Gaz Brookfield, Waiting For Wisdom 2025 tour
Following the release of his tenth studio album, Waiting For Wisdom, Gaz Brookfield takes to the road once more.
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Fundraiser for Tiny Changes @ The Old Hairdresser’s in collaboration with Hen Hoose – Carla J Easton + SHEARS + Elisabeth Elektra + DJs
1 Night. 6 Venues. 20 Artists
all in aid of Tiny Changes
For one night only we’re bringing some of Scotland’s best artists to some of Glasgow’s best small venues for a truly unique bunch of shows, all in aid of the amazing Tiny Changes.
About Tiny Changes:
Tiny Changes is Scotland’s first national young people’s mental health charity. They run projects with young leaders that help young minds feel better. The charity was set up originally by the family of Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison, who took his own life in 2018. Tiny Changes is now run by a diverse team of staff and volunteers, each with their own story and personal connection to this important cause.*
Expect big names and new artists across genres from new wave pop classics to hip hop influenced electronic bangers.
Venues:
at least £1 from every ticket sale is a donation to Tiny Changes and helps young minds feel better.
The Glad Cafe – Altered Images + Gates of Light + Pretty Ugly (DJ til midnight)
The Old Hairdresser’s w/ Hen Hoose – Carla J Easton + SHEARS + Elisabeth Elektra + DJs til midnight
The 78 – tba
Mono – tba
The Flying Duck – tba
Stereo – tba
Afterparty @ Stereo – tba
Trash Cinema presents… Trick ‘r Treat
In Warren Valley, Hallowe’en is serious business and for one terrifying night, little Sam is out to make sure everyone follows the rules. Respect tradition and you might just live but if you don’t? Well, you’re about to find out just how many different ways there are to die…
Join Trash Cinema this October for a little bonus screening after our Trashfest extravaganza, with Trick ‘r Treat – the definitive Hallowe’en anthology.
Doors open 7pm with a pre-show selection of retro trailers, ads and trashy entertainment, followed by the movie at 7.30pm – Monday the 20th of October at *The Old Hairdresser’s.
Free popcorn and sweeties for all!
The Joy of Mycock!
Dr Andy Mycock will provide a comedy lecture (à la Dave Gorman) on the cultural history of cocks (phallic not fowl). He will explore how cocks have shaped our history and culture, and the importance of ‘cock art’. He will then offer the audience an opportunity to create their own ‘cock art’ through a host of creative art approaches (or watch others with a refreshing beverage). Best ‘cock art’ wins prizes and will join his ‘Exhibition of Mycock’!
After a string of sell out shows across the North of England, this is the first time Scotland will get to see Mycock!
Sante Cherie!
New experimental sounds coming from the Glasgow underground.
Out a Dream
Annoying Old Prick
Toska Theatre
SevenFiftyShips
Alpha Maid, Black Zone Myth Chant, Ailie Ormston, Benicio Del Trainwreck
Alpha Maid is a guitarist, vocalist and producer from South London whose compositions form lines between avant-garde and pop. Over the course of EP releases in recent years via CURL and C.A.N.V.A.S, as well as a self-released joint EP with Mica Levi called spresso (now the name of their power trio band with drummer Zach Toppin), Alpha Maid has developed an aesthetic that draws from grunged-out guitar, lo-fi glitch, noise audio sample electronics and potent yet controlled vocal hooks – in the process becoming a key figure within London’s subterranean music community. Following the release of solo EP Shed via ATATA in April, the debut Alpha Maid full-length arrives later in 2025, to be toured with a brand new live formation.
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Black Zone Myth Chant is a project of Afrocentric psychedelia and hypnotic footwork by psych-drone artist High Wolf. Sometimes described as “Sun Ra meets Dj Screw”, various Black Zone Myth Chant releases have been released on Low Jack’s label Editions Gravats, including Mane Thecel Phares (ranked 33 in the 2015 albums of the year Boomkat’s charts).
The story of the project starts in 2011. Back from the US where he spent some time touring, hanging out with friends and listening to DJ Screw, High Wolf sat down in his studio and, without any plan, recorded Straight Cassette within a couple of days. It was kind of a weird mix of free jazz influences, pitched-down vocals and ambient synthscapes – this first album came out on tape on High Wolf’s DIY label Winged Sun.
Only a few copies of the debut recording were produced and there was no promotion; it was meant for the tape to be ignored and forgotten. But for some reason it slowly gained quite an obscure reputation which lead to a vinyl reissue on the French label Laitbac in 2014. Since then, it’s been more widely rediscovered, and with perfect timing: after thinking Black Zone Myth Chant was the buried project of a sole record, High Wolf, under the influence of Editions Gravats owners Low Jack & Jean Carval, had started to work on a follow up. The said album came out in 2015, entitled Mane, Thecel, Phares. Successfully received both by the press and the audience, it was time for Black Zone Myth Chant to make his live debut. Black Zone Myth Chant kept touring Europe in 2016, booked by clubs as well as by festivals or DIY experimental venues. The live set was developed rather differently from the record but remained true to its spirit: complex but physical drum beats, modular synth experimentation, airy melodies and his deep signature vocals.
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Ailie Ormston is a composer and musician from Scotland who makes electronic music and music for ensembles that experiments with timbral abstraction, temporality, assemblage and improvisation. Over the years, Ormston has received commissions from Counterflows (2018, 2021, 2024), Tectonics (2022), Cryptic (2022) and the Barbican (2024). They have worked collaboratively with Tim Fraser on It Changes (bison; 2022) and Finlay Clark on Sunflowers Face The Sun (33-33; 2020), as well as two solo releases; The Sedate/Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. (50% PURE; 2018) and most recently Frames that lean, pictures that roam (Akashic Records; 2025). They are currently writing a string quartet for New York’s JACK Quartet as part of their JACK Studio programme and recently toured a new solo project in the NW Highlands and Islands, supported by label/programmer OVER/AT.
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Benicio Del Trainwreck aka David Moré is a total mensch, ever-ready to debase and open up your expectations for what sound art can be… together with Fritz Welch, David organises the monthly Baked Beans on the Doorstep night at Old Hairdresser’s as well awesome events at Exit.
Baked Beans on the Doorstep September
Since 2015, Nina Garcia has been researching and creating around the electric guitar, halfway between improvised music and noise. Her set-up is reduced to a minimum: a guitar, a pedal, and an amp with which she sculpts sound and delves into chaos to bring out the unheard-of. Her concerts draw audiences into an immersive sonic space where power and fragility intersect with communicative intensity. In just a few years, she has attracted the attention of numerous international stages.
Nina Garcia presents a new work with a magnifying glass where the guitar is amplified by 1-inch zones. A fist linked to a micro-microphone, « ultra-territorial » music and total dependence of the sound on the slightest movement. What emerges from this new research is a tenfold increase in tension, forced silences, aborted feedback, and manufactured loops that are always trying to move forward. Her music is increasingly handmade, but always with a high intensity. In this new set we find her classical Mariachi folklore: threaded rods, saturated wedding and funeral noises, assertive rhythms and breaks, and a privileged link with the amp as a playing partner.
A duo rather than a solo, it stuns with its blend of technical mastery and total freedom. Nina converges between wildness and tenderness with her instrument, a tense corps à corps between two vibrant souls, music and choreography of raw poetry.
After a decade of performing concerts under the Mariachi guise, Nina Garcia has finally unveiled her unique approach in ‘Bye Bye Bird‘, her first album under her name, released by Ideologic Organ. With no pretence or demonstration, the album is a captivating blend of chiaroscuro, melodies, and raw emotion.
Arnaud Rivière
Using a rudimentary electroacoustic device built around a repaired turntable (pick- up), a prepared-mixer and other primitive equipement that need manipulation – to make it brief -, Arnaud Rivière practises free improvisation, playing solo, in groups and through collaborations, since the late 90’s. He has performed with musicians such as Roger Turner, Matin Tétreault, Erik M, John Boyle & Aya Onishi (Bayal and Nihilist Spasm Band), Alexandre Bellenger, Jean-Philippe Gross, Pascal Battus, Miho, Sophie Agnel, Thomas Bonvalet (L’Ocelle Mare), Julien Desprez, Anla Courtis (Reynols), Adam Bohman, Mario De Vega, Joke Lanz, Aaron Moore & Daniel Padden & Lawrence Coleman (Volcano The Bear), Gert-Jan Prins, Ignaz Schick, Mario Gabola, Clayton Thomas, Olivier DiPlacido, DJ Sniff, Mat Pogo, Jérôme Noetinger or Erik D’Orion.
Since 2011, he participates to Onceim, an orchestra of 30 musicians based in Paris working between large free improvisation and interpretation of pieces especially written for the orchestra by inner-members or composers as Eliane Radigue, Stephen O’Maley, Peter Ablinger, John Tilbury, etc)
In addition to these instrumental works, he conceived sound installations as LA TURBOTHEQUE (an absurd kind of juke-box that basically reads music vertically instead of the horizontally) or AUDIOMATON (a video made noises made exclusively with mouthes by people in the streets of Valparaiso, Chile). He has engaged a wrok on video about sound in situations with Jerome Fino and Yann Leguay with projects as E-drumming is not a crime or Direct Out.
Speculum Bunny
Having written music since she was a kitten, Speculum Bunny enjoys blending words and sound to provoke, enthral and mystify her audience. Inspired by the depraved nature of love in all of its majestic forms, her childhood, masochism and devotion. Challenging mainstream narratives on motherhood and women’s expression she blends noise, synths, voices and field recordings. She pushes her her edges.
Eagerman
Eagerman headline in Glasgow for the first time, celebrating the release of their upcoming debut EP.
Supports TBA
Andrew Dickson
Andrew Dickson is a Singer-Songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland and was dubbed a “Songwriting Machine” by BBC Radio Scotland’s Presenter Janice Forsyth; Blending poignant lyrics and songwriting craft with jangling Laurel Canyon Californian guitars. His debut EP “Need You Near” was BBC Scotland’s Record of the week and achieved airplay support from Absolute Radio Country and was play-listed on Amazing Radio US.
Andrew has supported the likes of George Thorogood; Loudon Wainwright III; Issac Gracie; Billy Lockett; Ferris and Sylvester; Cat Clyde and many more; playing venues such as a Sold Out 02 Shepard’s Bush Empire in London, King Tuts Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow and Sage Gateshead in Newcastle. Andrew’s major Influences include Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Stapleton and Sheryl Crow.
Arthur Coates & Kerran Cotterell + François-Félix Roy
From Québec, François-Félix Roy – Aldor Emerging Artist Award winner (Festival Trad Montréal 2022) – combines the liveliness of traditional music with the nuance of a folksinger, from spirited war songs to introspective laments, driven by French-Canadian foot percussion. His debut album Peines perdues (2023) has carried him to stages across Canada and Europe, including the National Theater of Genova in Italy.
Arthur Coates & Kerran Cotterell are a two-man trad tornado tearing through the folk world with foot percussion, fiddle, guitar, vocals, and groove to spare. Blending original material with tunes found in the wild, their shows are packed with harmonies, tall tales, and a streak of serious silliness. Since first meeting at Sidmouth Folk Week in 2018, they’ve become festival favourites across the UK and Canada, with recent wins at the Robinson Emerging Artist Showcase at Goderich Celtic Roots Festival.