Merchant City Music Tour

To celebrate the 12th year of the fantastic Merchant City Festival, Walking Heads are giving away the Centre East route of their Glasgow Music Tour. For the next five days you can download this tour – led by virtual guide DJ Jim Gellatly – for free.

The Merchant City Music Tour is an app for iPhones (sorry Androids that version comes later). This one-hour tour is in fact the first part of the Glasgow Music Tour, an epic journey round one of the best live music scenes in the world. The whole tour covers more than five miles so Walking Heads split the tour into four separate routes.

As Jim Gellatly leads you through the Merchant City (with an extra diversion to the Barrowland) you find where Franz Ferdinand held their first gig, visit haunts and hang outs of bands such as Mogwai and see the theatre that launched Stan Laurels career – and many more stars since then!

With more insider commentary from BBC presenter Vic Galloway and Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, you discover why Glasgow is the favourite gig for musicians from Simple Minds to Led Zeppelin. As singer songwriter Emma Pollock tells it, theres a tough and tender love that only Glasgow can bring to the live music scene.

Walking Heads know there’s a lot going on during the Merchant City Festival, including many other excellent walking tours and trails. But the great thing about an app is that you can download the tour now and keep this great musical adventure in your pocket – it will still be there when the festival is over!

To download the special edition free Merchant City Music Tour, click here: https://www.guidigo.com/Tour/United%20Kingdom/Glasgow/merchant-city-music-tour-special-edition/WMpIpVGU-Lc

Walking Heads launched Glasgow Music Tour in King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in 2012 after winning a Tourism Innovation Fund award for producing interactive audio tours taking visitors off the beaten track to discover hidden stories of the city. For more information visit www.walkingheads.net

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