Music PR in Glasgow
Glasgow punches far above its size in British music, and it has the media infrastructure to match. Scottish campaigns should be built as Scottish campaigns, not English ones with a different postcode.
Campaigns run remotely across the UK. We do not need an office near you, and you should be sceptical of anyone charging you as though they do.
Glasgow produces more nationally significant bands per head than anywhere else in Britain, and its music community is unusually well connected — a genuinely collaborative scene where labels, promoters and bands actively support one another.
It also has a media ecosystem that is meaningfully separate from England's. Scottish outlets, Scottish broadcast programming and Scottish funding structures operate on their own terms, and a campaign that treats Scotland as a region of a UK campaign will miss most of what is available.
Glasgow media
Scottish music media, which functions as its own ecosystem rather than a subset of the UK's.
Scotland's most significant independent cultural title. Real influence across the Scottish music audience.
Glasgow-born platform with strong sessions output and a genuine record of early support.
Particularly The Afternoon Show and Scottish specialist programming. Significant reach.
Community station embedded in Glasgow's music scene.
University-based, long-running and closely tied to the city's underground.
Scottish culture and music coverage with a committed readership.
Scottish national press with regular arts and music coverage.
Not press, but central to Scottish industry networks and worth engaging with.
Local outlets sit alongside the national and genre-specific targets on your list. Coverage is never guaranteed anywhere.
The Glasgow circuit
Venues are not press, but a campaign that ignores them is missing half the story. Where you have played tells an editor more about you than any adjective in a press release.
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut remains one of the most storied small rooms in Britain and still functions as a genuine credential. Nice N Sleazy and Broadcast anchor the Sauchiehall Street circuit. Stereo and Mono cover the more independent and vegan-café-adjacent end, both with deep scene roots. SWG3 spans several room sizes and hosts much of the city's electronic programming. The Hug and Pint is a reliable early room. Barrowland Ballroom is the room every Scottish band is aiming at, and playing it is a story in itself.
What we tell Glasgow artists
Run the Scottish campaign properly and separately. Scottish outlets are receptive to Scottish artists in a way the London press is not, the funding landscape through Creative Scotland is materially different, and BBC Radio Scotland's specialist programming is a realistic target where its national equivalents are not. A Scottish campaign is not a smaller UK campaign — it is a different one.
What a Glasgow campaign costs
The same published price as everywhere else. £695 for a single, everything below included.
Strongest genres in Glasgow
Where the city's media and circuit give a campaign the most to work with.
Releasing from Glasgow?
Tell us the track, the date and the rooms you have played. We will tell you what a campaign could realistically do with it.