Another week, another stonking array of stuff to do. Our top picks this time round include a double-header of top comic talent at The Stand, a handful of festival launches and a very good party for a very good cause.
Frankie Boyle, The Stand, Mon Mar 9, Wed Mar 11 & Sun Mar 22 / Kevin Bridges, The Stand, Thu Mar 12
Mentor and apprentice Frankie Boyle and Kevin Bridges both forego their usual large-scale audiences for a couple of work-in-progress sessions at The Stand this week. Granted, they’re both sold out all to hell, but we thought it was a nice enough coincidence to bear inclusion in the Top 10.
Tune-yards, The Art School, Mon Mar 9
Nope, we couldn’t be bothered replicating Merrill Garbus’s caps-on/caps-off formatting. Instead, we’ll just praise her entirely unique, off-kilter wonky pop skills and meet you down the front. Oh, and we recommend you get there early - she's being supported by one of our local faves, Jonnie Common.
The Charlatans, Barrowland, Tue Mar 10 & Wed Mar 11
Tim Burgess, having contributed indelibly to internet culture, is back on leading man duties for his crew of Britpop icons – they’re touring their 12th album, 'Modern Nature', which came out in January.
Glasgow Short Film Festival, CCA, Wed Mar 11-Sun Mar 15
Having split off from the Glasgow Film Festival proper in order to truly flex its creative muscles, the Glasgow Short Film Festival has revealed a cracking programme for 2015. Our top two events include the startling Vertical Cinema – a screening that flips the traditional landscape cinema screen on its side and asks filmmakers to create content especially for the new format – and Strange Electricity, a film-and-club match-up featuring Optimo's JD Twitch, Golden Teacher and Sähkö Recordings abel boss Jimi Tenor.
Glasgow International Comedy Festival, various venues, Thu Mar 12-Sun Mar 29 Mar
The GICF kicks off once again this week, with energetic Irishman Tommy Tiernan the pick of the opening weekend. We've put together a preview of the whole fest should you want to delve further into the programme.
Underworld, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Thu Mar 12
The 80s and 90s electronica titans have come a long way since their ravey heyday inception - they’ve reached the point now where they can bring their visually augmented live show to the prestigious Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, where they’ll be playing through their progressive techno masterpiece ‘dubnobasswithmyheadman’.
Great Scottish Beer Celebration, Barras Art & Design Centre, Fri Mar 13 & Sat Mar 14
West End specialty beer shop Hippo Beers travels east to host a celebration of Scottish brewers with a decidedly crafty bent, welcoming Brewdog, Cromarty, Fyne Ales, Stewart, Thistly Cross and over a dozen more.
ELEMNTS#1, The Old Hairdressers, Fri Mar 13
A new platform for ‘avant-garde, do-it-yourself’ and experimental music in Glasgow, the ELEMNTS project aims to bring together new sounds with visual and video art installations – this first instalment features music from Machines in Heaven, Modifier, Phoene and Arm Watches Fingers, with the visual contingent repped by Joe Crogan, Annukka Havukumpu and James McCann.
Food Bank Fundraiser, The Art School, Fri Mar 13
Charity gigs: they make you feel good, but the titles don’t always fill you with confidence. Thank heavens then that all the creativity lacking in that moniker shows up in the superlative line-up, with sets from Optimo, Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Nightwave, Harri & Domenic, MWX, Laetitia Pleiades, Afrodeesia, Charlie McCann and Dick 50.