Wednesday 01
Kookin Productions: POP UP (pictured) / COMMANDER KEEN / DAS CONTRAS / special guest: INSPECTOR TAPEHEAD
Some of the best indy rock music around on tonight's bill - miss it / miss out
www.kookin.co.uk
www.popuptheband.com
www.myspace.com/commanderkeenmusic
www.dascontras.com
Thursday 02
Dicelines: SUPERSLIDE (pictured) / MOSES
Superslide - a beautiful blend of tranquil guitars and vocals - a new blend & flag for Scottish artists alike...yep a good un !!" -- Eat This Music. Doors 9pm - £4
www.dicelines.com
www.superslide.org.uk
www.myspace.com/superslide
Friday 03
Joy Promotions: AMPERSAND / THE REVENGERS / THE COVIETS
Joy bring us 3 more action-packed indy rock bands - Q: how do they keep doing it? A: they know what they're doing!!!!!
www.joypromotions.com
Saturday 04 ***GIG OF THE MONTH***
miso events: RANDOM NUMBER / LUXURY CAR (pictured) / THE IMPOSSIBLE FLOWER
Random Number, aka matt robson, creates what has been described as ‘northern wrongbeat'; a mesh of emotive, brooding harmonies drawn and quartered by complex, beat-heavy rhythms. it's digital music with a human heart at its centre. Robson’s hyperactive beat mechanics and alchemical sound manipulations are bound together with a keen sense of melody shaped by his many years of playing in the uk’s alternative music scene, most notably as drummer for hood. coming from his background playing in bands, robson has rallied hard against the stereotypical laptop clichés, and imbues his own shows with a keen sense of energy and punk attitude, using two unsynchronized laptops and a tabletop of controllers and effects. with releases everywhere from mogwai’s rock action through tigerbeat6 to the wonderful highpoint lowlife records and recognition from peers and press (nme single of the week!) – this should be something close to magic. Random Number is joined by Luxury Car, who released one of my favourite records of last year on the fantastic bi-phonic label (run by the guys from swimmer one), and The Impossible Flower… who you’ll remember had to call off the last miso appearance because one of them had to play guitar with vashti bunyan at the barbican hall! Doors 8pm - £4 (members) / £5 (non-members)
www.ilovemiso.com
http://uk.geocities.com/idriveluxurycars
www.geocities.com/impossible_flower/
Sunday 05 ***GIG OF THE MONTH***
EYE (pictured) / EVERETTE / BOSSK / AZRIEL
Uncle Mark's Dictionary of Blurb: Azriel (n): a familiar five piece from the west coast who do these songs that go really small whisper in the ear and then suddenly bust a stirrup by becoming the loudest thing in the world. It is the sound of man's heated battle with itself, and is very, very brutal. / Eye take post-rock to it's logical post-hardcore conclusion - a must see!
www.myspace.com/eyemakemusic
www.azriel.co.uk
Monday 06 ***GIG OF THE MONTH***
Dent All Records: I STAND ALONE / ALLERGO (pictured) / THE FIGHT BACK (pictured) / BY MY HANDS (pictured)
Tonight the Note welcomes a Dent All Records release show featuring: I Stand Alone: fast punk with added beard. / By My Hands: Glasgow’s finest mosh magicians. / The Fight Back: get your old school hardcore out for the lads! / Allergo: stadium rock giants from Perth.... Dent All Records - Formed in 2005 with the intention of helping out our mates bands by putting a few 7" vinyls out into the world. First release is the I Stand Alone / Hand Gun Bravado, split 7" - (I stand alone being a melodic hardcore band based in Scotland with former members of Turtlehead and Stoma and Handgun Bravado being a USA based fast punk band featuring former members of Dag Nasty, Fugazi, Underhand & Zoinks). Future releases will be an Allergo 7" & a Fight Back 7"/CDEP. Also being released on the night is the Actions Speak Louder DVD which was filmed last November and was the final gig of the legendary GHC band Divide. (Limited to 100 copies!) Doors 8pm - £4 entry.
www.myspace.com/dentallrecords
www.myspace.com/allergo
www.thefightback.co.uk
www.bymyhands.co.uk
www.myspace.com/bymyhands
Tuesday 07
Reid Kerr College Night
Wednesday 08
Rabid Radio Night: 3 Bands tba
Thursday 09
POPLIFE: Monthly Pop Quiz
You know the drill by now! What's that? …. You don't…ok, here goes one more time. 1 pound to get in / 2 lovely hosts (molly and JC) / 1 annoying guy at the back with a mic / a crate of non-tennants lager for the winning team & a chance to go for the door takings for said winners. Pop-Life...it's half pop, half life!
Friday 10
Moonshaker Promotions: THE PEDESTRIANS / THE MIDNIGHT TRACER METHOD / POSTERCHILD
(£4 - 8.30pm)
www.moonshaker.co.uk
www.thepedestrians.net
www.myspace.com/posterchildfortheinsane
Saturday 11
Beyond Good and Evil presents: KYLIE MINOISE / WOUNDED KNEE (pictured) / USURPER / D. ABRAHAM TURNER
A night of free noise, drones and psychedelic soundscapes from Beyond Good & Evil. Kylie Minoise: Power-electronic klutz behaviour, indecipherable blasphemies, cuts and bruises by Kovorox head-honcho Lea Cummings. This solo venture from the man behind Opaque and Temple of Static Christ is an even more physical one than his other guises, all blood, spit, sweat and broken bones. / Wounded Knee: Playing his own kind of electronic and shroom damaged industrial folk, simple cyclical songs are looped and overdubbed with field recordings and delayed vocals. WK keeps one foot in traditional folk whilst clearly taking it well into the future. / Usurper: Nigh-inaudible free-noise on every day objects and disabled instruments by these Edinburghers with roots in noise/lofi units Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery. / D. Abraham Turner: Glasgow based D. Abraham Turner spins an intricate web of drones and noises from his guitar run through a plethora of fx-pedals, treading the fine line between dissonance and harmony with beautiful results. Doors 8.30pm / £3.
www.myspace.com/kylieminoise
www.kovoroxsound.com (kylieminoise)
www.myspace.com/bawbags (wounded knee)
www.lapsedelectronics.com (wounded knee)
www.myspace.com/usurperr
www.gianttank.com (usurper)
www.myspace.com/dabrahamturner
Sunday 12
Lazygroove Promotions: TURNING 13 (pictured) / FALTER / KICKING BUCKETS (pictured) / PEOPLE'S ALIBI
Hi octane rock with leanings towards the punk / indy ends of the musical spectrum. Doors 8.30pm - £4
www.lazygroovepromotions.com
www.myspace.com/turning13
www.kickingbuckets.tk
www.myspace.com/kickingbuckets
www.thepeoplesalibi.tk
Monday 13
THE CONTRADICTIONS / SAN SEBASTIAN / YELLOW PAGES / CASA DEL RETRO
"A night of Alternative Rock at the Note."
www.myspace.com/sansebastianband
www.casadelretro.com
www.myspace.com/casadelretro
Tuesday 14
JENDELL FLIGHT MISSION / HOLLOW POINT (pictured) / STAND BY
"Hollow Point are a 4 piece rock band based In Glasgow. "We find It hard to categorise our music, but 'high-energy, guitar-based, melodic, pop/rock' probably gets somewhere close. Our Influences Include Stone Temple Pilots. Alice In Chains, and The Foo Fighters, and you can hear whether or not we sound anything like them by listening to the MP3s" (avail on the Hollow Point site)
www.jendellflightmission.com
www.myspace.com/jendellflightmission
www.hollow-point.co.uk
Wednesday 15
ON THIS DAY WE MET GAMBAS PIL PIL / CALL TO MIND (pictured)
On This Day We Met Gambas Pil Pil sound like "the pull of out-going tide as your feet sink into the sand; whilst four young children subject you to the cruel truths of playground abuse" "gambas" was an idea concieved late '04 when dan and greig, who were studying music performance and promotion in college, wanted to persue similar musical interests. the idea was to put together a band with a open ended direction: fusing together 70's and 80's avant garde and post-modernism; the 90's alternative power pop chorus, mixed with flavours of new wave and folk, ambient and oscillating soundcapes and the many great indy bands of the millenium.
www.calltomind.co.uk
Thursday 16 ***GIG OF THE MONTH***
THE ELECTROLUVS (pictured) / THE PLIMPTONS (pictured) / PULSAR
Billy has been playing his Rockster guitar and messing with the beats and bloops for an uncommon long time now, good, good, good. With Faye alternately, and sometimes simultaneously, screeking violin and plunking synth... look, do you not know how good the Electroluvs are, this late into the 21st century? I suggest you attend this gig to be disarmed and knocked skywards by their delicious analogue melodic noise. There are also The Plimptons, here to Plimp your ride with songs that call for adjectives associated with humour - cutting, lacerating, biting etc - that also double up as really sore sounding acts of violence. Like Half Man Half Biscuit, they're deadly seriously funny, I guess. I hope that in the next twelve months they get signed to a big label, tour the world, conquer America and have a media feeding frenzy, so that come 2007 one of them has a food column in a major broadsheet newspaper. They are, after all, Franz Ferdinand 2. This notion is enough to make my Plimp soul tingle with tickled pleasure. Also tonight, finishing off this tawdry three-way love-in of conjoined band filth, Craig the disco robot overlord of Archpop aka Pulsar shines forth yet AGAIN in the Notecave. This is good news for those of you who like cheese and melodies, bad news for people who want cool or to stand talking while an unseemly scrimmage of A&R twats cuff each other about the face and neck down the front. Feel the Luv, y'all. 9pm £3.
www.electroluvs.com
www.theplimptons.co.uk
www.myspace.com/theplimptonsuk
Friday 17 ***GIG OF THE MONTH***
'tronic: JEYE / SCOPEBOY / CHIKUMA
Second of our fairly new monthly electonic night to pep you up, brought to you by and featuring local studio hounds and dancefloor lurers. Tonight are featured Ives, which, their N E W website (www.ives.tk) tells us is pronounced Yves. Or, I suppose, Eve, depending on how Francophonic you're feeling. Actually, Francophonic is a helpful segue - though citing Orbital as their premier influence, Ives recall, on some of their tracks, le papa de dieu of electronic noodling, Jean Michel Jarre. Except you can dance to it with less embarrassment, and their dub influences shake the speakers better than the often coffee tabular stylings of the old Gallic laser-lover. Brilliant framework beats allow melodie to boogie-toi-la to unfold above, with optimum opportunity to knock it about in the live setting. Also playing is Jeye, for whom a little non Albaphonic pronunciation assistance also might be needed - J-eye, as in the Weegie way of saying 'J'. Beye the way. They too want to make you move whole portions of the body, rather than just the neck and chin-stroking muscles. I'm so glad that electronic music has shaken off its 'wants to be taken serious phase'. On y va! Vous dansez, mm'selle? [Does crap exchange student frugging for several weeks.] 8.30pm Start - £3
http://blog.myspace.com/tronicglasgow
www.myspace.com/ivesmusic
Saturday 18
Saorsa Centre Benefit: RAGE / + GUESTS
www.g42collective.net
Sunday 19
THE DELTAS / THE FEAR / SUICIDE UNDERGROUND
3 great indy rock bands from Edinburgh and Glasgow for 3 of your Scottish pounds.
www.myspace.com/suicideunderground
Monday 20
BERT IS EVIL / + GUESTS
Bert is indeed evil ladies and gentlefolks…3 top notch punk bands from across Scotland.
Tuesday 21
ADRIANNA / EOSCENE / YELLOW BENTINES
Singer/songwriter stuff with a nod towards the folk side of things tonight with the wonderful Adrianna plus guests.
Wednesday 22 ***GIG OF THE MONTH***
MARSHAN (pictured) / SUPERUNKNOWN (pictured) / MAYA29
Marshan. Oh, Marshan! You know when you've been saying a name, like on a shop or something, then you just get what it's supposed to say? That literally happened as I was typing there. Maybe this is just me (I was once on a shit kid's tv quiz show, and failed to answer the riddle 'What am I? I fly in space with a cup.') Which twin examples of extra-terrestrial levels of stupidity bring me - like a Marshall stack of dimness - knuckle-dragging my way back to Marshan, who luckily are about to play a set of such tightly riffed stoner groove sludge that I can almost forget the preceding sentences. Lawks, though, they're pretty good, Marshan. They'll have you going 'Phone home and tell them to get their asses over here.' Tunes like 'Superbrick' give the game away - in this case, it's a gold brick, wrapped in a slice of lemon, thrown through your head. On which final interstellar allusion I'm forced to reckon with Superunknown - who also totally gie the game away by naming themselves after a Soundgarden album. The Supes, or Superunkn?wn for the typographically pedantic, purvey tunes with fist-making tempos and pretty neat lyrical bite and near-spoken chorus asides. Tackling both intellectual ponces (uh-oh, I start nervously) and drunks in the gutter (seriously, I'm off), they have an album to come called Binge Thinker. (Yes! Does ridiculous repetitive riff dang-er-dang-er der der diddle-er with accompanying air guitar for several weeks). Capping the tooth of the evening is Maya29, from Edinbourg, with douze points for upping the Feelbad factor. Pink hair and songs like 'Below the Salt' suggest a less annoying Shirley Manson jamming with The Primitives. Sorry for the shorthand there, but we are pushed for space...see what I did there? The answer was 'A saucer'. What. A. Klutz.
www.marshanrock.com
www.superunknown.co.uk
www.maya29co.uk
Thursday 23 ***GIG OF THE MONTH***
AMPERE (USA) / SINOLA (USA) (pictured) / MESA VERDE (pictured) / OFFSIDE!
Coming from Amherst, Mass., is Ampere. Definitely of the walk the walk school of 'punk', or, let's be fairer, DIY as an ethic. The music is excellent, intense. They're mates with the also coruscating Wolves. And they support the kind of independent, alternative venues that make a mockery of these words used as shorthand by marketing executives and blurb writers. When erstwhile Big Brother star and 'Hello' cover boy pouter Preston from The Ordinary Boys can continue to claim to be a 'punk' musician first and foremost... Hoooooooooooo. And inhale... Ah, Mesa Verde! Hello again. "Listen to the roar" of the music, with cathartic scream vocals and five people hurling themselves straight from amp to cymbal stand to monitor. Full on aural carnage. A further moment's consideration reveals this to be extremely appealing. This is the stuff. Sinaloa, they're from the US as well, but from the Somerville bit of Massachussetttsss. They've split an album with Ampere. Listening to their songs and surfing their splendid web-portal-domain-outlet, I feel a sense of community I haven't felt for a long time, maybe going back to the first Grandaddy album, and I'm forced by a tune to nick one their own explanations, for the song 'Tongue to Teeth': 'i often feel limited by my own language and it frustrates me because i cannot translate to others what i see or how i feel.' Dig. Finishing off the bill are Monklands reprobates Offside! About whom I can only reveal that they condense 90 minutes into 15 and go crazy apeshit bonkers in Burberry. Like an Eddie Brimson 'novel', only, like, with guitars? Ah, Davina McCall is a backwards glow on the wall of someone I don't know as I run home refilled with joy to be alive in the world when bands like this four are about.
www.myspace.com/amperepunx
www.equivalents.org/sinaloa/
www.mesaverde.co.uk
www.myspace.com/mesaverde
Friday 24
Proverbial Creek: DAVID BURNS / BOB CUBA (pictured) / SPOKERS LOAN / JAMES McKAY
Humans with guitars rattling the cages of moomins / melodious sogsmithery / indy rock. Let's Go!
www.myspace.com/davejburns
www.bobcuba.com
www.spokersloan.co.uk
www.myspace.com/spokersloan
Saturday 25
Wiseguys present 'Massacre': SCURGE (pictured) / THE DEADITES / SANGUINUS / ANTIFAITH
SCURGE formed in 1999 as a backlash to the industrial wastelands of their hometown of Kettering , Northants. in the midlands of the UK. Originally a 4 piece, they amazed local audiences with their unique brand of groove-laden alcohol-fuelled rock 'n' roll, inciting comparisons to many hardcore and sludge bands of the time, they went on to tour extensively with the likes of Raging Speedhorn and Defenestration, which led to further national tours with bands such as Napalm Death, Kittie, Stamping Ground, Underule, Freebase, Dukes of Nothing, The Wildhearts, Viking Skull etc. By this time they were being recognised by the national press and had secured reviews in major publications such as Kerrang!, Rock Sound and Metal Hammer. At the end of 2001 they recorded the now infamous 'Devil in Miss Jones' for the Kerrang covermount cd, 'Incoming Sounds of 2002' and were also featured on a Rock Sound cover cd with a rendition of 'Glasseye'. 2002 also saw them recording for their first release, a split ep with Defenestration featuring two tracks from each band, called 'Year of the Slug'. This was produced by Simon Efemy (Napalm Death, Pantera, ) and Russ Russell (The Junket) and released on Snapper Records to rave reviews. Touring followed by a spell holed up in the studio writing and recording was interrupted when , in 2003, they recruited a new member, Jez (ex-Charger) on second guitar. This gave the band a new depth and live presence, and they set to work writing new material. They recorded a mini album of 8 tracks, (of which the masters were later lost!) before signing a deal with a new independent label, 'Jaunty Records'. They went on to record their latest release, 'Cat with the 45 Calibre Claw' at Framework Studios in Birmingham, produced by Bag (Napalm Death, Cathedral, Charger). Recent developments last year include touring, with dates throughout the Uk, Malta and Ireland, and airplay on Radio 1 Rock Show. Also, toward the end of 2004, Jez left the band to be replaced by Dave's brother Jay Thompson (ex-Defenestration) who currently also plays guitar for Raging Speedhorn. Scurge are currently putting the finishing touches to a new mini album, due for release later this year "Their rabid, filthy sludgecore now has sufficient dynamics to set them apart from their peers, and there is a manic energy in the vitriolic grooves that borders on indecently thrilling... If you want your face kicked off, you know where to go." DOM LAWSON - KERRANG! 4K!'s / "Scurge are faster, uglier and more brutal. Pure sludge metal raised on a diet of whiskey and woodbines" - KERRANG! / "Scurge sound like the tasmanian devil with his knackers caught in an electric mangle. ON CRACK!" - METAL HAMMER / "Scurge are here to pack a punch straight into the underbelly of Brit-rock" - ROCK SOUND / "...with classic rock riffs that sound like Deep Purple being put through a shredder, covered in phlegm, then belted out by Motorhead" - KERRANG! 4K!'s / The Deadites - EVIL THRASH METAL!!! / Sanguinus - "Sanguinus are bastions of a new brutality. Injected with the blood of Pantera and Children of Bodom, Meshuggah and Machine Head, we take the already rotting corpse of "scando-core" and fuck it up to such an extent that you won't know what's hit you." / Antifaith - High energy riff-driven Heavy Metal noise.
www.wiseguys.plus.com
http://groups.myspace.com/massacrenights
www.scurge.co.uk
www.myspace.com/scurgewhores
www.myspace.com/deaditesthrash
www.myspace.com/Sanguinusrock
Sunday 26
ULMO / + GUESTS
Monday 27
Private Function
Tuesday 28
Scottish Music Network: WAKEOVER (pictured) / THE PARTING / MALICE / DONPHOBIA
Wakeover - Alt./Rock 4 piece based in Glasgow, "Equal opportunities in music are a rare thing....which is why James "J.J." Lwanda and Lauren Stephen decided to give Martin "Marty" Rennie and Dave "Jose" Hammill, 2 white guys from Scotland, a fair crack of the whip with Wakeover, where their edginess of guitar and tightness of drums compliment soulful vocals and bombastic bass...The Wakeover Corporation are proud to present to you this wonderful Jockrock roll. You'll like it, we promise." Press quotes: : "This refreshingly original quartet is a soul-powered rock band with exciting progressive tendencies. Fronted by the charismatic James Lwanda, his vocals stylishly carry the music..." "The melodic dynamism of Martin Rennie's stunning guitar solos and theatrics in general shine..." "However much Martin might want to max his guitar's volume and rock affairs up with his knockout riffs, James' spine-chillingly smooth voice means that Wakeover's music is always much more than the sum of its parts. He maturely sings from the heart..." "The band mantra is "have faith in what you cannot see" which is fitting because with this band you can't fail to have faith in what you hear" **** Steve Rudd - Black Velvet, Independent Rock Publication
www.scottishmusicnetwork.co.uk
www.wakeover.com
www.myspace.com/wakeover
www.myspace.com/malicetheband
www.myspace.com/Donphobia
Wednesday 29
Hijacked Records: bands tba
www.hijackedrecords.co.uk
Thursday 30
KAZOO FUNK ORCHESTRA
It's a "Finger Painting Workshop" with the Kazoo funk Orchestra on Thurs 30th March from 9pm onwards "Making the world more colourful, one finger at a time". With free promo cd's a a playback of a few tunes from the upcoming "Midnight Finger Painter" album. It's being done because every copy of the album (the first 500, which are totally free) will come with a finger painting, and for doing a painting, they get one of the promos for the moment.
www.kazoofunk.co.uk
www.myspace.com/bigbeardlittlebeard
Friday 31
The End of the Month Club: QUINN / HORS LA LOI (pictured) / BOZILLA
EOTMC hosted by house band Bozilla and friends, on the last night of each month from 9pm the End of the Month Club fills the Notecave with the electro beats of Bozilla, the eminent regular that is the plastic stuntman Weevel Kinhell, resident VJ Thriftshop XL & the adventures of it's very own soap opera Weeble City. Tonight guests QUINN: ‘In Quinn-world, Moderesque disco swathes vie for attention alongside Zepplin-style blue rock, Eno-fied ambience, Joni Mitchell-ish folk and sassy, sweet Nancy Sinatra-booted pop.'(Metro)
www.eotmc.com
www.quinnonline.net
www.myspace.com/abandcalledquinn
www.myspace.com/horslaloi
www.bozilla.co.uk
