Glasgow's best free music festival brought top 90s acts to city
AS SUMMER festival season gets ready to kick off, here at Times Past HQ, we are looking back to one of the best music events ever staged in Glasgow.
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AS SUMMER festival season gets ready to kick off, here at Times Past HQ, we are looking back to one of the best music events ever staged in Glasgow.
Do you remember Glasgow’s Big Day?
WERE YOU THERE? Marti Pellow from Wet Wet Wet in full swing at The Big Day. Pic: Herald and Times IT WAS the biggest free rock concert ever staged in Scotland – 40 gigs in the space of 12 hours - and it put Glasgow on the music festival map. The Big Day, which took place 31 years ago this weekend, featured a truly diverse collection of acts, from Wet Wet Wet to Sheena Easton, and turned Glasgow into Party City. More than 300,000 music fans flocked to the city for the event, which was shown live by Channel 4. “Sparkle-eyed” Easton, sporting a new hairstyle and fresh from cancelli...