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

The Dance of Reality GFT Frid 28 Aug – Thur 3 Sept, 2015

The Dance of Reality18 GFT Friday 28 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015 Alejandro Jodorowsky, the legendary director of El Topo and Santa sangre, returns with his first feature in almost a quarter of a century. With typical joyous idiosyncrasy, The Dance of Reality is an exercise in imagined autobiography, revisiting defining moments from the […]

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Drumchapel Life, Clementine Sandison & Kim Beveridge: The Making of Flat Pack Meals CCA Thu 3 September 2015

Drumchapel Life, Clementine Sandison & Kim Beveridge: The Making of Flat Pack Meals CCA Thu 3 September 2015 6pm, Free but ticketed All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 Flat Pack Meals is a collaboration between Drumchapel L.I.F.E. and CCA. It began life as an artist-led project to create a women’s co-operative in Drumchapel […]

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Gemma Bovery GFT Friday 28 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015

Gemma Bovery15 GFT Friday 28 August – Thursday 3 September, 2015 Relocating from the hustle and bustle of Paris to a small Norman village, former publisher Martin Joubert is trying to settle into his new life as a baker. However, when his new British neighbours Gemma and Charles Bovery (Gemma Arterton and Jason Flemyng) move […]

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Watch Bad Movies with Great Comedians Presents: Batman & Robin Mon 31 August 2015 CCA

Watch Bad Movies with Great Comedians Presents: Batman & Robin Mon 31 August 2015 CCA 7.30pm, £5 + £1 booking fee, Cinema Ages 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Holy Bad Movie! For their third show Billy Kirkwood and Joe Heenan have picked the film that not only almost killed off superhero movies forever, […]

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Lifted 27th August, 2015 Summerhall, Edinburgh Free

If you missed Lifted in its initial run then now’s your chance! Sara Shaarawi and Henry Bell Lifted   Free Fringe 27 August, 2015 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL    New work from Glasgow-based playwrights Sara Shaarawi and Henry Bell, starring Ikram Gilani. Lifted is a play about Scotland, identity, immigration, police violence, racism, and mermaids. Basically […]

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Digital Desperados While You Weren’t Looking CCA Sun 30 August 2015

Digital Desperados While You Weren’t Looking CCA Sun 30 August 2015 2pm, Free and unticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Digital Desperados and the Unity LGBT Group are excited to present the Scottish premiere of While You Weren’t Looking, a contemporary drama that captures a cross section of queer South African life. A great soundtrack accompanies loves […]

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Over The Wall Summer Music And Community Arts Festival Saturday 29 August, 2015 Gartnavel Royal Hospital

Over The Wall Summer Music And Community Arts Festival Saturday 29 August, 2015 1:00pm – 5:00pm Gartnavel Royal Hospital1053 Great Western Road, Glasgow G12 0YN Headlining the Music Stage R M Hubbert. Live animals, art, music and general good times. All Free. All Welcome

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Lunch, Launch & Pizza Party – Moogety Garden & Grubhub Sun 30 Aug 2015

Sunday 30 August, 2015  at 12:00pm – 5:00pm Moogety Garden – Elderpark, GovanNimmo Drive / Uist Street corner, G51 3SS Glasgow, United Kingdom Three venues, one event: Moogety Grubhub, the new Food Co-op Shop, and Moogety Garden! 12 – 1.30pm Lunch & blether at Moogety Grubhub 1.30 – 2pm Launch of the new Food Co-op Shop […]

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Sweet Sorrows/ Electrics Unplugged In Concert Wellpark Mid Kirk in Greenock Sat 10 October, 2015

Sweet Sorrows/ Electrics Unplugged In Concert Wellpark Mid Kirk in Greenock Sat 10 October at 7.30pm. Tickets £5.00 at door. The first time the original Electrics – Sammy Horner, Davie McArthur, Allan Hewitt and Paul Baird – have played together in five years! Lock up your grannies …  6 Cathcart Square, Greenock PA15 1LS

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Soul Jazz Sunday, Sunday 30 August, West of Scotland Cricket Club

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Bearpit Brothers, E.P. Launch: Something Cruel, Sat 22 August, The Glad Cafe

Bearpit Brothers launch their second EP, ‘Something Cruel’ in the Glad Cafe With Ryan Morcambe and Poetry from Stephen Watt Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 7:30pm   Tickets £5 @Brown Paper Tickets Dress for the occasion – get the 50s and 60s vibe at Vintage Guru www.vintageguru.co.uk/ Vintage Guru on Facebook Bearpit Brothers Although heavily influenced […]

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The Lat Internationale 27 Aug 2015 OranMor

The Last Internationale OranMor (top of Byres Rd) G 12 Thu, 27 August, 2015 at 7:00pm Founded by New York City natives Delila Paz and Edgey Pires, The Last Internationale quickly forged a reputation for poetic, socially conscious songs and explosive live performances. Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), noted, “The Last Internationale are one […]

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Joey Huertas Film Screenings + Q&A CCA Wed 2 September 2015

Joey HuertasFilm Screenings + Q&A CCA Wed 2 September 2015 7pm, £3.40 (£2.40 concessions) + 60p booking fee, CinemaAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 CCA presents an evening of film screenings and a Q&A by American artist, filmmaker and social worker Joey Huertas – aka Jane Public. The screening will include I Loving Me […]

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Burning Bush GFT Sunday 30 August, 2015

Burning BushN/C 15+ GFT Sunday 30 August, 2015 Buy Tickets → In January 1969 student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague in protest against the Soviet occupation. While the police searched for his followers, the government commenced a denunciation campaign forcing Palach’s family to hire charismatic attorney Dagmar Buresová to defend his reputation. […]

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The Virgin Suicides GFT Tuesday 25 August, 2015

The Virgin Suicides15 GFT Tuesday 25 August, 2015 20:30 p.m. Before the summer of ‘99, Sofia Coppola was known only for being the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola. However, upon the release of The Virgin Suicides she quickly became one of America’s most interesting filmmakers, delicately exploring themes of identity, angst and awkwardness in young […]

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The Treatment GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015

The Treatment18 GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015 Based on the chiller by acclaimed British author Mo Hayder, Nordic Noir turns frighteningly Flemish in Belgium’s top-grossing film of 2014. Gut-wrenching to an unprecedented degree, nerves of steel are required to watch this truly shocking serial killer thriller. Inspector Nick Cafmeyer is haunted by the unsolved […]

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The President GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015

The President15 GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015 A sharp, absorbing and gutsy satire from Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, The President focuses on an ageing dictator in an unnamed country, known only as The President. When a coup rips away his entitlement, he is left with his adored grandson, whose parents were killed in the […]

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Manglehorn GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015

Manglehorn12A GFT Friday 21–Thursday 27 August, 2015 Unpredictable director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, Joe) casts Hollywood legend Al Pacino as A.J. Manglehorn, a lonely locksmith who spends his time looking after his cat and writing romantic letters to his lost love Clara. However, with the help of friendly bank teller Dawn (Holly […]

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Mike Tramp Friday 11th September 2015 The Classic Grand

Mike Tramp Friday 11th September 2015 The Classic Grand Michael Trempenau better known as Mike Tramp is a Danish singer and songwriter £13 7:00pm til 11:00pm (last entry 9:00pm) Minimum Age: 18 The Classic Grand 18 Jamaica Street G1 4NR Glasgow, UK http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Glasgow/Audio/Mike-Tramp-Band/12436672/

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Rose Kallal, with Cru Servers and Phosphene CCA Tue 15 September 2015

The Hidden Noise / humansacrifice presentRose Kallal, with Cru Servers and Phosphene CCA Tue 15 September 2015 8pm, £7 + 70p booking fee (£6 + 60p concessions) via WeGotTickets, available on the door, TheatreAges 15+ Hailing from New York, and in Glasgow for one night only, visual and sound artist Rose Kallal will be performing […]

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Jessie Rae – live music video show , The Art School, Sat 29 Aug 2015

 Dumb Instrument: Jessie Rae – live music video show + Brass Aye? + Nick Ferrara (Elements of Soul)   The Art School  Saturday 29 August, 2015  8 p.m. £10  £5 After show club Buy tickets online The Art SchoolGSA Students’ Association20 Scott Street 

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LITTLE FIRE / TOM VEVERS / CALUM PEARCE Sunday 13 September, 2015 13th Note

LITTLE FIRE / TOM VEVERS / CALUM PEARCE Sunday 13 September, 2015 13th Note Little Fire – Little Fire is an award winning singer/songwriter from Ayr. Inspired by the warm tone of the voice of Ted Hawkins, the passionate delivery of Ray LaMontagne and the eclectic approach to song writing so ably displayed by John […]

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THE WRONG BOYFRIENDS / THE UNIVERSAL THEE / LT:BK Saturday 12 September, 2015 13th Note

THE WRONG BOYFRIENDS / THE UNIVERSAL THEE / LT:BK Saturday 12 September, 2015 13th Note The Wrong Boyfriends – Dream drowned, demented, gravedigging ghouls The Wrong Boyfriends awake from a sleep of a thousand years, starved, half-mad and desperate for deathrock. Stand perfectly still, lest a torch beam pick you out for the last waltz. […]

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UNCLE JUDAS / THE ROTATIONS / THE BRUTES / THE ANIMAL MOTHERS 13th Note Tuesday 25 August, 2015

UNCLE JUDAS / THE ROTATIONS / THE BRUTES / THE ANIMAL MOTHERS 13th Note Tuesday 25 August, 2015 Uncle Judas: Garage rock four-piece religious experience / The Rotations: Iggy Pop meets Can in 1972 / The Brutes: Garage rockin’ beat trio. Sideburns. / The Animal Mothers: The loudest two-piece in Glasgow. Surfin’ in a garage. […]

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Verses E.P. Launch, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy 27 August, 2015

Verses E.P. Launch, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy 27 August, 2015 Launch of the fantastic Verses EP , totally free entry and featuring both fresh as it comes talent and established heavyweights such as : Big Taj – Spee Six Nine – Physiks – Red King – Legom – DJ Seedy – DJ Tag : ALL FOR […]

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Alex Cornish Tuesday 1 September, 2015 The Glad Cafe

Alex Cornish Tuesday 1 September, 2015 The Glad Cafe Alex Cornish is a Scottish Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter. His début album, Until the Traffic Stops, was released in 2008 on Bellevue Records and was co-produced by Stuart Wilson. Later in 2008, the album was remixed with much of it re-recorded, this time with Cornish working on his own. […]

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Heartworn Highways Film Screening + Country Music & Food Sun 23 August 2015 CCA

Saramago present: Heartworn Highways Film Screening + Country Music & Food Sun 23 August 2015 CCA 7pm, £5 + £1 booking fee, Cinema and Saramago Terrace Bar Ages 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Saramago presents Heartworn Highways, the classic 1981 documentary film exploring the origins of Country music’s 1970s new wave. The film […]

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The Young Bucks at the Glad Cafe Saturday 29 August, 2015 Medical Aid for Palestinians

The Young Bucks at the Glad Cafe Saturday 29 August, 2015 Medical Aid for Palestinians        The Glad Cafe This fund-raising night for Medical Aid for Palestinians is an opportunity to support and celebrate the effort going on over this year to raise funds for MAP ahead of the Cycle Palestine Challenge in September.  Medical Aid […]

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The Wolfpack GFT Sunday 16–Thursday 27 August, 2015

The Wolfpack15 GFT Sunday 16–Thursday 27 August, 2015 not 17, 18, 19, 20 All six of the Angulo brothers love the movies. Rarely leaving their family apartment on the Lower East Side, most of their knowledge of the outside world comes through films; watching them, typing out the scripts, learning the lines and recreating the […]

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Pongo’s Party Webster’s Theatre 23 Aug 2015

Pongo’s Party Webster’s Theatre  23 Aug 2015 1:00 pm and 3.30 p.m. Tickets £11 (inc. booking fee).  Presented at Websters Theatre, 416 Great Western Road (just by Kelvinbridge Underground) ‘You are invited to…MARTY MACDONALD’S FARMforPONGO’S PARTY!’ Featuring the voice of CBeebies’ Justin Fletcher as Pongo the Pig! With CBeebies’ Justin Fletcher and Nicole Davis as […]

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