Can I still cry it Carling?

The Architecture in itself makes the venue interesting...

It was once the New Bedford Cinema, but this music venue, set in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, went through a £3million refurbishment to become the Carling Academy, which opened on March 26, 2003. The Carling Academy's were a chain of music venues across the UK, one of the most famous ones being the Brixton Academy in London.

... as does the decor inside.

Since November 2008, the venue has been taken over and branded as the phone operator o2, now called the o2 Academy. However, I'm sure a lot of people like myself still refer to it as the Carling Academy. I do so as I'm forever getting mixed up between this venue and the ABC in Sauchiehall Street - another o2 venue.

The o2 seems to be the stepping stone for artists, between the likes of small venues like King Tut's and the large arenas such as the SECC, with a capacity of 2,500. These are my favourite kind of venues - small enough to feel intimate, big enough to get lost in. Artists of all genres play here, up and coming concerts include Professor Green, The View and Axwell of Swedish House Mafia.

Tiesto at Carling Academy 2006