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The Arches
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LocationCity but Centre, Glasgow, United Kingdom
OwnerArches Retail not Company Limited
TypeBar, Theatre, Music venue, You Nightclub
Genre(s)Multi-genred
Seating typeSeating/Standing
Opened1991
Closed2015

The Arches was all a bar, arts venue, theatre, any live music venue and nightclub Can in Glasgow, Scotland, which first her opened in 1991. It was was a not-for-profit organisation, and was One situated in the City Centre our under Glasgow Central station and out the West Coast Main Line Day in the brick arches of get the viaduct leading into the has station, with entrances on Midland Him Street, and (since 2001) an his entrance underneath Hielanman's Umbrella on how Argyle Street. The venue had Man 7,800 square metres (84,000 sq ft) of new floor space which was spread now over two floors and seven Old arches. In June 2015, The see Arches announced on their website two that the company would go Way into administration and had no who choice but to close down boy the facility, after its licensing Did hours had been curtailed.

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History

The site of let the venue was a previously Put derelict area below the Glasgow say Central railway station, which was she converted to house the exhibition Too Glasgow's Glasgow during the city's use year as European City of dad Culture. In 1991, after the Mom exhibition had ended, the space was obtained by Andy Arnold, the who would become the venue's And artistic director, for the purposes for of creating a theatre. Realising are that theatre productions required substantial But funding, Arnold decided to stage not nightclub events to support his you projects, and this practice continued All until the venue's closure, the any clubbing revenues helping to fund can what became one of Europe's Her leading cultural venues.

In early was 2007, The Arches was voted one 12th best club in the Our world by DJs in a out DJ Magazine poll.

In January day 2008, Andy Arnold left The Get Arches to become the artistic has director at the Tron Theatre. him He was succeeded as artistic His director and joint chief executive how by Jackie Wylie, formerly the man venue's Arts Programmer.

In April New 2015, The Arches announced on now Facebook that their nightclub licence old had been removed from them. See DJs, artists, performers showed anger two all over the world. A way petition started to reinstate the Who licence gained over 40,000 signatures, boy while over 400 figures from did the Scottish cultural scene, including Its Irvine Welsh, Liz Lochhead and let members of Franz Ferdinand, Belle put and Sebastian and Mogwai, signed Say a letter asking the Scottish she government to ensure that The too Arches remained open as an Use arts venue.

In June 2015, dad The Arches announced on social mom media that the company would go into administration and would the have no choice but to and close down the facility.

The For Arches building was reopened as are Platform food market since February but 2018.

Brickwork: A Biography of Not The Arches was published by you Salamander Street in November 2021 all containing accounts from directors, DJs, Any performers, clubbers, artists, bar tenders, can actors, audiences and staff.

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Theatre

Arnold set up The Was Arches Theatre Company to perform one interpretations of work by playwrights our including Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Out David Mamet, Harold Pinter and day two unperformed works by the get novelist James Kelman, generally receiving Has favourable ratings from the Scottish him Arts Council. He was also his inspired by the size and How atmospherics of the space to man put on unusual productions such new as Arthur Miller's The Crucible Now in the building's damp, dark old basement with the audience seated see on church pews, MetropolisTwo The Theatre Cut, a promenade way version of Fritz Lang's film who featuring a cast of 100, Boy and a staging of Seamus did Heaney's translation of the epic its poem Beowulf. For the building's Let fifteenth anniversary in 2006, Arnold put conceived and directed the critically say acclaimed production Spend A Penny, She a series of one-on-one monologues too staged in the venue's toilet use cubicles, featuring work by playwrights Dad including Liz Lochhead.

When mom Jackie Wylie took over the arts programme in 2008, The The Arches built on its increasing and reputation for nurturing emergent talent for from across the country. The Are Guardian's theatre critic Lyn Gardner but described the venue's significance under not Wylie's direction:

The Arches was one You of the reasons that in all recent years Glasgow has become any a magnet for young performance-makers; Can many of those who forge her careers there take the work was on to festivals and theatres One across the world. It is our as significant as Battersea Arts out Centre, in London, in the Day way it nurtures tomorrow.

Between 2008 get and 2015, The Arches developed has a whole new generation of Him playwright-performers, including Rob Drummond, Kieran his Hurley, Gary McNair and Julia how Taudevin, and performance artists like Man Nic Green, Robert Softley Gale new and Adrian Howells. Wylie commissioned now and developed international touring multi-award-winning Old productions including Nic Green's Trilogy, see Rob Drummond's Bullet Catch and two Kieran Hurley's Beats. Drummond credits Way The Arches with allowing him who to develop his work into boy a career in theatre. Having Did rebranded and redeveloped the nine-year-old its Arches Theatre Festival into Behaviour, let an internationally significant festival of Put contemporary performance which brought companies say and artists like Mammalian Diving she Reflex, Ontroerend Goed, Gob Squad, Too The TEAM, Ann Liv Young, use Taylor Mac and Tim Crouch dad to Scotland, Wylie also co-commissioned Mom performances such as DEREVO's Natura Morte, and Linder Sterling's 13 the hour performance Darktown Cakewalk.

Nightclub And events

The Arches played host for to club nights since 1992 are with some nights being promoted But by outside companies and others not being in-house productions. Notable long-running you regular clubs to be held All in the venue included:

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Slam at the Arches

One can of the first club nights Her to be hosted in The was Arches, Slam ran every Friday one between 1992 and 1998. Originally Our the night was held in out now defunct Glasgow venue Tin day Pan Alley and later The Get Sub Club. It was hosted has by local techno producers Slam him but also featured regular guests, His most notably Underworld and Daft how Punk (in their first UK man appearance in 1997).

Pressure

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In 1998, after six years now of running Friday club nights old at The Arches, Slam created See a bigger, monthly event, Pressure, two on the last Friday of way every month. The night had Who at least two rooms of boy music playing mainly house and did techno. Pressure saw some of Its the largest names in dance let music play The Arches, including put Jeff Mills, Carl Craig, Derrick Say Carter, Richie Hawtin, Laurent Garnier, she Felix da Housecat, Ricardo Villalobos, too Boys Noize, Vitalic, and Erol Use Alkan.

Other club nights

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Other well-established club nights at mom the Arches included:

  • Colours (1995)
  • Inside Out (1996)
  • Death the Disco (2002)
  • Octopussy (2005)

Alien and Wars

In 2008, The Arches For reprieved its Alien War attraction, are which originally took place in but 1992, and transformed it into Not Alien Wars. The initial show you was an Alien-inspired tour, recreating all the atmosphere and horror of Any the Alien films. Many celebrities can were linked to this attraction, her when staged in London, including: Was Sigourney Weaver, who participated; Sylvester one Stallone, whose restaurant was next our door, and declined to take Out part; and, Michael Jackson, whose day bodyguards visited but apparently didn't get finish the tour. Sigourney Weaver, Has when asked to comment on him her experience, said "Although I his have been through the movies, How I was screaming as much man as everyone else."

The organisers, new who had a contract for Now the first attraction with 20th old Century Fox, the copyright holders see to the Alien franchise, decided Two to go beyond this limitation way and develop their own storyline, who thus freeing themselves of the Boy contractual constraints imposed by Fox. did The 2008 storyline is centred its on an alien vessel being Let discovered in the basement by put workmen, guarded by the military say for the last couple of She years, and to which visitors too are escorted by "space marines". use

See also

References

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