A Cut Above takes over Old Hairdressers for Hogmanay
LIVE upstairs in the gallery:
Marina Zispin, Brainrot Cowboy, Shell Company, The Modern Institute
DJs in the ground floor bar:
Dirt Brooks, Zona, Ribeka, Katie Shannon, DJ Peinturalo, Clyde Arcalis & Gouren
Free entry to the ground floor bar with ticketed entry to live music in the gallery until 2am.
Marina Zispin is the negative space between musicians Bianca Scout and Martyn Reid. Life And Death… is the duo’s debut release, five chandeliers of melancholic, vibrant synth pop twinkling in the inky blackness. Both originally hailing from the North East of England and forming a musical partnership before lockdown, Bianca Scout and Martyn Reid initially worked remotely. Having relocated to South London and Newcastle respectively, Marina Zispin was born in earnest after the duo could begin writing and practising in the same space. Bianca Scout is a celebrated musician and dancer with a number of solo and collaborative works in her discography while Martyn Reid is a mainstay of the UK noise and power electronics scene, most recently with solo project Depletion. Marina Zispin largely eschews both Scout’s deconstructed approach to song and Reid’s focus on visceral, noise- based productions; the result is a new entity, the underground pop star that exists only in darkened dreams.
Brainrot Cowboy is a Brussels based experimental post-punk duo navigating through weird sounds, dizzy noises and dismembered rhythms. Embodying influences from noisy trip-hop, experimental rock, no wave or dystopian electronic music, Brainrot Cowboy articulates sonic pieces leaving space for improvisation, in a meta but intimate mess.
Shell Company – Chris Banks, Rob Banks, and Rosabella Allen, revel in creating swells of sound that feel tidal in their swaying ebb and flow, occasionally cut through with more defined motifs or plunged downwards through a satisfyingly brittle lo-end crackle. The memories that fray on a post-club night walk home reside here, underpinned by Rosabella’s poetry, part 5am epiphany, part deeper yearning for a shift in scenario – it’s a quiet battle for hope against boredom, despondency and the gnawing anxiety of life darkened by the ever-lengthening shadows of 21st century Britain.
The Modern Institute are a revolving group of musicians centered around Richard McMaster and Laurie Pitt, both also of Golden Teacher and many other Glasgow projects.
CLYDE ARCALIS
Sonic explorer, unique selector, master of all things dub, post punk, shoegaze, trip hop and psychedelic. Clyde Arcalis is a Paris-born, Brussels-based DJ, promoter, Kiosk/Lyl Radio resident and label boss of Disques de La Spirale, as well as 1/? of stoner doom country band OGMA.
GOUREN
Used to endless after-hours sets, Brussels-based DJ, Kiosk/Lyl Radio resident, promoter and 1/? of stoner doom country band OGMA Gouren brings a psychedelic and punkish vibe to the dancefloor, blending together krautrock and deviant dance burners in his very own way.
Katie Shannon is an artist living in Glasgow and London, her practice moves between visual art, performance and event making. Recent works include collaborative action with tlc23 Fet Miasma Mis at Le Bourgeois, Catford, Rebi at Cafe Oto, soundtracking Liquid Currency at Kunstverein Dortmund and hardcore til i die at Kunsthalle Ost, Leipzig. She co runs record labels and club nights Domestic Exile and So Low.
Ribeka aka Becky Marshall is a documentary producer and sometimes DJ/radio host/runner of nights such as So Low.
Clara is a multidisciplinary artist, always in motion—experimenting, experiencing, and creating. While her primary medium is painting, her work often blurs the lines between graphic color and sound. Under her moniker Peinturalo, she offers a journey through her psychedelic influences and the raw energy of 80s Belgian, German and UK post-pun.
Expect some doom metal and all sorts of bizarro dubs & psychic chugs from Zona, aka Glasgow-based Promoter, Performer & Audio-Visual Artist Luca Venditozzi.
Dirt Brooks is a wh0re of hedonism that exorcises their demons through whatever medium is in arms reach. Playing with atmospheres and expectations to bring together the weird & wonderful through metallic chuggers, freak disco & cosmic cowboy electronics for our collective transcendence through abandon.
