Meet the bands gearing up to play this year’s Tenement Trail

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We caught up with Tilly from Tina Sandwich, Soapbox and The Big Day who are preparing to play Glasgow’s upcoming festival of musical discovery.

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00:00 I'm Tina Sandwich.

00:02 I'm Jena.

00:03 I'm Aidan.

00:04 I'm Tom.

00:05 I'm Angus.

00:06 And we are...

00:07 Soapbox!

00:08 I'm Ryan.

00:10 And my name is Lou.

00:11 And we're playing The Big Day.

00:13 It's difficult to do this without swearing.

00:15 Four-piece, almost uncomfortably raw punk band.

00:20 Oiled up, big bald singer.

00:25 Tina Sandwich is me and my band of best friends

00:30 playing sort of like Joan Jett style power pop,

00:35 like pedal to the metal rock music, pop rock.

00:41 If I'm trying to sell it to someone, I guess,

00:44 are you looking to have a good time, have some fun,

00:46 watch some good tunes and high energy,

00:48 I'd say something along those lines.

00:50 We go up there, have a lot of fun, dance about,

00:53 leave it all on stage and hope the tunes also resonate

00:56 with some people as well.

00:57 So that's kind of a wee bit of a pitch for you.

01:00 It's really just all energy.

01:02 It's energy and kind of like rhetoric.

01:07 I've been playing in bands forever,

01:10 obviously just since school.

01:12 I just always wanted to write music and play music

01:16 with whoever my three best friends are at that time.

01:20 So this is kind of my latest iteration of this.

01:24 I was writing a lot of music through lockdown

01:27 and then was just sort of looking for a new fun way

01:30 to put it across and came up with Tina Sandwich.

01:34 We're not making beautiful melodies or anything,

01:37 it's all harsh sounds, it's harsh words as well,

01:39 but if you agree with the message and you like to move around,

01:42 then you're going to, I think most folk are going to

01:44 have a good time at a gig.

01:46 So, first question, what's your favourite band

01:49 you've played in Glasgow?

01:50 And second question, what's the favourite venue

01:53 you've been to in Glasgow before a gig?

01:55 Ooh, that's good questions.

01:57 Hmm, my favourite venue in Glasgow...

02:00 I feel like we might have different answers.

02:02 Yeah, you go first.

02:03 Tough one.

02:04 Macclesie.

02:05 [laughter]

02:07 Probably the Barist to be honest,

02:09 just because it has so much mystique about it.

02:12 Macclesie's one that we kind of did a lot of our early gigs in

02:16 and kind of figured out a lot of what this band would end up being in,

02:20 so that'll always be quite special.

02:22 I'd say my favourite venue to play in Glasgow

02:25 was probably Maccles to be honest,

02:27 just because of the event with it being Tenement Trail last year,

02:31 and it was like the midnight slot, and it was like queued down the street,

02:34 and there was just like this electricity in there,

02:37 the atmosphere was amazing.

02:38 That was probably my favourite sort of Glasgow show/venue.

02:43 Favourite gig or venue that I've been to in Glasgow is probably...

02:48 [sighs]

02:50 That's a really difficult one actually.

02:52 I'm not from Glasgow, so...

02:55 Like I'm from Aberdeen,

02:57 but we would come down to go to Barist shows like three times a year.

03:02 There's just so much tied up in memories for me,

03:05 just like making the big two-day excursion to come down

03:08 and see a cool show at the Barist.

03:10 Yeah, it's very cool, very pretty.

03:12 I always like going to King Tut's, just because of the history,

03:15 and you see a lot of the new bands coming through tour in the UK

03:18 always usually stop at King Tut's when they're doing a Glasgow show,

03:21 so I'd probably say King Tut's, yeah.

03:23 It's got a special aura about the place, for sure.

03:25 Favourite we've played probably is St Luke's though.

03:28 Yeah, we love St Luke's.

03:29 For me, I don't know, I don't know what you'd class transmit as a venue,

03:33 because that was probably my favourite...

03:35 The River Stage.

03:36 The River Stage.

03:38 But that gig for me was my favourite,

03:40 because the atmosphere around it was so hyped up and everything.

03:43 But if that didn't fit the criteria, then I would agree with my cools,

03:47 because of just the atmosphere that was surrounding the town,

03:50 everyone was quite buzzed up, and it was the last show,

03:52 and there was a lot of people there, so it was good fun.

03:54 If the priority was still going, then I would definitely be there, wouldn't I?

03:57 Yeah, so many early memories of going to gigs for the first time,

04:01 when you first have that buzz of seeing shows,

04:04 where it's not a concert that you've gone to,

04:06 where you're a mondai, but you're actually in a grassroots venue,

04:10 there's a hundred people there, they're all really drunk,

04:13 and throwing themselves about, and the band are like three inches from your face.

04:17 In terms of a gig that I've seen,

04:22 I quite enjoyed the SWG3, the Warehouse Room,

04:26 that's quite nice to watch a gig,

04:28 because when we supported Pond, that was last year,

04:31 but that was one of my favourite gigs I've ever seen,

04:33 I quite like the industrial look of it,

04:36 and all that stuff, but yeah, that's probably one of my number ones.

04:40 We're so lucky just to be in Glasgow,

04:43 because there's so many venues,

04:45 for the size of the city, when you go through Edinburgh,

04:47 Edinburgh's got some amazing venues,

04:49 but for the size of Glasgow, there's one on every corner,

04:53 it's so good, there's something for everyone, every night of the week.

04:58 So who are you most excited to see at Kevin's show last year, if you get the chance?

05:01 I'm pretty sure we'll all have our own answer.

05:03 Around the circle then.

05:05 San Jose, good fun.

05:08 All my buddy bands, like Junk Pups,

05:11 they just keep getting better, same with Soapbox.

05:14 Bems, I think Bems will put on a good show, man, yeah, he's great.

05:18 Yeah, I know, I'll enjoy going in.

05:20 I think we're all looking forward to it.

05:22 We're all looking forward to it.

05:24 I've seen them at their Dirty Laundry show at Macool's,

05:27 and my jaw was just on the floor,

05:30 but again, what an energetic band,

05:32 they've got such a good look and a good sound,

05:35 and they're just so entertaining,

05:38 but it's like they're entertaining,

05:40 it's not like you're so engaged in what you're seeing,

05:42 it's like a full-on performance,

05:44 it's not just the music, it's like a whole show.

05:48 I want to see Bottle Rockets, because I've heard a lot about them,

05:50 but I've never seen them.

05:52 I'm excited for Melange as well.

05:54 I was going to say Melange as well.

05:56 I'm really looking forward to seeing where he's playing, actually,

05:58 and what time, and if we're able to make it along,

06:00 I really hope we are.

06:01 Lindsay Clark as well, who's kind of the opposite of our style,

06:04 she's a singer-songwriter,

06:06 but she's got one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard,

06:09 and her music's really beautiful as well.

06:11 That would be good.

06:13 It's good seeing them at the BBC thing,

06:15 but it'll be nice to go and see them in a different atmosphere as well,

06:18 so that'll be great.

06:19 Tina Sammage also.

06:21 Tina.

06:22 Performing me.

06:24 Lots of my peer group bands, definitely,

06:27 I really want to see Walt Disco,

06:29 I haven't seen them since way before.

06:31 They're like a whole new thing now,

06:33 so I'm really excited to see them live.

06:35 We were playing with her last night at Sneaky Pete's with Ed Pordy.

06:38 Yeah, they're amazing.

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