Arches-Spring-Summer..

Spring-Summer 2012
www.thearches.co.uk
SOUND THOUGHT
Fri 2nd - Sat 3rd March | 12noon+ | Weekend: £15/£10
Reservations: 0141 565 1035
Open: 11am-late (Sundays: noon-late from Oct)
Pre Theatre Menu 5-7pm daily:
2 courses £10.95 / 3 courses £12.95
Lunchtime Special:
Dish of the day + soft drink: only £4.00
Get revitalised and re-charged with the superb
selection of fresh, locally sourced delights on offer
at the Arches Café Bar & Restaurant. Put a
spring in your step with flavoursome bar bites,
healthy lunchtime snacks and sumptuous mains,
all expertly prepared and cooked with our own
unique twist.
Meal & Ticket deals: We offer pre-show meal
and ticket deals on many events saving you £2.00
per head. Please ask at the Box Office when
booking.
Sacre Bleu!
We’ve been inviting artists to inhabit the
restaurant for a month or two, allowing them to
furnish the space, add to the menu and leave their
stuff scattered across tables. Our latest makeover
has been created with the Glasgow Youth Film
Festival team who have turned the restaurant
into a bicycle-themed French bistro inspired by
the animated film Belleville Rendez-vous.
To coincide with the makeovers, performance
evenings take place in the restaurant on certain
dates, with a special themed 3 course menu for
only £9.95 (with a drink thrown in). On 23rd Feb
the Arches Community Choir will perform a
selection of much loved Gallic anthems – expect
heady doses of Edith Piaf. See website for other
dates and BOOK EARLY. The next makeover, led
by quirky architectural duo Hole in My Pocket
will run from 2nd April – 31st May.
The annual festival of mould-breaking music,
sound and performance returns, travelling
across disciplines, between genres and way
beyond expectations to bring you two days of
interdisciplinary compositions, performances,
installations, presentations and provocations.
Day: £9/£6 : Finale Concert: £6/£4
Featured artists include:
Edit Point, Neil Davidson & Liene
Rozite, F.K. Alexander, Jer Reid &
Jenny Soep, Emily Shepherd, Julien
Focusing this year on the idea of music as gift, join
us for noise, argument, blindfold journeys through
dark corridors, pop song endurance and outright
murder, lost correspondence to Chris De Burgh,
ultra-minimal improv, the most exciting chamber
ensemble in the country, stupidity, seriousness,
and music for understanding, transgression and
change…
Culminates in a finale concert on Saturday evening
at 7pm.
Lonchamp, Viridian Quartet, Brink
Improv, Wounded Knee, Charles
Ross, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Buffalo, Paul Henry, Chris Hutchings,
Clare Healy, Edd Crawley.
Birds of Paradise presents
Cargo Publishing presents
The Man
Who Lived Twice
Margins
Book & Music Festival
Fri 24th - Sun 26th Feb
Written by Garry Robson | Directed by Alison Peebles
See website for times and prices
Following the storming success of last year’s
debut event at Stereo, Margins returns with
an astonishing line-up of some of the most
interesting writers, artists and musicians in
Scotland today - a veritable treasure trove for
anyone with an interest in reading, writing and
the Scottish indie scene.
7th-8th March (Previews) | £9/£6
9th-10th March | £11/£7
7.30pm
Spanning literary fiction chats and magazine
showcases to sports debates and live gigs,
guests include Louise Welsh, Christopher
Brookmyre, William McIllvanney, Allan
Wilson, Alasdair Gray, Roddy Woomble,
Withered Hand, Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells
and the first ever performance of Malcolm
Middleton’s new album Human Don’t Be Angry.
Iron Oxide presents
10th-12th May | 7.30pm | £6
Supported by Shared Territories Edinburgh Mela.
“We must not see any person as an abstraction.
Instead, we must see in every person a universe
with its own secrets, with its own treasures,
with its own sources of anguish, and with some
measure of triumph.” Elie Wiesel
HELA
In 1951, Henrietta Lacks walked into a hospital in
Baltimore with a pain in her abdomen. A routine
biopsy revealed a cancerous tumour, one which
would kill her just months later. Unknown to her,
a sample from this tumour was taken and became
one of the most important tools in medicine – the
HeLa cell line. There are enough of Henrietta’s
cells alive today to make 400 Henrietta Lacks.
Inspired by Henrietta’s extraordinary life story,
Adura Onashile’s (Roadkill) solo work-inprogress looks at the nature of genes, identity and
the current ethical debates surrounding human
tissue research and ownership.
A play about love, longing and the
unreliability of macaws.
“I had an extraordinary time this afternoon.
Edward Sheldon, who wrote Romance and other
successful plays, has been stricken with some
appalling petrifying paralysis for fourteen years
and is blind too. He talks with consummate ease
and charm, as if he had known you all his life…”
On the 27th December 1936, in a penthouse suite
high above the streets of New York, a meeting
took place between John Gielgud, a young,
beautiful and very much in demand actor, and
the playwright Edward Sheldon who, at the
age of 29, was struck with rheumatoid arthritis, a
disease which eventually claimed his sight. It was
to change both their lives forever.
Based on a true account, The Man Who Lived
Twice is a dramatised version of what took place
between these two men – the ‘crippled muse’
and the ‘fastidious actor’ who, a few days later,
returned to give the performance of his life...
Featuring exclusive new words and music by:
WHATEVER
GETS YOU
THROUGH
THE NIGHT
Emma Pollock
Withered Hand
Kirstin Innes
Wounded Knee
Swimmer One
Errors
Bigg Taj
David Greig
Stef Smith
Alan Bissett
Eugene Kelly
Rachel Sermanni
Douglas Maxwell
Annie Griffin
Talkingmakesnosense
Meursault
David Ireland
RM Hubbert
Alan Spence
+ more tba
Ricky Ross
Isabel Wright
Conquering Animal Sound
Tue 26th June (preview) | 8pm | £15 (inc book/album download)
ltd availability
27th-29th June | 8pm | £18 (inc book/album download) or £12 (show only)
Some of Scotland’s most distinctive writing voices
and songwriting talents, and you: a nation of
people, awake in the dark, waiting for the light to
come.
As well as a unique multi-media live show,
Whatever Gets You Through The Night will
exist as an album, a collection of writing, and a
film which will tour.
An ambitious new project led by Cora Bissett
with Swimmer One, Biphonic Records and
David Greig, Whatever Gets You Through
The Night is a compilation of stories happening
across Scotland between the hours of midnight
and 4am.
As part of this boundary-breaking project, we
are also inviting you to submit your night-time
photos, for potential inclusion in the show.
From a heartfelt goodbye on the shore of Loch
Lomond to an encounter in a late night Aberdeen
taxi queue, we meet lost souls, party animals and
dreamers, in a snapshot of an entire nation at its
most vulnerable and revealing.
The book and album will also be available to buy
online out with the performance. To preorder, go
to: www.throughthenight.net
For information on how to submit your photo see
www.thearches.co.uk
Photo: Kim Beverage
The Arches presents a major new
Vital Spark commission:
CONFLUX presents
SURGE 2012
23rd-29th July | various venues
Scotland’s festival of street arts, physical theatre
and circus returns, taking over the city with a
raft of new work from Scottish and international
companies and artists. As well as events at some
of the city’s top venues, the festival spills onto the
streets of Glasgow, taking in some unusual and
unexpected locations and illuminating the city
with theatre and art over one packed week. There’ll
also be a range of workshops, masterclasses and
residencies offering high quality development and
education opportunities for beginners, emergent
artists and professionals.
SURGE presents THE SURGE
cabaret club
27th-29th July | Arches | Times & prices tba
Our attentive waiters will be awaiting your signal...
Browse the cocktail menu of intimate performances
and sample treats from the humorous to the
fantastical, edgy and surprising as artists from the
Conflux International Residency programme,
students from the Conflux Physical Theatre
Summer School and more acts yet to be
announced show off a range of exciting new work.
SURGE presents
fish out of water
28th-29th July | City Centre | Times tba
Fantastical fish, singing explorers, inquisitive
scientists, synchronised swimmers...
Large-scale community project Fish Out Of
Water brings up to 50 performers to the streets
of Glasgow city centre to baffle, entertain and
delight.
Full info at www.conflux.co.uk
SURGE presents pvi collective:
SURGE presents THE PHYSICAL THEATRE
deviator
SUMMER SCHOOL
23rd-29th July
23rd-26th July 10.30am-4.30pm
The Arches / City Centre | Times & prices tba
Venue tba | Free | 18+
Prepare for city-wide disruption as Australia’s
pvi collective take over the streets, one twisted
game at a time. Developed on site with a team
of local artists, deviator is a darkly playful sitebased intervention, blending radically altered
versions of children’s games with subtle live
performance, turning the audience into unwitting
interventionists.
A week-long course focusing on physical
theatre technique and creating new work,
with participants performing the results at the
Arches as part of the Surge Cabaret Club. No
experience necessary - just a willingness to try
out new things. Places are limited so book in
advance. For more information contact Barry on
[email protected] or 0141
559 4925.
SURGE presents
OLIVIER DE SAGAZAN
27th-29th July | Arches | Times & prices tba
Equally inspired by Francis Bacon and Samuel
Beckett, French performance artist Olivier De
Sagazan presents his solo work, Transfiguraton,
as well as the results of his festival-long residency
with emergent Scottish artists: a series of
intimate ten-minute performances exploring the
theme of deformity.
EXHIBITIONS
Feb-August 2012
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND presentS
the actors lab presents
UWS BA (HONS)
king of hearts
PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE
Written by Lawrence Crawford
Wed 23rd May | 1pm and 7pm | £7/£5
The Actors Lab presents a new comedy drama
set in a remote French village during the First
World War.
PHYSICAL THEATRE SCOTLAND presents
| 7pm | £4
Bethan Hughes: Untitled 2011 from Blind Plotting
Graduates from the BA (Hons) Performance
course showcase a diverse programme of five or
ten minute pieces created in their final year. New
plays, physical theatre, monologues, musicals...
Come and experience a selection of vibrant new
work from actors, directors and writers at the
start of their career.
Fri 25th May
Foyer/Hidden Basement | 12-6pm | FREE
Weekly theatre group The Actors Lab is a
place for people of all abilities to improve
their drama and theatre skills whilst working
towards a performance at the Arches.
Contact [email protected] for info.
ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE OF SCOTLAND presents
CASH FLOW
ON THE VERGE
30th May - 1st June | 7pm | £7/£5
Wed 6th-Fri 8th June | 6pm | £6
The western economic collapse is one of the most
pressing issues of our time. But what does lack of
cash do to the human body? What about the mind?
Led by Ben Harrison (Grid Iron), performers
from the Adam Smith College Diploma in
Physical Theatre Practice course explore the
connections between money and the human spirit.
The RCS present their annual showcase of raw,
provocative and exciting performance from this
year’s graduates, as emerging artists from the
MA Classical and Contemporary Text and
BA Acting and Musical Theatre programmes
push the boundaries of the theatrical form,
exploring and challenging our perceptions of the
world we live in.
We’re kicking off a bursting season of exhibitions
with Leila Peacock’s wonderfully quirky The
Anatomy Of Intention from 10th Feb-31st
March, a series of prints created in response to
a small book of Scottish Country Dances found in
a charity shop.
It’s followed by two group exhibitions as GSA
Fine Art graduates bring Blind Plotting to the
atmospheric Arches derelict basement space from
28th April-7th May, as well as a showcase from
artist collective The Mutual as part of Glasgow
International Festival of Visual Art from
3rd-5th May.
The season continues with What Hercules Might
See (Part III), in which Peter Iain Campbell
uses photography to explore the incongruous
relationship between muscle men, shipbuilding
and the RAF, from 1st June-26th July and
ends with artist, knitter and stitcher Karen L
Vaughan’s quietly thoughtful, life-affirming
fusion of needlepoint and classic indie anthems in
I can’t get that sound you make out of my head
from 26th July-31st August.
See the BEHAVIOUR festival brochure for details
of the Hole In My Pocket exhibition (2nd
April - 31st May).
Plus...
Arches Community Choir
Thursdays | 7pm | £3
With no experience required, this is a relaxed
opportunity to get together with like-minded music
fans and belt out a few of your favourite tunes –
from Eurythmics and Erasure to Blur and Fleet
Foxes. They’ve now performed at the Arches, the
City Chambers and even T in the Park.
Words Per Minute
The Love Club
Sun 4th March, Sun 1st April, Sun 6th May
4pm-6pm | £5
Tue 6th March, Wed 2nd May, Mon 9th July
8pm | £4 (suggested donation)
The best spoken word, live music, film and
performance from Glasgow and beyond, for your
Sunday afternoon. No-one gets longer than ten
minutes. Previous guests include Zoe Strachan,
RM Hubbert, Adam Stafford, Alan Bissett,
Ewan Morrison, Bigg Taj, Kieran Hurley and
Michael Cassidy.
A wonderfully relaxed evening of music,
spoken word, tea, cake and knitting, hosted by
infamous New York performance artist Markus
Makavellian and celebrating a different occasion
each month. Join us this season for International
Unemployment Day, Good Housekeeping Day
and South American Independence Day.
Crossing The Lines
Wed 1st Aug | 7.30pm | £3.50
A Scratch-style event from the Arches and
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, in which artists
from all different genres perform their 10-minute
version of a contemporary text. Guests so far have
included Alan McKendrick and Amanda
Monfrooe.
Scenehouse Intro
Scratch Night
Mon 20th – Sun 26th August
Wed 16th May, Thu 9th Aug | 7.30pm | £3.50
This week-long course offers a hands-on
introduction to the concepts and practical skills
needed to work in the stage design industry - ideal
for anyone with a background in art, design, theatre
or performance looking to extend their knowledge
and explore how theatre design works. Contact
[email protected] for more information.
The anarchic, anything-goes evening which sees
artists from all fields try out a 10-minute idea, before
moving to the bar where the audience can feed back.
See website for line ups. Email louise@thearches.
co.uk to get involved.
Welcome to:
BEHAVIOUR 2012
Fish and Game:
BICYCLE BOOM
Three original events celebrating the history of women and bicycles.
We are thrilled to welcome back the Arches’
Behaviour festival: eight weeks of essential
live performance. Each event has been carefully
selected to represent the absolute forefront
of arts practice today. Taken cumulatively,
the programme provides a snap shot of the
most exciting international artists, presented
alongside their Scottish counterparts.
“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women
than anything else in the world.” American suffragette Susan B Anthony, 1896
Fish and Game’s Eilidh MacAskill celebrates
the bicycle as an agent of change and a symbol of
universal freedom in three original performances
as part of a collaboration between BEHAVIOUR
and Glasgow Museums.
This year sees a dramatic expansion of the
festival, venturing out of the cavernous depths
of the building and across Glasgow. Our off site
strand can be found on the streets, in parks,
shops and museums. We hope that this will
provide interventions in the everyday, allowing
us to think of our city and of cities across the
world in new, surprising ways.
Soapbox
As ever we have taken advantage of the unique
scale of our building and the contrasting spaces
within it. You’ll find the intimate and the immense,
from whispered installations to riotous dance...
Eilidh transforms herself into a late 19th Century
lady cyclist to deliver an impassioned speech for
freedom-loving women as part of the museum’s
Victorians Rediscovered weekend.
Sat 3rd March Kelvingrove Museum
11.30am, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.30pm | FREE
Jackie Wylie, Arches Artistic Director
Kelvingrove to Riverside
We are delighted to be working with a host of partners, both new
Sun 4th & Sat 10th March | 12pm & 3pm
£8/£6 | Limited tickets from Arches Box Office
and established: Glasgow Museums & Kelvin Hall Arena,
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, University of the West
of Scotland, University of Glasgow, Glasgow International
Bring your bike for a cycle tour exploring the
development of the bicycle and its influence on
the lives of women over the past 100 years.
Festival of Visual Art, Fierce Festival Birmingham, FACT
Liverpool, BAC, Traverse Theatre, Counterflows, Glasgow
City Marketing Bureau, Visit Scotland, Garrick Trust,
Goethe-Institut & Jury’s Inn.
253 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8DL
FESTIVAL Pass: £39/£29
Day Pass: £19/£13
0141 565 1000 www.thearches.co.uk
(ask at Box Office for details)
Cycling Gymkhana
Sat 7th & Sun 8th April Kelvin Hall Arena
2pm | FREE but ticketed
A family-friendly event re-imagining the Cycling
Gymkhana of 1901, with a historical cyclist parade,
synchronized cycling, bizarre races and live music
from Kim Moore (Zoey Van Goey). Decorate your
own bike for a chance to win Best-Dressed Wheel.
Ann Liv Young:
MERMAID SHOW
“Tender, exciting and dangerous...
Sat 31st March 8.30pm | Sun 1st April 7.30pm | £12/£9
an outstandingly brilliant piece”
Total Theatre
Gob Squad Arts Collective:
We Are Gob Squad
And So Are You:
Adventures in
Remote Lecturing
Sat 31st March | 7pm | £12/£9
A performance lecture by one of Europe’s
most exciting arts collectives.
Just be yourself, be true to yourself, follow
your dreams and reach for the stars. This is the
mantra of a generation that prizes individuality as
the ultimate expression of freedom. But who is
this “self” that you think you are? How did you
come to be what you think you are? What makes
you, you? And what happens when we venture
outside the concept of the “unique self”?
Searching for the beauty of the everyday, Gob
Squad are a group artists from the UK and
Germany. Merging banality and utopia, reality
and entertainment, they explore the point where
theatre meets real life by placing their work in the
heart of urban life - in houses, shops, underground
stations and car parks, or directly on the street.
Using a technique they call ‘remote acting’, this
performance-lecture is a rare chance to get
to know the inner workings of the collective.
Exploring the company’s methods and
motivations behind their work, the group will
lift the lid on their participatory performances
- where the boundaries between audience and
performers often disappear completely.
the city as a cultural sitE:
Sat 21st April | 4pm | FREE Discussion Event
Join members of Gob Squad, Harun Morrison
from the Fierce Festival Birmingham and Helen
Cole of In Between Time Productions as we
consider the role of ‘the city as a cultural site.’
The New York tour de-force returns
with the UK premiere of this fearless
performance.
“Vulgar, raunchy, funny
A bare-breasted woman with long hair, a silvery
mermaid tail and reptilian contact lenses writhes
lasciviously in a plastic basin. Rasping Katy
Perry’s Firework into the microphone, she
butchers a raw fish and tries to peel herself out of
her slippery skin. She is a mermaid, retelling her
life story. But whereas mermaids are Disneyfied in
modern culture, in folktales they seduce, capture
and kill sailors. Their allure is inescapable. They are
sexualized but also grotesque fish creatures who
are, in fact, sexless. We are disgusted, intrigued
and turned on.
Time Out New York
Following re-interpretations of Snow White and
Cinderella, Ann Liv Young has now turned her
attention to The Little Mermaid. Uninhibited,
unselfconscious and thriving on interaction, it is
the response of the spectator, provoked by Young’s
corporal rather than linguistic dialogue, that
determines her performance.
Performing here for the fourth time, the Arches
is delighted to welcome back one of the most
inimitable and controversial performance artists
of the current moment. Known for her combative
stage persona, shocking physicality and raucous
relationship with her audience, Young’s work
explores issues of femininity, feminism and
transgression. Always brave, always controversial
and always utterly original.
and ear-splittingly loud”
Behaviour & Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art present:
14 Lieux:
SEWING MACHINE
ORCHESTRA
Sun 25th March | 4pm & 8.30pm | £7/£5
An audio-visual installation by the
celebrated Montreal sound artist.
Entirely orchestrated by the acoustic noises
produced by a fleet of 1940s sewing machines,
amplified and processed by computers, Martin
Messier has created a symphony with the power
to transport the listener through their imagination,
asking them to recall their own relationship to
these small industrial wonders.
A composer, performer and video artist, Messier
explores musique concrète through the manipulation
of everyday objects - alarm clocks, pens, selfconceived machines and, now, sewing machines in
a work of astonishing beauty and evocative power.
Based in Montreal, his work is led by a curiosity for
graphic arts, exploring the relationship between
sound and image to create audio performances,
live electronics and installations which have been
presented at festivals across the world such as
Festival TransAmériques (Montreal), Bang on
a Can (NY), Transmediale (Berlin) and Sonar
(Barcelona, Chicago).
Messier then travels to FACT Liverpool for a performance
and Q&A on Tue 27th March. www.fact.co.uk
HOLE IN MY POCKET
“gorgeous... the performer’s
passions feel real”
Irish Theatre Magazine
HHHH
Irish Times
Playgroup:
BERLIN LOVE TOUR
2nd April - 31st May | Daily noon-11pm | FREE
Hole In My Pocket present an exhibition,
performance and culinary experience attempting
to understand the concept of the moment when
viewed against the history of the universe.
With exhibition and installation pieces spanning
the foyer, cafe bar and restaurant throughout
the two months, the duo will also curate two
special performances as part of the Arches
restaurant makeover series, with theatre maker
Gary McNair presenting a series of talks and
performances on the concept of time-anxiety as
diners enjoy a time-themed three-course menu.
Restaurant performances:
Sat 21st & Thurs 26th April | 5.30pm
£9.95 - includes three course meal and a drink
Scottish architect-artist duo Hole In My Pocket
have been involved in diverse projects within the
realm of art and the architecture since 2002. Their
work includes exhibition design, painting, video,
writing, performance art and conceptual pieces,
including the HIMP Sunday Service at the
Arches in 2010.
BUZZCUT
Wed 14th - Sun 18th March
6pm-midnight
Hannah Jane Walker & Chris Thorpe:
THE OH FUCK MOMENT
Wed 21st - Thu 22nd March
14th - 17th: The Old Hairdressers
Sun 18th: The Glue Factory | FREE but ticketed
7pm/9pm (21st) 7.15pm/9.15pm (22nd) | £11/£8
A brand new performance festival showcasing
outstanding work from across Scotland, the UK
and Europe, created in response to the loss of the
New Territories festival this year.
Sometimes, you learn from a mistake. Sometimes,
fuck-ups are so massive, there’s no way back.
Either way, fucking up is the truest, funniest, most
terrifying moment you can experience.
Initiated and led by local artists, this is a
celebration of all that’s inspiring about Glasgow’s
cultural potential and an excellent opportunity
to see cutting-edge work from a wide variety of
emerging performance makers.
In this subtly profound, celebratory, Fringe Firstwinning show, poet Hannah Jane Walker and
writer/performer Chris Thorpe examine the
guts of making mistakes by hosting a conversation
around a desk, in which brave souls can hold their
hands up and admit they fucked up.
BuzzCut @ The Arches will be hosting
a professional development workshop by
Richard Layzell. See www.glasgowbuzzcut.
wordpress.com for more information.
HHHH
“ a brilliant celebration of our mistakes”
The Guardian
Robert Softley:
If These Spasms
Could Speak
Inbetween Time Productions:
COLLECTING Fireworks
Thu 22nd - Sun 25th March
7pm (Thu 22nd: 9pm) | £11/£8
19th-21st April | See website for times | £6/£4
We know you want to look, to stare even. It’s OK.
You’re allowed.
A beautiful, immersive audio installation.
As disabled people, our bodies are central to how
we exist in the world. They’re the way others
first judge us, the subject of medical diagnosis,
and usually seen as the reason that we can’t take
part in society. And yet, they also carry with
them volumes of stories about incidents, scrapes
and calamities. Let us tell you how we perceive
ourselves.
In the eerie hollows of the basement, surrounded
by flickering light bulbs, clusters of whispered
memories hang dormant, waiting to be
reawakened into a new experience - yours.
HHHH
“Thrilling... compelling... radical... complex”
The Guardian on Girl X
A collection of funny, sad, touching and
surprising stories about disabled people and their
bodies by actor Robert Softley, co-creator of
National Theatre of Scotland’s Girl X.
PLUS: artist’s talk with Chris Thorpe (22nd
March 5pm). Join Chris and other festival
participants as they scrawl down something
that tries to make sense of what it all means...
See Arches website for details.
HHHH The Observer / Scotsman / NOTW
Recorded over three years across international
cities, this incredible ever-evolving archive of
strangers’ whispered recollections of theatre
events will, by 2013, contain over 1,000
recordings, reminding us that listening to
someone relive an experience can be as profound
and important as actually being there.
“a haunting,
absorbing
installation”
The Herald
Platform 18 winner Kieran Hurley:
Stef Smith:
THE SILENCE OF BEES
Thurs 12th - Sat 14th April | 7pm & 8.30pm | £11/£8 | Lush (Sauchiehall St)
Lush opens its doors for a poetic and intimate
site specific show from award winning writer and
director Stef Smith.
Separated by time, and joined by business, blood
and beekeeping, three women unfold their story,
moving through decades of unspoken words, secret
lives and memories they can’t quite seem to forget.
HHHHH
‘beautiful, brilliant, powerful’
Currently writer-on-attachment with the National
Theate of Scotland, Stef created the text for
multi-award winning Roadkill as well as sell-out
show Falling/Flying and BBC radio drama Tea and
Symmetry.
The Scotsman on RoadKill
BEATS
18th – 22nd April |
£11/£8 | £5 (18th)
9pm (18th/20th/21st) | 7pm (19th) | 2pm (22nd)
“How can the government stop young people
having a good time? Fight this bollocks.”
The Prodigy
HHHH Herald / Scotsman on Hitch
“There is intense skill in Hurley’s
storytelling... by the end you’d
follow him anywhere”
The Observer on Hitch
In 1994 the Criminal Justice Act effectively
outlawed raves, banning public gatherings around
amplified music characterised by “the emission
of a succession of repetitive beats.” Beats is a
new monologue piece written and performed
by Kieran Hurley with Arches resident DJ
Johnny Whoop; a coming-of-age story exploring
rebellion, apathy, and the irresistible power of
gathered youth. With techno. Lots of techno.
Platform 18 winner Gary Gardiner:
Supported by Lush, Sauchiehall Street.
THATCHER’S
CHILDREN
Behaviour and Counterflows present
a Red Note Ensemble commission:
Torsten Lauschmann:
18th – 22nd April | £11/£8 | £5 (18th)
7.15pm (18th/20th/21st) | 7pm (19th) | 2pm (22nd)
INCONSISTENT
WHISPER
You are hereby invited to the House of Commons to
celebrate the life and times of the right honourable
Baroness Thatcher. What a woman, what a leader
and what a role model for our young men!
Sat 7th April | 4pm | £3
Glasgow-based
German
artist
Torsten
Lauschmann
explores
the
limits
of
communication in an experimental performanceinstallation in the derelict basement space of
the Arches. Taking inspiration from a variety
of phenomena, from talking drums and Morse
code to the game of Chinese Whispers, this
absorbing work looks at the problems and the
beauty of misinterpretations, misinformation
and misunderstanding.
Thatcher’s Children is a high energy physical
performance exploring the notion of society and
questioning the ability of someone to lead one, if
it indeed does not exist. What is Thatcher’s legacy?
And what, as her children, have we inherited?
“Melancholic, romantic, yet optimistic and
somehow thrillingly human, Lauschmann’s
work casts unexpected light on the
fundamentals.”
The Arches Platform 18 Award, selects two
of Scotland’s most exciting theatre makers, fully
funding their production at the Arches and Traverse
theatres (double bill at Traverse 25th-28th April).
Supported by the Garrick Charitable Trust.
The Scotsman on The Coy Lover (2011)
HHHHH
The Herald on
Santa: A Very Merry Businessman
Brick Award Winner
Bryony Kimmings:
Nassim Soleimanpour:
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
Presented by Volcano (Canada)
with Wolfgang Hoffmann.
18th-21st April (not 19th) | 7.15pm | £11/£8
7 DAY DRUNK
Thu 26th - Fri 27th April | 9.30pm | £11/£8
HHHH
An arresting, political and utterly original play from
a talented young Iranian dramatist, performed cold
by a different actor every show. Gripping theatre
from Volcano (Canada), winner of the 2006 Carol
Tambor Best of Edinburgh award.
“One the most distinctive
At 29 years old, Nassim Soleimanpour is
forbidden to leave his country. Unable to travel,
he turns his isolation to his advantage and writes
a play that requires no director, no set and a
different actor for every performance. Dissecting
the experience of an entire generation and asking
deceptively simple questions about the nature of live
art, Soleimanpour’s script secured rave reviews from
critics and audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe
2011.
Fringe Review
production concepts of this year’s
Fringe… truly mind-bending”
A bold one-woman show fusing music,
humour and performance.
talented thinkers and
theatre-makers...
the combination of
ideas, styles, jokes, songs
and semiotics
is unlike
A huge hit at last year’s Edinburgh
Fringe,
Bryony also won the Total Theatre Award in
you will have
2010 for sell-out show Sexanything
Idiot.
Bryony Kimmings is NOT an alcoholic. It’s just,
she’s always a had a rocky relationship with booze,
seemingly to blame for some of her most genius as
well as her most hideous creations.
seen before.”
“enthralling, entrancing,
The Times
life-enhancing”
on fish & game’s
Created during a seven day experiment in which
Bryony was kept in varying states of intoxication,
the show follows the artist as she cracks open
her own creative psyche with the help of
neuroscientists, pharmacologists, sociologists, a
filmmaker and a wayward team of American IT
experts.
Brick Award Winner Tania El Khoury:
Maybe if you
Choreograph Me,
You Will Feel
better
12th-14th April | £7
“These are original and
(for men only)
The performer wears wireless headphones. A male
audience member speaks to her via a Dictaphone,
directing her every move. He can introduce himself
or remain anonymous, follow a script or improvise.
Her choices, however, are less straightforward.
Tania El Khoury is a gifted young Lebanese
performance artist based in the UK. Winner: Total
Theatre Award for Innovation 2011.
Two parts song and dance routine to one part
breakdown, served on the rocks with a harsh twist
of reality, 7 Day Drunk shows Bryony testing
Bryony
Kimmings:
her limits
and skills
as an artist as she investigates
whether alcohol really is linked to creativity.
Performed sober.
otter pie
What’s On Stage
“bold, brassy... the Pam Ayers
of performance art”
The Guardian
“Warm, funny, visually stunning”
7 day drunk
Time Out
By Rosana Cade & Eilidh MacAskill
Thu 27th - Sat 29th Oct | 7.30pm | £9/£7
Obscene inverts! Sexless termites! Hermaphroditic
spinsters! These are just some of the things we’ve
been called while touring the world with our
timeless lavender cabaret (read: grubby lesbo
freakshow).
Now you lucky Glasgow queers can bask in the
squalid sapphistry of your filthy hosts, Claude
and Maud, as we root around the icons and
dykons of the past hundred years. Let us edutain you with shocking tales of cross-dressing,
boarding school crushes, Boston Marriages and
intimate “friendships”. Part queer history lesson,
part titty-show, come indulge your ‘Strange
Hungers’.
This brand new show from “Glasgow’s live-art
supergroup” (The Skinny), is an illuminating
delve into the past 100 years of queer culture.
“mad as snakes and at least as fascinating”
The Scotsman on Fish & Game
Nic Green:
FATHERLAND/MOTHERLAND
Wed 25th - Fri 27th April | 7pm | £11/£8
A diptych performance looking at place,
identity and belonging.
Nic Green explores notions of place, belonging,
authenticity and identity, home and homelands
and further understanding the edges of oneself in
relation to where you come from, in this ambitious
performance diptych.
Brought up in Yorkshire by her opera singer mother,
Green recalls the cultural and environmental
landscape of her Motherland in a work-inprogress: the wooded, industrialised valleys; the
sweeping, blustery moorlands; the ee by gum and
an’ ah’ll tell thi this fer nowt. In Fatherland, a
development of her Arches LIVE piece in 2010,
she moves towards the complex psycho-geography
of her unknown Scottish father’s home territory:
the intoxicating dances of the terra firma; the
ancient warrior women painted and wild; and the
sadness of the songs, lost and forgotten.
Nic Green is an artist, performer and theatre
maker creating work with a strong sense of political,
environmental and social responsibility at its
heart. Her award-winning feminist performance
series Trilogy has toured various major national
and international festivals with an estimated 1,000
female participants.
CLOSING WEEKEND EVENT
Mammalian Diving Reflex:
Haircuts By Children
Sat 28th & Sun 29th April |
See website for times and locations | FREE
Adults get their hair cut by children in this
audacious site-specific experience.
Would you let a child cut your hair? Most people
would be more comfortable allowing children to
vote than to trust their creativity with a pair of
scissors.
Press for Trilogy:
HHHHH The Guardian
HHHHH The Herald
HHHHH The List
HHHHH The Metro
An Arches and BAC
Scratch commission.
Haircuts By Children does what the name
suggests: after a week of training, a group of
10-year-old youths set up shop as a hairdressing
salon offering free haircuts for adults, testing out
their new styling skills on willing participants. The
challenge for the audience is to set their vanity
aside, relinquish control, and show how much
trust they really have in a child’s creative ability
and sense of responsibility.
This playful participatory experience explores
the intimate and rare moment shared between
two unlikely strangers - an adult and a child - in
a performance about power, trust, and society’s
acceptance of children as creative and competent
individuals.
Toronto-based collective Mammalian Diving
Reflex make one-off events, site-specific
experiences
and
community
happenings,
dismantling the barriers which exist within the
social sphere and letting dialogue flourish between
performers and audience members.
See Arches website for a rare opportunity to
participate in an MDR workshop that introduces
their concept of ‘Social Acupuncture’.
“Toronto’s messiah of experimental
theatre... a catalyst for imaginative
absurdity”
torontostage.com on Mammalian Diving Reflex
Artistic Director Darren O’Donnell
THE ARCHES & GLASGOW FILM festival presents
behaviour2012
3rd March - 29th April 2012 | Glasgow
16th-26th February 2012
Venues: Arches, SWG3, The Old Hairdressers,
Mono + secret swimming pool TBA.
3 March
Soapbox
Kelvingrove Museum
4+10 March
Kelvingrove to Riverside Kelvingrove Museum
14-18 March
Buzzcutold Hairdressers/glue factory
21-22 March
The oh fuck moment The Arches
22 march
chris thorpe artist’s talkthe arches
22-25 March
If These Spasms Could Speak The Arches
25 March
Sewing Machine Orchestra
The Arches
31 March
We Are Gob Squad And So Are You The Arches
31 Mar-1 April
Mermaid Show The Arches
2 April-31 May Hole In My Pocket Arches cafe bar
Sat 7 April
Torsten Lauschmann
The Arches
7-8 April
Cycling GymkhanaKelvin Hall arena
12-14 April
Maybe If You Choreograph MeCITY CENTRE
12-14 April
The Silence Of Bees
Lush
18-22 April Thatcher’s Children
The Arches
18-22 April
Beats The Arches
18+20-21 April White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
The Arches
19-21 April
Collecting Fireworks
the Arches
21 april
city as cultural site discussionthe arches
25-27 April Fatherland/Motherland
The Arches
26-27 April 7 Day Drunk
The Arches
28-29 April
Haircuts By Children
Venue tbc
SEE EVERYTHING* FESTIVAL PASS: £39/£29 | DAY PASS: £19/£13
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GLASGOW MUSIC &
FILM FESTIVAL
21
Lovingly co-curated by film buffs and music
geeks from the Glasgow Film Festival and
the Arches, the GMFF is back for its fourth year,
sweeping across the city with a generous handful
of cult gigs and one-off film screenings. Come
down and be inspired, moved, overwhelmed,
freaked out and thoroughly entertained.
GLASGOW MUSIC & FILM FEstIVAL presents
Gmff in association with focus left presents:
HIGH PLACES
Thurs 16th Feb | 8pm | £8 | Arches
SERAFINA
& SAM STEER
DIY dance-punk bedroom experimentalism.
Sat 18th Feb | 7pm-8.30pm | £6/£4 | Arches
Swept up in the wave of bold nu-cool bands
breaking at the end of the last decade, LA’s High
Places stand untouched as a truly idiosyncratic
act. They recorded their debut album in their then
Brooklyn apartment using anything they could
get their hands on – a 12 string guitar, banjo and
kalimba as well as plastic bags, mixing bowls and
other household objects. Global polyrhythms,
hip-hop beats, post punk basslines and field
recordings bind together to create something
hovering between dance, punk, indie and lofi. As artists and musicians, their live show is a
multi-sensory cacophony of self-made visuals,
pedals, samplers, drum pads, woodblocks and
nonchalant flair.
Like A Ham Head In The Wind: a bazaar of
extraordinary short films with a live
harp soundtrack.
Serafina Steer’s Victoriana-folk inspired
stories, haunting melodies and beautiful
instrumentation have made hers one of the
most unique and intriguing sounds of the past
decade, as confirmed by collaborations with
artists from John Foxx to Patrick Wolf and
Bat for Lashes. First performed as part of the
London Short Film Festival in January, this
captivating event sees Serafina playing her own
harp scores to three animated shorts made with
her filmmaker brother, Sam.
GLASGOW MUSIC & FILM FEstIVAL presents
GMFF IN ASSOCIATION WITH CRY PARROT presents
WET SOUNDS
UMBERTO
Sun 19th Feb
5.30pm-7pm / 8pm-9.30pm
£9 | Secret swimming pool TBA
Sat 25th Feb | 8pm | £5 adv | SWG3
& Organs of Love & Strange Vice DJs
Throbbing goth-synth creep-scapes from
the horror score fanatic.
The ultimate underwater musical
experience returns.
A true master of the horror film soundtrack
aesthetic, Umberto’s music is a hypnotic, allconsuming journey, reeling you into a foggy,
neon-lit world of graveyards and stalkers,
haunted houses and blood-stained corpses.
Evoking the unsettling progressive rock of
Goblin and the dystopian synth-work of John
Carpenter, his acclaimed releases have garnered
praise for their staggering, gothic take on italo
disco and new-wave synth pop, recreating the
brooding intensity of a Dario Argento soundtrack
through the cyclical melodies and throbbing
rhythms. At this specially commissioned event,
he’ll be performing a live score to a secret film of
his choice. Prepare to be spooked.
After the sell-out success of last year’s event,
the unforgettable Wet Sounds returns to
a swimming pool in Glasgow. With the space
transformed into a darkened listening chamber
and radiating soft light, listeners move in and out
of the water as two separate soundsystems create
an immersive and mesmerising experience both
under and over the water. Live electronics come
courtesy of Joel Cahen and La Horrox, with
a cinematic electro-acoustic set and voice and
modulated electronics respectively.
GLASGOW MUSIC & FILM FEstIVAL presents
A Psychocinematic
Ritual:
OV, Psychogeographical Commission
& The Wyrding Module
Thurs 23rd Feb | 8pm | £5
GLASGOW MUSIC & FILM FEstIVAL presents
SILVER APPLES
Sun 26th Feb | 8.30pm | £10 adv | Mono
The Old Hairdressers
A celebration of ritual, the occult and the
disturbing power of music and cinema.
After their spectacular warm up for Italian horror
score legends Goblin at last year’s festival, occult
project OV returns for a much-anticipated live
experience, using ritual, coincidence, numerology
and a hefty dose of magick to explore both
the beauty and cruelty of war. The unsettling
collaboration between members of Desalvo,
Unwinding Hours and Sons & Daughters,
the project was borne from a mutual fascination
with the occult and the magical use of visuals.
Using live film soundtracks alongside intriguing
visuals, prepare to be reminded of the power of
music and cinema to shock and disturb.
The forefathers of electronic rock as we
know it.
Between their sudden arrival in 1967 and their
mysterious disappearance in 1969, Silver
Apples introduced unprecedented sounds to the
underground. They were not chart sensations.
Today, the hums, beeps, beats and electronically
generated melodies which comprised their two
albums are credited as being the foundations of at
least one genre a decade - krautrock, acid house,
indie, and no doubt another still to be discovered.
A true legend, Simeon Coxe III will be making
a special trip from the USA to recreate the magic
of one of music’s most important bands.
Don’t miss:
REAL ESTATE Sat 18th Feb
THE SOUTH Sun 19th Feb
GENERAL FIASCO Mon 20th Feb
BAND OF SKULLS Tue 21st Feb
The Arches presents
SCROOBIUS PIP
& B. Dolan
DF CONCERTS presents
SBTRKt
& Disclosure
The Arches presents THE ADVENTURES OF
andy kershaw
Tue 28th Feb | 7.30pm | £15
Broadcaster, international journalist and
dedicated music junkie Andy Kershaw
introduces his new book, No Off Switch, in an
interview with journalist Ruth Pitt. A born rebel
and a maverick, join us for a journey through a
fascinating career dotted with anecdotes to amuse,
entertain, shock and inspire.
Sat 26th Feb | 7pm | £10.50 adv
14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult)
The Arches presents
baxter dury
Tue 21st Feb | 7.30pm | £8 adv
Thu 22nd March | 9pm | £8/£6
Scotland’s only family of stand-up comedians
perform together for the last time as part of the
Glasgow International Comedy Festival
as dad Mark Bratchpiece hangs up his jokewriting boots. Sons Bratchy and Youtube
legend The Wee Man host a special edition of
their Comedy Pub Quiz the night before (Wed
21st March 8pm).
One of the key sounds of the post-millennial
spoken word scene, vocalist and rapper
Scroobius Pip came to public attention with
Thou Shalt Always Kill, the first single from his
chart-bothering collaboration with producer dan
le sac. Angry yet wry, sharp yet contemplative,
his lyrics are a provocative snapshot of the state
of the nation as it stands. Support comes from
performance artist and MC B.Dolan.
Back with a third album full of punk-funk sway
and Cockney charisma, Dury’s candid observations
on topics from party folklore to women, loneliness
and love show off a dry talent which, whilst owing
much to his father Ian’s lyrical legacy, remains
staunchly individual – as demonstrated in his
brilliant intimate live shows.
GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL presents
bRATCHPIECE FAMILY ALBUM
Heralded as the new face of UK bass culture, it
was Wildfire, featuring Little Dragon’s Yukimi
Nagano and remixed by Drake, which really got
the masked producer and DJ’s blend of future
garage, two step, UK funky and dubstep noticed.
Performing live with album collaborator Sampha.
Wed 29th Feb | 7.30pm | £12.50 adv
14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult)
DF CONCERTs presents
DF Concerts presents
The Arches presents
KWES
JAMIE N COMMONS BOXES
Sat 25th Feb | 8pm | £6 | The Art School
Mon 27th Feb | 7pm | £6.50 adv
14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult)
Leftfield producer, DJ, remixer and musician,
South London wunderkind Kwes has made a
name for himself working with artists from The
XX to Joe Goddard, as well as with his own
tracks on Young Turks and Warp records - all
scattered, synaesthesia-driven beats fused with
shimmering pop.
At just 22, Jamie N Commons sounds like
he’s been singing the blues for at least 30 more
years. One of the BBC’s Sound of 2012 and the
Observer’s Ones To Watch, his grippingly mature
vocals owe much to Johnny Cash, while his dark
tales of suicide and heartbreak resonate Nick Cave.
Mon 30th Apr (new date) | 7pm | £7 adv
The latest project of Athlete bassist Carey
Willetts, Boxes’ contagious melodies, messedup synths, guitars and punching beats make
them one of this year’s ones to watch, balancing
elements of The Postal Service, Bright Eyes
and The Killers to create bright and sensitive
indie electro-pop.
DF Concerts presents
the fallen angels club presents
the arches presents
DF Concerts presents
MAVERICK SABRE
GRETCHEN PETERS
WHITE HILLS
TALIB KWELI
Thu 1st March | 7pm | £12.50 adv | 14+
Sun 4th March | 7pm | £16 adv
Wed 21st March | 7pm | £8 adv
Fri 23rd March | 7pm | £17.50 adv
Psychedelia, hypnotic grooves, otherworldly
bleeps and whirling chunks of gnarly formless
noise from New York’s finest and most fuzzed out
space rock band White Hills. “Invigorating the
listener like no other rock record this year”, latest
album h-p1 was one of Rough Trade’s Top 10
Albums of 2011.
Since emerging as one half of Black Star with
Mos Def in the late 1990s, Talib Kweli has
eschewed the usual rap clichés, using his lyrics to
simultaneously educate and entertain. His latest
album Prisoner of Consciousness, featuring firedup single Distractions, is due out this year.
DF Concerts presents
the arches presents
STEVE AOKI
GRIMES
& Ms. Dynamite & Aruba Red
& Lynne Hanson
(under 16s must be with an adult aged 18+)
Named one of 1Xtra DJ MistaJam‘s Ones to
Watch 2011 and championed on Radio 1, 2011
was a good year for Maverick Sabre. With his
soulful voice and politically edged lyrics, the buzz
around singles Let Me Go and I Need suggests
we’ll be seeing a lot more of him in 2012.
It was Martina McBride’s recording of her
track Independence Day in 1995 that rocketed
Peters straight onto the A-list of country
music’s songwriters. With her third album out
this January, Peters’ honeyed vocals and spare,
evocative voice and guitar make her live shows an
intimate and memorable experience.
triple g presents
DF Concerts presents
CHIDDY BANG
YASHIN
& Jody Has A Hitlist & With One Last Breath
& Tantrum To Blind
Thu 8th March | 7pm | £10 adv | 14+
Sat 10th March | 7pm | £8.50 adv | 14+
(under 16s must be with an adult aged 18+)
(under 16s must be with an adult aged 18+)
Rising from the internet fame of their Swelly
Express mixtape in 2009 to the chart-busting
success of The Opposite of Adults, which sampled
MGMT’s Kids, Chiddy Bang are an alt-hip-hop
duo mixing witty rhymes and playful flow with
samples from indie classics – from Radiohead
to Belle and Sebastian.
Having built a loyal army of fans across the UK
and Europe supporting the likes of Papa Roach,
Black Veil Brides and My Passion as well as
headlining sell-out hometown shows, the Scottish
post-hardcore six piece come to the Arches as
part of The Last One Standing Tour.
Sun 1st April | 7pm | £14 adv | 14+
Sat 7th April | 7.30pm | £7 adv
(under 16s must be with an adult aged 18+)
at the Berkeley Suite
The twisted overlord of the electro scene,
Dim Mak label head Steve Aoki is equally
celebrated for his remixes, energetic live sets
and jaw-clenching collaborations with the A-list
of big-room electro, squeezing in tracks with
Bloody Beetroots, Zuper Blahq, Afrojack,
Laidback Luke, Tiesto and LMFAO over the
past two years.
Hotly-tipped Canadian musician and visual artist
Grimes has been setting the blogosphere alight
with her lush, layered electronic pop. Blessed
with the vocal sweetness of Nite Jewel and the
ethereal charm of Kate Bush, she released her
first full length album Visions this February after
being snapped up by indie label 4AD.
AC Projects and Oto Projects present:
COUNTERFLOWS
Fri 6th - Sun 8th April | Various venues | Festival pass: £35/£30
THE FALLEN ANGELS CLUB presents
Thu 12th April | 7.30pm | £16 adv
Dubbed by Rolling Stone as “an under
recognized guitar hero”, Dave Alvin is one of the
leading names in American roots music. Following
a diverse musical career (The Blasters, X, The
Knitters), his solo work sees him switch skilfully
between acoustic and electric, bringing together
country, blues, roots and rock.
Fri 6th April | St Andrews in the Square
6.45pm-10.30pm | £15/£12
THE ARCHEs presents
UH HUH HER
Michael Gira
Grouper & Diamond Catalog
Early Songs
Sun 22nd April | 7pm | £12 adv | 14+
(under 16s must be with an adult aged 18+)
Actress and musician Leisha Hailey (aka The L
Word’s Alice) and musician Camila Grey came
together in 2007 to make sultry, electronic-tinged
indie pop, finding success - and a dedicated
following - with Not A Love Song in 2008. Over
from LA, this is their first tour since releasing
second album Noctures.
+ Late Night Counterflows: Volcano the Bear
Mono | 10pm – 1am | Free
Sat 7th April | The Arches | 2.15pm - 10pm
Day pass: £15 or £18 (inc Stereo 10pm-3am)
Josephine Foster
DAVE
ALVIN
AND THE GULITY ONES
THE ARCHEs presents
ROBIN WILLIAMSON
Thu 17th May | 8pm | £13 adv
Multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter,
storyteller and founder of avant-garde folk
group The Incredible String Band, Robin
Williamson has pioneered psych folk, traditional
and world music. Expect an enigmatic performance
from one of folk music’s leading inspirations.
synergy concerts presents
ERRORS
Fri 11th May | 7pm | £10 adv | 14+
Just announced:
(under 16s must be with an adult aged 18+)
SHABAZZ PALACES 20th May
SLEEP Tue 22nd May
A$AP ROCKY Sat 9th June
The celebrated Glasgow quartet bring their
Battles-esque math rock and shimmering post
electro to the Arches for their biggest headlining
show in Glasgow to date, following the release
of third album Have Some Faith In Magic on
Mogwai’s Rock Action Records featuring the
hyped new single and video Pleasure Palace.
Taking place across London, Berlin and Glasgow
from 6th-15th April, Counterflows is a new
series of festivals exploring international networks
of underground music. Spanning Mono, Stereo,
the Arches, CCA, St Andrews in the Square
and Kinning Park Complex, the Scottish leg
sees a host of celebrated musicians and artists from
all over the world - from Swans’ Michael Gira
to legendary Japanese singer-songwriter Kazuki
Tomokawa - illuminating the city and uniting
with Scotland’s own rich musical heritage.
The Arches is proud to be hosting day two of the
festival. Boasting evening performances from
free jazz improviser Sven-Åke Johansson,
psychedelic and modern acid folk from Korean
musician Kim Doo Soo and American singer/
songwriter Michael Hurley, afternoon events
include a rare showing of Vincent Moon’s film
about Tomokawa, before his performance at CCA
the following day.
Michael Hurley
Kim Doo Soo
Sven-Åke Johansson
Josephine Foster
Film Screening: La Faute des Fleurs
Torsten Lauschmann commissioned by
Red Note Ensemble (See BEHAVIOUR brochure)
+ Cry Parrot’s Late Night Counterflows:
Caspar Brotzmann’s Massaker
Stereo | 10pm-3am | £5
Sun 8th April | CCA | 6.45pm-10pm | £12/£10
Kazuki Tomokawa
Bill Wells’ National Jazz Trio of Scotland
Margareth Kammerer
+ Tracer Trails’ Afternoon
Kinning Park Complex | 2pm-5pm | Free
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The ideal alternative choice, this richly historic and
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to 2,000 people) or product launch. Alternatively,
create a warm and welcoming intimate event
for 100-200 people for a client dinner, ceilidh or
wedding reception. We can also accommodate small
conferences looking for an alternative to hotels.
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our Studio Theatre and main arch spaces as well
as a wheelchair-accessible lift to our Café Bar
and basement spaces. There is room for up to 6
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Please ask Box Office or Front of House staff for
help should you require assistance with any of our
facilities. We offer free tickets to all Arches arts
events to assistants for people with impairments.
A large print version of this brochure is available.
UNDERGROUND: St Enoch tube (see map).
NB:
CAR: exit at Junction 19 off the M8 and follow
signs for City Centre Argyle St. Parking: preferential
rates at Q-Park on Howard St (see map) with an
Arches ticket 0141 243 2659.
Events at the Arches are 18+ unless otherwise
stated. If you are under 18 and would like to
attend an arts event please let Box Office know
before booking.
ACCOMMODATION: Jurys Inn Glasgow:
Modern, excellent value for money, centrally
located and ideal for leisure and business guests
alike. Restaurant and bar on site. Please mention
the Arches for preferential rates: 0141 314 4800.
If you would like to receive regular offers, invites,
updates and news on Arches events by email
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*we do not share this information with any other parties.
CLUBS
Colours
rinse fm tour
rinse.fm
Sat 18th Feb: Zinc, P-Money, Plastician,
Brackles, Elijah & Skilliam.
SUPERNOVA
myspace.com/hellevents
Fri 2nd March: Hobo (Minus), Hell Boys
www.colours.co.uk
Sat 18th Feb: Irvine Welsh’s ‘Ecstasy’ Official
After Party. Neil Navarra (Ecstasy Musical
Director), Jon Mancini, Gio Ferri, Andy Raeside.
Sat 25th Feb: Sounds of STREETrave Inner City (Live), CJ Mackintosh, Jon Mancini,
Iain ‘Boney’ Clark.
Sat 3rd March: Dirty Dutch Records - Chuckie,
Gregori Klosman, Glowinthedark, W&W, Menno
De Jong, Ashley Wallbridge.
Fri 6th April: Benny Benassi & Friends
Sun 8th April: Easter Sunday. Line Up tba
Sat 5th May: Carl Cox ‘Revolution Recruits’.
Sat 14th April: Back to the Future with
GBXperience Live
BAD NEWS
PRESSURE
Tue 1st May: Catwalk event featuring new
Scottish designers.
www.slamevents.com
Fri 24th Feb: Slam, Maya Jane Coles, Ben
Sims, Paul Ritch (live) (4am).
Sat 7th April: Easter Special - SLAM at the
Arches 20th Anniversary Party. Slam + Laurent
Garnier presents L.B.S. & Ben Klock (4am).
Fri 27th April: Slam, DJ Sneak, Steve
Rachmad, Heidi (4am).
Fri 9th March: Benji B, Coki (DMZ), Pangaea,
Phaeleh, Mungo’s HiFi (with full rig).
Sat 26th May: line up tbc
2MANYDJS
Fri 16th March: 2manydjs + guests.
jack beatS
Sat 17th March: Jack Beats (live), Toddla T,
Jaymo & Andy George, Japanese Popstars (live),
Delta Heavy, Don Diablo, Boom Monk Ben.
NIGHTWALK
Octopussy
www.octopussyglasgow.co.uk
Every Wednesday: Student night with drinks
offers, cheap entry, bouncy castle, wedding
chapel, swimming pool, jacuzzi and more...
DEATH DISCO
www.deathdisco.info
See website for massive announcements.
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21
How can you have a day without a night?’
The Arches turns 21 this year: look out for some huge events coming up
in the Autumn as part of our 21st Birthday Season.