Events Research Programme is a series of monthly events held in (mostly) The Old Hairdressers, (probably always) Glasgow, featuring (generally) weirdo/experimental/fun locals across performance and music.
This month’s Events Research Programme offering: Mother, Susannah Stark, Lizzie Urquhart (DJ), Spine
Yolo Manolo team up with the Unperson to present a relaxed and casual evening of happy nonsense…..
Yolo Manolo bring together an uncompromising duality of lo-fi ambient textures and pop sensible melody. Currently recording the follow up to their 2018 mini-album ‘Oumuamua’ the band will perform songs from the upcoming release.
The band are humbled to be joined for the event by Ally Skivington, a.k.a. The Unperson. Bringing his love for all things modular and experimental to generate a unique blend of obscure noise, evolving soundscapes, melody and rhythm.
‘The Arbitrary Dimension of Dreams’ is Cate Kennan’s oblique exploration of memory, nighttime, and narrative. The resulting 12 compositions are brisk, evocative, and lingering. Kennan’s sonic palette is vast yet harmonized, deftly matching spectral synthesizers to hazy lap steel guitars and watery analog effects. Existing in the sparsely occupied world of early melodic electronic music, her songs call to mind the sonic landscape’s of Malcolm Cecil, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Deux Filles. Each individual track sculpts a setting, constructing an amorphous landscape of surreal musical vignettes. Picture a boat tied to a dock, bobbing with the waves, wisps of fog refusing the complete vision. This is the nebulous space of ‘The Arbitrary Dimension of Dreams,’ an enveloping, insistent realm that feels both intimately familiar and profoundly otherworldly.
The album sustains the tension between dream, fiction, and reality thanks to Kennan’s investment in the contradictions of these states. She notes that the fundamentally absurd and arbitrary nature of dream does not free us from the dominion that daydreams, fantasies, and wishes have on our lives. Similarly, the understanding that our dreams belong entirely to us, products of our individual mind, cannot undo the suspicion that they somehow come from somewhere else. For ‘The Arbitrary Dimension of Dreams,’ Kennan expresses this tension by pairing the grand gestures of film scores with intensely personal idiosyncrasies: abrupt endings, murky, subharmonic rumbling, and ghostly fragments. Kennan’s sense of timing, her steadfastness, and her daring ensure that even the slightest detail in this narrative is gripping, poignant, and expressive.
Cate Kennan is a Los Angeles native. ‘The Arbitrary Dimension of Dreams’ is her debut LP, following appearances on the compilations ‘Succession Sounds, Vol. I’ (2019, Post Present Medium) and ‘Clay Bodies’ (2021, Objects & Sounds).
“Dagobah is the first LP (following a couple of cassettes and a CD) by Kool Music, the solo guitar project helmed by Glasgow-based polymath, Jasper Baydala. Jasper has previously had some exposure on the label, when his image appeared on the cover of Joanne Robertson’s Black Moon Days LP (FTR 179LP, 2015). At that point we knew of Jasper as a video artist and writer, but Joanne assured us he was an excellent musician as well. And so began the road to Dagobah. The soubriquet Kool Music has a bit of a hip-hop heft to it, but the 14 tracks here present a very different picture. Jasper has said that when he first hoisted the Kool Music flag, in Canada back in 2010, its sound was something of a cross between country music and Asian string traditions. Easy aural evidence of those roots has vanished over the past dozen years. The music on Dagobah has certain tonal similarities to the UK free music tradition, but the pieces display a humanity and sense of humor that (rightly or wrongly) we don’t always associate with that scene. Each of the tracks is a solo electric guitar instrumental, usually taken at a slow pace with carefully built layers of sound that often overlap and decay before Kool Music moves on to the next trope. This gives the music a meditative quality, but the mildly casual dissonances make it tough for listeners to just float along on the sound. In that sense, Kool Music demands your attention. Although generally in the politest way imaginable. Every time I spin Dagobah I hear a bunch of new details. And they’re really engaging. As is this whole damn album. And if you let yourself sink into its web, I do believe you will feel just the same. Now that’s Kool Music.” –Byron Coley, 2022
competition is the music making moniker of craig pollard. based in newcastle (uk), craig makes experimental pop music that plays with sparseness and vulnerability, pitched down samples and orchestral programming, crafting songs that build hooks from within their limited materials.
competition has performed across the UK with artists like ana roxanne, julia reidy, caroline, rattle and porridge radio, and regularly organises music and art events for artists passing through newcastle. he publishes writing on music and art making, with a collection of writing on glasgow’s tgigitffy, and hosts a monthly radio show on slack’s. previous competition releases include hell yeah (bleak spring), three songs (oob), repetititive music and you turned into a painting (slip).
Erratic urban-jazz-punk southern European quartet.
Just born in 2022 the Jean Paul Agambi Quartet signs with False Idols, Tricky’s record label, for their debut expected in early autumn 2023.
Atomic Urban Extravaganza, a multi-ethnic atypical trip whose main characteristic is contrast between urban music, brass, with a predominantly white voice is created by producers and composers Ferri, from Barcelona, and Elle, based out of Glasgow.
The social environment is the background to their stories and often acts as the fertile ground where the protagonist and the antagonist grow up, different. The music expands its boundaries by fully capturing the urban atmospheres of the 90s, with the addition of modern electronics and brass.
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The David Tattersall Group is a new project from David Tattersall of The Wave Pictures and The Surfing Magazines. Their self titled album will be released on October 6th on Bella Union Records
Who’s the blond headed stranger in town? Hang on, that ain’t no stranger… it’s David… David Tattersall! He likes to Drive All Night, Bright Moon shining in the sky, Mellow Magic on the radio, playing new old time classics… country style!
And he’s back, back in town, back in the groove, laying down his shit. That’s right, that’s what I’m saying… he’s got some brand new songs to play you with his group… The David Tattersall Group! Lonesome number one? Blue boy? Not a bit of it! Sure, it’s a little bit country, a little bit Western, but it ain’t lonesome and it sure as hell ain’t blue. Think Willie Nelson on the road again with his friends, think Michael Hurley armchair boogieing with Banana and Joe Bauer, and then think David Tattersall grooving down with his group… The David Tattersall Group. Night Owls, smoking and drinking, layin’ down some Midnight Lightning country style somewhere in some doggone dusty part of East London. Good times together. Yeah, this band, this album, The David Tattersall Group… it’s a country and western kinda thing, except David don’t put on no fake American accent. As always, David’s the real deal, his real self, and if you want to make real country and western with that real country feeling, the real deal’s what you gotta be. And there ain’t no doubt, DON’T YOU DARE DOUBT IT, DT is the real deal. To use the bullshit parlance of our times… he’s authentic. Oh yeah he is, he’s his real authentic self, living his best f****n’ authentic life. And that’s what this record is, The David Tattersall Group record. It’s a slice, no, it’s a whole collection of slices, NO, it’s a whole goddamn pie of real authentic David Tattersall!
And check out his group. You got ‘Wailin’ Dom Brider (The Surfing Magazines) laying down his soulful sounds on his harmonica. You got fiddlin’ Dan Mayfield (Darren Hayman), bona fide countrified. You got honky-tonkin’ Paul Rains (Allo’ Darlin’) on the piano. But you know all that ain’t worth diddly squat if you ain’t got that country groove… that’s where Bo-Diddlin’ David Beauchamp (Jeffrey Lewis) comes in, super cool like on the drums. Yeah, it’s a hell of a band, The David Tattersall Group, on their new self-titled genuine vinyl lp.
‘Watching Sloth Racket perform is a thrilling experience, conveying a palpable sense that the musicians are navigating the scores by the seat of their pants, making real-time group decisions that sculpt the compositions into unique shapes each time they’re played.’
– Daniel Spicer, The Wire, December 2021
‘Lurching between riff and abstraction…maintains an elegant balance between emergent melody and the wilder activity at its fringes’ - Stewart Smith, The Wire
L are DRUMS – LAURIE PITT
GUITAR – JACK MELLIN
GUITAR/SYNTHS/ VOCALS/WRITTEN BY – JACK PATON
Nichola Scrutton & Ali Robertson – The Longest Forty Miles “The last train is at 11:30pm and I wouldnae recommend the night bus. It’ll be full of Lothians troglodytes, Cumbernauld carbuncles and folks what like their improv idiomatic. Best hop in our taxi. It willnae be cheap and, with two drivers pulling in opposite directions on the same wheel, you’ll be unsure which way is up let alone which is East or West. Ensure you’re wearing your seat belt on this tour of the Scottish Central Belt as your escorts are predisposed to unleashing belters for strings, gobs & kerfuffle and you’ll get pure pelters if you dinnae subscribe to their version of the Highway Code.”
DOME RIDERS.
“Glossolalia guru Fritz Welch was ahead of the curve when he wilfully turned his back on the Texan black gold game and set sail for Scotland on the back of a repurposed petroleum drum to usher in a new Gusher Age of mucus-based green energy music. The upper reaches of this miserable island can now leave them dirty fossil fuel reservoirs untapped as explorers from the mining communities that grew up around Woven Skull, the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra & Taupe have pledged allegiance to the Welchian cause and are employing both archaic string instruments and state o’ the art electronics, while all the while ululating oral oil slicks, to amass a portfolio of audio gasoline so well-lubricated that it threatens to combust inside yr lugholes. Prospectors praying for the occurrence of improvisation that you can bank on should take note, this quartet always strikes gold.”
A double header with Glasgows finest exponents of garage punk power pop , The Reverse Cowgirls are an established outfit specialising in in rock and roll scuzz riffage and The Jackal IV two minute garage fuzz exponents as they say on the record play loud special guests to be announced 
