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Subcity Archives // Interviews // Student Radio Takeover // Documentary // News
RM Hubbert and Wounded Knee // Garden Party
We decided to open up our back-garden to Subcity's club night regulars, punks, older dudes, passerbys and even a bunch of kids. Falling somewhere between field recording, musical performance and party, we recorded two unique performers in a cacophonic mix of improvised performance, audience, bird-song, aeroplanes, mobile phones, guitar cases, cars and drain gurgles.
RM Hubbert's intense guitar technique collects styles from around the world, such as flamenco and taiko - and fuses them with his Glaswegian post-rock roots (he was formerly a member of El Hombre Trajeado), his debut album 'First & Last' is available in physical or pay-what-you-want download.
Wounded Knee is a vocal artist from Edinburgh, he incorporates a postmodern Hebridean waulking song ethic with one of the most accomplished dramatic tenors in contemporary music. Song, spoken word and sound effects drawing influences from as far afield as Gaelic psalm, improvisation and throat techniques à la Bobby McFerrin and even scat. At the heart, a modern symbiosis of folk and mantra, culminating in an artist who is unique, playful and captivating.
Photo by Alistair Clark
Posted at 22:11, 26th May 2010
Finlay Archibald // Glasgow Cen Pirate Party PPC
Debate is Free is interviewing candidates standing in the various Glasgow constituencies in the upcoming UK General Election. First up is the Pirate Party's only Scottish candidate: Finlay Archibald who is standing in Glasgow Central.
Archibald is 19 and a maths student at Glasgow's Strathclyde University. He has been heavily involved in running the Scottish branch of the Pirate Party UK. Since joining the party, Archibald founded the first Pirate student society in the UK and he wants to engage with the people of Glasgow to give them an MP that they can be proud of, something which he feels Labour has proven they cannot provide.
You can find more information about the Pirate Party UK and its candidates on their website.
A full list of candidates standing in the Glasgow Central constituency is below.
Finlay Archibald Pirate Party UK
John Bradley Conservative
Ian Holt British National Party
James Nesbitt Scottish Socialist Party
Osama Saeed Scottish National Party
Anas Sarwar Labour
Ramsay Urquhart UK Independence Party
Alastair Whitelaw Green
Chris Young Liberal Democrat
If you are a candidate or part of a campaign team and you want to put your candidate forward for interview email: debate@subcity.org.
Posted at 21:18, 27th April 2010
Dirty Keys // Dirty Keys Please
Dirty Keys formed in late 2009 in Glasgow, under the leadership of local scene veteran Dave Gillies, sometime member of, amongst others, Jonny and the Robots, Izo Fitzroy & The Royal Bastards and The Martial Arts. Tired of playing other people’s music, Gillies decided to set out with his own material, self-described ‘piano rock’, citing as key influences the likes of Randy Newman and Ben Folds – strong melodies, witty lyrics, and impeccable musicianship. Having spent some time in the studio working on material with producer Brian Young, whose prior credits include albums by John Martyn and Simple Minds, the band is set to become a fixture on the city’s live scene throughout the coming year.
Left of the Dial // Photo by Dirty Keys
Posted at 22:33, 20th April 2010
David Bazan // Autotrophic Agony
I fought against the bottle... but I had to do it drunk.
There's something in that. A sort of weary wisdom. Something that David Bazan, despite his protests to the contrary, shares with the author; with the weariest and wisest - Leonard Cohen.
David might have you believe that the relationship is one of admirer to artist, but throughout his career (from Pedro The Lion to Headphones to Bazan to a dingy corner in the basement of The Captain's Rest) Bazan's work has similarly displayed a simultaneously self-nourishing and self-loathing quality. An autotrophic agony.
Each work comes with a new expression of maturity that undermines what came before and a struggle for hope that inspires whatever is coming next. It'd be reductive to simply call this a quest for self-improvement, in the meantime David will probably try and 'be as honest and relatively well-behaved' as he can be. In his own words:
It's hard to be a decent human being.
Music by Postdata // Photo by Lyle Owerko
Posted at 16:47, 12th April 2010
Municipal Waste // Wrong Answer
When people talk about the 'Thrash Metal Revival' they make two mistakes: the assumption that thrash metal was dead and the assumption that someone is bringing it back. Thrash metal wasn't dead, thrash metal was never alive. Thrash metal is undead. Municipal Waste aren't bringing thrash metal back, they're killing it over and over again.
The self-proclaimed 'punks playing metal' come with a live show famous (read imfamous) that combines the party attitude of two of music's most irrevrent, hard fun-loving genres. But, circle pits (some spanning two floors of King Tuts' venue space??), stagedives and partying aren't the sole concerns of these Richmond face-melter-shredder-thrasher-rippers. Vocalist Tony Foresta takes us through the rest of the important stuff... oh, and the partying as well.
Posted at 19:40, 19th March 2010
Baroness // Woah. Where?
Something is happening in Savannah.
There's a journalistic cliché about 'sonic landscapes' that gets thrown around when... well, whenever. In response, Baroness and fellow Savannah progressive sludge metal outfit Kylesa are busy making some geographically inclined PR stooges feel pretty fucking dumb. If the usual landscape pushed in press releases is an anonymous middle-class suburb on a foggy day, then the environment created by Baroness is more akin to the band's roots in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains or their current hometown's desert namesake.
There's a plurality of meaning and texture in the band's "tracks" (whether live or recorded, listeners aren't really offered the privilege of the arbitrary repose between movements that this title would imply) that does most of Baroness' talking/landscaping for them. The listener is given no on-stage banter, no road-side directions. They are left with nothing other than a carefully orchestrated aural panorama and the feeling of not knowing where the fuck they are or where the fuck they're going.
They talked to us.
Artwork by John Dyer Baizley
Posted at 17:49, 19th March 2010