Broadcast

Sunday 29th September
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The Covasettes

+ The Ciceros
+ Rolland Square
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Broadcast, Glasgow
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£7 Adv

14+

Doors 7:00 PM

Our 80s night ‘Danceteria’ is back on Saturday 28th September from 11pm all the way UNTIL 4AM!!! perfect if you are heading along to Gary Numan at the O2 academy and want to keep the party going into the wee small hours…

Taking inspiration from world famous NYC club Danceteria you can expect to hear the lieks of Madonna, New Order, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Sade, Wham!, the Smiths, Squeeze, Cyndi Lauper, Run-DMC, Depeche Mode, Butthole Surfers, the B-52’s, Samhain, Bauhaus, Berlin, the Units, Romeo Void, Sonic Youth, Swans, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Cult, Karen Finley, Violent Femmes, Soft Cell, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J and Rob Zombie… to name but a few!

FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT LONG

PCL PRESENTS
Ali Barter
+ Dear Asteroid
+ Prussia Snailham
Saturday, 28th September
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7PM
18+ ONLY
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Tickets on Sale Friday 28th June! Via See Tickets and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/ali-barter/broadcast/1397777

Two years on from her blistering debut A Suitable Girl, Ali Barter has announced her triumphant return with Hello, I’m Doing My Best – a revealing collection of songs that track her most formative relationships: to her body, her instincts, sobriety and the old vices it counteracts, and the people she loves most.

Hello, I’m Doing My Best is set for release on October 18, via [PIAS]. Today Ali also revealed her first ever love song with, ‘Backseat’ which Australia’s Triple J premiered and her first ever global tour. You can pre-order the album and lock in your tickets via alibartermusic.com.

Hello, I’m Doing My Best follows Barter’s 2017 debut LP A Suitable Girl. A record that, by all accounts was critically and popularly acclaimed. Tone Deaf touted it as “an album that struck a nerve with Australia”, while Sydney Morning Herald backed her as a “star on the rise”. Ali Barter, however, wasn’t so sure. “The first record came out and for some reason I rejected it,” she says, listing the complaints she found with her own work: “it’s too polished and my voice is too high” being at the top of the list. Overcome with self-doubt, Barter pushed herself away from music, determined to never write another song.

But in the winter, a few months after the record’s release, she went out of town to clear her head, with her guitar for company. “Stuff started coming up and I couldn’t push it down,” she says, and despite feeling like she “wasn’t ready” for what these songs were saying, her and Dawson went about recording and testing the limits of her surprising new songs. She heard something in them she’d realised she didn’t need to fight anymore. “When we demoed them up, I was like, Oh, there I am. The thing I was pushing against was me”

Hello I’m Doing My Best is a sentiment most can relate to, and therein lies the undeniable pull of Ali Barter’s output. From her breakout single ‘Girlie Bits’ to recent cut ‘Ur A Piece Of Shit’ Barter spins sobering honesty through sugary pop songs, like a one-two punch of staunch self assurance and touching vulnerability, in a way that is so uniquely her own. On her method, Barter explains “I really connect to the idea that you can say something really controversial, but if you say it in a nice way people are more likely to listen to it.”

Since winning the triple j Unearthed competition and releasing her debut album A Suitable Girl in 2017, the former choir girl has enjoyed support at home from triple j, FBi Radio, The Australian, Rolling Stone and Tone Deaf, while further afield, Beats 1, Clash and The 405 have all thrown support behind the unconventional pop star.

Barter has toured relentlessly, completing two sold out headline tours, countless festival slots and supported The Rubens, The War On Drugs, The Jezabels, Stevie Nicks, The Preatures, Chrissie Hynde and personal hero, Liz Phair.

It’s been 2 years for us as syncopate, so we thought it was only right to invite the guests that helped us kick off our residency around this time 2 years back.

Hypnotic Groove aka Johnny & Andrea, are Scottish techno legends, and as always its a pleasure to welcome them down from the north, especially on such a special occasion.

PLEASE NOTE – Venue has now changed to Broadcast due to reasons outwith our control.

Line-up

Hypnotic Groove

(https://soundcloud.com/hypno_groove)

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Residents, Connor Byrne // Joe Varela.

Door tax = £0

The best club in the UK for future rock & roll stars” Noel Gallagher

LIVE

Only Shadows
Slouch
The Stoned Immaculate
The Reason

This Feeling DJs play…??Arctic Monkeys, The Beatles, Black Honey, Blossoms, Blur, BRMC, Cabbage, Catfish & The Bottlemen, The Charlatans, The Cribs, The Coral, Courteeners, David Bowie, DMA’s, Doves, Kasabian, The La’s, The Libertines, Oasis, Primal Scream, Pulp, Reverend & The Makers, The Rifles, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths, Stone Roses, Super Furry Animals, The Strokes, Suede, Supergrass, Temples, Trampolene, The Shimmer Band, The Verve, The Who, Yonaka + lots more including all the best new bands in the land

?Come join the new faces of FRESH on the 26th of September in Sauchiehall Streets very own BROADCAST?

Boogie into the early hours with resident DJs, ALEX GREER and JAMES MARTIN, who will be joined by special guests JOYO and FROLIC
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FREE entry before midnight, £4 after

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3 of Glasgow’s most handsome djs will be showcasing some of the finest selections of house/disco/techno which will be delivered to your ears on the 25th of September. Dress to impress and get your dancing shoes on and get down to Broadcast for the boogie of your life. Don’t worry about paying for entry we’ve got you sexy devil’s covered. FREE ENTRY, CHEAP DRINKS, ONE CLASS NIGHT.
Also be sure to follow us on instagram and stay updated on all the carnage ?? @hindsightglasgow

PCL Presents
Spiral Stairs
+ Bull
+ MoonRunners
Tuesday, 24 September
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7pm
18+ Only
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Tickets available via See Tickets or via Tickets Scotland
https://pclpresents.seetickets.com/event/spiral-stairs/broadcast/1334100

Recent technological advances have had a massive impact on how people access music, allowing all and sundry to feast on songs of all persuasions at the tap of a button that previously may have taken years of searching – not to mention significant outlay – to get their hands on.

But it’s not just hordes of youngsters honing their musical chops by disappearing down internet rabbit holes to expand their musical vocabularies, bona fide indie rock legends are getting in on the action as well.

For his feelgood third solo album We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized, Pavement co-founder Scott Kannberg – best known to the musical world as Spiral Stairs – concocted some of the most fun and accessible music of his storied career by expanding his musical repertoire, in the process embracing some sounds and artists which for some reason or other slipped through the cracks as he took alternative rock to the world during his action-packed youth.

“To me We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized feels like the records I’ve been listening to and the records I’ve been digging and aspire to sound like,” Spiral offers. “In my early-twenties I felt like I knew everything – I always knew about new bands before everyone else – but that kind of closed off a lot of bands that I didn’t give much credence to, and now I’m a bit older and it’s, like, ‘Wow, how did I miss that?’

“I’m talking things like the first two Nick Lowe records – I’m fucking obsessed by that shit, they’re beautiful, beautiful songs on those records. Then he led me to this guy Jim Ford who’s like a weird country-soul singer, he’s so good. And I’ve really got into Van Morrison way deeper than I’ve ever got into Van Morrison before.

“YouTube is the greatest thing ever because you can find everything that you want – I can read about a Van Morrison bootleg from 1982 or something that’s supposed to be the greatest thing ever and you can find it on YouTube! So I got into that 1973 album Veedon Fleece, and then of course Roxy Music stuff and Brian Ferry.

“But I think the influences on this are definitely Nick Lowe and Van Morrison – I even tried to sing like Van Morrison on a lot of the songs, like how he repeats himself a lot. Those are the kind of bands I would never have liked in 1984… or 1994… or 2004 really.”

Naturally these new flavours and inclinations are filtered through the core Spiral Stairs aesthetic that served him so well over five Pavement albums, two long-players with his subsequent outfit Preston School Of Industry and eventually throughout his slowly-blossoming solo canon. We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized may mark a musical evolution of sorts but there’s no denying its source.

“It’s funny because you go back and remember things that fans would say to you and they’d mention Rockpile or they’d mention Van Morrison records or Roxy Music records and I didn’t have a frame of reference then,” the singer reflects. “But maybe that’s why people liked my bands in the first place, because I reminded them of the history of rock’n’roll, which is what it’s about. You’re always trying to take from the classics and give back and teach people.”

Kannberg’s solo career proper began with the first Spiral Stairs album The Real Feel back in 2009, and after taking a lengthy break following Pavement’s triumphant global reunion tour in 2010 he returned in 2017 with his acclaimed sophomore solo effort Doris & The Daggers.

That album scored Kannberg some of the most fawning reviews of his career – UK music bible Mojo espousing that “it’s been a long journey, but Spiral Stairs has finally found his voice”, while Q Magazine called Doris & The Daggers “his most enjoyable music in two decades”, amongst many similarly positive critiques – and it’s from those same sessions that the seeds of We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized were sown.

Four strong songs that didn’t make the final cut on Doris & The Daggers – all notably featuring the drumming of Justin Peroff (Broken Social Scene) – were originally earmarked to surface on an EP, but when Spiral Stairs struck a rich vein of songwriting form in his adopted Mexican home of Merida on the Yucatan Peninsula he suddenly had the makings of something far weightier than an interim release.

Reuniting the bulk of the dream team who assisted him on Doris & The Daggers – bassist Matthew Harris (Oranger, The Posies), multi-instrumentalist Tim Regan and good friend Kelley Stoltz, as well as former touring Preston School Of Industry drummer Jim Lindsay – We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized is the most fully-rendered encapsulation to date of Spiral Stairs’ inimitable aesthetic.

“I’m pretty surprised at how well it all hangs together because I’ve always tried to keep everything pretty close,” Spiral reflects of the album’s protracted genesis. “But when you look at some of your favourite bands’ records they’re often working with songs that are five years old or eight years old, or songs they’d been working on forever and even songs they’d already recorded prior. So when I started working like that it was, like, ‘It doesn’t really matter, as long as they sound good’.

We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized is fun, infectious and musically compelling, while still managing to cover some hefty topics like the current rambunctious political climate and the devastating loss of loved ones, augmented by some tales inspired by various pop culture sources. It’s the best of all that’s come before combined with a newfound wisdom and appreciation of the classics, aided by some beautiful embellishments courtesy the skilled musicians at his disposal.

More than 25 years into his incredible musical journey We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized represents perhaps the archetypal representation to date of Spiral Stairs’ beloved canon – in these tumultuous times we’re living in that’s surely inspiration in itself.

Details TBA

July 2018. The critics fall over themselves to anoint a consensus highlight of the year, a cultural saviour, a unifying presence to appease warring tribes either side of Hadrian’s Wall.

“The Daftest Party You’ll Ever Go To” – Resident Advisor

“Much needed prankster humour…for everyone whose life began in a Nissan Micra…Scooter shredded into utter shrapnel…full Proustian jolt” – Fact (Nightwave, Best Mix of September)

“At last, I have arrived at the true House of God” – Nicola Surgeon

The time has come to do it all over again. Saturday Sept 21st: the Soft Strong Bhoys return for more wall-climbers, window-lickers and eyebrow-raisers to make both Scott Brown (hardcore) and Scott Brown (football) scream in pleasure. Plus! A double dunt of pure local product completes the team sheet:

???? Broadcast bossman Worky will present the findings of his studious research, watching seasons 1-9 of Ibiza Weekender on ITV2

? Ribeka will dig deep into a life lived as a touring member of the popular new beat combo “Slipknot”

? HMT Hard Cru will play 2 fast, 2 furious and 3 careless

Do you remember the first time? Probably not tbh. It was organised at the peak of summer. Second leg, no excuses. Now Is The HMTime.

PCL presents

The Rebel (Country Teasers)
+ Future Glue
+ Memes

Saturday 21st September
Broadcast, Glasgow
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18+ only
Doors 7pm
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Tickets now available!

https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-rebel/broadcast/1383474
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The alter ego of Country Teasers’ Ben Wallers, The Rebel dates back to the tail-end of the 80s—having existed side-by-side throughout Country Teasers’ prolific career—often releasing records at a steadier clip than Waller’s main project with songs too madcap to fit into even their William-Burroughs-by-way-of-The-Residents take on country music. Wallers’ characteristic self-aware irony and surreal gender/race ruminations are still present but sitting backseat in this more fleshed out concept album about decaying conditions on the planet 3AR7H.