Saturday 18th April , 2pm

“Glasgow is blessed to have this happening every two weeks” Stewart Smith, “The Wire”

Following the 100th edition of Tony Bevan’s acclaimed series “Help Me I’m
Melting” on 28th of December at “The Old Hairdressers”, Renfield Lane, Glasgow, the series
marches into the future.

Tony Bevan (saxophones, Harmonicas) with:

Mick Beck (Saxophones, Bassoon)
Seth Bennett (Double Bass)
Paul Hession (Drums)

Tuesday 18th February, 7.30pm

Admission £4

NOCTURNAL SCRATCH NIGHTS are monthly scratch nights for performance makers to showcase their work in freedom. Structured like an open mic, every performer/piece has a max of 10 mins to share what they want – whether that be a fully formed piece, a work in progress or an extract of a larger work etc.

NOCTURNAL FEBRUARY will be celebrating LGBTQIA+ history month. We want to dedicate this month to contemporary work primarily centred around queerness; queer stories, queer artists, queer history. Time permitting we will also hold space for pieces exploring intersectional feminism, destruction of the patriarchy and anything outside the mainstream boundaries of art/society.

We invite performers from all backgrounds, disciplines, gender expressions, sexualities and those who identify as neurodiverse – we welcome all! Come and show your support for some interdisciplinary delights!
Unfortunately our current venue is up three flights of stairs, so it is not accessible.

NOCTURNAL will also encourage fostering new networks and connections.
We may play some games or not, but we’ll definitely try to make networking less intimidatingly stiff!
NOCTURNAL is the perfect way to support and empower local, emerging artists.

IF YOU WANT TO PERFORM:
Email info@nocturnalarts.co.uk with details of what you want to bring, who you are etc. Time permitting there will also be slots available on the night for any spontaneous impulses! Payment is door share.

Email info@nocturnalarts.co.uk with any questions or just to say hey!

Wednesday 19th February 7pm

Thursday 20th February, 7:30pm

Suggested donation: £3

Saturday 22nd February, 2pm

“Glasgow is blessed to have this happening every two weeks” Stewart Smith, “The Wire”

Following the 100th edition of Tony Bevan’s acclaimed series “Help Me I’m
Melting” on 28th of December at “The Old Hairdressers”, Renfield Lane, Glasgow, the series
marches into the future.

Tony Bevan (saxophones, Harmonicas) with: Fritz Welch (Drums, Voice) & Jer Reid (Guitar)

Tuesday 25th February,  6pm- late.

We will set up a small art shop so make sure to bring cash! x

Ella Mackenzie
Malin Cederlund
Soorin Shin
Fanny Arnesen
Linnea Wästfelt

Definition of Dirt
: a filthy or soiling substance (such as mud, dust, or grime)
: archaic : something worthless
: a contemptible person
: loose or packed soil or sand, earth
: an abject or filthy state
: licentiousness of language or theme

DIRT is an exhibition by 5 GSA sculpture, painting and photography students, reflecting on the definition of the word dirt. With works spread over a variety of mediums, circling around the subjects of identity, landscape, environment and humanity.

Wednesday 26th February 7.30pm

TICKETS: £3 (CASH ONLY) on the door, on a first-come-first-served basis.

A night of sex-positive, poetic expression, FF invites you to bring the good, the bad, the filthy, the ugly, the transcendent, the ridiculous, the intimate, the questionable moments of your sex lives for one night only.

Join poet Tawnya Selene Renelle in the exploration of the sexual experience with a reading from her published collection ‘this exquisite corpse’. With this prompt, we invite you to put pen to paper and explore your own experiences through the power of poetic expression. The evening will culminate in an open-mic session with the audience. With respect, sex-positivity and a mutual celebration of the power of sharing at the forefront, we will establish and maintain a vital safe space at all times.

Also featuring performance sets from comedian Kat Ennis and sex-positive playwright/memoirist Gabriella Sloss.

Thursday 5th March, 7pm

Still buzzing from playing among the dead animals at Glasgow University in November, these two bands are ready to take the city centre by storm. The Riverman Collective is a three-piece from rural Perthshire mixing electric and acoustic sounds to produce something unique, while Black Fox will rock you with their full-band sound straight from the West End. £5 on the door or book beforehand at Eventbrite.

Saturday 7th March, 2pm

“Glasgow is blessed to have this happening every two weeks” Stewart Smith, “The Wire”

Following the 100th edition of Tony Bevan’s acclaimed series “Help Me I’m
Melting” on 28th of December at “The Old Hairdressers”, Renfield Lane, Glasgow, the series
marches into the future.

Tony Bevan (saxophones, Harmonicas) with:

Richard Youngs (Voice, Oboe, Olegtron)
Danielle Price (Tuba)

Thursday 12 March 2020, 7pm 

Get tickets HERE

James Leonard Hewitson is a songwriter from Hartlepool, UK. He performs with his band, ‘The Relevant People’. Debut album ‘Only The Noise Will Save Me’ out February 2020. Press from recent single ‘Dance Track’ (11th October 2019)

Saturday 21st March , 2pm

“Glasgow is blessed to have this happening every two weeks” Stewart Smith, “The Wire”

Following the 100th edition of Tony Bevan’s acclaimed series “Help Me I’m
Melting” on 28th of December at “The Old Hairdressers”, Renfield Lane, Glasgow, the series
marches into the future.

Tony Bevan (saxophones, Harmonicas) with:

Armin Sturm (Double Bass)
Howie Reeve (Bass Guitar)
Johnny Hunter (Drums)

Friday 3rd April, 7.30pm

Tickets on sale HERE

Interior Presents:

Meatraffle are a common chord running through the leftist brigades of the South London art scene. Eschewing the ‘love song industrial complex’ that dominates the airwaves, for Meatraffle it is the political, the platonic, the comradeship of the struggle that provides true artistic grist.

A band you can get behind, they’re honest and down to earth, and while the world grows increasingly hostile it’s reassuring to know that there’s a group of people out there who get it, address it and want to change it. They’ve found the sweet spot between sincerity and humor, without taking themselves seriously they garner a lot of respect. Meatraffle have a self awareness, they know what it is to live in a changing, unequal society. But they know how to counteract it too, by calling it out. Their lack of pretense is a breath of fresh air in a stagnant, money-obsessed world, and they shout about worker’s rights, sexism, capitalism and the shoddy state of politics in a way which truly captivates and engages their audience.

The origins of Meatraffle are lost in obscurity and legend. It has been said that they are the result of a drunken afternoon shared by Clams Baker and Zsa Zsa Sapien in a South London Wetherspoon pub, and that the original idea was to actually do a meat raffle. Indeed, early photos of the band feature raffle tickets and pig’s heads. Meatraffle emerged from and took shape in places like the fetid cauldrons of the Queen’s Head and the Windmill in Brixton alongside former label and tour mates The Fat White Family.

They’ve gone on to tour with the ‘Fat Whites’, Sleaford Mods, Cabbage, Shame and Warmduscher, and picked up their own loyal following packing venues in Glasgow, Manchester, and Bristol. The revolution has reached the airwaves, including a legendary 6Music Marc Riley session , where they blasted out anthemic ‘Birdsong’ – a single on Dan Carey’s Speedy Wunderground label – which features on the new album.

Stage times – 19:30 Doors / 20:00 support / 21:00 Meatraffle

Saturday 11th April, 8pm

Tickets £12 Advance or £15 on the door.

Quelle Chris’s last album GUNS is one the best records released in 2019. It’s impossible to tell you how excited we are to have Quelle come play The Old Hairdresser’s, get your ticket early as this event is sure to sell out!

Every time a shooting makes the news talking heads pop up in small boxes and make loud arguments about how we shouldn’t rush to politicize what just happened. After all, the heads argue, guns don’t kill people. People kill people. But how true is that? Are the tools we use simply tools, innocuous until we give them meaning? Or are the things we surround ourselves with –– the things in our arsenal –– begging to be weaponized, for good or for evil? Guns, the new album from the critically acclaimed rapper and producer Quelle Chris, is a careful study of all these questions, an urgent record for urgent times.

“Guns is an arsenal of both sounds, styles, and subjects, Quelle says, taking a thorough look at “the words we say, what we fear, how we love, how we live, what we ingest, what we believe in, who we idolize, shit like that.” To this end, the New York by-way-of Detroit savant attacks his topics from multiple angles: there’s the jagged, minimal “Obamacare,” which plays like a confrontation, but there’s also “Wild Minks,” where Quelle and the enigmatic New Jersey rapper Mach-Hommy spin silk out of the softest textures in their parents’ record collections. In the service of examining big ideas with grave consequences, we get to hear a master technician deploying every piece of ammo he has.

In times that are often beyond parody, Quelle has never been a writer to shy away from the absurd. But Guns is dotted with references to the very real, painfully ordinary fates that might befall us –– be they getting gunned down in church on a Sunday or simply being forgotten by our friends after we’re gone. In preparation for both, Quelle lays his psyche bare. Maybe his identity is best summed up by the three-word descriptor he gives himself toward the record’s end: “handsome, black, and headstrong.”

Quelle handles the vast majority of production duties himself, with assists coming from Dane and Chris Keys. Guns covers sonic ground quickly: it opens with the skeletal creep of “Spray & Pray” and closes with “WYRM,” which is sweeping and contemplative. In between there are detours to the lush and playful (“PSA Drugfest 2003”) and to the grim and digital (“Mind Ya Bidness”). As always, Quelle delivers music that’s innovative and idiosyncratic without sacrificing the gut-punch of more commercial releases; in fact, there are moments when Guns rattles trunks like few rap LPs in recent memory.

Slated for release via Mello Music Group on March 29, Guns is Quelle’s third studio album in three years: each Quelle Chris album is distinct and fully-realized: see 2017’s Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often, an off-kilter probe into the ways we see ourselves, or see last year’s collaboration with Jean Grae, Everything’s Fine, which was biting satire for the dawn of a new dystopia –– and which was adored by critics, being named to ‘best album of the year’ lists by countless publications, including Pitchfork, The Wire, and Bandcamp, who dubbed it the best album of 2018.

Guns is not content to rest on those laurels. “My goal with this and all albums is to create pieces people can enjoy, start to finish, for decades to come,” Quelle notes, fully aware that in a fractured, streaming ecosystem, any shard of your identity released into the world might be the lone artifact that survives. This is a record that is constantly aware of the peril all around us, but instead of shrinking in the face of that knowledge, it reasserts its creator’s identity. Aided by excellent guest turns from the likes of Jean Grae, Denmark Vessey, Cavalier, Mach-Hommy, Bilal Salaam, and more, Quelle Chris has delivered perhaps the most pointed, most personal, and all-together perfectly crafted album of his career.

Saturday 4th April , 2pm

“Glasgow is blessed to have this happening every two weeks” Stewart Smith, “The Wire”

Following the 100th edition of Tony Bevan’s acclaimed series “Help Me I’m
Melting” on 28th of December at “The Old Hairdressers”, Renfield Lane, Glasgow, the series
marches into the future.

Tony Bevan (saxophones, Harmonicas) with:

Williwaw (Electric Uke)
Una McGlone (Double Bass)
Tom Bancroft (Drums)