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Glasvegas: Autumn Tour Announced

glasvegas:

We’re pleased to announce a seven date UK tour for October 2011. Seem’s like only yesterday that we started the ball rolling in January with a tour around some of the more remote parts of Scotland, and it’s only fitting that we end our Autumn tour with a hometown show in Glasgow at the ABC.

The summer has been crazy with appearances across the world with a highlight playing several sold out shows during our first ever trip to Australia.

Tour Kicks off in Ireland and ends in Glasgow…see you in the Autumn!

Glasvegas x

Autumn Tour:

22 October CORK, The Savoy
24 October LONDON, Koko
26 October BRIGHTON, The Old Market
27 October MANCHESTER,  Club Academy
29 October SHEFFIELD, Leadmill
30 October YORK, Duchess of York
31 October GLASGOW, ABC

All shows on sale from 9am Friday 19 August –

Tickets can be purchased at http://www.artistticket.com/

Shamfrolic: iTunes Festival Cats Eyes and Glasvegas 10.07.11 (Tom Meadowcroft)

shamfrolic:

After recently writing about the joys of the new Cat’s Eyes album and being a massive fan of Glasvegas since they first came around I was delighted to win tickets to see both acts play Camden Roundhouse, a personal favourite venue in London.

Cat’s Eyes began brightly but failed to really capture the magic of the album which seemed fun and harking back to simpler days. Live however, they seemed unsure in places and too experimental dragging out 3 minute pop songs with instrumentals and Horrors like experimentation with sounds which added nothing to the songs. At times though, they hit the heights from the album, Bandit and Best Person were superb, scary and perfect, proving why this will appear in many peoples end of year lists.

As a side note, the crowd gave the band with no help. The problem with these iTunes gigs, as great as they undoubtedly are, there are people there who have been fortunate enough to win tickets but have no interest in the bands playing meaning that talking is far to common which can detract from what is going on stage.

Glasvegas came out, all clad in black apart from James Allan, dressed in his now typical white jeans and jacket. He could walk the streets practically un-noticed (if not dressed head to toe in white), yet on stage he is quite the captivating front man.

They open with the first 3 tracks from latest album EUPHORIC/// HEARTBREAK,Pain Pain Never Again, The World Is Yours and You.

Only It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry, that breaks up the run of tracks from the new album. It is a song, that in years to come will be treated with greatness. At the moment they are perhaps most well known for Geraldine and Daddy’s Gone, but this is the song that demonstrates why James Allan is one of the best lyricists around at the moment. With a few die hard fans in the audience a sing along was attempted but felt awkward with James holding the mic to the crowd with only a few hardy souls singing along. It should be noted that with his thick accent he doesn’t make it easy to understand what is being sung. The band should take credit for not letting go though and every string was strum as delicately or as viciously as required and new drummer, Jonna Löfgren, hit everything with venom in the odd position of standing throughout the gig. By keeping the drums simple it allows the rest of the music to take control.

It is back to the E//H track listing as Shine Like Stars & Whatever Hurts You Through The Night feature before being interrupted by Lonesome Swan and a cover of Audrey Hepburns Moon River. It was then Euphoria, Take My Hand before the run through of Geraldine, without doubt, the best song about a social worker called Geraldine, Ice Cream Van and Go Square Go. Ice Cream Van felt out of place, with it’s slow tempo and Allans crooning it seemed to lose the focus of the crowd and take away the momentum they had slowly been gaining as the show went on. Go Square Go, finally drew the rest of the crowd out of there exciting conversations about the plans for the coming week or shit attempts at flirting, and produced a mass sing along with the easily decipherable lyrics of “Here we, Here we, Here we fucking go” being easily translated by even the deafest of band members.

For the encore Rab Allan came out alone and begun playing before citing that James was “having a piss”. The 2 of them alone did Flowers and Football Tops. A tragic song about the murder of a 6 year old boy, on the album it gradually builds, here it is left for the song to instead creep into the soul. I was waiting for the rest of the band to walk out at any moment and join but it wasn’t to be and was a pleasant surprise that they kept it unpredictable though it did feel that their was a touch of self indulgence with the drawn out ending. A brief cover of Dancing Queen and James teasing out a dance from Rab and they were on to S.A.D light, Lots Sometimes and grand finale of Daddy’s Gone that provoked a great reaction from those who had not dashed to get the last train.

Glasvegas are a band that deserve to be admired and deserve a better audience than they found themselves with tonight.