Sunday 02
BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI / NACKT INSECTEN (pictured) / NOMA (pictured) / SINGLE HELIX
Blue Sabbath Fiji: Wild no-wave guitar duo from Paris summoning sheets of sweet overtone and chaotic guitar mangle. Boy/Girl, Screech Wail, Yelp/Moan. "They sound the way I wish Sonic Youth sounded" - a punter in Paris I overheard. / Nackt Insecten: Far out drool odyssey / Noma: Household drone summoner / Single Helix: Andreas from Lanterns solo guitar trip. £3
www.myspace.com/nacktinsecten
www.myspace.com/bluesabbathblackfiji
Tuesday 04
Carlton Studios Night
Doors 9pm
Wednesday 05
DESOLATION YES! / THE ONLY JONES (pictured) / BORN ON FRIDAY
Dance/Rock merchants Desolation Yes return to the note for the third time this year just before jetting out to Germany. With recording for the debut album complete and the mixing process underway look out for singles "Tease Me" and "Futurepop" being released before xmas.
www.myspace.com/desolationyes
www.myspace.com/theonlyjones4u
Thursday 06 ***RECOMMENDED***
Dicelines: INDAFUSION (pictured) / + 2
Indafusion from Dunfermline kick all kinds of ass, huge guitars, barking string interludes, lyrics about natural history I for one did not know that a Sloth can swim faster than it can climb. Their website looks like you could misinterpret them a being a bit 'woo! I've got a pig in me trousers!' barmy bonkers, crazy conkers kinda guys, ["The Indafusion brontosaurus lopes toward the future with a steady hoof and a firm grunt" made me about fall over laughing, actually] but if you think a bit more Super Furries with extra crunchy metal licks [Ice Hockey Hair's climactic wig-out, for example - HA! WIG-OUT!] then you're warming to their point somewhat. I will be singing 'Elephant: Emperor of the animals' randomly at people for some time, I feel. Snakes can't close their eyes, you know. Doors 9pm, £4 entry
www.dicelines.com
www.myspace.com/dicelines
www.indafusion.co.uk
www.myspace.com/indafusion
Friday 07
COME IN TOKYO (pictured) / GUMMI BAKO / MISS THE OCCUPIER (pictured)
"Come in Tokyo are a straight-up rock and roll two piece...battering out punky, catchy little roosty, bluesy numbers short on time, big on impact." BBC Radio Ulster "...great support band Come in Tokyo - a White Stripes-esque duo from Edinburgh with a collection of meaty instrumentals & catchy indie pop tracks." eGigs.co.uk - "The noise emanating from the stage sounded like it was created by way more than two people...Come in Tokyo produce fantastically poppy indie pogo rock...Hopefully the next time these guys visit our shores they will be the headline act!" NoClarity.co.uk / Gummi Bako have been cranking up their outhouse rock with a wonkytonk foundation of country and gospel ever since the day they were born. In no particular order of inbreeding, Geebee, Uncle Beesly, Cheehi and Akabako kindly volunteered to dish up the delights in Gummi's soupkitchen of sound. As long-standing members of the Fife's Fence Collective, Gummi Bako have recorded with fellow Fencers Lone Pigeon, King Creosote and UNPOC, and Bako songs have been covered by King Creosote, James Yorkston and The Pictish Trail. Many an odd GB track has popped up on Fence Records samplers and on the Fence Collective albums "Fence Reunited" and "Let's get this ship on the road". In 2006 they released their first collection of homespun mellodaze on their mini-album " Sticky Wicket In the last year Gummi Bako have performed at Bestival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Pittenweem Arts Festival, Leith Festival, Spitz Festival of Folk, The Big Tent at Falkland Palace and of course Fence's Home Game. / "Miss The Occupier, led by captivating frontwoman, Roz Davies, who was resplendent in a matching pink hair and dress combination, delivered a fantastic set of raw, sexy, angular pop. Highlights included the hook-laden "All Night", which in an ideal world would be number one until the end of time. Commanding the stage and no doubt the gaze of every male in the venue, Roz possessed all the qualities of an outstanding frontwomen in the Karen O/ Siouxie Sioux mould."
www.comeintokyo.co.uk
www.myspace.com/c0meint0ky0
www.gummibako.com
www.myspace.com/gummibako
Saturday 08 ***RECOMMENDED***
SLUTS OF TRUST (pictured) / EDDIE BEGAN
It's the mighty Sluts! Beezer. They've been touring with Bloc Party ? hopefully this may draw some more support from that fickle and forgetful set 'the public', following what appears to have been a bit of a hiatus since That Debut Album ['We are all sluts of trust', and aren't we though?] came out about three years ago and all the press ?and all right-thinking people - fell over themselves to spume at it. Seriously, though, read their clippings on the website. It's like a contest to cram as many double entendres into a music review as possible or something. 'Got word Sluts in band name mention sex in review.' 'Yeah, whatever ' Anyhoo ? if you don't know them, it's two people making a colossal racket on drums and guitar, with often lascivious lyrics. They're f-ing deadly and this is exactly the kind of sweaty little cellar you need to see them in.
www.slutsoftrust.co.uk
www.slutsoftrust.co.uk
Sunday 09
SWEET LEAVES / + GUESTS
The Sweet Leaves are a five piece Glasgow outfit who are currently breaking through into the gig circuit. Musical influences range from west end of Glasgow to west coast California stopping at Liverpool Manchester and Greenwich Village along the way........ and any other place we get hooked into on the road..........keen to strike up a spring/ summer sound that can also be played in the autumn/winter...........a band for all seasons...here is that not a book??......anyway........listen in.
Monday 10 ***RECOMMENDED***
WAKE THE PRESIDENT (pictured) / BROKEN RECORDS / THE HARDY BOYS
West End dandies who rip a seam of well-cut wist-pop. Kind of like if Stuart Murdoch wasn't such an optimist. Sorry, had to get the B&S reference out of the way early doors. The sort of songs you can imagine Scarlett Johansson looking out of a hotel window in her scants to. Well, I can, anyway; it doesn't take much. This might be taken as a comment on WtP's music in general -? it's sparse and hides a deeper menace by pretending to be perkier than it is. Actually, I'm thinking of Luna for some reason as well ?- a laconic 'ba-da-bah' refrain will always get you points with me. Trying to keep Norris McWhirter on his toes, Broken Records vie for 'most people on stage at Note gig tonight', seven people enacting a riot of mandolin, fiddle, cello, piano, fuzzed guitar ?- a bit Taraf de Haidouks [reel around the caravan tunes from Romania] but Edinburgh-based and with flickers of a conflagration at the arcade reflected in their Aviators as they frantic their often abrupt heel-turn and stamp, hand-clap, songs, capped by a melodramatically outstanding voice. They ask for one good reason: they're great. Tidying up the loose ends and saving the scientist from the international spy ring, The Hardy Boys return from retirement to solve the crime [17 missing years] and also revisit their catalogue with the help of a couple of members of Mouse Eat Mouse. Dewy-eyed nostalgists may flutter over the timelessly Bill Forsythian short film soundtrack snapshot of the likes of 'If he loved you he'd listen', others may enjoy the [motif] strings, jangular guitars, sweet lyrics and Pastelish Caledonian vocals. An entirely superb line-up of Jockrock.
www.myspace.com/wakethepresdent
www.myspace.com/thehardyboysuk
www.myspace.com/brokenrecordsedinburgh
Tuesday 11
54 Promotions: FEBRUARY SOLUTION (pictured) / FOR YOUR SINS / THE HUMBLE HOAX (pictured) / DEPARTURES (TBC)
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. / The Humble Hoax. These five guys from Sheffield are forever gigging all over the place with quite an impressive following. With a truck-load of talent and a good few skips of energy to go with it, it's not hard to see why. Their music is part metal, part screamo, with everything else in between, and if you're into the likes of Alexisonfire, Enter Shikari or Penknifelovelife you'll probably like it.
www.myspace.com/fivefourpromo
www.myspace.com/thefebruarysolution54
www.myspace.com/thehumblehoax
Thursday 13
BABY BONES (pictured) / THE KINGHATS / +1
Bootyshaking beat combo BabyBones guest bringing festoons of energy with their infectious, dancable electro-rock. At times shouty, in your face & abrasive, but equally endearing poppy beats & it's this diversity that makes the band, fusing synth hooks with driving drum & bass loops, loud guitars, multiple vocal patterns & yes, even a trombone! BabyBones ooze enthusiasm & attitude.
www.myspace.com/babybonesglasgow
Friday 14
Moonshaker: THE PARANOID MONKEYS / THE ID PARADE / CARDIAC
Doors 9pm
www.myspace.com/moonshaker
Saturday 15 ***RECOMMENDED***
STAND UP GUY (Belfast) (pictured) / BLACK SUN (pictured) / KYLIE MINOISE / COUNTERVELA
Do I need to spoil this line-up by attempting to describe their sounds? You know the drill. It's a cordless one, and it's moving towards your ear.
www.myspace.com/standup_guy
www.myspace.com/legionofblacksun
www.myspace.com/kylieminoise
www.myspace.com/countervela
Sunday 16
Drive Carefully Records: ASTRONAUTS FAIL / THE SUBORDINATES
Doors 9pm
www.drivecarefullyrecords.co.uk
www.myspace.com/drivecarefullyrecords
Monday 17
BETH WILMSHURST (pictured) / THE KNOWHERES / I SEE SHAPES
Small girl. 22. Makes pleasant noises. Born in Leeds, raised in Wiltshire and Fife. I have constantly itchy feet (metaphorically). I sing. I write. I play with things. Have supported Willy Mason, Newton Faulkner, The Aliens, Frank Turner, Luke Leighfield & Sam Isaac this past year, and am looking forward to more.
www.bethwilmshurst.com
www.myspace.com/bethwilmshurst
Tuesday 18 ***RECOMMENDED***
Beyond Good & Evil presents: KUUPUU (FI) / C.K. ABRAHAM TURNER / MEURSAULT / LANTERNS
Sound communications from outer fringes of the devant-garde [discarded envelope, all pushed out; move along]. We have celebrated Leeds/Glasgow amalgamation Lanterns, every new event a tendril snaking into the undergrowth and shooting impossible sonic beanstalks into adjacent dimensions. They continually collapse my brain and possess my limbs; I love them. They play support to the not-seen-enough Kuupuu, also known by her real name of Jonna Karanka, a child of Suomi creating wild-eyed electronic sailboat songs for cats leaving to disport in unfamiliar precincts. Her voice beguiles through the confusions of sound - it is the ghost of Marc Bolan on the shore, a group of nodding white swans playing Tibetan bowls with their beaks. Not anthropomorph whimsy, do you mind, these are real cats, real boats, real swans; it really is the ghost of Marc Bolan. We are all saved. Also, C.K. Abraham Turner - supergroup! - which is C.K Dexter of the Edinburgh band Hockyfrilla [noise merchants whose name means Ice Hockey Hair in Swedish and whose music is Scandic cats landing in a Northumbrian village in 972AD and setting up turntables, a sound system] and D. Abraham Turner, who you might know and love but if not, he's a gent from this very town who occasionally beams in mathematically indistinct instructions part-heard from a previous universe; possibly two. You do not need drugs for any of this [although there is much to be said for the creative properties of a rapidly-consumed fried egg sandwich]. Switch off your preconceptors, angle your ears and let the sound-forms manifest around you. They're trying to tell you something nice about the layout of the cosmos.
www.myspace.com/lanterns
Wednesday 19
Puny Human: FISTFIGHTS N FOREPLAY (pictured) / KRANK SOLO / JACK GLASS (pictured) / TORQUEWRENCH (pictured)
It's going to be very heavy. It's going to be very sweaty. You are going to be there with your face and lips. watching as men do men things.
www.punyhuman.com
www.myspace.com/puny_human
www.myspace.com/fistfightsnforeplay
www.myspace.com/kranksolo
www.jackglass.co.uk
www.myspace.com/torquewrench
Thursday 20 ***RECOMMENDED***
is this music?: HOW TO SWIM / THE STATE BROADCASTERS (pictured) / RICK REDBEARD (pictured)
Debating the correct way to write 't-shirt' [T-/tee shirt? Tea? Anyway] the State Broadcasters have a wicked way with multiple vocal songs about domestic dramas acted out over sort of country folk music, suffused with wryness and rye-ness. Banjo, brass and brittle voices, lush like rain-swept clifftop meadow up North somewhere illumined by break in clouds. Featuring a probable Gargantuan set of cabaret weirdness, the extended family [last count: 11] that is the Swim shoehorn themselves into the Cave with assortment of instruments and make music what I can only falteringly allude to with words like 'cosmic', 'Kurt Wagner', 'Weimar', 'Gorkys', 'fucking great.' Seriously the most exciting out of body experience I have had in about a year, and not a Swiss brain doctor within several hundred miles. The lyrics are bone dry also. 'Someone stole his bicycle, left nothing but the tyres and those little tubes that lead away from the brakes.' They should be everyone's favourite band. Reducing the performer count drastically, Rick Redbeard [aka Rick from The Phantom Band] is one-man band, Palatial guitar plink and horizontal vocals, whispers of melodica/shakers/piano lyrics from the horns of a dilemma of some description, somewhat haunted at times, and scented of pines fringing mountains abutting the afore-mentioned meadow. I suppose if I had to pick one show this month for an uber-gig of the month recommendation, y'know, you're only planning on being in town for a night? Come to this one.
www.isthismusic.com
www.myspace.com/isthismusic
www.myspace.com/howtoswim
www.myspace.com/thestatebroadcasters
www.myspace.com/rickredbeard
Friday 21
Merchant City Festival and tronic presents: NO FACE / UFOEL / KPA / PHIKTION
This month TRONIC is proud to be apart of Glasgow's Merchant City Festival and have found some brilliant independent acts for your enjoyment. Traversing a wide spectrum of styles, bringing you IDM, Electronica and Experimental with some Chip Tunes (that style of electronic music that brings back the sound of the old Nintendo games, ahhh memories) thrown in for good measure. As always those of you who wish to save some hard earned cash can do so with advance bookings @ £3. This is available @ www.SECxtra.com or via phone on - 08700 132652. Entry £5 / £3 (advance booking)
www.tronicglasgow.com
www.myspace.com/thekpa
www.myspace.com/phiktion1
Saturday 22
DAEMONOLITH / NECRO RITUAL / MAELSTROM
Deamonolith - Originally formed by Bismark (Guitar/Bass) and Alcodemon (Guitar/Drum Machine) in 1998 threw together some demo tracks over the years but due to various complications never managed a proper line up (mainly due to lack of people with the correct mentallity, the restrictions of a proper black metal drummer and total alcoholism). Towords the end of 2005 Kasgradh was recruited as guitarist with Bismark playing bass. Ronue (Ex Ravencult, Greece) joined the ranks around the same time as the drummer. Early 2006 the correct vocalist was found in Seelenfresser. Raw fucking black metal, no fucking compromise! / Necro Ritual.....an energetic band which combines winning tricks from the traditional forefathers of Black Metal with the conviction the latter ones often lost along the way. Proper Black Metal with leather/spikes, blood & violent headbanging, raging fists and foamy mouths the South Londoners proved for those who missed them with Merrimack last year that they were here to stay and that their music is constantly improving, with all of the weaknesses from their CD demo erased, transformed, while keeping intact their burning honest passion. / "Maelstrom is a metal band based in the Glasgow area. This page is not meant for pretentious dribble about how gifted we are as a band - We hope the music will simply speak for itself."
www.myspace.com/daemonolith666
www.necroritual.cjb.net
www.maelstrom-metal.com
www.myspace.com/maelstromscotland
Sunday 23
HYENA / 32 FRAMES PER SECOND / LAUGHING IN THE FACE OF / MY OWN RELIGION (pictured)
Hyena - "Minutemne-esque-jazz-cum-hardcore with drum 'n' bass worthy beats and guitar work as angular as an acute triangle" RS Rock Sound Issue 97 June07 / 32FramesPerSecond play fast melodic punk and make no apologies for it. Trapped in sleepy East Anglia, these four misfits from around the country have spent the past 3 years rocking the bollocks off Norwich and beyond with music that encompasses the best elements of melodically driven punk and the fast, all-out aggression of their harder-edged influences. Sticking proudly to their roots whilst mixing influences from right across the punk/hardcore board, this band has developed a distinctive sound described by Punktastic.com as "energetic punk anthems in the truest sense, all swooping harmonies and breathless pace," which makes for a refreshing change in these dark times of character-less sound-a-like screamo bands with synchronised haircuts. / Laughing In The Face Of are a heavy, fast and melodic punk rock band from Birmingham (UK) started in 2002. After almost 5 years, a few self-released EPs and a decent amount of shows around the UK, LITFO are now recording their debut full length "Technically, It's Not Our Fault" to be released later this year and are also planning to tour Europe early '08. / My Own Religion are a three piece, ska-metal-core punk band from Glasgow/Edinburgh.
www.myspace.com/hyenaband
www.myspace.com/32framespersecond
www.laughinginthefaceof.co.uk
www.myspace.com/laughinginthefaceof
www.myspace.com/myownreligions
Monday 24
Struck Dum Records: MISTAKE US FOR FRIENDS (pictured) ('Kill the Composer' Album Launch)
Fast and Melodic punk rock,comparisons have been made with Belvedere,Choke and Bigwig.
www.myspace.com/struckdumrecords
www.mistakeusforfriends.com
Tuesday 25
Speakeasy: ONLY JOE KANE / KEN C / WOODENBOX / TOM SNOWBALL & SNOWBALL MUSIC
Speakeasy presents: Only Joe Kane: acoustic set from the master of urban west coast psychedelia / Ken C: astounding human beatbox/laptop wizardry. his only glasgow show this year before leaving for Berlin! / Woodenbox: marvellous donovadylanism from this highly talented songwriter / Tom Snowball & Snowball Music-- 3 piece set. Doors 9pm, 3 quid.
www.onlyjoekane.co.uk
www.myspace.com/onlyjoekanemusic
www.myspace.com/tomsnowball
Wednesday 26
THE APHRODISIACS (pictured) / +2
The Aphrodisiacs - three piece experimental, dance, electronic rock from Motherwell, Scotland. Their debut album "This is a campaign" is still currently available in most good independent record stores throughout the UK, released on Edinburgh independent label SL Records (www.slrecords.net). The bands second album "In the Name of the Father" was released by japanese label Quince records in June 2006 and is still availible on import to the UK or US ( www.quince-records.com ) .The band had the privilege of recording two sessions for the John Peel show on Radio1 (2002/2004), feauturing twice in the BBC's legendry festive fifty chart ( no 49. in 2002 & no45. in 2004), many of these tracks are availible as free downloads on the on our purevolume website (www.purevolume.com/aphrodisiacsthe). The band have recorded various other sessions for radio shows in the UK and have also recorded a session for US radio show UPop in studio 2 @ Abbey road.
www.theaphrodisiacs.co.uk
www.myspace.com/theaphrodisiacs
Thursday 27
UPSTAIRS in the cafe/bar: 'Scribble and Screeb'
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
visit 'scribble & screeb' page on this website
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 27 ***RECOMMENDED***
DOWNSTAIRS in the notecave: COMMANDER KEEN / BEACHES OF THE PROUD / REMEMBER REMEMBER
Playing what could be the disturbing soundtrack to an anime adaptation of 'Lord of the Flies', Commander Keen [itself a name redolent of an enthusiastic pornographer, with a yacht, perhaps] make unsettlingly pretty music, layering apparently sedative loops of real and synthetic instruments, samples and occasional vocals that build in such a way as to make you certain something horrible is looming in a few bars time. Thankfully, the eyes remain intact. The tease! On a lighter note, your favourite clothes in the tumble dryer after running through the rain with your best mate [who is asking you to come back to bed]. Maybe the run was along the beach [hopeless segué] No, but! 'Beaches of the Proud' DOES sound A BIT like an excellent adult movie franchise Hey, sorry! It's just there's something about experimental electronic type music that make me feel ?- well ?- horny. Especially with more of the barely-heard vocals, insistent beats, woozy layers of sound weaving round each other infatuation excerpts, dream sequence erotic interludes. Beaches [a better abbreviation than The Proud, in the light of the foregoing] do all this and more live [the music, I mean, not the Leonardo DiCaprio looking slack-jawed while some nymph does woozy abstract arm movements in muslin veil], so it should be an interesting set. Bands calving off the same glacier of intolerably sexy and potentially dangerously besotted music that brought us the likes of Sigur Ros, GYBE, etc etc if you like More tones to send shivers through the bones as you break into the beach house. THAT'S why I find experimental music sexy really ? you don't really know where it's going next. And it's got a knife. AND BotP use the word segué on their website ? I later discovered - so it all tied up nicely. He concluded ambiguously.
www.myspace.com/commanderkeenmusic
www.myspace.com/beachesoftheproud
Friday 28 ***RECOMMENDED***
TANDY / MARY LEE'S CORVETTE (pictured) / SAM CORRY (River Detectives)
Singing 'Mary Lee's Corvette' to the Prince tune is fun, and then you hear her songs and golly - Mary Lee Kortes is fun as well. If I might take you on a small tour of the Hall of Fame in my head, about 18 years ago I heard this amazing singer/songwriter called Shawn Colvin, and realised it was okay t'acknowledge that a combination of gal with classic voice, railroad folk guitar shuffle/country pop sweetheart of the rodeo sound and understated lyrics was actually often the best thing in the world. Well, having whizzed through the Mary Lee's Corvette sampler, it happened again, only with added Bangles and legs like Sandie Shaw. MLC has an unaffected voice that has me struggling for superlatives. Imagine a VH1 improbability, Dolly Parton & Chrissie Hynde doing a cover of 'You're gonna make me lonesome when you go', and it being as completely amazing as you would hope it might be AND, to round off the Dylan sidebar, she played support for the Zimmster on the back of a bootleg cover of that very tune. So, once again, the Note Cave gives struggling artists their big break. Support comes from Tandy, who take time out from running an electronic equipment vending empire to play similarly Stateside-coloured Americanarcanarama. [Tips hat]. Thank you very kindly, ma'am.
www.maryleescorvette.com
www.myspace.com/maryleescorvette
Saturday 29
Go-Ra-Ga: PENNY BROADHURST (Leeds) / CEYLAN DELIKANLI / SPARKY DEATHCAP
Go-Ra-Ga, The little sister of Drive Carefully Records. Penny Broadhurst started out in the less than fashionable world of spoken word. She quickly ditched the poetry and spoken word circuit for gigs supporting bands and comedians, released an album of spoken word with music which despite its poetic genre got radio play on BBC 6 Music amongst others, played a variety of festivals, and put a book out of lyrics and poems. Realising she could write choruses after all, Penny started writing pop songs and recording them in Kirkstall with producers Ed Heaton and Si McGrath of Hightone Productions.
www.myspace.com/goraga
www.myspace.com/pennybroadhurst
www.myspace.com/ceyland
Sunday 30
The End of the Month Club: FIREBRAND BOY / OVER THE WALL (pictured) / BOZILLA / + FRIENDS
Over The Wall: blend of disco, rock and folk - it inspires everything from involuntary head twitches to full-on pogoing. Despite injecting a healthy dose of humour into their performance with deadpan Mike Skinner-esque lyrics, there's no doubt that Gav Prentice and Ben Hillman are serious about their sound. Mixing electronic dance beats, keyboard hooks and indie guitar riffs with the odd trumpet solo, they showcase an impressive set that incorporates everything from salsa and jazz to house and 1980s electronica. / Firebrand Boy: reminiscent of classic synth pop... £4 ENTRY
www.eotmc.com
www.bozilla.co.uk
www.myspace.com/bozillabozilla
