Underneath a railway station lurks one of the city’s best gig venues – just be prepared for a push and a shove if you want to get to the front
Capacity: The official capacity is 2,000, but that’s for events spanning both the big and small main arches (the place is enormous, including masses of space not seen by the public). The big arch, for all-standing shows, is more like 800 capacity, and the small arch around 300.
Who plays there: All kinds of artists big and small, at shows either promoted in-house by the Arches, or by any of Scotland’s several major promoters, from DF to PCL and Synergy. Recent visitors have included Nina Nesbitt, Prides, the Phantom Band, Temples and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, as well as part of Glasgow’s annual January folk and roots festival Celtic Connections. Such is the Arches’ reputation as a clubbing mecca that many a monster of electronic music has played a significant early show here – everyone from Underworld to Calvin Harris and Daft Punk, who made their UK live debut at the Arches in January 1997.
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