If you aren't aware of us or what we do, let me explain a little. Since last year a strange bunch of musical folk have been gathering in the sweaty dark environs of The Halt Bar, on Glasgow's Woodlands Road. Adopting the name the Woodlands Creatures Collective, they have unleashed a succession of magical musical events on an unsuspecting public.
The last sunday of every month is Woodlands Creatures night. Since January 2008 the following artists have all performed- Mike Hastings & Solveig Askvik, Rags & Feathers, Ceylan Hay, The Kingdom Of Night, The Hidden Masters, Joe Kane, The Pendulums, Mister Mark Rafferty, Paul McDowell, Dave Dixon, Nic Denholm, Jim McAteer, Duncan Thomas, The Ostic Tentacles Of Babylon, The New Birdmen, My Old Blue Terraplane, Christine Bovill, Gareth Dickson, Jo Mango, The Tuberians, Ben TD, Blue Flint, John Langan, Punch & The Apostles, Ross Clark, Ken C, The Second Hand Marching Band, Tom Snowball, The Martial Arts, The Parrafins, Miaoux Mioaux, Lavinia Blackwall, Pishy Tissue......... and possibly one or two others who I have forgotten about....(sorry)
We also put together 8 full-length CD-R comps featuring some or all of the bands listed above. These were homemade with artwork by Solveig Askvik and runs of between 30 -50 ot however many we could be bothered to make. They are mostly out of print, but plans are afoot to restart the series, possibly making some of the previous CDs available for download... watch this space.
Back in September we did an event called "The Electric Harvest" in a barn in a farm down in Ayrshire... it was a lot of fun and we hope to do it again this year. Here's a wee piccy of the flyer (again drawn by the wonderful Solveig Askvik)-
And every Friday we do a radio show on www.subcity.org.... click the links on the right to listen to the latest show. To subscribe via RSS, click here.
This show incorporates the legendary Prog Corner- go to the embedded player at the right of your screen to get the latest episode!
So, then-what's this blog all about? Well I suppose it'll be a space to put up all relevant information regarding Woodlands Creatures stuff online so there's no need for these sort of lengthy retrospective posts.... expect banter, occasional reviews, general observations on the Glasgow Scene and anything else that you need to know about, basically....x
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