Everything Flows: Music in North Lanarkshire is running until October 19 at Summerlee Museum.
The exhibition is a celebration of the music and musicians that came from, and were inspired by, North Lanarkshire from the 1970s to the early 2000s.
Starting with Coatbridge legends Fran and Anna, the exhibition goes through the punk scene in Wishaw, the Bellshill beats of Teenage Fanclub, The Soup Dragons and BMX Bandits, onto the first T in the Park in Motherwell, and finally through to David Keenan’s novel This is Memorial Device, set between Airdrie and Coatbridge.
Come and see behind-the-scenes photos, the backstage passes, the tour jackets and instruments of some of North Lanarkshire’s most well-known bands – all loaned from the musicians themselves.
Listen to new interviews with musicians Duglas T Stewart (BMX Bandits), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Joe McAlinden (BMX Bandits, Superstar), Monica Queen (Thrum), and more, to get a true insight into what it was like making music in and around North Lanarkshire.
There is also artwork from Turner Prize-shortlisted Jim Lambie, from Pastel’s musicians, and illustrator Annabel Wright, and even a sketch by the iconic Alisdair Gray who painted Bellshill band De Rosa’s second album Prevention .
There will also be an accompanying programme of events which will be updated online.
