work out how to do that. So this one'll do for the meantime, and you'll likely see it attached to the first episode which we'll be recording tomorrow night if all goes to plan.

I'm hoping to get the first one uploaded and ready for your ears by Wednesday, and as soon as the first one's out there I'll be setting it up in iTunes, the Top Ten Glasgow Guide and pretty much every podcast directory in the online interweb world.

So I'll post again once the show's ready, and feel free to share your Glasgow memories until then.

Arrabest

Aye, cum awa in fae ra cauld!

glasgowgenerations@googlemail.com (Scott Docherty and Charles Docherty) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:55:15 PST

Hello there, and welcome to Glasgow Generations.

My name's Scott Docherty, and in the coming weeks, months, maybe even years, I'll be recording with my Dad, Charlie Docherty, a wee podcast designed to cast your mind back to what it was like growing up and living in Glasgow after WWII.

Over time you'll hear my Dad's memories of the tenements in the Townhead area of the City, playing kick door run, fitba and marbles in the street, jumping the backcourt dykes avoiding the middens below, watching the Queen's Coronation on the street's first TV, trying to catch the jeely pieces flung down fae ra windaes, going to the Carlton and the Grafton to watch a Western, enjoying the lemonade stalls at the street parties while running after the rag and bone men, and hearing about the No Mean City beyond.

There'll be reflections on how music's always been at the heart of Glasgow, what the old games between the Auld Firm were like as a kid as well as what it felt when the real Hampden Roar was raised. Anything and everything really, and the hope is that as you listen away, you'll remember a few things of your own you might want to share, and I'll be setting up a Skype line & contact form so you can leave a wee message or email we can put into the episodes.

So the first one should be available soon and I'll post whenever a new show's out.

Yours aye...