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After a super successful first event at the beginning of the year we are back for ANTR #2!

Join us for an evening of brand new musical theatre writing from Scotland based artists!

We have paired writers up with performers and creatives to help bring their pieces to life – possibly for the first time. At ANTR we aim to create a safe space for both experienced creatives and MT beginners alike to come together and celebrate their work.

It’s a great opportunity for anyone interested in musicals to see new work, help provide feedback to emerging writers/composers and network with some fantastic fellow artists!

It’s going to be FUN. It’s going to be MUSICAL. It’s going to be A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!

…I mean note.

Crowded Flat Presents:

Bandit Country

Plus guests: Foreign2 & Big Girl’s Blouse

“In a haunted house, one can never feel alone.”

CHERRYPIT is back with a vengeance.

First staged at a Glasgow-based new writing festival in 2023, Will Gowling and Fergus Kane return with performers Ellie Devic and Tilly Holt in this gothic black comedy.

September 2nd, 1859. Tonight is a strange one. Drawn to mysterious lights appearing above her home, budding occultist Alice Farrow convinces her pious older sister, Catherine, that there is more to their mother’s death than meets the eye. Embroiled in a mystery that threatens to unmask their true selves, Cherrypit is an irreverent exploration of sisterly bonds and poisonous truths.

The term Agora is Greek for ‘open place of assembly’. The Agora was where the community congregated to discuss events of the day; politics, religion, philosophy, and legal matters. It later designated the open-air marketplace of a city.
The Agora served the same purpose in ancient Athens as the town square and town hall in later societies. It was the centre of the athletic, artistic, business, social, spiritual, and political life in the city. The Athenian Agora is frequently referenced as the birthplace of democracy since it was here that political discussions and arguments gave rise to that concept.
It is that open spirit of discussion that we wish to encapsulate. A new platform for new ideas, channeling the ancient Greeks by using theatre as a vehicle for political and philosophical debate and conversation. The Agora serves as a place to explore social justice issues and make political commentary, in the hopes of igniting conversations and inspiring change.
An evening of short plays/ extracts that each seek to spotlight an issue around social justice. All from and performed by emerging creatives. Followed by a discussion of each play and their themes. The Agora is an opportunity for people from all walks of life to bring a new story, discussion, or style to the stage. Whether it be a part of a larger project, an experimentation, or simply airing out a concept to a new audience.
Join us at The Agora

We are back! DIY night showcasing punk and live electronic artists from Glasgow and beyond at The Old Hairdressers. For your viewing entertainment: Experimental and kaleidoscopic Glasgow-based Opium Clippers Energetic psych-jazz from Edinburgh’s Giant Hogweed Fast and furious garage rock from Cumbria (!), icheeTeef It’s gonna be sweaty, bring a wee Solero or something.

It’s 1972, Roxy Music have just swaggered onto the scene, Mutiny on the Buses is storming the box office and one of Count Dracula’s stupidest descendents is about to perform his very last Black Mass.

Lucky for London there’s a new van Helsing in town to kick some vampiric arse.

Lee vs Cushing!

Hippies vs vampires!

Drab 1970’s wallpaper versus the very funkiest of tunes!

Join Trash Cinema this May for one of Hammer’s very finest of horrors – Dracula AD 1972! Look out cinema, the Drac is back!

Doors open 7pm with a pre-show selection of retro trailers, ads and trashy entertainment, followed by the movie at 7.30pm – Monday the 12th of May at *The Old Hairdresser’s.

Free popcorn and sweeties for all!

Join Toronto-born Michigan-based folk singer-songwriter Maddy Ringo and Scottish folksinger Iona Fyfe for a one-off special co-bill celebrating the art of songwriting and the continuum of the folk tradition. Two solo sets culminate with both artists collaborating to perform each others repertoire.

Maddy Ringo
Since picking up a career on the sidewalks of Toronto, multi-instrumentalist indie folk songwriter Maddy Ringo has become prominent emerging artist in the Southeast Michigan folk scene with her poignant songwriting. At just 20 years old, she brings a contemporary edge and a mellifluous, jazzy voice to a timeless musical tradition of cultural conversation. Her latest album People of the Earth and Sea explores vivid narratives of the complex internal world within an alienating post-industrial society, drawing on her experience as an artist raised in an urban environment. IG: @maddy_ringo FB: @officialmaddyringo YT: @maddyringo

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Iona Fyfe

Aberdeenshire folksinger, Iona Fyfe, has become one of Scotland’s finest singers, rooted in the singing traditions of the North East of Scotland. A two-time winner of Scots Singer of the Year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards, Iona became the first singer to win the coveted title of Musician of the Year in 2021. Iona performs both traditional and self-penned songs in the Scots language, remaining true to her rooting in tradition. Iona is a fierce advocate for the official recognition of the Scots Language, leading a successful campaign to pressure Spotify into recognising Scots and add it to its list of languages. IG: @iona.fyfe FB: @ionafyfe  X: @ionafyfe YT: @ionafyfe

A Hiss of Light is the first recording made by sound artists Alanas Gurinas and Sholto Dobie. Both artists work with acoustic sound sculptures and self-made instruments made with everyday materials. In the case of Gurinas, vibrating and taught paper objects emit pulsing sine tones, organic chirps and shimmering noise that drift like weather fronts whilst in Dobie’s work, air is the main material, compressed and channeled through a set of valves, tubes and timers, into pipes of various origins. 

In these pieces, assembled and recorded at the artist-run space Studium P in Vilnius, Lithuania their sonic world’s combine, and fold into an embrace with each other. Forming invisible landscapes and channels, in which the listener, with an ear to the ground, moves through.

Alanas Gurinas is an interdisciplinary artist of a young generation who creates in the field of sonic performances and audiovisual installations. In his sonic practice he explores sound as a textural phenomena, the themes of ephemerality and relations between various hearable and unhearable objects and spaces. A slightly light tone is a live acoustic sound performance which uses paper as a main material for producing sound. Different kinds of papers are placed between two wooden clamps and with the help of weights are being strained till they find their resonance state. As a result different paper drone tones and textures are being produced. 

Sholto Dobie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius. He is an artist and organizer working with sound in it’s broadest sense. He regularly performs in events, using loose structures, site specific methodologies and an array of sound sources including home-made organs and bagpipes. Over the years, he has explored ideas related to folklore, environment a sonic phenomenon. He is based in Vilnius where he co-organises the artist run space Studium P and curates a regular event series called Progine. 

He has recorded and performed with artists and musicians including Rie Nakajima, Judith Hamann, Lia Mazzari, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Ahti & Ahti, Antonina Nowacka, Malvern Brume, Lucia Nimcova and in the group Lo Escucho Lo Pinto. 

He has released solo and collaborative music with labels such as Mappa, All Night Flight, Kashual Plastik, Infant Tree, Takuroku, Penultimate Press and Thanet Tape Centre. He has toured widely, presenting performances at Cafe Oto (London), Fylkingen (Stockholm), KM28 (Berlin), Kraak Festival (Antwerp), Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen), LOM Space (Bratislava), Archipel Festival (Geneva) and Counterflows Festival (Glasgow).

Laurie Pitt; Percussionist / DJ / producer / music instigator in numerous Glasgow groups  including TheModern Institute, L, Susanna Stark, Super Spreaders, Golden Teacher, Dick 50….. Laurie is performing a new solo set of improvisations on percussion, electronics and zither.

Cuckoo Spit is a spooky and sweet lo-fi project born in rural North Yorkshire in songwriter Lottie Morton’s bedroom. Sounding reminiscent of early 4AD releases, the songs deal with personal themes such as limerence, alienation and suspicion featuring lyrics infused with pastoral imagery and metaphor inspired by Lottie’s surroundings as an adolescent . Cuckoo Spit started performing live in 2023 and plays as both a solo act and a band – this will be their Glasgow debut after recently relocating from London where the project received a lot of positive attention.