Pop Mutations, 22-28 Renfield Lane, Glasgow (2026)

09/06/2026

last call for Thursday~~
Pop Mutations presents:
Peter Holsapple
+ U.S. Highball
+ Warren Starry Sky
Thursday 11th June
The Old Hairdresser's
18+

Peter Holsapple has recorded an extraordinary new solo album he’s calling The Face of 68. It reflects on age, humor and hurt, with his usual high-quality wordplay and legendary gifts for melody and harmony. For longtime fans and newcomers alike, Peter’s record is an enduring testament to his striking abilities as musician and songwriter. Don Dixon (R.E.M., Smithereens) produced it in Peter’s hometown of Durham NC, and the rhythm section was Rob Ladd (Connells, Don Henley) on drums and Robert Sledge (Ben Folds
Five) on electric bass. Grammy®-nominated engineer Jason Richmond was at the console for the four-day session, with Dixon mixing at his home studio in Canton, Ohio.
There are guest turns from Marti Jones, who was the first artist to cover Peter’s songs on her debut album (Unsophisticated Time on A&M) and from Mark Simonsen, who co-produced Peter’s single “Don’t Mention the War” in 2017.

But mostly it’s about Peter Holsapple: his stunning songs, his strong vocals and his newly- rediscovered love of lead guitar that came about when he was drafted by crafty pop intellectuals The Paranoid Style to play on their most recent album, The Interrogator (Bar/None), in 2023. “I’ve been at this for a long time,” Peter admits. “I picked up my mom’s guitar after seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, just like hundreds at that time. It stuck, and I began singing and playing in bands right after that. My first recording session was in 1972, with Chris Stamey and Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, R.E.M. producer) in the band. I moved to New York six years later and joined forces with Chris’ band, The dB’s. We cut several albums and toured the US and England. Then I moved to Los Angeles and joined Continental Drifters. That band also cut some records, toured Germany and the US and moved to New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, I found my way back to North Carolina and my roots there. My home studio, The Hit Shed, has offered me the workspace to create endlessly, and The Face of 68 is the proof in the pudding, as it were.”

05/06/2026

last call for tonight~~
Pop Mutations & monorail present:
Radhika 'Cine-Pop' album launch
+ The Cords (acoustic set)
+ Stone Anthem
+ DJ Stephen Pastel
Mono
Friday 5th June - 7pm
14+

Radhika Meera Dade: “Ever since I entered this realm, music has surrounded me in every way possible. The sounds of magic have been nourishing my soul since birth, the first memories I have as a young child are listening to my dad’s eclectic vinyl collection. I feel so lucky to have been exposed to such a range of music at a really young age: artists from Alice Coltrane to The Go-Betweens, all of these musicians have subconsciously and consciously inspired me musically in many different ways”.

Glass Modern is very proud to present the debut album by Radhika Meera Dade. Cine-Pop is a collection of songs that flow gently and easily in and out of each other – a suite, a short film, everything an album should be. Coming in at 33.3 minutes, it’s the perfect length for an album, it doesn’t short change you, it doesn’t stay too long – it’s designed to be played in one sitting. It’s like being in a friend’s house and noticing the things that are most important in their life – objects, family portraits, records, musical equipment, their curated accumulation. It reflects so many things – culture, community, fandom and the incredible bond between Radhika and her father, Sushil, the Future Pilot AKA.

The record spans generations and continents but its home is always Radhika and the family jams she made with Sushil in various garages, bedrooms and garden dens – her soaring voice and love of all kinds of music from Bollywood to Goth Pop to The Glasgow School. The songs are collected from memory and the immediacy of time – one goes all the way back to her 10 year old self penning Future Me, an eco anthem. In different moments other musicians appear – most notably key collaborator, Eric MacDonald, on hazy synth and keys, and Radhika’s mother Vinita, who has a gorgeous voice too. The Glasgow School is very present – Mitch Mitchell (The Pastels) , Gerard Love (Lightships/ ex-Teenage Fanclub) and Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura) all bring their casual magic to the table.

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04/06/2026

one week away~~
Pop Mutations presents:
Peter Holsapple
+ U.S. Highball
+ Warren Starry Sky
Thursday 11th June
The Old Hairdresser's
18+

Peter Holsapple has recorded an extraordinary new solo album he’s calling The Face of 68. It reflects on age, humor and hurt, with his usual high-quality wordplay and legendary gifts for melody and harmony. For longtime fans and newcomers alike, Peter’s record is an enduring testament to his striking abilities as musician and songwriter. Don Dixon (R.E.M., Smithereens) produced it in Peter’s hometown of Durham NC, and the rhythm section was Rob Ladd (Connells, Don Henley) on drums and Robert Sledge (Ben Folds
Five) on electric bass. Grammy®-nominated engineer Jason Richmond was at the console for the four-day session, with Dixon mixing at his home studio in Canton, Ohio.
There are guest turns from Marti Jones, who was the first artist to cover Peter’s songs on her debut album (Unsophisticated Time on A&M) and from Mark Simonsen, who co-produced Peter’s single “Don’t Mention the War” in 2017.

But mostly it’s about Peter Holsapple: his stunning songs, his strong vocals and his newly- rediscovered love of lead guitar that came about when he was drafted by crafty pop intellectuals The Paranoid Style to play on their most recent album, The Interrogator (Bar/None), in 2023. “I’ve been at this for a long time,” Peter admits. “I picked up my mom’s guitar after seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, just like hundreds at that time. It stuck, and I began singing and playing in bands right after that. My first recording session was in 1972, with Chris Stamey and Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, R.E.M. producer) in the band. I moved to New York six years later and joined forces with Chris’ band, The dB’s. We cut several albums and toured the US and England. Then I moved to Los Angeles and joined Continental Drifters. That band also cut some records, toured Germany and the US and moved to New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, I found my way back to North Carolina and my roots there. My home studio, The Hit Shed, has offered me the workspace to create endlessly, and The Face of 68 is the proof in the pudding, as it were.”

03/06/2026

one week away~~
Pop Mutations & Sentinel present:
Laura Krieg
+ Nurse
+ Slyn
+ DJ Dave Null/Void
Wednesday 10th June
The Old Hairdresser's
18+

With “Crépuscule” I wanted to make people dance, even if they’re sad. I worked on a more ethereal and warm sound, on songs to listen to with an open heart.

I wanted to explore the imaginary of the end; build a series of images captured at the moment when everything is about to disappear.

A red sky in the desert, a diffuse character taking form but refusing to become real.
I approached the writing of the album as multiple attempts to grasp this entity, resulting in a collection of fragments.

I was inspired by classic Greek tragedy: Medea, the outsider, standing by the abysm, in the middle of the emptiness. And by postdramatic theater: Hamlet-machine, the impossibility to have a voice in the shadow of the Ghost. The omnipresence of death where we expect life.

Another idea that drove the making of the album was the “in-between”: make encounter a feeling that drives me towards the deepness and another that pulls me up, searching for transcendence. In this liminal state, explore the space between melancholy and desire.

Dancing to the end of everything. I placed the body in the center of the process, as a form of resistance:“Au milieu de la nuit, les corps sont brillants”.

03/06/2026

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02/06/2026

Pop Mutations presents:
Beton Arme
+ Special Guests
Sunday 30th August
The Old Hairdresser's
18+

Béton Armé is a punk/oi! band founded in 2018. Having become a fixture on the global punk scene, the band stands out for its original music, with driving rhythms and haunting choruses, as well as its universally celebrated live performances. Since the band's formation, Béton Armé has produced a self-titled demo on the LSC records label in 2018, a debut EP entitled "Au bord du gouffre" on Primator Crew (France) in 2020, a split 45 with Buffalo band Violent Way, jointly produced by Primator Crew records and Contra Records (Germany) in 2021, and an EP entitled Second souffle released by Primator Crew (France) and Roachleg Records (New York, USA).

The band's numerous live performances have attracted the attention of the punk sphere around the world. In addition to performances in Quebec and Ontario, the band played a series of concerts in Detroit, Milwaukee and Chicago in fall 2019. They also hit the stage on the U.S. West Coast in the summer of 2021, when they took part in the Lie Detector festival in Los Angeles and performed in two other concerts in Long Beach, California. During the same summer, they also went to Vancouver to play at the Have a Good Laugh festival. They also played a number of concerts in New York (4), Philadelphia (5) and other cities in the northeastern U.S., including Buffalo, Boston and Pittsburgh, during a tour with French band Squelette in summer 2022.

More recently, the band toured Europe on a 14-show European tour. This series of concerts took them to several cities in France, Belgium, England and Germany. Highlights of the tour included performances at the latest edition of Static Shock Weekend, in London (England), and Bal des Vauriens, in Vitry-sur-Seine (France).

The band also participated in a 10-show tour the US West Coast in March 2024, playing in front live audiences from Los Angeles to Seattle. They also went to Spain in August 2024 for the Beach, Beer and Chaos festival in the Barcelona suburb of Badalona. In September, the band embarked on its biggest tour to date, opening for Soft Kill. The 14-concert tour took them to the fol

29/05/2026

Pop Mutations presents:
Fatboi Sharif
+ Special Guests
Friday 2nd October
The Old Hairdresser's
18+

The Garden State Gargoyle, Fatboi Sharif, is an American avant-garde Hip-Hop artist that is looking to take over the globe with his abstract lyricism, spine-chilling soundscapes, illuminating intensity, and his million-dollar smile. It is either the highest level or nothing for Sharif when it comes to putting out projects and performing on stage. He treats the live show as a spiritual experience where Sharif takes the crowd on a phenomenon in which a person perceives the world as if from a location outside their physical body. By the closing track he tells the crowd to involve themselves in a call & response that simply repeats “MY FAMILY!” because by the end of his set he’s grown a connection with the crowd that could only equate with that of your family.

Different channels of inspiration are always a must. Inspired by Sun Ra, Parliament Funkadelic, Alice Coltrane, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Ultramagnetic MC’s, Freestyle Fellowship, Cannibal Ox, Rob Zombie, Pig Destroyer just to name a few. Fatboi keeps constant inspiration around him to push the limit. If not, he’s better off without it. Sharif has studied all genre-pushing works of music, film, and literature. His debut “Ape Twin” from 2017 was re-released on vinyl, via Needle to the Groove, with exclusive bonus tracks only available on wax. The reason Sharif can re-release a project from 2017 in 2025 is because his sound is evergreen. Fatboi Sharif is one of the most charismatic and embracing individuals you’ll have the pleasure of meeting. The Garden State Gargoyle of Elaborate Literature Challenging the Unknown.

“Sharif is one of the most distinct artists across any scene.” – Rolling Stone

“Imagine a Cenobite raised on MF DOOM and Wu-Tang Clan, and you’ve got something approximating a rapper like Fatboi Sharif.” – FADER

“But if the sound has grown stagnant in the sun, hip-hop’s future may lie underground with bold voices like Sharif’s.” – US Weekly

“Fatboi excels at reeling off jolting couplets that seem like non sequitur observations at first but collectively compile a portrait of a fictional world of

29/05/2026

The Last Flight of our beloved is this weekend, starting tonight through Sunday they're showcasing what made the Duck the best, fun, brilliant curation, bringing people together from all over, cultivating relationships and so on it meant the world to a lot of people.
Massive love to everyone who made it what it was.

Pop Mutations have probably??? done most of our shows at the Duck since we started I reckon, a good few sellouts and stinkers, from the wee venue, now Apollo Bar to the big room its transformed into one of the best smaller underground subterranean grassroots spots in Glasgow and maybe the country, and is a massive loss not just to the city but to everyone who has come through its doors, from green promoters cutting their teeth to established artists and everything inbetween, its always been an inclusive, caring, fun and welcoming space with the best staff around.

Going to really miss this place tbh, not been sure how to articulate that tbh.
Celebrate the duck, arrive early and stay late, tip the bar staff, raise a glass and shed a tear.

ON REACHING THE END - WITHOUT SORROW

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text by .donnelly

29/05/2026

one week away~~ one week today~~
Pop Mutations & monorail present:
Radhika 'Cine-Pop' album launch
+ The Cords (acoustic set)
+ Stone Anthem
+ DJ Stephen Pastel
Mono
Friday 5th June

Radhika Meera Dade: “Ever since I entered this realm, music has surrounded me in every way possible. The sounds of magic have been nourishing my soul since birth, the first memories I have as a young child are listening to my dad’s eclectic vinyl collection. I feel so lucky to have been exposed to such a range of music at a really young age: artists from Alice Coltrane to The Go-Betweens, all of these musicians have subconsciously and consciously inspired me musically in many different ways”.

Glass Modern is very proud to present the debut album by Radhika Meera Dade. Cine-Pop is a collection of songs that flow gently and easily in and out of each other – a suite, a short film, everything an album should be. Coming in at 33.3 minutes, it’s the perfect length for an album, it doesn’t short change you, it doesn’t stay too long – it’s designed to be played in one sitting. It’s like being in a friend’s house and noticing the things that are most important in their life – objects, family portraits, records, musical equipment, their curated accumulation. It reflects so many things – culture, community, fandom and the incredible bond between Radhika and her father, Sushil, the Future Pilot AKA.

The record spans generations and continents but its home is always Radhika and the family jams she made with Sushil in various garages, bedrooms and garden dens – her soaring voice and love of all kinds of music from Bollywood to Goth Pop to The Glasgow School. The songs are collected from memory and the immediacy of time – one goes all the way back to her 10 year old self penning Future Me, an eco anthem. In different moments other musicians appear – most notably key collaborator, Eric MacDonald, on hazy synth and keys, and Radhika’s mother Vinita, who has a gorgeous voice too. The Glasgow School is very present – Mitch Mitchell (The Pastels) , Gerard Love (Lightships/ ex-Teenage Fanclub) and Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura) all bring their casual magic to the table.

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