The Waterboys

Glasgow

Barrowland

Kevin McGuire

Edinburgh

Cabaret Voltaire

Somehow, 2024 saw the 30th anniversary of the birth of Glasgow, Scotland’s Disco/Punk legends bis. 2025 sees them move in their fourth decade of a rollercoaster existence. A whirlwind first 18 months saw them go from playing to a handful of curious future fans in Glasgow basements to peak-time TV stardom on Top of the Pops and filling huge tents at festivals across Europe all while still teenagers. While the UK media was in equal parts enamoured and horrified by the unorthodox musical DNA of the band, their knack for a nagging melody, unrelenting energy and wide-eyed politics saw them hit big in Japan, nearly breakthrough in America where they had label support from the Beastie Boys and touring with a diverse range of acts reflecting the disparate range of influences the band had – Foo Fighters, The Cardigans, Bikini Kill and Pavement to name but a few. Whilst perhaps best known for early Riot-Grrrl influenced hit ‘Kandy Pop’ or the later slick Techno-Pop of ‘Eurodisco’, the band are also known worldwide as creators of the original theme to ‘The Powerpuff Girls’ cartoon and for the appearance of ‘Statement of Intent’ on the soundtrack to the ‘Jet Set Future’ videogame. After 3 albums and countless singles, the band temporarily called it a day in 2003, frustrated by record label struggles. They would reunite occasionally (an Islington Academy sellout in 2007 and a triumphant Primavera in 2012 amongst others) but returned with renewed vigour in 2019 with the ‘Slight Disconnects’ album and again in 2022 with the Rave-influenced ‘Systems Music For Home Defence’. As part of the 30 year anniversary celebrations, the band performed a stand-out sell-out show at Glasgow’s iconic St Luke’s which gathered fans from around the globe as well as respect contemporaries like Mogwai and Franz Ferdinand. With their reputation as a must-see live band gathering pace even now, upcoming shows in 2025 will provide a real treat for hardcore fans and newcomers alike.

Hug Birthday: Bis

The Hug and Pint

Kevin Burke is one of the great fiddle players in the history of Irish music. His technical virtuosity is matched with soulful musicality, a deep knowledge of the Irish traditional repertoire and a unique personal style. A generation of Irish fiddle players have been inspired and influenced by his silky-smooth tone, pulsing rhythmic bowing and crisply executed ornamentation, but Kevin’s art defies imitation.Born in London to Irish parents, Kevin began playing at the age of seven and soon found his way to the forefront of the vibrant Irish music scene in “the Big Smoke,” serving an apprenticeship in the 1960s in London dance halls and with the All-Ireland champion Glenside Ceili Band. A chance meeting with Arlo Guthrie in County Clare led to his first journey to the U.S., where he found himself meeting New York fiddle great Andy McGann and recording in Los Angeles with slide guitarist Ry Cooder. Kevin’s reputation was steadily growing, leading to invitations to join Christy Moore’s band and the famous Bothy Band, widely regarded as the greatest Irish traditional music group of all time.Next Kevin formed a partnership with guitarist and singer Mícheal Ó Domhnaill, and later became a mainstay of the groups Patrick Street, Open House, and the Celtic Fiddle Festival. His performances in recent years have often been totally solo or, as he calls it, “the naked fiddle.” This would be an intimidating high-wire act for many musicians, but Kevin’s easy manner and clever wit create an intimate bond with audiences and produce often spell-binding performances. "A fiddle icon."&nbsp;Irish Music Magazine &nbsp;“A lyrical player of emotional electricity.” The Washington Post “Burke imparts a rhythmic intensity that is remarkably powerful...a superior instrumentalist in any idiom...impressively virtuosic.” &nbsp;The New York Times

Hug Birthday: Kevin Burke- Matinee Show

DIAMOND PLATNUMZ Live in Glasgow

TV Studio, SWG3

Citizen Head w/Diva Down & Skelp

The Poetry Club, SWG3

Core. Presents: Final Dose

Melissa Etheridge

Royal Concert Hall

JD McPherson

Saint Luke's

Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a national and international touring musician, poet, visual artist, and Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. Her work speaks to many genres from electronic to free jazz and classical music. Camae's work has been featured at the Guggenheim Museum, The Met, Carnegie Mellon and Carnegie Hall, Documenta 15, the Berlin Jazz Festival, and the Glastonbury Festival. Through the lens and practice of Black Quantum Futurism the art she makes is a statement for the future, as well as a way to honor the present and its historic connections to a multitude of past realities and future outcomes.&nbsp; She specialises in practical concepts, but works in speculation and historical concepts. Moor Mother creates soundscapes using field sounds and archival sound collage in order to create sonic maps that allow us to journey to our buried histories and futures. She is an artist who, through writing, music, film, visual art, socially engaged art, and creative research, explores personal, cultural, familial, and communal cycles of experience, and solutions for transforming oppressive linear temporalities into empowering, alternative temporalities. Her work seeks to inspire practical techniques of vision and agency against a forever expanding re -conquering of land, housing, and health in Black communities. Camae is a Pew Fellow, a The Kitchen Inaugural Emerging Artist Awardee, a Leeway Transformation Award, a Blade of Grass Fellow as part of Black Quantum Futurism, and a Rad Girls Philly Artist of the Year. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange, WORM! Rotterdam residency, and the Creative Capital and CERN collide residency with Black Quantum Futurism.

Core. Presents: Moor Mother

Power Trip

Warehouse SWG3

From the French chanson ‘Sans Deséspor’ to celtic-inspired ‘Mother You Are’ to the grungy ‘Don’t Despair’, this last year has seen award-winning Hannah White release a brand new single every month, and they have been making waves along the way. With glowing reviews applauding her “effortless, suave pop sensibility” (Fresh on the Net) and &amp;quot;irresistible cinematic soundtrack” (W21Music) creations, the songs have been championed by Cerys Matthews, aired nationally on BBC Radio 2 &amp;amp; BBC 6 Music and led to an invitation for a ‘Live in Session’ show on BBC Radio Scotland.The artist Holler Magazine described as “Americana’s answer to Mike Skinner. More Patsy Palmer than Cline” began 2023 by earning a Americana Music Association UK Best Song Award, and ended it with the release of her much-anticipated album ‘Sweet Revolution’ which reached #17 in the Official UK Americana Charts and #14 in the Official Independent Album Charts, earning her two wins at this year’s 2025 Americana Music Association UK Awards for ‘Album Of The Year’ and ‘UK Artist Of The Year’, and one for guitarist husband Keiron Marshall who was awarded ‘UK Instrumentalist Of The Year’.Her typically British, self-deprecating humour does nothing to diminish the emotion which Acoustic Magazine described as “arresting and wholly believable”. Hannah White is an artist who has “a wittiness to her grittiness and a sparkling wink in her poetry”; One who personifies authenticity. Her shows are the true story of a person whose path has taken her from homeless single mother to internationally recognised award-winning artist and, needless to say, one who leaves nothing in the dressing room.Uncut Magazine called her’s “an expressive voice and songcraft”, whilst Krentenuitdepop, Netherlands attested this is “roots music on par with the best currently being made in the US”. Fatea Magazine said “songwriting from the top drawer” whilst 3 Chords And The Truth agree ”we are in the midst of a seriously fine songwriter”.“If soul is a feeling, a fire that burns inside you, then Hannah White is without a doubt a soul singer” (Holler).

Hannah White

The Voodoo Rooms - The Speakeasy

The Voodoo Rooms - The Ballroom

Edinburgh based cult-indie songwriter Withered Hand (Dan Willson) broke out of Scotland’s Fence Collective music scene in 2009 releasing his acclaimed debut album&nbsp;“Good News”&nbsp;the same year. Touring Europe and North America before releasing a series of lo-fi EPs, Dan’s second album “New Gods” (FortunaPop!/Slumberland Records) was nominated for both Scottish Album of the Year 2014 (SAY Awards) and a UK AIM Independent Music Award. A third Withered Hand album&nbsp;“How To Love”&nbsp;was released on Reveal Records in 2023 to widespread critical acclaim heralding the return to prominence of a singular songwriting voice. ‘Willson Williams” was released in April 2024 on One Little Independent Records with Mercury Award Winning artist Kathryn Williams. Entering the UK Official Folk Charts Top Ten and was subsequently shortlisted for the 2024 Scottish Album of the Year Award, winning the public vote.&nbsp;Dan’s music has found favour and support from national and international radio, online and leading print publications.

Hug Birthday: Withered Hand

Santana - ONENESS TOUR 2025

OVO Hydro

Holly Johnson

With a stage show that's best described as sweat-drenched and a long list of albums sporting their trademark unhinged approach, Thee Oh Sees are one of the most invigorating garage punk bands of their era. Led by guitarist/vocalist&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vIYVb7FAzYeQRE8xuYS9j" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(220, 161, 13);">John Dwyer</a>, whose guitar sound and brutally powerful way of playing are instantly identifiable, the group went through a series of changes that led them from clanging lo-fi garage experimentalism on albums like their 2007 debut, Sucks Blood, to weirdo psych-pop on 2011's Castlemania and almost slick garage punk on 2014's Drop. After that album,&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vIYVb7FAzYeQRE8xuYS9j" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(220, 161, 13);">Dwyer</a>&nbsp;expanded the band's sonic reach to include proto-metal, dark psych, and trippy prog. 2015's Mutilator Defeated at Last bore the first fruits of this new sound, and over the next few years they embarked on a mad rush of creativity, resulting in a slew of mind-bending albums: 2016's A Weird Exits added some motorik rhythms to the mix; boogie rock organs and mystical jazz-rock were featured on 2018's Smote Reverser; and 2020's Metamorphosed offered up a blown-out fusion of all the things they had been doing over the past decade. Along the way they became a top-tier psychedelic rock band, one that could be counted on to do the unexpected -- like release a hardcore punk album (2022's A Foul Form) -- with reliably thrilling results.

Osees

Galvanizers, SWG3

HANK&nbsp; Hank are a London band channelling the city’s contradictions - chaos, beauty, intimacy and alienation. Known for their unpredictable live shows, built around a rotating cast of collaborators, they’ve built a following across the city’s DIY and festival circuits, and have supported the likes of Mannequin Pussy, Sorry, DEADLETTER, C Turtle, Sunken, and more. Their debut EP Twist Grip released in September on Dalliance Recordings, was produced by Jamie Neville and features guest appearances from Asha Lorenz (Sorry) and Ben Romans-Hopcraft (Warmduscher). Backed by praise from Clash, So Young Magazine, and BBC6Music and Introducing, Hank’s sound has drawn comparisons to the noise-soaked euphoria of My Bloody Valentine and the restless dynamism of Beck. Meanwhile, tastemakers at Slow Dance included their early demo “3/4” on their annual compilation of new talent, citing their ability to balance experimentation with accessibility. Hank’s live shows, have become essential viewing, marked by their ability to connect deeply with their audience while still keeping them guessing. With a new EP on the way, Hank is carving out a space that’s entirely their own—equal parts confessional and confrontational, and always compelling. CATCHER Formed in 2021, Brooklyn’s Catcher have garnered a growing international fan base with their captivating and visceral live performances. The 5 piece quickly established a reputation as ‘NYC’s hottest guitar wielding prospects’ as mentioned in The NME 100: Essential Emerging Artists and were included in The Austin Chronicle’s ‘Best Music We Saw at SXSW’ list in 2022.

Hank + Catcher

Abbie Gordon

The Liquid Room

&quot;So Good” Gilles Peterson, BBC 6 Music“Homegrown Jazz Gem” Daily Mail“Lush and Sophisticated” RnR MagazineBaiana is the Brazilian-inspired project of Liverpool-born singer-songwriter Laura Doyle. Refreshingly joyful and charismatic, the show will feature internationally acclaimed percussionist Snowboy, (Lisa Stansfield, Imelda May, Amy Winehouse, Rod Temperton, Airto Morreira) who produced their stunning debut album along with the trio from The Haggis Horns (John Legend, Mark Ronson, Corinne Bailey Rae, Amy Winehouse)Dubbed “the band we are all obsessed about” (Deb Grant, BBC 6 Music), Baiana’s thrilling live shows have been described as “Outstanding” (Robbie Vincent Jazz FM) and having “a proper wow factor” (John Osbourne Solar Radio). A hugely popular draw at Love Supreme and Ealing Jazz Festival, Baiana also headlined the Southend Jazz Festival, as well as supporting Brazilian mega-star Gilberto Gil on his UK tour.It promises a heady mix of infectious rhythm, superb musicianship and beautiful song. Not to be missed!

Baiana feat. Snowboy and The Haggis Horns

Jensen McRae - Praying For Your Downfall Tour

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