BMX Bandits Forever and Ever by Duglas Stewart
We’d like to say a huge thank you to Duglas for taking the time out to write another guest blog for us. In this piece, Duglas takes us in detail through some of the key tracks and influences on the long-awaited new BMX Bandits album, BMX Bandits Forever And Ever, and also casts some light on the circumstances…
May 13, 2017
Glasgow Night Shelter Benefit 22nd December
Next Thursday 22nd December Mono will host a benefit in aid of Glasgow Night Shelter. It’s free entry and donations are welcome. The Primevals, Dumb Instrument & Rulers of the Root perform and there will be guest DJs. Primevals frontman, Michael Rooney, has compiled a very fitting guest playlist for us. Thanks Michael.
December 14, 2016
Psychocandy event with Paula Mejia and Douglas Hart
We’re really pleased to host a joint event with our friends at Monorail on Wednesday November 16th at 7pm to celebrate the launch of Psychocandy by Paula Mejia. Paula will be joined by Douglas Hart, we’d love to see you there. We have a guest blog from Paula and a brilliant Spotify playlist from Douglas featuring ten songs The…
November 7, 2016
Detroit 67 by Stuart Cosgrove
On Saturday 29th October we’re hosting an event at the Admiral Bar in conjunction with Divine to celebrate the launch of Stuart Cosgrove’s brilliant book, Detroit 67, it’s highly recommended. To kick the weekend off Stuart has very kindly penned a guest blog for us…thanks Stuart! Detroit 67 is published by Polygon Books at £9.99 I can remember exactly where I…
October 28, 2016
Night School Records at A Weekend Abroad
Night School Records curate Friday 23 October’s event as part of Monorail Music’s A Weekend Abroad. Featured artists: Molly Nilsson, The Space Lady and Happy Meals. DJ Femme Fresh and Syophantasy Berlin-based Molly Nilsson is undeniably a cult figure on the global pop underground, her songs resonating in the vast spaces created by the disparate…
October 13, 2015
Under Western Skies: Roddy Frame Takes The Bandstand
Built in 1924, the proud little bandstand in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park lapsed slowly into disuse by the last decades of the 20th century, and was finally closed in 1999, from which point it was left to crumble into what looked like terminal disrepair. Anyone who remembers it from that period will recall the open-air amphitheatre as a sad,…
August 8, 2015