Listings Update

Wednesday 7th October, 8pm
City Halls, Recital Room 10

American singer-songwriter Pierce Pettis has, over the course of his long career, been a writer at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama and a staff songwriter at Polygram and Universal Music Publishing in Nashville, recorded for Fast Folk Musical Magazine in New York, won the prestigious New Folk competition for songwriting at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas and received numerous other songwriting awards. His music draws on the humour and trials of daily life.

"Pierce Pettis doesn't write mere songs, he writes literature." (Sing Out).

"...one of the more vital and critically acclaimed folk stars of recent years." (Performing Songwriter)

Northern Irish singer-songwriter Brian Houston is a truly independent successful artist who has worked with Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Nanci Griffith and Robert Plant, amongst others. With a Belfast brogue, silky voice and some truly great songs, Brian Houston is one of life's born storytellers. He combines a great guitar style with a unique song-writing voice, not to mention wry touches of humour. He cares deeply about the subjects of his songs and perhaps even more deeply in how they are presented to the audience.

"One of Britain's great songwriters." (Bob Harris)

Pierce and Brian will be joined by special guest Yvonne Lyon, one of Scotland's best emerging singer-songwriters, who returns to the City Halls following her own sell-out concert in August. Drawing on her acoustic roots, her songs weave melodic grace and poetic storytelling, beautifully delivered with a voice that displays just the right balance between power and delicacy.

An Evening with Kevin Smith

Monday 12th October, 7:30pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Main Auditorium
£40, £35

Award winning filmmaker, actor and cult figure Kevin Smith is coming to Glasgow for his first ever live appearance in Scotland. This is a rare opportunity for Scottish fans to get up close with his unique, uncensored brand of storytelling, interacting with an audience often as familiar with his unusual life as he is. Smith's colourful and unchecked stage 'performance', entitled An Evening with Kevin Smith, provides an up close and personal look into the irreverent mind of the talented filmmaker and pop culture connoisseur, and will also include an unreserved audience Q&A.

Kevin Smith, best known for writing and directing such feature films as Clerks, Dogma, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and more recently Zack and Miri Make a Porno, is currently working on his next feature, A Couple of Dicks, starring Bruce Willis. October will also see the UK release of the long awaited book Shootin' The Sh*t With Kevin Smith: The Best of Smodcast, a follow up to the New York Times bestseller My Boring-Ass Life.

Scottish Style Awards presented by Sophie Ellis Bextor

Saturday 31 October, 8:30pm
Old Fruitmarket
£45

The Scottish Style Awards is one of the most hotly anticipated dates in the diary - celebrating the very best in fashion, music, the arts and all things creative - and will be hosted this year by pop princess Sophie Ellis Bextor.

The red carpet event includes a glittering Moet & Chandon reception, Fashion Designer of the Year runway show, live music from The Phantom Band and of course the awards presentations. Past winners and guests include Shirley Manson, Calvin Harris, Christopher Kane, KT Tunstall, James McAvoy, The Fratellis, Deryck Walker, Robert Carlyle and Sharleen Spiteri, and 2009 promises to be no less illustrious.

For more information please go to
www.scottishstyleawards.co.uk

Tickets are on sale now at £45 each but with very limited availability. Early booking is recommended to avoid disappointment.
Age restriction: 18+

How to book

Tickets for all events at Glasgow's Concert Halls can be purchased:

By phone 0141 353 8000
www.glasgowconcerthalls.com
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 2 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow, G2 3NY
City Halls and Old Fruitmarket Candleriggs Glasgow, G1 1NQ

Glasgow's Concert Halls is an operating name of Glasgow Cultural Enterprises Ltd which is a registered Scottish charity no: SC002932.