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..

The Ballad of Lefty Brown, GFT

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22 February, 2018 Actor Bill Pullman will be in attendance at this screening Bill Pullman heads a fantastic ensemble cast (including Peter Fonda, Kathy Baker, Jim Caviezel and Tommy Flanagan) in a flinty, beautifully composed western, filmed on stunning locations in Montana. Always the grizzled sidekick and never the hero, Lefty (Pullman) is considered an unreliable loser but […]

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Deniro – the Bulldog from Netherburn cast as Rufus in Legally Blonde, Glasgow

Deniro will star alongside Eastender’s Rita Simmons, Eurovision singer Lucie Jones, Emmerdale’s Bill War at the King’s Theatre from Monday 25 – 28 April, 2018. King’s Theatre, 297 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JN Hopeful pups in Glasgow today lined up at Theatre Royal to audition for the role of Rufus in Legally Blonde the Musical which […]

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45s for 45 All Day Fundraiser, Old Toll Bar, Glasgow

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Sunday 4 March, 2018 Old Toll Bar, 1 – 3 Paisley Road West, G51 1 LF – 1.00 p.m. 10.00 p.m. Raising funds for Glasgow SE and SE Food Banks. After a 5 year hiatus, charity night 45s for 45 return with a huge 9hr, 2 floor, over 20 DJs event! Hosted in the ornate […]

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Wednesday, February 14, 2018 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events

The Blue Arrow Club – New Home of Jazz in Glasgow

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The Blue Arrow Club, 323 Sauchiehall Street. Glasgow G2 3HW Glasgow’s new home of Jazz, will officially launch on Sunday 18th February, 2018 Listings A basement Jazz venue in the heart of the city, the Blue Arrow is decorated with deeply coloured Timorous Beasties wallpaper, wood panelling and red theatre lights washing the brick walls. Cabaret […]

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Off Balance by Magi Gibson – a poem for Valentines

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Off Balance   You have knocked me off-balance! I walk like a drunk, tripping Over dogs, falling off kerbs, walking out in front of cars and trucks. This is so physical, this disorientation, this disintegration. A woman is at the door returning a leg I left at the local store. I look in the mirror, […]

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Love Sticky Lick by Jim Byrne, a love poem

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Love sticky lick You, me, sticky toffee pudding Runny honey, salt and pepper Chocolate creams and tea Tart, tacky, treacled fingers Shandy, candy, juice and jelly Sticky licks, ice cream and lemonade…. Fuck. With you and me, everything rhymes. Jim Byrne, February, 2016.

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The Shires, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

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DF Concerts Present The Shires Accidentally On Purpose UK Tour 2018 Sunday 27 May, 2018 – 7.30 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Support Andy Brown + Sinead Burgess Additional Charges £1.50 per ticket for tickets priced £23.50 and £29.50. £2.00 per ticket for tickets priced £33.50. Transaction Charges apply […]

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Valentine Haiku by Leela Soma

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Haiku The gurgling feadan beside us We watch the landskein paint the sky Last kiss shared, she left. Leela Soma, Glasgow Writer

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A Poem for Valentine’s Day: I’m Counting by Rona Fitzgerald

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I’m counting the crocuses are out, purple and yellow, encircled with slender snowdrops, soul lanterns on the Ganges. the sparkle is back in your eye, another spring taking bloom. I’m glad we weathered twenty one. that even when the wolf gnawed my soul, I could see light, feeling the consolation of words I still hear […]

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Ian Bell New Writing Award, Meet the Judges at Aye Write

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Melanie Reid, Michael Gray & Iain Macwhirter,The Importance of Good Journalism 17th Mar 2018  •  6:30PM – 7:30PM Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Join the distinguished judges of Ian Bell New Writing Award for a discussion on the need for good journalism (never more so than in these turbulent, confusing times) […]

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Sonnet Youth at The Drygate, 21 February, 2018

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Sonnet Youth is a spoken word house party. A literary rave. A real life piss up in a brewery – bringing together poets, authors, rappers, comedians and musicians for a night of no holds barred performances. And for the first time Sonnet Youth will now take place in Glasgow and Edinburgh! Curated and hosted by Kevin […]

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Call Me By Your Name, GFT

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16 – 20 February, 2018 An aching and gorgeous drama, adapted from Andre Aciman’s novel. Italy, summer 1983: Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is a precocious 17-year old American-Italian boy, innocent and uninformed about matters of the heart. Oliver (Armie Hammer) is a charming American scholar on a residential placement assisting Elio’s academic father. Amid the sun-drenched […]

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Saturday, February 10, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema

Phantom Thread GFT

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2 February – 21 February, 2018 Master filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) re-teams with Oscar-winning leading man Daniel Day-Lewis, for what is reportedly the actor’s final film. In 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are dressing royalty, movie stars, and more with the distinct […]

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The Florida Project, GFT

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16 – 21 February, 2018 From the acclaimed director of Tangerine, The Florida Project tells the story of precocious six-year-old Moonee (newcomer Brooklynn Prince). Living in pastel-coloured motel The Magic Castle, in Florida, Moonee and her friends’ summer break is filled with childhood wonder and a sense of adventure, while their parents and the adults around them struggle […]

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Glasgow Film Festival 2018 at CCA

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Glasgow Film Festival Anti-Villains presented by Physical Impossibility Thu 22 February 2018 If you’re tired of Rebel Heroes, try an Anti-Villain! While GFF celebrates the former, Physical Impossibility considers the latter – the love-to-hate them, so-bad-they’re-good, well-meaning scum of the cinematic earth. They’re the charismatic antidote to the basic brave. They’re the pitiable something-to-proves versus […]

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Loveless, GFT

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9 – 21 February, 2018 Leviathan director Andrey Zvyagintsev won the Jury Prize at Cannes 2017 with this tense, hypnotic thriller. Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even […]

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Film Screening – Moonlight and Carol double feature, LGBT History Month QMU

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QMU, University of Glasgow LGBT History Month  Thursday 22 February 2018 – 18:00 – 22:00 Queen Margaret Union, Jim’s Bar, 22 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 QN The QMU’s Social Committee is using one of its February film screenings as an opportunity to celebrate LGBT+ History Month. They’ll be screening a double feature of Moonlight and […]

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UKJF Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema, CCA

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CCA Sun 11 February 2018 2.45pm, £8 + £1 booking fee, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 Much has been written about the Jewish immigrants to the USwho built Hollywood but there is little documentation of the equally impressive involvement of Jews in making Bollywood the huge phenomenon it is today. This fascinating documentary […]

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Aye Write! Denise Mina introduces… Danny Denton & Mick Kitson 18 March, 2018

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18th Mar 2018  •  6:30PM – 7:30PM  •  Mitchell Library The popular author and broadcaster, and recent winner of The McIlvanney and Gordon Burn prizes will be introducing: Danny Denton & Mick Kitson. Denise Mina introduces… Danny Denton and Mick Kitson Ticket £6 The popular author and broadcaster, and recent winner of The McIlvanney and […]

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Denise Mina at Creative Conversations review Pat Byrne

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Denise Mina in conversation with Zoe Strachan. University of Glasgow Chapel Denise Mina was in sparkling form talking about her latest book ‘The Long Drop’, – based on true crime the subject being the serial killer Peter Manuel, who created terror in Glasgow and Lanarkshire in the 50s. She kicked off by telling the audience […]

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Bill Pullman, 23 February Glasgow Film Festival 2018

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From loyal sidekicks to inspirational Presidents, romantic charmers to unnerving killers, Bill Pullman has proved to be one of the most versatile and unpredictable actors in modern American cinema. Over the past 30 years, he has worked with a stunning array of filmmakers from David Lynch and Mel Brooks to Nora Ephron and Wim Wenders. […]

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Beth Orton at Celtic Connections  2018 review and photographs by Pauline Keightley

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Short stories with some beautiful sounds Beth Orton the Brit award-winning, English singer-songwriter, known for her fusion of folk and electronica sounds (folktronica), performed a concert at the O2 ABC at Celtic Connections 2018. She played guitar and was backed by Grey McMurray, on electronic keys, guitar and bass. During her set she was brightly […]

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Hearts for Art’s Sake, Valentine’s Gifts at Thistle Gallery

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Looking for an unusual and original gift for your loved one this Valentine’s Day …then look no further than Thistle Gallery in Glasgow’s West End. Situated in Park Road…….here you will find unique and exquisite gifts from contemporary paintings by Alison Cowan, Jackie Henderson, Suzanne Forrest, Ross Muir and Stanley Bird, delightful ceramic hearts by […]

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Tuesday, February 6, 2018 | Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Shopping, Valentines Day Glasgow

Boutique Health and Fitness Festival, Glasgow

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Sweat It Festival – Choose Health, Choose Happiness Sunday 20 May, 2018 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. SWG3,100 Eastvale Place,  G3 8QG Scotland’s first ever boutique health and fitness event is coming to Glasgow, the Sweat It Festival will take place at SWG3 on Sunday 20 May 2018. The event will be packed full of […]

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Inherent Vice, GFT

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11 – 13 February, 2018 Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s noir novel cast Joaquin Phoenix as Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello, a laid-back Los Angeles private detective who exists comfortably in the ’70s hippy culture of the time. When an ex-flame turns up on his doorstep one day looking for his help, Doc is drawn […]

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Monday, February 5, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema

The Mercy, GFT

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  9 – 15 February, w018 Based on a remarkable true story, The Mercy centres on amateur yachtsman and failing inventor Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth). In 1968 Crowhurst entered the Golden Globe round the world race, in a boat of his own design. He wagered everything upon success, including his family’s security and his reputation. What happened next is an incredible story […]

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Sunday, February 4, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema

Help the Homeless Glasgow ‘I am not lost’, 25 February, 2018

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Cities that are experiencing freezing temps this winter have had their lampposts adorned scarves, hats and gloves. The message attached to one scarf said; “I am not lost! If you are stuck out in the cold, please take this to keep warm!” On the 25th February 2018 at 6pm, Help The Homeless Glasgow invites YOU […]

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Cinemaattic presents MUJERES : Women in Film, CCA

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Thu 15 February 2018 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £5 (£4) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ / F-rated. Book online / 0141 352 4900 Guerrilla film collective Cinemaattic hits once again. In February, they team up with Engender Scotland and CIMA (Asociacion de Mujeres Cineastas – The Spanish Association of Women Filmmakers) to bring a programme […]

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Sextival: Queer Relationships on Film, CCA

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Sat 10 February 2018 In this session showing will be a few short films relating to Queer relationships. They will explore the topic of healthy queer sex and relationships before moving onto a CommunityDiscussion. 2pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 18+ Book Online / 0141 3524900 Related CCA Events Sextival LGBT Age Workshop Sat 10 February […]

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Aye Write 2018 – Darren McGarvey & Raoul Martinez, Freedom From Poverty

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24th Mar 2018 •  4:45PM – 5:45PM  •  Tramway Rapper and Columnist Darren McGarvey and Painter and Filmmaker Raoul Martinez offer fierce and profoundly hopeful manifestos for change. Darren McGarvey aka LOKI grew up in Pollok. He is a writer, performer, community activist and columnist. His first book Poverty Safari uses elements of his own […]

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