Some people get excited when they get music industry emails, I don’t.
I am very skeptical about big A&R and music managers infiltrating my inbox as I automatically wonder what they want from a lesser known Scotland-based blog.
When I got an email inviting me to East Kilbride’s The Lappelles show at Glasgow’s 13th Note I got the fear. I had the band described to me previously as a cross between Arctic Monkeys and The View. I think you could actually hear my soul start to disintegrate.
No – I am not the biggest ‘lad rock’ fan, but I also don’t trust music comparisons.
There was a notable ‘industry’ presence at the show, I actually started to get nervous for them, but it was clear they were more interested in playing the show. As a venue, The 13th Note couldn’t have been better. A place renowned for housing some of the best shows the city has ever seen and also cemented in history as one of Glasgow’s birth places to several of the city’s more prominent bands.
Packed, front to back, with friends, fans and family, it was clear that East Kilbride had relocated for the evening to Glasgow’s King Street. From start to finish the band provided a voltaic, reactionary beast of a show. Every so often you would see Lapelles ‘first-timers’ look at each other and whisper ‘fucking hell’, myself included.
Integrity is a heavy burden for bands trying to calibrate the industry, but The Lapelles made it clear that night they are wholly about music. A dynamic mix of sizzling chords, manic energy and zero restraint, The Lapelles raised the stakes.
This is incontestable, thrilling evidence of a major new talent in our midst – believe the hype.
Photo by Daphne Michalaki
Video by Wake Up Advice
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