Glasgow

The List

When I was at secondary school there was a specific kind of girl in every class. She was blonde (normally not naturally), loud, a bit thick and absolutely obsessed with sex. She, of course, claimed to be having lots of it with the kind of good looking guy who didn’t attend our school…

World War Z

’ve been telling everyone I can that key scenes in World War Z were filmed in my home city of Glasgow and that one of the buildings that features prominently (Glasgow City Chambers) is my dad’s office. I even shared some photos from the set. I had taken World War Z on as my own personal film…

Red Dust Road

If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to make me pick up a book or watch a film it’s a connection, real or perceived, to my own life. I would probably not have bought Andrea Arnold’s Red Road if I hadn’t been brought up in the eponymous street. A similar thing happened with this year’s World Book Night list…

World War Z Trailer

The trailer for Brad Pitt’s zombie apocalypse movie World War Z has now arrived and it looks good. Not just because of Mr Pit, or the fast zombies or the billions dead but because Glasgow looks fab. Much of the filming for this movie was done in my home city, right next to my dad’s office…

The Reluctant Detective

I was first drawn to Scottish crime novel The Reluctant Detective by the tweets of its author Sinclair Macleod who uses social media to promote this book and its follow up The Good Girl. He claims that his novels are as “Scottish as Irn-Bru and Haggis” and offer “Crime with a Scottish accent” …

This is what World War Z looks like….

I’ve been having a sneak peek at some photos from the set of World War Z, next year’s Brad Pitt film currently being filmed in Glasgow. These are just a few of the images…

World War Z comes to Glasgow – and my dad gets involved in the action

Glasgow City Centre has been taken over by mindless, bloodthirsty creatures hell-bent on violence and mayhem. So many jokes come to mind about rough estates, Old Firm fans….