Month: July 2013

Gig Plugs, Mine and Other People

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As you should know, this Saturday is my latest gig venture.

Taking place at The Art School in Glasgow, I’ve got Cleavers, The Cherry Wave and Mad Nurse playing. It’ll be excellent and you should come. Further details, including songs and stuff, here.

There’s other cool stuff happening over the next week or so too. A lot of it involves bands that have done gigs for me before, so here’s some plugs for their efforts.

Birdhead haven’t done anything with me, but are fab anyway, and one day I’ll get them to say yes to a gig. They play Bloc on Wednesday night with Electric Gardens and Kill Surrrf

Black International have a new single out, released by Electric Company Music, and are off on tour to launch the thing. On Thursday they are at Edinburgh’s Wee Red Bar, joined by the fab Little Anchors and Algernon Doll. Friday has them at Broadcast in Glasgow with Young Philadelphia and Pinact, in a night of entertainment where everyone has played a gig I’ve been involved in. After that they are off to Sheffield and Nottingham, but I doubt anyone reading this is from there. Until midnight on Tuesday you can get a ticket for the Edinburgh or Glasgow gigs and a copy of the 7″ single for just £6, which is a grand deal, here.

King Tut’s Summer Nights starts this week. I made a pie chart about the bands playing.

I probably won’t bother.

Saturday is all about me, so while other gigs are available, I’m not telling you what.

Sunday has Miaoux Miaoux, now with a new full band, playing at Stereo in Glasgow. Support comes from Jonnie Common and Atom Tree. Cheaper than door price tickets are available in advance here.

Into next week and our best friends forever The Spook School are back in Glasgow, playing at The Glad Cafe on Tuesday the 23rd. They are supporting Tunabunny, who I’d have endorsed on their name alone. Then I heard their album and they are now one of my new favourite things.

Next Gig, Cheap Tickets!

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Time waits for no man, so I’d better get on with plugging the next Scottish Fiction Presents: Aye Tunes Vs Peenko shindig eh?

I’ve been left in charge for July, so you get a very loud line up of bands I like, a bit more like my solo efforts than the group ones so far.

Mad Nurse have only made a brief appearance on the blog before in Friday Freebies, ages ago. You can still get hold of a free EP from them here, and I also fully encourage spending a couple of quid on their recently released The Rip EP here. They should be getting things off to a suitably raucous start.

The Rip by Mad Nurse

The Cherry Wave have been pleasing my ears for about a year now, since the release of their first self titled EP. Both that and their second EP, Blush, released earlier this year can be yours over here. I asked them to play mostly because I like them lots, but also in part because they’ve been causing trouble recently, and I always enjoy that kind of thing. Wear your best shoes for them, to enhance your gazing fun.

Blush EP by The Cherry Wave

I asked Cleavers to do a gig for me a full year ago, having decided they were my favourite new band in ages. They couldn’t do it then, but this July they can, and although they aren’t so new anymore, they are still one of my favourite bands in the country. They also cost me a decent chunk of cash, since they seem to put out something new for me to buy with alarming regularity. Noisy, brash, fast, but packed with melodies, I’m really delighted to finally be putting Cleavers on. If we ask them nicely they may even bring pyrotechnics.
There’s loads of stuff available over here, a lot of it can be had for free, but as the band were recently robbed in London I’ll urge you to pay for the music if you like it and have a few extra quid, they’d really appreciate the cash.

Broken Birthday Teeth by Cleavers

The gig takes place at The Art School on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow on Saturday July 20th, probably starting about 8. Entry will cost you a mere six pounds.

BUT if you buy a ticket in advance this week, you can get in for just £4. Bargain, eh? Tickets are available here. After Saturday the price goes up again, so act fast for big savings now, as people say in annoying adverts.