Glasgow Summer Sessions - State Fayre

Glasgow

Bellahouston Park

BY SPECIAL DECREE: On the twenty-seventh day of June, a grand Tourney will be held at the Hug n Pint to find worthy champions and bring joy to the people. There will be scrumptious period inspired food and ale, jousting and other tournaments, and live music across the day to celebrate this auspicious event. Citizens attending are asked to wear their finest fantastical medieval costumes to enliven the festivities. BUT BE WARNED. The Great Prawn Wizard has returned. His mind has been driven to insanity by dark and strange magick, and there are fears that he is preparing to use his powers for great mischief. With our merriment, we will draw the wizard out of hiding and our champions will vanquish the maddening evil from him. Then we will party with him until curfew. Featuring:The Great Prawn Wizard Sean ChoonGreet (leeds)Book LoreFraser McCallum

The Wizard's Tourney

The Hug and Pint

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister + fan favourites

Kelvingrove Bandstand

Dropkick Murphys

Edinburgh

O2 Academy Edinburgh

Underworld

West Princes Street Gardens

Tasha is a writer and musician born in Chicago and based in New York City. Her fourth album You Are Spring! will be released on Bayonet Records on June 26. On this resplendent new work, Tasha spirits us away from dull, gray winter into a world replete with images and sensations of new life. Think: a riot of bell shaped blooms; blush and citrine and butter yellow; the sky a clear, lungful of blue; warmth, everywhere, kissing skin overwintered and longing for touch; ease after suffering; a deep breath after suffocating. Recorded and produced in L.A. with her frequent collaborator Gregory Uhlmann, You Are Spring! follows 2024’s All This and So Much More, an album released on the heels of Tasha’s involvement in the Tony-award winning Broadway musical Illinoise. You can find her music at your local record store, or wherever you listen to music.

Tasha

Talib Kweli

Room 2

City of the Sun may live in Brooklyn, New York, but their genre-defying music drifts like a tide across borders. They weave together a mosaic that pulls from a global array of sounds and cultures. Shades of indie rock, Latin folk, blues, and World Music carry the weight of their stories and memories, revealing entire landscapes. Formed by guitarist John Pita, joined by drummer Zach Para, the band later introduced bassists Matt Fasano and guitarist Marco Bolfelli. City of the Sun creates music that feels at once intimate and cinematic—like a film you can step inside. Since their debut in 2016 with To The Sun and All the Cities in Between, to their 2020 self-titled, and 2022’s Segunda Alma, the band has built a cult-following around the globe. As their profile rose, City of the Sun began touring alongside Peter Bjorn and John and Thievery Corporation, and their songs started to connect with fans on a profoundly universal level. Their lush and visceral compositions carry echoes of desert winds, city nights, Mediterranean summers, and the quiet glow of loss and transformation. It is no wonder that audiences from London to Paris to Athens, and beyond, have embraced them with sold-out rooms – crowds raised in reverence – listening as if each note were a lyric.&nbsp; Their new album, Under the Moon, marks a return and feels like stepping out of the shadows and into new sunlight. Produced with the legendary Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, Built to Spill), the record bends through moods and geographies: the rolling surf of “Angeles,” the spaghetti-western hush of “Bajo la Luna,” the desert rock pulse of “Ciudad del Sol,” the Mediterranean sway of “Hotel Alma.” Songs like “Un Disparo al Corazon” and “Twenty Twenty One” carry the weight of grief and separation, as the band ruminates on all that was lost during the Pandemic. Elsewhere, “Ella” and “Dream” shimmer with groove disco-funk energy, a new sound for the band, reminding us of joy breaking through.&nbsp; In “London,” memory becomes music—the raw ache of heartbreak folded into surf-rock currents and new wave hues, echoing the city where the band first discovered the power of their international reach. While with “Cinderella Man,” they use the boxer James J. Braddock’s story as an allegory for the musician’s struggle. The collaborative “Vuela” takes the record even further into new terrain. Created with Spanish singer-songwriter Gizmo Varillas, it draws on the legacy of Argentine folk legend Atahualpa Yupanqui, intertwining Latin and African rhythms with a timeless, throwback spirit. It’s a song that feels both rooted in tradition and lit with forward motion—an emblem of the band’s ability to honor the past while shaping something entirely their own. “The serendipity of this song is that we didn’t write it for vocals. It just happened – Gizmo created a beautiful melody,” explains Pita. Finally, there’s “Metamorphosis." The album closes like a final frame in an old Western—departure, horizon, the sense of leaving one world behind to enter another.What City of the Sun creates is more than instrumental music. It is a language of its own—one that listeners across continents understand instinctively. Their stories shine through in the rhythmic fire of Pita’s Ecuadorian roots, in the pulse of Para’s percussion, in the global sensibilities Marco and Matt bring to the band’s evolving sound. Under the Moon is both a reflection of their shared journey and a signifier for what’s to come.&nbsp;

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