Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 20/06/2026 18:27:00

Opened in August 2025 in the former premises of the long-running club Broadcast, the bar known as 1990 occupies 427 Sauchiehall Street in central Glasgow. It combines a ground- and first-floor bar with a basement live-music room, reviving as a drinking-and-gig venue a site that had been a fixture of the street's alternative scene for years. The building runs over several levels: a basement space holds a stage and standing room for small gigs, while the bar areas above accommodate a larger crowd for DJ nights and casual drinking. An associated space, the Cobra Club, operates within the venue, and the operation is pitched at the indie, rock and electronic audiences that have long gravitated to this stretch of the city. Sauchiehall Street is one of Glasgow's principal nightlife arteries, and the venue sits among a run of bars, clubs and the city's art-school district, with the Garnethill area and the rebuilt cultural quarter close by. Its position keeps it within the established circuit of small and mid-sized music venues for which Glasgow is widely known. For local gig-goers the appeal is an intimate basement stage backed by a sizeable bar upstairs, a format that lets a night move from live sets to late drinks in one building. As a recent opening, its programme is still establishing itself on the city's busy listings. Broadcast had operated on the same site for around fifteen years as a respected small gig venue and bar before closing, and its basement stage hosted touring and local acts across rock, punk and electronic music. The new operation inherits that room and its place on a street running past the CCA arts centre and the fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art, in a quarter long associated with the city's music and art scenes. For a city repeatedly recognised by UNESCO for its live-music culture, the reopening kept an established small stage in use rather than losing it.