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Wed Mar 10 Ten Tracks presents... PUNCH AND THE APOSTLES / THE ONE ENSEMBLE TWO
Thu Mar 11 The Whisky Works + Backpack Audio
Fri Mar 12 PCL Present... MEMORY TAPES plus support
Sat Mar 13 SONNY MARVELLO- single launch
Sun Mar 14 ALASDAIR ROBERTS & Band and KIILA + very special guest EMILY PORTMAN 8pm £8.50 STBF adv tickets from tickets-scotland/monorail Glasgow-based Alasdair Roberts has now released 5 albums of tender yet driving folk music, since his ‘discovery’ via Will ‘Bonnie Prince Billy’ Oldham’s advocacy on hearing a demo tape. The last four of Roberts’ albums have been on the large American indie Drag City and he has shared stages with Joanna Newsom, Magnolia Electric Co, Smog, Charalambides and countless others. However, it is perhaps fair to say that, thus far, the main body of his audience lies across the Atlantic and that he is yet to get the recognition he deserves in the UK. “Roberts is a songwriter who clearly has a very firm working knowledge of more traditional strands of the genre he occupies (his lyrics and guitar playing are, as ever, of considerable merit) but there's a free-roaming, ramshackle rawness to the recordings and presentation here that imbues a sense of intimacy and unconditionedness to proceedings. Recommended” www.boomkat.com This will be the first ever UK tour by Kiila, a collective based in Turku, Finland whose eclectic tastes are betrayed by their ever more adventurous recordings and live sets; its not unusual for Kiila’s sound to include folk rock, free jazz, psychedelia, turntablism and electronica within a matter of minutes. Theirs is no Jack-of-all-trades approach though, the band’s line-up comprising a sextet of virtuoso multi-instrumentalists with various tentacles in a range of adventurous Finnish acts. Kiila released their 3rd album Tuota Tuota on Fonal in June 2009 and, in the words of Dusted Magazine: “Kiila’s greatest coup is shoehorning genuine song craft into this mix without upsetting the balance. (For example) album opener, Viisi Hirvasta. For its first half it’s a hypnotizing instrumental built from plangent strings, stray percussion, and a recurring melody on the bass, until a half-chanted/half-sung passage emerges near its conclusion, making you wonder if it started life as a song, a poem or a jam. Tuota tuota is full of moments like these, where you have to question how it is your listening, as all your usual hierarchies are upended and genres turned on their heads. That you at first don’t quite realize Kiila is doing this is remarkable; that they make it seem so natural is even more so.” Often compared to like-minded US acts such as MV&EE, Wooden Wand and Espers, who have all found significant audiences in the UK and US, Killa are regarded by those who know them as at least as equally musically profound and influential but still to reap their much-deserved wider recognition. http://www.alasdairroberts.com/ http://www.kiila.com/ ticket link: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=374554&interface=
Thu Mar 18 One Inch Badge presents: Why? (Anticon / Tomlab) + I Might Be Wrong + Josiah Wolf. £12.00 advance See Tickets, Ticketweb, Wegottickets
Fri Mar 19 CG Music presents... SocksOff! /// Other People + Young Aviators + Oliver Stays £5 Doors 8pm. 18+ www.myspace.com/socksoffglasgow
Sat Mar 20 Bubblegum Records Proudly Presents.. The Hidden Cameras + The Just Joans Stereo, Glasgow The Hidden Cameras return to Glasgow to promote their 4th Studio album, Origin:Orphan. Guests will be announced soon. Tickets: £12 Doors: 7.30pm www.bubblegumrecords.org.uk/tickets www.tickets-scotland.com www.monorailmusic.com
Sun Mar 21 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL & STUDENT ACTION FOR REFUGEES present: Esperanza + Man at the Window + Rudy Alba
Tue Mar 23 SVA SENEGAL BENEFIT NIGHT
Wed Mar 24 SHOWCASE AT STEREO: Presenting some of Glasgow's finest alternative acts... a treat for your eyes and your ears. From zouk zouk to freak folk to new wave to accapella. Including: + MICKEY 9S (onstage bodypopping, ski masks and daft punk covers) + JOHNNY REB (ze independent) + AIN'T NO WOMAN GONNA MAKE A GEORGE JONES OUTTA ME (infectious psych-folk) + CHORAL STIMULATION (accapella) £ 3/4 **All proceeds go to charity**
Thu Mar 25 CALL TO MIND (EP Launch) + Diamond Sea + Yahweh £5
Fri Mar 26 STRAWBERRY OCEAN SEA plus guests
Sat Mar 27 Reg Barklay band + Hidden Culprits
Sun Mar 28 Wreckin' Pit, Firestorm Events and Punk / Rock Rammy Present... STREET DOGS + Support TBC Punk Rock from Boston, USA on Hellcat Records.
Mon Mar 29 The Patter Merchants present The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Willliams. The highly acclaimed memory play is based on the events of the playwright’s life, which centres around the lives of a dysfunctional family set during the Great Depression of the 1930s in St Louis, Missouri. Tom Wingfield lives an unfulfilled life as an aspiring writer, who works a dull warehouse job, which he longs to escape. Tom is burdened by his controlling yet sympathetic mother, Amanda, and his very shy and crippled sister Laura. With Amanda’s husband having left years ago, she has raised her family alone, while frequently regaling her children with stories of her former days as a Southern belle she realises her days of courtship are over, and now she wants to find a husband for her daughter Laura, who is incredibly shy and withdrawn, spending her days playing with her collection of glass animals, the glass menagerie. However, when Tom brings home a friend to dinner one evening their lives take on an unexpected and unforgettable change. The Glass Menagerie is an entertaining, dramatic, powerful and moving examination of family, abandonment, hopes and dreams, and the difficult decisions people make that affect their lives. Directed by Richard Pears Dates - 29 March - 2 April Each show begins at 7:30pm. Tickets £7 available on the door or email pattermerchants@hotmail.co.uk to reserve The Patter Merchants present The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Willliams. The highly acclaimed memory play is based on the events of the playwright’s life, which centres around the lives of a dysfunctional family set during the Great Depression of the 1930s in St Louis, Missouri. Tom Wingfield lives an unfulfilled life as an aspiring writer, who works a dull warehouse job, which he longs to escape. Tom is burdened by his controlling yet sympathetic mother, Amanda, and his very shy and crippled sister Laura. With Amanda’s husband having left years ago, she has raised her family alone, while frequently regaling her children with stories of her former days as a Southern belle she realises her days of courtship are over, and now she wants to find a husband for her daughter Laura, who is incredibly shy and withdrawn, spending her days playing with her collection of glass animals, the glass menagerie. However, when Tom brings home a friend to dinner one evening their lives take on an unexpected and unforgettable change. The Glass Menagerie is an entertaining, dramatic, powerful and moving examination of family, abandonment, hopes and dreams, and the difficult decisions people make that affect their lives. Directed by Richard Pears Dates - 29 March - 2 April Each show begins at 7:30pm. Tickets £7 available on the door or email pattermerchants@hotmail.co.uk to reserve
Tue Mar 30 The Patter Merchants present The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Willliams. The highly acclaimed memory play is based on the events of the playwright’s life, which centres around the lives of a dysfunctional family set during the Great Depression of the 1930s in St Louis, Missouri. Tom Wingfield lives an unfulfilled life as an aspiring writer, who works a dull warehouse job, which he longs to escape. Tom is burdened by his controlling yet sympathetic mother, Amanda, and his very shy and crippled sister Laura. With Amanda’s husband having left years ago, she has raised her family alone, while frequently regaling her children with stories of her former days as a Southern belle she realises her days of courtship are over, and now she wants to find a husband for her daughter Laura, who is incredibly shy and withdrawn, spending her days playing with her collection of glass animals, the glass menagerie. However, when Tom brings home a friend to dinner one evening their lives take on an unexpected and unforgettable change. The Glass Menagerie is an entertaining, dramatic, powerful and moving examination of family, abandonment, hopes and dreams, and the difficult decisions people make that affect their lives. Directed by Richard Pears Dates - 29 March - 2 April Each show begins at 7:30pm. Tickets £7 available on the door or email pattermerchants@hotmail.co.uk to reserve
Wed Mar 31 The Patter Merchants present The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Willliams. The highly acclaimed memory play is based on the events of the playwright’s life, which centres around the lives of a dysfunctional family set during the Great Depression of the 1930s in St Louis, Missouri. Tom Wingfield lives an unfulfilled life as an aspiring writer, who works a dull warehouse job, which he longs to escape. Tom is burdened by his controlling yet sympathetic mother, Amanda, and his very shy and crippled sister Laura. With Amanda’s husband having left years ago, she has raised her family alone, while frequently regaling her children with stories of her former days as a Southern belle she realises her days of courtship are over, and now she wants to find a husband for her daughter Laura, who is incredibly shy and withdrawn, spending her days playing with her collection of glass animals, the glass menagerie. However, when Tom brings home a friend to dinner one evening their lives take on an unexpected and unforgettable change. The Glass Menagerie is an entertaining, dramatic, powerful and moving examination of family, abandonment, hopes and dreams, and the difficult decisions people make that affect their lives. Directed by Richard Pears Dates - 29 March - 2 April Each show begins at 7:30pm. Tickets £7 available on the door or email pattermerchants@hotmail.co.uk to reserve
Thu Apr 01 The Patter Merchants present The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Willliams. The highly acclaimed memory play is based on the events of the playwright’s life, which centres around the lives of a dysfunctional family set during the Great Depression of the 1930s in St Louis, Missouri. Tom Wingfield lives an unfulfilled life as an aspiring writer, who works a dull warehouse job, which he longs to escape. Tom is burdened by his controlling yet sympathetic mother, Amanda, and his very shy and crippled sister Laura. With Amanda’s husband having left years ago, she has raised her family alone, while frequently regaling her children with stories of her former days as a Southern belle she realises her days of courtship are over, and now she wants to find a husband for her daughter Laura, who is incredibly shy and withdrawn, spending her days playing with her collection of glass animals, the glass menagerie. However, when Tom brings home a friend to dinner one evening their lives take on an unexpected and unforgettable change. The Glass Menagerie is an entertaining, dramatic, powerful and moving examination of family, abandonment, hopes and dreams, and the difficult decisions people make that affect their lives. Directed by Richard Pears Dates - 29 March - 2 April Each show begins at 7:30pm. Tickets £7 available on the door or email pattermerchants@hotmail.co.uk to reserve
Fri Apr 02 The Patter Merchants present The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Willliams. The highly acclaimed memory play is based on the events of the playwright’s life, which centres around the lives of a dysfunctional family set during the Great Depression of the 1930s in St Louis, Missouri. Tom Wingfield lives an unfulfilled life as an aspiring writer, who works a dull warehouse job, which he longs to escape. Tom is burdened by his controlling yet sympathetic mother, Amanda, and his very shy and crippled sister Laura. With Amanda’s husband having left years ago, she has raised her family alone, while frequently regaling her children with stories of her former days as a Southern belle she realises her days of courtship are over, and now she wants to find a husband for her daughter Laura, who is incredibly shy and withdrawn, spending her days playing with her collection of glass animals, the glass menagerie. However, when Tom brings home a friend to dinner one evening their lives take on an unexpected and unforgettable change. The Glass Menagerie is an entertaining, dramatic, powerful and moving examination of family, abandonment, hopes and dreams, and the difficult decisions people make that affect their lives. Directed by Richard Pears Dates - 29 March - 2 April Each show begins at 7:30pm. Tickets £7 available on the door or email pattermerchants@hotmail.co.uk to reserve
Sat Apr 03 firestorm present: AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR adv tickets from tickets scotland and ticketweb.co.uk
Tue Apr 06 AERIALS UP + support
Fri Apr 09 ISA & THE FILTHY TONGUES Album Launch ++ INNER SIGHT - Check out Edinburgh cool cats featuring original Goodbye Mr Mckenzie ,members Martin Metcalfe, Derek Kelly and Fin Wilson ,joined by sassy American front-woman Stacey Chavis,showing some serious attitude! . The New Album Dark Passenger is picking up rave reviews , a night not to be missed . With support from Inner Sight. Expect a few surprises !. Tickets £7.00 & b.f. from Tickets Scotland & Avalanche Records Filthy Aftershow A Dark but uplifting night of Punk/ Garage / Surf /Physcobilly and post punk classics . Guest D.J. slots and featuring members of I.F.T. and the usual multi media madness from the Edinburgh quartet .
Sat Apr 10 THREE BLIND WOLVES / FRENCH WIVES / JOHN KNOX SEX CLUB: buy tickets here - http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=373816&interface=
Tue Apr 13 PCL presents: Rolo Tomasssi + Trash Talk + Throats *Adv tickets from ticketweb and tickets-scotland.
Wed Apr 14 Huntleys & Palmers Audio Club presents GOLD PANDA ++ DAM MANTLE 8pm £6 advanced tickets from monorail/tickets-scotland
Fri Apr 16 ALAN MCKIM plus guests
Sat Apr 17 Stereo & Isla Presents: WOODEN SHJIPS 7pm
Wed Apr 21 stereo and isla presents: CHAIN AND THE GANG + guests
Thu Apr 22 pcl presents: THE PRIMITIVES + Lucky Soul
Fri Apr 23 Take a Worm For a Walk Week plus support
Sat Apr 24 PENETRATION + GUESTS // Sophisticated chords, tight compositions and solid playing that transcended punk with epic aplomb, drawing in elements of jazz and balladry... Penetration -- named after the Iggy Pop tune -- was North-East England's contribution to the late 1970's punk scene. The group was formed in mid-1976 in Ferryhill, County Durham, by 18-year-old Pauline Murray, a former art student, and her friend Robert Blamire after the two had seen the Sex Pistols perform in Manchester. The original line-up was Pauline on vocals, Robert on bass, Gary Chaplin on guitar and Gary Smallman on drums. They made their debut at the Rock Garden in Middlesborough in late 1976. After playing their first London gig (opening for Gen X) at the Roxy in January of 1977, the group was invited to record some demos for Virgin, with whom they eventually signed in late 1977. Their debut single Don't Dictate was released on November 5, 1977; and it set a style of strident, passionate and sometimes visionary lyrics that became their trademark. In early 1978, Gary Chaplin quit the band, apparently tired of the pressures of constant gigging. He was replaced first by Neil Floyd, who took over rhythm guitar; then, a little while later, lead guitarist Fred Purser joined up and gave the band a heavier, more metallic edge. By the end of 1978, Penetration had released a couple more singles, Firing Squad and Life's a Gamble, as well as their debut LP, Moving Targets. 1979 saw extensive touring, both in the UK and in the US. The group also released their second album, Coming Up for Air, despite starting to suffer internal disharmony and disillusion, especially on the part of Pauline. The band did eventually split up, and the break-up was announced at one of their last gigs: Newcastle City Hall on October 14, 1979. The show was was recorded and issued as a post-humous official bootleg. Several months later, Pauline and Robert linked up with producer Martin Hannett and some session players, and recorded for a while under the name Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls. Some material was released and a live band was put together, but this lasted only a short while. Pauline continued to record throughout the 1980's, first with the Invisible Girls and later as a solo act. The band are now back gigging and recording with a new single the Feeling out in April.
Mon Apr 26 STEREO BACH: Agnieszka Opiola solo violin, accompanied by artwork by Magdalena Weglinska. Free entry.
Wed Apr 28 AS WE SPEAK - is a night dedicated to screening new experimental videos. Conceived as an open platform for moving image artworks, different types of work are shown alongside each other as part of the same screening. There is never a theme, we just like to show what people are making.
Sat May 01 BOMBSKARE + GUESTS 7pm
Wed May 05 PAVEMENT AFTERSHOW! US Indie heroes Pavement have reformed and will play the Glasgow Barrowlands on the 5th May. Stereo are proudly hosting the aftershow party. Featuring DJ sets from special guests.
Thu May 06 PAPER PLANES plus support
Fri May 07 THE KAYS LAVELLE *ALBUM LAUNCH* plus support
Wed May 12 OMAR SOULEYMAN plus support BUY TICKETS HERE: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=371723&interface=
Sun May 16 WHITE RABBITS plus support. Buy tickets here... http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=377110
Mon May 17 KMR presents: Dum Dum Girls with Special Guests www.myspace.com/dumdumgirls Tickets £7 : 7.30pm : +18s Tickets available from: www.ticketweb.co.uk www.tickets-scotland.com Tel: 08444 77 1000
Fri May 21 stereo presents: TREMBLING BELLS + THE HIDDEN MASTERS adv tickets from ticketweb/tickets-scotland/monorail weblink: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=374554
Sat May 22 STAG AND DAGGER FESTIVAL: Line up TBA - £10 early bird tickets available here: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=363016
Sun May 30 The Fallen Angels Club presents BASKERY plus support The first Swedish band to pass through the doors of the Fallen Angels Club. Baskery consist of sisters Greta, Stella and Sunniva Bondesson. They describe their music as "high voltage" and use their own expressions like "killbilly", "banjo punk" and "mud country". Doors 7.30pm, 8pm start Book online from www.ticketweb.co.uk Tickets £10 from Tickets Scotland 239 Argyle Street Glasgow 0141 204 5151