The AMAZING Glad All Dayer celebration festival on Saturday 9th November 2019 curated by Alex Neilson. Organised to help us raise funds to fix our broken roof!

BMX BANDITS

*“If I could be in any other band, it would be BMX Bandits” * Kurt Cobain

*“Gentle genius” * Q magazine

BMX Bandits were formed in 1985 by songwriter and lead vocalist Duglas T Stewart out of the ashes of The Pretty Flowers, a short-lived group that featured Stewart alongside Frances McKee (The Vaselines), Sean Dickson (The Soup Dragons) and Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub).

Their songs mix melodic qualities and humour with, at times, raw and heartbreaking pathos. Stewart has written many of the group's works solo including 'Your Class', 'The Sailor's Song' and 'Doorways' but also has collaborated with many of the other members. Stewart's most regular songwriting partners have been Francis Macdonald, Norman Blake and, more recently, David Scott of The Pearlfishers and original Bandits lead guitarist Jim McCulloch.

APOSTILLE

As a man with a number of musical projects around town, Michael Kasparis is a name you'll likely recognise. Kasparis founded and runs the Glasgow-based Night School Records label; he’s also been a member of hardcore punk bands Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Apostille is his solo electronic project. Live sets are exciting, sometimes confrontational, affairs!

LAVINIA BLACKWALL & STILTON

Lavinia Blackwall is a singer and composer based in Glasgow. She is a former member of Trembling Bells and has collaborated with Mike Heron, Kaleidoscope, Nick Garrie and Will Oldham. She is currently working as a co-writer, singer and instrumentalist in 'Stilton' and as a solo artist. Lavinia is working on her eagerly anticipated first solo album which will be released in 2019.

COMFORT

Based in Glasgow, Comfort combine aggressively attacked live drums with industrial electronics and synths with Natalie Comfort’s raging vocal. Not Passing is brutal, honest, poetic, visceral, angry and beautiful. A critique of gender norms and societal constructs but mostly a vulnerable, powerful personal perspective from outside the majority, Not Passing presents a crucial voice.

ALEX REX

Alex Rex is the project of Alex Neilson, formerly of Trembling Bells, long time drummer of Alasdair Roberts and collaborator of Shirley Collins, Jandek and Bonnie Prince Billy to name just a few. On the 29th of April 2017, Alex's brother Alastair died peacefully and unexpectedly in his sleep on his canal boat in Leeds. The youngest of three boys, Alastair embodied all his family's best qualities and was a charming and spontaneous friend to anyone lucky enough to cross his path. It's impossible to describe Alex Rex's sophomore solo album Otterburn without first addressing this cataclysmic event. Otterburn heaves with despair, but brings with it too an idiosyncratic sense of the comic. Gallows humour seems too mild a term when Neilson croons: "The clouds disperse / Without priority or care / He's gone they seem to say / But knock once if you're still there". Neilson is ably supported by a band featuring members of Rev Magnetic, Honey & the Herbs and Mike Heron's band. He also curated this alldayer so give him a hand!

JILL LOREAN

Jill Lorean is the nom de guerre of Jill O’Sullivan- founding member of Sparrow & The Workshop & Bdy Prts- two of the most innovative and incendiary bands to come out of Glasgow in the past 15 years. Uptight and soulful with a smear of gut-bucket Blues, Lorean is the perfect culmination of Jill’s distinctive songwriting. The songs crouch and pounce with a coiled-spring intensity as her voice glides between guttural mewl and high, lonesome coo- like a nightingale on fire. Part Solange, part PJ Harvey, part Lee, part Nancy but all Jill Lorean. An explosive talent.

IRMA VEP

Irma Vep is the unvarnished neo-psychedelia of Welsh guitarist/songwriter Edwin Stevens, also known for his contributions to Manchester, England bands such as Sex Hands, Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura, and Yerba Mansa. A fixture of the Manchester D.I.Y. scene, he also founded the cassette label Very Bon, and his live backing band has included the likes of Dylan Hughes, Kiran Leonard, and Dave Rowe. Now residing in Glasgow, Stevens has been a welcome and popular addition to the scene here.

GIFT HORSE

Gift Horse are a Glasgow duo combining the breathy chanson-pop vocals of French-born guitarist Audrey Bizouerne with the darkly comic Scottish storytelling of drummer David Maxwell. Formed in 2017, Gift Horse move fluently between kitchen-sink lyrics that navigate the humdrum and the sublime, flirtations with surf and garage-rock, 4AD indie in the Breeders/Throwing Muses mould, and juxtaposed girl-boy vocals that recall the quiet intensity of Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan.

BURD ELLEN

Burd Ellen is a new solo project from Debbie Armour (Alasdair Roberts, Green Ribbons, Alex Rex) featuring Gayle Brogan (Pefkin, Barrett’s Dottled Beauty) and Lucy Duncan (Luki). The group uses traditional song to explore and evoke dark landscapes and deep stories. Innovative instrumentation, drone and sound-wash support detailed vocal work to create a unique sonic atmosphere.

JOSH THORPE

Known primarily for his work as a visual artist and experimental music composer in Toronto, Thorpe now releases his debut album of songs. His most recent record, Scrappy Art Rock You Can Dance To recalls ‘60s psych-rock, ‘80s post-punk, and is influenced by sources as wide-ranging as Lou Reed, John Cale, Kinks, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, and Mary Margaret O’Hara.

There will also be a RAFFLE drawn by drag artist Boris Gay. Comperes: Lew & Kyle; with DJ Chris Geddes..

IT'S GONNA BE AMAZING!