A popular Glasgow music festival will host its first in-person event this autumn across four of the city's favourite venues.
Pop Mutations will hold its inaugural 'in-real-life' four day long weekender this October in some of Glasgow's most loved vegan bars and kitchens.
The Flying Duck, Stereo, The Old Hairdressers and Mono will all play host to an array of local and international talent representing the best in cutting edge music.
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Kicking off on 14th October at The Flying Duck, Rhode Island’s Container will bring punk-tinged techno to the underground basement alongside Glasgow DJ and visual artist DIJA. He will be joined by Manchester-based Club CITS and NTS resident Hesska and Glasgow art-punk live duo Comfort. Manchester’s Iceboy Violet, Leeds’ rock duo Guttersnipe, Scottish rap and post-rock duo HousePlants, and Glasgow-based selector and producer Gynoid 74 also feature, as well as audio-visual artist and one quarter of The Ninth Wave: K.Yalo.
The following day, Pop Mutations shifts the party a ten minute walk down to Renfield Lane, to Stereo and its neighbour The Old Hairdressers.
Across the day, 2021 SAY Award nominee AiiTee, GABO (Glasgow African Balafon Orchestra) , singer, rapper, actor and model Clarissa Woods, and more will play. It will all be headlined by post-punk fourpiece Kaputt and Aberdonian grime champion Ransom FA.
That evening, longtime collaborators Mina and Bryte join the bill. Scottish QTIBPOC party starters Mojxmma and some of the city’s most formidable selectors and performers including Bake , Maveen , Roo Honeychild and HUSS also feature. Upstairs in the Stereo bar, Glasgow southside’s Radio Buena Vida will be taking over from 8pm-4am with a whole host of local DJs.
Manchester post-punk champions Handle will headline the Old Hairdressers on Saturday. Joining them is indie trio Nape Neck and fellow Leeds-based artist The Ephemeron Loop, as well as Semay Wu , Sound of Yell , Sloth Racket , Tony Bevan and guests, and more
Mono takes the baton for the final day of the festival with a vibrant line-up featuring previous Scottish Album of the Year winners Sacred Paws , well known and loved for their guitar pop. They’ll share the stage with a whole host of local names, including pop-political new wave outfit Current Affairs and alchemical supergroup Nightshift . Prolific Glasgow DJ and party starter Junglehussi and the Listen Babes podcast will be on the decks throughout the day and the line up is completed by Berlin angular post-punk trio Liiek and Dublin’s feminist indie band Extravision .
For more information and to buy tickets to the festival, visit their website here.
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