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Trash Cinema presents Black Christmas
Get your festive jumpers on – it’s time for the Trash Cinema Christmas movie!
Join us for a screening of one of the finest festive horror movies ever made, as the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority battles with a Christmas killer in the original 1974 classic – Black Christmas!
As the Pi Kappa gals get ready for some festive fun, so too does a deranged killer. Obscene phone calls escalate into something far more sinister and soon the bodies are piling up under the tree…
Doors open 7pm with a pre-show selection of retro trailers, ads and trashy entertainment, followed by the movie at 7.30pm – Monday the 12th of December at The Old Hairdresser’s.
Free popcorn and sweeties for all.
Thee MVPs, Fruit Tones, Former Champ
Pop Mutations & Freakender present:
Thee MVPs (last ever show)
+ Fruit Tones (album launch)
+ Former Champ (first ever show)
Thee MVPs (last ever show)
+ Fruit Tones (album launch)
+ Former Champ (first ever show)
THEE MVPS –
Well here we are ten years on, the UKs best ‘teenies’ garage band aka the UKs best support band aka the world’s thirstiest rider spiders aka Thee MVPs are rocking and rolling around the country one last time to play their favourite towns and give the band a victory lap after ten whole years of playing the dorkiest/rowdiest/danciest garage punk all our country’s basements ever saw.
Well here we are ten years on, the UKs best ‘teenies’ garage band aka the UKs best support band aka the world’s thirstiest rider spiders aka Thee MVPs are rocking and rolling around the country one last time to play their favourite towns and give the band a victory lap after ten whole years of playing the dorkiest/rowdiest/danciest garage punk all our country’s basements ever saw.
As you may know they had the opportunity to world tour their only album ‘Science Fiction’ snatched away from during pandemic, which also effectively stopped the band cold in their tracks, and although that ending was a drag, these shows aren’t a drag. It’s to celebrate everything we ever did (which turned out to be quite alot actually for some scrappers) and do it under some roofs which hold all our friends we made over the last decade. It’ll be the original three of Charlie, Dan and Alex plus mighty mighty Georgey ‘Four Legs’ Coleman keeping the beat behind us while we play the lairyest tunes off the main album and some of the old faves like ‘Edgar’ and ‘Slimelord’ and probably a lashed up Ace of Spades cover too.
So come down, get a drink and have a good wiggle with everyone and party with your boys. We’re excited to see you for one last boogie.
FORMER CHAMP –
Former Champ. I’d heard the name, out and about, mentioned at other gigs, in a gaff after a night out. A Glasgow supergroup, someone would say. Aye? What other bands are they in? Martha Ffion, Catholic Action, Savage Mansion, Secret Motorbikes, they’d say. Never heard of any of them, I’d say. But that name, man, Former Champ, I kept hearing it, kept hearing folk say they’d seen them play a show in a social club in Renfrew, or in someone’s flat, and they’d be singing these bits from songs that they’d had stuck in their head. So I was curious. But I couldn’t find anything, anywhere.
Former Champ. I’d heard the name, out and about, mentioned at other gigs, in a gaff after a night out. A Glasgow supergroup, someone would say. Aye? What other bands are they in? Martha Ffion, Catholic Action, Savage Mansion, Secret Motorbikes, they’d say. Never heard of any of them, I’d say. But that name, man, Former Champ, I kept hearing it, kept hearing folk say they’d seen them play a show in a social club in Renfrew, or in someone’s flat, and they’d be singing these bits from songs that they’d had stuck in their head. So I was curious. But I couldn’t find anything, anywhere.
Then Former Champ did release a song, ‘Grenade’, on August 2, 2022, in the dying embers of that second, or third, summer of love. ‘A hand grenade to throw when the time is right.’ I played it again, then I played it again after that. Maybe these five pretenders to the throne had never made it in other bands, but what was clear was that, together, they knew how to do classic power pop and garage rock and do it well. They’d been listening to The Replacements, Guided By Voices, The Strokes. They knew that the serotonin rush you get from a guitar band, on form, writing raw, fast paced, melody-laden music is unique, and they tapped right into that specific kind of ecstasy, that specific kind of love.
‘Grenade’ was a great song with an irresistible chorus, dueling guitar lines – what’s not to love – and Former Champ quickly became my favourite band, but in the end it wasn’t even my favourite tune of theirs, nowhere near it. And for a long time you had to go and watch them play to hear anything else.
I got to know the members of the band and their ways. They had a great singer from the North of Ireland (not Northern Ireland, I would learn) who effortlessly wound her way round these earworm melodies. She was the soft counterpoint to the guitar players, one a virtuoso in the mold of Stinson, Verlaine and Lloyd, the other not technically a good player at all, but who knew a hook – and was apparently married to the singer. The rhythm section were tight, propelling everything forwards at all times, all systems go. They effortlessly looked like a band too. I mean, they didn’t exactly look dressed for Paris Fashion Week – but no one wants to watch a band devoid oif a sense of style, playing in their fucking pants – what’s the world fucking coming to?
That was the summer I first heard Former Champ. They invented nothing. But I wanted more – and as much of it as I could get.
Reanimator The bloody musical
“It will scare the s**t out of you”
Book & Lyrics by Joseph Helsing
Music by Dominic Irving
Based on the short story by H.P Lovecraft
Of Herbert West, who was my friend in college, I can speak only with extreme terror. This terror was brought about by the whole nature of his life-work, and first started to take root one year ago, when we were in the third year of our course at the Miskatonic University Medical School in Arkham. While he was with me, the nature of his experiments fascinated and scared the s**t out of me in equal measure. I was his closest companion but I can assure you there was never any funny business between us…Well, except for that one time last Halloween but we had been drinking heavily and…Anyway…
Herbert West is many things. He’s a doctor. He’s a scientist and he’s a bona-fide lunatic. Bear witness to his quest to raise people from the dead all told through the medium of musical theatre. Aided by his intrepid non-hunchback assistant, Herbert West is about to realise that bringing people back from the dead isn’t as easy as it looks in the movies
REANIMATOR: THE BLOODY MUSICAL is a side splitting (literally) horror comedy musical…thing performed by a cast of two very underpaid actors. There’s blood, gore, a talking head, a corpse or two…Or three…Or four. If you think you know the story of HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR then you had better think again
Reanimator The bloody musical
“It will scare the s**t out of you”
Book & Lyrics by Joseph Helsing
Music by Dominic Irving
Based on the short story by H.P Lovecraft
Of Herbert West, who was my friend in college, I can speak only with extreme terror. This terror was brought about by the whole nature of his life-work, and first started to take root one year ago, when we were in the third year of our course at the Miskatonic University Medical School in Arkham. While he was with me, the nature of his experiments fascinated and scared the s**t out of me in equal measure. I was his closest companion but I can assure you there was never any funny business between us…Well, except for that one time last Halloween but we had been drinking heavily and…Anyway…
Herbert West is many things. He’s a doctor. He’s a scientist and he’s a bona-fide lunatic. Bear witness to his quest to raise people from the dead all told through the medium of musical theatre. Aided by his intrepid non-hunchback assistant, Herbert West is about to realise that bringing people back from the dead isn’t as easy as it looks in the movies
REANIMATOR: THE BLOODY MUSICAL is a side splitting (literally) horror comedy musical…thing performed by a cast of two very underpaid actors. There’s blood, gore, a talking head, a corpse or two…Or three…Or four. If you think you know the story of HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR then you had better think again
Help Me I’m Melting
Improv set led by sax player Tony Bevan in the ground floor bar with special guests every other week.
Jill Lorean, The Worst Friend
Jill Lorean is the new project of Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow And The Workshop) along with Andy Monaghan (Frightened Rabbit) and drummer Peter Kelly. Jill muses on nature, relationships, love, sorrow, motherhood and memory over frenetic, hypnotic drum beats and playful, subversive bass and guitar lines.
The Worst Friend make music in the bedroom of a flat. Sometimes this music is with other people. Sometimes playing as a band. “That always feels better.” He used to be in this band thejohnknoxsexclub.bandcamp.com and this band dothegodsspeakesperanto.bandcamp.com
Lost Map’s Christmas HUMBUG!
Lost Map’s Christmas HUMBUG! is a live music showcase of familiar faces, special guests, and good festive cheer, taking place over two consecutive nights in Scotland’s central belt.
