Some of the biggest names in Scottish music are supporting a bid to take over Glasgow’s troubled Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) and revamp it as a Scottish Rock and Roll Music Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
The CCA closed earlier this year after a series of financial setbacks.<\/p>\n
Now the group ScotsRock says it wants to take over the building in Sauchiehall Street and turn it into a hub which celebrates Scotland’s contribution to global music.<\/p>\n
Midge Ure, whose career spans Ultravox, Band Aid and Live Aid, has agreed to become the inaugural Patron of ScotsRock.<\/p>\n
The project has also attracted the support of Lulu, Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, Travis and Del Amitri.<\/p>\n
Plans for the venue would include:<\/p>\n
a permanent exhibition and visitor experience<\/p>\n
a live performance venue<\/p>\n
educational and outreach programmes<\/p>\n
a creative industries hub supporting emerging music and creative businesses<\/p>\n
archive and heritage facilities<\/p>\n
a year-round programme of permanent and temporary exhibitions, concerts, talks and special events celebrating both Scotland’s rock music legacy and its current artists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the biggest names in Scottish music are supporting a bid to take over Glasgow’s troubled Centre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}