Monday 01
closed
Tuesday 02
THE WHISKY WORKS (pictured) / GDANSK (pictured) / FERAL / ATOMIC GARDEN
www.thewhiskyworks.com
www.myspace.com/thewhiskyworks
www.myspace.com/gdanskmusic
Wednesday 03
SCUNNER (pictured) / THE PLIMPTONS (pictured) / GLASGOW GLAM BANGERS
www.myspace.com/scunnerscotland
www.theplimptons.co.uk
www.myspace.com/theplimptonsuk
http://glasgowglambangers.tripod.com
Thursday 04
Dicelines: JIEZUBERBAND (pictured) / TEAM SALT (pictured)
www.dicelines.com
www.myspace.com/dicelines
www.myspace.com/jiezuberband
www.teamsalt.co.uk
www.myspace.com/teamsalt
Friday 05
Joy Promotions: 3 bands tbc
www.joypromotions.com
www.myspace.com/joypromotions
Sunday 07
Puny Human Promotions: MEANS TO AN END / + 3 bands tba
www.punyhuman.co.uk
Tuesday 09
BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL / RICHARD YOUNGS, ALEX NEILSON DUO / OPAQUE
Birchvillle Cat Motel: Walls/wails of noisy droning beauty from New
Zealander Campbell Kneale, the man responsible for the mighty Black Boned Angel amongst countless other projects. This is Campbell's first trip back to the UK since being one of the highlights of the Instal festival '05. / Richard Youngs, Alex Neilson Duo: First ever duo performance. Moving from glissing extended wordless space ritual with percussive star flurries and crashing drones through intense drum-spiked metal machine music and elegiac brain-lapping rock. / Opaque: Guitar-based-improv-mind-melt from Kylie Minoise's alter-ego. Whether executed by one or by many, Opaque's music erupts like a neon volcano in yr soul. Wild, uncontrollable and ecstatic. £5
www.myspace.com/birchvillecatmotel
Wednesday 10
PARANOID MONKEYS (pictured)
Music that MUSIC FANS would love and SCENSTERS would hate. Politically astute psychedelic rock/post prog.. I think....
www.myspace.com/theparanoidmonkeys
Thursday 11
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 12
Moonshaker: 3 BANDS tba
www.myspace.com/moonshaker
Saturday 13
HYENA / EGG IN A TREE / EX-WIVES (pictured) / SEIZE STARS
Hyena are Punk Rock, they believe punk means freedom, freedom to play, act, dress, talk, dance, and think whatever they want. Their dynamic sound varies between 3 minute indie/alternative/grungy/mathpop and 13 minute part improvised soundscapes, bubbling and bursting with an outpour of passion and FUN! Yes HYENA makes music because it’s the most fun thing in the world and it’s what they love best! HYENA like Shellac, Scratch Acid, Bardo Pond, All Tomorrows Parties, Kill Rock Stars, Touch and Go, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Bikini Kill, Strawberry Bon Bons, IRN BRU, Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Hella, Tapes, Vinyl, LIGHTS, SOUND and ACTION!!!!! / Ex-Wives are a noise rock 3-piece from Glasgow, formerly known as Stars Kill.
www.myspace.com/hyenaband
www.myspace.com/egginatree
www.xwvs.com
www.myspace.com/exwives
www.myspace.com/seizestars
Sunday 14
ASTRONAUTS FAIL / EL DOG (pictured)
Astronauts Fail play temperamental, inventively arranged songs which never want to stay in the same place, darting from one rhythm to another, one section to another section, but as melodically as can be. The band can be delicately quiet or explosively loud or somewhere in between. The current line-up has been in existence since late 2004 and they have recently completed the recording and mixing of "Mixed Recordings: The Baliol Street Sessions" featuring two new songs. / El Dog: "A glorious mix of Muse, Led Zeppelin, Mogwai and Biffy Clyro. They may be clearly mad, rabid even, but they're also smarter than your average pooch." Stuart McHugh, Is This Music?
www.myspace.com/astronautsfail
www.eldog.co.uk
www.myspace.com/eldogmusic
Monday 15
Tbc
Tuesday 16
Tbc
Wednesday 17
THE DEEP FRIED WOLF KNUCKLES / THE BUCKY RAGE (pictured)
A mysterious melange of masked marauding. The Bucky Rage tick all the right mishaped boxes with their unbridled bandido approach to surf, religion, wrestling and one-eyed girls. / The Deep-Fried Wolf Knuckles return from an unholy hiatus with high cholesterol rock 'n' roll to set your soul on fire. Save yersel'.
www.myspace.com/thedeepfriedwolfknuckles
www.myspace.com/the_bucky_rage
Thursday 18
UPSTAIRS in the cafe/bar: 'Scribble and Screeb' (pictured)
Scribble as you screeb to the dinosaurDeathpenguin DJs (IDIOteque), who will be bursting your face with paper, crayons and right proper eclectic tunage. What better way to see out the weekend! The 'best' pictures will be used as posters for the next night, with the rest being turned into a city wide 'free gallery'. A selected few will be turned into HUGE A1/A0 prints for the participants to collect at the next night. And a inspiration will also be provided... in the Cafe/Bar area, from 9.30/10pm - 12am
www.myspace.com/scribbleandscreeb - the night (with picture updates)
www.myspace.com/dinosaurdeathpenguin - the DJs
www.myspace.com/screebson - the neeson
www.mysapce.com/floydddp - the floyd
Thursday 18
DOWNSTAIRS in the Notecave: HIGH COMMISSIONER / TALL SHIPS / POPUP (pictured)
Layering the sounds on with varying thickness, High Commissioner demonstrate some powerful production through Extra Life. Highlights in this down beat, Beta Band/Hot Chip hybrid include a quality entrance with sweet arpeggio and an attractive vocal melody. Hopefully a proper recording will stiffen the sinews, drums in particular, but as demos go it has plenty of ingenuity and promise. The tumultuous Edged aptly offers sharp assurance and marvellous harmonies, both vocally and instrumentally. It drives along with a powerful electro-dance current and an all attracting static, that appeals without going overboard. Charting the progress of High Commissioner seems like it could be well worth the endeavour, based on this very encouraging effort.........The Glasow Reviewer..... / Popup live like wolves on the outskirts of popular culture, protecting a territory it would not make sense for others to invade. They arrive, like foxes, without invitation at the gates of towns and cities, hoping to be fed without fuss. They sing at times as an owl will to his prey, at times as a panda will to her reluctant mate. They are the sound of birds migrating, of nature's irregular beat. they move like man's heart racing, as the blood drains to his feet. - GLASGOW band Popup have created something of a stir in Scotland over the past few months The Scotsman "...saviour the wistful, knowing pop that Popup specialise in.just go see them." The List - "If there could be a Scottish repost to the Artic Monkeys it could be this gang, get your hands on their debut single" - Vic Galloway BBC Radio One / 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.
www.myspace.com/tallshipsofglasgow
www.popuptheband.com
Friday 19
tronic presents: DEXTRO / IVES (pictured) / BEACHES OF THE PROUD
Dextro: headline the January bill, signed to Border Community alongside the likes of Nathan Fake and Holden, plus having his debut album out through 16K Records, DEXTRO is pushing the boundaries of Electronica music. Described alongside the likes of Boards Of Canada, his music is ambient Electronica that washes over you and gently sooths your soul, melting into your mind. Hailing from Glasgow it seems fitting to have Dextro on to launch tronic off to a flying start for the new year. With support from local lads Ives. Tickets available in advance priced at £4 from SECxtra: www.secxtra.com or phone: 0870 132652. You can also buy tickets over the counter at SECxtra, St Enoch for £3. (please book now to avoid dissapointment, without a ticket you will be charged £5 on the door). Doors 8.30pm - £5
www.tronicglasgow.com
www.dextro.co.uk
www.myspace.com/dextrotransmission
www.ives.tk
www.myspace.com/ivesmusic
www.myspace.com/beachesoftheproud
Saturday 20
Drive Carefully Records presents: MY KAPPA ROOTS / THE KARA SEA (pictured) / OHHH!!! / Drive Carefully DJs
"At the tender age of 22, Sarah Bradley, the lady behind The Kara Sea, finds herself with the surprising tag of industry veteran. However, a quick look at her CV soon puts any surprise to bed. Her latest project is thrown in amongst past exploits which include promoting, DJing and running a record label as well as her songwriting exploits. The metamorphosis of Bradley from Eskimo Girl into The Kara Sea is indicative of the maturity and finesse evident in her music. Rigid drum and synth beats complement the swirling melodies and poetic, sensitive vocals to make The Kara Sea a unique adventure in music. No longer an Eskimo Girl; the ice has melted and The Kara Sea is flowing." Doors 9.00pm / £4
www.drivecarefullyrecords.co.uk
www.myspace.com/drivecarefullyrecords
www.adventuresinthekarasea.net
www.myspace.com/thekarasea
Sunday 21
DE ROSA (pictured)
Press for 'MEND', the first DE ROSA album... "The kind of parochial majesty you might encounter if The Pixies reworked The Go-Betweens "Before Hollywood" for a documentary about the social history of Lanarkshire. Yes, that good." 4/5 | Mojo / "Their debut album is an absolute treat; an atmospheric effort mixing itchy twitchy off-kilter vocals, ragged riffs and dark melodies twist, turn and build into thrillingly blustery crescendos. Mend is intensely compelling and will break your heart over and over again." 4/5 | The List / "All too rarely you stumble across a band that stands head and shoulders above the crap and leaves you gasping for breath, De Rosa are one of those bands." 4/5 | The Fly
www.wearederosa.com
www.myspace.com/wearederosa
Monday 22
Tbc
Tuesday 23
Tread Not Fear presents: THIS FAMILIAR SMILE / WTN / COLONEL STRATHO / TAKING CHASE
This familiarsmile are a four-piece rock band based in Glasgow, they play rock music full of irregular timings, complex structures and yet manage to keep their music cohesive and melodic. With influences stemming from The Cure right through to At The Drive In, ThisFamiliarSmile have a healthy mix of influences that are evident from the moment the sound first hits your ears. In 2004 ThisFamiliarSmile teamed up with Fierce Panda Records who have released tracks from Coldplay, Death Cab For Cutie, Keane and Seafood to name but a few, to release "Plagiarism is the new theft" from the E.P. "No Decay The Scene" on the best of Scotland sampler titled "Glowing Underground". With 2004 ending on a high, ThisFamiliarSmile were gaining much needed respect from Glasgow's alternative music scene with appearances at King Tuts Wah Wah Hut , The Garage and many more big Glasgow venues. But it was the bands appearance at T-in-thepark 2005 that really spring boarded the band into the light of record company scouts and managers alike . By the end of 2005 ThisFamiliarSmile were ready to go back into the studio to record the bands second E.P titled "Sew Yourself A Heart" which would go on to sell over 400 copies and finally give the band the fanbase they longed for, and shows supporting bands like Minus the Bear and Settlefish . Doors 7.30pm / £4
www.myspace.com/thisfamiliarsmile
Wednesday 24
Tbc
Thursday 25
THE SULPHUR CHILDREN Burns' night special
Friday 26
Plimptons album launch: THE PLIMPTONS (pictured) / BABY JANE (pictured) / THE MARTIAL ARTS
The Plimptons launch their album "pomp" ... The Plimptons were formed in Motherwell in 1999 by Martin Smith and Adam Smith, who are unrelated. The band played their first gig as a two-piece on 20th January 2000 in Motherwells Bar One (now Starka) where they wrote and played played some songs including Help The State, Someday and Realm O Majick which would go on to become standards in The Plimptons live show and introduced some folk to their unique brand of Pop/Prog/Ragtime/Neo-Britpop/Folk/Metal. The Plimptons remained quiet until October of 2004 when they released their debut single Could I Be Loved?. Also during this time they were joined on Keyboards by Andy Soares who seemed to fit in naturally with the bands style. Their song Could I Be Loved won the demo competition on Vic Galloways Air show on BBC Scotland. Within days theyd hooked up with local scenester Chris Gilmour, who took on the roll of manager and record label, and their fortunes picked up. A debut album The Songs of Ignorance and of Inexperience was released in January 2005 on Ivan Lendil Music to widespread local radio play and rave reviews in the Scottish Music press. The album is available online and in major independent record shops in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester and London. The first track on the album "We R Franz Ferdinand 2" gained the band a legion of fans on the internet, mostly dissatisfied Franz Ferdinand fans needed something different. Legal threats over the song's title eventually lead to the real Franz Ferdinand having to change the name of their second album and vanish into obscurity. A second single John Major was released on Gilmours bedroom-based record label, Ivan Lendil Music, to coincide with the UK General Election in March. Realising that the band needed to beef up for live shows from September 2005, the lineup was augmented with Alan Wolf-knuckle on bass and Rowan Smith on drums. Shows at all the major toilet venues in Glasgow and Scotland followed in the Autumn 2005.In January 2006 they lost their Oran Mor virginity playing as part of the Celtic Fringe festival supporting Thee Pendulums. In the unforgetable summer of 2006, Alan Wolfknuckle left to band, to be replaced by Neil Robertson on bass. And not hastily the band marched into the studio with Mr Brendan O'Hare to record a second album entitled "POMP". Due for release in January. In the meantime, Paul Joseph Kelly stepped into the Pulsarboots as Craig folded in the wake on an oncoming GIG ONSLAUGHT!!! and the Plimp goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and end.
www.theplimptons.co.uk
www.myspace.com/theplimptonsuk
www.babyjane.org.uk
www.myspace.com/babyjanetcb
Saturday 27
JAZZFINGER / XENIS EMPUTAE TRAVELLING BAND / MEURSAULT / LANTERNS (pictured) / NOT I
Jazzfinger: Aside from a cordial and illuminating interview conducted by Neil Campbell in Bananafish back in 2000, little press has been given to these three forward-thinking lads from Newcastle. These, then, are the facts as we have them. 1. Jazzfinger is Ben Jones, Hasan Gaylani and Ben Wilkinson. 2. They have released, to my knowledge, 2 proper albums prior to this doozy (ie. The Little Girl on the Plane Who Turned Her Doll's Head Around to Look at Me cd on Muzamuza in 1998, and a split LP with Orrin DeForest on Traqueto in 2001) since forming in 1996. 3. Two of the members have served in various incarnations of the Sunroof! big band and the Hototogisu under the despotic grip of Matthew Bower. 4. Jazzfinger makes the most sweetly fucked lo-fi drones of anyone in recent history. Recorded in glorious low fidelity directly to 2-track, The Well of Used Dreams is the product of 3 beings obviously in love with sound. Unstructured but coherent, dark yet playful, patient but still punk as hell, the eleven cuts here all hew to a slippery aesthetic with few antecedents. There are hints of the familiar- the DIY minimalism of Zoviet France, a touch of the amplified electronic texturalism of contemporaries Son of Earth, the grey sonic pantheism of Thuja, even some devotional Popul Vuh-esque organ tones, perhaps- but ultimately, Jazzfinger's "neither fish nor fowl" approach results in a sound that is completely and uniquely their own. Eschewing the maximalist bombast that seems so de rigeur for most experimental drone and noise acts these days, Jazzfinger are not afraid to luxuriate in the slow build of ideas and the spaces between notes. "Secret Grandfather" is a perfect case in point, a piece of musical "no-mind" in which piano and what sounds like a koto trade koans like a pair of Zen Buddhist monks pushing each other towards satori. "I Am In Blood" further advances this approach. While a melancholic guitar melody and mournful organ lull the listener into somnambulistic trance, a coursing stream of fractured electronics darts in and out, never allowing one to fully succumb to the seduction of sleep. / Xenis Emputae Travelling Band (XETB) came into being in 2001, while exploring the ancient monuments of Cornwall. The project is a one-man 'band', with occasional collaborators, dedicated to playing an avant-folk music which draws mainly upon psychogeographic practices and folklore in order to 'channel' the physical and psychic landscapes.The initial Cornish recordings which were carried out subsequent to crawling through the ancient holed stone at Men-an-Tol are documented on Full Moon June. From that point, the main intent of XETB has been to use the genius locii of places, local folklore, psychogeography and intuitional observations etc. as the starting point of what I call 'ether-folk'. With the exception of the aforementioned release and The Suffolk Workings other excursions by XETB have been closer to home, concentrating on the Ridings of Yorkshire.
www.myspace.com/jazzfinger
www.larkfall.co.uk/xetbpage.htm (Xenis Emputae Travelling Band)
Sunday 28
THE FEBRUARY SOLUTION (pictured) / FRIDAY NIGHT GUNFIGHT / SECOND SKIN (pictured) / UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS
The February Solution are a strange but unique band. Welding the most brutal metal and hardcore with a melodic and even melancholic sensibility too often lacking. Formidable as a live act, they manage to tear the stage apart as expected, while at the same time reaching for something beyond the narrow confines of their chosen genre. Bringing in such diverse influences as Textures, Mogwai and The Acacia Strain, the Febs are typical of the new attitude in the extreme end of metal, where the false walls that once existed between musicians are being torn down and a whole new sound is emerging. Creating music that is neither one thing or another, but something
else entirely. Hailing from various suburban Ayrshire and Lanarkshire towns, The February Solution set upon their journey in November 2002 after meeting at college. Since then they have shared the stage with Hopesfall, Eden Maine, Khoma, Aconite thrill, The Hurt Process, Terra Diablo and The Abominable Iron Sloth. A successful tour of the UK in May 2006 was sponsored by UK Metal Underground, who had earlier made them Band of the week in February 06. All too often in modern circles of music are trends followed and images pursued. While this serves its own purpose it has no longevity. Trends very often radically change rendering old images unfashionable. Secondskin are doing what they can to play music for themselves and no one else. The noises heard when listening to Secondskin are simply an amalgamation of the noises the band wanted to hear. The
music they play is an effort by the band members to interest themselves and create a vehicle for their own expression. Any one else who hops in for the ride is an added bonus. Secondskin formed in April in the year 2000 from the remnants of various local bands. After a short teething period they begun to produce material which displayed a very alternative attitude to heavy music, in both style and concept. they spent the next year honing their craft until the material they felt so strong about was polished to the extent it was ready to be released. Now having signed to rising records Secondskin will be releasing their debut Album in the near future. Doors 8pm £3/4
www.myspace.com/thefebruarysolution54
www.myspace.com/fridaynightgunfight
www.myspace.com/secondskin
Monday 29
DBSIXTYEIGHT / EIGHT PAGE PULLOUT (acoustic) (pictured) / MY ACTIONS YOUR EXIT (pictured) / SWEATERLIFE (pictured)
"Glasgow fivesome Dbsixtyeight are set to explode into your consciousness with their infectious razor riffs n synths sound and heart-wrenchingly raw lyrics to prove that this genre of music means so much more than the latest skinnies, tats and trends. The group formed in early 2002 spurred into existence by artists as diverse as The Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, the Wannadies, the cars and Everclear. Since then they have been winning over a growing number of obssesive devotees from gigs with the likes of Midtown, Rx Bandits, Recover, The Exit, Reggie and the full effect and Goldfinger. Their first two demos sold in excess of eight hundred copies as a result. These painfully honest tracks masking darker lyrical content under shiny pop hooks are clearly connecting with an army of like minded individuals everywhere. Its live, however, that this fiery five-piece truly come into their own; an incredibly easy on the eye, frenzied blur of hair, sweat and ink. They play like their lives depended on it spewing out a dizzyingly blend of catchy melodies and singalong choruses and their deranged onstage attack makes for an intense and truly unmissable experience." Camilla Pia (jounalist for Kerrang, The List and Scotland on Sunday)
www.myspace.com/dbsixtyeight
www.myspace.com/eightpagepullout
www.myspace.com/myactionsyourexit
www.myspace.com/sweaterlife
Tuesday 30
BEE HEID / HORN OF PLENTY / THE MISS'S
let's do some music shall we? Rather! Another night of note lovliness for you. Enhanced by an extra lashing of note staff...that's right....some on stage....some off stage. From the elegant excellence of bee-heid (music to smoke cigars to...whilst solving eternal conundrums) to the majesty of the horn of plenty... segueing almost seamlessly into the all out joy of the miss's singer-ing / songwriter-ing. Another one to bring your staff checklist along to... :¬)
www.myspace.com/beeheid
Wednesday 31
The End of the Month Club: PIXELH8 (pictured) / CRISIS PROJECT (and guest vocalist Gayle) / BOZILLA / + FRIENDS
All the usual shenanigans from the awesome EOTMC team, with VJ Thirftshop XL, and featuring a tribute to Magnus Magnusson?! and the Scottish debut show for the gameboy weilding melodic wonder: PixelH8 and also local guests Crisis Project with their five-piece electro synth rock. Doors 9pm £4
www.eotmc.com
www.bozilla.co.uk
www.myspace.com/bozillabozilla
www.myspace.com/pixelh8
www.myspace.com/syntheticsunshine (crisis project)
www.thriftshopxl.com
