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

Slint, Arches, Fri 15 Aug 2014

Synergy present Slint Arches, 253 Argyle Street, G2 *DL Fri 15 Aug 2014 | 7pm – 10pm | £18.50 + £1.85 booking fee  Book online In a rare UK appearance, seminal Louisville post-rock band Slint come to The Arches for their only Scottish date of 2014, playing their classic album, Spiderland. Released in 1991 by […]

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The Broken Ravens King Tuts Wah Wah Hut Friday, August 22

The Broken Ravens King Tuts Wah Wah Hut  Friday, August 22 at 8:30pm  The Broken Ravens, The Dead Raven , Ripley and The Iqons Tickets £6.50Tickets Availablethebrokenravens.bigcartel.com King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut,  272a St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5RL

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Echo Valley, King Tut’s 14th August

Echo Valley will be returning to King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut for our their very own headline show on Thursday the 14th of August, 2014 £8 Buy online: http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/ King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut 2010. 272a St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5RL.

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Tijuana Bibles 16 August, The Record Factory

Tijuana Bibles Saturday 16 August, 2014 The Record Factory We are happy to announce that we will be taking part in the Glasgow leg of Magners Cider, Original Sessions! We play The Record Factory, Byres Road on Saturday, 16th August. Also on the bill are our comrades Hector Bizerk & Model Aeroplanes. The best of […]

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Family Fun Day, Glasgow, in aid of Syria and Palestine, 9th August

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E.P. Launch, Finding Light, The Face on the Moon, 16 August

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Gaza Solidarity Fundraiser, The Griffin, Monday,11 August

Gaza Solidarity Fundraiser 11 August, 2014 –  7:30pm The Griffin Featuring Raast Collective (other acts to be confirmed): Join us to show solidarity with Palestinians under attack in Gaza and the West Bank. 1432 people have now been killed, 6511 have been injured, and 400,000 people have been displaced. Many others, largely unreported, are also […]

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Flourish House Benefit Concert, The Glad Cafe, 9 August

 Flourish House Benefit Concert + Friends In America + Jo Mango + David MacGregor (Kid Canaveral) Saturday 9 August @ The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 7:30-10:45pm  £10  Buy tickets online Come along to the Flourish House benefit concert at The Glad Cafe on Saturday, 9th of August. All proceeds go to supporting the important work of […]

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Amanda Rheaume, Nice n Sleazy, Glasgow, 4 Sept

Amanda Rheaume Keep A Fire Label                   Self-Released Release Date        August 18 2014 Ireland & UK Tour · August-September 2014                       Thurs 4  September,   Nice N Sleazy, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow  www.amandarheaume.com Métis singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume is a powerful vocalist with just a touch of grit and an instantly-accessible roots-pop-Americana sound. Her latest album Keep a Fire, is a varied […]

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Sangs an’ Clatter, 5 August, The Glad Cafe

Sangs an’ Clatter Hosted by The Village Storytelling Centre The Glad Cafe 5 August, 2014at 8 p.m. Look at the Sun (not directly) – it’s up there in the sky and we can see it in Glasgow! It’s a fierce ball of fire that powers our world and is revered in many different cultures. So […]

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Road Race Commonwealth Games Glasgow 3 August

Road Race Glasgow Commonwealth Games Sunday, 3 August, 2014 The Women’s Road Race should run from 8am to 11.05am, and the Men’s Road Race will take place from noon to 4.40pm. Route: Download PDF      

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Vintage Sale, Granny Would be Proud, Hillhead Book Club 3 August

 Granny Would be Proud Hillhead Book Club 3 August, 2014 Vintage sale in Glasgow West End From vintage/contemporary clothing to accessories, home baking, arts and crafts of all sorts. 12 – 5 p.m. Watch out for Lala Manning. Hillhead Book Club, 17 Vinicombe Street, G12

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Art for Erskine Exhibition and Sale The Trades Hall of Glasgow Thursday to Sunday 3rd August

Art for Erskine Exhibition and Sale The Trades Hall of Glasgow Thursday  to Sunday 3rd August 2014. Organised in conjunction with The Studio: Fine Art Company, this year’s Exhibition will include Contemporary Scottish Artwork by the likes of Peter Howson through to Gerard Burns and will vary in price from £150 to £100,000 Corporate Sponsorship […]

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Isn’t it funny the way things happen sometimes ….. by John Lafferty

For a couple of months  I have been considering making a long cycle trip in 2015 from Barcelona back home to Paisley and possibly using it as a means to raise funds for charity through sponsorship. One action which I took involved registering with an online forum called www.warmshowers.org/ If you’ve heard of couchsurfing then this […]

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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden, GFT, 3 – 6 August

“THE MOST IRRESISTIBLE FILM SO FAR OF 2014.” THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN November Films GFT, 12 Rose Street 3 – 6 August, 2014 Information and tickets Darwin meets Hitchcock on a lonely archipelago first visited by a Scot A fascinating new take on a shocking tale of broken dreams, sex and murder […]

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Film: Sightlines, The Empire Cafe, 26 July – 1 August

Sightlines A new short film ‘Sightlines’ about legacy – how we see, and refuse to see, the legacies that we leave. The film will run from 11am to 9pm each daily from 26 July – 1 August ‘Sightlines’ will be showing at The Empire Café in Glasgow as part of the Commonwealth Games. The film […]

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Generation Art – Cathy Wilkes, The Tramway

The Tramway until 5th October, 2014 Cathy Wilkes makes installations, sculptures and paintings. She is best known for her imaginary environments which variously resemble interiors, uninhabited worlds and spaces of loss. Wilkes experiments with all kinds of materials, including paper, cloth and clay, collecting treasures and ingredients; which together have made a body of work […]

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A Promise GFT, 12 Rose Street Friday 1–Thursday 7 August

A Promise GFT, 12 Rose Street Friday 1–Thursday 7 August Buy tickets online Starring Alan Rickman, Rebecca Hall and Richard Madden (Game of Thrones), this is director Patrice Leconte’s first English language film. Set in Germany just before the outbreak of the First World War, a young secretary falls in love with the wife of […]

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The Big Picnic Monday 4 August, 2014 – 5.45 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street

Screening to commemorate the First World War The Big Picnic Monday 4 August, 2014 – 5.45 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street Buy tickets online Bill Bryden’s The Big Picnic was originally written and performed in Govan in 1994, and this later performance (directed for television by Derek Bailey with Sebastian Graham-Jones) was broadcast on the […]

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Big Star: Live in Memphis Thursday 7 August – 6 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB

Big Star: Live in Memphis  Thursday 7 August – 6 p.m.    GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Buy tickets online This film captures the great power-pop group Big Star in a homecoming performance from 1994. The film may represent the best live footage of Big Star and its frontman – the late Alex Chilton, who […]

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Local Hero Sunday 3 August , 5 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street

Local Hero Sunday 3 August, 2014 – 5 p.m. GFT 12 Rose Street Buy tickets online Writer/director Bill Forsyth’s third feature is one of the funniest culture-clash comedies in cinema history. Described by its maker as ‘Apocalypse Now meets Brigadoon’, Local Hero both celebrates and subverts a laundry list of Scottish stereotypes. When a materialistic […]

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Nice N Sleazy presents: The Incredibly Strange Film Night Tuesday 5 August

Nice N Sleazy presents: The Incredibly Strange Film Night Tuesday 5 August, 2014 @ Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow Free From B-movies to cult classics to unintentional comedies, The Incredibly Strange Film Night celebrates and pay homage to those little pieces of cinematic history that don’t always get the credit or exposure they deserve. Taking place […]

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Nice N Sleazy presents: The Urchins + Swinging Mables + Haydn Park-Patterson Saturday 2 August

Nice N Sleazy presents: The Urchins + Swinging Mables + Haydn Park-Patterson Saturday 2 August Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow 421 Sauchiehall St G2 3LG £3

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In Common Mural Project, Festival 2014, Glasgow Commonwealth Games

In Common Mural Project International Mural Project in Glasgow – created by Recoat Overview To celebrate the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow, Recoat were commissioned to curate a mural project across the city  as part of Festival 2014. These pieces are to be permanent artworks. Recoat invited five Commonwealth artists to travel to Glasgow to […]

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East End Social, Glasgow Green, 2 August, 2014

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Òran Mór’s Ceilidh for the Commonwealth Friday 1 August

Òran Mór’s Ceilidh for the Commonwealth Hosted by the popular Scottish singer/songwriter Moira Kerr Friday 1 August 2014 Entertainment will include: The David Oswald Ceilidh Band Scottish dancers & Piper Geordie Hunter Quiz, sword dance competition, sing and tell a little Scottish history, spot dances Raffle in aid of Down’s Syndrome Scotland £15 – doors […]

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Lovesick Blues: The Hank Williams Story, July/August, 2014, OranMor

Lovesick Blues: The Hank Williams Story  Live Music @ The Venue, OranMor 31 July – 2 August, 2014 and 7th and 9th August, 2014 7 p.m. – Show starts 7.45 p.m. Tickets from Ticket Web, Behind the bar at OranMor, or phone: 08444 77 1000 Òran Mór are delighted to present Lovesick Blues: The Hank […]

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Harry Papadopoulos Photography Exhibition Until 29 August, 2014

Harry Papadopoulos Photography Exhibition Until 29 August, 2014 This outing for ever-popular work of Papadopoulos focuses on some of the Scottish acts of the post-punk era when Glasgow was something of an epicenter of independent music. Images include Edwyn Collins and Orange Juice, The Dreamboys (featuring frontman Peter Capaldi and Craig Ferguson on drums), The […]

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Jazz Day, Glasgow Green, 31st July, 2014

Glasgow Jazz Festival presents Jazz Day 31st July, 2014 Jazz Day! Thursday 31st July from early till late – a day filled with the very best jazz from Scotland’s finest jazz stars featuring workshops and performances from Brass Jaw. Stu Brown’s Twisted Toons and many surprises throughout the day, culminating in Paul Towndrow’s Pro-Am Suite […]

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IF 2014 Saturday 2nd August, 2014

IF 2014 Saturday 2nd August, 2014 7:00pm – 11:30pm   Southside Studios         Tickets Available    informalfuckabout.brownpapertickets.com Well, you asked for it, and we are only too happy to oblige… The IF is back this summer, for one month only. Every Saturday in August, we’ll create informal evenings of theatre, music and visual art at the […]

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