{"id":50657,"date":"2025-04-25T23:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/50657\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T23:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:39:14","slug":"legendary-scots-venue-set-for-move-to-new-location-after-launching-careers-major-brit-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/50657\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Scots venue set for MOVE to new location after launching careers major Brit stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONE of Scotland&#8217;s most iconic comedy clubs is moving after 25 years in its current home.<\/p>\n<p>Bosses at T<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"he Stand Comedy Club (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he Stand Comedy Club<\/a> announced the move which involves a new 25-year lease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow. Simon Houston starts his comedy adventure.\" height=\"960\" width=\"640\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ms-the-stand-glasgow6JPG-JS518603899.jpg\" data-caption=\"The Stand is moving after 25 years\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ms-the-stand-glasgow6JPG-JS518603899.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>The Stand is moving after 25 years<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow. Simon Houston starts his comedy adventure.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ms-the-stand-glasgow3JPG-JS518603892.jpg\" data-caption=\"Performers have included Frankie Boyle,\u00a0Kevin Bridges\u00a0and\u00a0Susie McCabe\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ms-the-stand-glasgow3JPG-JS518603892.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Performers have included Frankie Boyle,\u00a0Kevin Bridges\u00a0and\u00a0Susie McCabe<\/p>\n<p>The club is moving 100 yards from its base at Woodlands Road in Glasgow to the nearby Lansdowne Church.<\/p>\n<p>The Stand&#8217;s director,\u00a0Mike Jones, said: &#8220;After 25 fantastic years in our current venue, it&#8217;s the right time for The Stand to make a new move that will allow us to grow into the future. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very excited to be moving to The Lansdowne Church which is such an iconic building in the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will enable us to meet our future ambition, expand our programme into new areas and become a greater community hub in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/where\/glasgow\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"the West End of Glasgow (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the West End of Glasgow<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Venue manager Fraser Milroy added: &#8220;We will be taking all that history, love and expertise into the new venue with us. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people of Glasgow have a strong connection with this club &#8211; we want them to have that same ownership and pride when we move.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Household names who cut their teeth on the stage include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frankie Boyle,\u00a0Kevin Bridges\u00a0and\u00a0Susie McCabe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The club will be revealing more about their move and expansion as work commences over the summer months in time for a grand opening later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Ryan makes shock claim &#8216;very rich&#8217; male comedian showed TV co-stars sex videos backstage at gig<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/tvandshowbiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\u00a0new venue  (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0new venue <\/a>will offer higher audience capacity, full disabled access and a permanent bar separate from the club.<\/p>\n<p>It is based in the former Websters Theatre which briefly closed over safety fears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONE of Scotland&#8217;s most iconic comedy clubs is moving after 25 years in its current home. 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