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

Show With String Section, Saint Luke’s, 6 May, 2016

Come to the Fabulon A New International With a special invitation eight piece string section. Special Guests: The Glasgow School of Art Choir 6 May, 2016 at St Luke’s – 8 p.m. ‘We’ve wanted to do this for as long as I can remember: a show with a lovely, big sweeping string section. Ho, ho! […]

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Glasgow Launch, The Waves Burn Bright 19 May, 2016 Waterstones Byres Road

 Glasgow Launch, The Waves Burn Bright by Iain Maloney Thu May 19 at 7:30 PM Waterstones Byres Road        ‘The Glasgow launch of my third novel, The Waves Burn Bright, which is about a family coming to terms with the Piper Alpha disaster.’ Waterstones Byres Road, 351–355 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8AU.

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Second Hand, A Play A Pie and A Pint, 2 – 7 May, 2016

SECOND HAND By Paul Charlton Mon, 02 May, 2016 — Sat, 07 May, 2016 OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 Featuring Cameron Cunningham, Elaine MacKenzie Ellis and Finlay McLean Seventy one year old Jim lives alone in the back room of his low-end antique shop that barely makes ends meet. Without any family around, […]

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West End Festival 2016, Lismore Street Sessions

Lismore Sessions Street Party – 4 and 5 June, 2016 The Lismore 206 Dumbarton Road, G11 6UN Free Folk Music All Day Saturday 04 Jun 1:00pm Sunday 05 Jun 1:00pm The Lismore Sessions Street Party returns to Partick at the West End Festival 2016. The ever-popular Lismore Sessions will take place in the  street outside […]

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Radical Shorts at RFF 2016, Gilmorehill, 2 May

Radical Shorts at RFF 2016 2 May, 2-16 at 7 p.m. Gilmorehill, 9 University Avenue, G12 8QQ The Film Club is delighted to be hosting an event as part of the 2016 Radical Film Festival at our venue in the Gilmorehill Cinema. Hosting a programme of short films, exploring political and activist issues based largely […]

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West End Festival 2016 City of Glasgow Chorus: Come And Sing! 4 June

West End Festival 2016 – City of Glasgow Chorus  Come And Sing! Sat 4 June 10am to 3.30pm (rehearsal) and 4pm to 4.45pm (performance) www.cityofglasgowchorus.org Join conductor Graham Taylor and accompanist Colin Taylor of the City of Glasgow Chorus for a day of fun, singing all the big tunes from “Mamma Mia”, “Grease” and “Les […]

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Merchant Voices City Halls Candleriggs 10 Anniversary Concert 15 May, 2016

Merchant Voices City Halls Candleriggs 3 p.m. Sunday 15 May, 2016 10th Anniversary Concert Tickets £10 from www.glasgowconcerthalls.com or phone: 0141 353 8000

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West End Festival 2016 Refuweegee And Raukarna Present A Night Of Notes, Friday 3 June

Refuweegee And Raukarna Present A Night Of Notes Kelvinside Hillhead Church Observatory Road, G12 9AR Friday 03 June, 2016 8:00pm Tickets £8 Refuweegee is a project aiming to welcome refugees and asylum seekers to Glasgow in style, with welcome packs including ‘letters fae the locals’.  These also include return envelopes so that recipients can respond […]

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West End Festival 2016: Belle and Sebastian Glasgow University Union, 13/14/15 June

Belle an Sebastian are appearing as part of this years West End festival; they have three Glasgow shows at GUU Debating Chamber.  JUNE 13th, 14th & 15th 2016 Belle and Sebastian celebrate their 20th anniversary as part of West End Festival 2016 ‘As tireless champions of Glasgow’s west end, we’re DEAD excited about announcing these three […]

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West End Festival 2016: Sunday Social presented by Belle and Sebastian, OranMor, Sunday 12 June

Belle & Sebastian are helping Glasgow’s West End Festival to celebrate their 21st year by presenting a few events alongside their three shows at the Glasgow University Union in June. A Sunday Social at Oran Mor will be a chilled affair featuring sounds from The Johnny 7, Snowgoose, TeenCanteen and more*. Hope you can come along! […]

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May Day Rising, Rebel Heart OranMor, Monday 2 May, 2016

May Day Rising OranMor Mon, 02 May, 2016 at 7:00pm Celebrate May Day with a difference this year. To mark the Centenary of the Rising we host a rehearsed reading of this new theatre piece – Margaret Skinnider: Rebel Heart – inspired by the revolutionary and trade union leader Margaret Skinnider.  Wounded fighting during the […]

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Bossy Love, Nice N Sleazy, Saturday 14 May, 2016

Synergy Concerts presents:Bossy Love Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow Saturday 14 May, 2016  8 p.m. £6    We are thrilled to announce another incredible performance from BOSSY LOVE. If you’ve been lucky enough to see them live over the last year, then you’ll already know that this show will be unmissable. Their performance at Hug & […]

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For There Is Hope A Scottish / Polish Oyssey, Martin Stepek, Sunday 15 May, 2016 Sikorski Polish Club

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TalkSeePhotography Geneva Sills CCA, 9 May, 2016

TalkSeePhotography Geneva Sills Mon 9 May 2016 > 7pm, Free and unticketed, Cinema All Ages 0141 352 4900 CCA TSP’s May event presents photographic artist Geneva Sills. Sills explores the questionable nature of autobiography through highly aestheticised images which she stages carefully. Her practice is interwoven with historical and contemporary political concerns that playfully utilises […]

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St Mungo’s Mirrorball Poetry Showcase 1 CCA, Thursday 5 May, 2016

St Mungo’s Mirrorball Poetry Showcase 1 Thu 5 May 2016 7pm, £5 (free to members), Tickets on the door, Clubroom All Ages 0141 352 4900 CCA A Poetry Showcase for the mentor and mentees of the Clydebuilt poets mentoring programme featuring the following: Gerry Cambridge: a poet, essayist and editor, with a substantial interest in […]

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Animal, Sara Pascoe, The Stand Comedy Club, 20 June, 2016

Sara Pascoe is a human animal, and so are you. The show is a mixture of completely true stories about Tony Blair, Oedipus Rex and the wildlife of Lewisham, plus a load of stories that don’t sound true at all about Jason Donovan, Henry the Hoover and when God took over the tannoy in Sainsbury’s. […]

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Room – film review by Calum Maclean

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson Cast – Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers and William H. Macy Running time – 118 minutes The difficulty in recommending Room, which I absolutely do, is that part of the enjoyment comes from a sense of mystery.  In my opinion this is a film best enjoyed with as […]

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Glasgow Zine Fest Presents! ! Lost Grrrls: Riot Grrrl in Lost Sat 30 April 2016 CCA

Glasgow Zine Fest Presents! ! Lost Grrrls: Riot Grrrl in Lost Sat 30 April 2016 8pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 CCA Related CCA Events Glasgow Zine Fest Sat 30 April 2016 Glasgow Zine Fest gal-dem film screening and Podcast Recording Sat 30 April 2016 UK Premiere of […]

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Digital Desperados The Pearl Button at CCA Thursday 5 May, 2016

CCA Thu 5 May 2016 7pm, Free (unticketed), Cinema 14+ accompanied by an adult 0141 352 4900 The Pearl Button Dir. Patricio Guzman 82 mins Chile 2015 In this new documentary the craft of the renowned filmmaker Patricio Guzman invites us to experience both time and space as they emerge in human history in simultaneously […]

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Radical Film Network and Unconference Glasgow 29 April – 2 May, 2016

A unique and innovative constellation of events   April 29 – May 2, 2016 Over the 2016 May Day holiday weekend (29 April to 2 May), Glasgow will host the Radical Film Network festival and unconference. This unique and innovative constellation of events brings together the collective efforts of activists, academics, and cultural workers from […]

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The Messenger, GFT until 5 May, 2016

  The Messenger GFT Until 5 May, 2016 The latest documentary by award-winning filmmaker Su Rynard explores our deep-seated connection to birds The latest documentary by award-winning filmmaker Su Rynard explores our deep-seated connection to birds, warning that the uncertain fate of songbirds might mirror our own. Moving from the northern reaches of the Boreal […]

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Lil Bit of Sunday Blues and Jazz with Linda Jaxson, La Bodega, Sunday 1 May, 2016

Linda Jaxson with an afternoon of Jazz & Blues La Bodega Sunday 1 May, 2016 – 3 p.m. #glasgowshiddengem #labodegajazz #spanishtapas #sundayjazz 1120 South Street, G14 0AP

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Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures GFT until Monday 2 May, 2016

Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures The controversial photographer’s life and legacy. Friday 29 April – Monday 2 May, 2016   Running time: 1h48m   Robert Mapplethorpe was a controversial figure; his bold, unflinching and often graphic photography captured the late 20th Century New York underground at its most daring, pushing boundaries and breaking taboos. Using a […]

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Demolition, GFT until 5 May, 2016

GFT Until 5 May, 2016 Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father-in-law Phil (Chris Cooper) to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel. What starts as a complaint letter to a vending machine company turns into a series of letters […]

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West Side Story, GFT Sat 1 and Sun 2 May, 2016

One of the boldest adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Sunday 1 & Monday 2 MayRunning time: 2h31m One of the boldest adaptations of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, this Oscar-winning musical transposes the eternal story of doomed romance to the mean streets of 1950s New York City. The feuding families of Shakespeare’s story […]

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For All, e-book published by Glasgow Film Theatre featuring Glasgow writers

Glasgow Film Theatre is excited to announce the publication of For All, a free e-book exploring equality and featuring new work by Glasgow based writers, animators and musicians.   Funded by Creative Scotland’s Promoting Equalities Programme (PEP), and published by Ringwood Publishing, the book is the end product of GFT’s ‘For All’ project, which began […]

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Fail Better Big Red May Day Social, Saturday 30 April, 2016

STUC Woodlands Road, 333 Woodlands Rd, Glasgow G3 6NG Fail Better brings you a whole night of Bands, DJs, and very special guests to celebrate the Radical Film Festival, and dance into the early hours of International Workers Day. songs and glamourous entertainment fae TOM HARLOW Music from the mighty JOSEPHINE SILLARS BAND passion for […]

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10 Cloverfield Lane – review by Calum Maclean

Directed by Dan Trachtenberg Cast – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr Running Time – 103 Minutes The film opens with Michelle, (played brilliantly by Winstead), leaving her boyfriend after what he describes as a ‘fight’.  Driving down a long road in rural Louisiana, listening to radio reports of a series of blackouts […]

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Spotlight on C. Duncan, 6 May, 2016 King Tuts

272a St Vincent St, Glasgow G2 5RL

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Seven Song Club, The Tron, 6 May, 2016

May 6th, 8.00 p.m. at the Seven Song Club features the wonderful Honey and the Herbs plus special guests Jumpers for Goalposts. £7.50 Tickets from Tron Box Office – 0141 552 4267. Buy tickets online The Seven Song Club hosts monthly music events in the Tron Theatre where new and established singer songwriters are celebrated. […]

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