What’s On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more.

Pat ByrneI have a Jaunt round the Glasgow West End notice boards to see what’s going on in the centre of the universe but I also rely on mailing lists and you getting in touch with your events. The listings are free for charitable organisations – small charge for profit making events. Email me details if you would like me to promote your event..

Bone Idle Bros, Starry Skies and Slipper Elm The Britannica Panopticon

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Saturday, 11 May, 2019 Britannica Panopticon Come and join Bone Idle Bros , Starry Skies and Slippery Elm at the world’s oldest music hall for a night of Americana Roots Acoustic music £8 Buy tickets Bone Idle Bros Famous to a select few, they have been flying under the radar since 2016 providing their own […]

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

Il Postino The Shed

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12 May, 2019 2 p.m. Cinema – L’Amore Del Cinema Italiano IL Postino recounts the story of a diffident postman and a world renown poet, set against a backdrop of conflicting social-political issues! £3 Buy tickets About this Event PRIZE draw at the event!!! 1. Lunch for 2 at Dimora Newton Mearns!!! 2. Surprise from […]

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Movie Memories: Rebecca GFT

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Dementia Friendly Event – 16 May, 2019 Alfred Hitchcock’s Academy Award-winning gothic thriller. A newly-married woman discovers that Rebecca – her husband’s first wife – exerts a sinister grasp over the family. Hitchcock’s atmospheric masterpiece from 1940, packed with a stellar cast, is a slow-burning drama full of twists and turns. Please note that all wheelchair […]

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Southside Fringe Festival 2019

10 – 26 May, 2019 Theatre, comedy, dance, children’s events, spoken word  and more! Something  for everyone at the Southside Fringe? See the full programme The Southside Fringe Festival is a 16 day annual festival held in May in venues, businesses and locations across the Southside of Glasgow – 2019 is the seventh festival. Thanks […]

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Crossways Irish Scottish Cultural and Literary Festival Roseanne Watt & Kate Newmann

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Literary Lunchtime Wednesday 8 June, 2019 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. BAAD Backyard, Calton Entry, 54 Calton Entry, Glasgow G40 2SB Roseanne Watt is a poet, filmmaker and musician from Shetland. She is poetry editor for the online literary magazine The Island Review. She was the winner of the 2015 Outspoken Poetry Prize (Poetry in Film) and runner-up […]

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SCOTTISH FILM & TV TALENT ANNOUNCED FOR DEVELOPMENT RESIDENCY ON SKYE

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Six aspiring filmmakers have secured a week’s summer residency in Skye where they’ll be coached by some of the country’s top Film and TV  professionals. Congratulations to the finalists: Daisy Costello, Glasgow, Emma Lennox, Glasgow, John Murdo MacAulay, Isle of Lewis, , Omar Raza, Glasgow, Michael Lee Richardson, Glasgow and Ali Taylor, Glasgow Writers, producers and directors behind shows like Poldark, Derry […]

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West End Festival: The Luthiers’ Concert Websters Theatre

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Tuesday 4 June, 2019 7 p.m. £6 + £1.50 BF/ Conc. £3.50 + BF www.glasgowclyde.ac.uk An evening of live music featuring an eclectic mixture of folk, blues, ragtime, and classical tunes played by three outstanding musicians: Steve Hicks, Anne Chaurand & Ciorstaidh Beaton. The musicians will be performing on guitars and a harp made by […]

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Unconventional, Websters Theatre

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Friday 31 May, 2019  7.30pmSaturday 1 June 2.30pm and 7.30pm Websters Theatre £8/£10 (Including Booking Fee) www.bickeringtheatre.com Bickering Theatre presents an original play by Matthew Barton. Unconventional. ‘’With a stolen ship and a less than willing companion, ‘famous’ time traveller Baz Geddis crashes the … Second Time Traveller’s Convention?’’ Suggested age 14+ Buy tickets Part […]

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André Krengel & Roland Krause, Websters Theatre

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11 May, 2019 7.30 p.m. The guitar duo of André Krengel & Roland Krause combines a rousing mixture of different musical genres: melodies and grooves from the worlds of jazz, swing, Flamenco, blues, pop & funk and Latin America, their compositions blending into a harmonious whole. With boisterous energy and passion André and Roland perform […]

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West End Festival: Songbird: Ellyn Oliver Sings Eva Cassidy

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Friday, 7 June, 2019 7.30 p.m. Cottiers Theatre, 93 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU £15 www.ellynoliver.com Following the success of this event at Glasgow’s West End Festival 2018 which launched a Scottish tour, Ellyn Oliver and her live band return to where it began, performing some of Eva Cassidy’s much loved tracks from ‘Songbird’ to ‘Wayfaring […]

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Sweat It Festival

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19 May, 2019 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The giants of Glasgow’s Health & Fitness sector will come together on Sunday 19th May for a jam-packed day full of unmissable exercise classes, an abundance of nutritious food and drink offerings and some of the best wellbeing products Glasgow has to offer. Taking place at Argyle […]

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Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, Cottiers

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Wednesday, 22 May, 2019 7.30 p.m. Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham return to Glasgow in Spring 2019 ! What more can you say about these two stellar musicians, now embarking on their 33rd year of working together Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham have established themselves as the epitome of excellence in the world of traditional […]

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Friday, May 3, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events

Hayes Carll plus Travis Linnvale, Cottiers

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Thursday, 16 May, 2019 With a career full of critical acclaim and popular success, Carll could’ve played it safe on this, his sixth record, but he didn’t. The result is a musically ambitious and lyrically deep statement of an artist in his creative prime. Hayes Carll’s list of accomplishments is long. His third album, 2008’s […]

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Play Pie and Pint Summer Panto 2019

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Òran Mór Summer Panto Announced – Dracula: Revamped by John & James Kielty… 2 – 20 July, 2019 . (Mondays – Saturdays) OranMor DRACULA IS PAN-BREID! Or IS he?  For MINA is turning into a VAMPIRE and JONATHAN is worried.  Returning to Transylvania, they find DAME IGORETTE in a wretched state: with no VAMPIRE to […]

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Free Comic Book Day, City Centre Comics

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Saturday, 4 May, 2019 City Centre Comics, 37 Ruthven Lane, G12 9BG Free Comic Book Day 2019 A large selection of the free comics on offer this year! Free comic grab bag! 20% off all sets 20% off all t-shirts! Selected Marvel/DC action figures reduced! A free copy of DC Year Of The Villain #1 […]

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Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2019

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Friday 3 May — Monday 6 May 2019 mhfestival.com The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, led by the Mental Health Foundation, aims to support the arts and challenge preconceived ideas about mental health. The International Film Awards ceremony takes place at the CCA on the evening of Friday 3 May, celebrating the best in mental health filmmaking. Winning films […]

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Take Access 2: Bumblebee

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Saturday 4 May, 2019 12,00 After fleeing his home planet Cybertron, a young Autobot finds refuge hiding as a Volkswagen Beetle in a junk yard. 20 years later, Charlie Watson is celebrating her 18th birthday when she is given the car as a present. In her attempts to fix the car, the Autobot reveals himself and […]

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SMHAF19 Scottish Connections CCA

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Monday 6 May 2019 5.30pm, Free/£2/£4/£6/£8 via Eventbrite, Theatre 14+ accompanied by an adult / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 A family divided between England and Skye, a meaningful bond repaired in Glasgow, and a chance encounter with a Syrian artist, are just three of the stories explored in this selection. These shorts, featuring animation, […]

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Thursday, May 2, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema

Vacas GFT

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Sunday 5 May, 2019 5 p.m. Set in the Basque region, this epic portrayal of feuding families begins with a single act of cowardice that shapes the lives of three generations and fuels an intense rivalry. Told in four related short stories, Vacas director Julio Medem continues the work of Armendariz in Tasio, rethinking how Basque landscapes shape […]

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Full Metal Jacket GFT

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5 – 8 May, 2019 Kubrick’s scathing attack upon the Vietnam War and its destruction of a generation of people from both sides of the conflict is as ruthless and disturbing today as it was on release. We follow Private Joker (Matthew Modine) as he navigates Boot Camp, with its de-construction of its recruits. Then watch as he becomes an awful instrument […]

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Patrick McAlindon at The Glasgow Guild

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Friday, 3 May, 2019 7 p.m. Final year art school student Patrick McAlindon is having his show at The Glasgow Guild showroom in their workshop and it’s a good excuse for a gathering & get together! All welcome, bring a flower, an interesting twig, a cute moss …a bottle… ‘ The bells toll, and time […]

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Woman at War

RELEASED IN CINEMAS ON 3 MAY 2019 a film by Benedikt Erlingsson starring Halldóra Geirharõsdóttir ‘Is there anything rarer than an intelligent feel-good film that knows how to tackle urgent global issues with humor as well as a satisfying sense of justice? Look no further than Woman at War’  VARIETY Picturehouse Entertainment are proud to announce […]

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema

Prince Under the Cherry Moon Matchbox Cinema

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  Under The Cherry Moon | Film Screening Friday, 7 June, 2019 Information  Under The Cherry Moon | Friday 7th June at CCA, Glasgow Backseat Bingo & Matchbox Cineclub present a rare screening of Prince’s Under the Cherry Moon, on His Royal Badness’ birthday. Fashion historian Casci Ritchie will introduce the film with an illustrated […]

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Boo Hewerdine and Darden Smith, The Admiral Bar

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Wednesday, 12th June, 2019 The Admiral Bar, 72a Waterloo St, Glasgow G2 7DA To celebrate a magical musical collaboration that has resulted in a life-long friendship between acclaimed singers Boo Hewerdine and Darden Smith, the pair will be playing a handful of shows in the UK this summer. Boo Hewerdine and Darden Smith met thirty years […]

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Booked Festival Wendy Erskine

Saturday, 18 May, 2019 – 4 – 5.30 p.m. West Dunbartonshire Festival of Words Dumbarton Library, Strathleven Place, Dumbarton G82 1BD Sweet Home is the debut short story collection of Wendy Erskine which has aroused great interest and critical acclaim. A reclusive cult-rock icon ends his days in the street where he was born; a […]

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The King of Paparazzi GFT

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Saturday 1 June, 2019 3 p.m. Among the many lasting legacies of Federico Fellini’s 1960 film La Dolce Vita is its creation of the term ‘paparazzo’ which has come to describe a particular type of relentless celebrity photographer. Massimo Spano and Giancarlo Scarchili’s fittingly star-studded documentary focuses on Rino Barillari, arguably Italy’s most famous ‘paparazzo’. After arriving […]

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Hungry Cities, Redesigning Our Relationship to Food

13 June, 2019 6 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. CCA A panel discussion examining the role of design in changing our relationship to food, in which we talk to those who have radically redesigned elements of the Scottish food system. In this panel discussion, we examine what role design can play in changing our relationship to […]

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Jess Klein and Mike June, The Doublet Glasgow

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Wednesday, 1 May, 2019 This Wednesday 1st May at the Doublet – an amazing set of musicians and a real treat . Jess Klein and Mike June and Amelia White and Scott Warman, a fabulous line up. The Doublet, 74Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Twitter @suburbs1 Alan 07944354459 soundsinthesuburbs@hotmail.co.uk twitter @suburbs1

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Poverty in Britain today – Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn Tour

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Thursday, 16 May, 2019 – 4.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. The Mitchell Library Kerry Hudson in conversation with Darren McGarvey, on poverty and class in the UK – Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn We are delighted to be part of award winning author Kerry Hudson’s book tour. Her latests book – LOWBORN – is a powerful, personal, agenda […]

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Monday, April 29, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events

Call Mr Robeson, Queens Park Glasgow

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Friday 3 May, 2019 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. Queens Park, Glasgow G42 9QL Call Mr Robeson! celebrates the life and trials of Mr Paul Robeson, who, in 1960 led the Glasgow May Day parade and performed for thousands at Queen’s Park Arena Glasgow. With a special introduction by Lost Glasgow‘s Norry Wilson and local […]

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Sunday, April 28, 2019 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers

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