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

God’s Pocket Friday 8–Thursday 14 August GFT

God’s Pocket Friday 8–Thursday 14 August GFT Buy tickets The feature length directorial debut of Mad Men star John Slattery, this gritty blue-collar crime drama shows an assured eye for tone and mood. A darkly comic drama that centres on the hapless Mickey Scarpato (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in one of his final roles), who finds […]

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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, GFT Sunday 10 August

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil N/C 12+ GFT Sunday 10 August Buy tickets A dazzling (and enduring topical) reminder that politics can be entertaining – and entertainment can be political. Capitalising on the remarkable popular success of playwright John McGrath’s touring production of the same name, this 1974 television film surveys […]

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Welcome to New York, GFT Friday 8–Thursday 14 August

Welcome to New York 18 GFT Friday 8–Thursday 14 August, 2014 Buy tickets Cult director Abel Ferrara’s latest features a towering portrait of debauchery from Gérard Depardieu as the ‘fictional’ Mr Devereaux, based on French financier and one-time presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who both controls the financial fate of nations whilst losing himself to the […]

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Glasgow Lyric Choir

Glasgow Lyric Choir are the West End’s local choir based in Wellington Church just off University Avenue.  The choir performs a wide repertoire of music from Bach to Burns and from Sondheim to Schubert.  The choir sings choral classics and also lesser-known classical works at two major concerts each season.  Additionally the choir has a […]

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Abel Ganz Album Launch Fri 15 August 2014 CCA

Abel GanzAlbum Launch Fri 15 August 2014 CCA 8pm, £5, TheatreAges 14+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Veteran Glasgow proggers Abel Ganz launch their new album simply entitled Abel Ganz. The follow up to 2008’s Shooting Albatross, the new album makes a deliberate effort to take in new influences and mix them with the old. […]

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PCL present: Earth Thu 14 August 2014 CCA

PCL present:Earth Thu 14 August 2014 CCA 7pm, £14 + £1 booking fee, TheatreAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 Earth’s career, like its music, has always been a slow, deliberate progression. Each record slightly removed from the last, a constant refinement of a singular vision. Dylan Carlson has remained focused throughout on coaxing moments […]

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Mood Indigo, GFT, Friday 1–Thursday 14 August, 2014

Mood Indigo 12A Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street Friday 1–Thursday 14 August, 2014 Buy tickets online Michel Gondry’s delightful screen version of the cult Boris Vian novel is as charming and romantic as a carefree stroll in the park with the one you love. In a contemporary Paris with the retro look and feel […]

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John Taylor “Demons & Angels” Album Launch, Fri 5th Of Sep 2014, OranMor

John Taylor “Demons & Angels” Album Launch Fri 5th Of Sep 2014 – Live Music @ The Venue OranMor Top of Byres Road, G12 John Taylor releases his fifth studio album on 5th September in Òran Mór ~ with a few special guests. Tickets: £5.00Buy onlineTelephone: 08444 77 1000Event InformationDoors Open: 7:00 pm Over 14s […]

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St Paul & The Broken Bones, Mon 1st Of Sep 2014, OranMor

St Paul & The Broken Bones Mon 1st Of Sep 2014 – Live Music @ The Venue OranMor, Top of Byres Road, G12 Grit, elemental rhythm, tight-as-a-drumhead playing, and a profound depth of feeling:these are the promises of a great soul band. And St. Paul & The Broken Bones deliveron those promises.Tickets: £12.00TicketMaster.co.ukTelephone: 0141 204 […]

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There Will Be Fireworks, OranMor, 23 August

There Will Be Fireworks The Venue, OranMor, Top of Byres Road 23 August, 2014 – 7 p.m. Tickets: £7.00 TicketWeb.co.ukTelephone: 08444 77 1000

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Colm Keegan with Laura Durrant, OranMor, 10 August

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Linda Jaxson Band, Beresford Lounge, Friday 15 August

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The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra in Concert Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Saturday 13th September

The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra in Concert Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Saturday 13th September 2014 at 7:30pm The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra’s return to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall promises to be a fantastic evening filled with lively Scottish jigs and reels, beautiful slow airs, dance and song, and with a measure of stirring pipe music thrown in. […]

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Cry Parrot Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides Conduit of the Bottomless Submundane Thu 7 August 2014 CCA

Cry ParrotPart Wild Horses Mane on Both SidesConduit of the Bottomless Submundane Thu 7 August 2014 CCA 8pm, £5 + £1 booking fee (£6 on the door), TheatreAges 18+Book online / 0141 352 4900 An absorbing and tactile installation-performance work from Manchester ritualistic improvisers/sound artists Kelly Jayne Jones and Pascal Nichols, aka part wild horses […]

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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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