The Glad Cafe

The Glad Cafe Award winning vegan café and music venue in the heart of Glasgow’s Southside. www.thegladcafe.co.uk

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Serving delicious vegan food, cocktails, hot drinks, brunch, cakes and alcohol free options!

15/06/2026

This Thursday!

+ Colossal Letdown
Thursday 18th June
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk
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Alison Cotton is a London based composer, vocalist, and multi instrumentalist whose music centres on viola, harmonium, and layered vocal drones. Originally from Sunderland, she first emerged in the UK underground in bands including Saloon, The Eighteenth Day of May, and more recently, The Left Outsides before beginning her solo career in 2018.
Cotton continues to explore drone, experimental folk, and narrative forms, establishing
herself as a singular voice in contemporary experimental music.

“Alison Cotton’s music speaks of places, people and stories not quite of this world,
while orchestrating folk and drone elements meticulously, as if following an arcane
ritual” – The Wire

Colossal Letdown is the drone/noise/ambient solo project of Lanark-based musician Charlie Butler. Over a number of sold out tape releases on Eggy Tapes, Brachliegen Tapes, Rat Run Records and Luddite Tapes, Colossal Letdown has explored a wide spectrum of weird sounds ranging from harsh walls of static to minimal crackly drones.

Well that was quite something...THANK YOU all for joining us to watch Scotland win their opening World Cup game and maki...
14/06/2026

Well that was quite something...

THANK YOU all for joining us to watch Scotland win their opening World Cup game and making it an epic night.

Shouts to Ross Keppie for bringing the BANGERS & getting everyone hyped pre-match.

If anyone has seen the mini World Cup there is a reward for its safe return!

Next up

Morocco Fri 19th 11pm ~ 🪩 Lukas Delius from 8pm seeing us in with a mix of global disco + funk
Brazil Wed 24th 11pm ~ 🎙️ Toni & Chris from 9pm with SCOTTISH INDIE CLASSICS

14/06/2026

🍊SPECIAL OJ WINE✨

The taste of Sicily in Shawlands. We have a gentle introduction to orange wine for you on as special! Featuring stone fruit and a hint of spice 🥵

All of our wines are organic and vegan friendly 🍃

Coming up this week at The Glad Cafe 🎤🎟️… We have a full week of music and events including LIVE screenings of all of th...
13/06/2026

Coming up this week at The Glad Cafe 🎤🎟️…

We have a full week of music and events including LIVE screenings of all of the Scotland and England World Cup games ⚽️!!!

Let’s go 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

13/06/2026

Indulgent, plant based, comfort food style brunch available from 10am until 2pm every Saturday and Sunday 🥞💘

🧊N3W W1N3🧊we now stock a zesty Reisling and a warm Pinotage 🖤 🍋 Tenuta II Cascinone Fontanino: an Italian Reisling with...
12/06/2026

🧊N3W W1N3🧊

we now stock a zesty Reisling and a warm Pinotage 🖤

🍋 Tenuta II Cascinone Fontanino: an Italian Reisling with notes of lime, minerality and lemongrass.

🫐 Cape Wild: a South African Pinotage with notes of plum, cherries and toasty oak.

THIS SUNDAY! Don't miss your chance to catch the mega Painted X-Ray as they play their last Glasgow gig for 2026, with s...
11/06/2026

THIS SUNDAY! Don't miss your chance to catch the mega Painted X-Ray as they play their last Glasgow gig for 2026, with special guests Luki + Martin Law (DJ)🔥
Sunday 14th June
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk
Photo 1 by Harrison Reid
Photo 2 by Matthew Arthur Williams
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A band with taiko at its heart, Painted X-Ray* are taiko (Japanese drums—Alison Roe, Yumi Célia), guitar (Jer Reid), bass (Ali Begbie) and violin (Rafe Fitzpatrick): skins and strings basically.

Painted X-Ray are based in Glasgow and have toured around the UK, including the 1 in 12 Club’s 30th birthday party in Bradford, the Celtic Connections and European Championships festivals of 2018 in Glasgow, and in the beautiful Pianodrome in Edinburgh’s botanic gardens as part of the 2018 Fringe festival. Painted X-Ray were also one of 12 Glasgow music acts selected to take part in the British Council’s ‘Mix the City‘ project, launched in the UK in 2018.

Painted X-Ray have shared bills with The Ex, King Ayisoba, Kathryn Joseph, RM Hubbert, Sound of Yell, Barbara Morgenstern, Daikiri and FK Alexander (amongst others) and share a collective rehearsal space at On The Corner studio in Glasgow’s East End with several bands including The Gymnastic Band, Current Affairs, Joyce Delaney and Gift Horse.

11/06/2026

✨ New Cocktail Menu 💘

We have shiny new drinks menus and an entirely new cocktail list!

Introducing the Green Ti Punch 🥊 gunpowder green tea infused Cachaça, lemongrass & lime 💚

Best enjoyed with the ambient chatter of a cosy cafe and the last of the day’s sunshine x

11/06/2026

ONE WEEK TO GO!
The Glad Cafe presents:

+ Colossal Letdown
Thursday 18th June
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk
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Alison Cotton is a London based composer, vocalist, and multi instrumentalist whose music centres on viola, harmonium, and layered vocal drones. Originally from Sunderland, she first emerged in the UK underground in bands including Saloon, The Eighteenth Day of May, and more recently, The Left Outsides before beginning her solo career in 2018.
Cotton continues to explore drone, experimental folk, and narrative forms, establishing
herself as a singular voice in contemporary experimental music.

“Alison Cotton’s music speaks of places, people and stories not quite of this world,
while orchestrating folk and drone elements meticulously, as if following an arcane
ritual” – The Wire

Colossal Letdown is the drone/noise/ambient solo project of Lanark-based musician Charlie Butler. Over a number of sold out tape releases on Eggy Tapes, Brachliegen Tapes, Rat Run Records and Luddite Tapes, Colossal Letdown has explored a wide spectrum of weird sounds ranging from harsh walls of static to minimal crackly drones.

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1006a Pollokshaws Road
Glasgow
G412HG

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 11pm
Tuesday 11am - 11pm
Wednesday 11am - 11pm
Thursday 11am - 11pm
Friday 11am - 12am
Saturday 10am - 12am
Sunday 10am - 11pm

Telephone

+441416366119

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