James Grant books three November gigs across Scotland

Paisley, Gourock and Falkirk get the Songbook next month, tickets already live — no support announced yet.

James Grant has confirmed three Scottish dates for November. The Love and Money frontman posted on Monday from his official account, naming Paisley, Gourock and Falkirk and directing listeners straight to ticket links on his Songbook site.

“Got a couple of shows in November in Paisley, Gourock and Falkirk,” he wrote, with a link to tickets. No setlists have been published and no support acts have been announced. The announcement remains tight: the month, the three towns and how to buy.

Glasgow roots and a long catalogue

Love and Money formed in Glasgow in 1985. The band came together from three former members of Friends Again, joined by bassist Bobby Paterson, who had previously been in Set the Tone. From the start they worked a line between rock, soul and funk that set them apart on the Scottish circuit and beyond.

The recorded run began with *All You Need Is....* in 1986. *Strange Kind of Love* followed in 1988 and remains the album many still reach for first. *Dogs In the Traffic* arrived in 1991, then *Littledeath* in 1993. After a longer silence the group returned with *The Devil's Debt* in 2012. A live reading of *Strange Kind of Love*, recorded in Glasgow in 2011, has also circulated, a reminder that those songs never left the rooms where they first landed.

Grant has kept working under his own name as well. His recent years have taken in solo and collaborative activity, including the Butler, Blake & Grant projects. The November shows sit in that continuing live thread. They are billed through the James Grant Songbook pages rather than as a full Love and Money reunion, which leaves the set open: band material, solo work, or both.

Three towns, not a long haul

Paisley, Gourock and Falkirk are not a stadium tour. They put the gigs within easy reach of Glasgow and the west coast without locking the run to a single city centre. For an artist whose catalogue has deep roots in Scottish venues, that shape makes sense. A Songbook night in those rooms is a chance to hear the mid-eighties songs and the later work at close range.

Nothing has been said about which titles will surface or whether any of the collaborative strands will colour the evening. That is ordinary at this stage. What is fixed is the calendar and the three stops. Tickets are already up on the Songbook gigs page he pointed to on Monday.

Further dates have not been posted. For now the November run is the confirmed next step — three Scottish nights, tickets live, setlists still to come.