The Hug and Pint

Venue bookings: lizzie@432presents.com & phoebe@432presents.com
General enquiries: manager@thehugandpint.com

Celebrating our 10th year in June 2025, The Hug and Pint is an independent grassroots music venue, bar & pizzeria in Glasgow’s West End — just a short walk from St George’s Cross Subway Station.

Margaritas are always £5 and you can get 2 pizzas and 2 pints for £20 every Monday at The Hug and Pint.

We are here to provide a community space to play awesome music together, to make everlasting human connections that enrich the world around us.

Since opening in June 2015, our live music programme has been incredibly strong and has featured both well-established and up-and-coming local artists, as well as some of the most exciting international touring acts like Big Thief, Mitski, Black Midi, Japanese Breakfast, Lankum, Lucy Dacus and many, many more.

The venue is named after Arab Strap's seminal album Monday at The Hug and Pint. The band gave us their blessing to open our version — with Aidan even designing our logo.

There is a well-documented crisis in grassroots music venues. The Hug and Pint struggles to break even.
Help us stay open — buy a drink, buy that person you just met a drink, eat a pizza, donate to us when you buy a ticket, organise a birthday party or a get-together of old pals.
It goes to a place worth protecting.

We have a sister promoter company called 432 Presents and we continue to promote most of the bands who started out here at The Hug and Pint alongside many others.

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Politics — We aren’t apolitical.

We oppose the genocide in Palestine
(We helped raise over £45k for Medical Aid for Palestinians in 2024 with a gig by Deacon Blue @ Royal Concert Hall).

We are Pro LGBTQ+.

We support local businesses.

We try to avoid using major corporations.

We are anti-fascist, ant-racist and anti-nazi
(If you Seig Heil in our place you better be a fast runner).

We believe in empathy and communication, even with people with whom we disagree — because without it, the knuckledraggers win.

“If you're part of a tribe that teaches you it's wrong to empathise with those you disagree with, you're literally training your brain to dehumanise others. If you make a practice of this, you erode your own humanity.”
— Deborah Frances-White, Six Conversations We're Scared to Have

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Notable artists to have performed at the venue:
Akala, And So I Watch You From Afar, Anna Meredith, BC Camplight, Big Thief, BMX Bandits, Black Midi, Bully, Deacon Blue, Dry Cleaning, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Gallus, Heir of the Cursed, Japanese Breakfast, Jenny Hval, La Luz, Lankum, Lisa O'Neill, Lucy Dacus, Mdou Moctar, Men I Trust, Mitski, Norma Jean, Pinegrove, Porches, Priests, Rival Consoles, Roddy Woomble, She Drew The Gun, Silver Apples, Snail Mail, Sorry, Stella Donnelly, Steve Ignorant, The Orielles, Three Trapped Tigers, Tom McGuire & The Brassholes, Tropical Fuck Storm, Warmduscher, Yard Act

Mon - Thu 5pm - midnight
Fri - Sun 3pm - midnight
PIZZA SERVED UNTIL 9pm DAILY.

Every Day. £5 Margarita, Espresso Martini and Aperol Spritz!

With sincere regret. The venue is accessed via a staircase at the back of our restaurant and as such, we are unfortunately unable to cater to wheelchair access. We have so far been unable to find a solution to this problem.