Glasgow West End: Pat's Guide

Carlton Jug Band at Avant Garde Friday 7 November, 2025, 8.30 p.m. till late First Friday of every month. C.D. on sale. Avant Garde, 34 – 44 King Street, Glasgow G1 5QT – Live music bar and restaurant. Carlton Jug Band on Facebook

Saturday 29 November 2025 – Sunday 13 June, 2027 Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 111 Queen St, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH Still Glasgow is an extensive new exhibition which has photography at its core and looks at Glasgow, past and present. With over 80 works, the exhibition showcases well-known photographs of the city […]

20 – 23 November, 2025 Emirates Arena, The Scottish Open Badminton Championships will return to Glasgow this autumn. Secure your tickets to watch world class badminton today Please note: if you are an individual member of Badminton Scotland you are entitled to 2 FREE tickets for Thursday 20 November and HALF-PRICE tickets for all other […]

1st November 2025 –  8th February 2026 Street Level Photoworks, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Exhibiting artists Miriam Ali, Haneen Hadiy, Grace Springer, Chad Alexander, Shaun Connell, Robin Chaddah-Dukeand, and Roz Doherty. Nationhood: Memory and Hope is a new exhibition of powerful and poignant photography celebrating the diversity of the UK today. It is a love […]

Oxfam Bookshop Byres Road – now at: 174 Byres Road · Glasgow · G12 8SN The Oxfam Bookshop reopens Thursday 30 October, 2025, with local award winning author Bernard MacLaverty welcoming people to the bookshop in the old Bank of Scotland premises. Bernard previously helped launch Oxfam Bookshop on Byres Road 25 years ago and […]

Scottish National Youth Jazz Orchestra Sunday, 9 November, 2025, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Cottiers, 93 – 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU Enjoy an Afternoon of Outstanding Big Band Jazz Prepare for an afternoon of fun as the future stars of jazz in Scotland – and beyond – demonstrate their instrumental skills to get […]

Saturday November, 22, 2025 at 5.30 p.m. The Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French woman with a taste for the macabre. Paul & Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual relationship that grows around a dark game; […]

Friday 24 October, 2025 – 9.30 p.m. – late. The Scotia Bar, Stockwell St, Glasgow G1 4LW Hey pilgrims. The Carlton Jugband have got their monthly Barny Dance in The Scotia Bar on Friday 24th October from 9.30 till late. Get yerselves doon to this Olde Saloon in Stockwell Street to hear these lovable cowpokes […]

Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) – the city’s home of cinema for over 85 years – has revealed its October 2025 programme. Highlights include: Exclusive preview screenings from BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express. A mammoth season celebrating big screen melodrama. Special screenings to mark Black History Month, in partnership with the Coalition […]

‘Mum, Anna and me have got an idea for Hallowe’en,’ said Catherine. ‘Okay. Tell me about it.’ ‘We’ve got it all planned. It’s going to be a bygone theme,’ said Anna. ‘Auntie Mary says she can lend us stuff. She’s got a trunk in her loft full of vintage clothes that she’s kept like forever.’ […]

Sunday 2 November, 2025 – event opens 4 p.m. – starts 6 p.m. Helensburgh and Lomond Civic Centre, 38 East Clyde Street, Helensburgh G84 7PG Get ready for a spectacular night in Helensburgh! The Helensburgh Heart Fireworks Display is back and promises to light up the sky with breathtaking colours and shapes you won’t want […]

Mother India Restaurants Glasgow Mother India, 28 Westminster Terrace, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 7RU Mother India – Christmas 2025 – Set Menu   To Book please telephone: 0141 221 1663 (See the menu) Take Away Menu Mother India Cafe, 1355 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AD – open for walk ins 7 days a week (Just opposite […]

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Recently I have been taking the Glasgow 900 Citylink bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Edinburgh. As I live on the outskirts of Glasgow I have to take a bus into the city centre. 30mins or so. Then the city to city bus 1hr 30 mins usually to Edinburgh Bus Station. If I leave the […]

31 October – 13 November, 2025 The Alchemy Experiment, 157 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8TS The Jackie Marno-McGoldrick Art Prize is an annual student art competition, launched in 2024 it’s open to students from schools in West Dunbartonshire. With £200 worth of art shop vouchers for the competition winner as well as prizes for second […]