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. King Creosote, Old Fruitmarket, Celtic Connections 2017 review by Pauline Keightley
King Creosote, aka Kenny Anderson, from Fife and his nine piece band brightened up the Old Fruitmarket stage on Friday, 27 January, 2017. The top quality band, who were made up with sparkly space age gear, included harp, cello, bass, keys, drums, violin, pipes and guitars – with Lomond Campbell (Ziggy) on vocals, Peter […]
Thursday, February 2, 2017 | Filed under: Celtic Connections 2017, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Pauline Keightley, Photography, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Willy Maley, Paul Cuddihy, Martin McCardie – The Lions of Lisbon: The Story of ’67, Aye Write 12th Mar 2017
12th Mar 2017 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library Join Paul Cuddihy, Martin McCardie, and Professor Willy Maley as they celebrate the Celts who kept their cool and lifted the cup in the heat of Lisbon. The golden anniversary of Celtic’s European Cup triumph is a chance to reflect on the historic achievement of […]
LUX Scotland Presents: Steve Reinke, Anthology of American Folk Song & Selected Shorts GFT 5 February, 2017
LUX Scotland Presents: Steve Reinke, Anthology of American Folk Song & Selected Shorts GFT 5 February, 2017 Steve Reinke’s Anthology of American Folk Song (2004) and other works selected for this screening explore the relationships between desires, bodies and action. Selected from Reinke’s extensive collection and created from appropriated media and the artist’s ironic musings, […]
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Hästdans på Hovdala CCA Sat 4 February 2017
CCA Sat 4 February 2017 7pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema All ages 0141 352 4900 A performance project created in a Swedish forest with a cast of American dancers, Swedish horses and a talented cast of young Swedish adults with autism. In July 2013 The Equus Projects spent three weeks in a Swedish forest creating an […]
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Omid Djalili Schmuck for a Night King’s Theatre, Sunday 19 March
Omid Djalili Schmuck for a Night King’s Theatre, 297 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JN Sunday 19 March 7.30pm Award winning comedian and actor Omid Djalili known for his legendary Edinburgh Festival performances is returning to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival! Intelligent, sometimes provocative and always entertaining, his stand-up is a hugely energetic and captivating comedy […]
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Saramago and manybellsdown present: The Fountain – film and food night! CCA Sun 5 February 2017
CCA Sun 5 February 2017 3pm, Film: £5 + £1 bf/Meal: £13.50 via Saramago/Film & meal: £16.50 + £1bf Cinema, 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Darren Aronofsky’s masterpiece ‘The Fountain’, a special screening will take place on Sunday, 5th February at the CCA. To complement the film, […]
Sue Perkins Live! in Spectacles, Kings Theatre, 12 March, 2017
Sue Perkins Live! in Spectacles King’s Theatre, 297 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JN Sunday 12 March 7.30pm £20.75* Buy Tickets 0844 873 7353 David Johnson & John Mackay in association with DAA Management and Penguin present Sue Perkins Live! in Spectacles. The sell-out tour continues at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival! Join Sue for an […]
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| Filed under: Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2017, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Keith Farnan: Anonymous The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow Sunday 19 March, 2017
Sunday 19th March | Doors Open:20:30 | Show Begins:21:00 Irish comedian Keith Farnan performs a show that covers Liberty, Comedy and Privacy. Having appeared on BBC’s Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Keith has performed his own shows at comedy festivals around the world, receiving critical acclaim for their mix of the personal and political. His latest […]
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Brook Williams, Sounds in the Suburbs, Woodend Bowling and Tennis Club, 8 February, 2017
8 February, 2017 Woodend Bowling and Tennis Club First gig is on the 8th of February at Woodend is the wonderful and very charming Brooks Williams paying a regular visit back to the club with support from the equally wonderful Jill Jackson With a terrific voice, Jill is comfortable in most genres but Americana/country, sometimes […]
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Johns Browns Live Sunday Sessions February, 2017
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The Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake, GFT 5 February, 2017
5 February, 2017 By moonlight on the shore of a mysterious lake, Prince Siegfried meets the bewitched swan-woman Odette. Completely spellbound by her beauty, he swears his love to her. However, the Prince realises too late that Fate has another plan for him… A ballet of ultimate beauty, and a score of unparalleled perfection, born […]
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T2 Trainspotting review by Calum Maclean
T2 Trainspotting Directed by Danny Boyle Written by John Hodge Adapted from Trainspotting and Porno by Irvine Welsh Cast – Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle Running Time – 117 minutes Though it’s only January, it’s hard to imagine another film arriving with a greater mix of anticipation and apprehension this year. […]
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, Film Reviews by Calum Maclean, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Jim Ferguson Launch of ‘For Eva’ selected poems 1990 – 2016, The Clutha Bar, 2 March, 2017
Launch at The Clutha Bar March 2nd, 2017 7 p.m. jimfergusonpoet.co.uk/ The Clutha Bar, 167 – 169 Stockwell Street, GlasgowG1 4SP
Byres Road Redevelopment – Public Launch Workshop, Partick Burgh Hall, 23 February, 2017
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Monday, January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Classes and Workshops, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Wee Write 2017 – Saturday 25 February and Saturday 4 March, 2017
Wee Write! Family Days Sat 25th February and Sat 4th March 2017 0141 287 2999 www.ayewrite.com/weewrite/ The Mitchell Libary, G3 7DN Two Wee Write Family Days this year. Double the fun! The Wee Write! Family Days include “The Glasgow Gruffalo” with Elaine C. Smith, a celebration of the Harry Potter novels and the latest adventure […]
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Still Game Live Show, The Hydro, Exhibition Way, Glasgow G3 8YW 4 – 16 February, 2017
The Hydro, Exhibition Way, Glasgow G3 8YW 4 – 16 February, 2017 The stage version of Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill’s TV sitcom of ageing disgracefully, starring Ford Kiernan as Jack Jarvis and Greg Hemphill as Victor McDade. All your favourite Still Game characters, including Boaby, Winston, Tam, Jack, Victor, Navid and Isa will be […]
Aye Write 2017: Sara Sheridan & J. David Simons – Compelling and Complex Characters, CCA 9 March, 2017
9th March 2017 • 6:00PM – 7:00PM • CCA Join these two prize-winning authors as they read from and discuss their latest novels. Sara Sheridan was named one of the Saltire Society’s 365 Most Influential Scottish Women, past and present and will be talking about her most recent novel On Starlit Seas which follows celebrated […]
LIV On in Concert with Olivia-Newton John, Beth Nielsen-Chapman and Amy Sky, Celtic Connections 2017 review by Pauline Keightley
LIV ON in Concert Celtic Connections 2017 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 24 January – review by Pauline Keightley A hopeful and life-embracing evening of song to lift the spirits. Australian, American and Canadian, singer songwriters Olivia Newton-John, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Amy Sky shared their personal journeys of grief in song from their collaborative LIV […]
Promised Land Sound, Mono, Friday 3 February, 2017 – Support Warren McIntyre and The Starry Skies
Promised Land Sound (Paradise Of Bachelors) Friday 3rd February 7.30pm Mono EWO & El Rancho present… Promised Land Sound Support from Warren McIntyre and The Starry Skies Promised Land Sound, Nashville’s finest purveyors of febrile root-work psychedelia, chose to begin at the beginning; they named themselves after an immortal road-dogging Chuck Berry jam and proceeded […]
Saturday, January 28, 2017 | Filed under: Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Richard Price, Poet, Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow, Monday 30 January, 2017
Creative Conversations: Poet Richard Price Monday 30 January 2017 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Richard Price, hailing from Renfrewshire, is recognized as one of the more important voices of his generation, a poet who moves comfortably between the lyrical and the […]
Cameraperson, GFT, 30 January – 2 February, 2017
30 January – 2 February, 2017 GFT A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife: these moments create a tapestry of footage collected over the 25 year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Through a series of episodes that combine documentary, autobiography, and ethical inquiry, […]
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GFF at CCA, Where To, Miss? 16 and 17 February, 2017
Thursday 16 (6.30 p.m.)and Friday 17 ( 1.15pm) February 2017 6.30pm, £10 (£8 concessions), Theatre, Ages: N/C 15+ Tickets via GFF / 0141 332 6535 Related CCA Events Glasgow Film Festival 2017 Thu 16 February — Sun 26 February 2017 An inspiring tale of the fight against adversity, Where to, Miss? is the story of […]
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GFF at CCA: Life of a Foley Artist, Thursday 16 February 2017
6.30pm Free but ticketed, Clubroom Ages: N/C 15+ Ticket available from CCA Box office on the day Related CCA Events Glasgow Film Festival 2017 Thu 16 February — Sun 26 February 2017 Creating sound for film and TV is a mysterious world, evoking images of massive studios filled with gravel pits, hammers and a large […]
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GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series Chasing Asylum, CCA, 8 February, 2017
CCA Wed 8 February 2017 6pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became a country where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights. The […]
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Amadeus, GFT, 2 February, 2017
GFT 2 February, 2017 Lucian Msamati (Luther, Game of Thrones, NT Live: The Comedy of Errors) plays Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, broadcast live from the National Theatre, and with live orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and […]
Cross Purpose by Claire MacLeary, Book Launch, Waterstones Argyle Street, 23 February, 2017
23 February, 2017 – 7 p.m. Waterstones, Argyle Street. From the publisher that brought us His Bloody Project comes another fantastic new crime novel, Cross Purpose, the debut of local author Claire MacLeary, a gritty book with a surprisingly warm theme of female friendship. When Maggie Laird’s disgraced ex-cop husband suddenly dies, her humdrum suburban […]
In the Radiant City, GFT, 19 – 20 February, 2017
19 and 20 February, 2017 Rachel Lambert proves herself a talent to watch with this brooding, atmospheric first feature, produced by Jeff Nichols. Andrew (Michael Abbott Jr) drifts back to his hometown in Kentucky but is wary of any contact with his family. Everything seems too painful, any confrontation fraught with misunderstanding. His sister Laura […]
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Thursday, January 26, 2017 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Glasgow Film Festival 2017, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Princess Bride, Family Friendly, Maryhill Burgh Hall, 27 February, 2017
The Princess Bride Family Friendly 25 February, 2017 Get ready for a swashbuckling adventure at Maryhill Burgh Halls! Join our Treasure Hunt for a chance to find hidden treats, then enter the enchanted forest to see a stunning fencing performance. Rediscover the magical and timeless story of The Princess Bride, where brave Wesley is fighting […]
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Home Ground: New Writing Inspired by the 2016 Homeless World Cup in Glasgow with Zoe Strachan and Louise Welsh – Aye Write 2017
Launch of Aye Write City Read with Zoe Strachan and Louise Welsh Thursday 9 March – 4.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. | The Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN Home Ground: New writing inspired by the 2016 Homeless World Cup in Glasgow. Edited by Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan, contributors to the anthology range from […]
Jackie, GFT, 20 January – 2 February, 2017
Jackie 20 January – 2 February, 2017 GFT The Club director Pablo Larrain’s English-language debut is an intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history. Eschewing the standard tropes of the Hollywood biopic, Larrain presents a never-before-seen portrayal of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman), as she struggles […]
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