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Nick Warren
Sunday 6th July 4pm
Radisson Red
radissonredhotels.com
Nick Warren is a Bristol born, sexagenarian DJ playing deep, electronic, progressive, melodic, organic House. He’s also a record producer and head of A&R at Hope Recordings (a prominent UK dance label). He expanded his ‘The Soundgarden’ radio show into a world events brand achieving notable success in South America over the last decade.
I’ve never managed to make it to one of these ‘House’ nights at this iconic sky bar. The weather is an important component to properly experiencing this type of music and coupled with the equally iconic sunsets over the river Clyde this must surely make this marriage of venue and genre a Glasgow music bucket list.
Choice Track: Nick Warren ‘Buenos Aires’
Billie Eilish
Monday 7th July 6pm
OVO Hydro
ovohydro.com
It’s testament to your global pulling power if you have the confidence to put on shows at Glasgow’s massive, 13,000 capacity OVO Hydro on a Monday and Tuesday night. But there’s no doubting that Eilish is one of the biggest stars in the world right now thanks to her and her brother Finneas’s meticulous songwriting prowess over the last decade. Over 30 hits and counting.
As I write this, tickets for this show are an eye watering £300 a pop. As a many time victim of these exorbitant prices, I feel for the parents that eventually capitulate to their child’s pestering and stump up. But she is good though.
Choice track: Billie Eilish ‘Lunch’
Os Mutantes
Wednesday 23rd July 7pm
Òran Mór
oran-mor.co.uk
Formed in 1966, Os Mutantes are a Brazilian psychedelic band. They were linked with the Tropicália movement, a dissident musical movement during the Brazilian dictatorship of the late 1960s. Their music is all farfisa organ, sitars and spiky distorted guitar lines coupled with authentic Brazilian grooves and percussion. It sounds like they’re having a lot of fun making this music.
In 2008 they were catapulted back into our collective consciousness by one of their tunes being used in a MacDonald’s ad campaign. I guess if you hang around long enough…
Original member Sérgio Dias is still here, out treading the boards, still a 60s guitar icon.
Choice Track: Os Mutantes ‘A Minha Menina’
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