Celebrating 10 years!
New experimental pieces by Kevin Leomo, Melissa Rankin and Gregor Forbes for ensemble, feat. the composers and superstars regulars from the series’ past: Rebecca Pericleous, Justyna Jablonska and Rory Comerford.
An acoustic night at the Old Hairdresser’s. Featuring artists Craig Durning, Sean Guidera, Nighthorse, Laura Murphy and Stephanie Caldow
“[Advent] remains the most potently concentrated document of Youngs’ peculiar and captivating talents.” – Pitchfork
Richard Youngs performs his debut album, Advent, on Advent
Sunday nearly three decades after its initial release. With hundreds of
solo and collaborative releases on countless labels (including his own
“No Fans” label) Richard’s music has been heaped with accolades since
the 1990’s. Whether through his collaborations with the likes of Simon
Wickham-Smith, Jandek, Neil Campbell or Makoto Kawabata, or in his solo
work encompassing the starkest minimalism, lush acapella and acoustic
balladry, Richard adds a touch of humanity to any project he’s involved
with.
“THE iconic figure of the modern UK underground … Richard Youngs
evolves in the shadows where most won’t look, but those who do will
forever be dazzled and amazed” – The Quietus
RICHARD YOUNGS ON ADVENT
“December 1988. I was a maths student in Nottingham. Oppressed by the
burden of group theory, I caught a train to my dad’s house for a long
Christmas break. I had no plans other than to escape education. Within
days, however, I had recorded Advent. It just happened and I was puzzled
by my creation. At the very least, I thought I’d make a few mixes for
friends and gift them. That seemed to be that.
Over the next year I kept returning to Advent, still trying to figure
it out. I had a bit of spare money and thought it’d make an interesting
LP. Since I had no fans, doing it myself was my only option. No Fans
Records was born. There was no thought for the practicalities of what to
do with 300 albums. It was vanity publishing. I would have laughed at
the suggestion that original copies would come to exchange hands at
inflated prices, that it would be re-released, be performed well away
from the Home Counties, and be something that people wanted to listen
to.
Over quarter of a century later, and I still like Advent.
Traditionally, Advent is a season of hope. With the apocalyptic outlook
of a 22 year old who grew up with the Cold War, I never saw it like that
back then. Middle-aged now, I hear it as the beginning of my music
making and the end of doing maths. It’s a celebration.
The Zoo Story
Peter’s a nice guy. He’s quiet, polite and affable. Inoffensive. On Sundays, he takes a walk through the park. He visits his favourite bench. He sits, he reads, he smokes his pipe. For one small moment each week, he is content. Today, however, he is disturbed by a stranger named Jerry.
Their coming together is, to Jerry’s mind, an opportunity. A singular chance at something intimate, powerful and entirely irreversible.
Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story is a potent analysis of American capitalism and urban loneliness. It remains as blisteringly relevant today as it was when first published.
Wednesday 29th January 2025 @ The Old Hairdresser’s, Renfield Lane; Doors 19:00, show starts 19:30
Cast
Jerry: Logan Rodgers
Peter: Joseph Lynch
Crew
Director/Producer: Nathan Harris
Assistant Director: Eve Miller
Production Manager/Technician: Mia Rinaldi
Publicist/Photographer: Sophie Gattis
Content Warnings
Strong language, sexual content, references to homophobia.
This amateur production of “The Zoo Story” is presented by arrangement with Concord
Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
Flynn Butler Fraser is a Scottish composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work blends a mixture of traditional, contemporary classical & electroacoustic elements. Currently studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he has showcased his versatility through a wide range of performances: including live diffusing his electroacoustic works, working collaboratively on the absurdist melodrama ‘The Pathetic Planet’ with contemporary duo Romi Sarfaty and Dale Williamson, developing an acousmatic work for the Conservatoire’s ballet department, and having a new premiere performed by the Nordic Viola ensemble. Flynn currently resides in Clackmannanshire.
Flynn will perform a collection of diverse & contemporary works for the Scottish Smallpipes, this unique performance pushing the instrument out with its traditional boundaries. The music, ranging from ambient to active, is further supported through the composer’s distinct electronic approach.
Sólàs Collective is the experimental trio of Fionnlagh Mac A Phiocair, Sarah Hanniffy, and Tom Macfadyen. They combine bagpipes, viola, voice and real-time electronic signal processing to create ambient soundscapes with inflections of Scottish traditional music, folklore, oral history, natural landscapes and Gàidhlig song. A newly established group, the Sólàs Collective had their debut public performance at the Ceol Nua event as part of Piping Live! Festival 2024.
Sólàs Collective will be showcasing a series of works exploring aspects of Gàidhlig culture, landscapes, free improvisation and interaction. Their performance promises to be moving, immersive, and dreamlike.
The New World cult believes the strong should destroy the weak – that they can slaughter their way across Los Angeles and get away with it.
Sociopathic super-cop Marion Cobretti believes it’s time they face justice, Cobra-style – guns, grenades, cool cars and absolutely no sense of what constitutes an appropriate level of violence in any given situation.
Join Trash Cinema this December for an over-the-top, ultra-authoritarian, super-macho trashfest starring a guy who eats pizza with scissors.
Crime is a disease. ’80s Machismo is the cure.
Doors open 7pm with a pre-show selection of retro trailers, ads and trashy entertainment, followed by the movie at 7.30pm – Monday the 9th of December at *The Old Hairdresser’s.
Free popcorn and sweeties for all!
Trust Fund plus Onat Önol, Michael Kasparis and Beth Black live at The Old Hairdressers, glasgow.
SMC is delighted to announce the debut headline show with Apologies at the Old Hairdressers on Thursday the 12th of December
This will be our last show of the year! Expect a night of post punk and shoegaze with fantastic support from Dallas Love Field & Push Bar
Traditional and contemporary Kurdish musics collide with two maestri in the field – plus improv percussion and song from Harry Irvine.
Natalia Beylis & Willie Stewart
Beam Splitter & Adam Campbell
Natalia Beylis’ music revolves somewhere between sonic story-teller and multi-instrumental explorer. She has released over 40 albums between solo works and collaborations and has appeared on numerous compilations. Her work parallels the lines of her surroundings: bird song, creaky trees, farm animals, the northwesterly breeze and rainfall. Lots and lots of rainfall. Her solo compositions and improvisations are a mix of garbled tape collage recordings, eerie mandola mantras and dreamscape piano voyages. While she regularly records on a variety of traditional instruments (mainly pianos, organs, keyboards and mandola), she is just as likely to use non-musical sound sources within her compositions. For example, she recently released an album using just the sounds created by a domestic sewing machine. https://
Willie Stewart is a percussionist, filmmaker and record label owner based in Co Leitrim, Ireland. He has played in numerous bands since the early 90’s. Through never ending exposure to music, creative people and the great planet earth he has adopted a free improvisational and circular rhythmic style of drumming in recent years. With a very minimal kit set up of drums and found objects, he is continually pushing the sonic limits and exploring percussive rhythms from imagined landscapes and continually working to create more with less. He has been known to sit and talk to a photograph of Milford Graves with his morning coffee.
BEAM SPLITTER + Adam Campbell
Audrey Chen (amplified voice, analog electronics) Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (amplified trombone, analog electronics, feedback, sound files) + Adam Campbell (modular synth, feedback)
BEAM SPLITTER have been touring globally since 2015, playing close to two hundred concerts in a wide variety of spaces and contexts, bringing their own brand of highly amplified dialog, which is as intimate as it is equal amounts raw and entirely exposed. They join together their two individual voices into a distinct language that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal elements of un-processed voice and trombone, while utilizing analog electronics to offset their hyper extended physical play. The duo’s latest album “SPLIT JAW” was released on Nat Baldwin’s Tripticks Tapes in 2023. This bite size format packs an entire universe of their crafted sputter, breath and glitch inside its forty-five minute magnetic tape loop. The album is one third introspective Berlin studio production and the rest, live from a splintering concert given at Wels Unlimited Festival in Austria, their last concert of 2022 where audience and the duo alike giving it their all center of room, split open like hollow bones head to clavicle, muscles twitching and air spewing, breaking ground and mending it with alien hums.
BEAM SPLITTER have taken part in larger commissioned works at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires and largely conceptualized a theatrical adaptation of MEDEA in front of the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine (for butoh dancers and musicians) produced by the Ukho Agency. Since 2020, Audrey and Henrik have been organizing DEDICATED PLAY, an ongoing concert series and collaborative artistic project, where they have invited a diverse array of artists from around the world, primarily from diasporic backgrounds. While spinning a thread through the larger story of migration across continents/oceans and establishing the concept of home in shared relationships, they are seeking to bring together the commonalities of these experiences and express this communication in sonic language and music. In the past two seasons, they have worked and recorded with: Phil Minton, Mo’ong Pribadi, Hyunhye Seo, Elaine Mitchener, Mariam Rezaei, Pat Thomas & Orphy Robinson (Black top), Carla Boregas, Mauricio Takara, Mieko Suzuki, Pak Yan Lau, Eivind Lønning & Espen Reinersten (Streifenjunko), Hugo Esquinca and Yara Mekawei. www.beamsplitter.org
Adam Campbell is a Scottish musician based in Berlin who works with improvisation, feedback and nonlinear systems. With Tristan Clutterbuck he runs Fancyyyyy, a record label and publisher of cybernetic music instruments. Ongoing projects Ego Depletion with Fritz Welch and Butter with Tina Krekels and Grant Smith. Recent works include WHAT a neural pulsar synthesis system built in collaboration with Claud Speeed for Synthetic Minds at Medialab Matadero and collaborative performances with Audrey Chen, Nic Krog, Nat Phillips and Aonghus McEvoy.
