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William Tyler is a Nashville guitarist and composer. He spent years woodshedding and touring with Nashville groups like Lambchop and Silver Jews before breaking away to focus on his own version of instrumental guitar music. No other solo American guitarist this century has impacted that fecund scene quite like William Tyler.

After crucial stints in Silver Jews and Lambchop, this adopted son of Nashville emerged at the dawn of the last decade with a string of inquisitive albums that paired the measure of his country rearing and classical enthusiasm with his ardor for post-modern experimentation, field recordings and static drifts folded beneath exquisite melodies. Tyler dug Chet Atkins and Gavin Bryars, electroacoustic abstraction and endless boogie.

His productive little enclave of instrumental music has increasingly followed such catholic tastes, not only ushering new sounds and textures into the form but also critical new voices and perspectives. And on the brilliant, bracing, and inexorably beautiful Time Indefinite, Tyler’s first solo album in five years, he steps at last into the widening gyre he helped create. The guitar serves as a starting point for an album that will make you reconsider not only Tyler but also the possibilities and reach of an entire field. A vortex of noise and harmony, ghosts and dreams, anguish and hope, Time Indefinite is not a great guitar record. It is a stunning record—a masterpiece of our collectively anxious time, really—by a great guitarist.

Alex Rex is the ‘ghost-rock’ project of Alex Neilson (Trembling Bells, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Shirley Collins, Current 93 et al). Inspired by Greek Tragedy, Barbara Streisand and Alex’s own internal critic, Alex Rex perform songs of love, loss and loathing that make the detestable whistleable.

Jack Mellin is one of Glasgow’s most dexterous and multifaceted guitarists, whether playing shimmering love songs with his indie rock group The Mary Column, the absurdist hardcore band L, experimenting with free-form noise and texture in duo Tocsin Baluster or labyrinthine finger-picking loopyness under is given name: Jack Mellin always makes beautiful music!

Tucker and Dale are finally getting to do up the secluded cabin of their dreams. You know, air out the chainsaw and breath some life into the ol’ woodchipper.

But these holidaying city kids keep getting the wrong idea! And dang if they ain’t getting themselves just as dead at the same time.

What’s an honest hillbilly supposed to do?!

Join Trash Cinema for a comedy of terrors with Tucker and Dale vs Evil! Splatstick genius with big laughs and even better kills.

Doors open 7pm with a pre-show selection of retro trailers, ads and trashy entertainment, followed by the movie at 7.30pm – Monday the 13th of July at *The Old Hairdresser’s.

Free popcorn and sweeties for all!

Sulka is the Glasgow based DIY songwriting/recording project of Lukas Clasen, whose style blends intimate vocals, lo-fi production aesthetics and dynamic mood changes. Having been a songwriter and guitarist in various bands during the 2010s, Lukas decided to experiment with his own solo recordings, taking after genre-blending alt pop artists such as Alex G, Sparklehorse and Spirit of the Beehive. There are hints of alt-folk, grunge and shoegaze influences heard across Sulka’s catalogue, all pulled into coherence through his characteristic voice and home production style.

In 2021 Sulka joined the Lost Map Records collective with his well received LP Take Care, gaining him a wider listenership and BBC radio play by the likes of Vic Galloway and Steve Lamacq. Snack magazine chose the lead single Fear It as one of their top Scottish singles of the year. This led to the project expanding to a four-piece live band and enlisting the help of SAY Award nominated producer Chris McCrory (Catholic Action, Walt Disco) on their follow-up record Distractions, released in 2023. The album was selected as ‘album of the month’ on BBC Gaelic Radio and the band toured its songs across the UK including sold out shows at the Cavendish Arms in London and The Rum Shack in Glasgow.

Sulka’s latest collection, Bute, is set for release in July 2026 through Lost Map and No Soap Records. Inspired by a mid-winter writing trip to the west coast island of the same name, the new record sees a return to the intimate solo production style of Lukas’s early work. He cites the influence of the island’s natural landscape and fading grandeur of its Victorian towns on the creation of the songs’ themes. Reflections on time and ageing and the power of nature are recurring concepts. Drawing on new skills learned through his work with McCrory, as well as the experience of mixing music for other artists in the years since Take Care, Lukas set about creating the album by himself. It retains the characteristic homemade elements of Sulka’s early albums while trying to match the more radio-ready audio quality of McCrory’s work on Distractions.

The Blue Kanues are a band created by Isobel McKenna in order to perform her song based music in a live setting. The band features Isobel on guitar and vocals, LVR on lead guitar on vocals, Hannah on bass guitar and Matty on drums. The band move from noisy no wave style to country, metal and rock with a poppy sensibility lurking beneath it all. They are currently recording an album of the songs they play live.

Charlie Butler is a Lanark based artist who began a series of solo releases in 2021 exploring ambient, heavy and hypnotic sounds based on looped guitars and keyboards. He has had work released by Cruel Nature, Eggy Tapes, Weird Beard, Oscarson, Brachliegen Tapes and Panurus Productions.

Craggyland is the project of musician, field recordist, and architecture enthusiast Tilly Mason. She blends urban found sounds, experimental noise, lush guitar loops and vibrato melodies to create a map of sound that is familiar but more warped and twisted than you remember – she wants you to get lost with her. Inspired by the likes of feeo, Jessica Bailiff, and Daniel Blumberg, she tests the limits of her instruments and song structures – recently bringing an electric toothbrush, fingernails, and phone screen radiation into her setup.

In ancient Athens, the Agora meant the marketplace, but it was so much more; it was the vibrant heart of the city, where the community gathered to ignite ideas and debate the very future of democracy. It was the birthplace of bold conversation and courageous thought.

We’re bringing that same fiery spirit to the stage. The Agora is a political scratch night – a powerful new platform for fearless new ideas. We’re channeling the ancient Greeks, using theatre as a vehicle for essential discussion, social justice, and artistic revolution.

This is an evening of four short work in progress plays, extracts, and concept pieces, each a spotlight on an urgent social issue. These are the voices of emerging creatives who have something vital to say. They are here to challenge, to provoke, and to inspire.

https://www.tiredhorsestheatre.co.uk/

The long awaited release of Fionnlagh and Sarah’s debut album, ‘The Solace from There’, is finally here!

Fionnlagh Mac A’Phiocair and Sarah Hanniffy explore the Gaelic traditions of Scotland and Ireland in what has been described as ‘a genuine, fresh voice’, Known for their ‘hauntingly beautiful’ sound, which is formed by the unique combination of Scottish smallpipes, viola, and Gaidhlig / Irish song. The duo paint euphoric, yet vibrant soundscapes that washes over audiences.

The album explores both players’ cultural backgrounds; Fionnlagh is a native Gaidhlig speaker from the Isle of North Uist, and Sarah is from County Galway.

‘The Solace from There’ will be launched at The Old Hairdressers, in Glasgow, on the 3rd of July at 7pm with support from the fantastic Kathleen and Calum.