Come Outside

No more exams, heavy duty tan lines and drinking in public is socially acceptable; we get it, but not everyone is taking it so easy. Some of us have got real jobs... like listening to music and that. With the temperature in the new studio teetering close to the John McIntyre Sweatbox, we've had to open more windows than a house full of farts to get in and put up all the shit thats been getting done. We will come outside to play soon, promise...

//Subcity Presents... // Slam

Glasgow legends Slam co-founded Soma, one of the world's most respected dance music labels, they also run the infamous Pressure and Return to Mono club nights which regularly bring the biggest names in the scene to the city, all while still finding the time to regularly release their own dancefloor weapons, Stuart and Orde have built up a formidable reputation both locally and globally.

//Garden Party // RM Hubbert & Wounded Knee

We went outside to our back garden, set a protocol for a field recording and invited two unique performers: RM Hubbert and Wounded Knee along. Punks, Subcity club night regulars, older dudes, passerbys and even a bunch of kids turned up, we drank some beers, ate some cake to celebrate Cry Parrot's 3rd Birthday, and aside from recording post-modern hebridian waulking songs, football chants and flamenco guitar, created a cacophonic mix of improvised performance, audience participation, bird-song, aeroplanes, mobile phones, guitar cases, cars and drain gurgles.
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//Theez Boyz R Athletes // R Disco

Summertime is here, and Martin from Theez Boyz R Athletes is inviting you to join him in praising this joyous solar orientation the best way we can – by dancing like eejits to disco music. Playing out all the best Nu-Disco tracks he can get his hands on - the dark sexy vibes of Black Devil Disco Club (rediscovered in 2004 when Richard D James unearthed their debut 1978 LP at a car boot sale and promptly re-released it), the breezy, uplifting sounds of Lindstrom (a one man disco furnace at the forefront of contemporary disco, so talented in fact that he comes close to making The Doves sound good) and the dance club oriented vibrations of Prins Thomas, In Flagranti and Zombie Nation.

This is a two hour disco mixdown of space echo, cowbell, 4/4, soaring strings, wah-wah guitar and plump bass. Platforms optional.
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//Subcity Soundclash #2 // Noise

Its second time around for Soundclash and we got together some weirdos for a slumberous, intense, swathing, non-linear and confusing experience for those who came in set for a Hetherington Club night -it was billed as 'heavy' right? Doing it differently from the dance instigators, they filled the neo-gothic Concert Hall with banks of effects, guitars, synths and a gong. Producing back-to-back noise of varying vibrations: harsh and white, micro and drone-tonal.
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//One More Tune // All Vinyl

Bringing a big black plastic bag of vinyl to pound out a wonky tech set, Matthewwanmairchoon is one of the reasons for risking bass induced tinnitus and severe cataracts when you get down to the front at our LASER party. Its an all vinyl, all heavy boom-boom, all good mix.

He just listed every track he has played this year on the internets in chronological order to make sure he has kept fresh this year. If you see him at a party ask if he sincerely believes 'music is hope', because we do Matthew, we do, swearsies!
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//Test Card // Instrumental

Taking a break from talking about hardcore in the studio at one in the morning (don't worry, there is a solitary thrash metal reference for nerdy fan boys in need of a hard-on), the Test Card instrumental special is a voiceless hour of music that drops the flaccid vocalist appendage in favour of glitch electronics, getting in knife fights with time signatures, weird twenty-two word song titles in broken English, or just being loud as fuck. Two cock references in one sentence...probably best he stayed away from the mic.
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//Archives // scans

The archivists have been busy compiling the history of Subcity from clippings and magnetic tapes found in their basements, lofts and from palls in Australia.

Uploaded this month:

// The Evening Times clipping about the exclusive broadcast from T in the Park, 'haphazard and fun', read: 'yaldi'.
//The Scotsman on 28 days of sleepless nights --ooft! I don't think our mini-cafetiere could keep us going that long.
// Apparently there is only so much 'relentless irreverence' and 'tasteless jokes' Scotland on Sunday can stand.
// USA college radio: 'a permanent fixture'. In the UK circa '96: 'difficult', but information super highway changed all that...amiright baby-boomers(!)

//Close

So before the double shifts and early starts of real/summer jobs start, before you're hiding in stock rooms, prepare youself (especially gingers) for the annual party at the West End Festival on June 13th, pace yourself mind, the futureshock at the Art School afterwards will be decked out with more lasers than a disco sci-fi episode. If you are heading to a festival tho, remember...don't wear sandles, buy or sell hemp clothing and don't even think about fucking when you haven't showered in two days you gross boot. In fact just don't go. Stick around, Subcity is recording some of the jumping parties happening this summer, starting this weekend with the launch of Vitamins. Keep it swatched!

For more highlights from our weekly shows check: subcity.org/listen/essential
For more highlights from our interviews & other podacasts check: subcity.org/podcasts
For more Subcity photo and print archives check: flickr.com/subcityradio

lots of love, Subcity xo

Posted at 19:12, 29th May 2010