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Newhouse – Natural Cycle

Situated at a roundabout off Edinburgh Road, between the Newhouse Interchange and the village of Holytown is this circular structure, created by Jordan William. To see more works by Jordan William, click HERE. To visit Jordan William’s Facebook, click HERE.

todayFebruary 10, 2025

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East Kilbride – Concrete Elephants

These concrete structures, found in Westwood Hill Park and deep within a housing estate in Greenhills, were created by Stan Bonnar in his role as “town artist” throughout the 1970’s, when the New Town Development Corporation was created. He created similar elephant structures for the proposed and partly constructed new town development in Stonehouse. Plans for Stonehouse to become Scotland’s sixth new town were scrapped several days prior to the […]

todayJanuary 20, 2025 5

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T-IN-THE-PARK – IT BEGAN IN LANARKSHIRE

At a time when there were only two large outdoor music festivals in the UK, a promoter and a venue manager decided to create one for Scotland. Despite doubts by others that there would be enough Scottish music fans to attend such a festival of that scale, T-In-The-Park grew to become the second largest annual outdoor music event in the UK. It's hard to believe that three decades have passed […]

todayOctober 1, 2024 15

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SO YOU WANT TO BE A MOVIE OR TELEVISION EXTRA?

Following the success of Ricky Gervais’ TV series “Extras,” there has been a lot of interest in becoming a “background artiste.” But how do you do it? What’s involved? Who do you contact? Most importantly, how much does being an Extra pay? We have all watched films and TV dramas where leading actors play to camera with a well-rehearsed script. However, on many occasions our eyes wander away from the […]

todaySeptember 28, 2024 17

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LANARKSHIRE TV – THE UK’S FIRST SMALL-SCALE TELEVISION CHANNEL.

An experimental form of television that was first tested in Lanarkshire, prior to the launch of fifty-nine other channels across the UK, which were later replaced with localised digital TV services. Lanarkshire Television (LTV) was a local station based in the former Hartwood Hospital, which began broadcasting from April 1999 until its closure in 2005. While it may not have achieved the same level of fame as other UK television […]

todaySeptember 20, 2024 65

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THE HISTORY OF CHEMIKAL UNDERGROUND

  When a Lanarkshire band decided to create their own record label, they were soon on their way to being a major influence for Scottish independent music. With their Chem 19 recording studios based in Blantyre, Chemikal Undergound Records has become an influential label that has played a significant role in the Lanarshire and Scottish indie music scene over the past three decades. On their own social media pages they […]

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GENTLE GIANT MUSIC FESTIVAL

A Lanarkshire music festival that was created in response to bad publicity about a village and named after a local icon. The little-known Gentle Giant Music Festival is an annual celebration of local music talent, held in the village of Forth (one of Lanarkshire’s former mining communities), on a Saturday in the middle of May. The event takes place across four venues, usually starting at 12 Noon and finishing late […]

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