Tonight we speak to James about moving to Glasgow from Manchester, the similarities between the two cities and how he first began working at Stereo, leading to the Pop Mutations festival.
I moved over to Glasgow about three years ago from Manchester. I’d lived in Manchester my whole life. I grew up there, studied there, worked there - I love it. There’s so many interesting things happening in Manchester, but I got to a point when I felt like I wasn’t doing much and needed a change.
Glasgow, like Manchester, has a great reputation for having a big music scene. The kind of shows I’d go to in Manchester were really similar to the ones happening up here, and the community I was around in Manchester seemed to have all of these links to Glasgow. Through friends in bands playing in the city, or working in places like Mono, I heard of all these really interesting things happening here which was a massive part of why I decided to move up.
We have a really nice crossover of different tastes and sounds in Stereo, but you could say a large portion of the clubs that we currently book are focused around UK bass music. Glasgow also has a really big hardcore scene, so we get a lot of these high-energy, high BPM parties coming through which are always really great nights.
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