Filming the story of a seemingly abandoned salvage ship, crewed by mutant cannibal rats under the command of a salty captain, as it scours the flotsam and jetsam of the deep murky Commonwealth Ocean for mysterious treasures... with live score.

An immersive triptych of masked ambiguity, despair and distortion...cast through an unforgiving lens as 85A and a cohort of allies wildly embrace each nook of Glasgow’s notorious cavern, bathing shadow in shadow. 

'CHERNOZEM' Unfurling its black wings over the Eastern coast... casting a cinematic shadow as trenchant and visceral as they come!
Culminating in an explosive barrage of highly charged live performances, knee-dropping music and blood pulsing DJs.

Ever fancied a Wheatgrass Mohawk, Chelsea-Cut, or Pompadour? Grab a drink and settle into the chair, then tremble before the awesome styling power of the barber’s hedge-trimmer! The clippings? Juice them down for a smoothie!

85A unleashed a cinematic barrage with the premiere of ‘CHERNOZEM’ - Judd Brucke’s debut industrial horror film - which kicked off with a dystopian masquerade party at The Flying Duck, then rocketed the audience towards the GFT in a riotous parade - followed by a total rinse-out back at the ‘Duck

85A's clan of Mu-Mu have been bunkered down in The Secret Garden Party festival field since the previous year. A prophecy did predict the revelers’ Halcyon return, a weekend of bountiful plenty where thousands will once again descend and make sacrifices to Master Mu-Mu. Sacrifice... or be sacrificed!

Literally taken on a surreptitious ride through a series of scenes from the film within a large-scale post-industrial environment. Expect mesmerizing mechanical kinetic sculptures, immersive set design, intense lighting + projection, pummeling live music and rapid-fire performance…with the terrified cinéaste ultimately ‘projected’ into the film itself!

The Victorian Era: the stately, serene, slow march of science, or a time of cons, charlatans and swindlers?
 
Allow Dr. William Bodie MD to unveil live before you his latest breakthrough invention. Prepare, friends, to be amazed, astonished, astounded by the technological innovation of the future: electricity!

For Glasgow Film Festival 2012' "Crossing the line" program, 85A ecstatically present the work of genius Czech filmmaker, Jan Svankmajer, in all its demented glory!

a night at the megaplex, this is not! Přijít! Vidět! Slyšet!

‘A Phestive Phantomime’ is the hugely anticipated two-day Xmas festival down in the depths of Stereo from your loving folks The Phantom Band.
85A will be transforming the venue into an old, burnt down and haunted Victorian theatre replete with proscenium arches, ghostly ushers, and unleashing none other than the antithesis of Saint Nicholas himself..

This Hallow’s Eve, descend into an underground licentious dream that defies expectations…

Effortlessly incorporating the decadence, mystique and immorality of a classic masquerade into a hedonistic night of: Dangerously seductive ‘occult sex music for insomniacs’;crackling, bloody tales from the blackest heart of the German woods;and pulsating, dirty beats that writhe along your thighs…

“FEE-FI-FO-FIM! I SMELL THE BLOOD OF L’IL JIM! BE HE ALIVE OR BE HE DEAD – I’LL GRIND HIS BONES TO EARN MY BREAD!!!”

A re-worked tale of Jack and the Beanstalk will be told using the classic storytelling device of a Punch & Judy style puppet show.

Roll up! roll up!
Glasgow's latest attraction
85A'S ELECTRIC SPECTACLE,
a spell binding multisensory kinetic theatre featuring stunning auto-music machines opens its doors for a one off performance of its warped primal opera
'Idimov and the Dancing Girl'

step inside!

There NEVER WAS a New Year’s party like this before baby. I mean people going mental for those stonkin’ Dj sets with that big beat, yessir, which would make even Colossus shudder, chung-de-chung-de-chung. And who the hell was that band?!? They were fucking brilliant man, never seen anything like that before!

For ‘Buzz or Howl’ 85A propose to eat sawdust and have you watch. Or rather, like Svankmajer’s White Rabbit our seams have split, dusty insides pouring into the dirt furrows of the world. And even though you see this odd creature and recognize that it’s not bleeding for real –only a grotesque allusion to the act itself- you still shudder at the prospect of having to replenish one’s own guts with a very large spoon.

Stroll on into our cozy little barbershop, settle yourself into our automated barber's chair, and select a 'punk herb cap' of your choice for your new hair-do...which is both a wicked fashion accessory and most importantly, a darn decent way to maximise growing space in our increasingly over-crowded urban environment.

‘A Sonic Soak’: an ambitious, celebratory and provocative musical experience set against the crumbling edifice of a historic building which has lain derelict for the past decade. Featuring a kaleidoscopic shoal of bands, sound artists, orators, costumed performers, sculptures and local film makers in the echoing acoustics of the cavernous Govanhill Baths.

Taking their lead from the industrial naval might of the Orzel, the pounding barrage of depth charges, and the eerie presence of sonar, 85A have created The ORZEL film performance: an expanded cinema experience involving the screening of a re-edited version of the original film with a new musical soundscape performed live, all within the confines of a claustrophobic submarine set-piece.