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It’s time for another trip into the Pin Ups vaults, with a fun fanzine article from 2006!             Make your party go with a swing by experimenting with the favourite drinks of Coronation Street stars Mike Baldwin & Ken Barlow! Keen wine buffs, the lads like nothing better than discussing …

This post is partly borne out of the interview we did with Glasgow Podcart in March and just before Game Over, in which we discussed our approach to gig promoting.  You maybe missed it in the blizzard of Game Over hype, so click here if you wish to read tales of arguments with managers of Stereo, Canadian …

(To celebrate the launch of the new James Bond movie, here’s a wee story we wrote back in 2007.  It was originally published in the Pin Ups Fanzine which we handed out on the door at our parties.) Hi it’s Gary Stringer here, formerly lead singer of 90s band Reef. Longterm readers of the Pin …

It seems “how to” blog posts are all the rage, and I thought therefore it would be popular to dish out some tips on how to design a club night flyer. Pretty much every single Pin Ups party from 2003 to 2012 had its own dedicated flyer. It was a lot of work but I …

Albums may be out of fashion, but musicians should stick to music, not hemorrhaging ideas and content across multiple platforms While the album may not be as dead as its critics claim (and the SAY Award will have something to say to those critics), it’s fair to say that the days of loads of bands …

The longlist for the inaugural Scottish Album of the Year Award (“SAY Award”) has been published, and is composed of the 20 albums which proved the most popular amongst the Top 5 choices of 100 nominators.  Pin Up Nights was one of those 100 nominators and it’s pleasing (though statistically probably not that surprising) that 3 of our 5 choices are on the longlist: Everything’s Getting …

We didn’t want GET COCKER to overshadow all the excellent action and guests we have booked for Game Over, so in the last couple of weeks we have just kept working on it in the background.  And this morning we finally made contact with the great man himself!  Jarvis kindly took a break from Pulp …

Young Niall provides a handy A to Z cut out and keep guide to Pin Ups… ( to get us going, here is the great boy himself  in live action footage – Ed.) A is for…Angelos – Special guest at Geek Night and part of one the craziest and busiest nights in Pin Ups legend. …

Pin Ups has welcomed one or two special guests over the years and while most have been amazing others weren’t quite so…..amazing.  Here, Pin Ups chap Iain O’C gives his own thoughts on a few of the names to darken the door of Pin Ups through the years….  Editors: This was the busiest night I …

The GET COCKER petition has been online for just over 3 weeks – and with now just over 3 weeks to go until Pin Up Nights: Game Over, it’s time for us to make a move, come on out of the sidelines, and put our offer to Jarvis’s manager.  We launched the petition because Jarvis’s manager (whom …