Mono Cafe Bar

02/08/2026

27/07/2026

Coming up
Here's Where You Belong
An exhibition by Brenda Sweeney
1st to the 31st August

Join us on Sunday 2nd August from 8pm for an opening event featuring DJ Stephen Pastel. 🔊🕺

“I am a Glasgow-born printmaker working interdisciplinarily across gel plate printing, screen printing, and collage.  

This exhibition brings together compositions based around the themes of connection, half remembered places and belonging."

13/07/2026

This time next month!
Don't miss...
Withered Hand
+ Sister Maps
Thursday 13th August
8pm
18+

Withered Hand is the pseudonym of Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Dan Willson. Since the release of his debut album ‘Good News’ in 2009, Dan has become a celebrated figure in the Scottish music scene and further afield. A well-travelled touring singer-songwriter, he has quietly amassed a devoted fanbase while staying true to a singular artistic vision.

Sister Maps formed at the end of 2025, inspired by the history of great Glasgow indie bands such as The Spook School, Life Without Buildings, and BMX Bandits.

Tickets available now from monocafebar.com/events

06/07/2026

Saturday 1st August at Mono!
Don't miss this one...

NEUTRALS
DIY true sounds of middle-aged North Lanarkshire via Oakland. "San Francisco's most hated post-punk/indiepop trio"

U.S. HIGHBALL
Prolific pop duo about to head off on tour - jangle pop extraordinaires

COUNT FLORIDA
A q***r indiepop outfit from Glasgow making catchy tunes about death & dancefloors.

Tickets are on sale now via monocafebar.com/events

Neutrals live photo by Mark Murrmann 📸

Part of Merchant City Festival's Fringe Music Programme and Glasgow 2026, supported by Creative Scotland, Glasgow City Council and Commonwealth Games 2026.
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08/06/2026

Coming up at Mono
Tuesday 9th June
musicALL presents…
Move On Up

GIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Next Tuesday 9th June, we will be holding our summer Move On Up showcase at Mono Cafe Bar. It's open to the public and completely free to attend. Please come along and hear some fantastic bands, performing a mix of classic hits, modern pop and original songs too!

This is the first of our musicALL 10th year anniversary celebrations and hope you can make it along to join in the fun.

First band onstage at 6.30pm!

27/05/2026

Coming up tomorrow
432 presents
Ratboys
& Former Champ

SOLD OUT 🙏
If you're lucky enough to have a ticket we will see you at 8pm for doors 🫡
18+

Despite its title, Ratboys’ new album Singin’ to an Empty Chair is not defined by what’s missing. Rather, it’s the beginning of an important dialogue with a close loved one vocalist Julia Steiner finds herself estranged from. The music on the band’s sixth studio album – its first for New West Records – fills the space that person left behind with 11 songs showcasing Ratboys at the peak of their powers — twangy, effervescent, as confident as they’ve ever been, and perhaps more emotionally interrogative than ever before.

06/05/2026

Just announced
Bull
+ DJ Antonio

Saturday 21st November
Mono

18+

Bull are a 5 piece band from York, UK. Formed in 2011 as school friends, they self released their a bit poppy bit p***y debut ‘She Looks Like Kim’ (redacted) in 2014. In 2018 they toured the US, selling second, scrappy long EP ‘America’ (bootleg). In 2020 the band signed with EMI in conjunction with York record label Young Thugs. In 2021 they released their debut (proper) Discover Effortless Living.
They received some airplay from Radio 1, 6 and Elton John. The band toured the album in 2021, played at Leeds and Reading festival, and supported Pavement the Rock band at the O2 academy in Leeds in 2022. They released a follow-up EP ‘Stuck Between the Virtual and Physical World’ in 2022 and sophomore album ‘Engines of Honey’ in 2024 which they toured. Bull are returning to playing live shows and have mostly completed the recording of their third album in Spain, April 2026. They plan to release new singles over the summer and later the album.

Tickets from popmutations.com

30/04/2026

Saturday 2nd May
Core. presents...
Pr******te
+ Gout

Formed in 2020 in Dearborn, Michigan, Pr******te is an experimental post-punk and Arab rock band. Born out of the isolation of the COVID-19 lockdown, the band’s debut album, Attempted Martyr, was written in the midst of global and personal turmoil, capturing the zeitgeist of a world unraveling. A loose concept record, it chronicles the rise and fall of a doomed zealot whose pursuit of holy vengeance spirals into a psychotic o**y of violence, greed, and lust.

The band was initially formed by Moe Kazra who enlisted childhood friends Andrew Kaster and Dylan Zaranski, with Ross Babinski and Bret Wall later completing the lineup. Together, they self-funded the album, working with legendary engineer Chris Koltay to shape a sound that's both abrasive and hypnotic—an unrelenting blend of warped guitars, primitive basslines, frenzied drumming, and corrosive synthesizers, interwoven with samples from diverse cultures, ranging from African to Middle Eastern and East Asian influences.

Tracks like “All Hail” (inspired by the 1977 Hanafi Siege of Washington D.C.) immerses listeners in a volatile, hostage-like environment. "Judge" channels Milton's Satan in a chilling rallying cry, while “Body Meat” grapples with religious desperation and the tenuous boundary between faith and madness. Khachab and Kaster’s lyrics have been described by Pitchfork as "disturbingly poetic" with the ability to "lacerate with image alone." Crude sloganeering and scenes of horrific violence are juxtaposed with literary allusion and Islamic symbolism, creating what the band calls a "theatricalization of terrorism." Through this lens, they examine and critique the xenophobic stereotypes targeted at Arabs, distorting them into grotesque caricatures.

29/04/2026

💽 Glasgow Zine Fest Opening Night Party 💽

Celebrate the start of Glasgow Zine Fest’s weekend programme at our opening party!

Free entry! - just across from our main venue, The Briggait, the night features DJ sets from .9000, and , with space to dance and catch up with friends.

18+

21/04/2026

This Wednesday core. presents...
Acid Mothers Temple
+ Viz

Thrilled to welcome back the prolific psychedelics for their 2026 tour!
Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective.

The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it was selected as one of the year's best albums in the The Wire magazine (UK).

In 1998 the group played their first tours of the US and Europe. Since then the group has released a huge number of albums on labels from many different countries.

As of 2017, the group has released around 80 albums. Every year since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and more recently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too.

Doors at 8pm
18+