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

Four Year Strong + support, The Arches, 21 March, 2015

Triple G Music presents Four Year Strong + Hit The Lights + Forever Came Calling + Light You Up Sat 21 Mar 2015 | 6pm – 10pm | £14 + £1.40 BF (& £1.50 web-only TF) | 14+ (under 16s must be accompanied by an 18+ adult – ID required) Triple G Music proudly presents […]

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A Celebration of Nina Simone, 21 March, Royal Concert Hall

Saturday 21 March 2015, 7.30pm Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Strathclyde Suite Tickets: £20 In 1990, in a big top tent on Glasgow Green, Nina Simone played a blinding set as part of Mayfest. A young singer called Warren McIntyre was in the audience that night and invited on- stage to dance with her. As a […]

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The Flatt River Band

Performing at: The Drymen Pottery Sunday 29th March (3-7pm) 9-11 Main Street, Drymen,G63 0BJ The Tullie Inn , Balloch.   Friday 3rd April Balloch Road, Balloch, Loch Lomond G83 8SW The Ashton, Helensburgh   Sun 5th April ( 3-7pm) 74 West Princes Street, Helensburgh G84 8UG The Flatt River Band is a three piece band […]

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Sharon Robinson OranMor, 8 April, 2015

Sharon Robinson Wed, 08 April, 2015 at 7:00pm Oran Mor Sharon Robinson (born in San Francisco in 1958) is an American songwriter, record producer, and vocalist. She is best known as a frequent writing collaborator with Leonard Cohen, although she has written songs for a number of other artists as well, including Aaron Neville, Brenda […]

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The Subways, OranMor, 26 March, 2015

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Wolf Alice Mon, 23 March, Oran Mor

Wolf Alice Mon, 23 March, 2015 at 7:00pm Oran Mor Wolf Alice are a four-piece alternative rock band from North London, consisting of Ellie Rowsell, Joel Amey, Joff Oddie and Theo Ellis. They released their debut single “Fluffy” in February 2013, the “Bros” single followed this in May. In October 2013, they released their debut […]

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The Whiteinch Bike Club

The Whiteinch Centre,  1 Northinch Street, Glasgow G14 0UG The Bike Club is open to anyone living in Whiteinch and surrounding area.  Club Nights Held every other Thursday from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the Whiteinch Centre, members carry out a range of bikey activities such as “Bike Doc” checks, bike maintenance and  practical […]

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Declan Sinnott, Sat 25 April, Woodend

Former member of Horslips & Moving Hearts, producer and musical director for internationally acclaimed Irish songstresses Mary & Francis Black and musical partner for over 30yrs of Christy Moore. Outstanding singer songwriter. Declan is just about to release his second solo album on major label Warner Classics. The guy is music royalty in Ireland. Tickets […]

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Ryszard Lenczewski, Glasgow Cinema City, Lighting and Camera Workshop

Ryszard Invitation

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GLITCH Purple Skies CCA Wed 25 March 2015

GLITCHPurple Skies CCA Wed 25 March 2015 6.30pm, Free but ticketed, CinemaAges 15+Tickets via Eventbrite This insightful documentary looks at the less known and often misunderstood terrain of Indian LGBT community. It weaves together heartrending stories of LGBT people victimised and subjugated by the law, the family and society, as well as hopeful stories of […]

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GLITCH To Be Takei CCA Sat 21 March 2015

GLITCHTo Be Takei CCA Sat 21 March 2015 8.30pm, Free but ticketed, CinemaAges 12+Tickets via Eventbrite Warp the popcorn! We’re going to space… Famous for trekking beyond the final frontier as Lt. Sulu, this documentary charts actor George Takei’s determined journey through earthly obstacles. As a Japanese American citizen he was imprisoned as a young […]

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Maxine Peake as Hamlet, GFT Monday 23 March, 2015

Maxine Peake as Hamlet12A GFT Monday 23 March, 2015 Buy tickets Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most iconic work. The play explodes with big ideas and is the ultimate story of loyalty, love, betrayal, murder and madness. Hamlet’s father is dead and Denmark has crowned a new king. Consumed by grief, Hamlet struggles to exact revenge, with […]

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Sundays at Blackfriars, March 2015

March Listings 2015 – 8th MC4– 15th Itchycoo park– 22nd The Black Diamonds Havana Band– 29th Mary Jean Lewis Entry free 9 p.m. Blackfriars, 36 Bell Street, Glasgow G1 1LG www.blackfriarsglasgow.com/

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Daughters of Darkness Tuesday 24 March, 2015

Daughters of Darkness18 Tuesday 24 March 20:30 Buy online A newly-wed couple check into a vast, windswept, out-of-season Ostend hotel and find themselves under the spell of a bewitching Countess and her gorgeous, sultry traveling companion. A perfect marriage of art house quality and utter grindhouse trash, Harry Kümel’s film oozes Dario Argento-esque levels of […]

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, GFT Sunday 22–Wednesday 25 March

The Second Best Exotic Marigold HotelPG GFT Sunday 22–Wednesday 25 March, 2015 Buy online The original writer, director and cast of the 2012 sleeper hit return for another adventure in the Indian retirement hotel. The gang are adjusting to their new lives in the exotic locale, as Muriel (Maggie Smith) assists owner Sonny (Dev Patel) […]

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Cleo from 5 to 7, GFT Sunday 22 March, 2015

Cleo from 5 to 7PG GFT Sunday 22 March, 2015 Buy online The second feature from pioneering French New Wave feminist filmmaker Agnès Varda remains a highlight of the extraordinary outpouring of French movies in the early 60s. Following a pop singer around the streets and parks of Paris as she whiles away two hours […]

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A Second Chance, GFT Friday 20–Thursday 26 March, 2015

A Second Chance15 GFT Friday 20–Thursday 26 March, 2015 Book online Reunited with screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier presents another emotionally devastating drama in which the best intentions create the toughest moral dilemmas. Veteran police officer Andreas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is happily married and a devoted father. A domestic disturbance incident brings him […]

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X+Y, GFT,13 – 26 March, 2015

GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Friday 13–Thursday 26 March, 2015 Buy tickets online Nathan (Asa Butterfield) has always been socially awkward, finding solace in the rational purity of mathematics. After encouragement from his tutor Mr Humphreys (Rafe Spall) and his loving mother Julie (Sally Hawkins), he lands a spot on the British team for […]

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Common Fest, in support of Common Weal, 17 April, QMU, Glasgow Uni

It’s finally time – the first batch of tickets for CommonFest are going on sale!  CommonFest on the 17th of April, 2015  a celebration of Common Weal ideas in the run-up to the General Election on the 7th of May. The event will include musicians, comedians and speakers including Kid Canaveral (performing an acoustic set), Suspire, […]

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Owen Dudley Edwards & David Torrance, The Mitchell, 28 March

Owen Dudley Edwards & David Torrance The Psyche of Political Leaders Saturday 28 March, 20151.30-2.30pm | £9 (plus transaction fee)* The Mitchell Library How well do we know our political leaders? Can we trust them to do the right thing on our behalf? Do we and they fully or even adequately understand the complexities of […]

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Give Art Glasgow – Children and the Arts

Andy Peutherer of Scottish Landscape Painting has teamed up with with Greater Maryhill Foodbank & Art Retail Network to launch a city wide campaign to provide art supplies and creative materials to children and young people who rely on food banks. The founder of Give Art, Andy Peutherer describes his motivations for the project: “Most […]

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Glasgow Film Festival Margaret Tait Award – Nominations for 2015 now open

Glasgow Film Festival are delighted to announce that nominations are now open for the sixth year of the Margaret Tait Award, supported by Creative Scotland and LUX. The aim of the Margaret Tait Award is to support experimental and innovative artists working within film and moving image, providing a high profile platform for them to […]

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Eddie Reid and The Special Agents, The Lucky Break 22 March

Eddie Reid And The Special Agents  Sunday 22 March, 2015 The World Famous Lucky Break 4 p.m.        The Lucky Break Snooker Club26-30 Glasgow Road, Clydebank, G81 1se

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Glasgow Southside Film: March, 2015

February screening is the music documentary Hit So Hard about the celebrated drummer from the band Hole, Patty Schemel. Given a video camera just before Hole’s infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty filmed everything; the shows, the parties, and startlingly intimate footage of Kurt and Courtney. This footage has never been seen… until now. […]

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Happy 25th Birthday King Tuts

King Tut’s 25 years old. Try their quiz to win some merchandise.

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Nite Against Poverty & Inequality, 19 March, 2015

Unite Against Poverty & Inequality Thursday 19 March, 2015, 7.30 p.m.  Dalmuir CE Centre, Duntocher Road, Clydebank, G81 – resist benefit cuts– outlaw poverty pay & Zero Hours Contracts– demand £10 NOW as a living minimum wage Poverty and inequality scar the face of Scotland. A million are below the breadline – including 220,000 kids – […]

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Magners Summer Nights 2015, Kelvingrove Bandstand

The Kelvingrove Bandstand Kelvingrove Park , Kelvin Way, Glasgow G12 8NR King Creosote -From Scotland with Love * on sale Friday 20 March The Kelvingrove Bandstand , Glasgow Doors 6pm £25.00 Roddy Frame The Kelvingrove Bandstand , Glasgow Doors 6pm £28.50 Glasvegas * on sale Friday 20 March The Kelvingrove Bandstand , Glasgow Doors 6pm […]

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Circles of Focus, CCA , 3 April – 17 May 2015

Christine Borland & Brody CondonCircles of Focus Fri 3 April — Sun 17 May 2015 Tue – Sat: 11am – 6pm // Sun: 12noon – 6pm // Free // Preview: Fri 3 April, 7pm – 9pmAll ages Related CCA Events Christine Borland & Brody CondonCircles of FocusOpen Air Firing Sat 21 March 2015 Circles of […]

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Polly Toynbee and David Walker, Write On!

Polly Toynbee & David Walker Cameron’s Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink Write On! Saturday 28 March, 2015 4.30 – 5.30pm The Mitchell, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN As we prepare for a new government we welcome back two of our finest commentators to deliver their verdict on the Conservative led coalition. […]

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The only way to do it is to do it: The Hunterian, 27 March – 4 October, 2015

The only way to do it is to do it 27 March – 4 October 2015 Hunterian Art Galler, University of Glaagow, 82 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ Admission free Works by Josef Albers, John Cage, Willem de Kooning, Raydale Dower, G.O.D.S, Robert Motherwell, Ciara Phillips and Ossip Zadkine. The only way to do it […]

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