Music: Propagaga
July 28, 2010
Saturday 31 July | The Tunnels | 11pm | £3/Free in Gaga-inspired fancy dress
Really. Yes. It is what you think. A Lady Gaga-themed night. I can hear some of you now:
‘Lady f***ing Gaga? What the f***ing f**k ?’
Well, here’s the reason; the Propaganda lot know how to put on a party, lots of people will turn up in outrageous outfits and they’ll have a good time doing it too.
Got a problem with that?
No? Good.
Expect lots of the aforementioned Miss Gaga alongside the usual eclectic Propaganda sounds from DJs Jimsin and Nullmouse, check the flyer below and the Facebook event page for more details. Then buy your wig.
Music: Endor, Jakil, The Shakedown Project
July 15, 2010
Friday 16 July | The Tunnels | 7.30pm | £5
Just noticed it’s been two weeks since we’ve done a gig preview on here, not because there haven’t been any gigs on or anything, it’s just one of those unexplainable phenomena. Yeah, it’s definitely one of those, not laziness or anything like that…
Anyway, headliners Endor are a Glaswegian four-piece who’ve just released a self-titled debut album full of folk/pop-tinged tunes which build and swirl away quite the thing. There are definite hints of Frightened Rabbit in there (a good thing), not least in the vocals which will doubtlessly be described by some as having a ‘charming Celtic lilt’ to them. In real words that people actually use, that means they sound Scottish. Another good thing. Support comes from Edinburgh outfit Jakil and local band The Shakedown Project.
Endor
Music: Polar Bear Club: Skibunny
June 30, 2010
Friday 2 July | The Tunnels | 11pm | £3/£2 before 12
Promoters, DJs, remixers and a band, Belfast’s Skibunny seem to have things pretty well-covered to say the least. It’s the band version we get at The Tunnels, the final date of a scoot round the UK to celebrate the release of their new EP. Nice, catchy, shimmery electro-pop is what they do, and very well they do it too…
As you’ll have gathered, this is a Polar Bear Club night, so you get local DJs Ross Calder and JJ Bull as well (another promoter and someone who’s in a band respectively, heh).
Music: Subsource, Super Six, A-ZI Cool
June 9, 2010
Friday 11 June | The Tunnels | 10pm | £6.50
I hardly read the NME these days, but their description of Subsource as being ‘like The Prodigy teaching a noise violation seminar to Sonic Boom Six’ is pretty nail-on-the-heid. Cheers NME.
Consisting of ’a Cambridge educated British-Chinese science prodigy, a Norwegian born multi instrumentalist, a nu-skool breaks double bass player and a D ‘n’ B drummer’, the Surrey outfit are an unlikely mix of electro, punk, metal, dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass. It works though. Which is why they get invited to loads of festivals and have worked with the likes of the aforementioned Prodigy and Akil from Jurrasic 5…
Support comes from local funk band Super Six and hip-hop types AZ-I Cool, both of whom have new EPs done, dusted and available on the night (the first 40 through the door get a free CD in fact…)
Music: Some Clubs
May 27, 2010
… Quite a few big nights on this weekend for those of the clubbing persuasion, so here are some picks (and mixes where available). Picks & mixes. See what I did there?
Friday 28 May:
Massive German punktechnodiscohouselectro duo Digitalism at The Forum (video interview below)
Influential dubstep producer Rusko at Origin (minimix & interview with Annie Mac)
Global beathead DJ Astroboy (Departure Lounge, Edinburgh) visits Club No Borders at The Tunnels (World Gone Crazy mix Apr ’10)
Saturday 29 May:
Ex-Hacienda resident and exiled Aberdonian Graeme Park at Franklyns (mixcloud page with radio shows/mixes etc)
Viper Recordings’ Drum ‘n’ Bass DJ/producer Futurebound joins the Jungle Nation at Origin (D&B TV mix on YouTube)
Underground house night I Left My Soul In Detroit (Facebook event page) moves to its new home at Korova, with guest Funky Transport
Aye, that lot should keep you going, prices/times etc are in our listings
Music: The Unwinding Hours, Katerwaul
May 19, 2010
Friday 21 May | The Tunnels | 8pm |£8/ £6adv Tickets
A lot of people have been looking forward to this one for quite a while now, maybe you’re one of them. If not, that ‘looking forward to it’ air which they’ve been affecting of late can easily be achieved by deciding you’re going and, erm, looking forward to it too.
What an awful opening paragraph.
So, The Unwinding Hours then; aka Craig B and Iain Cook of the much-missed Aerogramme. Their self-titled debut album on Chemikal Underground had the critics all-of-a-flutter and with good reason; it’s an epic, delicate, quiet, loud, heart-on-the-sleeve affair which to quote Craig himself is about ‘relationships: some ending, some starting, some going well and some going very, very badly.’ Expect to see it on many a best-of-the-year list come Christmas.
Support comes from the superb Katerwaul, a local band whose atmospheric and sometimes frenetic soundscapes will fit this show like a glove. Recommended.
Music: Do It!
May 6, 2010
Friday 7 May | The Tunnels | 1opm | £5
We always seem to end up covering the Do It! nights, probably ‘cos they’re invariably ace parties. It’s not just us though, they’ve recently been featured in the excellent Juxtapoz mag for example…
Anyway, this is going to be a stormer as expat Aberdonian (and recent singing to Big Dada records) Offshore joins the regulars. Big things are expected from him this year, very big things indeed, check out this mix from Bonafide zine for a few eclectic, beat-laden pointers as to why…
Music: Crëvecoeur, Jeremy Wheatley, Stanley
May 5, 2010
Sunday 9 May | The Tunnels | 8pm | £6
We are total suckers for this kind of thing, well, this part of the ‘we’ is anyway: French multi-instrumentalist trio Crëvecoeur serve up unlikely spaghetti western-esque soundscapes with a side of Mariachi Mexicano, I’d expect that the 8mm film projections (which accompany every show) will, as if you were in any doubt, hammer home the cinematic aspect of their sound. Sold. Support comes from country-tinged US indie-folkster Jeremy Wheatley and excellent quirky local outfit Stanley.
In Photos: Do It! & Because It’s There
March 20, 2010
Purely because we can, here are a few pics from last week’s Do It! night at The Tunnels and Craig Barrowman/Jim Ewen’s exhibition at Beautiful Mountain (all photos by Neil Henderson).
Do It!
Music: The School, Allo Darlin’, Deportees, Flora Cook
March 12, 2010
Sunday 14 March | The Tunnels | 7.30pm | £5
Indiepop is back. Not that it really went away, it’s always been one of those scenes that did just fine being underground thank you very much; DIY bands, DIY labels, DIY festivals (see: Indietracks), all happily flying under the radar of yer that there mainstream. However, the success of bands like Los Campesinos! and (it’s always risky naming names lest the purists strike you down, but here goes) The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have seen a renewed interest in all things unashamedly poppy. Fine by me…
This show is a perfect opportunity for those willing to dip their toes in such waters: Welsh band The School play the kind of Phil Spector-esque-shimmery-dreaminess-with-girl-group-vocals beloved of Camera Obscura, check the video below for proof, they’re signed to superb Spanish label Elefant Records too, who know a good pop thing when they hear it…
Despite sounding like they’ve been lifted from the lexicon of sadly-missed Eastenders market stall trader Pete Beale, London-based Allo Darlin’ are on the equally respected Fortuna Pop label, are off to play the SXSW festival in Texas just days after this show and know how to use a ukelele. Pure pop fun. Local support comes from Deportees, whose country/folk/pop stylings have created a bit of a buzz round town despite only playing a few gigs so far, and singer-songwriter Flora Cook. Ace.
