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Showcase your tech/performance project at TechBox’s Autumn Sharing on 15/11/25 in Glasgow.
Working on an immersive experience or a project that integrates performance and technology? Test it in front of a friendly, creative audience! Contact Simon at simon@surge.scot.
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The amazing Steve Vertigo, who featured in Surge Cabaret during the Covid times, is playing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. Go see him!

Jack Ruby 5 just finishing up right now at the Music Stage, outside The Social Hub today as part of Merchant City Festival.

Sunday line up until 8pm
Next on -
kitti
Dougie No Pain (Mungo’s Hi-fi), Wends & Vixen Sound
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk

Alien Aquatic by Dudendance in the rain at Merchant City Festival.
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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Now and Then’s last show at Surge Festival! You were amazing! xxx This show is part of a Four Nations Bursary Programme, supporting artists to create new outdoor work.
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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Baby Gareth and The Norbert Nannies by Ruby Brown & Constance Canavarro out and about in Merchant City right now. The Nobert Nannies take Giant Baby Gareth on a walk.
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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Thanks again to Be Flat for bringing the madness at Surge Festival and to Cranberry’s Tea Room for being absolute G’s and letting us climb all over their building.
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Follow Me by Be Flat’s last show at Surge Festival!
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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Piping hot masterpieces, delivered in minutes by DeliverArt! Sun right now & 4:15pm. Look out for the QR codes around Merchant City!
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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Brass Aye? right now at the Music Stage, outside The Social Hub today as part of Merchant City Festival.
 
Sunday line up - 1pm – 8pm
 
Brass Aye?
Alice Faye
Jack Ruby 5
kitti
Dougie No Pain (Mungo’s Hi-fi), Wends & Vixen Sound
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk

Check out Baby Gareth and The Norbert Nannies by Ruby Brown & Constance Canavarro out and about in Merchant City today at 3:30pm. The Nobert Nannies take Giant Baby Gareth on a walk.
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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See Now and Then by Pitch'D Productions on Sunday at 3:45pm at the bottom of Hutcheson St, Merchant City - Unlikely friendship between social-media instamodel, and a no-nonsense, hardy older lady.
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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A Portal - Leave the streets of Glasgow behind and step into imagined worlds of your own making! Sunday anytime from 12pm – 2pm and 2:45pm – 4:15pm at The Social Hub in Merchant City
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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Check out the live stream of the music stage today at www.surge.scot/lo-fi-hip-ho... LIVE NOW!

Sunday line up - 1pm – 8pm
 
DJ ELANDA
Brass Aye?
Alice Faye
Jack Ruby 5
kitti
Dougie No Pain (Mungo’s Hi-fi), Wends & Vixen Sound

Tune in to Lo-Fi Hip Hop Beetroots Radio by Lewis Sherlock & Stanley Smith celebrating all that we love and hate about vegetables! Today 12pm www.surge.scot/lo-fi-hip-ho... See them at The Social Hub Merchant City
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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Synthetic organisms inhabit a shadow world where waste, society and environment find new meanings in Melter by Robbie Thomson. See it all day today at the bottom of Hutcheson St in Merchant City.
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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There are still some tickets left for today’s show of Follow Me by Be Flat at 2:30pm at Ramshorn Graveyard! It’s a surprising acrobatic journey through the streets of Glasgow. Ony £6! Get yours now at www.ticketsource.co.uk/surge/e-mobdjz
Please make sure to arrive by 2:30pm!

Federation of the Disco Pimp at the Music Stage, outside The Social Hub Sat 19th & Sun 20th July, 12pm - 8pm
 
Saturday line up going on till 8pm tonight!
 
Federation of the Disco Pimp
Possibly Jamie
Lezzer Quest
Sacred Paws
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk

Dudendance won’t be doing their show Alien Aquatic again today because of the weather but catch them tomorrow at Surge Festival
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Follow Me by Be Flat was cancelled today unfortunately due to the weather but are doing a wee surprise rain safe show outside Cranberry’s Tea Room on Wilson St!
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See The Composter by The Desperate Men out and about in Merchant City Sat/Sun 12:30pm & 2:45pm - Part human, worm, banana versus micro & nano plastics – epic!
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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Rain? What about it? Surge Festival carries on regardless! The music stage is going until 8 pm. Check it, outside The Social Hub.
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#MerchantCityFestival

Follow Me by Be Flat will be performing a surprise show in front of Cranberry’s Tea Room Wilson St/Brunswick St at 3:30pm today!
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MerchantCityFestival

Oh noes! RAIN! If you are at Surge Festival and using the Surge a programme to follow when the acts are on or the posts we’ve put out today, please add on half an hour to start times of shows as we wait it out. But the rain is definitely going to stop… right?

Music Stage, outside The Social Hub Sat 19th & Sun 20th July, 12pm - 8pm as part of Merchant City Festival.
 
Saturday line up - 12:45pm – 8pm
 
Cathal Murphey
Ilyus
Pistol Daisys
Federation of the Disco Pimp
Possibly Jamie
Lezzer Quest
Sacred Paws
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk

Alien Aquatic by Dudendance at the bottom of Hutcheson St. Merchant City on Saturday and Sunday!
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
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What incredibly good sports Cranberry’s Tea Room has been, letting Surge’s Follow Me show by Be Flat climb all over their building! Thanks Cranberry’s! Also , I just had thee best coffee in there!

Check out Baby Gareth and The Norbert Nannies by Ruby Brown & Constance Canavarro out and about in Merchant City Sat/Sun at 1:15pm & 3:30pm. The Nobert Nannies take Giant Baby Gareth on a walk.
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
#SurgeFestival #MerchantCityFestival

Synthetic organisms inhabit a shadow world where waste, society and environment find new meanings in Melter by Robbie Thomson. See it all day today and tomorrow at the bottom of Hutcheson St in Merchant City.
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk
#SurgeFestival #MerchantCityFestival

Music Stage, outside The Social Hub Sat 19th & Sun 20th July, 12pm - 8pm as part of Merchant City Fest
 
Saturday line up
 
Cara Rose right now!
Cathal Murphey
Ilyus
Pistol Daisys
Federation of the Disco Pimp
Possibly Jamie
Lezzer Quest
Sacred Paws
Surge Festival programme www.surge-festival.co.uk