Live music returns to Glasgow Film Festival

Glasgow Film Festival and music go hand in hand. Some of our favourite events at the festival over the years have been when GFF  intersects with live music. There was the brilliant night when art imitated life and Jessie Buckley performed songs from Wild Rose at the Grand Ole Opry (GFF 2019), or the time Aidan Moffat hosted a raucous gig at the Barras after the premiere of his wonderful pop-folk road trip documentary Where You’re Meant To Be (GFF 2016). What about the amazing night to mark the release of Lost in France, which saw the likes of Alex Kapranos, Stuart Braithwaite, RM Hubbert and half of The Delgados perform together at much-missed venue, the O2 ABC (GFF 2017). 

COVID put the brakes on these types of live music nights at GFF over the last few years, but they’re making a return at the upcoming 19th edition. Working in partnership with Glasgow institution Nice n Sleazy’s and vital Glasgow community radio collective Radio Buena Vida, GFF will be hosting two nights of music that tie in with a pair of great-looking music-tinged titles in the programme.

Band: A Femme-tastic Music Show

First up is the night Band: A Femme-tastic Music Show, which is inspired by the UK premiere of Band, Àlfrún Örnólfsdóttir’s feature blurring fact and fiction as it follows the chaotic antics of Icelandic female punk collective The Post Performance Blues Band. Following GFF’s screening of Band at CCA on Thursday 9 March, make your way across the street to Nice n Sleazy's for a night of female-fronted musical talent. 

The Post Performance Blues Band will make the trip to Glasgow from Reykjavík for the screening and will headline the gig, with support coming from ace Glasgow bands Pearling and Water Wachine. Afterwards, you can dance the night away with DJ sets from Radio Buena Vida regulars Artex Scar aka Mandy McIntosh, [underthunder] aka Nasim Luczaj, and Cùrlach, aka Rochelle Jolley and Emma Diamond.

The Skinny are delighted to be supporting this event as media partners, and we can't wait to see you there. If you’ve a ticket to either screening of Band, just show your stub at the door for free entry; otherwise, tickets are a very reasonable £5 on the door.

I Am Weekender, Under the Skin with live score

Glasgow Film Festival, Radio Buena Vida and Nice n Sleazy’s are also teaming up for a night in honour of I Am Weekender, Tabitha Denholm and Adam Dunlop’s film celebrating Wiz's 1992 cult short Weekender. Taking place at Nice n Sleazy’s after the screening of I Am Weekender on Saturday 11 March, expect a wild night of acid house with a yet-to-be-announced lineup. See GFF’s website in the coming weeks for more details.

There’s more live music in the form of GFF’s tenth-anniversary screening of Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer’s masterpiece starring Scarlett Johansson as a beautiful alien temptress stalking the streets of Glasgow on the hunt for unsuspecting men. This screening will be accompanied by a live performance of Mica Levi's haunting, otherworldly score by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Berman with soundscape by Sound Intermedia. Tickets for this live score screening at QMU on 4 March sold like hotcakes, so a second performance has been put on earlier in the day, with tickets still available.

Band: A Femme-tastic Music Show, 9 Mar, Nice n Sleazy's; tickets at glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-festival/shows/band-nc-15
I Am Weekender's Acid House Night, 11 Mar, Nice n Sleazy's; tickets at glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-festival/shows/i-am-weekender-nc-15
Under the Skin, Queen Margaret Union, 4 Mar; tickets at glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-festival/shows/under-the-skin-film-screening-with-live-orchestra-nc-18