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

25/10/2026

🚨 Hen Hoose at The Old Hairdressers is now SOLD OUT!!

If you've missed out on our double Kathryn show, you can still grab tickets for Mono and Stereo......but get them quick, we can't guarantee there will be tickets left on the door!

🎟️ Link in bio

*Supporting female and non-binary artists
*Supporting small venues
*All profits donated to Tiny Changes

22/10/2026

Beau Wanzer *venue change* couple weeks away~
Pop Mutations presents:
Beau Wanzer
+ Special Guests
Thursday 5th November
The Old Hairdresser's
18+

Chicago-based producer Beau Wanzer makes dark, gritty electronic music inspired by early industrial, house/electro, and minimal synth. Often consisting of zombified vocals croaking over hypnotic machine rhythms, his music is eerie, grotesque, and a bit sleazy, but it always contains a crucial element of twisted, macabre humor. As a DJ his sets are an eclectic mix of these things but with an off-kilter approach...throwing in old punk, noise, and everything in-between.

He has had a long history in the American Underground Noise/Electronic music community. Starting with a monthly in 2006 (that's still currently active) focussing on the fringes of electronic music and hosting over 200 lives acts showcasing the darker, seedy elements of the underground. Prior to releasing his first solo output in 2014, Wanzer collaborated with many different artists. Most notably TRAXX as the duo Mutant Beat Dance. Eventually working with other artists, including Rezzett, Maoupa Mazzocchetti, and Steve Summers. Releasing on multitude of diverse labels including Dark Entries, Mannequin, L.I.E.S, Trilogy Tapes, Minimal Wave, Ninja Tune, L.A Club Resource, as well a his own self-released imprint Wanzer has built a diverse catalog of slimy scum covered tunes for the mutant basement dwellers. His output still continues to maintain a consistent flow for the freaks and chicken head eating geeks.

21/10/2026

Pop Mutations & The Glad Cafe presents:
nykolaes & Daniël Paul
+ Plastic Cowboy Builder
Monday 9th November at The Glad Cafe
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk
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nykolaes and Daniël Paul are two artists based in Brussels working alone, together on music. They released their first album neofolk in 2023, to underground acclaim. In 2026 they return with a new home recorded effort called: Jeudi Matin. nykolaes & Daniël Paul both bring their own styles to the project, nykolaes’ 90s influenced, pro-post-anti-singer-songwriter modernism and Daniël Paul’s intimate, eyes wide open lo-fi-mumble-folk. Together they bring soft-spoken songs that combine guitar, DIY instruments and simple electronic elements, with vocal performances harmoniously in and out of tune, pitched to satisfaction. They repurpose something authentic and visceral into something that shimmers and screams in the pillow at times. Expect uplifting grunge, backwards folk, playful drone, disarming texts in Dutch, French and English. Never stuck in a tape loop, singing the shed saw, respectfully covering … we’ll see …

Cowboy Builder may have been secretly trading for longer under misleading handles and fake names. Mutated 2020's misremembering of folk w/ dub damage. Compositions with elements of noise and improvisation, usually slow and long.

For the past 3 years they have operated as a 4 piece with double drum parts. This year they will be playing as a stripped down version called Plastic Cowboy Builder. three-piece of guitar, violin and makeshift percussion playing against arrhythmic samples.

"Veering from nasal rants to startling sweetness, the songs slither into a precarious transcendence.... the whole album feels like it’s been knocked into a battered out-of-placeness by reality speeding up around it" Daryl Worthington, The Quietus, 2022

Cowboy Builder's most recent release is COLD via Bison Records in April 2026. They have toured the UK and Europe and been featured in publications such as The Wire and The Quietus.

19/10/2026

🐂Full line up is here! 🐂21st November, Mono :
Bull
Autocamper
Count Florida
+ DJ Antonio

18+

Bull are a 5 piece band from York, UK. Formed in 2011 as school friends, they self released their a bit poppy bit punky debut ‘She Looks Like Kim’ (redacted) in 2014. In 2018 they toured the US, selling second, scrappy long EP ‘America’ (bootleg). In 2020 the band signed with EMI in conjunction with York record label Young Thugs. In 2021 they released their debut (proper) Discover Effortless Living.

Tickets available now from link in bio 🎟️
Poster by L. Wade

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17/10/2026

TOMORROW!!
Felicity J Lord
+ P.G Tina
+ Harry Gorski-Brown
The Glad Cafe / Sunday 18th October
Tickets: www.thegladcafe.co.uk

Not much is known about this elusive group, so expect the unexpected when it comes to their live performances. Their debut album FJL was released last year via Glad favourites STROOM•TV

"...this is one of those easter egg-filled wonders you know is gonna trigger levels of devotion and love from anyone a bit like us, featuring a patchwork of chopped 'n screwed samples, theatrical asides and anomalous, amateur-ish demos from mysterious "company, family and video game" Felicity J Lord." Boomkat on FJL

P.G Tina is a Dublin-born and raised producer. His music blends rap and emo vocals and raw synths and pop structures.

Harry Gorski-Brown is an artist based in Glasgow. With a focus on producing electroacoustic music, often as settings of traditional Scottish songs and performed using voice, pipes, fiddle and electronics.

16/10/2026

Divided By Language & Pop Mutations presents:
Maria BC (Maria BC)
+ Cuckoo Spit
Thursday 5th November at The Old Hairdresser's Glasgow
Tickets: www.popmutations.com
Artwork by Chloe Keppie
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Ohio-born, Oakland, CA-based artist Maria BC (they/them) has slowly opened up their process over the years, moving from the one-room recording process of 2021 EP Devil's Rain-careful not to disturb their roommates or neighbors-to the untreated apartment wanderings of Hyaline (2022, Father/Daughter) to the home of a family friend featuring an out-of-tune baby Steinway piano where they recorded their Sacred Bones debut, Spike Field.

Hyaline, was a 2022 ambient-folk highlight. It found the singer-songwriter crafting haunting tracks that played like they were beamed from the heart of some mystical, cobwebbed attic. Spike Field pushed their gauzy formula into increasingly manicured terrain, capturing the sound of a young artist who has quickly honed a singular voice. Strings, plucked guitar and buzzing swells accompany their classically-trained mezzo-soprano voice soaking their arrangements in a denser and more kaleidoscopic way than any of their previous work. Maria BC describes it as "filling out the sonic space," as Spike Field builds on the intimacy of Hyaline through liberating instrumental embellishments.

In 2026 we will see the return of Maria BC with their third studio album, and sophomore Sacred Bones release, Marathon. Born from a sense of urgency, masochistic determination and endurance, Marathon reflects what it means to keep going whether you're resisting or just surviving, you're in it for the long haul. On this record, Maria BC delves into themes of resistance, environmental ruin, personal disruptions and destruction, all entwined in musical grit and drive.

16/10/2026

Pop Mutations presents:
Nathan Salsburg
+ Special Guests
Tuesday 4th May
The Glad Cafe
18+

Nathan Salsburg is one of his generation’s most gifted and idiosyncratic acoustic guitarists. Since 2011, when the first of his eight solo albums was released, he has quietly established a style marked by a depth and a complexity wholly his own, drawing on abiding interests in minimalism, rural American vernacular musics, and the work of British folk revivalists like Dick Gaughan, Dolly Collins, and Nic Jones.

He’s a frequent collaborator of songwriter-singer Joan Shelley [his wife] and Chicago multi-instrumentalist James Elkington, and has contributed to recordings by Shirley Collins, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, the Weather Station, and Jake Xerxes Fussell, among others. For twenty years Salsburg served as curator of the digital Alan Lomax Archive.

15/10/2026

one month away ~ supports added~
Pop Mutations presents:
Poison Ruïn
+ Knome
+ Nurse
Sunday 15th November
Stereo
18+

Building off the strengths of their critically acclaimed works, POISON RUIN return with their new album, Hymns From the Hills. The Philadelphia Punk band have developed their signature approach to grim mythmaking and scythe-swinging aggression in bold new directions, offering up a new body of songs that strike one as equal parts natural, undeniably of this world, and phantasmal.
The band's vision has grown substantially, pushing well past the tales of peasants and serfs that stood as allegories for contemporary alienation in their previous work. On this newest offering, their previous stories of toil and dispossession are revealed to be but one chapter etched upon a bleaker tapestry- One populated by spirits traversing sunless deserts and wilted hillsides, demonic torture objects limning the edges of the psyche, bodies transfigured into Luciferian snakes, Sadean prisoners bound to the screaming silence of abandoned castle towers. The record is at once a forceful restatement of POISON RUIN's trademark sound and a departure from it- The crackling, cassette-dubbed darkness and crushing rhythms listeners have become accustomed to are buttressed by a carefully sculpted mosaic of new textures, from flourishes of Killing Joke hacksaw primitivism and blast-beats worthy of the Relapse catalogue number to crisp analog synth lines and ambient serenades reminiscent of Scott Walker and The Durutti Column. Like a serpent moving ever outward with spiraling circularity, Hymns From the Hills expands POISON RUIN's sonic landscape in imaginative new directions while maintaining its center of gravity firmly in the band’s already established mythos.

poster by .donnelly

14/10/2026

SUPPORT ANNOUNCEMENT!
Glasgow guitar whiz Jack Mellin opens for Wendy Eisenberg at The Glad Cafe on Wednesday 4th November. Tickets running low!
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk
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Jack Mellin is a guitarist from Glasgow. Alongside his prolific work in an eclectic mix of bands in the city, Jack's solo material is a wide-ranging sonic blend of improvisation, instrumental guitar compositions, noise, folk cycles and lyrical songs.

Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity. As a singer-songwriter, improviser, and virtuoso guitarist, the coordinates of their artistry are ever-shifting, from art-rock to jazz to blistering free improv and eloquent folk. On catalog highlights including 2020’s Auto and the 2024 free-jazz sprawler Viewfinder, they’ve made a signature of ambition. After spending the past five years experimenting in different bands, genres, and creative challenges, and following a period of self-confrontation that they liken to a personal exorcism, Eisenberg has arrived at a milestone. The poetic and formally daring folk songs of Wendy Eisenberg comprise their most certain vision yet.

13/10/2026

friday~~
Pop Mutations & Freakender present:
Hollow Hand
+ Curtis Miles
+ B. Spanks
Friday 16th October
The Old Hairdresser's
18+

Max Kinghorn-Mills is the Brighton-based artist behind the psych-pop project Hollow Hand - and with a new record due this year - the latest signing to Loose Music. 2023’s Your Own Adventure received widespread acclaim (MOJO, Uncut, BBC 6Music, Brooklyn Vegan, La Blogotheque , Aquarium Drunkard, Shindig!) since then, Hollow Hand have toured extensively - serving as house band for Caitlin Rose, collaborating and performing with Aoife Nessa Frances, supporting MJ Lenderman across Europe, and joining Willie J Healey on his most recent UK tour.

“Enchanting and melodic third from folk-rock voyager… Max Kinghorn-Mills casts quite a spell on his third Hollow Hand album” - UNCUT
“Evoking everyone from Stealers Wheel to Jeff Lynne to Tom Petty, Hollow Hand is a shape-shifting beast.” - MOJO 4*
“Everything you ever thought you needed from '60s pop, and a little bit more.” - The Line Of Best Fit
“Beatles-esque… jangly country-rock and psychedelic pop epiphanies” - Shindig! 4*

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