a few years ago my buddy, Eddie sang out about the rampant heroin use there. Some dealers tried to silence him with their knives. He was stabbed multiple times and left for dead. He pulled through, went to Belgium to recover. When he returned to Glasgow, they tried again. He's okay, still lives there, still playing and singing.. I intend to visit next year..
You can hear him on Murdoch's last CD, among others.
He wrote a fine song about that whole experience

"I'd rather be a dead man walking, but at least I'm off my knees
I'd rather go out rocking than to go down by degrees"