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Go on holiday and have a break from gigs? Not likely! But this blog isn’t your average gig review… more a recognition of how music has no borders, and of the power music and social media has in bringing people together who may not have done so otherwise…

This whole experience was part of the first full day of our dream trip to NYC, and helped to make this trip, which we’ve waited for and anticipated with thinly veiled excitement for so long, one that we’ll never forget. In the hours before the gig (not gig) we’d enjoyed cocktails in the salubrious surroundings of the historic Campbell Bar in Grand Central Station, after a long day of traipsing around doing loads of touristy things like the thoroughly enjoyable “The Ride”, an interactive bus tour around Lower Manhattan with actors performing at various points on the streets along the way, and visiting….… Read the rest

October…

As usual the October playlist is a smorgasbord of songs covering range of genres from a cornucopia of bands – some from the usual suspects, the bands who continuously make an appearance on these pages, some new songs from some old bands, some brand new acts, of course the best that Glasgow and the rest of Scotland has to offer and some hot picks from further afield…

Some picks of the month for October have to be from The Tenementals as they continue their musical journey through the history of Glasgow with the impressive driving rhythm of The Owl of Minerva taking us on a journey over Glasgow highlighting some familiar and maybe lesser known areas and features (depending on your background), and revealing  some of the darker sides of the city’s history.… Read the rest

It’s a well known fact, we all have mental health, just as we all have physical health. So it follows that we can all have periods of poor mental health in the same way as we can all experience poor physical health. Why is it then that when we start to feel ill or suffer from physical ailments naturally most of us will take affirmative action to prevent whatever is affecting us from getting worse. Maybe we go to the chemist and pick up some over the counter remedy, or seek advice from a pharmacist or doctor, and in more serious cases we are admitted to hospital’s to receive the correct care and attention.… Read the rest

To my great joy and personal delectation, extraordinary Glasgow based quartet Sacred Noise have finally released their long awaited debut EP, cunningly titled EP1. Regular visitors to The Ginger Quiff blog will know that I hold the band in high regard having pretty much followed them since their inception, and had the pleasure in watching them grow both musically and in confidence having now seen them live countless times since their first gig back in March 2022.

Already with a string of quality singles behind them, in the shape of Taste in Men and Part of Me, alongside Radar and Silhouette (which both appear on EP1), the band, who have all honed their skills in other guises across the Glasgow scene, have cemented their place as one of the cities hot musical properties with the six stunning tracks on this superb self produced EP.… Read the rest

With their new album 1312 Overture for the Working Class (if you know you know), anarcho-punks Reality Asylum are angry. No they are incandescent with rage. And they have every right to be. There is a lot to be furious about in this supposedly modern, forward thinking world…

2022 did I say? It is interesting that Reality Asylum channel the spirit of bands like Discharge and Crass (from who I assume they take their name…), and while their lyrics rail against 21st century issues, it feels like all these songs could have been written by those bands who lived through what I previously thought was a low in British politics, the Thatcher era.… Read the rest