This is Music presents…. Detour Scotland

Detour Scotland crash lands for its first venture to the capital. Each month team Detour release a podcast filled with the freshest bands and artists, in a non stop, feature packed, adventure in Scottish music. They celebrate the launch of each months podcast with a live night, like the bastard child of Later with Jools Holland, where Ally and Weaver host a night with the best of the talent featured in the podcast, film premiers, DJ sets and a growing list of special guests – more like a live radio show, with more beer.

Since November the nights have been causing chaos and crammed venues in Glasgow, with guests such as Rod Jones (Idlewild) and Xcerts, and are now taking their launch night on tour…

This month they team up with This Is Music for live sets from the brilliant I see shapes along side new electro-indie boy MOPP. Be ready for some surprises.

www.detour-scotland.com / www.myspace.com/detourscotland

Define Pop presents…

Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2009, we’re delighted to welcome back outstanding band The Invisible. Three of London’s most talented live dance musicians, who’ve played with the likes of Matthew Herbert and Hot Chip, have created one of the great albums of last year.

“Soulful, supertight, impeccable” – NME

“Instantly marked out by its breadth of scope and uncanny intensity. The sound of ambition paying off” – Q

“The Invisible have a superhuman knack for writing hypnotic songs” – BBC 6music

“Don’t believe the hype about The Invisible .There’s more to them than that” – The Wire

Pensioner was born out of the infinitesimal victories but ultimate failures of the bands Alamos and Juliet Kilo, and the generally poor life choices of Callum Sutherland.

What follows is the true story of four men; a story of fortunes won and lost; a story that will inspire and repulse in equal measure – a story that needs to be told.

“Fantastic mathy Rock!” - Vic Galloway, BBC Radio 1

Support comes from the amazing Bronto Skylift

“Dazzling Glaswegian beat combo…they will set your face on fire” - The Skinny

And completing the bill is veterans Degrassi

“Chiming, criss-crossing guitars all bound up in jutting time signatures delivered with no little measure of plaintive twang” - The List

Tickets available at Tickets-Scotland / Avalanche / Ripping Records

FREE ENTRY TO THIS IS MUSIC CLUB WITH EACH TICKET TO E.H.H.

Paul Lester in The Guardian writes…

Rhythmical, almost funky, in an 80s Manc way, but four white boys approximating the sound of LL Cool J’s Bigger and Deffer this ain’t.

Their songs have been described as everything from melodic grunge to lush scuzzy pop and housey math rock, but whatever it is, it’s dark but upbeat, [and] very Manchester.

The band – who are unsigned and have only played a handful of gigs – have even got a Manc hero patron: none other than Johnny Marr, who gave Nick Delap some advice, as well as some old guitar pedals … even some shoes, assuming from his down-at-heel appearance that he was poor and needed help. “He’s like the Robin Hood of the indie world,” say Egyptian Hip Hop, who look less scruffy than they do like 00s style victims, all asymmetrical hair enhanced by brightly clashing fabrics and colours (and their clothes aren’t exactly low-key, boom boom). Think Hoxton via Hulme. In fact looks-wise and musically, think Klaxons transported back to 80s Factory.

The buzz: “These four Mancunians comprise one of the most exciting bands in the UK right now.”

The truth: We’d like to hear more, always a good sign …

Most likely to: Make you feel brand Nubian.

Least likely to: Make a rap album with ouds.

What to buy: Egyptian Hip Hop are unsigned, but we’re guessing not for long.

File next to: Marcel King, Quando Quango, Kalima, Paris Angels.

Nude Pilots – www.myspace.com/nudepilots
From Edinburgh and Glasgow, they’re are recording right now and will have new songs up before this gig kicks off, seen them two weeks ago and the new stuff sounds fucking minted, the two tracks are a bit old and it’s recorded with ex members.

Plague Vessel – www.myspace.com/plaguevessel
From West Lothian we play a mixture of stuff in our music, we have elements of hardcore, screamo, punk this will have been our second gig. Might be high energy who knows, we just have a laugh. Should have another rough song up before the gig.

Notebooks – Hailing from Stirling they play Modern Hardcore, influenced by Ceremony, Give up the ghost, The Carrier, Modern life is war. This will be their first show.

This should be a cracker and it’s free so get on down.

After a busy and exciting 2009, releasing their debut EP and playing shows with the likes of Porcupine Tree, Explosions in the Sky and Cymbals Eat Guitars, North Atlantic Oscillation’s debut album, Grappling Hooks, is released on March 22nd on Kscope. The band have been described as prog-pop and electro-rock, but really they just make music. The music has soaring harmonies and loud guitars and dreamy synths and heavy drums and strange effects and unexpected changes-of-mind.

TICKET LINK: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/70789

Techno all nite, for free.

SECOND THURSDAY EVERY MONTH.

Animal Hospital is a collective of enigmatic young DJs, producers and artists intent on providing a distinctive clubbing experience and bringing you razor sharp, cutting edge music – all wrapped up in the kind of feverish atmosphere you could just about go swimming in.

This is Music presents…. Detour Scotland

Detour Scotland crash lands for its first venture to the capital. Each month team Detour release a podcast filled with the freshest bands and artists, in a non stop, feature packed, adventure in Scottish music. They celebrate the launch of each months podcast with a live night, like the bastard child of Later with Jools Holland, where Ally and Weaver host a night with the best of the talent featured in the podcast, film premiers, DJ sets and a growing list of special guests – more like a live radio show, with more beer.

Since November the nights have been causing chaos and crammed venues in Glasgow, with guests such as Rod Jones (Idlewild) and Xcerts, and are now taking their launch night on tour…

This month they team up with This Is Music for live sets from the brilliant I see shapes along side new electro-indie boy MOPP. Be ready for some surprises.

www.detour-scotland.com / www.myspace.com/detourscotland

Non-Stop-Erotic-Cabaret of Electroclash-Glam-Bubblegum with Value-Added-Twang

…born in a back street somewhere between Tin Pan Alley and The Brill Building, a Frankenstein’s mistress rebuilt from the fallout of what happened after Giorgio Moroder met Donna Summer, A Certain Ratio backed Grace Jones, Saint Etienne dug Kylie and Xenomania and The Pet Shop Boys sprinkled stardust onto Girls Aloud…..

…POP personified, a knowing nod to what Larry Parnes did with Billy Fury, how Joe Meek made The Tornadoes, the way Tam Paton moulded The Bay City Rollers and how Malcolm McLaren created The Sex Pistols. ….

(Neil Cooper)

PartyCMYK: ‘this is like a punch in the teeth with a can of red bull…’

Bored And Beats: ‘Not your run of the mill electro pop lady… …she wants to violate you in ways that scare you. Keep an eye on this one.’

The List: ‘…a more primal Gene Vincent/Suicide-A-Go-Go vibe…’ ‘…wigged out sonic-age diva…’