Glasgow Music City Tours

• Love Glasgow? Love music? Make like Aerosmith and walk this way. Glasgow Music City Tours have collected Glasgow’s musical myths, tall tales and wicked rumours.

• Have you heard about the Barrowland star falling on David ‘The Starman’ Bowie? What about the legend of Lou Reed’s one song Apollo set?

• Buckle up your blue suede walking shoes and hear the full story with this Deal from Glasgow Music City Tours.

Saturday tours

• Valid for Saturday tours from 30th March until 28th September 2024, this Deal is for two people to take a scheduled two hour tour.

• Choose between the Merchant City Music – Past and Present or the Music Mile tour of the city centre. Excludes the Music Mile tour on 13th July.

Irreverent and informative tours

• Led by guides with years of experience in Glasgow’s music scene, the tours deliver an irreverent, informative look at the city’s iconic bands, the famous venues they played and the incendiary performances which became legends in their own show time.

• With tales ranging from music hall to modern day, the tours offer something for every music fan, from folkie to punk.

• Of course, guests are encouraged to share their own memories of great gigs. The best stories might just end up in the tours.

Merchant City Music – Past and Present

• Walking the oldest streets of Glasgow, the Merchant City tour has stories of cherished venues such as the mighty Barrowland Ballroom and the venerable Britannia Panopticon – the world’s oldest surviving music hall.

• Scheduled tours take place every Saturday from 11am.

Glasgow’s Music Mile

• From the site of the late, lamented Apollo to King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut – the birthplace of Oasis – Glasgow’s Music Mile tour is a whistle-stop guide around the city centre, an area teeming with music venues past and present.

• Scheduled tours take place every Saturday from 2pm.

Happy guests

• Since launching in 2015, Glasgow Music City Tours have earned plenty of applause on TripAdvisor with a fantastic, combined rating of 5/5 from more than 400 reviews. These are extracts from longer reviews:

• ‘Very engaging and informative… Our guide was an engaging storyteller with great humor and plenty of local vernacular that kept the group smiling. The tour takes you by the famous music theatres, performing arts schools, and into a couple of the music clubs including the famous King Tuts Wah Wah Hut. If you’re a music art lover of any sort, this is a must do.’ 5 stars

• ‘A brilliant walking tour for everyone from musical obsessives to those just interested in the city’s history and architecture. So many great stories, brilliantly told.’ 5 stars