Wednesday 01
WITCH HUNT (usa) (pictured) / KADDISH
Witch Hunt: raging 4-piece from Philadelphia, PA on Profane Existence. Witch Hunt's assault combines the best bits of US hardcore with a strong anarcho-punk vibe - fans of early DC hardcore, Born Against, Harum Scarum & Rudimentary Peni will be especially partial to their triple-vocal attack, but to pin them against these influences alone would be doing this band a real injustice. Passionate, energetic & defiant like good punk rock should be, Witch Hunt are not to be missed! / Kaddish: Perhaps Scottish hardcore's best-kept secret, the elusive Kaddish are finally returning to Glasgow after over a year's absence. What's more, their new material is possibly their best yet, a heady combination of Uranus/One Eyed God Prophecy's intense, sprawling hardcore & the more 'epic' sounds of the recent crop of French and Italian bands that have graced our shores in the past few years (Raein, Amanda Woodward & so on).
www.witch-hunt.cjb.net
www.myspace.com/witchhunt
Thursday 02
Dicelines: SONSIE COLLECTIVE / GENARO (pictured) / SPEILER / BLUE LABEL VIOLENCE
Sonsie Collective: Raw funk grooves, sweet soulful melodies & a twisted rock edge combine to create the distinctive sound of Sonsie Collective. Formed only a few months ago, Sonsie Collective are about to explode onto the scene with their self titled EP. Their debut delves into the essence of Sonsie Collective, illustrating a wide range of influences ranging from Stevie Wonder to Elliot Smith to Nirvana to The Who to Marvin Gaye & even to the break beats of hip hop. Incorporating experimental drum beats, obliterating phat bass, raw funkified electric guitar, enchanting sonic sampling, crunked up keys & scorching soulful vocals. / Genaro are a 4-piece band from the outskirts of Glasgow, managed by Benbecula Records .They have just recorded their debut album due for release early '07. Doors 8.30pm - £4
www.dicelines.com
www.myspace.com/dicelines
www.myspace.com/sonsiecollective
www.myspace.com/genaromusic
www.bluelabelviolence.com
www.myspace.com/bluelabelviolence
Friday 03 ***RECOMMENDED***
TAKE A WORM FOR A WALK WEEK (pictured) / TRENCHER / WHORES WHORES WHORES(pictured)
Yes! TAWFAWW, in martial art terms, are Hanging Crane to Drunken Monkey to your windpipe crushed like a twig. It’s frenzied guitar skrung, Melt Banana with none of the wet girly stuff, cross as a dog being poked with a stick. Dipped in wild cat juice. I think when I wrote about them before that the tune ‘lumber puncture’ is indeed like having a full pine through the base of the spine, and I’m disinclined to contradict that. If you play electroni-grindcore wizards Trencher’s records backwards, it says ‘die, die you useless tool, drown in custard, die.’ Mind you, it says that if you play them the right way round, except it’s ‘blood’, not custard. It takes a special kind of talent to make Casio keyboards sound like Ozzy Osbourne undergoing a prolapse of the sigmoid colon during the recording of ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’, and yet Trencher manage it. (debut album: "When Dracula Thinks 'Look at Me'" due for a re-release on Southern Records & new album "Lips" out now). Awesome. Annoyingly, the whoresx3 sites on offer provided little in the way of satisfaction… judging by the picture of them ‘scrubbed up’ on their website, they could be somewhat dangerous, and perhaps not to be approached. I sense a theme.
www.myspace.com/takeaworm
www.trencher.tk
www.whoreswhoreswhores.tk
Saturday 04
miso events: ISAN / TOMCATS IN TOKYO / + GUESTS
excellent… it’s our great pleasure to welcome one of the most unique and original practitioners in modern electronic music - the wonderful isan - back to miso. they’ll be joined by one of our favourite bands, the legendary ‘tomcats in tokyo’ for their debut scottish show. we’ve been trying to set this up for ages. it’s going to be absolutely magic! tickets are on sale now! from minimalism to melody and back again, isan have been on a musical journey since a chance meeting brought together robin saville and antony ryan in leicester in 1996. once they'd discovered their shared love for electronic music and decided to work together, not much has been discussed. isan prefer to allow their sound to develop on its own, allowing their intuitive grasp of melody and the manipulation of sound to dictate their direction. their wonderful new album, plans drawn in pencil is now available on the brilliant morr music – home to other great artists such as mum, ms.john soda, lali puna, tarwater and solvent. in addition to maintaining his half of the isan bargain, robin also releases tunes by some of his favourite artists on his own label arable records. we’ve been after the tomcats ever since hearing their debut on static caravan a few years back. since then, they’ve been everywhere from a.i. to kitty-yo with their distinctive and beautiful sound. have a listen to the tracks below or on the band’s own myspace pages for an idea of what to expect. this is definitely one for fans of morr, a.i. or toytronic. Doors 8pm - £4 in advance.!
www.ilovemiso.com
www.myspace.com/misoclub
www.isan.co.uk
www.myspace.com/isanmusic
www.myspace.com/tomcatsintokyo
Sunday 05 ***RECOMMENDED***
THE ATTIC LIGHTS (pictured) / ISOSCELES / DROPKICK (pictured)
Laconic psychedelicountryrock tunes from the windswept prairies of Strathclyde and Argyll, the homefires of the Attic Lights reignite in the Notecave tonight. Wafting dreamy harmonies, steel guitar and romantic dreams in their heads, taste of beer and hot burrito flaming across the lips [hint] as they kiss you goodnight. The word darlin' in a song has not had as much sincerity behind it since perhaps the Beach Boys... Except for the Isosceles track 'Darling look at your hair', which frantic exhortation to consider an inappropriate coiffure gives a neat taste of the unhinged pong vocal interplay and wonky keyboard melodie mooching along with fabulously fuzzy guitar integers of the Isoss sound. Truly there are three sides to every story - but only two of them may be of equal length: a pointless bit of dredged up geometry meant to indicate that there are no mathematical certainties to a band with songs that seem to sound familiar but keep throwing off your internal angles to force you to 'work it out'. Is this ESG mantra-like repeating lyrics, Pavement insouciance, casio noodling... or, hmm, just good? You've got to do what's right. And then 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.
www.atticlights.co.uk
www.myspace.com/thoseatticlights
www.myspace.com/isoscelestheband
www.dropkickmusic.co.uk
www.myspace.com/dropkickmusic
Monday 06
MY ACTIONS YOUR EXIT / MUFF
An evening of awesome pop punk at the note tonight with the rather marvellous my actions your exit and muff
www.myspace.com/myactionsyourexit
Tuesday 07
tbc
Wednesday 08 ***RECOMMENDED***
Predestination Records: GATECHIEN (pictured) / LE SINGE BLANC / EX-WIVES
Présentant un duo Français qui fait le grand bruit avec batterie et basse – un petit peu comme Lightning Bolt, peut etre, mais avec plus de melodie, un suggestion de Shellac [Black Jacques, mais oui] – et tres excitant. Bienvenue au 13eme Note, messieurs. For the non-Franglais readers: Gatechien are a two piece, bass/drum thing, crawly fuzz lines, messed up timings and vocals sans-hinge. A fine Gallic slap to the chops – I keep thinking of Sluts of Trust with more low end [ahem!]: this is a very good thing. / Le Singe Blanc: "Metz is a city in north-east France with a continental climate, where the remenants of industrial & military activity co-exist alongside flourishing commerce… Not far off, in the depths of his den, Le singe blanc is stirring. Le singe blanc is an albino primate who lives holed-up in an abandoned garage near the Valley de la Fench. It is thought that he feeds exclusively on industrial waste & what's left of the Maginot Line… Le singe blanc thinks that he is a musician… He dreams of a spontaneous & energetic music which smashes convention. But what are his weapons ? Two bass guitars & a drum. And of course his voice, or rather his weird & wonderful gurglings. " / Ex Wives: a noise rock 3 piece from Glasgow with a penchant for Steve Albini & the French. Formerly called Stars Kill. Doors 8.30pm - £4
www.predestinationrecords.com
www.myspace.com/predestinationrecords
www.gatechien.tk
www.myspace.com/gatechien
www.lesingeblanc.org
www.myspace.com/lesingeblanc
www.myspace.com/exwives
Thursday 09
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 10
Moonshaker: THE GRIM FANDANGOS / RED STRING / THE GHOSTIES
3 different flavours of indy rock tonight at the note from the lovely peeps at moonshaker.
www.moonshaker.co.uk
www.myspace.com/moonshaker
www.myspace.com/thegrimfandangos
www.theghosties.co.uk
Saturday 11
Joy Promotions: KID CANAVERAL / JUNO / BILLY BATES
Kid Canaveral: 'pretty darn good. They're basically indiepop, closer to the sounds of 'today' than their predecessors, but it's very obvious that they have some massive tunes, with choruses that swan about the venue smoking a large cigar' - Live Review, Swamp Bar, Jock Rock. "juicy, chewy pop-kids to savour, proving that life still twitches in this indie guitar-pop business." - Live Review, The Scotsman / Billy Bates - "My own approach to music is a continious development of listening and trying to form some kind of musical langauge that's stongly influenced by Great improvisers/composers too many to mention."
www.joypromotions.com
www.myspace.com/kidcanaveral
www.myspace.com/iooi (billy bates)
Sunday 12
tbc
Monday 13
HYENA / EGG IN A TREE
Hyena: been playing gigs in Glasgow for about 1.5 years. Hyena have been compared to the sound of spilt milk beside the fire on a cold night, roasting wallflowers being caressed by the Televisual hairy nipple. Neon scratchings of the sardonic kind. / Egg in a Tree, a hard rocking quintet from Glasgow, have a trick or two up their sleeves & exemplify a great rock sound with driving bass, tight guitar riffs & an earful of growling vocals from their bear-like mic-man.
Tuesday 14
EVEN IN BLACKOUTS
Even in Blackouts have carved a following based not on their own considerable lineage, but instead through a dynamic and highly stylized form of acoustic pop; though they have a wonderful form of credibility in their founder and guitarist, John "Jugghead" Pierson. For those of you who are unfamiliar with his work, John's storied career in music began as the lead guitarist for the seminal third-wave punk band: Screeching Weasel. John describes Even in Blackouts as, "A vehicle I started to bridge the gap between the work I did in Screeching Weasel and the acoustic music I listened to growing up."They refuse to be pigeonholed into one narrow genre--the result has been an ability to charm audiences with their unique female fronted, hard strumming acoustic style that blends the attitude of punk and the song writing influences of pop legends such as Carol King, Neil Diamond, and Smokey Robinson. Even in Blackouts sound is strange and familiar, a simulacrum of acoustic pop music that is flushed out with grace and spirit. Chicago New City described, "From the vocals of Liz Eldredge to the contrite guitar pop that the band pumps out in waves....Even In Blackouts has made some of the catchiest, most addictive pop-punk tracks ever....This band is one [of] the city's true underground gems and has more punk-rock aesthetic than ninety-percent of those actually trying for said quality."Albums out on Knock Knock Records.
Wednesday 15
Private Function
Thursday 16 ***RECOMMENDED***
THIRDORGAN / KYLIE MINOISE / NOMA
Kylie Minoise. The horrifying sound of man gone crazyapebonkers with a drill and set. ‘Bone sucking tone.’ The effect of Slipknot if they were actually scary. Only one person. And no masks, boiler suits, corporate muscle or tunes, just onslaught. Actually unlistenable? Raaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Thirdorgan, according to Wikipedia, are a defunct Japanese duo, which just goes to show that Wikipedia isn’t infallible and cannot always be trusted… so, anyway, thirdorgan, one man [Akihiro Shimizu] dedicated to digital ear-tampering through reworked to the nth degree sound templates, leading to the cumulative effect of an answerphone held under water being used to read bedtime stories to robots for 1000 years. Perhaps? Don’t trust me either, just come & listen.
www.myspace.com/kylieminoise
www.myspace.com/noma1
Friday 17
tronic presents: ENGINE 7 / 30K / LAN FORMATIQUE / BABYSHAKER
Engine7: This artist is electronic genius. Creating soundscapes that delight and terrify simultaneously. his music is possibly described best on his own site. "Alan makes emotional, organic music influenced by everything that makes him feel human, good or bad. The sounds swell like nature, brutal and beautiful, treading the line between paranoia and peace." We would describe Engine7 as perfect ambient IDM. Minimal, clean yet sweet and brutal. / 30K: An Electronic artist that is definately mixing various styles to great effect. 30k takes Ambient, Dance and Techno and shoves them all into a melting pot called...... his music, then presents it in a beutifully serene way. He will wisk you away on soundscapes then bring you back and you will feel better for it. / LAN Formatique: Having played the TRONIC before LAN Formatique has already established himself as an excellent Artist. His track "A Thousand Blurred Notes" can be found on the TRONIC Volume 1 CD, available at TRONIC nights or over our website for £5. LAN is a master of IDM, mixing ambience with glitchy beats that trip over themselves in a fury of exitment while strings and ambient pads wash over you in waves. LAN Formatique is surely an artist heading for big things. / BabyShaker: What can be said about BabyShaker, having caught his set live at STFU (run by Mark of Unkown Forces of Everyday Life) it was instantly apparent that Babyshaker is an onslaught of IDM...Its..almost relentless but BabyShaker is an artist of two extremes, as on the one hand the beats jump about, stop, start, constantly jarring your ears. And then beneath this chaos comes peace and calm, with elegant pads cutting sublimely through the chaos. If Babyshaker was a religion he would be the God of IDM, but thankfully he is not, so we can safely put him on without terrible retrobution and furious anger......phew. Catch his music here. Remember to buy TRONIC Vol 1. Its only £5 & it's the best Electronica in town. Just message us for more info via our tronic myspace. Doors 8.30pm - £4
www.tronicglasgow.com
www.engine7music.com
www.myspace.com/engineseven
www.30kmusic.co.uk
www.myspace.com/30k
www.lan-formatique.net
www.myspace.com/lanformatique
www.myspace.com/babyshakerproject
Saturday 18
Drive Carefully Records presents: SAY JANSFIELD (pictured) / SODIUM NIGHTLIFE (pictured) / THE HECTOR COLLECTORS (pictured) / + Drive Carefully djs
Say Jansfield's "here's to eternal optimism and happiness" motto seems like it should be a breath of fresh air but, unfortunately, we're all doomed to resent it. Thankfully, their music is a fine blend of electro, folk, accoustic and lovely pop. They make the trip from Pendle, Lancashire hoping this will be a marked improvement on their last visit to Glasgow, when their entire PA was stolen and they had to play an intimate unplugged gig (bizarrely, in furry animal suits) without even the aid of a microphone. Electricity or no electricity, Say Jansfield are a fine live act and will undoubtedly wow those who attend. / The Hector Collectors are an endearing shambles, making records that are half way between Aidan Smith and Half Man Half Biscuit, it was unsurprising when John Peel championed several of their tracks on his Radio 1 show. With more cultural references in each song than a Douglas Coupland novel, The Hectors' world is a endless trawl for rare Herman's Hermits singles in Record Collector, swiftly followed by a dicussion on antique computer games, inbetween imagining girls in your school as famous 20th century painters. Prepare to be bemused and entertained in equal parts. / It wouldn't be a Drive Carefully night without some fine electronica and Sodium Nightlife fit the bill wonderfully. A one man "attack and decay" his music is all made with free programs downloaded from the internet and "lots of little different audio snippets mutilated beyond recognition". Live there are no backing tracks, all live sampling, live mauling of those snippets and improvising bass lines, drum tracks, and melodies. One of the capitals best electro acts and his live show only serves o enhance his already glowing reputation. / + Drive Carefully DJs. Doors: 9pm - £4
www.drivecarefullyrecords.co.uk
www.myspace.com/drivecarefullyrecords
www.sayjansfield.co.uk
www.myspace.com/sayjansfield
www.myspace.com/sodiumnightlife
www.hectorcollectors.co.uk
Sunday 19
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
www.myspace.com/dinosaurdeathpenguin - the DJs
www.myspace.com/screebson - the neeson
www.mysapce.com/floydddp - the floyd
Monday 20
MISTRESS / NARCOSIS / BLOB (tbc) / FRIDAY NIGHT GUN FIGHT (tbc)
***RECOMMENDED***Mistress formed in Birmingham in 1999 with reviews such as '...one the of the most incendiary gigs I've seen in years' & 'like a 300 pound hillbilly about to smash your head in with a crowbar', UK underground label Rage of Achilles were impressed enough to agree to release the first two Mistress albums. The 1st self titled album of 'total fucking antisocial doom/grind/sludge' received, among other reviews, 5ks in Kerrang and a place in the Terrorizer magazine albums of the year poll. The 2nd album from the 'Lords of all that is wrong' entitled 'The Chronovisor' was released in late 2003. A raucous mixture of grindcore, hardcore punk, filthy sludge & howling alcoholic depression, it received feature reviews in Kerrang, Metal Hammer etc & many overseas mags, as well as being placed once more in the Terrorizer albums of the year poll. Press quotes this time around included 'Pounding reckless oblivion for those who want their metal delivered to them with the power of a hijacked Sherman tank run amok in a shopping mall' & 'a vile musical bastard, a bilious, screaming, snot-faced sludge orphan with all the taste and decorum of a sexual encounter in Wormwood Scrubbs'. Gigs with Napalm Death and Mayhem followed, plus a series of headline gigs around the UK with tortured Londoners Palehorse. This was followed by the release of the next even more violent, unpleasant & mentally ill album 'In Disgust We Trust' through legendary underground label Earache. Now Mistress are poised to release their new album 'Glory Bitches Of Doghead' in late 2006. A more stripped-down, harsh experience. / Friday Night Gunfight are a 5-piece metal band, or something. Decide for yourselves, however expect brutality, technicality, epic riffage, aggression, fast, mosh, chug & smash! 'I Am The Explosion' EP will be available from the band through the website (under construction, up soon) within the next few weeks.
www.necronaut.tk (mistress site)
www.myspace.com/fridaynightgunfight
Tuesday 21
Jaggy Promotions: WE SHALL BE BLESSED / EVERY SCAR IS A VICTORY / CEREBRAL BORE / THE BLACK CHAIN / DELAY IS FATAL
We Shall Be Blessed: Aberdeen grindcore, something that sounds somewhere between a bulldozer & an army of Godzilla''s tearing chunks through your city. / Every Scar is a Victory: Glasgow based Metalcore / Cerebral Bore: Glasgow Metal band- sound like "Sounds Like Riding a missile on acid " / The Black Chain: Glasgows own Grindcore nutters. / Delay is fatal: Glasgow beatdown crew bring the mosh! Doors 8pm, first band 8.30pm - £3
www.jaggypromotions.tk
www.myspace.com/jaggypromotions
www.myspace.com/weshallbeblessed
www.myspace.com/cerebralbore2
www.myspace.com/theguide (Black Chain)
www.myspace.com/delayisfatal
Wednesday 22
EX-WIVES / HOSPITAL SHIP (pictured)
Ex-Wives (formerly stars kill): noisy, noisy, NOISY, a filthy, shouty dirty riffin beast which rocks like a good'un. Similarities can instantly be drawn with the all those Albini produced bands, especially Big Black, but Stars Kill have a grittiness about them & you'd like to think this is an extra spicy ingredient added due to being brought up in Glasgow on a diet of deep fried Mars Bars & religious divides. If you want something to wipe away the smug self-satisfied nausea induced by bands peddling so called "classy grown-up pop", then Stars Kill are the one.
www.myspace.com/exwives
Thursday 23
PIGSCUM (pictured) / THE MIRAMAR DISASTER / ZILLAH (pictured) / KYLIE MINOISE
The Miramar Disaster: "Sheffield epic rockers The Mirimar Disaster have joined the Undergroove family! The first instalment will be their self-titled debut album - recorded at 2Fly Studios, Sheffield, with Alan Smythe (Arctic Monkeys, 65daysofstatic, Future Ex-Wife, The Long Blondes) - which will be released in early 07. Undergroove first witnessed the 'Disaster when they played at 3 Stages Of Pain album launch party last September. We had no option but to sign them!
www.pigscum.co.uk
www.zillah666.co.uk
www.myspace.com/kylieminoise
Friday 24
MAGDALENA (pictured) / DEGRASSI
Edinburgh's Degrassi have received critical acclaim from such luminaries as: NME (bring it on band of the month), Radio 1, XFM, Drowned in Sound, Rocksound, Kerrang, Logo, Q and much of Scotland's music press. Degrassi have been a formidable force both on stage and in the studio. Building up a fierce reputation for vibrant and intense live performances, it was a only a matter of months before their biting sound of versatile complexities met the approving ears of BBC Radio One legend John Peel. On hearing their first studio recording (an unreleased 4 song session) he promptly offered the band their first Peel Session which was recorded and broadcast the following month to enthusiastic praise on air from the respected host. With time, increasingly enthusiastic reviews from publications as varied as The Scotsman, The List, The Sun, News of the World, The Evening News and NME.com, expressing their eager approval, were received, in addition to countless fanzine, webzine and underground publication endorsements. Think of Idlewild's hooks, Mogwai's post-rock soundscapes and New Order's timing and synchronisation and you're approaching where the band are now coming from. Tremendous stuff. £3
www.magdalenaband.co.uk
www.myspace.com/magdalenaband
Saturday 25
Hijacked Records: THE APPLE SCRUFFS (pictured)
"THE good ship Arcadia sails on and it's moored for some R&R in Scotland. The Libertines were a London-based band and imploded many moons ago but their influence lives on. This Glasgow four-piece pick up the baton with their debut Danielle. Inspired by a story about a girl who killed herself because of bullying, it starts with a cough, has choppy drumming, spiky guitars and the call and answer singing of Pete and Carl. It rekindles some of the excitement of early Libs gigs. Rollicking along at 180mph it could be a mosh pit favourite." Review by Rick Fulton (Daily Record)
www.hijackedrecords.co.uk
www.theapplescruffs.co.uk
Sunday 26 ***RECOMMENDED***
Beyond Good and Evil presents: LANTERNS (pictured) / CHORA / NACKT INSECTEN (pictured) / VOICE LIKE BONES
Another terrific line-up of outfits using as many different means as possible to generate sound waves which may or may not blast holes into different continuums. I’m dispensing with the usual music-visions that come upon me when I hear Lanterns to note that they’re a fluctuating collective of between two and twenty seven who are… well, it depends on how you react to drone guitar feeding back to itself while Tibetan singing bowls harmonise against violin bowed polystyrene amplified and fed through between two and twenty seven FX pedals. Occasional flute, showers later… what’s not to like? Chora also make the trip north. As far as I can suggest you expect anything from a group that put such a premium on improvisation, there may be keyboard based wig-outs with tribal percussion, utilising anything not moving quickly enough to make rattly accompaniment noise. ‘Semi-improvised’, their website corrects. Which half isn’t? Ah, now are you’re asking. Taking an interest so far as to having deceased wasps in their cd jackets, Nackt Insecten make a psychedelic buzz of found and constructed noise, a miniaturised trip round a hive, thorax juddering at times and also mayfly delicate in other parts. NI! [sorry] is a local outfit, as is Voice like bones, who makes ace music to soundtrack Bernard Cribbins being chased into the woods by a gigantic red jelly monster in a 1968 Technicolor Dr Who cinematic adaptation. Radiophonic strangeness to oscillate the evening along. All glib summarising aside, this kind of unprecedented sound stuff is the most interesting thing that’s happening at the moment as far as I’m concerned. Chances for escape being as slim as ever, the hope of discovering other dimensions fuels a constant exploration of what music means. Doors 8.30pm, £4/£3.
www.myspace.com/lanterns
www.chorachorachora.com
www.myspace.com/nacktinsecten
Monday 27
Noise Eruption Records presents: THE JANUS ETHIC
Heavy rocking from the noise eruption folks with the amazing janus ethic
www.myspace.com/noiseeruptionrecords
www.myspace.com/thejanusethic
Tuesday 28 ***RECOMMENDED***
Equal An Opposite present: GEORGE BOROWSKI / THE UNSTOPPABLE FLYING RAINCOATS / ALI MOODIE / ROSS JOHN CLARK
Bona fide living legend, *the* Guitar George, as noted in a certain Dire Straits tune this will be the last mention of… Mr B must mouth the words irritably every time a music hack uses it as an inroad… GB drops into the Note on tour as part of a trio, playing sprightly, optimistic music, the type that can only be made by people that have been through ‘it’ and seen that life is okay, really, when you consider the alternative. It’s great, no messing, cut to the chorus XTC/ Squeeze/ Lemonheads sounding stuff, which is perfectly weighted to make instant converts of any and everyone with an ear for melody – ‘just surviving’, for example… I have to note that there has so far only been one other occasion where I listened to tracks online and then hit the ‘buy now, immediately, bring this album into my life’ button. It’s like a Manc Tom Petty duetting with Bob Mould on a reworking of Copper Blue… making hearts whole, not breaking them, yeah? Perhaps not. But you would, though, eh? Sample accolades include "A unique singer-songwriter with a righteous howl - George is one of the reasons I became a musician" Jimi Goodwin – Doves "It's been a privilege for me to have known and worked with George Borowski for the last ten years" Norman Blake - Teenage Fanclub / The Unstoppable Flying Raincoats boast one of the best names in recent Glasgow band times, but that's probably because they hail from Balloch. A relatively new band they play accomplished in-yer-face rock n roll tunes & with titles such as 'Lesbian Blues' you know you're in for a good time! / Solo acoustic reverb is the order of the day as Ali Moodie (aka The Restless Native) returns to the 13th Note stage to bring his impassioned, subtle sensitive ballads (well they're not all ballads) to the crowd. The last time he played you could hear a pin drop. / Completing the bill Ross John Clark, lead singer with The Tender Mercies, plays a one-off solo spot with geetar with the added intrigue of the possibility of his being joined onstage by electric violin. There will be a limited number of exclusive free cds featuring one track from each of the artists playing tonight given out to the first 30/40 punters in the door at this gig. Expect a busy turnout – get down early!
www.myspace.com/equalanopposite
www.georgeborowski.co.uk
www.myspace.com/georgeborowski
www.myspace.com/tufr
www.myspace.com/alimoodie
www.myspace.com/tendermercies
Wednesday 29
tbc
Thursday 30
The End of the Month Club: THE LEATHERETTES (pictured) / "DADDY & THE HUSBAND" / BOZiLLA / + FRIENDS
All the usual shenanigans from the awesome EOTMC team with added leather! "The Leatherettes are Johnny Yen and Becca Bomb. The Leatherettes began in 2005. The Leatherettes are here to rock your little world. The Leatherettes may be a figment of your imagination... " super-tasty!!!!!!!!
www.eotmc.com
www.myspace.com/theleatherettes
www.bozilla.co.uk
www.myspace.com/bozillabozilla
