If you like your music loud enough to strip the enamel from your teeth then Flats may be just what you are after. Officilally the seond loudest band reviewed by ELM – the honour remains with the Fall - Flats bring their own brand of thrashy punk to King Tuts. It may be cold outside [...]
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For a venue that is happy to trade on how quirky and non-corporate it is, King Tut’s can be awfully cynical sometimes. It has a policy of putting acts on that bit later than most – approximately two hours later, in fact. Why? Well, the ever-thrusting spirit of rock’n’roll of course; anarchy and sticking it [...]
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It’s difficult to know, sometimes, where homage ends and pinching begins. Some are honest about it, viewing it as source material to try to create something new. Others do it and get precious when people point it out to them (Editors ludicrously deny any debt to Joy Division.) Fanfarlo dress like the Arcade Fire, play [...]
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We recently saw Indian Red Lopez at Glasgow King Tuts and were most impressed. We caught up with the guys recently to discuss life, music and shooting Bono. Amazing how often that comes up round here….
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Hinterland rocked like a mutha, it must be said. We’ll be bringing you interviews with Jeffrey Lewis, the Voluntary Butler Scheme and Phantom, as well as unrivalled gig reviews from our team in the field and exclusive photographs from the Wookie, including one of Mark E.Smith that is giving us all nightmares. We also found [...]
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The Phantom Band, somewhat aptly, have been a rather spectral presence in the Glasgow live scene of the last few years. Initially, they seemed completely anti-fame – changing their name for each gig, wearing masks on stage, never playing the same set twice – in what looked like an almost wilful refusal to engage with [...]
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The idea of the musical commune is one which is easy to disparage. It conjures up images of naive hippies smacked out on Haight-Ashbury, of anarcho-punks in squats in Brixton, of 2000 kids dressed identically yet proclaiming their individuality at a My Chemical Romance gig. It doesn’t, in the main, have a good image. One [...]
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Gig-going is not necessarily a passive experience. A crowd can influence and help shape the experience almost as much as the performer. An unresponsive audience can kill a gig stone dead, while a crowd who have arrived full of verve can channel that into the act and raise what would have been merely a good [...]
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There was a time, somewhere between Baggy and Britpop, where British Indie didn’t really find a home. It were all grunge round here, but what of the fey popsters who had grown up on a diet of C86 and didn’t want to grow their hair long and sing about smack and self-loathing? Well, they simply [...]
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As labels go, ‘Cambodian jazz pop rock psychedelic dance party’ is neither the most succinct or inspiring. But yet, Dengue Fever have attracted quite a bit of interest lately, culminating in an appearance on Jools Holland last week and a very short UK Tour. However, in the bar before the gig, it’s rather obvious that [...]
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