Queer as folk; Glasgay! began as a cheeky form of political defiance,

0 Comments | Sunday Herald, The, Oct 31, 2004 | by Words Stephen Phelan

AUDIOLOGy Tramway (0845 330 3501) Nov 5 & 6, 8pm, (pounds) 10 ((pounds) 8) Scottish premiere of the Pacetti Company's weird, brilliant meditation on power and history, mixing up the paranoid demons of Howard Hughes and the voices in Joan of Arc's head, acting them out and setting them to music in sequences soundtracked by Max Richter and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Queer in the most eerie and unique sense.

PENNY ARCADE Tron Theatre (0141 552 4267) Nov 3 & 4, 8pm, (pounds) 10 ((pounds) 8) Among the last of Andy Warhol's Factory artists still living and working, Arcade has a big mouth and a million stories, any one of which might turn your hair white, but might tell you something about how to fashion something worthwhile out of bad experiences, a bad attitude and those values you develop on the outside of straight society. The issue of redemption will be addressed in this piece, and there will be dancing.

DIE, MOMMIE, DIE!

GFT (0141 332 8128) Nov 1, 9pm, (pounds) 5 ((pounds) 4) Debut Scottish screening of Mark Rucker's fruity cross-dressing retro- pastiche melodrama, starring Charles Busch as a gin-soaked Hollywood chanteuse planning to ice her boring movie-boss husband, while Jason Priestley's bisexual hustler digs up her past and boinks her son and daughter. Also features Frances Conroy, who plays Six Feet Under's repressed but giddy matriarch, as a slumming maid who babbles in scriptural verse. This movie owes a lot to Robert Aldrich and John Waters, but spends it with pizzazz, and has no plans to ever pay them back.

DUCKIE: a club night for poofy gangsters and lezzy campsters The Arches (0141 565 1023/0870 240 7528) Nov 7, 10pm-3am, (pounds) 9 ((pounds) 5 before 11pm) Infamous purveyors of pure Kunst- discotheque come to Glasgow, offering one full, long night of their wares - including A Few C***ts From London, new-wave striptease, Nathan Evans' puppeteering adaptation of the Smiths standard Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, and records for gay rockers played by the Readers' Wives DJs. If you are in any doubt as to whether any of this is art, consider that the live stage show - C'est Barbican - won an Olivier Award this year.

STEPHEN PHELAN Glasgay! runs from November 1-14. For more details call 0141 334 7126 or log on to www.glasgay.co.uk