Sat 23 Feb,
£6 Doors Open 7.30pm
DJ in the bar and frist band 8pm
The Twilight Sad
"Album of the year" - The Skinny
It's been a busy year so far for Glaswegians, The Twilight Sad, playing live across the US and selected dates across Europe including supports with the likes of Smashing Pumpkins, Idlewild, Beirut and Snow Patrol at the O2 Arena. An awesome, visceral live experience, the band purvey an awestruck, ragged sentimentality. Utilising bleached, overdriven guitars consistently riding a line between ambient and coruscating, working in tandem with an articulate, at times tumultuous rhythm section, full band shows are forever poised between tension and release. But they are also capable of shifting gears, stripping back, allowing the songs speak for themselves, whereupon the songs take on a folk-tinged darkness - volume replaced by space and reverb, chord organ, glockenspiel and minimalist percussion backing James Graham's Glaswegian burr.