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Gary Armstrong

Glasgow city centre's Hard Rock cafe introduces new live music nights

The Hard Rock Cafe in Glasgow city centre has introduced new live music nights for diners to enjoy, with a series of planned weekend performances.

The popular American food and drink restaurant, based on Buchanan Street, world-renowned for its stacked burgers and fancy cocktails, is now giving the stage to local musicians to provide the entertainment.

And on the bill this Saturday is a local virtuoso guitar singer who will taking diners through the ages at the main bar and restaurant located on the second floor.

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Iain Forbes is set to perform classics from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Guns N Roses, Gary Moore, Dire Straits and much more.

As a classical and fingerstyle guitar player, there will be some acoustic tracks too with tracks by James Taylor, Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel, Paul McCartney and The Beatles.

The Hard Rock Cafe seen from Buchanan Street (Instagram @hrcglasgow)

Iain released an album during lockdown called ‘A Singing Birdbox’ – available on Spotify and iTunes - and will be playing some tracks from it on Saturday night too.

You can book ahead for your food reservation or just walk up to the city centre restaurant for Saturday night's gig, which takes place between 8.30pm – 11pm, 2nd Floor. For more info visit www.iainforbes.com

As well as the weekend music in the main restaurant, the Buchanan Street bar is also hosting Acoustic Thursdays as well as Gig Nights in the Cocktail Lounge and Pool Hall.

For all the event listings, visit the Hard Rock Cafe website here.

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