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Uneven Eleven / Dick Fifty / Cru Servers @ Mono, Glasgow 27/05/2013
Perhaps we’ve been spoiled. What with the impromptu meeting of Kan Mikami, Alex Neilson and Jandek earlier in the year, and last year’s solo vocal performance from Keiji Haino, maybe Glasgow crowds...
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Nazoranai @ Stereo, Glasgow 10/07/2013
Last year’s recorded debut from Nazoranai, the collaboration between like-minded avant-gardists Stephen O’Malley, Keiji Haino and Oren Ambarchi was a delight to fanboys, overly-serious musos and...
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EyeHateGod / Bacchus Baracus / Dune @ Ivory Blacks, Glasgow 01/08/2013
If Edinburgh has done one thing right (apart from making ugly, overpriced pipers in plastic tubes seem like a valid choice of souvenir to tourists) it’s creating doom bands. Maybe it’s the omnipresent...
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Torche / Fat Goth @ Broadcast, Glasgow 20/08/2013
When the short-lived Glasgow institution Captains Rest closed its doors, it took a lot of great memories with it: Scott Kelly, A Storm Of Light and Young Widows were just a handful of the hallowed to...
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Xibalba / Hierophant / Frontline / Pay The Price @ Classic Grand, Glasgow...
Those who follow British wrestling in recent years may well be familiar with The Classic Grand as, until recently, it was one of the regular venues for ICW events and thus stage to a plethora of...
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Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. / Skullwizard @ Nice &...
Due to a shameful miscalculation of times on my part, my entry to tonight’s basement du nuit is greeted with near-pitch darkness and a deathly, grumbling drone that swells to terrifying dimensions as I...
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Kadavar / Buffalo Summer / The Dead Raven @ The Cathouse, Glasgow 25/10/2013
Whenever a show is announced for The Cathouse, there’s always a feeling of nonspecific dread that rises in my stomach. Partially due to incidents at past club nights with the creepier members of the...
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Russian Circles / Chelsea Wolfe @ SWG3, Glasgow 26/10/2013
While Russian Circles and Chelsea Wolfe may not share much except for their record label, their disparity makes identifying their fans tonight amusingly simple. Are they wearing a flamenco skirt? Do...
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Nails / Blind To Faith / No Island / Notebooks @ Classic Grand, Glasgow...
As I spot people queuing outside the venue for an already-early hardcore gig, I wonder what it is that makes Nails so special that a dozen-or-so people would stand in the freezing cold just to avoid...
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Scorpion Child / Semper Fi @ Audio, Glasgow 17/11/2013
Local support always have a rough time of it, though there are certainly a few things they can do to make it easier on themselves – things that Semper Fi are sadly unaware of. Adopting the seldom-tried...
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Purson @ Broadcast, Glasgow 09/12/2013
It’s nearly half nine before anyone finds out that tonight’s support had failed to turn up but, being rational, it’s doubtful that people hadn’t figured it out themselves by then. Combined with a...
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Wooden Shjips / Helicon @ SWG3, Glasgow 12/12/2013
Even if not much is known about Helicon, those with keen powers of observation can get a good idea in advance. The split with Spain’s Celestial Bums hints at a similar keen appreciation of tight,...
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Kylesa / Sierra / Jagged Vision / Isak @ Ivory Blacks, Glasgow 01/02/2014
It’s with a distinct lack of fanfare that Dundee’s Isak take the stage, and I have to admit that at first, this seemed somewhat appropriate. Their mid-90s stoner rock chic is very no-frills, the...
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DUNE ‘Progenitor’ To See Vinyl Release Via Wasted State Records; Pre-Orders...
Edinburgh’s DUNE have announced that their debut EP ‘Progenitor‘, which John Reppion raved about in his recent review here, after being originally released as a download only, is now getting the...
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Conan / Bast / Headless Kross / Bacchus Baracus @ Audio, Glasgow 17/03/2014
I’ll say it right now: I love Audio. Tucked in an alleyway, it’s the size of someone’s spare room, the bar is basically a few fridges with random bottles of spirits sitting on top and the flush in the...
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The Body / Voe / Headless Kross / Buried Sleeper @ Audio, Glasgow 23/04/2014
Sometimes, a night can be exciting for the most trivial of reasons. First off, having The Body come to town was always going to be a highlight of the week (hell, it’s a highlight of the year, to be...
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Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats / Black Moth / Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell @...
When Uncle Acid’s Glasgow show was first announced (around about the time that people without Black Sabbath tickets were resigning themselves to never being able to see them hit this fair city) it...
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Loop / Godflesh @ SWG3, Glasgow 02/06/2014
The ties between Loop and Godflesh are long-standing ones, more overtly with the awesome Loopflesh split 7” back in 1991, though Robert Hampson’s guitarwork on Pure was another fine example of just how...
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Kawabata Makoto / Golden Teacher / Squish Kabosh @ Nice ‘N’ Sleazy, Glasgow...
Tuesday nights are rarely the most exciting of evenings, and usually the only highlight is finding something worthwhile on the telly to kill a few hours. It’s why the presence of Kawabata Makoto in...
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Yob / Pallbearer / Buried Sleeper @ Audio, Glasgow 06/09/2014
It’s fair to say that both Yob and Pallbearer have been something of a big thing lately, with both of their 2014 releases pretty much guaranteed to be on the best of year lists for every doom...
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