FAT SAM'S Grand Slam is coming to Glasgow as Bugsy Malone takes over the Merchant City.
And these two youngsters, Liam Devine, 10, and Imogen Keane, 11, had a sneak peek at the treats in store for city children ahead of the Merchant City Festival, which begins tomorrow.
The highlight of the 12th annual festival is the arrival of Wayne Hemingway's Vintage Festival in Scotland for the first time. It will turn back the clock from the 1920s to the 1980s with club nights, live music, market stalls, fashion events, vintage make-overs and dance classes.
The hub of Vintage Glasgow will be around Candleriggs, the Old Fruitmarket and City Halls.
Families are invited to come along to the Vintage Saturday Cinema Club dressed in their best 1920s mobster or flapper outfits for a free screening of Alan Parker's cult 1976 movie Bugsy Malone, which starred a young Jodie Foster and Scott Baio.
The film programme will also feature Pathe clips from the Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park in 1938, in addition to decades of rarely-seen documentary footage, amateur films, newsreels and period adverts.
Meanwhile, jazz singer Lou Hickey, formerly of Codeine Velvet Club, will open a catwalk event inspired by the prohibition era for The Great Gatsby Fashion Show.
Red or Dead founder Wayne Hemingway, who launched the Vintage Festival with wife Gerardine at Goodwood racing track in August 2010, said: "Vintage Glasgow is going to a truly immersive experience with visuals complementing a Merchant City full of great music, fashion, art design and evocative food. The Vintage team can't wait."
The Merchant City Festival, funded by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, Creative Scotland and Glasgow Arts, runs from tomorrow until Sunday.
It is expected to attract an audience of around 100,000 people to more than 100 events.
For tickets, call 0141 353 8000. For details, see www.merchant cityfestival.com/vintage
maureen.ellis@eveningtimes.co.uk
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