Contemporary Music
Glasgow has many live music pubs, clubs and venues. Some of the city's main venues include the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the SECC and King Tut's Wah Wah Hut (where Oasis were spotted and signed by Glaswegian record mogul Alan McGee), the Queen Margaret Union and the Barrowland, a historic ballroom, converted into a live music venue. More recent mid-sized venues include ABC, Stereo, The Old Hairdressers and the Carling Academy, which play host to a similar range of acts. Numerous small venues, cafes and bars play host to the many smaller local and touring bands which regularly play in the city.
Glasgow is also home to a thriving electronic music scene, with a particularly strong reputation for techno and house music. Venues like the Arches and the Sub Club, record labels such as Soma and Chemikal Underground and clubnights such as Optimo have supported this strong underground movement for the past two decades in the city.
The city also boasts a flourishing experimental music scene, and plays home to such luminaries as Alex Neilson and Richard Youngs. Glasgow hosts the longrunning Install and Subcurrent annual festivals, which have featured underground luminaries such as Gustav Metzger and Tony Conrad, as well as reclusive American musician Jandek's first ever live performance.
A known noise rock act from Glasgow in the late nineties was Urusei Yatsura. In recent years, the success of bands such as Franz Ferdinand, Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obsucra and Mogwai has significantly boosted the profile of the Glasgow music scene, prompting Time Magazine to liken Glasgow to Detroit during its 1960s Motown heyday.
The annual Triptych festival musical festival has featured performances from such epochal figures as Stockhausen, Terry Riley and Einstürzende Neubauten.
Glasgow has, since the early 2000s, become a hotbed of Heavy Metal.
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