The one trick pony has bolted the stable and left behind a real spaghetti junction of clashing styles, genres and era's.
Includes some indie-pop, electronica, grunge, krautrock and other bits and pieces I can't even categorise and frankly who cares it's all just music. There are no boundaries or one trick ponies.
Edition #251
This show explores some of the cultural materials that were tentatively being produced in the mid to late 1960's exploring the new homosexual, lesbian and transexual worlds.
The arts were beginning to open to homosexual identities - in New York especially the films and hip lifestyles of Andy Warhol's cast of Superstars exposed unapologetic queers and drag queens. Young film and documentary makers were tentatively exploring authentic gay, lesbian and trans individuals lives. Popular culture in Cinema still portrayed homosexuality as an illness or deviation, so visibility almost exclusively in movies or TV was negative and condemnatory.
Sober and conservative mainstream media were profiling and interviewing activists and everyday gays and lesbians (though often still anonymously, as exposure still had disastrous effects on individuals social, working and family lives).
Musically, there was an audience for gay themed music - though as yet is was still heavily influenced by reference to well known figures like Noel Coward or popular musical theatre - and often deployed parody or humour in a form that sounds quaint now, if not regressive and problematic for some. But this is a cultural language stretching back from the 1950's to the 1920's.
// "hot stuff coming' through" //
The Stonewall riots of 28th June 1969 were not the birth of the Gay Rights movement, but an event which ushered in the beginning of RADICAL Gay Protest. After Stonewall the political landscape for Gay, Lesbian,Bisexual and transexual (as it was termed at the time) people would be categorised by an often overt tension between quietly pursuing assimilation or fighting openly for liberation and freedom.
Gay Politics up until this point, and what there was of genuine gay culture, had been much more polite tone and form. Homophile groups like the Mattachine Society, Daughters of Bilitis and others were sober and sensible organisations working quietly through civilised protest, pamphlet distribution, marches and lobbying for specific legal rights.
However, the backdrop of politics elsewhere in the 1960's had become a fiery, angry and violent theatre of political unrest and radical direct protest. The Civil Rights movement, which by 1967 had inspired nationwide riots, directly inspired the student led Anti Vietnam War civil unrest which spread from campus to campus and on to populations across the globe.
Revolutionary ideas were spreading out of San Franciso from the flowering counter-culture movement, an entire generation were exploring new lifestyles, new identities, new values. Radical changes were happening.
Consequently in June 1969 the time to wait politely for society to change was up for the street kids and drag hustlers confined to New York's exploitative mafia-run gay spaces.
Listen and enjoy / Respect history and those who came before
≈Ω HuussH Ω≈
either making or breaking your freshers week it's 2 of glasgows grizzliest Mother (rubadub) and Lewis Lowe (redstone press)
🌱 Freshers can be an uncertain time in an unknown place. If the prospect of following the crowd as they stumble from student bar to student club doesn’t pique your curiosity, Glasgow’s finest community freeform station have created an alternative rebirthing for your new journey at uni. On Wednesday 18th September, Glasgow’s fabled Art School will be transformed into Subcity Radio’s Ecotopia. Each of the three rooms will have its own unique DJs and production, with something for everyone — from the luscious natural reverberations of the Vic Bar, the throbbing hum of the Assembly Hall’s mainframe upstairs, to the weird and wonderful possibilities of the Project Space at the top of the building. 🌱
Full lineup:
🌵 A/S/L (https://www.subcity.org/shows/asl)
� Anwuli Sound (https://www.subcity.org/shows/anwuli)
🌼 Babestation (https://www.subcity.org/shows/babestation)
�� Beat Beneath (https://www.subcity.org/shows/beatbeneath)
🌳 chOOn!! (https://www.subcity.org/shows/choon)
🌺 DAYTIME/NIGHTTIME (https://subcity.org/shows/daytimenightime)
🌸 Electric Ladyland (https://www.subcity.org/shows/electricladyland)
🌹 Escapology (https://www.subcity.org/shows/escapology)
�� Green Eggs and Ham (https://www.subcity.org/shows/ham)
🌴 The Mariana Trench Sound (https://www.subcity.org/shows/trenchsound)
🌷 Sorbie Rd. (https://www.subcity.org/shows/sorbierd)
Tickets are £5, and only avaliable OTD - get down early as the last ones have sold out very fast!
Please note the venue is fully accessible with a ground level entrance and a large capacity lift to all floors. Gender Neutral toilets will be in operation.
Subcity believe in operating a safe(r) space policy. Nobody should be made to feel uncomfortable on the dance floor, no matter what. If you have any problems, please get a member of the Subcity team who will be distributed throughout the venue on the night, a member of bar staff, or security.
Join us as we celebrate the end of term and the end of a day of workshops at Civic House! Come along for a drink, some food and a dance.
£5 dinner served from 7pm by Civic House Kitchen, best enjoyed with those you love the most.
During the day join us at Saturday School at Civic House ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
✨DJs!✨
The Queer History of Dance Music (subcity.org/shows/qhodm)
rest assured radio b2b Dilly Joints (subcity.org/shows/rar & subcity.org/shows/loosejoints)
[underthunder] (subcity.org/shows/underthunder)
Redstone Press (subcity.org/shows/redstonepress)
✨Live Act✨
Taxidermy Cab https://soundcloud.com/taxidermy-cab/1-dont-slurp-it
✨More surprises!✨
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Free before 9 £5 after All tickets OTD
Please note the bottom floor of the venue is accessible, if you have any questions get in touch !
Subcity believe in operating a safe(r) space policy. Nobody should be made to feel uncomfortable on the dance floor, no matter what. If you have any problems, please get a member of the Subcity team who will be distributed throughout the venue on the night, or a member of the bar / kitchen staff.
Subcity Radio were lucky enough to attend this year's Counterflows Festival - one of the best experimental music festivals Glasgow and the UK has to offer. We spent the weekend talking to some of the fantastic performers and organisers that help keep Counterflows consistently one of the most interesting music events around. This includes LYZZA, Alexander Hawkins, MC Carol, Jim C. Nedd, Palm Wine, the Gorbals Youth Brass Band and Bill Wells, Dakim, Micheal LaCour, Nena Etza, Myriam Van Imschoot and Doreen Kutzke, Sholto Dobie, Humming Dogs and more. Listen back to all these interviews below:
1) Introductions with Alasdair Campbell
The co-curator and founder of Counterflows Festival Alasdair Campbell joins us in the studio to discuss the origins of Counterflows, the performers and to play some music that will be heard live throughout the festival.
(https://subcity.org/shows/counterflows/4dd7f/)
2) Tomorrow!
To celebrate the beginning of the festival programme we speak with:
Alexander Hawkins - Hugely talented jazz performer and improvisationist talks to us about his work and reccommends some of his favourite songs.
Gorbals Youth Brass Band & Bill Wells- we talked to the founders of this inclusive music programme, the children involved and the underground legend that wrote the piece to be performed, Bill Wells
Nina Etza also joins us in the studio for a fantastic selection of latinx tunes from QTWOC artists
(https://subcity.org/shows/counterflows/fa56a/)
3) Day 1 Recap
After the first night of Counterflows we spoke to:
Sholto Dobie - Scottish musician and performance artist speaks to us about his creative process and forthcoming album with Penultimate Press.
Doreen Kutzke & Myriam Van Imschoot - Yodel sound art collaborators tell us about their work and the diverse history of the yodel.
(https://subcity.org/shows/counterflows/35be9)
4) Day 2 Recap
French noise artists and Latinx american icons:
Humming Dogs - One of our favourite acts of the festival, french noise rock group Humming Dogs sit down with us and perform a special accapella version of the song "Ah ha ha!"
MC Carol - Brazillian baille funk godess gives us some insight to her opinions on music, politics and dance music.
LYZZA - Rising star featured on Boiler Room and NTS spoke with us about being called experimental and gave us some advice on acheivement.
(https://subcity.org/shows/counterflows/ca0ec)
5) Day 3 Recap
Hip-hop, hardcore and hope:
DAKIM - Underground hip-hop producer and beatmaker talked with us about creativity and taking hip hop seriously as an art form.
Michael LaCour (aka B L A C K I E ALL CAPS WITH SPACES) - Before his first performance as Micheal LaCour, the incredibly influential industrial hip-hop artist gave us insight into his influences.
Fielding Hope - Subcity alumni, programmer for Cafe OTO and Counterflows co-curator tells us about his career and behind the scenes of the festival
Jim C. Nedd & Palm Wine - Incredibly knowledgable musicologists and DJs Jim and Simone gave us an incredibly informative interview into Pico soundsystem culture. Unfortunately due to time we couldn't broadcast enough of the interview to do it justice so look out for a full version coming out soon.
(https://subcity.org/shows/counterflows/6402a)
A huge thank you to everyone that spoke with us, those that tuned in and especially to Alasdair and Fielding for making Counterflows happen
Regardless of whether your Valentine's Day was lonely or lovely, Subcity Radio offers a warm embrace to one and all on Saturday 16th February at The Vic Bar - where you'll be guaranteed to fall in love with the music (if no one else) !!
💓� Outpost: Sangoma (https://subcity.org/shows/outpost) 💓
Keeping the good vibes rolling from our Rubadub instore, outpost: sangoma will get those butterflies in your stomach fluttering with afrobeat and other sounds of Africa 💃
💓� Breaks and 808s (https://subcity.org/shows/breaks808s) 💓�
Steaming things up a bit more, as midnight strikes we’ll be absorbed in the lustful hip-hop and trap rhythms that can only be Breaks and 808s �
💓� Jack 2 Jack (https://subcity.org/shows/jack2jack) 💓�
From steaming things up to speeding things up, set your lonely hearts to the love-tempo with Jack 2 Jack's electronic and dance selections 🚀 💓� MUSIC, Please! (https://subcity.org/shows/musicplease) 💓
With the love vibrations well and truly charged to the max, HuussH will be our cosmic guide through those higher sensations - dress to embrace ☄�
£5 before midnight / £6 after All tickets OTD We expect this one to be pretty busy, get down early to avoid disappointment and ensure maximum time to meet your soul-mate
Please note the venue is fully accessible. If you have any questions, get in touch.
Lots of love, Subcity Radio x 😘
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