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✽ Roman Nose Screamo techno-pop from Roman Nose, plus a DJ set from
Ladytron’s Helen Marnie. See page 87 for a Roman Nose EP review. Stereo, Glasgow, Thu 17 Oct, part of ListLive.
✽ Conquering Animal Sound Wonky pop from Glasgow (pictured above, Thu
24 Oct). The Pleasance Sessions also features Pictish Trail (17 Oct), Rob St John (19 Oct) and Three Blind Wolves (25 Oct). The Pleasance, Edinburgh.
✽ Yolo Bear Who is Yolo Bear? He (or, is
it she?) ‘lives on a strict diet of bamboo and purple drank’ and is pals with the LuckyMe collective, who just put out his / her ‘That Good Good’. The internet mystery will be YOLO-ing in the Cowgate (and broadcast live to NYC and London). Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Fri 25 Oct.
✽ Parquet Courts Quality stoner punk-rock from Brooklyn, on All Hallows’ Eve. Mono,
Glasgow, Thu 31 Oct.
✽ Secret Sonica – Suspense Get
taken to a secret location to experience ‘sonic reverberations’ with music (from Golden Teacher, below, plus sound artist
Giles Perring) and light installations from visual artist Jack Wrigley. Depart from Tramway and CCA, Glasgow, Fri 1 Nov. Part of Sonica, see preview, p82.
✽ Blood Relatives More gore to the
fore at this blood-themed evening. Music comes from Glasgow indie kids Blood Relatives plus a DJ set by Éclair Fifi, and compere Ally McCrae. Part of RBS Museum Lates, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Fri 8 Nov.
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THE OUTER CHURCH Five reasons to go . . .
1. These are the first Scottish nights from Brighton-based ‘uncanny audiovisual event’ The Outer Church. Curated by music writer Joseph Stannard, The Outer Church is a portal to the weird currents in contemporary culture. 2. Each line-up is ‘designed to work like a sigil or incantation’, claims Stannard. ‘It’s occasionally mislabelled an “experimental” event which suggests something wholly abstract and difficult. I’ve booked a wide variety of artists, from folk songwriters to analogue synth improvisers. What unites the participants is that their work explicitly gestures beyond the mundane’. 3. These dates mark the live debut of Broken3, a collaborative excursion into dub-techno from TVO, Production Unit and Erstlaub, artists associated with Glasgow- based label Broken20. It’s also the first chance to see dark ambient overlord Black Mountain Transmitter outside of Ireland. 80 THE LIST 17 Oct–14 Nov 2013
4. Embla Quickbeam, aka Rowan Forestier- Walker, last performed in Glasgow amid the magical kinetic sculptures of the Sharmanka Gallery, an ideal setting for her ‘beautifully gnarled, twisted, pastoral’ sound, which Stannard calls ‘the distilled essence of wyrd’. 5. With Hallowe’en approaching, both nights feature a screening of cult filmmaker / musician Graham Reznick’s psychedelic backwoods horror movie I Can See You. Reznick also contributed to the OC’s outstanding compilation on Manchester label Front & Follow. ‘The aim is to enchant the congregation, to bewitch them, says Stannard. ‘Then feed them to the Outer Gods. I’m joking. Probably’. (Stewart Smith) Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, Fri 25 Oct; Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, Sat 26 Oct. See list.co.uk for a longer interview with Joe and his Hallowe’en mixtape.