Michael Boyle - vocals

Archie Dickson - guitar

Neil Russell - bass

Joe Kilna - drums

Paul McManus - drums

Rock vocalist Michael Boyle played with local band ‘The Downtown flyers’ from 1977 to 1979 playing regular gigs in ‘Clouds’, ‘Shuffles’ and ‘The Maggie’ in Glasgow. Some of the other bands playing that circuit at the time were ‘Salvation,’ ‘Mollsmyre’ and ‘The Dead End Kids’ among others. Michael moved on to form the bands ‘Heaven’ and later ‘Wildcat’ where he met Archie Dickson (guitar) , Neil Russell (bass) and Joe Kilna (drums).   As there was a Glasgow based theatre group at the time already called ‘Wildcat’ the band decided to change their name. Under the thought process “If Boston and Chicago can name themselves after cities, why can't we” - ‘GLASGOW’ became the band’s name. At the beginning, Glasgow’s music was a mix of good Rock covers from AC/DC and Deep Purple and their own heavy metal/melodic rock material but it wasn’t long before they had a full set of original songs. The band signed to ‘Neat Records’ in 1983 and released the single ‘Under The Lights’ - a three song 12” single followed by a 7” single called ‘Stranded’ with ‘In The Heat Of The Night’ as the B side. Glasgow's success was starting to earn the band the right to open for bands such as Nazareth, Pallas and Uriah Heep, doing sessions for The Tommy Vance rock show as well as appearing locally at Kelvingrove, The East Kilbride Rock Festival and The Auchinlea Rock Festival in Easterhouse. They got the chance to play a full set in the Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow by accident, originally booked to support the band ‘Shy’ turned out some of ‘Shy's’ gear was stolen so they couldn't come on and Glasgow carried on to play the whole gig, not a bad record for a bunch of musicians from Blairdardie in the West End. The Band Released an album called ‘Zero Four One’ in 1987 named after the Glasgow telephone dialling code 041 ( now 0141 for you young folk) they released a single from the album featuring the tracks ‘Secrets In The Dark’ and ‘Meet Me Half Way’, The Zero Four One album had eight original tracks and was produced by Kenny Denton and also featured ‘Rainbow’ Keyboard player Don Airey.

Big thanks to Billy Hepburn for the use of his brilliant Glasgow photos. www.musicpro.co.uk