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Appleseed brings to you “Reap the Crop”, a night filled with trouble and turmoil from the Terrific bands Dive Casino, Decay Chain and Macabre Doll. includes a mixture of alternative rock, punk and metal across the bands to keep you on your toes.

Japanese throat singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Posuposu Otani returns to 33-33 with ShuHaRi, the follow-up to his acclaimed self-titled debut.

Moving between mountain life and inner space, folk song and altered consciousness, ecological unease and the strange assumptions around which contemporary life is organised, ShuHaRi expands the singular musical world introduced on Otani’s first internationally released album. Born in Kamakura in 1972, Otani began making music in his twenties through punk and home recording on four-track cassette. Time spent in San Francisco’s skateboarding scene and later travels through India and the Republic of Sakha — where encounters with throat singing and the Kohkin became part of his developing musical vocabulary — eventually fed into an approach to songwriting that now feels entirely his own.

From 2006 he became a distinctive presence in the Tokyo and Yokohama underground, closely associated with the experimental community surrounding Kouenji Enban. Yet there remains something strikingly modest about the distance between the originality of Otani’s music and the life from which it emerges. He spends much of his time in the mountains, fly fishing the rivers around his home, and his songs seem to grow from the same patient attention to landscape, people and small shifts in everyday life.

Manchesters Minimum Wage Immanence Unit comprises Adam Fairhall on accordion/harmonium, David Birchall on guitar/banjo and Michael Perrett on bass clarinet.

They improvise music that draws as much on English folk song as it does the timbral integrations of European spectralism and the free drone excursions of Pelt.

Writing in The Wire, Daniel Spicer described their debut CD as “sounding as if Terry Riley had gently commandeered the Bitches Brew sessions before nodding off in the corner”.

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.

Come warm up with this hot line up, it’ll make you forget the 24/7 rain and three hours light a day

Horses

Mad Ludwig

Grogg

Charity raffle with absolutely sickening prizes will be on as per usual (donations made at point of purchase are not transferable for raffle tickets, we accept cash and card on the night)

Limited early birds (catching worms and all that)

Charity for the night will be our four Palestinian sisters, Sham, Hadeel, Malak and Heba, who are fundraising to come study in Glasgow. Read more about their cause here:

https://tinyurl.com/3ux846j5

Makeshift Swahili and Pinhead Distro bring you yet another hardcore punk gig.

Draft Dodgers (Leeds) and State Sanctioned Violence (London) are up on tour, alongside local heroes Attest.

It’s the Friday night before Halloween, so come dressed up if you want. I’ll be dressed as me but with more money and friends. Hopefully you have a better/less fanciful costume.

£10 ADVANCE TICKETS. DOORS FROM HALF 7. WRAPPED UP BY 10.

BUY A TICKET IN ADVANCE AND INVITE YOUR MATES – IT HELPS OUT MASSIVELY.

NO PHYSICAL TICKETS. JUST SAY THE NAME YOU USED AT CHECKOUT TO WHOEVER IS WORKING THE DOOR ON THE NIGHT

Tomorrow Syndicate blend analogue synthesisers, ambient guitars and melodic songwriting into a distinctive sci-fi inspired sound. Influenced by krautrock, classic pop and cinematic soundscapes, the band have spent the last decade building a catalogue of immersive and atmospheric music.
Returning to the stage after selling out The Glad Cafe earlier in the year, (their first live show in six years), Tomorrow Syndicate will perform songs from Future Tense, Citizen Input, Higher Resolution and their upcoming album Full Capacity Breathing

‘Another Lifetime in a Different Country’ – the debut album by Hound. Out now via Hand of God Recording Co. Come and celebrate it’s release where Hound will be joined by Homework and Babyshark.

Richard Youngs (b. 1966, Cambridge, England) is a musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. In an endlessly prolific and unpredictable career spanning more than 40 years, his diverse output defies the existence of any definitive biography or discography. Primarily recognised as a solo artist and writer of extended song, he is also an active cross-genre collaborator. Recent work includes “deep wallpaper” music with Daniel O’Sullivan, and the potentially global site-specific Here Is A Big Place project with Raymond MacDonald. Initially a rare live performer, he has embraced the stage, playing throughout Europe in the past few years.

West Virginia born, Texas raised, and now based in Glasgow, Scotland, Heather Leigh is a musician, artist and gardener who loves to sing and play pedal steel guitar. Impossible to pigeonhole, her playing is as physical as it is phantom, combining spontaneous compositions with psychedelic folk and industrial-strength progressive rock. Leigh’s steel mainlines sanctified slide guitar and deforms it using hypnotic tone-implosions, juggling walls of bleeding amp tone with choral vocal constructs and wrenching single note ascensions. Hers is a sound that’s highly sensual and aesthetically aggressive, beautiful and fearless. Heather Leigh’s work is all-over-the-place in the best way, from collaborations with Peter Brötzmann and Shackleton to properly mind-bending solo albums on Ideologic Organ, Editions Mego and Boomkat Editions.

Luke Fowler is an artist-filmmaker from Glasgow.  He is a member of the band AMOR and has collaborated with Richard Youngs both live and on record for over 20 years. Other musical collaborators include Ryoko Akama, Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Nakul Krishnamurthy, Anton Lukoszevieze, Toshiya Tsunoda, Marcus Schmickler and Mark Fell.

Join us for this autumnal edition of the Wild at Heart Sessions, designed to not only delight folklore fans, but lovers of cozy, unique live music events alike. We’ll delve into the stories and wisdoms of the upcoming Celtic festival Samhain, marking the beginning of Winter and will celebrate the vibrant and mystical month of October.

Experience a stellar line-up of enchanting live music performances by artists deeply rooted in the land, interwoven with captivating folklore and nature storytelling by the host, Luise. Featuring the incredible talents of Selkie, Folke and one additional act tba soon, plus special guest Tally from Lavender Gatherings, who will be joining Luise to guide you through the evening and inspire you for the autumn season.

Come together in person to connect with the land, the seasons, your roots and a vibrant community. You’ll leave feeling rejuvenated, inspired, and more connected to yourself and those around you.

Secure your ticket now for this truly special gathering.

Tickets are £12 Advance and will be £15 on the door.

The Line Up

Selkie

Selkie is a Scottish musician producing ambient pop with atmospheric vocal-based sound design.

https://selkiesound.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/selkiesound/

Folke

Folke is an Edinburgh-based indie folk artist and singer-songwriter from Hamburg, Germany. Through introspective, reflective lyrics and soft, passionate vocals, Folke connects with audiences on a visceral, emotional level. Her songs balance raw emotion with poetic storytelling, her sound has been compared to artists such as Clairo and Norah Jones. Folke has received positive acclaim for her intimate songwriting and connective stage presence, her debut EP ‘Everything Worth Having’ (2025) being named “one worth listening to” by The Skinny.

https://folke1.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/folkemusic