This poem by Donna Matthew is inspired by An Oral History of Noise and Piecework in Paisley’s Thread Mills by William Burns. We Just Thought We Were Superhuman Paisley was the mills and the mills were Paisley when childhood was a vast sky of wishes. She walked out of the school gates on...
Read MorePossessing a hypnotic and immersive sound, Paisley-based rapper Washington takes us inside his unique sonic world. What sparked your initial interest in music? When I was in Zimbabwe, I went to a boarding school. It was a school where you couldn’t even speak in class, but we were in the choir and that was...
Read MorePaisley’s popular music, comedy and arts festival The Spree is back for its 10th year with a thrilling line-up for 2022. Live events will take place in the iconic Salon Perdu Speigeltent at the town’s Bridge Street from Thursday 1 – Saturday 10 September, promising a fantastic 10-day programme for gig-goers. The festival kicks...
Read MoreWelcome to Tommy McGrory’s Paisley Music Roundup 01, looking ahead at gigs in the town from Friday. The Bungalow are having a 60s pop and rock night on Friday. On the two-band bill is Poppermost, a rock ‘n’ roll live trio with special guests Hot Banana. Relive the golden age of flower power, protest...
Read MoreTHE little-known art form of Lumia – creating colourful shapes and moving images using light – is being exhibited in a former department store in the Paisley Centre from Wednesday 13th April. The spectacular free exhibition, called Lumia: Performing Light, is being staged at the recently-created Art Department exhibition space by Outspoken Arts in...
Read MoreMya Brown reviews the brand new track from Paisley’s Ghostbaby – Watch My Teeth Explode which was released on 1st April 2022. Here at Mill Magazine, we’re all for the weird and wonderful, new sights and sounds are what make us. With our ears to the ground and toward the stage, it’s fair to say...
Read MoreFresh from winning Young Inspirational Citizen at the first annual Renfrewshire Inspirational Awards, we find out more about the amazing charity work of schoolgirl Mariya Javed by speaking to her mother, Sameena Javed. When an unimaginable tragedy happens, the most courageous thing that anyone can do is to try to turn it into something...
Read MoreIndie McCue is a multimedia artist who has big plans for Renfrewshire’s creative community, Indie McCue tells us all about SCOPE, BIDE & more. Last year saw the inaugural edition of your pop-up gallery, SCOPE. How did this concept come about? Initially, I rented a space in Bailey’s Antiques and that’s where I met Mark...
Read MorePassionate Paisley by Elizabeth Van Dyke There’s a place far away I hope to get there one day Where the streets glisten in the pouring rain From the Lowlands to the Gleniffer Braes The River Cart in all her glory Ancient castles rewind their stories The Buskers, Arts and Town Centre Piazza, pubs, bistros, the...
Read MoreFresh from launching a compilation to raise funds for the Paisley-based autism and learning disabilities centre, The Gateway’s Dan Drennan talks about the album and what music means to the service. At Renfrewshire’s The Gateway, music is not inconsequential. For this award-winning service, the artform is among one of the many things that they...
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