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Great Western Festival 2021

18 Nov 2021
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Great Western Festival 2021

The Great Western is multi venue festival I can certainly see becoming a yearly event in my own calendar.

My long overdue return to original live music comes in the form of the Great Western Festival. A well curated event with indie cult heroes and a journey of discovery of local up and coming bands.

It was a welcome start as I noticed on the lineup, previous favourites of mine (We are the Physics) in their new guise! Slime City absolutely rocked the Great Western Festival on Saturday at The Glue Factory, or should it be renamed The Shoe Factory? After witnessing the band make noise from a shoe.

This really happened.

One shoe delivered from wish dot com playing music to a warehouse in Glasgow. This probably wasn’t event the weirdest part of the set either, an incredible set pulling together punk rock, hilarious lyrics, new wave madness and shoes!

This band have every detail mapped out throughout the set, the hold music whilst Michael returned his guitar a particular highlight. Songs about Dial Up internet and Jools Holland vs Top of the Pops, has the crowd singing modern day anthems for the over 30s! If you are going to start a festival right, you need Slime City getting that slightly weird, and always wonderful party started!

The return to live events across the world has been a long time coming, and with this has brought teething problems. Unfortunately, the festival was not exempt at was what happened at Maryhill Community Halls. We turned up for Nuha Ruby Ra who was well recommend to us.

As we walked into the room she was moved to, with a whole host of eager soon to be new fans, she was still soundchecking with no sign of being anywhere ready. We went to the main hall and encountered the same issue.

Sadly one venue had cancelled the day before, which led to the schedule being moved around a bit. However with the brilliant live timing app in place, communication on there could really have helped the audience who were walking between the venues.

Ruby came out and thanked us for turning up, though as we waited for over an hour, we realised it was likely time to move to the next venue.
We managed to catch a bit of the band Cloth who were playing shoegaze music in the main room, we were still struggling to hear though after the noisy onslaught in the Glue Factory
With two bands scheduled to play at same time in both rooms in the venue, with neither taking to stage anywhere close to it, it was disappointing.

Onwards to Webster’s to catch Awkward Family Portrait, a quaint country style band straight out of the Wild West or a Clint Eastwood film. This band mix great musicianship, lovely lyrics, sadness and humour in equal measures. They grip you from the first moment until the last. They had the audience in fits of laughter during a song about their friend who never answers the phone “Ring Ring Angus - pick up!!!!â€

 

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