Glasgow Jacky
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Miki Berenyi with F.O. Machete
Nice’n’Sleazy’s, 20 December It’s now almost a week since attending, what looks like, my last gig of the year with headliner the Miki Berenyi Trio and local support F.O. Machete. I’ve used the lapsed time to listen to both their 2025 albums, assess how they both interpreted and re-mixed them into the live setting, and…
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Tom McRae with Radhika and special guest Boo Hewerdine
King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, 17 December Arriving just after the doors opened at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut on a midweek night in Glasgow, I half expected Tom McRae’s show to be intimate yet with plenty of room to manoeuvre across the venue floor to get a couple of different views of him in…
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The Creeping Bent Organisation with
Radhika & Future Pilot AKA, The Secret Goldfish, The Leopards, QUAD90, The Bluebells and Port Sulphur Mono, 12 December The Creeping Bent Organisation Let’s put the record straight at the outset. Unlike many of those who arrived at Mono to remember all the good times that were created over the past thirty years or so…
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Stereophonics with Finn Forster
The OVO Hydro, 10 December For a few years either side of the millennium, Stereophonics were establishing themselves as a band who produced anthemic songs for their growing fanbase to share at festivals at home and abroad. A quarter of a century on, the band dug deep into their recorded work, providing the music, and…
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Idlewild with Jill Lorean
The Barrowland Ballroom, 7 December The Barrowland Ballroom welcomed, for the umpteenth time, one of Scotland’s enduring musical icons with Idlewild taking to the stage as part of a tour celebrating 30 years of existence and to promote their self-titled album released only a few months earlier. A thirty-year career that had delivered over a…
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Marconi Union
Nice’n’Sleazy, 6 December Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. Often “peaceful” sounding and lacking composition, beat, and/or structured melody, ambient music uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening, and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. And with that description in mind, we headed to Nice’n’Sleazy’s to…
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Dirty Three
Classic Grand, 30 November The Classic Grand building has been in place for over 160 years, initially opening as a warehouse, circa 1860. Classic in design, it’s seen many changes during its illustrious lifetime, one time cinema, amusement arcade and now music venue. And on this night, the Classic Grand welcomed its own Classic Act…
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My Bloody Valentine
OVO Hydro, 27 November My Bloody Valentine and the OVO Hydro, with a capacity of over 14,000 on a good day, seem like odd companions for one of the most anticipated gigs of the year. One of the pioneers, if not the defining forerunners of the Shoegaze movement, their meagre back catalogue of recorded work,…
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Heaven 17
The Barrowland Ballroom, 13 November Over the past few years, as I’ve been documenting our #AtoZMusicalTour, there have been any number of highs as musical acts have outperformed their studio output in the live setting. There have also been many, many surprises, as relative newcomers have exceeded all expectations, especially some of the ‘support’ acts.…
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Dead Otter with The Kryss Talmeth Experience
The Old Hairdressers – 8 November Saturday night and once again heading to The Old Hairdressers, nestling in a quiet lane, yards from the mayhem of Glasgow Central Station with streams of people heading out across the city centre for their own night out.. The Kryss Talmeth Experience I’m, not yet at any rate, a…
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Daiistar and Dallas Love Field
The Old Hairdressers – 5 November The Old Hairdressers, nestling in a quiet lane, yards from Glasgow Central Station. A venue which has been visited on a few occasions now during our #AtoZMusicalTour and which offers a very intimate setting for bands to highlight their music. You need to get there early though if you…
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Sister John and Mull Historical Society
Cottiers – 31 October There’s something imposing about gigs taking place in former places of worship. At Cottiers, the archways, and what would have been the pulpit and focal point for the congregation, offer a backdrop that requires no special staging or backdrops. Colin MacIntyre aka Mull Historical Society It was in this setting that…
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Man of Moon with Duncan Marquiss
McChuills – 30 October Duncan Marquiss One man, a couple of guitars, a series of loops and a microphone, sporadically used to say hello. There is something awe inspiring when the components above are used to full effect by a talented musician. Duncan Marquiss, The Phantom Band guitarist is such a talent, and he used…
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Smote with Dragged Up
The Hug & Pint 20 October Every day is a school day as they say. In starting to write this post, I found out that The Hug & Pint is named after the 2003 album by Arab Strap and has been offering live music at the bottom of Great Western Road since 2015. It’s basement…
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The Golden Tree and The Cowboy Mouth
The Glad Cafe, 17 October The Cowboy Mouth and The Golden Tree In the previous week, Glasgow’s southside had played host to a double header for the Scotland football team at Hampden. While the results were positive, the performances were pretty underwhelming. Winning ugly is not a term of endearment for any Scottish fan. On…
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Helicon with Spacial Awareness
King Tuts Wah Wah Hut,11 October Spacial Awareness Such is the respect shown by Helicon for Spacial Awareness that they themselves penned this description of their opening act. Spacial Awareness is a new project from Belle and Sebastian’s Chris Geddes and Dave McGowan. Inspired by 70s German pioneers like Neu! and Harmonia, Brian Eno’s ambient…
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The Bluebells with Gerard Love
Strathaven Hotel, 3 October Heading to the Strathaven Hotel required more hope than judgement as Storm Amy made the journey that bit more treacherous than it would normally have been. However, it takes more than a strong breeze to put off the audience that packed into the venue to see The Bluebells on the first…
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QUAD90 with Mackenzies
The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 26 September QUAD90 As you peer across the musical landscape within this blog, there are bands who tick the boxes of psychedelic, shoegaze, soulful pop, chamber pop, krautrock, funk and much, much more. Few here though encapsulate the virtues of disco as well as QUAD90, two young ladies by the names…
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Red Rum Club with Brogeal and ItsYesAndMaybe
SWG3, Glasgow, 25 September The Red Rum Club The Red Rum Club describe themselves as the ‘Mariachi Merseysiders’, though they also tick the box for being an alternative rock band with Fran Doran (vocals), Tom Williams (guitar and backing vocals), Michael McDermott (guitar and backing vocals), Simon Hepworth (bass guitar), Joe “the Blow” Corby (trumpet) and…
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The Sexual Objects with The Secret Goldfish
The Glad Cafe, 19 September 2025 The Secret Goldfish The saying “Familiarity breeds contempt” rarely has any good connotations, and yet, on the musical front at least, familiarity with an artist’s work can offer up some untold benefits. And so, it was when we wandered into The Glad Café to watch and listen to The…
