Open Midday- Midnight and later on Sat / Sun.

All events are free to attend unless stated otherwise.

Old Hair is a programme of events organised by The Old Hairdresser’s venue to celebrate the wide variety of artists and musicians that have helped to make the space a vibrant contribution to the cultural landscape of Glasgow.

A PDF of the full Old Hair programme is available HERE

Calum Stirling will be presenting his Orchestration ‘The Frolicsome Engines’. An automaton making music, making noises, installed in the gallery theatre space for the duration of the festival and active between the programmed events. Together with all the artists taking part we plan to present a focused articulation of what this hub of the Glasgow creative community does year round, in terms providing of space in which artists can try out new ideas and mix up practices, creating opportunities for cross-pollination of ideas.

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

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Friday 20^th  April 9pm- 2am

Sacred Paws will be turning the ground floor bar into a dance floor, Edinburgh Leisure performing with logo lightshow upstairs in the gallery theatre, Callum Stirling’s Orchestration ‘The Frolicsome Engines’ will be unveiled, animating the space and DJ Psycho Phantasy will be keep you dancing going ‘til the wee small hours.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Saturday 21st April, 1pm- 4pm

Marc Baines selects a programme of short films by Mike Kuchar.

Cupid’s Infirmary (1995), The Bristled Dagger (1996) and The Pictures of Dorian Gay (1996).

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Saturday 21st April, 8pm- 2am

Tickets £5 Adv, £7 Door

The Old Police House, started as an incredible DIY agitator and physical entity that existed for a whirlwind few years in Gateshead. Run by Mariam Rezaei and Adam Denton (Trans/Human), TOPH saw some incredible nights and acts come through its doors, but now… another space, in our space. We are proud to present the finest crop of irritants and creatures from the Old Police House. 

Kleevex – Gwilly Edmondez/ voice of ‘Yeah You’ and Faye MacCalman/ reeds of’ Archipelago’, are a duo that flit between the sounds, howls and words of ridiculous squabbley microphone and free singing reeds skrunk.’Two of the hardest working folk in the undergronk’ – Radio Free Midwich

Swarm Front – Quasi-amorphous collective of sonic and cultural dissidents and anti-creatives. Weaponising the banality of liberal institutions, they use text and sound to construct crude folk-magick hexes against the bastions of reasonable culture.’Swarm Front are a right good kick up the arse’ Radio Free Midwich

Performative Sportswear – Long strings of drool invective poetics and regurgitated necroliberal hegemonic residue.  Grime/noise/drill narrow-channel anti-beatsmithery. Section 18 of the offences against the Persons act 1861. 4 years, 6 months custodial sentence.

Black Cat 13 – Lashings of beats, hair and microphones, hybrid noise-footwork-pop by Letitia Pleiades and Mariam Rezaei. Made at TOPH, developed by TUSK FRINGE and WILD

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Sunday 22nd April, 2:30pm- 4:30pm

Join chat show host Claire Biddles, and special guests from West Yorkshire/ Falkirk/ Peebles and Galashiels for an afternoon of conversation, screenings and performance to mark the launch of The Persistence of Type III, a newspaper and on-going collaborative project by Catriona Duffy, Sophie Dyer, Fiona Jardine, Lucy McEachan and Maeve Redmond.  With real-life stories and expert insights from Theresa Coburn, Myra Ostacchini, Stephen Sutcliffe and others.

Drinks will be served.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Sunday 22nd  April, 8pm- 11pm

Tickets £5 Adv, £7 Door

Barry Burns and Mark Vernon present a night of performance, music and film.

50 Htz or thereabouts: Calum Stirling’s 2015 film, made in collaboration with Barry Burns and shot on location in a decommissioned nuclear bunker in the East Neuk of Fife, has been re-edited by Viltė Vaitkutė for this special one-off expanded screening with a live soundtrack by Vernon & Burns. “There’s a new man in isolation”.

Toi-so, Christina Dunwoodie and Tony Morris. Two performers coming from wildly different musical backgrounds, collaborating in the deconstruction of the old, reinventing it in a dark, diverse, sinister and sensual world with voice and electronic music. “Like Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue with a lobotomy or two.” Nick Currie (Momus)

Marta Adamowicz will create a live version of Poludnica – a part soundscape, part drone music performance that illustrates an attack by a mythical summer demon from Slavic folklore.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Wednesday 25^th April, 7.30pm – 10.30pm

A regular bi-monthly event that has been running since 2011, building a community of sound makers – putting people in touch so that they can get advice, support and feedback on their work and possibly find new audiences and new people to work with.

This is an opportunity to test your audio creations out on a small audience of like-minded individuals who share a love of radio and the sonic arts. As well as recorded media we also wish to give a platform to live spoken word performances. This group is open to anybody working with sound at all stages of their career including students, professionals and amateurs. Even if you’ve never worked with sound before – now could be the time to try something out! If you’re just curious or wish simply to come along and listen you will be more than welcome.

Each listening event will be made up of a programme of sound and radio works submitted to us in advance. A short printed programme including a brief synopsis of each work and a short biog of the producer will be handed out on the night. Things will be kept very informal, there will be no talks or big speeches – just a chance to listen together and have a drink and a chat afterwards.

Our aim is to provide a concentrated communal listening experience in almost complete darkness.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Thursady 26^th April, 7.30- 11pm

Anne-Marie Copestake presents an evening programme of live music set side by side with screenings and audio works openly linking thematic ideas around loss, absence, historical tradition, geographical features, folkloric landscape and object narratives.

Featuring a solo set by Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh with viola & tape-delay (Fort Evil Fruit), Prantik Basu’s award winning film Sakhisona (26 min, Bengali, 2016), and a special guest.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh
Glasgow-based viola player Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh has played with a variety of groups including Woven Skull and Cian Nugent & the Cosmos and has toured as a member of Circuit des Yeux and Josephine Foster’s band.Her solo debut Oreing was released by Fort Evil Fruit in 2017 and features four unhurried but vividly focused semi-improvisations displaying an assured style that seems to encompass Irish trad, Appalachian music, raga, noise and the drone of Tony Conrad.

www.ailbhenicoireachtaigh.com 
https://soundcloud.com/ailbhenicoireachtaigh
https://fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/oreing

Prantik Basu
Sakhisona  ( 26 min | Bengali | Black & White | 2016)
Synopsis: Near Mogulmari in the south of West-Bengal in India lies a mound locally known as Sakhisona. The stories about it are still sung by local musicians. A dig nearby recently uncovered the remains of a monastery as well as 6th-century objects. The film shows the objects unearthed and re-enacts the stories that are hidden in the archeological layers of the earth.

• International Film Festival Rotterdam (Winner – Tiger Award for Best Short Film), 2017
• Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2017 (in competition)
• FICSUR, Argentina, (Winner – Best Short Film), 2017
• BFI London Film Festival (Experimenta), 2017
• Kyiv International Short Film Festival, 2017 (AVANTGARDE AND VIDEOART section), 2017
• FILMCARAVAN, Italy, 2017 (in competition)
• FILMADRID, 2017 (in competition)
• Festival L’Âge d’or, Brussels, (in Competition), 2017
• Experimenta – India, (International Competition), 2017

Friday 27^th April, 1pm – 4pm

Reet Maff’l is a spoken word and sound collage collaboration between artist Luke Drozd and artist/musician Andy Abbott. Luke Drozd is best known for his illustration work and gig posters for clients including They Might Be Giants and comedian Stewart Lee. Andy plays guitar in the bands That Fucking Tank, Nope and solo as Elizabeth. They have both worked together in the art collective Black Dogs where they have undertaken commissions and exhibitions for Tate Modern, MK Gallery and numerous self-initiated projects.

Reet Maff’l began when Luke asked Andy to create some improvised guitar backing for his short stories and accompanying slide show. Since then they have developed site-responsive and context specific sets for a variety of scenarios including performing in a spaceship on top of Matt’s Gallery in London, a performance in Bare Plume Cafe at Supernormal Festival 2015, as well as doing a set about dialect for a live art event in Whitechapel prompting Wire magazine to describe them as ‘the East Midlands answer to Sleaford Mods’. Reet Maff’l is a durational piece and admittance is possible throughout the performance.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Friday 27th April, 7.30pm – 11.30pm

Still House Plants are a Glasgow-based three-piece collective. The group collage fragments of improvised repetition within tight checkpoints. Rhythmic, tonal and gestural restraints are used as a structure for composition which, while appearing as though on the verge of collapse, wrestle with joy and tenderness. Their focus is on dissolving the boundaries between what constitutes music and art through collaboration, experimentation, and dismantling the conventions of their instruments.

Kimberley O’Neill will present Over Exposed and Under Developed, a talk on bodily data and the intentional loss of information. Combining anecdotes of home salons and time-traveling hairstyles with a collage of video evidence, O’Neill will follow various strands to their illogical conclusions.

Francis McKee will read from his recent works Even the Dead Rise Up (Book Works, 2017) and How to Know What’s Really Happening (Sternberg Press, 2016). “If God gives you tear gas make lemonade”.

Kathryn Elkin will give a performance that has themes of gravity, maternity, shelter, bowling, hoovering and drag. Her usual anxieties around the tyranny of performing oneself will be well represented.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Saturday 28^th April, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Brian Willems is Assistant Professor of literature and film at the University of Split, Croatia. He will be talking about the theme of his recent book, Speculative Realism and Science Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) which imagines the end of anthropocentrism through contemporary science fiction and speculative realism.

A human-centred approach to the environment is leading to ecological collapse. One of the ways that speculative realism challenges anthropomorphism is by taking non-human things to be as valid objects of investigation as humans, allowing a more responsible and truthful view of the world to take place. Brian Willems uses a range of science fiction literature that questions anthropomorphism both to develop and challenge this philosophical position. He looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Saturday 28th April, 5pm – 7pm

In the ground floor bar, Free Entry, Free Improv from Tony Bevan and Guests

Since moving to Glasgow in 2016, the mighty saxophonist Tony Bevan has run the improvised music event Help Me I’m Melting! where he collaborates with musicians from the Scottish, UK and international scenes. A duo with underground hero Richard Youngs has already appeared online, but Rime is the first vinyl release from the sessions, lovingly presented on Bevan’s own Foghorn Records (Spring Heel Jack’s Ashley Wales is responsible for the artwork).

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Saturday 28^th April, 7.30pm – 11pm

AMORPHOUS ALBION: A WARP IN PROGRESS: A multi-media adaptation of Ben Graham’s Discordian SF novel, featuring live music from the Hove Space Orchestra, visuals by Shardcore, and readings from the author and friends, this one-hour show is a psychedelic-dystopian road trip following the broken ley lines of a disintegrating Britain. Ben Graham is a magical-anarchist beat poet, Ben is part of the shadowy cabal behind Festival 23 and writes regularly for The Quietus. He’s also knocked out books on The 13th Floor Elevators and The Butthole Surfers. Ben grew up in West Yorkshire but has lived in Brighton like forever.

Neil Bickerton will be presenting a new film ‘Hey, everywhere you have dreams.’ The film is an exposition of the making of the poem by the same name.

Jane Topping will be presenting a new video work, Nou. Inspired by Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman, Nou is a tale of time travel, hypnosis and transformation. Nou is the sequel to Peter (2014), which won Best Short Film at the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival 2017, New York. Jane’s publication Peter and Nou (designed and published by Good Press) will be launched at the screening.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Sunday 29^th April, 7.30pm – 11.30pm

Tickets £7 Adv, £10 Door

Charles Hayward is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock group This Heat. He will be performing songs at the piano, a sequence of betrayal, paranoia, subterfuge and privilege. From these stark, minimal arrangements Hayward diverts the performance into a series of sound events, stalking the stage with an amp in a child’s buggy.

Rattle focus almost exclusively on drums and more drums, beneath a delicate overlay of vocal harmonies and percussive effects. Formed by Katharine Eira Brown and Theresa Wrigley, Rattle began as an experiment in crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. They wanted to find a band name that was onomatopoeic and Rattle fit perfectly. Their set-up remained roughly the same as from that very first rehearsal. The minimal framework meant that they had to use their imagination and think of different ways to create new songs using the same simple ingredients.

Holly Pester is a poet and will be reading from her recent works. Her book, go to reception and ask for Sara in red felt tip (Book Works 2015) is a collection of archive fan-fictions, written in residence at the Women’s Art Library. Her album and poetry pamphlet, Common Rest (Test Centre 2016) is a collection of collaborative lullabies and sound poems. Pester is lecturer in Poetry and Performance at University of Essex and is currently working on a new poetry collection on abortivity, fish markets and bog butter.

City Vegetables is a new solo project by cartoonist Malcy Duff. Using unrecyclable packaging, recordings and voice, sounds are created from reading drawn scores. The red and blue boxes are singing in the street outside of your house.  Sweeping concrete dust, skateboarding woods, a rake through the soil of plastic flowers.  Some of the above, seagulls always above…talking about the weather on their mobile phones.  

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Wednesday 2^nd May, 7.30pm – 11pm

An evening of discussion with guest speakers, presented by the GSA POC Society. Glasgow School of Art People of Colour (PoC) Society was founded after students of colour voiced their dissatisfaction with the white, euro-centric hegemony that the institution operates under. The society has two main aims: to create space for students of colour during their time at the Glasgow School of Art and to create long term structural change. The evening will be a people of colour only event, allowing us to centre our needs and enact self-care.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Thursday 3^rd  May, 7pm – 10pm

Amelia Barratt, Jude Browning and Emmie McLuskey present a night of new performance work drawing from their shared interests in recitation, staged dialogue and instruction. The artists have written in response to the context of Glasgow International festival.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Saturday 5th May, 2pm – 4pm

Free Entry, Free Improv from Tony Bevan and Guests

Since moving to Glasgow in 2016, the mighty saxophonist Tony Bevan has run the improvised music event Help Me I’m Melting!, where he collaborates with musicians from the Scottish, UK and international scenes. A duo with underground hero Richard Youngs has already appeared online, but Rime is the first vinyl release from the sessions, lovingly presented on Bevan’s own Foghorn Records (Spring Heel Jack’s Ashley Wales is responsible for the artwork).

This set from August 2016 sees Bevan commune with Kim Moore (WOLF, Zoey Van Goey). Moore uses pedals to layer melodic fragments over textural drones, while Bevan patiently explores a range of bass saxophone timbres, from guttural parps to long, fluttering tones. There’s some beautifully sensitive duo playing, where lyrical phrases emerge from sustained tonal clusters. Elsewhere, it gets pretty gnarly, with Moore’s distorted viola and Bevan’s breathy slobber conjuring images of a steel mill sinking into a stormy ocean. The final section is stunning, with Bevan’s grainy soprano saxophone soaring and braying over Moore’s ghostly orchestra. (Text by Stewart Smith)

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Saturday 5th May, 7.30pm – 12am

Marc Baines presents an evening of forgotten film, performance and music. Starting with a double bill of Hal Roach produced comedies starring Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts; On The Loose (1931) and The Bargain of the Century (1933).

Suds McKenna is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines aspects of performance as both a framework for anthropological understanding and a presence in art-making. Though stylised and heavily referential aesthetics he seeks to address ideas of morality, character and the condition of the individual.

National Bedtime will be performing a live score for Lubitsch’s Die Puppe (1919). National Bedtime is the latest and most personal vision form acclaimed artist Tony Swain and friends. Here Swain puts down his Guardian cuttings and dons the hat of eloquent guitarist and arranger.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018

Sunday 6^th May, 1pm – 4.30pm

Marc Baines selects a double bill of weird and imaginative martial arts films. Marc’s selection is inspired by the dynamic programming of the old Scala cinema in London.

1pm Zu: Warriors From The Magic Mountain

Inspired by Star Wars, Tsui Hark was determined to develop a brand of special effects with Chinese imagery. In a great leap forward, he trained a whole generation of special effects experts, laying the foundations for the 1980s golden age of Hong Kong Cinema.

3pm Master of the Flying Guillotine

After his students are killed by the One Armed Boxer, a vengeful and blind Kung Fu expert travels to a village where a martial arts contest is being held and vows to behead every one armed man he comes across.

PDF of full Old Hair programme available HERE

Old Hair programme is supported by Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2018