As Glastonbury kicks off (woot), a live music klaxon:
A buzz to be partnering with Fred Perry on their new Match Fit music campaign: a celebration of up’n’coming bands and independent grassroot venues, those hometown heroes on their hometown stages.
We launched with Folly Group at London’s 100 Club (find the film on Fred Perry’s channels), with more to come across the year - and with a deep-dive wot I wrote on the state of live music in Britain. With thanks for their contributions to Tim Burgess, Kate Nash, Mark Davyd at the Music Venue Trust, Jeff and Ruby Horton at the 100 Club, and Folly Group.
Find it @ fredperry.com, with more ace photos by
@ali_quinlandave but the story starts like this…
Walk up the 24 stairs leading to the gig space at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut and you’re standing on the shoulders of future giants. Painted on the treads are the names of some of the bands who’ve played this legendary, 300-capacity Glasgow club.
There, in at the ground floor, are The Charlatans, early adopters in 1990, the year of the venue’s opening. It’s a night seared into the memory of frontman Tim Burgess.
“Playing King Tut’s was a massive deal for us,” the singer says of his band who, that year, released their debut single, ‘Indian Rope’. “That’s a huge venue for artists starting out. It was the first time we got fed at a gig! I remember even turning up in our van as being a magical thing.”
The rollcall of future superstars immortalised on King Tut’s stairway-to-stadiums is little short of era-defining. In 1991, Manic Street Preachers and Blur; 1992, Suede; 1993, Pulp, The Verve – and, on 31st May that year, a gang of unruly Mancunians.
The five musicians had hustled their way onto the bill below Creation bands Boyfriend and 18 Wheeler, and were performing third or fourth on the bill.
Recollections vary of that boozy night, but by the end of their 15-minute, four-song set, one thing was clear: Alan McGee had seen the future of rock’n’roll and its name was Oasis. The boss of Creation promptly signed the band.
That’s the power of independent venues right there. Keep on keepin’ on.
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#matchfit
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