The Listening Room
A personal music studio inspired by classic hi-fi. Your albums, your equipment, your listening rituals.
Planned for Windows, macOS and LinuxA NAME WITH A MEMORY / GLASGOWBefore the stream,
Before the stream,
there were the stairs.
THE ORIGINAL DIAL INN4 West Regent StreetGLASGOW · OPENED AUGUST 1973*
*Opening date recorded by Glasband 80.
A door off West Regent Street. Music downstairs. A record you could ask the DJ to play.
Dial Inn Studio takes its name from the Glasgow venue remembered fondly by our founder. These fragments of its history explain the feeling we want to carry forward.
Down the stairsThe room behind the name
Glasband 80 dates the Dial Inn’s opening to August 1973. It describes two entrances: the restaurant to the right, and a door on the left leading downstairs to the Swiss-themed Heidi Lounge.
The address had a life before and after the Dial Inn. Old Glasgow Pubs records earlier names including Wyper’s and the Four A Snack Bar, and illustrates Drummond’s in 1991.
Sources: Glasband 80 ↗ · Old Glasgow Pubs ↗
Dial a recordA telephone. A request. Your song.
The name had a wonderfully literal connection to the music. A 1973 report reproduced by Old Glasgow Pubs describes telephones on the disco tables: customers could call DJ Tom Cotcher and request a record.
The same report describes organist Ken Flower and drummer Mike Scott backing the lounge entertainment.
Source: Old Glasgow Pubs — 1973 report ↗
A new chapter: listen to Dial Inn Radio ↗The bands rememberAfternoons, audiences and familiar faces
Glasband 80 collects photographs and recollections of bands including The Dolphins, Shoot The Moon and the Henry Gorman Band. Musicians remember afternoon gigs, welcoming audiences and the particular pressure of playing to fellow performers.
These are personal recollections, rather than a complete programme of the venue’s history.
Familiar company. Unexpected records.
A reason to stay a little longer.
Historical research and memories: Glasband 80 and John Gorevan’s Old Glasgow Pubs. Our frontage is an original imagined scene informed by the old entrance and our founder’s memory. Dial Inn Studio is an independent software project.