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Robert Ridley-Shackleton

RRS is the cardboard prince

Described by wire magazine as a “DIY,  funk , absurdist”

And described by mum as ” quite a good boy despite his love for street fighter , needs to brush his teeth more and not spend his pocket money all at once”

Big duck is real and he will shoot u with his money gun

Expect free associative flight from out of his gob with occasional funky beats to make u move xxx

Keep it card xxx

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Naval Cassidy 

Starting with Stackable Thumb in the 1990s, Naval Cassidy has been a familiar presence in the ever changing landscape of live video performance in New York City. He continues his video investigations with his small collections of small objects, (some found, some bought, all carefully curated), resembling missing pieces in some ridiculously large forgotten board game. In them he finds some reflection of the larger world of human bodies, desires, and power relationships. He has worked solo and with other artists in New York, Canada, Scotland and Berlin to create original visual and audio experiences. Most recently Naval traveled to St. John’s, Newfoundland to present his latest work at Sound Symposium XXI, and has been performing for Sunday services at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village where unusual artistic expressions are welcomed.

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Hedgling

Hedgling is a new duo of Natalia Beylis and Willie Stewart.  Previously, they have played together in numerous bands including Woven Skull, Boneyard Witch and Divil A’ Bit.  With Hedgling, they build on these collaborations to create a new musical sphere in which to explore the far reaches of their real and imagined surroundings. Their sound sways in the space between the familiar and the unknown parallel worlds that co-exist  around, above and beneath us.  Percussive constellations created from found objects, dissolving tape loops of creaking pump organ drones and recordings made in the bogs and woods around their home blend together to convey an intimate portrait of the world they co-inhabit. “There is none of the hushed reverence that usually accompanies improvisatory sound art; instead, we get a finale which is genuinely, immodestly, insanely heavy, as Stewart taps into a pounding, primal rhythm and Beylis goes to town on her equipment like a rock star in the midst of a guitar-wrecking solo. It’s surprising, refreshing and absolutely brilliant.” On this special occasion Hedgling will be joined onstage by Baked Beans On The Doorstep’s unofficial fake house-band Hexakaidecagon for a quartet throwdown of unforeseeable sonic wonder.

Nuke Watch is a New York based collective that specializes in a blend of free-jazz fusion and textured polyrhythmic Fourth World propulsion. The long running friendship and psychic connection of its founders Chris Hontos & Aaron Anderson (aka Beat Detectives) enhance their signature ritualistic rhythms, mutant modular synthesis, nimble keyboard runs, vibrantsampling and unidentified skronk.

They have released records on The Trilogy Tapes, Post Present Medium, Patience/Impatience, Commend/RVNG and Moon Glyph. They will be touring in support of their new album “Fusion” out this summer on the London based label Sagome.

photo by Curtis Wallen

“The duo of Aaron Anderson & Chris Hontos sustain a remarkable run of releases since 2020 that has run rings around the DIY underground imagination, variously proving their mettle in live and studio settings, and neatly distilling the psychedelia of previous, cult project Beat Detectives in fluidly groove-driven modes that effortlessly enchant heads and snag hips.“ – Boomkat, 2024.

[Nuke Watch] could be called world music in the sense that if you folded up the world into a funnel and shook it and made everybody slide down onto a plate full of people they didn’t grow up with, they might end up making this. – Sasha Frere-Jones, 2025

“This was a good one…NUKE WATCH LP from Impatience” Eye (Boredoms), 2024.

“Frazzled synth virtuosity, textured sampledelia and mulched electronics take porous influence from all corners, from gamelan to Raï, Saharan strings, and Japanese classical court music, but lysergically morphed into a properly absorbing, if elusive, sort of instrumental storytelling” – Boomkat, 2022.

Wormhook is mostly an improvisatory, channeled project, mostly dictaphone + phone recordings of vocalised first takes, devotionals, Prayers laments and social/spiritual commentary. where sparse and repetitive features of the everyday sonic background to austerity Britain smash together with naive instrumentation throwing up a non linear array of semi coherent multitudes.

12th Isle co-founder Fergus Clark will be DJ-ing between the live acts, he runs a monthly NTS session through chaotic record shelves, tascam nightmares, label related tracks and unreleased music from the global sphere. Listen to Fergus’s NTS show HERE

Danny Kamins is an improvising saxophonist/bass clarinetist based out of Houston, TX, specializing in jazz and avant garde music. He also runs the jazz program at Rice University.

Musicians he has performed/recorded with include Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Vinny Golia, Jeb Bishop, Sandy Ewen, Paulina Owczarek, Motoko Honda, Damon Smith, Luke Stewart, Alvin Fielder, Ra Kalam Bob Moses and NewMusic groups Relative Dissonance, Le Train Bleu, Loop 38, Transitory Sound and Movement Collective.

Musical Eschatology, a Houston based label for avant garde/experimental music: BANDCAMP

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Erosion Control play improvised long form dub adjacent lock-in noise rock minimalism. With Sophie Cooper on tromboe/pedals, Tom Hawkins playing celle/laptop and Flo Christman on drums/tape.

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Kit Bula: Notes from his recent album “All This Kid Wants is Drum”

Sometimes life can be quite difficult because I have to do things that I don’t really want to do and lots of people do things that I don’t agree with them doing. In those moments it’s tempting to avoid finding productive ways to deal with the difficulties and instead bury myself in noise. Noise is good and I’m sure a certain quantity of noise is part of the solution to life difficulties, but there’s other stuff that needs doing as well.

This album is a sonic documentation of a period of time where all I wanted was to drum and I did that with a whole load of people (who are great and make life less difficult). But now it’s time to put that to one side and see drumming as one aspect of an existence that will help put an end to all this bullshit.

End fascism, end complacency; start caring, start giving.
Love from Kit x

DIY event showcasing 4 alternative rock/metal bands at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow

• Curated mixtape playlist from:
  • Stephen Pastel
  • Duglas Stewart
• Short Vinyl DJ sets from Scottish up and coming bands:
  • THE CORDS
  • SUPERSUN
  • FATALE
  • FRASER MACCALLUM
  • BOGLE

• Raffle (hosted by Duglas Stewart)

• Art, zine and merch stalls

Selkie and Marina Yozora come together at The Old Hairdressers for a rare double headline show: two artists working in spacious and ethereal song worlds, each playing a full set. Moving between ambient pop, dream pop and shoegaze textures, the night leans toward close listening, with soft electronics, voice, hazy guitar, and songs that open slowly.

Selkie, from Scotland, and Marina Yozora, from Japan, briefly crossed paths while their lives were pulling in opposite directions and have quietly supported one another from afar ever since. Selkie has spent recent years performing across Japan, Chile and Mexico, while Marina moved from Tokyo to London to develop her music. For a long time, they hoped to play the same room together.

Now, in Glasgow, their music meets for the first time.

For fans of: Björk, Cocteau Twins, Daughter, Radiohead

Selkie’s links: Bandcamp | Instagram | Website

Selkie is a Scottish musician creating voice-led ambient pop and electronic folk, built around electric guitar and atmospheric vocal-based sound design. Her work is spacious and unhurried, using the voice as both melodic and textural presence.

The project took shape during a period when speaking, and even breathing, felt fragile, and returning to sound became a way of rebuilding trust in voice and body. Sitting at the piano each day developed into a quiet, grounding practice, one that drew Selkie toward nature, ritual, and the slow unfolding of songs.

Over time, these early sketches expanded into a broader body of work. From pianos in Glasgow to bedroom studios in Berlin and onto stages across Japan, Selkie’s music has grown through movement and place. Her songs favour restraint and openness, allowing space for ambiguity and emotional resonance rather than resolution.

Her music has received support from BBC Introducing Scotland and BBC Radio Scotland, and has been covered by outlets including The Skinny, Glamglare and The Slow Music Movement.

Having recently completed a tour in Mexico, Selkie now returns to Scotland with her debut EP In Waves in its final stages, ahead of its release later in 2026.

Marina Yozora’s links: Bandcamp | Instagram | Linktree

Marina Yozora is a London-based dream pop and shoegaze singer-songwriter from Tokyo, known for her lush, reverb-soaked vocals layered over immersive, textured guitar. Drawing inspiration from Daughter, Cocteau Twins, and Slowdive, her music blends intimacy with expansive sonic landscapes.

Her releases have been featured on KEXP’s Pacific Notions and covered by outlets including Shoegaze Blog and Static Sounds Club, which described her as “a new dream pop voice worth watching.”

Alongside a steady run of shows in London, Marina has performed in Glasgow, Lisbon, and Rome, as well as a sold-out headline show in Tokyo. She has also built a growing audience in Manchester through her appearance at the UK’s largest Japanese festival, HYPER JAPAN (2025).

Her headline show for Independent Venue Week 2026 in London sold out nearly two weeks in advance, with a waiting list forming ahead of the night. Audiences often describe her performances as feeling like “a heartfelt and intimate conversation,” even within a full room.

Having grown up between Japan, the United States, and Vietnam, Marina carries a wide emotional and cultural landscape into her songwriting. She returns with a new single on 29 May.

The Cosmic Dead are an amorphous blob of wah-driven space rock energy beaming in to their home planet of Glasgow to launch their tenth album, ‘Beyond The Beyond’ out April 17th on Heavy Psych Sounds.

The Cosmic Dead’s exploratory compositions often reach levels of sonic destruction through reflective repetition and visceral harmony. The band has taken many forms since their inception in 2010 and was hailed as “the loudest psychedelic rock band on the planet” by legendary compere Kozmik Ken. At the base of the current sonic obliteration team is a rhythm section of Tommy Duffin and Omar Aborida, a thunderous and cohesive unit that is then further propelled into the outer realms by Luigi Pasquini, providing frantic italo synthesized electronics along with Calum Calderwood’s mind-bending, sky-shattering fiddle acrobatics.

‘Beyond the Beyond’ is an open gate into the farthest reaches of the fiery foursome’s realms. Far from 2024’s urgent and jam-driven Infinite Peaks, this new album sees the band at their most focused, casting their gaze towards the Middle East with four intoxicating songs propelled by riff-rolling fusion-tinged rhythms, head-bobbing grooves and warm electronic textures, all wah-laden and with phasers set to destroy.

An absolute feast for the ears and heart for fans of The Ohsees, Carlton Melton, Øresund Space Collective, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Electric Moon and outer space.

Support comes from the driven heavy punk action of Attack of the Stick Insects along with trans-continental psychedelic conquistadors The First Morning.

Times:
19:00 – Doors
19:30 til 20:00 – The First Morning
20:15 til 20:45 – Attack of the Stick Insects
21:00 til end – The Cosmic Dead