Spring-Summer 2013 253 ARGYLE ST | GLASGOW

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Glasgow Music & Film Festival: Untitled Projects & The Arches present: WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT THE FILM

Fri 15th Feb | 7pm | £8.50/£6.50 CAIN’S

A stellar line-up of Scottish musicians, from Eugene Kelly and Emma Pollock to Withered Hand and Rachel Sermanni, feature in this beautiful collection of stories told in song, shot BOOK during the night in locations across Scotland. This is a snapshot of an entire nation at its most vulnerable and revealing, inspired by what takes place between by Alexander Trocchi the hours of midnight and 4am. The film is part of the Whatever Gets You Through the Night project Adapted & Directed by Alan McKendrick created by the Arches, Cora Bissett, David Greig and Swimmer One. 25th-27th February | 7.30pm (7.45pm on 27th) | £9/£7 Followed by live performances from: The film will then tour to Banchory (22 Feb), Ullapool (26 Feb), Rachel Sermanni, Swimmer One, Hawick (26 Feb), Mull (1 March), Kirkcaldy (2 March), Dundee (10 Post-show discussion on Wed 27th Feb Bigg Taj & Wounded Knee. March). See www.thearches.co.uk for details.

Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, SONIC CINEPLEX adulteries, triumphs, defeats... these are the facts. Sat 16th Feb | 3pm-11pm | £19.50 Cain’s Book depicts protagonist Joe Necchi’s experiences from a Glasgow childhood through The Arches is completely transformed for this to adult life in 1950s New York as a scow captain all day festival-within-a-festival, with stages and unrepentant heroin addict. A tour-de-force and screens scattered throughout the cavernous of poetic writing, simultaneously occupying the space. An incredible line-up of acts including modes of drug literature, confessional, bleak Dieter Mobius, Raime, JD Twitch and many comedy and philosophical tract, the bold and still more will provide live scores to classic films, thoroughly contemporary Cain has lost none of brand new AV shows and specially commissioned its vivid force and power to astonish. DJ sets, with the headline slot rightfully awarded “Terrific Brechtian wit & coolness… to techno legend Jeff Mills and the UK premiere Writer/director Alan McKendrick (Finished of his live, three-deck cinemix to Fritz Lang’s With Engines, Violence Was Offered) is currently astonishing political complexity… 1929 sci-fi classic The Woman In The Moon. in residence with Untitled Projects (The Salon Project, Myths Of The Near Future, Slope) and a daring piece of apocalyptic For full Glasgow Music & Film Festval the Arches, supported by a Playwrights’ Studio listings see www.glasgowfilm.org/festival Scotland Partnership fund. This inaugural theatre. “ presentation of their work upon Cain’s Book is the culmination of this year-long residency. HHHH Scotsman on Finished With Engines Scratch Night Tue 5th Mar / Tue 4th Jun | 7pm £3.50 ticket includes a glass of wine or soft drink

The anarchic, anything goes evening which sees theatre companies, performers, writers and dancers from all fields take ten minutes to try an idea in front of an audience. Afterwards, the action moves to the bar, where the audience talks back. On 5th March, Scratch will be featuring snippets from new works by Harry Giles, Victoria Bianchi, Claire Willoughby, Katherine Nesbitt and Mark Traynor. On 4th June we welcome Eilidh Daniels, Jenna Watt and Juliette Burton to present their ideas. The Arches presents If you have something you’d like to show at Scratch Creative Leadership please contact [email protected] Symposium Crossing The Lines Thu 21st Feb | 3-6pm | FREE but ticketed Tue 11th June | 7pm | £3.50 How do we embed creativity into the core curriculum? How can we be responsive to the The fourth instalment of this scratch-style event individual needs of students and learners? What is sees all kinds of artists perform their versions of classroom inertia and how does creative practice contemporary plays, before moving to audience offer a way of reimaging how a curriculum is offered? feedback and discussion facilitated by Arches/ Jack Webb presents Untitled Projects’ Playwright in Residence Is it possible for artists, creative educators and Alan McKendrick. teachers to work collaboratively to offer a more radical pedagogy that is measured by more than To get involved, please email Dance Triple Bill subject achievement? Who might lead this and [email protected] does it work? Is it effective? What are the benefits Tue 12th Mar | 7.30pm | £8/£5 of this approach? How might this impact on future pedagogical approaches? Jack Webb presents a triple bill of extraordinary For several years Jack Webb has steadily dance performances including GlitterGrid, a received increasing attention and appreciation as As part of Talent Hub investment from Creative Arches Community Choir work featuring Webb’s ecstatic and euphoric a dancer, choreographer, performer and teacher Scotland, the Arches is hosting a symposium event dancing persona influenced by glam rock icons from critics, producers, dance agencies and that will be the culmination of its creative leadership Thursdays | 7pm | £3 such as Ziggy Stardust and themes of physical audiences in the UK and Europe. project at Glasgow’s Oakgrove Primary School and mental transportation, alongside a new duet called 100 Little Pennies by Gary Gardiner. With no experience required, this is a relaxed and a film that includes the faces and appearances opportunity to get together with like-minded music of exceptional performers based in Scotland. Introduced by Dee Heddon (University of fans and belt out a few of your favourite tunes – Expect bold adventure and idiosyncratic dance “one of the brightest young stars on Glasgow), contributors include Gary Gardiner and from Eurythmics and Erasure to Blur and Fleet and choreography from one of Scotland’s rising Murray Wason (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Foxes. They’ve now performed at the Arches, the dance talents. the Scottish choreographic scene” David Cameron, Professor Helen Nicholson City Chambers and even T in the Park. (Royal Holloway) and Lesley Dunlop. Skinny EXHIBITIONS

Feb-July 2013 Foyer | 11am-8pm Mon-Sat | FREE

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND presentS

Private Views at 6pm (all welcome): UWS BA (HONS) the aRCHES ACTORS SYMPOSIUM PRESENTS 12th Feb: Hazel France PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE 12th March: Natalie Wilson 14th May: Claudia Nova Wed 22nd May | 1pm & 7pm | £5/£7 Angels Among Us 18th June: Yuck n Yum Written & Directed by Lawrence Crawford Graduates from the BA (Honours) in Performance present a diverse programme Fri 25th May | 7pm | £4 of work created in their final year. New plays, devised theatre, monologues, dance… Experience Angels guard Glasgow, keeping inhabitants a selection of vibrant new work from performers, safe, observing and influencing their daily lives. directors and writers at the start of their career. The random events, chance encounters, close calls and looks of love. A new batch of angels want to shake things up; the lives of Glasgow’s inhabitants will change forever. Hazel France 2012 Quartz Mountain,

PHYSICAL THEATRE SCOTLAND presents ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE OF SCOTLAND presents The new season of exhibitions at the Arches kicks From 14th May - 17th June, multidisciplinary off in February, with a selection of new works artist and musician Claudia Nova, whose in extremis ON THE VERGE from Hazel France. Running from 12th Feb - practice is centred around the visual language of 11th March, Hazel’s work explores mountains, performance, will present a new body of work that information processing and images. explores pop culture. Thu 20th - Sat 22nd June | 7pm | £7/£5 27th & 28th June | 7pm | £7/£5 Next up, Natalie Wilson’s 3.9.25 will comprise Finally, Yuck n Yum, Scotland’s soi-disant premier In Extremis: a place where you meet the A festival of diverse theatrical works from works stemming from a collection of found art zine showcasing national and international consequences of what you have done, where emerging artists on the RCS’s MA in Classical photographs mainly from the 20s and 30s. The emerging artists, will be launching their summer you can go no further… maybe not where you and Contemporary Text course including exhibition, running from 12th March - 8th edition on 18th June and will occupy the Arches yourself die but the death of something that has performances of new writing, devised physical April, will look at the balance between the past exhibition space until 22nd July. driven, annoyed, questioned or challenged you. theatre and improvisational performances, all and present. Ten vignettes of visual and physical theatre that with the aim of questioning and challenging our If you are interested in showing in the Arches examine the body’s responses to being in that place. understanding of the world we live in... foyer space please e-mail [email protected] Arches LIVE ‘13: Blackbox Call for Proposals Graduate Visual Art Deadline: Friday 3rd May at 5pm Award Arches LIVE is the Arches’ annual two-week festival of risk-taking live performance. Offering BEHAVIOUR a supportive platform for a range of emergent Call for Proposals The Arches’ festival of live performance and experimental artists – from theatre-makers, live artists and choreographers to visual artists, filmmakers and sound artists – our aim is for the Deadline: Friday 3rd May at 5pm building to become a place for debate and a free space for the exploration of new ideas. The Blackbox Graduate Visual Art Award is aimed at giving graduates the opportunity We are currently seeking proposals for work to work outside of their normal practice and to be considered for this year’s Arches LIVE gain inspiration from the Arches’ multi- festival, which takes place in September. Artists artform activity. The winner will be awarded a from all performance disciplines are welcome to residency at the Arches from July to August apply. The only stipulation is that the work is new 2013, including work space, informal research and developed specifically for the festival. We opportunities and funding towards the creation welcome all types of proposals but because this or development of work. autumn marks a year to Scotland’s Referendum we are particularly interested in showing a Previous winners include Anna Henson, Greg strand of work that interrogates notions of place, Grant, Georgina Porteous, Euan Ogilvie governance, community and identity. and Lou Prendergast.

For more information on how to submit a For more information on how to submit a April/May 2013 proposal contact [email protected] or check the proposal contact [email protected] or check the Arches website. Arches website. The Arches and National Theatre of Scotland present: Welcome to: Donald Robertson BEHAVIOUR 2013 Is Not A Stand Up Welcome to the Arches’ festival of essential live Each of the works represents a moment in this Comedian performance, BEHAVIOUR, which provides a ongoing journey. They mark the culmination of the snapshot of the most exciting international artists programme so far, an opportunity to open out the BY GARY MCNAIR shown alongside their Scottish counterparts. process to an audience and share what has been developed over the last few weeks. as part of the Auteurs Project At the centre of BEHAVIOUR, a new partnership with the National Theatre of Scotland will Next year Claire, Rob, Kieran, Nic and Gary will uncover five new presentations from the Auteurs become mentors for a new group of auteurs. Wed 3rd, Thu 4th + Sat 6th April Project. This project began three years ago as a conversation between the two organisations about Elsewhere in the BEHAVIOUR programme we are 7pm | 1hr | £8/£6 the shifting ways that artists were making live delighted to present our Platform 18 award winners work in Scotland. We recognised a move away Peter McMaster and Amanda Monfrooe, our Gary is a theatre maker. from a pattern of graduate artists coming together Brick Award Winners with #Torycore and past He loves to laugh. to form companies with clearly delineated roles festival favourites Mammalian Diving Reflex, He would love to make you laugh. - director, performer, designer, writer, producer, Taylor Mac and Peggy Shaw. He is not a comedian. educator - towards an emergence of artists who had exceptional ability in an overlapping collection of Once again, the festival extends out of the Arches, As a solo performer, people often compare Gary’s these areas. There was an incredible sense of energy, across the city. We’re particularly thrilled to work to stand up comedy. He never knows quite determination and potential from these artists. These announce Tramway as a key collaborator, allowing how to take that. So, when given the chance to ‘The beauty of McNair’s creative authors were leaving their mark. us to expand the ambitions of both the festival experiment with form on the Auteurs Project, and our artists, with Rob Drummond and Gob he decided to find out more about comedy. He performance is that it is totally Thanks to support from the Esmée Fairbairn Squad being shown in the renowned T1 space. delved into the world of stand up. Foundation, the Arches and the National Theatre up front, totally real’ of Scotland have been able to design a programme of I hope you enjoy all this fantastic work and look He watched 103 stand ups in clubs and countless artistic development tailored to the individual needs forward to seeing you around the Arches during more on recorded media. He travelled to London, of our five selected artists. For two years they have BEHAVIOUR. New York and Dundee. He met with legends, HHHH Guardian undertaken a bespoke set of activities - international wannabes and academics. He read 21 biographies, research residencies, writing and thinking retreats, Jackie Wylie, Arches Artistic Director. watched 12 documentaries. He’s done it all – apart performance training, creative exchanges with other from getting up there and trying it himself. Until practitioners, placements and mentorships. tonight.

During his exploration of comedy, he met a boy called Donald. Gary would like to tell you Donald’s story.

Gary will also be curating and hosting a pop-up FESTIVAL Pass: £45/£35 comedy club that will run on the following dates: 253 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8DL (ask at Box Office for details) 0141 565 1000 www.thearches.co.uk GARY’S CHUCKLE HUT: A space for trying and dying and facing fears... Thu 25th April | 10pm | 1hr | FREE Sun 5th May | 9pm | 1hr | FREE Thu 9th May | 10pm | 1hr | FREE AUTEURS PROJECT The Arches and National Theatre of Scotland present: RANTIN KIERAN HURLEY

as part of the Auteurs Project

Peggy Shaw: Devised and performed by Kieran Hurley, Gav Prentice, Julia Taudevin and Drew Wright (AKA Wounded Knee).

RUFF Wed 17th - Fri 19th April | 7.30pm Wed 10th April | 8.30pm | 1hr 15mins | £12/£10 1hr | £8/£6 | Pearce Institute, Govan*

A retired American steps off the plane at Prestwick, hoping to discover the land of his fathers.

A beleaguered politician in Edinburgh dips her RUFF is the latest in a line of Peggy Shaw’s solo might be used in some vain attempt to contain feet into a hot bath. performances, this time written with long term her: language, societal norms, sex, fashion, collaborator Lois Weaver (Split Britches). romance, art — she breathes life into all of An old drunk man in Peterhead has a mystical them and there is nothing but surprise and vision at the harbour. Peggy Shaw had a stroke in January 2011. The pleasure in store for anyone encountering her. stroke was in her pons, which rhymes with The A supermarket checkout girl in Port Glasgow Fonz, one of her many early role models, and approaches work with a baseball bat… since the stroke she’s realized she has never really ‘…an impressionistic monologue performed solo. She has always had a host of Part living room gathering, part play, part gig crooners, lounge singers, movie stars, rock and roll that’s engaging, admirably session, RANTIN draws on storytelling, live bands and eccentric family members living inside music and an unapologetically haphazard take her. RUFF is a tribute to those who have kept her unsentimental and often very funny on Scottish folk tradition, in an attempt to stitch company these 68 years, a lament for the absence together fragmented stories to reveal a botched of those who disappeared into the dark holes left indeed.’ New York Times, 2013 patchwork of a nation. behind by the stroke and a celebration that her brain is able to fill the blank green screens with ‘A truly intelligent and magical performance’ new insights and an opportunity to share them A workshop accompanying Ruff will be held at with her favourite confidants – the audience. The Creative Space at the Western Infirmary, HHHHH Glasgow - please visit www.thearches.co.uk for Edinburgh Evening News on Beats Renowned for her own gender bending further details. Supported by Art in Hospital autobiographical work, Peggy Shaw’s supremely in association with the Medical Humanities *This venue is not fully accessible for wheelchair users. transgressive art explodes every box which Research Centre, University of Glasgow. Please call Marianne Maxwell at National Theatre of Scotland on 0141 221 0970 to discuss. AUTEURS PROJECT Platform 18 Winner Peter McMaster wuthering heights

Platform 18 Winner Amanda Monfrooe:

Featuring overly high drama, romantic violence, a ‘Significant and intensely honest... offering In a vain contest for authority two women enslave “Quite unlike anything else on the stage” touch of Yorkshire bleakness and a few alternative glimpses of the tenderness and sensibilities we the living world in a parade of individual power endings, this all-male performance revisits the tend to tag as maternal or feminine, and yet, and dominance. Like goddesses of the ancient HHHH Skinny landscapes and lives of the characters from Emily like the full-throated singing or the mischievous world they conjure and control nature, confident Bronte’s classic novel, focusing particularly on sparks of comedy, the expression of emotions of their own supremacy. But their fantasy of power “Bursting at the seams with so many sharp, Heathcliff’s mysterious disappearance from the emerges out of the bouts of play-acting with a is undermined by the reality of their collapsing intriguing ideas about illusion and reality... moors, and his subsequent return as ‘a man’. touching sincerity, an integrity of purpose and world. Forcing the women to reconcile or die. impressively rich work that delivers theoretical of witness.’ insights in an entertaining way.” Created in collaboration with Murray Wason, Poke is a darkly humorous, allegorical performance Chris Hall, Nick Anderson and Thom project from Amanda Monfrooe, creator Herald Scullion, this poignant new work explores their HHHHH Herald of How Keanu Reeves Saved the World and (both on How Keanu Reeves Saved The World) own experiences of what it means to be a man The Great Disappointment of Santa Muerta. living in the world today. This performance of * Extra show for male audience members only: Puppetry and music contribute to a macabre Wuthering Heights has been developed since its Sat 27th April at 4pm. tale that carefully parallels the escalating sexual Poke and Wuthering Heights first incarnation at Arches LIVE 2012. violence and environmental destruction that has can be seen as a double bill at marked the first decade of the 21st century. A Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh surreal, visual performance exposing the cultural from 1st - 3rd May. The Arches Platform 18 Award aims to The selection panel includes Jackie Wylie fictions that permit - and even encourage -our www.traverse.co.uk support Scotland’s most exciting theatre makers (Arches), Stewart Laing (Untitled Projects), destruction of the planet. and offer them the unique opportunity to stage a Caroline Newall (National Theatre of “McMaster’sfunded production Wuthering at the HeightsArches and is Traverse.a Scotland) and Hamish Pirie (Traverse). The Arches and National Theatre of Scotland present: The Arches and National Theatre of Scotland present: PINK MIST SHADOWLANDS CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM NIC GREEN as part of the Auteurs Project as part of the Auteurs Project

Thu 25th - Sat 27th April

7pm (5.30pm on 27th) | 55 mins Tue 30th Apr - Thu 2nd May | £8/£6 £8/£6 | Day Pass: £18/£12 6.45pm pick up from Arches (return 9pm) It’s all about weight. It’s all about wait. Nic Green’s Shadowlands focuses on the Stemming from research into the subject of phenomenon of ‘waste’ as both marvel and prodigy. landmines and conversations with landmine survivors and deminers on a recent journey The matter of ‘rubbish’ is hidden away from our day through Cambodia (one of the world’s most to day. It exists in continuous flux, its definition heavily mined countries), Pink Mist takes its and composition unstable and disrupted. How do time. Gradual creeping time. The kind of time these ignored landscapes relate to the landscapes it would take to slowly demine a strip of land of our cultural and personal psyche, the landscapes one metre wide and ten metres long, crouched of our bodies and physicalities? Is there spirit in down, piercing the ground with a pointed metal such matter? probe at an angle of thirty degrees to a minimum depth of fifteen centimetres, when you can only How might we read the physical rubbish we hide move forward in maximum increments of three away systemically as a metaphor for the self? centimetres at a time. Nic Green has witnessed one hundred tons of In collaboration with sound artist Zoe Irvine and rubbish being poured into a pit, and noticed the under the mentorship of Richard Layzell and homework of a seven-year-old girl amongst the Mish Weaver, this new work-in-progress from rubble. She has seen hillsides of cars piled up, and ‘When Nic Green first burst onto the Arches scene Claire Cunningham creates an environment a single deer amongst them. She wondered about a few years ago, it was clear that there was a that pulls our gaze to the ground and looks at the a chorus of children standing in a world of waste. fierce new creative intelligence on the block.’ voids these objects leave– in time, in bodies, in the And she read that the shadow ignored multiplies, land and in our own certainty. and the one accepted, eventually dissipates and HHHH Scotsman on Motherland lightens. Pink Mist: an unofficial military term used to AUTEURS refer to the state a person ‘becomes’ after triggering This new site-specific work, part of the Auteurs PROJECT a landmine or other unexploded ordinance… Project, explores our relationship with waste and what we throw away. ‘feisty, innovative, radical and witty … this is strong visionary work’ So we wade in. AUTEURS HHHHH Herald on ME (Mobile/Evolution) PROJECT “These are original and talented thinkers and theatre-makers... the combination of ideas, styles, jokes, songs and semiotics is unlike anything you will have seen before.”

Gob Squad’s The Times on fish & game’s otter pie KITCHEN IN ASSOCIATION WITH - You’ve Never Had it So Good

Fri 3rd May | 7.30pm | 1hr 40 mins | £14/£10 | Tramway Bryony Kimmings:

It’s 1965 and everything is just about to happen. such as Eat, Sleep and Screen Test. How can they TAYLOR MAC get it just right? How do they know if they’re going Sat 4th + Sun 5th May | 7pm | 1hr 30 mins | £12/£10 Pop, subculture, superstars, feminism, drugs, wrong? How did people dance in 1965? What did bright lights and sex are about to rock the world they talk about? Had feminism happened? Or 7 day drunk like never before. Gob Squad take the hand of the was it yet to begin? A quest for the original, the Arches favourite Taylor Mac returns to the ‘There are drag queens, and then there’s Taylor King Of Pop himself, Andy Warhol, and take a authentic, the here and now, the real me, the real festival,By performing Rosana political Cade songs &from Eilidh the 20th MacAskillMac. A shiny-spangled, radical talent who can trip back to the underground cinemas of New York you, the hidden depths beneath the shiny surfaces century in his truly incomparable style. drolly drawl “I think – therefore I glam,” and then City, back to where it all began. of modern life. Thu 27th - Sat 29th Oct | 7.30pmproceed | £9/£7 to illuminate cunningly assorted spooky, In this special show, Taylor spans the entire 20th problematic and ridiculous aspects of modern life Gob Squad’s Kitchen takes one of Warhol’s “This is an absolute gem of a show. It’s a live century of popular music, focussing on political by virtue of his mordantly witty drag personna.’ films, Kitchen, as its starting point. Nothing magic act of sorts, and one of the most enjoyable songs fromObscene around inverts! the Sexless world termites! and settling Hermaphroditic the intimate “friendships”. Part queer history lesson, much happens in the original film yet it somehow such feats I’ve ever seen at the theater.“ Scottishspinsters! independence These issue are justonce some and forof theall. things we’veHHHHH part titty-show, Herald come indulge your ‘Strange encapsulates the hedonistic experimental energy of been called while touring the world with our Hungers’. the swinging sixties. Learning lines was considered New York Times Immigration,timeless offshorelavender drillingcabaret and(read: marriage grubby lesbo‘With scattershot brilliance Mac uses his many ‘old fashioned’ so the actors just hang around. Sex, equalityfreakshow). will be covered during the encore. talents Thisto get brand us to new think show and from feel. “TheGlasgow’s effect is live-art drugs and wild parties are referred to but nothing “Gob Squad skip fearlessly along the thin line between heartening,supergroup vital and” (Theliberating Skinny), and closeis an to beingilluminating in particular takes place. fiction and reality... a moving meditation on the nature TaylorNow Mac you last lucky appeared Glasgow at queersthe Arches can bask in in thea cultural delve manifesto.’ into the past 100 years of queer culture. of self and the unknowability of the past.“ 2010 withsqualid Comparison sapphistry Is Violence of your or filthy The Ziggy hosts, Claude Gob Squad set themselves the task of Stardustand meets Maud, Tiny as Tim we Songbook. root around the icons andHHHHH “mad as snakes Times and at least as fascinating” reconstructing Kitchen and other Warhol films Guardian dykons of the past hundred years. Let us edu- The Scotsman on Fish & Game tain you with shocking tales of cross-dressing, boarding school crushes, Boston Marriages and The Arches & National Theatre of Scotland in association with Tramway present: THE RIOT OF SPRING ROB DRUMMOND as part of the Auteurs Project

Mammalian Diving Reflex: aLL THE SEX I’VE EVER HAD Fri 10th + Sat 11th May* | 7pm | 60 mins | £12/£10 | Tramway On the 29th May 1913, The Rite of Spring by Rob Drummond is an award-winning playwright, Igor Stravinsky premiered at the Théâtre des performer and theatre maker. His wide ranging Champs-Élysées in Paris. Not knowing whether to work includes the critically acclaimed Wrestling, for Thu 9th May | 7.30pm Fri 10th May | 8.45pm Sat 11th May | 3pm | £12/£10 | 2hrs be more appalled by Stravinsky’s uncompromising which he trained as a professional wrestler and the experimentations in dissonance, tonality, rhythm magical theatre show Bullet Catch, which was a huge and meter or by Vaslav Nijinsky’s ugly, horizontal, hit at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, winning both a Let’s talk about sex, baby. Senior citizens from saw children cutting adults’ hair at a Glasgow pigeon-toed choreography, the Parisian audience Herald Angel and a Total Theatre Award. Glasgow are going to talk all about it: the evolution hair salon, comes a new show exploring society’s reacted as their instincts told them. They rioted. of their sexuality over the course of their lives, attitudes to sex and old age. Stravinsky and Nijinsky, it seemed, had succeeded the current state of their romantic affairs; their in achieving the holy grail of art – they had created “Remarkable, multilayered and challenges and pleasures. Join our panel of elders “Toronto’s messiah of experimental theatre… a something entirely new. and hear the experiences of an entire lifetime as catalyst for imaginative absurdity” utterly gripping.” they trigger conversations, field questions, play One hundred years on Rob Drummond will music and dance with the audience. torontostage.com on MDR work with a dancer and a musician to create a HHHH Guardian on Bullet Catch piece that will fuse written narrative theatre with In our youth-obsessed culture, All the Sex I’ve Ever ‘It’s rare to find a company that combines social dance and live music. A virgin is sacrificed for the *10th May: catch the 8.24pm Pollokshields Had re-establishes a community of wise elders to responsibility with such an entertaining capacity good of a community, a group of tourists dance East train back to the Arches for All The Sex I’ve whom we can turn for advice gleaned from their to shake our ideas of what theatre can be and themselves to death in a city square and an artist Ever Had at 8.45pm. vast wealth of life expertise. The seniors have a lot who it might be for.’ drives himself to the brink of insanity in his quest to teach us, a lot to share, and show that ageing to create something completely original. *11th May: meet in Tramway foyer after can yield a way of being in the world that is open, Arches Artistic Director Jackie Wylie show to head along to Glad Cafe for generous and fearless. Let’s get it on. #Torycore at 9pm.

From Mammalian Diving Reflex, the acclaimed If you are over 65 and would like to find out more innovative Canadian company behind last year’s about participating in this work please call Lucy unique experience Haircuts By Children, which on 0141 565 1011. AUTEURS PROJECT ARCHES BRICK AWARD WINNER 2012

TRANNY & ROSEANNAH

Installation 12th March - 31st May Performance/Menu dates tbc - see website.

Before Trinny & Susannah there was... Tranny & Roseannah! Style goddesses, lifestyle gurus and all round gender bending do-gooders. Following the success of their revolutionary series How To Efterklang presents Cook Good Naked, the Queen Mothers of makeover tv are bringing their culinary flair to the Arches The Ghost of Piramida Cafe Bar. With their unique taste and unparalleled insight, the debauched duo are completely Wed 10th April | 7pm | 55 mins | FREE redesigning both the venue and the menu*. #TORYCORE Expect frocks, cocks, and a whole lot of shots. Following the success of Efterklang’s An Island, this new film by Andreas Koefoed documents *Please note: All dishes on the menu will be prepared naked the Danish band’s visit to the abandoned Russian Sat 11th May | 9pm | 50 mins | £5 | Glad Cafe, Shawlands* mining town where their latest record’s inception began back in the summer of 2011. Created and performed by Lucy Ellinson, Chris This is music beyond protest: a live band, playing a Thorpe and Steve Lawson. Lyrics by George pounding, nihilistic, muddy, discoordinated, brutal, Accompanied by their taciturn polar bear guard, Osborne and the architects of austerity. subverbal deathgrowl. common Futures the group goes on an audio treasure hunt in the empty buildings of the abandoned town, while Ever wondered what George Osborne’s 2012 #TORYCORE took the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Sat 11th May | 11.30am-1.30pm | FREE the narrator, former Piramida citizen Alexander, budget speech would sound like performed by a by storm, picking up the Arches Brick Award takes us back to a bygone era, back when death metal band? along the way. The Arches hosts a breakfast discussion about Piramida flourished... the future for artists. Part gig, part theatre, part political rally, The band play live at the Arches on Sat 20th #TORYCORE is a new take on Conservative politics The Arches turned 21 in 2012. But this is bigger April – see gig section for details. and its effect on British society. Incorporating ‘This noise pierced the festering sense than that. What does the future hold? What do the text of Osborne’s speech as he announced his we want for the future? It’s about you, me, us, programme of austerity, a list of peers who voted of injustice within me and set me them... Let’s begin the day by talking about what ‘a heartwarmingly soulful portrait for NHS reform together with their links to private comes next. Let’s anticipate it. healthcare companies and damning evidence on fire.’ of the band in their natural habitat' straight from Hansard, this performance delivers an A Commons discussion by and for artists about almost cathartic venting of feelings against today’s Whatsonstage.com our futures, about what we want, need, fear. HHHHH Guardian on An Island government. Hosted by a guest facilitator tbc. *1006a Pollokshaws Rd. behaviourdiary

3rd April - 11th May 2013 | Glasgow

3,4,6 APR GARY MCNAIR: DONALD ROBERTSON... ARCHES 10 APR PEGGY SHAW: RUFF ARCHES DF Concerts presents DF Concerts presents 10 APR EFTERKLANG: ghost of PIRAMIDA ARCHES 17-19 APR KIERAN HURLEY: RANTIN PEARCE INSTITUTE RAE MORRIS CHVRCHES 23-27 apr AMANDA MONFROOE: POKE ARCHES + Young Fathers 23-27 apr PETER MCMASTER: WUTHERING HEIGHTS ARCHES Wed 20th Feb | 7pm | £7.50 adv | 14+ 25-27 apr CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM: PINK MIST ARCHES (under 16s must be with an adult aged 18+) Sat 2nd Mar | 7pm | SOLD OUT

25 APR GARY’S CHUCKLE HUT ARCHES With her powerful voice, emotive melodies Without doubt one of the most hyped new acts 30 apr-2 MAY NIC GREEN: SHADOWLANDS OFF site and tender, honest lyrics, Blackpool singer- around, the Glasgow electro pop trio exploded 3 MAY GOB SQUAD: KITCHEN TRAMWAY songwriter and pianist Rae Morris, the 19-year- into consciousness last summer with their 4-5 MAY TAYLOR MAC ARCHES old, explosive-haired talent behind tracks such bombastic anthem Lies. Already rated no.5 in the 5 MAY GARY’S CHUCKLE HUT ARCHES as Grow, Don’t Go and Walls, has been steadily BBC Sound of 2013 poll and with a live session building a name for herself since writing her first for Radio 1 under their belt, expect stellar things 9-11 MAY MDR: ALL THE SEX I’VE EVER HAD ARCHES song two years ago. for Chvrches this year. 9 MAY GARY’S CHUCKLE HUT ARCHES 10-11 MAY ROB DRUMMOND: THE RIOT OF SPRING TRAMWAY 11 MAY COMMON FUTURES ARCHES CAFE THE ARCHES PRESENTS 11 MAY #TORYCORE GLAD CAFE apr/May TRANNY & ROSEANNAH ARCHES CAFE THE MAGIC BAND Sat 9th Mar | 7pm | £15 adv | 14+ SEE EVERYTHING FESTIVAL PASS: £45/£35 (under 16s must be with an adult aged 18+) BOOK NOW ON 0141 565 1000 OR WWW.THEARCHES.CO.UK The Magic Band, the wildly influential, rotating ensemble of Californian musicians who played alongside legendary artist, poet and musician Captain Beefheart, were one of the first and most exciting purveyors of psychedelia and the hippie counterculture - as well as a solid rhythm and blues band, combining elements of free jazz, blues and rock. SUPPORTED BY: The current show features key tracks from throughout the band’s history, but is mainly drawn from Clear Spot and Trout Mask Replica, with much of the latter being performed as instrumentals, allowing the intricacy of the music to be fully appreciated. DF CONCERTS presentS REGULAR MUSIC presentS DUKE SPECIAL HOUSE OF LOVE Sun 10th Mar | 7pm | £12 adv | seated Fri 5th Apr | 7pm | £17.50 adv | 18+ 14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult)

Combining music hall with uplifting pop and One of the defining British guitar bands of the dreadlocks with eyeliner, distinctive performer late 80s, The House Of Love return to the Duke Special is one of Belfast’s proudest exports, Arches on the back of their fifth album, She winning hearts worldwide with his bruised, Paints Words In Red. brooding romanticism and hobo-chic charm, as heard on singles such as Last Night I Nearly Died Influenced by The Jesus and Mary Chain and and Our Love Goes Deeper Than This. The Velvet Underground, the band enjoyed five intense years of cult indie success, spawning Whilst his genre-dabbling live act and multiple singles such as Shine On, Christine, Destroy award nominations have landed him gigs from the the Heart and I Don’t Know Why I Love You. BBC’s Last Night Of The Proms to support slots Their neo-psychedelic sound and lead singer/ for Snow Patrol and The Divine Comedy, his guitarist Guy Chadwick’s songwriting skills saw romantic leanings have also swept him into the them recognised as one of the great Creation world of theatre, literature and art, performing Records bands. at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and London’s National Theatre.

DF CONCERTS presentS THE INTERNET + kilo kish Mon 11th Mar | 7pm | £12.50 adv 14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult) DF Concerts presents DF Concerts presents

Comprising Syd “Tha Kyd” Bennett and Matt Martians, otherwise known for their TOM BAXTER RACHEL ZEFFira skills as part of OFWGKTA (Odd Future) alongside Frank Ocean, The Internet is Sat 16th Mar | 7pm | £12.50 adv | 18+ Sat 13th Apr | 7pm | £10 adv the gentler, R&B flavoured side project of the 14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult) testosterone-heavy collective. Their debut album PurpleNakedLadies, released at the end of 2011 Flaunting a remarkable talent for pulling at the Ethereal, gorgeous instrumentation and a as a free download, offers a skittering collection heartstrings, Tom Baxter’s influences range disarmingly natural voice make the debut of sonic sketches taking in glo-fi, hip hop and from the folk scene he was born into to Spanish album from Canadian composer and multi- neo-soul, honouring the fashionable resurgence guitar and funk, held together by a tender lyrical instrumentalist Rachel Zeffira, also known as of late-90s, early-00s R&B as well as an obvious simplicity capable of melting even the coldest of one half of goth-pop duo Cat’s Eyes alongside love for Pharrell Williams and the Neptunes. hearts. Expect emotive renditions of singles such The Horrors’ Faris Badwan, one of last year’s All in all, prepare for a very exciting Glasgow as Better, Almost There and Miracle. most subtle gems. debut.

SYNERGY CONCERTS presentS MATTHEW E WHITE Wed 24th Apr | 7.30pm | £9 adv 14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult)

Although released in the UK in January, Virginian musician Matthew E. White’s incomparable debut Big Inner has been causing quiet tremors DF Concerts presents since its American release last summer, with critics lapping him up as a songwriter of enviable talent. The album evades categorisation; whilst the voice HADOUKEN! and lyrics hum with understated southern soul, GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL presents the music veers into country but ultimately sings Fri 19th Apr | 7pm | £12.50 adv from the book of gospel with beautiful, delicate 14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult) jazz arrangement and the glowing warmth of THE WEE MAN’S RAP Lambchop or Spiritualized. Bursting onto the dance scene in 2007 with That BATTLE SHOWDOWN Boy That Girl/Tuning In, two savage, nu-rave Joined by his six piece band, catch this anticipated anthems for the Skins generation, Hadouken! live show now as his star gently ascends. Sat 23rd March | 8pm | £8/£6 | 18+ continued to evolve at an alarming rate, with singles spanning post-punk, grimecore, rave-rock, dubstep Scotland’s illest comedians are pitted against the and drum and bass. Check out latest single Levitate country’s dopest rappers in hip hop battles of for a taste of where they are now. wit. Note: in this context ‘ill’ and ‘dope’ are both positive phrases. THE ARCHES PRESENTS Plus:

THE DESAPARECIDOS EFTERKLANG Sat 9th Feb Sat 20th Apr | 7pm | £12.50 adv JUST ANNOUNCED: 14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult)

Their 2004 debut marked them as one of the JAGUAR SKILLS Fri 15th March most exciting new bands of the indie-classical the gig cartel presents movement with electronic-orchestral vistas similar to those of Sigur Ros, all elegant, RUSTIE/JACKMASTER grey-sky gloom and magisterial, modern day ROBBEN FORD Sun 31st March melancholy. Second album Parades in 2007 saw them achieve widespread critical acclaim. Sun 28th Apr | 7.30pm | £25 adv | 18+ CHASE & STATUS (DJ set) Since then, the trio have performed with full Sat 27th April symphonic orchestras, kicking off an impressive One of the greatest guitarists of the 20th Century, worldwide tour at the Sydney Opera House Robben Ford has an ability to cross genres and SPOCK’S BEARD last year following the release of fourth album, excel in them all, whether blues, jazz or rock. Sat 4th May Piramida, in September. This gig sees them Still touring prolifically, he has collaborated accompanied by a six piece band, with special with musicians as diverse as Miles Davis, Bob SOLEY support from the remarkable Swedish singer- Dylan, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison and Sat 5th May songwriter Anna Von Hausswolff. KISS over his 44 year career.

PCL presents PCL presentS PIGEON TRAMPLED DETECTIVES BY TURTLES Fri 3rd May | 7pm | £12.50 adv 14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult) Mon 3rd Jun | 7pm | £11 adv 14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult) Pigeon Detectives return to their perch as one of the key bands of the late-00s indie-rock boom, Experimenting with old fiddle, traditional folk and alongside the likes of fellow Leeds band Kaiser bluegrass songs as a break from playing with their Chiefs, with a new album, full headline UK tour rock bands, five Minnesotan friends soon found and punchy new single Animal. themselves fascinated by the instruments and Infectious choruses, instant sing-a-long appeal traditions people had used for centuries to express and an indie dancefloor foot stomp that can be their lives. Years of listening to Dylan, the Stones heard a mile away makes them firm favourites on and Nirvana and a modern approach naturally the festival circuit, and a still-vital addition to any gave birth to a rousing, thoroughly unique sound, discerning NME reader’s collection, with their list between punk-tempo bluegrass and country. of effortless hits including Romantic Type and I’m Not Sorry and This Is An Emergency. After ten years of prolific touring - and five albums, including last year’s more contemplative Stars And Satellites - the stage, rather than the studio, remains their spiritual home, and the best place to the fallen angels club presentS witness the energy they exude playing together. THE HANDSOME FAMILY TRIPLE G MUSIC PRESENTS Sat 18th May | 7pm | £15 adv | 18+

The incomparable husband-and-wife Americana SCOTT IAN OF ANTHRAX duo, aka Brett and Rennie Sparks, return to Speaks Spoken Words Glasgow a year and a day after last playing the city. With a new album due for release this year, Wed 5th Jun | 7pm | £15 adv the pair will be teasing and pleasing in their 14+ (Under 16s must be with an 18+ adult) inimitable style with both old favourites and fresh songs, effortlessly wooing audiences like Following the huge success of his one-off gig at not many others could with songs about magnets, London’s Garage last November, the guitarist drawbridges, shipwrecks, crocodiles, wildebeests, from legendary heavy metal band Anthrax now glow worms and much more… Expect a truly goes on tour to share his candid, hilarious and beguiling gig from one of the genre’s most fascinating treasure trove of tales of the road, original, inventive and downright entertaining spanning his 30 year career as a professional acts. musician. Or, in his words, “an evening of ridiculous truth... talking (swearing) about this “An evening with the Handsome Family sure is insane life I’ve led over the past 31 years, the an experience to cherish.” Scotsman 2012 people I’ve met and the shit that’s happened.” Dare to be different...

Is your organisation hosting an event in 2013/2014 Based in a city centre location and only a ten minute and looking for a unique and vibrant city centre walk to the SECC and all the main city centre hotels, venue? Nestled in atmospheric Grade A-Listed we are ideal for your event! Victorian vaults, the Arches is the perfect choice. View our corporate hire video, photographs of the The venue can be transformed to hold up to 700 venue fully dressed or read what our past clients for a gala banquet or product launch or 1,800 for a say about us at www.thearches.co.uk and click on drinks reception. Alternatively, we can hold smaller Corporate Hire. events such as weddings, client dinners, ceilidhs and staff parties, including Christmas functions for 100 For further information and to arrange a show – 300 guests. round please contact the Corporate Events Team by email or phone on: Our highly experienced in-house technical team and event planners can theme each event to suit [email protected] your requirements. The venue is also ideal for small or 0141 565 1005/1026 conferences looking for an alternative to hotels.

The Arches is a non-profit making organisation with charitable status and gratefully acknowledges support towards its arts programme and access facilities from: Abbey National Community Fund; ADAPT Trust; Andrew Paton’s Charitable Trust; Awards For All (The Big Lottery Fund); The Binks Trust; Clydesdale Bank; Craignish Trust; Cruden Foundation Limited; The Fenton Arts Trust; Garfield Weston Foundation; The Garrick Charitable Trust; Hugo Gifford; Hugh Fraser Foundation; John Lewis Charity Committee; Russell Trust; Scottish Community Foundation. Thursdays & Fridays: 5pm–9pm Saturdays: 2pm-9pm | Sundays: 2pm-8pm £9.50 | Group ticket (10 people): £8.50 per person Benga Aftershow Sun 17th Feb: Benga, Youngman, Pixel Fist, Beta.

STREETRAVE Sat 23rd Feb: The Acid House Party - Danny Rampling, Shades Of Rhythm, Yogi Haughton.

PRESSURE Fri 1st March: Len Faki, Nic Fanciulli, Nina Kraviz, Paul Ritch (live), Slam, Silicone Soul.

HARD DANCE AWARDS Sat 2nd March: Wildstylez, Evil Activities, Very special guest: Yoji, Kutski, Alex Kidd, Andy Whitby, Organ Donors, BK, Mark EG, Cally & Juice, Technikal, Brian M vs McBunn, Argy, DJ Y.O.Z, L.E.D, Cally Gage, Jimmy Dean, Sam Townend, Obsession, Al Twisted & Rob Da Rhythm.

COLOURS Sun 3rd Mar: Fatboy Slim, Tom Starr, Jon Mancini (SOLD OUT). Sat 9th Mar: Nicky Romero, Jack Beats, Nilson. Sat 30th Mar: Alesso, Otto Knows, Jon Mancini, Giovanni Ferri. Sat 27th April: Chase & Status (DJ set), Rage.

JAGUAR SKILLS Fri 15th March: Jaguar Skills & His Amazing Friends, No Face.

NUMBERS Sun 31st March: Rustie, Jackmaster, Spencer.

BACK TO THE FUTURE Sun 31st Mar: GBXperience Anthems Easter 2013. CLUBS OCTOPUSSY Every Wednesday: Glasgow’s most original student night with drinks offers, cheap entry, bouncy castle, wedding chapel, swimming pool, jacuzzi and more...

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