Friday 01
Joy Promotions: 3 BANDS tba
3 bands from the joy stables... rock, and indeed, roll!
www.joypromotions.com
Saturday 02 ***RECOMMENDED***
Puny Human Promotions: PITIFUL REIGN (pictured) / AMOK (pictured) / SANGUINUS (pictured) / CIRCLE OF TYRANTS
British thrash in excelcis from Hull's Pitiful Reign - from the opening preposterous crunch of 'Mark of the Eagle', through the particle accelerant changes of new single 'Toxic Choke', the four piece touch on most of the required checkpoints and then stuff the paper in their mouth, flick the vs at you and dive into the moshpit. 'Mentally insane' metal – is there any better kind? - without frills – save those for the logo – this is really committed music, full on old style thrash. Great! Amok return with palm-muted thrash which also nods to Bay Area 80s thrash – and do you know why we keep nodding at it? BECAUSE IT KICKS ASS! It's the perfect riposte to new wave hair shenanigans, because the lyrics are eloquent dissections of modern concerns – pollution, warfare, the arms race, etc – but snarled out over music that sounds like it's super pissed off. Sanguinus are 'finest Tazwegian metal', which rightly conjures up the image of gigantic Taz whirling dervishly across Kingston Bridge into town flattening buildings, bolts of thrash lightning darting from the cloud. 'Swallowed', blended with nails and guzzled before sprayed across the rubble on the north bank. Raaa! No songs to talk about from Circle of Tyrants, unfortunately, but they promise 'metal fast and fucking hard', so be warned.
www.punyhuman.co.uk
www.myspace.com/pitifulreign
www.amokmetal.com
www.myspace.com/Sanguinusrock
Sunday 03
THE RED WELL / CANDYTHIEF (pictured) / PLAYER PIANO
The Red Well is a boy called Jim who sings songs and plays minor chords on a guitar called Charlene. The Red Well is a band where Jim sings and plays guitar, Barry plays bass and sings, David plays keys and sings and plays guitar too!, and Mark hits the drums with ferocity. The resulting sound will touch your (ar)soul and you will love it. Candythief grew up bumping along pothole filled roads in south east Spanish sierra being forced to listen to her mum's Dolly Parton cassettes and her dad's medieval madrigals and Mozart in the back of the car. Cultural activity was somewhat limited to being bribed with donuts to going to Flamenco dance classes and listening to dogs barking in the heat of the evening. Still, she acquired a random and limited selection of cassettes which she would listen to again and again. She didn't get into the choir at school, and was rubbish at all sport apart from running, which is the only sport that requires no co-ordination but plenty of determination. Anyway, things don't happen how you plan them, but she's happily doing her psychadelic occasionally rocking indie pop folk thing (is that the technical term?) and she hopes you like it. "Player Piano is the first novel that Kurt Vonnegut wrote, published in 1952. It deals with how a fully mechanised society devalues human life. I'm not trying to be clever or nuthin, I just identify very closely to Vonnegut and most things he says. I should. He's from my hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. I believe there's a certain strength of character in people who grow up in "God's Country", and survive remaining mostly healthy, rational and tolerant. Nuthin against God. I just think some of his people are a little scared and angry. But everybody needs something. Hi, my name's Jeremy, and this my band. I write songs about things like The Atomic Bomb and Xenophobia...and sometimes LOVE or people...stuff like that. I like all types of people and music. I'm based in London, so look out for me, if you round them parts. Doors 8pm & £4 entry
www.theredwell.com
www.myspace.com/theredwell
www.candythief.com
www.myspace.com/candythief
www.myspace.com/playerpianomusic
Monday 04
tbc
Tuesday 05
YOU CAN'T EAT THE WORD FOOD / THE CLICKS
"You can't eat the word food" have been around in some form or other for close to 10 years. The current incarnation was formed around 2000AD with a gig at King Tut's in Glasgow for BBC Music Live Week which was very experimental due to a lack of songs and the fact they had just formed. Talk about being thrown in at the deep end. This particular gig dented their confidence somewhat, and a break of about 6 months was taken during which many more diverse influences were ingested with views to hunker down, find sound, shake it around (upside down) and become a proper band. Infusing basic song structures with a keen sense of melody, hope and a hint of regret is like second nature, counterpointed by a fearless rhythm section and a blank map for company. No emotion is left unturned, no toe is left untapped. Yet it is a complicated beast, and one not best left to mere words to describe. What appears at first glance is 4 ordinary men with common musical tools (instruments) treading an ever shifting ground which could at any moment give way. But the bonds are strong and the aims are true, not to be taken for granted nor to be left in the cold. Tales are told, and some exist to turn heads but most are made to reassure. The Clicks - "Frothy sexual aggression" - Steve Lamacq, Radio 1 "The Clicks (3/5) are much more spritely, their boy/girl surf space pop punk reminiscent of the B52's but without sounding shit" - The List
Wednesday 06
BLACK HISTORY MONTH / GULLET
"Black History Month are a four-piece Glasgow based funk band. Playing music aimed at the dancefloor, the band take in old school hip-hop, Latin, blues, jazz and classic soul. The band's major influences include 60s and 70s funk – Herbie Hancock, Sly & the Family Stone and especially funk from New Orleans; the new breed of funk players – Breakestra and the New Mastersounds; the very best in hip-hop - the Roots, Public Enemy and the Pharcyde; and blues players such as Buddy Guy, Freddie and Albert King. Black History Month have existed in their current state since January 2005, when Ronnie Martin joined on drums. The rest of the band: Rory Crawford on vocals and guitar, Boaby Osborne on bass and John Steel on guitar, had been together since October 2004, though John and Rory had attempted to get the band going in a number of various other guises throughout that year. Through intensive practice and a large number of gigs, the sound was tightened up and honed down, and the learning curve continues. The main emphasis is placed on creating an energetic and tight live show to get audiences smiling, and enjoying playing music that they really love."
Thursday 07
Dicelines: CODEEN / TRABECA / ROCKBURN / TWIN ATLANTIC (pictured)
With sounds similar to that of Interpol and Sigur Ros, Codeen play the note tonight along side indie-rockers Trabeca with up beat pop-rock from Rockburn and Twin Atlantic. Doors 9pm - £4
www.dicelines.com
www.myspace.com/dicelines
www.myspace.com/codeen
www.myspace.com/trabeca
www.trabeca.co.uk
www.myspace.com/rockburn06
www.myspace.com/twinatlantic
Friday 08
FELT TIPS / + GUESTS
The Felt Tips are a Glasgow four-piece indiepop band. We first met when our kite strings got intertwined on Largs beach in Summer 2006. We then went on a tour of studios in Glasgow until we found the right one. It took us months but we found it. We are now busy rehearsing, recording and playing live. These things now seem more important than kites. - influences: The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, Pulp, Camera Obscura, Hefner, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Housemartins...
Saturday 09
MISTER MARK RAFFERTY / RICHARD HOLMES / MIKE HASTINGS / UNCLE FRITZ / TOM SNOWBALL
An amazing night of acoustic gorgeousness featuring some of the best acoustic action on offer from around the country. Woohoo! This is going to be a cracker, make no mistake! From the wistful nick drake-esque folkings of the very talented richard holmes to the uplifting mantras of tom snowball. Warm the heart of your cockles and indeed the cockles of your heart on this winter's saturday night.
www.myspace.com/markrafferty
www.myspace.com/yourunclefritz
www.myspace.com/tomsnowball
Sunday 10
THE CONTRADICTIONS / SANCTUARY FIRE / SPACEBALL 1 / ZIPPY ZIMMERMAN / WEEAN SPHERINCK
An eclectic mix of rock, indy and acoustica tonight in celebration of mr pinkerton's day of birth
www.myspace.com/sanctuaryfire
Monday 11
Emergency Solidarity Gig!
emergency solidarity gig! to support the mexican indian resistance against police repression in oaxaca. this event coincides with a week of action around the UK to raise awareness of the recent massacre. come along and find out more about the zapatista movement with films and bands!
www.myspace.com/sanctuaryfire
Tuesday 12
Jaggy Promotions: CHAOS BLOOD (pictured) / THE HAUNTINGS OF ASSYRIA
Chaos Blood are an Extreme Metal band from Hampshire, UK. The band is a collective of close friends and brothers and have been in existence for 2 years. The band spent over a year writing and recording their debut album. This was Produced by Mark Mynett . It has been a long and challenging process, yet has proven to be an invalueable learning curve. Grindus maximus jaggus tasticus! Doors 8pm
www.jaggypromotions.tk
www.myspace.com/jaggypromotions
www.myspace.com/chaosblood
Wednesday 13
Kovorox Sound presents: PRURIENT (usa) / MONOTRACT (usa) / SUDDEN INFANT (swiss/uk) / HOCKYFRILLA / USURPER / KMVSNI
After Sunn O))) seeing Prurient live is the most intense, physical experience I've ever been a part of. My ears kept ringing for two straight days, but it was worth it. Oh boy was it worth it. Dominick Fernow is fastly becoming noise's most brutal emperor, not counting the many Japanese acts I've still to discover (recommend!). Black Vase is monumental and this year's Pleasure Ground (just released on Load) is it's suicidal cousin. Prurient sets usually don't cross the 30-minute mark but every minute will be engraved in your brain for the rest of your life. Sudden Infant is the project of Mr. Joke Lanz, one of europe's finest noise provocateurs. Known for his wild abuse of children's toys, feeble electronics and frighteningly sweet aesthetic, Invocation of the Aural Slave Gods is yet another painful kaleidoscope of various sonics in an ever-expanding discography. Throught the disc the listener will be soothed, scared, squelched and teased, as sounds approach from all angles at a variety of speeds. Sudden Infant is in good company with such sound-collage legends as Nurse With Wound, Runzlestirn & Gurgelstock and Throbbing Gristle, as well as newer breeds Panicsville and Nautical Almanac. While some noiseniks operate with a limited palate and restrict their sounds to create a uniform statement, Lanz and friends are happy to gather from any conceivable source, which allows the record to progress cinematically, like some sort of journey to the center of one's naval. Sudden Infant top it all off with a crushing Cabaret Voltaire cover, allowing the listener to become distracted just long enough for Joke and company to tie his or her shoelaces together. With Sudden Infant, it's expected that we'll all be falling on our faces anyway. That's the fun. (Matthew Kosloff/SKYSCRAPER Magazine) (mostly) miniscule free-noise tantrums wi busted instruments from the mongs what brought youse Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery. the following audio-jobbies have hit the pan: "First Effort" (No Label cdr.), "Go For It" (Giant Tank cdr.), "Quit While You're Ahead" (Kovorox Sound cdr.), "War In Miniature (edit.)" featuring CK Dexter Haven (Lapsed Electronics 3" cdr.). "Get It Out" split wi Birds Of Delay (Giant Tank cdr.), "Shingles" track on "Pjorn: Doing The Right Thing.." comp (Pjorn 72 cdr.) imminent stools: "You Can Do It" (Giant Tank cdr.), KMVSNI/ Usurper split (Giant Tank cdr) Green Mist/ Usurper split (Sick Head cassette) "Nae Title As Yet" (Rampart cassette) and some other fumbles 'n' grunts on forthcoming Mantile and Chocolate Monk comps. Ali attempts to regularly release other spazmo's (such as: Muscletusk, Active Cell, Malcy Duff and Hockyfrilla.) cdrs and comics on his Giant Tank label, but shite stuff like full-time employment keeps on getting in the way. Malcy, on the other hand, is a hard-grafting cartoonist who has had his scribbles published by all kinds o' folks. Google his name: he gets his trumpet blown all over the fucken place. also have a neb at www.bugpowder.com. also: we prob have more shows than are listed at the mo, but MySpaz is a fucken cunt and willnae let us update shit properly. boo-hiss. check our website fr accurate info ALWAYS. Hockyfrilla have the minds of bengali tigers and the bodies of UFC heavyweights - that makes for explosive action. You better believe you want us. You want us to make your ears omit brain discharge and your eyes bleed. Welcome to the world of Hockyfrilla. We love boys, i love girls, we have been around a bit. We have experienced noise like no other sweet chicks like us. Rhian is a long time Giant Tanker in the 'burgh - spaz noise with the boyz Dora Doll is long term founder member of noise gurus Decaer Pinga - wild times across many countries. We have recorded our first release - a 45 minute aural stimulation piece consisting of several pieces. Sounds of darkness, delight and gastric concerns combine to make this an experience you won't forget. This is out in the UK but we need to get this out elsewhere to provide a (dis)service to the kids. We are looking for some label action for this release and many future battles - speak now and don't miss this opportunity! Doors 8.30pm - £4
www.kovoroxsound.com
Thursday 14
POPLIFE: Monthly Pop Quiz
The 13th Note's official monthly pop quiz is an unmissable package of pop trivia, multimedia, great music, crap music and even crapper jokes. Expect much silliness and socially unacceptable behaviour as our teams battle it out to become this month's winners and Pop Gurus, and claim their prize of non-Tennents beer and the chance to play Rockstar Roulette for a cash jackpot. Your hosts, as ever, are JC and Molly, ably assisted by the third wheel on the wobbly Poplife tricycle, their kindly Uncle Brendan, aka MC Shitehawk. They love you all and they want to prove it. Join them and worship at the altar of POP in all of its forms. Entry will cost you just one lonely little pound. POP is life ... spring into POPLIFE."
Friday 15 ***RECOMMENDED***
tronic presents: JACE & MR MAN (SYNTAX) / THE APHRODISIACS (pictured) / GFUNK303
One of the Note’s most recent monthly shenanigans, dedicated to bringing together the best underground live electronica returns with a smart assortment. Gfunk303 squelches out some nicely trad acid, the ‘new song’ on the old myspace - ‘pigeon whole’ - providing a no-mess beateriffic build up and filter breakout, whobblo bass drum rattling you between whirligig trance and keener Atari game shaking… speaking of, with ‘shaker’, just the kind of insistent beats, astral stabs and Germanic siren voice (‘dance with me… dance with us…’) that has me moving about for hours. With Mr Funk303 tonight, Jace Syntax and Mr Man, also plunking out the acid, with a rather more chilled air on the tracks I was listening to while typing this – putting me in mind of open top car rides round harbour warehouses I have participated in vicariously through various Eddie Murphy cop movies of the mid-eighties, long train rides and aerial tracking shots of city nightscapes. The Aphrodisiacs, whose recipe for love had them played by the late Mr Peel, no less, in session, conclude the bill, beats and synths underpinning delicious guitar lines a bit Manchester Garage Flower, a bit Depeche Mode circa Songs of faith & devotion, and the sort of [motif] thumping beat appeal that has you pillaging their website for all the downloads they can squeeze up there. Top one. Doors 8pm & £4 entry
www.tronicglasgow.com
www.myspace.com/gfunk303
Saturday 16
Moonshaker presents: THE BREAKERS (pictured) / THE CIDER SPIDERS / ELKS
More high quality indy rock from debbie and cat at moonshaker...did i not see a phoatie of the breakers in the NME?
www.myspace.com/moonshaker
www.myspace.com/thebreakersonline
www.theciderspiders.co.uk
www.myspace.com/theciderspiders
Sunday 17 ***RECOMMENDED***
Drive Carefully at Christmas: BABY BONES (pictured) / WALL STREET AMMUNITION HERO / MOLLY'S SEAFOODS / ELECTROLUVS (dj set) / + Drive Carefully DJs (Freight Logistics, Oh How The Mighty Have Fallen and Good Morning Mrs. Magpie)
Drive Carefully Records hosts an outing of new music. In ‘Losing my edge’, the now legendary LCD Soundsystem song, the protagonist observes ‘I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites…’ Here are Baby Bones, who have sold their guitar to buy synths, and hocked their synths to buy guitars, but know what they really want. They want to have trombone and dance like Gang Gang Dance at the hop with Le Tigre. Baby Bones songs rule. The demented zombie arcade game disco drone of Babyboy is compelling, all Karen O covering a GZA track. Bring it on! Wall Street Ammunition Hero hove into view sporting deceptively rational verses, becoming more unhinged bridges and google-eyed frenzy choruses. Low-end guitars and fuzzy bass recall 64 Slices of American Cheese mid-90s genius like Magoo, rattling off Devo and Slint on the way – hi-scoring musical pinball. Molly’s Seafoods are an enigmatic pop mystery waiting to be unravelled by Audrey Tautou and Tom Hanks and you the lucky punter. Electroluvs squeeze in a set, and there are also turntable antics from Drive Carefully’s label honchos masquerading as DJs. Fun, fun, fun – AND you get to keep the T-bird. Doors 8.30pm - £4
www.drivecarefullyrecords.co.uk
www.myspace.com/drivecarefullyrecords
www.myspace.com/babybonesglasgow
www.myspace.com/mollysseafoodsforever
Monday 18 ***RECOMMENDED***
IN ERNEST (pictured)/ THE A FOREST (pictured) / MOUSE EAT MOUSE
The A Forest have tunes which, while being speculative and quiet like certain giants of American indie music that get name-checked all the time in their blurbs, don’t remind me so much of Low Ya Tengo as one of those delightful Finnish bands that tiptoe about on the Volcanic Tongue label – this is melodica, skittery programmed drums, wafty, uplifting vocals apparently not in English, cello... indeed, to refer again to the band low, perhaps a better word than quiet is restraint, which is a different dynamic altogether. Speaking of which, the slightly less elfin Mouse Eat Mouse play also. They’re an odd prospect – spoken word punk jazz, like if Arab Strap (may they rest in peace) had a bit more of a squonk n roll groove on, and mair saxophone. Speculative tunes looping Happy Mondays under poker faced Scottish words, Irvine Welsh/Robert Burns/Mark E Smith roundtable on disillusionment - ‘Aye and ay’ is one of my favourite titles/lyrics ever, and ‘subsistence alien mechanics/an absurd cycle toil sleep sleep toil’ from ‘Tuim tattie’ are just superb words by anyone’s standards. In Ernest spoil everything by splitting up. Maybe this’ll be a last gig, maybe they won’t happen, maybe they’ll change their minds and stop all this ‘new projects’ pish… but we nonetheless salute their brief exciting spurt of existence, beezer oomalamathrock tunes and sly humour.
www.myspace.com/inernest
www.theaforest.co.uk
www.myspace.com/theaforest
www.mouse-eat-mouse.co.uk
www.myspace.com/mousehq
Tuesday 19
AFTER CHRISTMAS / + GUESTS
To contradict one of After Christmas' own lyrics, tonight smiling IS allowed. Alan from Coriolis puts down his guitar and picks up a bass to provide rhythms for another band - polymaths! Tchoh... - and the result is at the kind of acute tangent from Coriolis you might expect - from the same solar system, but with a different orbit.
www.myspace.com/afterchristmas
Wednesday 20 ***RECOMMENDED***
Club Patch 2: LADDER COINS / CAPTAIN HADDOCK / GLIDER / DR YELLOWBIRD
A mixed media/arts night with live bands (Laddercoins, Glider, Captain Haddock and Dr Yellowbird), Art work which will be on display, burlesque entertainers/ performers, cigarette girls selling various burlesque ish/ vaudvilllian items, poetry, short stories (which will be available to read at the tables & on the walls), Manequins positioned around the venue (just one or two if i can find em!!) Lots of fairy lights, disco lights & all things club like in terms of lighting ... also short films being shown on a selection of TV's positioned around the stage & beside it. It aims to be a big night!!!
www.myspace.com/clubpatch
www.laddercoins.com
www.myspace.com/capthaddock
www.myspace.com/gliderglasgow
www.myspace.com/dryellowbird
Thursday 21 ***RECOMMENDED***
Black Xmas: KYLIE MINOISE / BLACK SUN (pictured) / TETSUO (pictured) / MESSIAH COMPLEX
I'm dreaming of a Black Xmas… Alternative festivities from a variety of not very merry elves. Kylie Minoise= one man recreation of out of control military industrial complex rampaging over face of humanity. An apposite response to 'why is KM's music so abrasive, so horrible, so unfocused?' might be 'they started it.' It's the free-est kind of expression, sound unfiltered by anything as reductive as titles, songs, lyrics. See it before the puritans ban this filth. Also appearing: Black Sun, doom metal from ex-Macrocosmica drummer Russell McEwan and cohorts, flailing the flesh from their bones over lava torrent beats and fallout-crusted guitars, howled vocals of sun-beings bewailing their homeworld's demise; Tetsuo are at war with false noise, and reserve a lengthy list of who and what this constitutes, which they read from while attempting to kill you using the remnants of devices found in an abandoned vivisection facility. Messiah Complex: unto us a fearful redeemer is born. Their message for these end times is: repent if you like, it makes no difference. The Archons crave our flesh and will have it by foul means or fouler. Enslavement is normality, freedom can only come from an abandonment of pieties and a hatred of everything… just like the ones we used to know. Doors 8.30pm - £5
www.myspace.com/kylieminoise
www.myspace.com/legionofblacksun
www.myspace.com/noisemessiah
Friday 22
GALCHEN / TALL SHIPS / BEE HEID
Galchen - "An experiment in guitars, synth loops, samples and tight ass rhythms. There is a certain numerical, scientific edge to their music, which is completely instrumental, but they possess a rhythm section of such quality that the whole experience they offer is well worth seeing." "I'm Bee Heid. I play about 7 songs so far. More are coming. The one above represents my first finished article. Finished-ish. I hope to have an album out early next year, and play some gigs once I stop shitting myself at the thought. I also play in a band called Cayto whom some people have heard of." have you stopped shitting it yet paul? Tall Ships reference Mogwai about five thousand times in the first three words on their myspace slot... but they're not that Mogwai-ey at alL, really. Same shipping forecast, different Utsira. Land-locked, work-bored but aspirant, watching the rolling horizon hopefully... I love the naval gazing qualities, and if you want something that's on slightly more of a rolling deep tip than a skateboard abandoned on an overgrowing summer lawn tip then - gentle guitar band loving reader - I think you'll find we have something for you too. Q. how many members of staff can you fit in one venue? A. come along and see how many you can spot.
www.myspace.com/galchen
www.myspace.com/tallshipsofglasgow
www.myspace.com/beeheid
Saturday 23
DROPKICK (pictured) / + GUESTS
"...Dropkick throw another spin on the well-worn banjo playing drummer lap steel unison vocal Lemonhead Fanclub from Edinburgh groove... oh, you know! 'Maybe it's what you needed to hear this time,' they suggested, and I could not possibly disagree." "Country pop touched by the hand of God." Americana UK "These guys just keep getting better and better. Their music comes highly recommended." tartanpodcast "Dropkick are very good. Scotland's finest alt-country power-pop band." Tom Morton, BBC Radio Scotland Dropkick is a Scottish band who play catchy, countrified pop music with great brotherly harmonies and melodies that will stick in your head forever. Imagine Paul McCartney playing "Duelling Banjos" with Brian Wilson and you're halfway there...
www.dropkickmusic.co.uk
www.myspace.com/dropkickmusic
Sunday 31 ***RECOMMENDED***
The End of the Year Club: IAMCHEMIST (pictured) / + more tbc / BOZILLA / + FRIENDS
Cruising into a fifth anniversary without even breaking sweat, EOTMC reaches the End of the Year in the usual fashion: music, games, video, special tributes to best events of the past 365 days, mash, felt tips, more live music, bells, streamers and full electro tuck with Bo[y]zilla, IAMCHEMIST, synths, swoosh of the Korgs, vocoders and much more of the usual pixellated digitalised party, like a robot from 1984. Only it’s 2007, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN, and here we are, eh?
www.eotmc.com
www.bozilla.co.uk
www.myspace.com/bozillabozilla
www.myspace.com/iamchemist
