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2011
NEWS
Venues
Performers
All acts TBC subject to availability
The One
O'Clock Club
The Glasgow Cabaret Festival
The Glasgow Cabaret Festival presents: (click on each image for more info)
The Glasgow Cabaret Festival would like to thank:
The Arches
From ground-breaking theatre to huge name DJs and hot new bands, The Arches in Glasgow breaks down any traditional notions of what an arts venue should be.
253 Argyle Street
Glasgow G2 8DL
Website: www.thearches.co.uk
Box office: 0141 565 1000
Shows
Cottiers Theatre
Cottiers is a fabulous site in Glasgows West End. It is a church conversion containing a theatre, bar and restaurant surrounded by a garden with stone terraces for eating outside in the summer.
93 Hyndland Street
Glasgow G11 5PX
Website: www.cottiers.com
Box office: 0141 248 8330
The Garage
To truly understand what Glasgow's all about and where most people go for an astounding night out you need to visit the renowned, and nationally celebrated, Garage Nightclub!
490 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3LW
Website: www.garageglasgow.co.uk
Box office: 0141 332 1120
The Glasgow Art Club
Founded in 1867, The Glasgow Art Club is full of stunning original features creating the quintessential environment for engaging conversation and inspirational thought.
185 Bath Street
Glasgow G2 4HU
Website: glasgowartclub.co.uk
Box office: 0141 248 5210
Glasgow University Union
Glasgow University Union (GUU) is one of the largest and oldest students' unions in the UK, serving students and alumni of the University of Glasgow since 1885.
32 University Avenue
Glasgow G12 8LX
Website: www.guu.co.uk
Box office: 0141 339 8697
The Gatsby Club - Friday 14th
Nude
Open seven days a week, Nude is a vibrant cornerstone of Ashton Lane and our dedicated Festival bar with pop-up performances and secret gigs alongside the programmed shows.
Ashton Lane
Glasgow G12 8SJ
Website: www.socialanimal.co.uk/GlasgowWestEnd/Nude
Box office: 0141 334 4749
Pavilion Theatre
The Pavilion Theatre is now the only privately run theatre in Scotland and one of a few unsubsidised independent theatres left in Britain.
121 Renfield Street
Glasgow G2 3AX
Website: www.paviliontheatre.co.uk
Box office: 0141 332 1846
The Rio Cafe
Classic '50s Italian Cafe Vibe. A place for everyone. Cafe by day-venue by night. Relaxed family friendly athmosphere.
Food served daily - 9am to 9pm.
27 Hyndland St
Glasgow G11 5QF
Website: www.myspace.com/theriocafe
Box office: 0141 334 9909
Tron Theatre
From its early years as a theatre club, the Tron has grown into a thriving multi-faceted venue and a funky late-night bar and restaurant.
63 Trongate
Glasgow G1 5HB
Website: www.tron.co.uk
Box office: 0141 552 4267
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Join Us Every Night at the One O'Clock Club...
After hours is when cabaret comes out to play and The One O'Clock Club at Nude, the official late night hot spot of the Glasgow Cabaret Festival, will be the nocturnal playground for festival artists and audience members alike.
When the shows in the main programme finish and leave you gasping for more, The One O'Clock Club is where the true spirit of cabaret comes alive with anarchic performances, music and cocktails every night throughout the Festival until 1am.
Get in touch, get involved, ask a question...
The Glasgow Cabaret Festival 2011 Team:
(click on a name to email directly)
Directors: Louise Oliver & Frodo McDaniel
Associate Director: Ben Allison
Technical Manager: Kerr Hume
Frank's Wild Band
& The Glasgow Cabaret Festival
18+ Music Spoken Word
After Hours At The End Of Time
' When the dust and cigarette ash settled, Frank was still swaying but he was upright. Some say it was the shock that left him swaying to and fro like that; some say it was that he caught the wind more readily than your typical bum; still others insisted that it had most to do with the almost entirely empty bottle of chartreuse in his inside jacket pocket. When the alarms had sounded and the order 'Evacuate' had been given, most people fled the land: Frank must have thought they meant the bottle. '
At this one-off event, Frank's Wild Band provide a tribute, not just to the music of Tom Waits but to the heady and varied atmospheres evoked by his work. At times nostalgic, funny, raucous and occasionally vaguely disturbing; welcome to the gig at the end of the Earth.
Tron Theatre Victorian Bar
Sunday 16th October 2011
7:30pm
SOLD OUT
Box Office: 0141 552 4267 www.tron.co.uk
PERFORMER
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18+ Music Comedy
Phil McIntyre Entertainments
Frisky & Mannish: Pop Centre Plus
Everyone wants a career in pop, and if The Saturdays can do it, then, by God, so can you.
After rigorous education at the School of Pop (Fringe sell-out smash 2009), and intellectual training during The College Years (further selling-out and smashing in 2010), it's time to move out of your parents' house and get a f**king job.
Everything you need is at F&M's Pop Centre Plus.
"Such glittering panache" (Telegraph). "Gold-star masterclass" (Mail on Sunday). "A force of nature" (Western Australian). ***** (Chortle.co.uk). ***** (Edinburgh Evening News). ***** (Daily Mail). ***** (Time Out).
Take your Frisky & Mannish ticket stub to The Gatsby Club to get in for the menbers rate!
Friday 14th & Saturday 15th October 2011
£14/£12conc
Box Office: 0141 565 1000 www.thearches.co.uk
18+ Nightclub Music Comedy
The Gatsby Club
Discover Glasgow's dedicated 1920's night! Don your finest attire (no jeans or trainers please), venture within the opulent, lavish period surroundings and wet your whistle with an exclusive range of cocktails to assist your social lubrication!
Sample a variety show of music-hall comedy, singers, burlesque acts and more, hosted by those caballeros of cabaret, The Creative Martyrs!
Afterwards, take in Gatsby's own fabulous house band, before The Man in Tweed spins records from the early 20th century to modern, era-inspired numbers, keeping toes tapping into the small hours as you're borne ceaselessly into the past!
Frisky & Mannish ticket holders get into the Gatsby Club at the members rate!
Glasgow University Union Debates Chambers
Friday 14th October 2011
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm (event runs 'til 2am)
£12/£10conc & members
Box Office: www.thegatsbyclub.co.uk
18+ Music Comedy Theatre Variety Burlesque
The Creative Martyrs
Tales From A Cabaret and Satire, Surrealism & Song
128 years in Cabaret....Let us tell you some tales...
Ukulele plucking, kazoo humming, cello strumming, storytelling, singing and dancing vaudevillian cabaret duo. Let us corrupt, exploit and violate; hold your hand as your debauchery surrenders to fascism
Satire, surrealism and song. Tales of love, life and art in a time of oppression. Presented for your pleasure in a dark, jovial aesthetic.
Still slightly dank from the Edinburgh Fringe, The Creative Martyrs bring you a combination of both of their shows, Tales from a Cabaret and Satire, Surrealism and Song for an evening of delightfully dark and suspiciously insightful entertainment with The Creative Martyrs and some delightfully special guests.
Tuesday 11th October 2011
8pm
By Donation
Box Office: Donation on exit.
14+ Theatre Music
Conceived and created by
Desmond OConnor and Zoie Kennedy
Once Bitten
Roll up, roll up! Hear the bands discordant waltz; See the clowns cry crocodile tears and the strong-man gorge himself on forbidden flesh in this twisted circus of humanity. The sequinned lady stands mute as flying knives pin her in place whilst cutting her loose from her desire to please.
Once Bitten introduces Desmond OConnor, Zoie Kennedy, Juliette Jeanclaude and a team of gifted musicians in a new theatre cabaret piece that explores the desire to lay oneself bare on stage whilst hiding behind the manifold masks of the entertainer.
Saturday 8th October 2011
£10
Box Office: Click to purchase via Paypal or use Contacts page to reserve tickets on the door
18+ Circus Clubnight
Spinal Chord
present
MEZCLA
Spinal Chord presents MEZCLA, a fresh and exciting creative club night. Come along and be inspired to new heights!
Watch in wonder as performers spin gracefully around a trapeze, perform death-defying drops on the rope and wrap themselves up inside beautiful silks only to burst out and tumble to within inches of the ground before your very eyes.
Glasgow is once again proving itself to be at the cultural cutting edge with this high-octane blend of cabaret, live music, DJ and aerial acrobatics.
7:30pm - midnight
£12 (on the door) £10 (online) £8 (online before 15th Sep)
Box Office: www.spinalchord.com
18+ Variety
ProudExposure &
Glasgay!
The Love Club: Day Of The Dead
Hosted by infamous New York performance artist Markus Makavellian, step into a wonderfully relaxed evening of tea, cake, knitting, music and spoken word, celebrating all who have shuffled off this mortal coil.
Come one, come all, call upon departed, and living,
Celebrate, commiserate, reality is giving
Back, relax, have tea, have cake,
Night of splendour, stupor, wonder, we together shall make
Expect apocalyptic predictions from Amanda Monfrooe (How Keanu Reeves Saved The World) and musical necro-felicitations from The Creative Martyrs, The Arches Community Choir and Julia And The Doogans.
The Arches Theatre
Tuesday 1st Novemb er 2011
£4
18+ Life Drawing Live Music Variety
Rhymes with Purple &
Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School
Dr. Sketchy's is the little New York event that became a movement.
Founded in 2005 by artist and performer Molly Crabapple, Dr. Sketchy's asked a simple question; why can't life-drawing classes be sexy?
Instead of static models being drawn by artists sitting in silence in a cold art class, Dr Sketchy is what happens when Cabaret meets Art School. Models are burlesque stars, contortionists, fire-jugglers, tattooed beefcakes and sideshow freaks. Short poses are accompanied by live music interspersed with performances from the talented models themselves. The charming hosts sing and award prizes and encourage the audience to make art and mischief in equal measure while cocktails are served from the bar.
Sunday 2nd October 2011
3pm - 5pm
£7 (£5 conc)
18+ Comedy Burlesque Live Music Variety
The Not So Secret Society
Residing within the hallowed walls of Glasgow's best kept secret, the city's oldest and most prestigious private members club for the artistic community, is Glasgow's newest and worst kept secret.
Hosted by Rufus & Ben, The Not So Secret Society is a monthly social where artists of every possible persuasion will gather to drink and try out new and existing performance ideas. Theatre makers, writers, poets, dancers, musicians, singers, comedians and any other discipline you can comfortably handle are welcome.
And so are you...all you need is the password.
Wednesday 12th October 2011
10 pm - 11pm
£6 (£5 with password)
Box Office: Tickets on the door
18+ Burlesque Live Music Variety
Entertainers
www.easytheatres.com
An Evening Of Burlesque
Direct From Londons West End. Tantalising yet tasteful, camp and colourful, elegant showgirls combine Parisian charm with Vegas glamour. It's all tease, no sleaze with corsets, killer heels and stockings aplenty. Sultry vocals, breathtaking choreography, mischief, magic, frivolity and fun collide.
Special guests Piff the Magic Dragon, star of TVs Penn & Teller plus the Folly Mixtures quartet offer an assortment of cheeky sets guaranteed to thrill.
Couture costumes recall long-gone-by eras of glamour. The UKs only touring burlesque spectacular brings the magic of the West End to the Glasgow Cabaret Festival in the ultimate tease.
The Pavilion Theatre
Satur day 15th October 2011
7:30 pm
£21/£19.50conc
Box Office: 0141 332 1846 www.paviliontheatre.co.uk
Dusty Flairs' Bingopocalypse!
How to describe Dusty Flairs? Slutty singing sensation...chic cabaret cougar...bloke in a dress? How about all of the above?
Ms Flairs brings you the ultimate night at the bingo, but with more bitchiness, show tunes and if you call house? Well, what do you want, a f***ing medal? She might buy you a drink.
But probably not.
Mon day 10th October 2011
10 pm
£5
Box Office: Tickets on the Door (free to VIP badge holders)
18+ Comedy Live Music Variety
Spangled Cabaret &
Spangled Cabaret
Is tension leaving you tangled? Then it's time you got spangled!
All aboard for the eclectic,anarchic variety night where anything goes!
Spangled has been the handlebar moustache on the chiseled features of Partick for almost 4 years now with their chaotic monthly night (1st Monday of every month at The Rio Cafe).
Here they bring you an extra show especially for the Glasgow Cabaret Festival with all the usual thrills & free donuts to boot!
Join spangled stalwarts:The Creative Martyrs, Scunner, Miss Leggy Pee, Markee De Saw & Bert Finkle, Glasgow Glam Bangers + special guests
