{"id":4021,"date":"2026-07-09T12:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/?post_type=events-&#038;p=4021"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:01:51","slug":"rum-doxy-sherbert-kitty-spit-back","status":"publish","type":"events-","link":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/?events=rum-doxy-sherbert-kitty-spit-back","title":{"rendered":"Rum Doxy, Sherbert Kitty, Spit Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">On August 24th, Rum Doxy launch their debut album &#8216;Begone&#8217;: a lo-fi odyssey of glitchy electronics, jangly guitars, walls of polyrhythms, rusty synth ambience and deaf crooner tones. Although the record was written and performed solely by frontman RJ White, Rum Doxy has come to be a fully democratic band that has been making waves in Glasgow&#8217;s underground.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Joining them on the night, and amongst Glasgow&#8217;s finest, synth-pop wizard Sherbet Kitty and psychedelic-punk iconoclasts Spit Back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Courtesy of Slush Poppy Records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following the break up of The Abstract Dancers, vocalist RJ White began Rum Doxy in the summer of 2025 as a solo project. Before having a band together he recorded the group\u2019s debut album \u2018Begone\u2019 with engineer Joshua Grey at a studio in Glasgow, and finished it with hours of sonic experimentation in his flat in Paisley. While Rum Doxy\u2019s debut single \u2018Soviet Disco\u2019 received airplay and made it onto SAMA\u2019s October singles roundup, the band was starting to form through the community of musicians based around the Bloc+ scene. Guitarist Val Duncan (Westbound Foxes) and Drummer Jan Konopka (DRE\u0413K\u03a3, Wretch) soon joined and the trio formed a tight and intense live band currently at large in Glasgow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 24th, Rum Doxy launch their debut album &#8216;Begone&#8217;: a lo-fi odyssey of glitchy electronics, jangly guitars, walls of polyrhythms, rusty synth ambience and deaf crooner tones. Although the record was written and performed solely by frontman RJ White, Rum Doxy has come to be a fully democratic band that has been making waves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4022,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_events__date_":"2026-08-24 19:30:00","ptb_events__time_":"7.30pm","ptb_events__buy_tickets":{"1":"https:\/\/www.skiddle.com\/whats-on\/Glasgow\/The-Old-Hairdressers\/Rum-Doxy-presents-Begone\/42570847\/"}},"ptb_taxonomy":[],"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3933.jpg","title":"IMG_3933","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/events-\/4021"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/events-"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/events-"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}