Evento

Hairband, Joanne Robertson, 2PLY, Alfred Bellman

Bursting forth in a riot of colour, Hairband are a new five piece group from Glasgow who, on their debut recordings, have distilled the joy and bittersweet trials of youth into 5 songs that bend to no rules but the ones they make up as they go along. Deeply immersed in their local DIY scene and featuring members of groups Spinning Coin, Breakfast Muff, Lush Purr and Kaputt, Hairbands take on pop music is their own, so natural yet odd-shaped, carefree but meticulously constructed that it feels like no one has quite made music quite like this before, celebratory and joyful. Recorded in Glasgows famed Green Door Studios, and played in the moment, Hairband are life-giving.

Joanne Robertson has become known for the lyrical drifting beauty of her music. The two solo albums she's released, The Lighter (Textile) and Black Moon Days (Feeding Tube), both been hailed as brilliant extensions of the avant-garde wing of the femme-folk tradition. But she is also a form-disrupter of the highest order, as she demonstrated early on with the Blood 'n Feather collective, amongst other noise brigands. For these new shows, Robertson is playing in trio format with Jasper Baydala KOOL MUSIC on guitar and Paddy (from Manchester's garage-space monsters, GNOD) on drums. The music incorporates some samples provided by Joanne's sometimes-collusionist, Dean Blunt, which lend themselves to zoned improvs of a very high and sludgy order. The band will be presenting new compositions as well as new arrangements of older things, and about all you can expect, really, is the unexpected.

2PLY are Mark Briggs (bass/vocals) and Eothen Stearn (drums/vocals). Looking to write songs with a mixture of optimism and sarcasm, on subject matters (such as Artificial Intelligence, the phenomena that is Hot Desking), that simultaneously interrogate and celebrate contemporary life.

Alfred Bellman is the solo project of original winning sperm and smack wizard, Waldo.