I 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. Mid90s, Glasgow Film Festival 2019 review Pat Byrne
Mid90s is Jonah Hill’s directorial debut – a coming of age film set in the 90s in Los Angeles. Stevie (Sunny Suljic) the main character is a thirteen year old, who lives in a lone parent household with his mum (Katherine Waterston) and older brother Ian (Lucas Hedges). Ian is a violent bully and young […]
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews, Film reviews, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Sarah Jane Scouten The Doublet
21 February, 2019 The Doublet,74 Park Rd, Glasgow G4 9JF Sounds in the Suburbs is delighted to have Sarah Jane Scouten play her 3rd show, it’s gonna be great. Sarah Jane Scouten hails from Bowen Island, British Columbia and is a hugely talented singer songwriter. Her voice is not only beautiful, but also has an incredibly […]
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Monday, February 18, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Cowboy Calypso, WomanSaid and Stephen EvEns
The Rum Shack, 657 – 659 Pollokshaws Road, G41 2AG Friday, 1 March, 2019, 7 – 10 p.m. Cowboy Calypso is a collaboration between Brooklyn, Glasgow and London musicians. They’ve all been in bands you (probably) love, and one day they all said: “Let’s get stupid and make a record in a week and then […]
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Wedding Showcase at Cottiers
Wedding Showcase Dates at Cottiers in 2020 Tuesdays 6 – 8 p.m.- 18 February, 3 March, 10 March and Sunday 29 March, 2 – 4 p.m. Wedding day dreams really do come true at Cottiers Take the rare opportunity to view this historically beautiful venue fully set as it would be for your once-in-a-lifetime special […]
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Sunday, February 17, 2019 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Weddings Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
New Candys + Kundalini Genie & Gelatine
10 March, 2019 Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3LG PCL Presents NEW CANDYS + The Kundalini Genie / Gelatine Sunday, 10 March Broadcast, Glasgow 18+ Only Doors 7pm Tickets Available via See Tickets and in Store at Tickets Scotland New Candys “Mixing brooding psychedelia with post-punk stylings, the record captures the full intensity of […]
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Creative Conversations – Novelist Jacob Ross
Monday 18 February 2019, 1 – 2 p.m. University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Free & Open to the Public Jacob Ross is a novelist, short story writer, editor and creative writing tutor. His prize-winning crime fiction novel, The Bone Readers (Sphere), was originally published by Peepal Tree Press. His […]
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Saturday, February 16, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
GFF19 Jim Galloway – A Journey In Jazz CCA
Thursday 21 February 2019 Director James Cullingham chronicles the life of Jim Galloway, the amazing Scotsman who emigrated to Canada as a young man and went on to carve out an international career as a saxophonist and jazz impresario. Jim collaborated with jazz stalwarts such as Buddy Tate and Jay McShann and was a co-founder […]
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A Private War GFT
15 – 20 February, 2019 Celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin spent her professional life chasing down the human stories at the centre of some of recent history’s deadliest conflicts. Never one to retreat from the eye of the storm, she was killed by a bomb during the 2012 siege of Homs in Syria. This gripping […]
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Friday, February 15, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
Tell It To The Bees
Fri 22 (20.30) & Sat 23 February, 2019 (12.45) Director Annabel Jankel, novelist Fiona Shaw, screenwriters The Ashworth Sisters, and cast members Gregor Selkirk, Emun Elliott, Kate Dickie and Lauren Lyle will attend the screening on Fri 22 Feb. The Scotland of 1952 is no place for the faint-hearted. When mill worker Lydia (Holliday Grainger) is abandoned by […]
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Grand Ole Opry, 2-4 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 1HS Thursday 21 February, 2019 (Doors 19.00) Glasgow Film Festival Three performers travel through the perils of outback Australia to find things they didn’t even know they were missing, like fabulous dresses. Join us for an evening of bingo debauchery hosted by glamorous Bingo Babes (Rujazzle and CJ […]
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The Vanishing Glasgow Film Theatre
21 and 22 February, 2019 Kristoffer Nyholm is a past master of stylish suspense having directed TV series The Killing and Taboo. Now, he turns his talent to the eerie true events known as the Flannan Isle mystery. Thomas (Peter Mullan), James (Gerard Butler) and Donald (Connor Swindells) are three lighthouse keepers who arrive on an uninhabited island 20 miles off the […]
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An Elephant Sitting Still Glasgow Film Theatre
18 and 19 February, 2019 In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the world in which they find themselves. Among them is schoolboy Bu, on the run after […]
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The Raft Glasgow Film Theatre
15 – 20 February, 2019 Arguably the forerunner to reality TV experiments such as Big Brother, Mexican anthropologist Santisgo Genovés tested the limits of force human interaction in 1973’s Acali Experiment: 11 strangers – selected for maximum friction – were dumped on a raft for three months to cross the Atlantic. Genovés told the reluctant […]
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Tickets on Sale Glasgow Film Festival 2019
The fifteenth edition of Glasgow Film Festival kicks off on 20th February, 2019 and, if you haven’t already decided what to see check out these highlights: Special event screening of Fight Club and the International premiere of Niall McCann‘s The Science of Ghosts, which will be followed by a performance from Adrian Crowley. Guests welcomed from Hollywood include Matt […]
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The Hole in the Ground, Glasgow Film Festival
21 and 22 February, 2019 Part of Glasgow Film Festival Future Cult Strand These screenings will take place at Cineworld In the process of rebuilding her life and looking to put her broken past behind her, Sarah O’Neill (Seána Kerslake) is forging ahead in a new home with her son Chris (James Quinn Markey). One night, […]
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Thursday, February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Transatlantic Sessions Celtic Connections 2019 review and photography by Pauline Keightley
The unique blend of Shetland fiddle and West Virginia song, dubro and Irish pipes is always a joy to hear at the Transatlantic Sessions. Warm fires appeared to chase away the winter chill at the Glasgow concert hall and this concert is always a major highlight at Celtic Connections – celebrating folk and roots music from […]
| Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Music Reviews, Pat's Home Page Blog, Pauline Keightley
Full Programme Announced Glasgow Film Festival
GFF2019 Across 12 days, the city-wide celebration of cinema will host 7 world premieres, 102 UK premieres and 49 Scottish premieres Guests including Sir Michael Palin, Carol Morley, Matt Bomer, Carlos Acosta, Alice Lowe, Simon Amstell and legendary music video director Lance Bangs will attend the 15th annual festival Six out of the ten nominees […]
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Aye Write: Frank Quitely The Comics That Made Me
15th Mar 2019 • 6:00PM – 7:00PM • Glasgow Royal Concert Hall The Comics That Made Me Frank Quitely, legend in the world of comics, talks about the comics that have most inspired and entertained him throughout the years. Quietly grew up in Rutherglen and studied at the Glasgow School of Art before launching the […]
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write: What You Need To Know About Character
Creative Writing: with David Pettigrew BA MPhil Character – Creative Writing University of Strathclyde 14th Mar 2019 • 6:00PM – 8:00PM • Mitchell Library Character – Creative Writing Characters are one of the main ingredients of a good story, and even for writers of non-fiction a key skill is the ability to bring people to […]
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| Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2019
Tracey Thorn at Aye Write
14 March, 2019 – 6 p.m. Mitchell Library, Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia In a 1970s commuter town, Tracey Thorn’s teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her diaries were packed with entries about not buying things and not going to the disco. Long before she would conquer the charts in Everything but […]
Glasgow Film Festival: Mother’s Instinct
GFT / Thu 21 (18.30) & Fri 22 Feb, 2019 (10.45) There are echoes of Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith in this luscious, devilishly entertaining Belgian thriller. Suburban neighbours Alice (Veerle Baetens) and Celine (Anne Coesens) are the very best of friends. Their inseparable sons are more like brothers than chums. When tragedy strikes, they both […]
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Open Mic Tuesdays at Queen Margaret Union
Every Tuesday 8p.m. Champions Barr, QMU, 22 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8QN Open Mic is back at the QMU // takes place every Tuesday at 8PM in Champions Bar // max 10 mins per act // free drinks for performers // anything goes (music, spoken word, stand up, etc) // bringing your own […]
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Lola in Slacks Single Launch at Websters
2 March, 2019, 7.30 p.m. Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HZ After a series of attention grabbing performances around Glasgow, louche bohemians Lola in Slacks release their new single ‘Postscript in Blue’ with a live show at the bijou ‘Webster’s Theatre’ in Glasgow’s West End. Fronted by spellbinding chanteuse Lou Reid, Lola […]
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Monday, February 11, 2019 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events
Cubanos: Woman and the Revolution
Sunday 3rd March, 2019 2-5pm The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, G2 3AU CUBANAS asks what six decades of socialist construction has meant for Cuban women and explores how the legacies of pioneering women revolutionaries such as Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria and Vilma Espin live on in Cuba today. In Britain, women are hit hardest […]
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Sunday, February 10, 2019 | Filed under: Cinema
New Traditions: Talisk, Vishtèn and Xabier Diaz at Celtic Connections 2019
Old Fruitmarket, Celtic Connections 2019 These three bands lit up the warm fires of live music! The audience at the wonderful Old Fruitmarket venue was treated to an international line up of award-winning Celtic musicians. They did a fine job interpreting the musical traditions of Galicia, the French Canadian Acadia islands and Scots Celtic. Xabier […]
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Saturday, February 9, 2019 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2019, Music Reviews, Pauline Keightley
David Keenan and Chris McQueer in Conversation
Monday, 25 February, 2019, 8 p.m. – 11 p.m. To celebrate the launch of ‘For The Good Times’, David Keenan and Chris McQueer will be in conversation on February 25th, 2019 at Mono. Q&A, chaired by Alistair Braidwood (Scots Whay Hae!). David Keenan is the author of ‘For The Good Times’ (Faber & Faber) and […]
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Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica in Conversation with Louise Welsh
University of Glasgow Thursday, 14 March, 2019, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. This is a rare opportunity to share an evening with Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica, and one of the most distinguished writers of her generation. Lorna Goodison is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica. She is the recipient of numerous prizes for her […]
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Friday, February 8, 2019 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
SQIFF Shorts on Tour presented with STUC LGBT+ Committee, CCA
Saturday 9 February 2019 1pm, Free/£1/£3/£5/£7 + £1 booking fee, Theatre 15+ / F-rated Book Online / 0141 352 4900 SQIFF and STUC LGBT + Committee present an inclusive selection of LGBTQ + short films from around the world. This is another chance to see the Opening Night films from SQIFF 2018. Headlining the programme is VISIBLE, created by Campbell X […]
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An Impossible Love GFT
8 – 10 February, 2019 Based on a book by controversial French novelist Christine Angot – Claire Denis’ co-writer on Let the Sunshine In – Catherine Corsini’s film is a profound melodrama exploring dysfunctional family relationships. The film begins in the 1950s, as office worker Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls for the dashing Philippe (Niels Schneider), a Nietzsche-reading […]
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Weekend: Valentine’s Day The Seamore
Thursday, 14 February, 2019, 7 p.m. The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, 304 Maryhill Rd, Glasgow G20 7YE, UK A one night stand that becomes something more – an unconventional love story between two young men trying to make sense of their lives. Buy tickets
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| Filed under: Cinema, Valentines Day Glasgow
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