Broadcast

UK metalcore outfit, Confessions Of A Traitor co-headline Glasgow with Swedish Melodic Metallers, Sarea on Wed 27th May as part of the ‘Crossing Oceans Tour 2020’.

PCL PRESENTS
Bob Log III
+ Support
Tuesday 26th May 2020
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7PM
AGE 18+
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Tickets available via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/bob-log-iii/broadcast/1472926

“And then there’s this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? He’s this little kid — nobody ever knows how old he is — wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you can’t see his face, and plays slide guitar. It’s just the loudest strangest stuff you’ve ever heard. You don’t understand one word he’s saying. I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. That’s what I aspire to basically” Tom Waits Bump Pow! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSy0HUbh48U Shake The Boot- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMoIbua-Ids

Bob Log III, Fat Possum recording artist and one man band crown prince of punk blues from Tuscon, Arizona. Witnessing Bob Log live is an unmissable and unforgettable experience. By rights he should be a punk blues stadium super star. He takes to the stage with his face masked in a crash helmet with a black visor and a telephone wired in it for a mic and wearing a blue jump suit. Bob then unleashes a torrent of hardcore Mississippi Delta blues, hip hop beats and punk rock. The crash helmet telephone distorts the vocals and his hands, arms, legs and feet become a blur of jump suit clad limbs as he plays slide, triggers drum machines and drums with his feet simultaneously. Bob then adds extra ingredients to this punk blues bouillabaisse with his unique version of audience participation. More often them not he’ll bounce a couple of audience members on his knees while playing, and then bring on the infamous Boob Scotch. The audience are invited to literally stick their boob in his scotch which he then drinks. If Bob feels satisfied he will then launch into his anthem Boob Scotch!

Bob Log’s identity and history is shrouded in mystery and rumour, probably helped by his stage get up and also when his record company Fat Possum put out an early press release claiming Log had a monkey’s paw grafted on to his wrist after a boating accident as a child. Here’s an excerpt…..”When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born. ‘It’s my own personal style, see,’ Log says, ‘the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.'” When asked to explain Fat Possum’s insistence that his right hand is a monkey’s paw, Log replied to an interviewer that, “My hand is just hairy. Very, very hairy. It is NOT a PAW. Fat Possum was drunk.” Log further clarified the monkey paw myth in an interview with Bizarre Magazine: “I’ve got all my limbs. It’s just that when I’m playing my guitar my hand moves so fast it looks like a monkey paw, a hairy paw. My hand moves really fast. Faster than a normal human hand”

In fact Bob Log III was born in Tucson, Arizona and is a virtuoso slide player who plays with extremely thick strings tuned very loose that gives him his unique “floppy” sound. Growing up, Log listened to artists such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and AC/DC, later commenting that “That’s what rock’n’roll is to me. You take a guitar, turn it up and have a good time…everyone else can go listen to Pearl Jam if they want to.” Bob Log got his first guitar at the age of 11, and by the age of 16 he had become smitten with Delta Blues, modelling his slide guitar style on that of Mississippi Fred McDowell. Log began his music career recording with Mondo Guano, a four-piece metal-blues band based in Arizona. Upon leaving Mondo Guano, Log went on to perform as one-half of seminal early Delta punk blues duo Doo Rag. Bob Log III was born when Bob was in the middle of a US tour with Doo Rag and his drummer quit. With necessity , ever the mother of invention, Bob donned a helmet he had picked up in a thrift store, took to the stage and kicked his guitar case for percussion and thus the legend of Bob Log was born. Bob Log eventually found his spiritual home on maverick Mississippi blues label Fat Possum in 1998 and released a trio of classic records: School Bus, Trike and Log Bomb.

In this current world of homogenised and mass marketed music, we need true mavericks like Bob Log III more than ever.

PCL PRESENTS
Black Belt Eagle Scout
+ Support
Monday 25th May 2020
Broadcast, Glasgow
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AGE 18+
DOORS 7PM
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Tickets available via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/black-belt-eagle-scout/broadcast/1488300

PCL PRESENTS
Gringo Star
+ Support
Saturday 23rd May 2020
Broadcast, Glasgow
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AGE 18+
DOORS 7PM
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Tickets available via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/gringo-star/broadcast/1515892
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Following support slots for the likes of Best Coast and The Black Lips, Atlanta indie four-piece Gringo Star take to Broadcast this May!

PCL PRESENTS
A. Swayze & The Ghosts
+ Support
Tuesday 19th May 2020
Broadcast, Glasgow
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AGE 18+
DOORS 7PM
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Tickets available via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/a-swayze-the-ghosts/broadcast/1518625

PCL PRESENTS
Disq
+ Support
Sunday, 17th May 2020
Broadcast, Glasgow
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AGE 18+
DOORS 7PM
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Tickets available via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/disq/broadcast/1515490
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Disq have assembled a razor-sharp, teetering-on-the-edge-of-chaos melange of sounds, experiences, memories, and influences. Due out March 6 on Saddle Creek, Collector ought to be taken literally—it is a place to explore and catalogue the Madison, Wisconsin band’s relationships to themselves, their pasts, and the world beyond the American Midwest as they careen from their teens into their 20s. This turbulence is backdropped by gnarled power pop, anxious post-punk, warm psych-folk, and hectic, formless, tongue-in-cheek indie rock.

Collector, like the band itself, is defined and tightly-contoured by the ties between the five members. Raina Bock (bass/vocals) and Isaac deBroux-Slone (guitar/vocals) have known each other from infancy, growing up and into music together. Through gigging around Madison, they met and befriended Shannon Connor (guitar/keys/vocals), Logan Severson (guitar/vocals), and Brendan Manley (drums)—three equally dedicated and adventurous musicians committed to coaxing genre boundaries.

Produced by Rob Schnapf, Collector is a set of songs largely pulled from each of the five members’ demo piles over the years. They’re organic representations of each moment in time, gathered together to tell a mixtape-story of growing up in 21st century America. The songs are marked by urgency, introspection, tongue-in-cheek nihilism, and a shrewd understanding of pop and rock structures and their corollaries—as well as a keen desire to dialogue with and upset them.

PCL PRESENTS
Personal Trainer
+ Support
Thursday 7th May 2020
Broadcast, Glasgow
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AGE 18+
DOORS 7PM
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Tickets available via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/personal-trainer/broadcast/1515890

After a killer support slot for Pip Blom last year we’re delighted to welcome Personal Trainer back to Glasgow!

STAG & DAGGER 2020
Sunday 3 May
Various venues in Glasgow

Stag & Dagger, Scotland’s original multi-venue event and biggest new music showcase returns!

Early bird tickets on-sale now: https://pclpresents.seetickets.com/event/stag-and-dagger-2020/various-venues-glasgow/1383145

Running from 2pm until 3am, your ticket gets you a wristband and access to see over 50 of the best up and coming artists around today as well as more established names. Set in central Glasgow, it really could not be easier to jump between gigs and with Ed Sheeran, Royal Blood, Warpaint, Mac Demarco, Courtney Barnett, Lizzo, Frightened Rabbit, Glasvegas, The Twilight Sad, Wild Beasts, Courtney Barnett, Jungle, Fat White Family and many others having played Stag & Dagger in previous years, there is a good chance that you will be watching a stadium filler of tomorrow.

MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

PCL PRESENTS
Good Morning
+ Support
Thursday 30th April 2020
Broadcast, Glasgow
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AGE 18+
DOORS 7PM
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Tickets available via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/good-morning/broadcast/1481020

Melbourne’s Good Morning return with their second album this year, Basketball Breakups. Following The Option from April and last year’s Prize // Reward , Basketball Breakups distils
Good Morning into just over twenty minutes of scrappy, melodic, melancholy guitar music.

Recorded over 4 days in Matsumoto, Japan, at the end of a tour, Basketball Breakups was essentially made on holiday, in the middle of a humid summer, in a studio next to a 7-11.
Guitars, bass, drums, keys and piano form understated rock arrangements, ever-effortless in Good Morning ’s light, laconic way. The band’s founding members Liam Parsons and Stefan
Blair , along with bandmates James McLeod and John Considine, sound truly at ease on these songs, which are almost all made up of early takes. Named after the blissful “breakup
dinner” at the end of a junior sports season, when the team are treated to whatever they like from the menu at the local Italian restaurant, that spirit of communal joy and lowkey
over-indulgence is alive on this album. While The Option was tightly rehearsed and made with the vision of true Rock Record in mind, Basketball Breakups was recorded while it was
arranged, on digital and tape, never laboured over.

There’s a sense of on-the-fly intimacy on this album, not just because the single mic that’s picking up the drum kit probably picked up the bass and guitar amps too: Parsons and Blair
share lead vocal and lyric duty, and these songs are privy to anxiety and anticipation, the good and the bad kinds of extended reflection, and what the band term Good Morning ’s first“requited” love songs. Lead single “ Garden ” is interested in the fallacy that if we wait, what we want will come: the danger of being kept complacent, implying that things will change if we give them time; “ Classic Quip ” is a rebuke, seeing the kind of language that gets bandied around in mens’ locker rooms and at the pub resonate through public discourse, and attempting to reckon with it; “ Best Supporting Actor ” is a love song of space and support; “ But We’re Not There Yet ” was an attempt at the same, that gave way to the kind of stress that a real romance
begets.

Ultimately, Basketball Breakups shows Good Morning at their most candid, their most understated, and with wind chimes featured on every track. Not to be underestimated, Good
Morning are making guitar music that deals in the poetics of everyday life with levity, grace and grit.

Basketball Breakups is released independently, out 4th October, 2019. Good Morning is Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons, and the Good Morning live band includes John Considine, James McLeod, and Joe Alexander. Basketball Breakups was self-produced and mixed, and mastered by Liam ‘Snowy’
Halliwell.

PCL PRESENTS
Redd Kross
+ Support
Tuesday 28th April, 2020
Broadcast, Glasgow
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DOORS 7pm
AGE 18+
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Tickets available 23rd October, 9am via SEE and Tickets Scotland:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/red-kross/broadcast/1450271