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SUMMARY:GIG: YESNOMAYBE?
DESCRIPTION:Born amidst the cultural vibrancy of Glasgow\, YESNOMAYBE? is an electrifying two-piece band that pushes the boundaries of contemporary music. With influences ranging from the psychedelic pop of MGMT to the bold rawness of The Strokes\, the classic harmonies of The Beatles\, and the innovative beats of Jungle\, their sound is an exciting\, genre-bending fusion.
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-yesnomaybe
CATEGORIES:Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240905T230000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240906T020000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240820T193001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T193001Z
UID:10000958-1725577200-1725588000@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:TRAD THURSDAY
DESCRIPTION:TRAD THURSDAYS brought to you by Falasgair our resident Trad band\, come along every Thursday for knee slapping traditional Scottish music. \nCome along just to listen\, For feel free to play as all are welcome to the session!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/trad-thursday-5
CATEGORIES:Bar,Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240906T073000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240906T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240829T121051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T121218Z
UID:10000989-1725607800-1725663600@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG: BRAW & UNCUT - GERMAN SPARKLE PARTY
DESCRIPTION:A sparkly party thrown by the modern native inhabitants of Germania.\nA swaggalicious occurance synonmous with hardcore awesome. Typically correlated with rübber bööts and pärty pänts. However it transcends common knowledge\, which dismisses it as basely effeminate. The true magnitude of extreme über gucci swag eminating from these gatherings is beyond the base understanding of the uninitiated. \nWenn es gibt kein Glitzer\, es gibt kein Party\, ja.\nWhen there are no sparkles\, there is no party\, ja.
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-braw-uncut-german-sparkle-party
CATEGORIES:Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240906T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240906T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240820T193459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T193459Z
UID:10000962-1725652800-1725663600@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:PEACE & JAM
DESCRIPTION:Come along for our weekly Friday Night Jam! \nEach week a lovely community of musicians come here to play an incredible mix of blues\, Americana and soul \n  \nFree entry and everyone is welcome!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/peace-jam-18
CATEGORIES:Bar,Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240907T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240907T223000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240829T121815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T122154Z
UID:10000990-1725737400-1725748200@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG: GLORIOUS FAILURE - HELPLESSNESS ALBUM LAUNCH
DESCRIPTION:GLORIOUS FAILURE – HELPLESSNESS ALBUM LAUNCH
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-glorious-failure-helplessness-album-launch
CATEGORIES:Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240908T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240908T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240829T124053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T124053Z
UID:10000991-1725823800-1725836400@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG: WHACKING SCOTLAND ANNIVERSARY
DESCRIPTION:It’s been a year🥺❣️🎉An idea became much bigger ✨\nSo much has happened and want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has been part of the journey! \nCelebrating #punking #posing #whacking. Celebrating community. Celebrating trying something new. Celebrating partnerships. Celebrating people. Celebrating life.\nLet’s dance! \nA beautiful way for me to celebrate with everyone before I head back to the motherland for a few months. Hope to see you there
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-whacking-scotland-anniversary
CATEGORIES:Gig
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240910T070000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240910T223000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240829T125032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T125032Z
UID:10000992-1725951600-1726007400@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG: HAVE MERCY + REDWOOD
DESCRIPTION:Doors Open: 19:00\nStarts: 19:30
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-have-mercy-redwood
CATEGORIES:Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240912T230000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240913T020000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240820T193212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T193212Z
UID:10000959-1726182000-1726192800@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:TRAD THURSDAY
DESCRIPTION:TRAD THURSDAYS brought to you by Falasgair our resident Trad band\, come along every Thursday for knee slapping traditional Scottish music. \nCome along just to listen\, For feel free to play as all are welcome to the session!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/trad-thursday-6
CATEGORIES:Bar,Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240913T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240913T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240103T155302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240314T171652Z
UID:10000543-1726255800-1726268400@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:BRAW & UNCUT
DESCRIPTION:Get up close and personal with an in-the-round experience of raw\, risque and raunchy cabaret. Featuring an exclusive line-up of Scottish dance\, drag\, variety and burlesque performers.\nSeats are limited so come early to reserve your spot in the splash zone.
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/brzw-uncut
CATEGORIES:Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240913T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240913T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240820T193722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T193722Z
UID:10000963-1726257600-1726268400@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:PEACE & JAM
DESCRIPTION:Come along for our weekly Friday Night Jam! \nEach week a lovely community of musicians come here to play an incredible mix of blues\, Americana and soul \n  \nFree entry and everyone is welcome!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/peace-jam-19
CATEGORIES:Bar,Gig
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240915T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240915T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240829T130846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T130846Z
UID:10000994-1726387200-1726419600@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG: ROBBED ZOMBIE + SIX SINS TILL SUNDAY
DESCRIPTION:A night of undead sinful music with Robbed Zombie\, Europe’s only Rob/White Zombie tribute. Support from Devon rockers Six Sins Till Sunday!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-robbed-zombie-six-sins-till-sunday
CATEGORIES:Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240917T073000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240917T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240829T131704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T131825Z
UID:10000995-1726558200-1726592400@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG: THE COSMOS KICKFLIP LAUNCH GIG
DESCRIPTION:WITH SUPPORT FROM: \n\nSubspace Highway \nPortable Heads\nIcerink\n\n  \n\n\nA horrible awful wall of indistinguishable noises
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-the-cosmos-kickflip-launch-gig
CATEGORIES:Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T223000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240829T132223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240829T133256Z
UID:10000996-1726687800-1726698600@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG: TRNDS Live in Glasgow
DESCRIPTION:TRNDS Live in Glasgow ‘ \nWITH SUPPORT FROM: \n\nTASTING SHARES’\n‘JAMES NAIRN’\n‘MATTHEW RUDDY’
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-trnds-live-in-glasgow
CATEGORIES:Gig
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.nicensleazy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/More-Than-I-Should-Juvan-A.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240919T230000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T030000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240820T193303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T193303Z
UID:10000960-1726786800-1726801200@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:TRAD THURSDAY
DESCRIPTION:TRAD THURSDAYS brought to you by Falasgair our resident Trad band\, come along every Thursday for knee slapping traditional Scottish music. \nCome along just to listen\, For feel free to play as all are welcome to the session!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/trad-thursday-7
CATEGORIES:Bar,Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240820T193812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T193812Z
UID:10000964-1726862400-1726873200@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:PEACE & JAM
DESCRIPTION:Come along for our weekly Friday Night Jam! \nEach week a lovely community of musicians come here to play an incredible mix of blues\, Americana and soul \n  \nFree entry and everyone is welcome!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/peace-jam-20
CATEGORIES:Bar,Gig
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.nicensleazy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-18-at-14.27.36.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240921T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240921T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240916T175357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T175357Z
UID:10001002-1726945200-1726959600@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG - GAFFA TAPE SANDY
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 21 September 2024 at 19:00. \n\n 
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-gaffa-tape-sandy
CATEGORIES:Gig
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240923T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240923T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240916T180327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T180327Z
UID:10001003-1727118000-1727132400@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG - SWAMI JOHN REIS + THE BED OF NAILS
DESCRIPTION:Monday 23 September 2024\nDoors Open: 19:00\nStarts: 19:30 \n\n 
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-swami-john-reis-the-bed-of-nails
CATEGORIES:Gig
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T230000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240927T020000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240820T193352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T193352Z
UID:10000961-1727391600-1727402400@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:TRAD THURSDAY
DESCRIPTION:  \nTRAD THURSDAYS brought to you by Falasgair our resident Trad band\, come along every Thursday for knee slapping traditional Scottish music. \nCome along just to listen\, For feel free to play as all are welcome to the session!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/trad-thursday-8
CATEGORIES:Bar,Gig
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.nicensleazy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Web-capture_28-6-2023_182248_www.instagram.com_.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240927T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240927T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240820T193843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T193900Z
UID:10000965-1727467200-1727478000@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:PEACE & JAM
DESCRIPTION:Come along for our weekly Friday Night Jam! \nEach week a lovely community of musicians come here to play an incredible mix of blues\, Americana and soul \n  \nFree entry and everyone is welcome!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/peace-jam-21
CATEGORIES:Bar,Gig
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.nicensleazy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-18-at-14.27.36.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240928T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240928T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240916T123255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T123255Z
UID:10001001-1727550000-1727564400@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG - THE HOWLERS + RUM JUNGLE
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 28 September 2024 at 19:00. \n\n 
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-the-howlers-rum-jungle
CATEGORIES:Gig
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241002T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241002T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20241002T124004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T124004Z
UID:10001027-1727856000-1727888400@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:JUAN WATERS
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 21 November 2024 at 19:00. \n\n\n 
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/juan-waters
CATEGORIES:Gig
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T230000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T030000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240923T224527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240923T224527Z
UID:10001007-1727996400-1728010800@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:TRAD THURSDAY
DESCRIPTION:TRAD THURSDAYS brought to you by Falasgair our resident Trad band\, come along every Thursday for knee slapping traditional Scottish music. \nCome along just to listen\, For feel free to play as all are welcome to the session!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/trad-thursday-9
CATEGORIES:Bar,Gig
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.nicensleazy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Web-capture_28-6-2023_182248_www.instagram.com_.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241005T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241005T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20240916T180454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T180454Z
UID:10001004-1728154800-1728169200@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:GIG - BRIANNA CORRIGAN
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 05 October 2024 at 19:00.
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gig-brianna-corrigan
CATEGORIES:Gig
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241006T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241006T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20241003T123208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T123223Z
UID:10001041-1728241200-1728255600@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:LUCID LIARS + SUPPORT
DESCRIPTION:Lucid Liars plus support
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/lucid-liars-support
CATEGORIES:Gig
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.nicensleazy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/eb1d9953-ad41-4664-9a39-b1724a7d4a5d-Steve-Rob.jpeg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T230000
DTSTAMP:20260416T185412
CREATED:20241003T123743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241003T123743Z
UID:10001043-1728414000-1728428400@www.nicensleazy.com
SUMMARY:HUMANIST
DESCRIPTION:On the Edge of a Lost and Lonely World\, the second album from Rob Marshall’s Humanist project\, showcases the vocal talents of Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode)\, Isobel Campbel (Belle & Sebastian)\, Carl Hancock Rux (David Holmes) and James Allan (Glasvegas)\, among others. This choice cast navigate a masterful expansion of the Humanist sound-world\, broadening and deepening the terrain first explored on 2020’s much lauded debut album\, further consolidating the emergence of Rob Marshall (guitarist of Exit Calm and co-writer of Mark Lanegan’s celebrated “Gargoyle” and “Sombeody’s Knocking” albums) as a songwriter\, composer and producer with a singular musical vision. \nThe album is a reminder of how emotionally affecting guitar-driven music can be at its best: soaring\, turbulent\, soul searching\, and above all sincere; you can hear that Rob’s been through it all\, got the scars to prove it\, and has come through wiser\, more experienced and resilient. An artist of the old romantic school\, it’s obvious that Rob means it. On this second Humanist album\, it feels like the stakes are high: here’s one man’s soul\, painstakingly laid bare\, put out on the chopping block in front you. \nThough On the Edge of a Lost and Lonely World has all the gothic industrial foreboding of Humanist’s debut\, a steeltown dream of thundering drop forges in shadowy\, cavernous factories\, blast furnaces glowing below a full moon\, the palette has broadened to take in more light and shade\, expanding to include the feathery guitar washes welded onto driving motorik rock’n’roll\, contrasted with the sweetness and light of Isobel Campbell’s exquisite “Love You More\,” which takes you back to peak My Bloody Valentine at their most shimmering and ethereal; guitars glide and glisten above the rumble and churn like the drama of the weather in Rob’s adopted home of Hastings\, dark clouds rolling in off the English channel heavy & grey\, shot through with peach and crimson\, little England battered by dayglo rainclouds at sunset\, like we’ve all been over the last few years … on this second Humanist album\, Rob has emerged as a master of such subtle\, delicate textures\, gossamer-fine filigrees of guitar lines\, electronically treated till you can’t be sure if it’s guitars or the ethereal beating of wings\, all the sweeter as you know it has been so hard won … \nThe first Humanist album was a swirling Niagara of fuzzed-out melody and noise\, visceral\, cinematic\, mesmerising\, a big\, triumphant album featuring vocal contributions from Mark Lanegan (Queens Of The Stone Age)\, Mark Gardener (Ride)\, Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode) and Joel Cadbury (UNKLE)\, among others. A soaring record of huge ambition\, it was Rob’s first solo project after his band Exit Calm split\, and also the first record he’d ever fully produced. It was something of a showcase\, a powerhouse\, and it sounded like Rob could smell victory – but just as his masterwork was ready to go\, Covid 19 stopped everything dead in its tracks\, a promotional tour was cancelled\, and the world sank into a long limbo … \nIt must’ve been a bitter pill to swallow\, everything stopping just as it was about to get started. Soul destroying\, even. The anguish and frustration is palpable on the new album\, agonisingly articulated in “Holding Pattern\,” (James Cox on vocals) the sound of a man banging his head against a brick wall\, waiting for the big break that never comes\, or the cocoon-like state lamented in “The Immortal” (Ed Hardcourt on vocals)\, curled up foetus-like\, locked in the heart of the solitude of lockdown\, wasted days “curled like a child in the seed.” \nNot long after the limbo of lockdown\, the untimely death of Rob’s key collaborator Mark Lanegan\, with whom he shared a deep and ongoing musical friendship\, came as a tragic blow. Rob wrote and produced six tunes for Mark on their first collaboration together\, the much-celebrated album ‘Gargoyle’ (2017 Heavenly Records). Mark’s next album ‘Somebody’s Knocking’ (Heavenly Records October 2019) featured six more co-writes from Rob. The first tracks they ever worked on together were included on the first Humanist album. \nAs painful as they are\, such sojourns into the wilderness can heighten and hone the artistic instinct\, and emerging from the cocoon so painfully delineated in “The Immortal\,” Rob has gone back to the source\, and drawn deeper from the well … the new album explores and develops themes pondered in the debut – existential questions of life\, death\, purpose\, hope\, suffering\, redemption – but now with a broadening and a deepening of the palette of sounds and emotions\, more nuance\, a growing mastery of the form\, producing a record of emotional subtlety\, depth and scope – on “Dark Side Of Your Window” with James Allan\, for example\, tender\, bruised\, knocked about a bit by life\, or maybe the low key\, understated “Lonely\,” which is a rare example of Rob singing\, paired back\, branches bare\, “washed up on the tide” … \nRob’s vocals\, as Madman Butterfly\, are all to be found in the increasing abstraction of the second half of the album\, with conventional song structures dissolving into tone-poems\, till they hang suspended on a viola note\, only to rise once more into vast elegiac expanses conjured by ethereal\, fuzzed out guitar treatments\, Rob’s voice singing half-remembered melodies from a dream going round & round your mind in an indefinite soulful yearning on final track “The End”\, like the songs from a sound-world just beyond your grasp\, waking up from a dream of it all so meaningful and strange it can’t translate into the waking world\, and collapses on contact with reality\, slipping like sand through your fingers … “My head’s away in clouds of thoughts and imagination\,” Rob muses\, “but I’m driven to be as real and authentic as I possibly can musically\, trying to push forward and harness all I’ve got; it was never really a choice\, but the only thing I ever felt I could do – to swim with the tide\, accept your fate\, ride the waves. I’m a shy person but on stage my guitar leads me to a place of innate confidence\, so I guess that’s where I’m most comfortable”.
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/humanist
CATEGORIES:Gig
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SUMMARY:GLEAM + Gambit + Dads Best Friend + Ample House
DESCRIPTION:LIVE IN THE BASEMENT
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/gleam-gambit-dads-best-friend-ample-house
CATEGORIES:Gig
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SUMMARY:TRAD THURSDAY
DESCRIPTION:TRAD THURSDAYS brought to you by Falasgair our resident Trad band\, come along every Thursday for knee slapping traditional Scottish music. \nCome along just to listen\, For feel free to play as all are welcome to the session!
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/trad-thursday-10
CATEGORIES:Bar,Gig
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SUMMARY:MARCELINE + The Cowards + Haircut Overdose + Save Face
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URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/marceline-the-cowards-haircut-overdose-save-face
CATEGORIES:Gig
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SUMMARY:DOG UNIT + BOROUGH COUNCIL
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 12 October 2024 at 19:00. \n\n 
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/dog-unit-borough-council
CATEGORIES:Gig
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SUMMARY:BURN KIT + Telekinephews + Isabella Strange + Park Safely
DESCRIPTION:Commotion Promotions Presents #008 welcomes \n// Burn Kit // from New England\, USA\, as part of their European tour. This 5 piece post-punk band has only been established since 2024 but have came out the blocks with a bang releasing a demo tape and 3 singles already\, followed by an upcoming split and EP to be released for the Europe tour. \nhttps://open.spotify.com/album/0je3wi8Ctm944zqsBgcRIi?si=lnR6PEdNQyK23ZBVv60N3w \nThe band mix 80s post-punk with jangley new wave/punk to bring a fresh but nostalgic sound. Hard hitting drum beats with driving bass lines and dueling guitar picking melodies. Come see an electric and energetic live show. \n// Telekinephews // southside heroes thats bring the party. Nothing but energy and good times. \n// Isabella Strange // 4 piece post punk band from Edinburgh originally but these days they’re found playing up and down the UK. \nhttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX7dlZlYysP5mJ0sdHfQcrp_dO92w_vcM&si=5_G852HH2n1l-yKX \n// Park Safely // a pair of very noisy boys that like to rock out with melodies. The two piece can be found skating and rocking throughout the central belt of Scotland. \nhttps://open.spotify.com/album/0h9TACltiVm2PunkNs7Jmw?si=adSydfwjT4G_PVnCF7pElQ
URL:https://www.nicensleazy.com/event/burn-kit-telekinephews-isabella-strange-park-safely
CATEGORIES:Gig
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