The Glad Cafe
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wor_space with National PArk
7 April 2026, The Glad Cafe The Glad Café is starting to feel like a second home, at least on the musical front. It more often than not offers a night of pleasant surprises with the diverse range of music it hosts. And while I’d like to think I have an eclectic taste in music,…
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The Creeping Bent Organisation with Port Sulphur & Bubbles
3 April 2026, The Glad Cafe When you head to a football match there is no guarantee that the team you support will win, that the game will be a free-flowing showcase of football talent and that you will head back home afterwards knowing you’ll have happy memories about the match in the months and…
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Callum Easter with Fraser MacCallum
28 March 2026, The Glad Cafe Having witnessed Callum Easter in a supporting role a couple of times previously, I was nonetheless, unable to convey his unique style to my good lady and what we could expect to hear as we wandered into The Glad Café. There’s his dry humour that works well on a…
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Mackenzies with Land Surveyor
28 February 2026, The Glad Cafe Walking into the Glad Café on Saturday night to see the Mackenzies and Land Surveyor play felt a bit like going back in time to the 1980s. Four decades or so later, the anticipation was the same. The chatter about the bands and musicians who played around that earlier…
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The Golden Tree and The Cowboy Mouth
The Glad Cafe, 17 October The Cowboy Mouth and The Golden Tree In the previous week, Glasgow’s southside had played host to a double header for the Scotland football team at Hampden. While the results were positive, the performances were pretty underwhelming. Winning ugly is not a term of endearment for any Scottish fan. On…
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QUAD90 with Mackenzies
The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 26 September QUAD90 As you peer across the musical landscape within this blog, there are bands who tick the boxes of psychedelic, shoegaze, soulful pop, chamber pop, krautrock, funk and much, much more. Few here though encapsulate the virtues of disco as well as QUAD90, two young ladies by the names…
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The Sexual Objects with The Secret Goldfish
The Glad Cafe, 19 September 2025 The Secret Goldfish The saying “Familiarity breeds contempt” rarely has any good connotations, and yet, on the musical front at least, familiarity with an artist’s work can offer up some untold benefits. And so, it was when we wandered into The Glad Café to watch and listen to The…
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Unharm
The latest gig on our A to Z Musical Tour was …… Over the years I’ve bought an album or three based purely on the ‘look’ of the cover. Taking a punt on what’s been recorded on the album being along the lines of expectations raised by the visual display. Last night at The Glad…
