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  Following tense negotiations in the winter of 2015 it was decided that Pin Ups Chap Young Niall would have his stag do at Primavera Sound 2016. It’s taken a while, but here’s just some of the action that unfolded at what will forever be known as STAGAVERA SOUND! SAVING PRIVATE STAG Seasoned Primaveragoers know […]

There was a big huge guy who used to go about Glasgow. Former boxing champion.  He was called “Special”, apparently due to his obsession with The Specials.  I felt like I didn’t know him well enough to call him Special, so the first time I was introduced to him I spent the whole evening calling […]

Ben and Cheryl got married at the Woodside Warehouse (run by The Wedding Collective). We have DJ’d at a couple of weddings at the Woodside Warehouse now and viewing the venue is seriously recommended. It’s kind of a blank canvas for you to project your hopes and dreams upon.  A very nice touch on the night […]

This wedding almost didn’t happen. A few weeks before it, Craig met me in the Tinderbox on Buchanan Street to chat about the song choices, and I didn’t want to ever let him leave.  This guy knows his music!  I kept him there for about an hour and a half until he politely made his […]

Pauline and Gary were married at Auchen Castle in Moffat.  After the big day Pauline dropped us a line to say: We just wanted to drop you a wee msg to say a massive THANK YOU to you all for the part you played in our wedding day, we both had the best day and […]

Serina instructed us to focus on 50s era songs but we also met requests from her extended family and played a short selection of Bollywood hits – if you haven’t heard Sadi Gali – go and listen to it now, it’s irresistible. Serina and Joseph were married at the Glasgow Film Theatre and held their […]

We wouldn’t normally quote from correspondence but we loved the feedback we received from Rebecca: We had so, so much fun and the tunes were completely perfect – totally what we were after. Our family and friends of all ages commented on how much they enjoyed the music, you played such a good mix and […]

Our first ever Ladies Night was pretty spectacular (there would eventually be 5, with ever more complex line-ups – pictures of Ladies Night 3 are here). Every DJ delivered the goods and the atmosphere in the Beat Club was absolutely jumping. Lee, Pam and Aarti (Pretty Ugly), Natalia (Blitzkrieg Bop), Josefin and Sara (Dolly Mixture), […]

Our democratic process of getting each Pin Ups chap to pick their 10 favourite songs of the year leads to some interesting results. The above indidivual songs are the ones which got the most votes, though our favourite artists also included Tame Impala, Kendrick Lamar, Suede, Father John Misty, Public Service Broadcasting, FFS and Jamie XX […]

It took us years to get Specials frontman Terry Hall to come and DJ, and when he eventually came to Pin Ups it was his first ever DJ set in Scotland. (Top DJs Mark Robb and Craig Loosejoints would claim this coup a year later, but sorry chaps – we were there first!) Terry played a crowd pleasing […]