Story behind the Redmond’s of Dennistoun mural in Glasgow’s East End

A pub in Dennistoun is well known for its ’Hollywood’ style mural. We uncovered the story behind it.

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00:00That was done by a good friend of ours, close to the business, a chap called Ciarán Globel.

00:04Him and his brother have got a street, well, sign painting business, but a big presence in the street art scene.

00:12And Ciarán's drank in the bar since day one, so Ciarán actually, he did the work on the front there,

00:20that sort of describes what the bar's about.

00:22And after lockdown, when we were reopening after lockdown,

00:25we took that opportunity to have a wee sort of re-jig and do ups and decor and stuff like that.

00:31And the idea came to just do something interesting on that wall, and then we just let Ciarán do the rest.

00:37So the logic of it, and I wouldn't want to take words out of Ciarán's mouth there, but

00:42it's obviously a riff on a wee bit of the Hollywood sign, but also those old-fashioned

00:49American postcards that say, greetings from Hoboken, New Jersey, or Laramie, Wyoming,

00:58and it's always got that sort of romanticised postcard font fading into the distance.

01:02So it's a combination of those two elements.

01:05And I think that was just, Ciarán was sort of surfing the zeitgeist of lots of

01:10neighbourhoods were doing interesting street art that acknowledged their environment a wee bit.

01:13So Ciarán did that, tapped into those sources, and then had a wee bit of fun with it.

01:18So we acknowledged that there's a bit of spirit about Deniston,

01:21which is why there's the Liddell sign and there's the tyre burning.

01:25And as it was getting painted, another publication

01:30decreed Deniston to be the eighth coolest neighbourhood in the Western world.

01:34So that's why there's the Daft Wee flag with number eight on it as well.

01:36So it's just a nice combination of being proud that we're looking forward,

01:40but also not forgetting, you know, where we've come from.