Merchant City Festival

Neighbourhood watch: Merchant City

Glasgow’s Cultural Quarter, home to designer shops, glossy bars and Merchant City Festival

29 Jun 2011

What’s it like? Darling! It’s the Merchant City! Glasgow’s Cultural Quarter! Glasgow’s Style Mile! Home to designer shops, glossy bars, great food and the Merchant City Festival! The best place to eat in the city! Short answer: expensive, but…

Timeline - Summer music festivals 2011 from Scotland and beyond

A chronological list of the best festivals in Scotland and beyond

27 May 2011

A chronological list of the most significant festivals happening in Scotland this summer, along with the biggest and best from the rest of the UK and beyond.

Glasgow's Merchant City Festival 2011

A new way of looking at a beautiful part of the city

27 May 2011

Ten years old and the perfect example of a localised ‘area festival’, the MCF works with the Merchant City’s strengths – namely, its great restaurants, shops and architecture. If the past decade is anything to go by, look out for tasting stalls and…

Merchant City Festival

7 Jul 2010

The annual celebration of Glasgow’s glossiest, foodiest, fashionista quarter is back with a slightly altered date. OK, severely altered; they’ve moved all the way from September to July. Fortunately, the formula remains the same: a weekend packed full…

Music festivals 2010: Festival profiles

28 May 2010

Big or small, loud or quiet, dry or muddy – we love festivals whatever their size, sound or likelihood to leave you soaking wet. Over the next 20 pages we'll give you the lowdown on every major fest hitting Scotland this summer, and information on a few…

Klaus Weber: Bee Paintings

Developing the relationship between the insect and humanity

17 Sep 2009

It is estimated that one third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination, most of which is accomplished by bees, making us entirely dependent on co-habitation. Klaus Weber’s project develops bio-aesthetic experiments to question the…

Glasgow: Merchant City Festival

The celebration of cutting-edge Scottish arts, music and live performance

10 Sep 2009

The Merchant City is all of Glasgow in a few square blocks. At its most north-westerly point, as it merges into the city centre around George Square, it’s all about opulent buildings, trendy boutique shops and a range of desirable restaurants and delis.

The Glasgow festival experience

After Edinburgh it's time for Twestival, Trongate and the Merchant City Festival

3 Sep 2009

It is a truth universally acknowledged that August is dead time in Glasgow. The rest of the year is a different story, of course, and September means the gloves are off, with so many massed gatherings of the city’s creatives that they’re in danger of…

5 things to see at: Merchant City Festival

3 Sep 2009

Kevin Bridges, Scott Agnew, Mark Nelson, Raymond Mearns, Scottish Comedian of the Year

2008 Merchant City Festival

18 Sep 2008

Anyone who has cast their eye over the website for this year’s Merchant City Festival will have found the photograph of Baillie Gordon Matheson flicking through the festival programme while a pair of parkour performers jump around him. In suit and tie…

Junior Jack & Kid Creme

18 Sep 2008

Over a year ago, Byblos planned their big launch party, with the DJs Junior Jack (pictured) and Kid Crème in place, but due to circumstances beyond their control the venue wasn’t ready, so JJ and KC never even saw the decks and spent the night cooped up…

All the world’s a stage

15 Sep 2008

Merchant City Festival (25-28 Sep) www.merchantcityfestival.com Located in the heart of old Glasgow, this event locates a programme of film, theatre, comedy, visual arts, street theatre, live music, food and fashion within an area of real…

Festivals

5 Jun 2008

Until 8 June Leith Festival Various venues, Leith, Edinburgh, prices vary www.leithfestival.com Leith Festival showcases its trademark brew of home-grown talent and big name headliners with over 100 musical acts, 50 comedians and a dozen visual…

Merchant City Festival

20 Sep 2007

We’re not short of festivals in Scotland. The months between April and November have begun to feel like one of those Strip the Willows that happen at particularly drunken céilidhs, where you’re buffeted relentlessly between cultural events and…

Hitlist - the best events, talks and sport

6 Sep 2007

Merchant City Festival Glasgow’s well-heeled cultural quarter comes into its own again, with a four day festival of fashion, theatre, clubbing, food, music and visual art. Look out for the giant maze popping up in the middle of George Square, the cream…

Merchant City Festival

Tales of the Merchant City

7 Sep 2006

This year’s celebration takes place from 20-24 September across Glasgow’s vibrant artistic quarter, and features more than 300 events in 70 venues, which this year includes the recently renovated Old Fruitmarket and City Halls. Jason Byrne and Adam…

Autumn highlights

1 Sep 2006

STAND-UP/SKETCH SHOWS Come early September and a realisation dawns on the comedy world. Yes indeed, there is life beyond the Edinburgh Fringe. Of course, those who help to schedule our comedy viewing pleasures all-year round have had their future…

Hitlist

The best events, talks and sport

31 Aug 2006

GB V Netherlands Top level basketball returns to Scotland for the first time in 30 years, as the GB Men’s team play against the Netherlands in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games. Meadowbank Sports Centre, 139 London Road, Sat 9 Sep. Look Who’s…