Room 2

Room 2 Multifunctional independent events space in Glasgow city centre. Part of the Allied Leisure Group with La Cheetah Club, Max's Bar & Grill and Mikaku.

ROOM 2 LIVE TONIGHT! 7-10pm. Core. presents...US experimental noise metal duo The Body team up with Berlin producer and ...
04/09/2024

ROOM 2 LIVE TONIGHT! 7-10pm. Core. presents...

US experimental noise metal duo The Body team up with Berlin producer and singer Dis Fig to bring their astonishing collaborative album Orchards of a Futile Heaven European tour to Glasgow. With support from Civil Elegies. 18+. Running order below.
See Tickets 🎟 https://bit.ly/3KordZX

7 doors open.
8 - 8.30 Civil Elegies.
9 - 9.45 The Body & Dis Fig.

ÂŁ20 entry on the door (cash or card).

432 Presents.
Live Music Scotland.

Tickets are on sale now for the Mickey 9s ⚡ gig on Saturday 30th November. 18+.Event: Mickey 9s Live in Glasgow.🎟️bit.ly...
03/09/2024

Tickets are on sale now for the Mickey 9s ⚡ gig on Saturday 30th November. 18+.

Event: Mickey 9s Live in Glasgow.

🎟️bit.ly/mickey9s-30-nov

☀23 Music Management.

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR SEPTEMBER!Friday 20th (7-10pm). Slay Sessions presents...AndSofia headline with support from Joe...
29/08/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR SEPTEMBER!

Friday 20th (7-10pm). Slay Sessions presents...

AndSofia headline with support from Joel & Chris (from the band Honey), Zoned Out and Santeria!

Skiddle 🎟 https://skiddle.com/e/40033335

16+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025...N.B. VENUE CHANGE FROM SAINT LUKE'S.432 Presents... JAY1.! Tickets Scotland 🎟 t-s.co/jay0...
29/08/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025...
N.B. VENUE CHANGE FROM SAINT LUKE'S.

432 Presents... JAY1.! Tickets Scotland 🎟 t-s.co/jay00

"Flying the flag for Coventry's rap scene with a self-assured swagger, JAY1 had a meteoric rise after the single "Your Mrs" made its way to the 18th spot on the U.K. charts.

Originally rapping as Young Jay, JAY1 started making music seriously after moving from North London to the historically student-based city of Coventry in 2016. Bold, self-assured vocals and candid lyrics gave the U.K. MC a fundamental versatility: despite often letting his lyrics speak for themselves on minimalist trap beats, he demonstrated his ability to adapt to everything from club-rap to Afroswing. After delivering freestyles on two popular U.K. video series, Bl@ckbox and Hardest Out, JAY1 saw his first major success with "That's My Bae," which blew up through online video channels before inspiring its own freestyle challenge.

A series of 2018 singles helped boost the rapper's fan base and expand his sound, leading to him trying his hand at summer dancehall on "Good Vibes" and blunt braggadocio on "Becky." It wasn't until "Your Mrs" that the Coventry MC found his breakout hit: After a snippet of its chorus received social media buzz, the song's music video hit a million views on streaming services just three days after its release. Building on this success, he quickly landed a spot on the remix of Russ and Tion Wayne's "Keisha & Becky" and then appeared on Charlie Sloth's Fire in the Booth radio show in April 2019. His debut EP, One Wave, was released in July of the same year; compiling hits like "Your Mrs" and "Mocking It" with an assortment of new material, the rapper's debut showed him flexing his abilities across the U.K. rap spectrum, all delivered with his signature bluntness. Capitalizing on the tape's success, the rapper closed out the year with the club-centric "Million Bucks," and the Tion Wayne back-to-back "2 ON 2," both of which enjoyed minor runs on the U.K. charts. Through 2020, the rapper expanded his sound into new avenues: He collaborated with Sean Paul, Toddla T, and Sean Paul for the "Dumpling Remix," stepped into the U.S. market with Blueface and the Plug collab "Curvy," and made his drill debut alongside Loski on August's "TEE."

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025...Xfire.live presents... Saturday 19th April (7-10pm). The Killaz UK - The Killers Tribute!...
29/08/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025...

Xfire.live presents... Saturday 19th April (7-10pm). The Killaz UK - The Killers Tribute!

Skiddle 🎟 https://skiddle.com/e/39302026

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025...Xfire.live presents... Friday 18th April (7-10pm). Hotel Caledonia, Scotland's Eagles Tri...
29/08/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025...

Xfire.live presents... Friday 18th April (7-10pm). Hotel Caledonia, Scotland's Eagles Tribute Band!

Skiddle 🎟 https://skiddle.com/e/40012607

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Glasgow/Room-2/Hotel-Caledonia-Scotlands-Eagles-Tribute-Band---Glasgow/40012607/

Hotel Caledonia, Scotland's Eagles Tribute Band, play Room 2 in Glasgow, April 2025.

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025...Xfire.live presents... Saturday 22nd March (7-10pm). Pet Shop Boys, Actually! Scotland's ...
29/08/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025...

Xfire.live presents... Saturday 22nd March (7-10pm). Pet Shop Boys, Actually! Scotland's No. 1 tribute to the music of the Pet Shop Boys.

Skiddle 🎟 https://skiddle.com/e/39298523

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025...Xfire.live presents... Saturday 1st March (7-10pm). The Jersey Notes! Scotland's No. 1 tr...
29/08/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025...

Xfire.live presents... Saturday 1st March (7-10pm). The Jersey Notes! Scotland's No. 1 tribute to the music of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.
Skiddle 🎟 https://skiddle.com/e/40012554

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR NOVEMBER...Thursday 7th (7-10pm). All Suns Blazing presents...A Celebration of John Mayall 🎟 htt...
28/08/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR NOVEMBER...

Thursday 7th (7-10pm). All Suns Blazing presents...

A Celebration of John Mayall 🎟 https://skiddle.com/e/40035790

"Expect some of the most dazzling and exuberant blues performances you will ever see as we celebrate John Mayall, one of the most influential musical figures of the last century! The band is a collective of some of the most outstanding players in the live scene with Henry Reilly on guitar & vocals, Charlotte Marshall on bass & vocals, Frazer John Lindsay on guitar, Duncan Sloan on keyboards and the legendary stickman, Scott Pentland on the drum kit!! This unique night will include some very special guests who will also take to the stage to honour the late great British bluesman."

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

The You Call That Radio? 5th birthday party is in Room 2 Live (5-10pm) on Saturday 5th October! Now with added Hugh Reed...
28/08/2024

The You Call That Radio? 5th birthday party is in Room 2 Live (5-10pm) on Saturday 5th October! Now with added Hugh Reed and The Velvet Underpants! "The best live show you are ever likely to see and they one time toured with Blondie in the 80's." With more to be announced 🎟 www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Glasgow/TBA-SECRET-LOCATION-GLASGOW/YCTR-presents-WHIRLIGIG/39276623/

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

YCTR 5th BIRTHDAY PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

Joining Jinx Lennon on our line up on October 5th at Room 2 will be the legendary Hugh Reed & The Velvet Underpants.
The best live show you are ever likely to see. .. and they one time toured with Blondie in the 80's

ROOM 2 LIVE THIS SATURDAY (7-10pm)! GLASGOPOLOOZA 2!Boys On The Radio, Attack Of The Stick Insects, Necrønic and Fin! 🎟 ...
28/08/2024

ROOM 2 LIVE THIS SATURDAY (7-10pm)! GLASGOPOLOOZA 2!

Boys On The Radio, Attack Of The Stick Insects, Necrønic and Fin! 🎟 www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Glasgow/Room2/Glasgopolooza-2/38218071

"This year we have 4 young Rock Bands looking to top last year's event. All female Punk Rock Band Boys On The Radio from Coatbridge. Attack Of The Stick Insects bringing some Psychedelic, Blues, Metal infused Rock. Larkhall's Metal 3 piece Necrønic with a line-up change from last years show and student band Fin."

12+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR OCTOBER! Saturday 5th (5-10pm). You Call That Radio? presents...The You Call That Radio? 5th bir...
21/08/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR OCTOBER! Saturday 5th (5-10pm). You Call That Radio? presents...

The You Call That Radio? 5th birthday party! With Jinx Lennon and much, much more!

On Saturday October 5th , You Call That Radio takes over Room 2 in Glasgow City to present you with an evening of entertainment with three more special guests to be revealed.

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional), passport or Young Scot card.

ROOM 2 LIVE THIS FRIDAY! 7-10pm. Gavin Forbes Music Echoes From The Cutting Room Floor album launch show.Gavin: "I  am h...
21/08/2024

ROOM 2 LIVE THIS FRIDAY! 7-10pm. Gavin Forbes Music Echoes From The Cutting Room Floor album launch show.

Gavin: "I am happy to be performing at Room 2 in Glasgow on Friday 23rd of August 2024, along with a great support slot from Free Roam. Doors open 7pm.

This live bass led, instrumental electronic/alternative show will include music from the new album 'Echoes From The Cutting Room Floor' being played live for the first time ever. As well as some music from the previous album and EP, all done in the duo set up.

Advanced tickets from Bandcamp are ÂŁ8 (link in the comments) and will be a door list. Tickets bought on the door are ÂŁ10. Advanced tickets will include a free download of the new album via email (the email used to buy the tickets) one week earlier than the release date/gig.

The event is ages 14 + . Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required (driving licence - full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

If you have any questions regarding the show, please feel free to email me at [email protected]"

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE FOR SEPTEMBER...Saturday 14th (7-10pm). The Obscure Tour Presents... Volume 8!"We are back for our debut...
19/08/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE FOR SEPTEMBER...
Saturday 14th (7-10pm). The Obscure Tour Presents... Volume 8!

"We are back for our debut outing in Room 2! Join us for a superb night of varied live performances from six emerging featured artists: Paul Mullen Music, John Mullen, Zuper Rookie, Daniel Ladds, Olivia Jane and Bird Cage Theatre.

16+ Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional), passport or Young Scot card.

LIVE! TONIGHT! 7-10pm. PCL presents...SHEER MAG with support from Brenda. Tickets Scotland 🎟 http://t-s.co/shee9 £25 ent...
13/08/2024

LIVE! TONIGHT! 7-10pm. PCL presents...

SHEER MAG with support from Brenda. Tickets Scotland 🎟 http://t-s.co/shee9 £25 entry on the door (cash only). Running order:

7 doors open.
8 - 8.30 Brenda.
9 - 10 SHEER MAG.

"Sheer Mag have labored to carve out a discernibly singular position within the canon of contemporary rock: toggling with ease between the refined flourishes of a “connoisseur’s band” and the ecstatic colloquialism of populist songwriting—yet displaying no strict loyalty to either camp—their sound, while oft-referenced, is unmistakably and immediately recognizable as theirs alone. On Playing Favorites, Sheer Mag’s third full-length and first with Third Man Records, the band capitalize on a decade’s worth of devotion to their own collective spirit—a spirit refined in both the sweaty trenches of punk warehouses and the larger-than-life glamour of concert halls—emerging with a dense work of gripping emotions, massive hooks, and masterfully constructed power-pop anthems."

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional), passport or Young Scot card.

Thank you to everyone who attended our August Glasgow Streetsound  #22 gig last Friday, in partnership with BuskersofGla...
06/08/2024

Thank you to everyone who attended our August Glasgow Streetsound #22 gig last Friday, in partnership with BuskersofGlasgow and to all our amazing acts; Emma Dunlop, Just Someone Who Cared, Tanith Bavaird and May Terra for playing outstanding sets! 👏👏👏👏

Massive thanks, as always, to our partner BuskersofGlasgow, for all their help and support with them and to Carolyn for the compering 🙏

Next month's, #23, is on Thursday 5th September at our usual time of 7-10pm and will feature another outstanding line-up to be announced this afternoon.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to chat with our volunteers from the charity Love Hope Strength Foundation and to those who signed up to join the UK's blood cancer and leukemia donor register. It's a very easy and quick at the gig process. You could save someone's life!

📸 BuskersofGlasgow.

ROOM 2 LIVE TONIGHT! 7-10pm. Glasgow Streetsound  #22 in partnership with BuskersofGlasgow. Running order:7.15 – 7.45 Ta...
02/08/2024

ROOM 2 LIVE TONIGHT! 7-10pm. Glasgow Streetsound #22 in partnership with BuskersofGlasgow. Running order:

7.15 – 7.45 Tanith Bavaird.
7.55 - 8.25 Emma Dunlop.
8.35 - 9.05 May Terra.
9.15 - 10 Just Someone Who Cared.

ÂŁ10 entry on the door only now. Cash or card. Please state to our ticket booth rep who you are paying in to primarily see.

We will be joined again by the volunteers from the charity Love Hope Strength Foundation who will have a table up the back of the room if you would like to chat to them about how to sign up to join the UK's blood cancer and leukemia donor register. It's a very easy and quick at the gig process. You could save someone's life!

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required (driving licence - full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

ROOM 2 LIVE TONIGHT! PCL presents...19:00 Doors.19:45 - 20:15 Hens Bens.20:45 - 22:00 Deerhoof.All the way from San Fran...
01/08/2024

ROOM 2 LIVE TONIGHT! PCL presents...

19:00 Doors.
19:45 - 20:15 Hens Bens.
20:45 - 22:00 Deerhoof.

All the way from San Francisco and playing the only Scottish leg of their world tour... Deerhoof! Tickets Scotland 🎟 http://t-s.co/deer7 We will have a limited number of tickets available on the door for £25 (cash only).

With HENS BENS as support:
“Proto-Devo pop craziness… deliciously ramshackle” ~ The Herald.
“Scottish noise mavericks” ~ Tom Robinson Music, BBC Radio 6 Music.

“One of the most acclaimed acts of the early 21st century, Deerhoof, headline Room 2, Glasgow on Thursday 1st August! The band released their 19th studio album in March, the first to be produced in a recording studio and to have its lyrics in Japanese. The music has been compared to/is influenced by: Melt-Banana, Yoko Ono, Boredoms, Blonde Redhead, Sonic Youth and many others. Prog fans that are looking out for new, extravagant, playful and creative music should check out Deerhoof.”

14+. Under 18’s MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required (driving licence – full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

UNMISSABLE Room 2 Live gig on Wednesday 4th September (7-10pm) from 432 Presents/Live Music Scotland for Core. A celebra...
01/08/2024

UNMISSABLE Room 2 Live gig on Wednesday 4th September (7-10pm) from 432 Presents/Live Music Scotland for Core. A celebration of noise. 18+. See Tickets 🎟 https://bit.ly/3KordZX

US experimental noise metal duo The Body team up with Berlin producer and singer Dis Fig to bring their astonishing collaborative album Orchards of a Futile Heaven to Glasgow Room 2 on 4 Sep.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW 🎟
➡ https://bit.ly/3KordZX

JUST ANNOUNCED! NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG! 432 Presents...Strfkr! Indie rock band from Portland, Oregon bring the only Scottis...
31/07/2024

JUST ANNOUNCED! NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG! 432 Presents...

Strfkr! Indie rock band from Portland, Oregon bring the only Scottish date on their October/November EU/UK Tour 2024 to Room 2 on Monday 11th November (7-10pm). Tickets Scotland 🎟 on sale THIS FRIDAY (2nd August) at 10am: https://tickets-scotland.com//venues.html?event_method=viewevent&event_id=a5863049-4353-11ef-b285-0ad705dfaa9b

Touring new album, Parallel Realms, out now. REVIEW: "STRFKR finds an electro-pop dream state on ‘Parallel Realms’... The result is a record that matches exploratory musical ambition with memorable and infectious pop delight... lush with synths, danceable rhythms and fuzzy guitar parts that provide the pulse of the record." ~ RIFF (full review): https://riffmagazine.com/album-reviews/strfkr-parallel-realms

14+. Under 18’s MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required (driving licence – full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

ONE WEEK TODAY! PCL presents...Thursday 1st August. 7-10pm. Deerhoof! Tickets Scotland 🎟 http://t-s.co/deer7Now with add...
25/07/2024

ONE WEEK TODAY! PCL presents...

Thursday 1st August. 7-10pm. Deerhoof! Tickets Scotland 🎟 http://t-s.co/deer7

Now with added HENS BENS as support:
“Proto-Devo pop craziness… deliciously ramshackle” ~ The Herald.
“Scottish noise mavericks” ~ Tom Robinson Music, BBC Radio 6 Music.

Event: Deerhoof | Room 2. “One of the most acclaimed acts of the early 21st century, Deerhoof, headline Room 2, Glasgow on Thursday 1st August! The band released their 19th studio album in March, the first to be produced in a recording studio and to have its lyrics in Japanese. The music has been compared to/is influenced by: Melt-Banana, Yoko Ono, Boredoms, Blonde Redhead, Sonic Youth and many others. Prog fans that are looking out for new, extravagant, playful and creative music should check out Deerhoof.”

14+. Under 18’s MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required (driving licence – full or provisional, passport or Young Scot card).

ON SALE NOW! 432 Presents...She drew the gun! Saturday 15th February. We are delighted to be bringing one of the most vi...
19/07/2024

ON SALE NOW! 432 Presents...

She drew the gun! Saturday 15th February. We are delighted to be bringing one of the most vital and important lyricists out there to Room 2 Live for the Glasgow leg of her new fourth album, Howl Tour. Tickets Scotland 🎟 http://t-s.co/she07

Pre-order the new album (available in clear vinyl, green transparent vinyl, CD and cassette), Howl (released on Friday 15th November), from Submarine Cat Music: https://subc.at/HowlAlbum

Listen to the two new amazing singles, 'Howl' and 'Nothing Lasts', from the released later this year fourth album via the Spotify link in the comments.

"Over three studio albums and nearly a decade, Wirral-born Louisa Roach has built She Drew The Gun into a project that fully lives up to its incendiary name. A place for Roach to explore a visceral musical world informed by influences ranging 80's electronica, hip-hop, political poetry, and cosmic scouse psychedelia epitomised by hometown heroes The Coral (whose lead singer James Skelly took her under his wing during She Drew The Gun’s early days), lyrically it’s found her taking aim at the wild injustices she was persistently seeing in the world at large, decrying corrupt conservative governments and rallying for a more empathetic way of living.

2016 debut ‘Memories of Another Future’ was swiftly followed by a crowning as Glastonbury Festival’s Emerging Talent Competition winner; follow-up ‘Revolution of Mind’ was named one of BBC 6 Music’s Albums of the Year, while 2021’s ‘Behave Myself’ saw Clash praising the record as “some of her most finessed and contoured songwriting to date”. Having firmly carved out her niche of rousing, laser-sharp social commentary, it’s a side to Roach’s songwriting that will never leave her (not in this political climate at least). But sometimes, life sends you to a place where you have to finally turn your eye on yourself, and it’s with this in mind that She Drew The Gun presents fourth album ‘Howl’.

It’s still an album that is regularly furious at the world it finds itself
inhabiting; you only need glance at ‘Mirrors’’ protestations (“I’m an
enclosed animal born into service of the capitalist pigs”) to see that. But there’s also a new, vulnerable, self-examining side to Roach on display here, born from a transformative few years that saw the musician break down entirely and do the long, hard work to build herself back up. “I had my heart split open from many directions, but I had to go through that to realise I needed to heal and to get some help,” she begins. “I think sometimes you build up an armour to protect yourself when you’re younger and you keep wearing it until you can’t do it anymore. You start to see your patterns and you just get tired of it. You realise life’s too short.”

The journey to ‘Howl’ began, as many journeys do, from a place of real darkness. Following relationship breakdown and some additional personal traumas, Roach found herself in a spiral of shame and fear. She describes “cocooning” herself at home, living with her son, scared to go outside, and dredging through the lifetime of difficult feelings that had come from unprocessed grief and defences built from growing up q***r in a “homophobic, heteronormative environment”. “I was drinking too much, and then something happened that made me realise I couldn't keep myself safe when I was drinking,” she continues. “I started a journey in sobriety, and I thought it would make my life instantly better, but you have to face yourself. You’re there, conscious with yourself, for such a long time and there’s no escaping. I was trying to heal myself but to do that, you have to let yourself feel pain that you haven’t let yourself feel before.”

She started seeking out help, beginning therapy and doing somatic work, diligently pouring her innermost thoughts and feelings out via daily ‘morning pages’ which would eventually form the framework for some of ‘Howl’’s most personal lyrics. One day, meanwhile, during a chance visit to a festival bar, the universe threw her a lifeline. “I met a woman, now a friend, there who said she knew I would walk into her bar and that she manifested me,” Roach smiles. “She told me about a place she was creating in Portugal in the mountains, some farmland she had bought which was for helping people heal, and I just burst out crying. She was like, ‘What’s the matter, do you need somewhere to go?’ And I was just like, ‘Yes, I’ve been looking for somewhere’.”

Visiting the mountains of Serra de Estrella and being in nature (“It does things to your system”) became a pivotal part of the healing journey that ‘Howl’ would eventually document. Meditation, too, would prove integral to the process, as Roach embarked on guided sessions in which she would come face to face with previous versions of herself, working through the pain and trying to come to a place of peace. “It was a surreal journey into my psyche. I did a guided meditation about meeting my inner critic and having a conversation with them, and they said I had a dam of shame that they were trying to keep from spilling out,” she says. “I’ve cried with past versions of myself and made friends with them when sometimes at first it was too painful for us to face each other. I like to think of it as my ego structure showing itself to me so that I can understand myself better. With all its scars and its magic, it’s a beautiful thing.”

And so, with this great well of learning filling her up, Roach began to turn it all into her fourth album - one that she sees as “chapters” of this process, split into A side/ B side halves. The first sounds more traditionally like She Drew The Gun: prowling, primal offerings like ‘Howl’’s recently-released title track, that nods to swaggering artists like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club but with the societal dial turned up. Side B, however, sees Roach embrace the pop influences that have always been there (an ornament of Cher as a guardian angel hangs in her studio room). It is, for all intents and purposes, a collection of songs about love.

“There’s the side of the album which is the gun, the conscious spoken word, the thoughts and words on living in late capitalism, on war, on historical perspectives,” she explains. “But then there’s the other side of the album which is the heartbreak that I’ve been through, the love songs. I think it’s the thing of trauma being a coin with two sides; it opens up portals for you. The whole album’s got a bit of a magical side to it: witches, spells, the moon, the lovers, the cards being dealt, rituals, mirrors. I feel more connected to the Universe and there’s so much that it’s shown me.”

On ‘Mirrors’ (one of the Side A tracks born from her morning pages), she holds a glass up to herself over the years, addressing the reflections with grizzled stabs of guitar. ‘Washed In Blue’ - a second side highlight - meanwhile sees Roach harnessing her inner Springsteen with an unabashed heart-on-sleeve epic that allows itself to soar. They’re two totally different versions of the musician, but together they combine to paint a picture of an artist accepting and leaning into their multiplicities. “‘Nothing Lasts’ is about accepting that everything is transient, but another “What’s the Matter” is singing to yourself about remembering your own divinity and dusting yourself off and carrying on,” she continues. “The
message is to remember who you are and that you’re here in this realm to learn about yourself.”

Recorded alongside producer Ash Workman (Christine & The Queens, Metronomy) who helped bring the tracks’ pop side to life during sessions at his Margate studio, Roach also worked with her son Cole on ‘Howl’’s demos: the beginning of a familial working relationship that they’ve already shaken hands on to continue. It’s a heartwarming note in an album story that’s been far from plain sailing. Roach doesn’t claim to be ‘healed’ (if such a thing exists), but as she prepares to release She Drew The Gun’s impressively vulnerable fourth, she’s somewhere along the journey with a document that shows just how far she’s come.

“I’m not trying to say I’m enlightened at all. I’m just learning and doing better,” she says. “A howl can be a mourning thing, or it can be a scream out to the world, which is what a piece of art can be. It’s got a connection to primal energy and I feel like that’s what I’ve been connecting to - my past and a little bit of magic. ‘Howl’ captures that.”

14+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional), passport or Young Scot card.

Live Music Scotland.

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR AUGUST! Slay Sessions presents...Friday 9th (7-10pm). LG n The String Merchants, Niamh Maclennan...
18/07/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR AUGUST! Slay Sessions presents...

Friday 9th (7-10pm). LG n The String Merchants, Niamh Maclennan, Static & Mixed Signals Band! Skiddle 🎟 https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Glasgow/Room-2/Slay-Sessions-Live-at-Room-2/39260904/

In support of Medical Aid for Palestinians 🇵🇸

16+. Under 18's MUST be accompanied by an adult. Original photo ID required - driving licence (full or provisional), passport or Young Scot card.

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025! 432 Presents..... we are delighted to announce one of the most vital and important lyricis...
18/07/2024

NEW ROOM 2 LIVE GIG FOR 2025! 432 Presents...
.. we are delighted to announce one of the most vital and important lyricists out there, She drew the gun, will be playing on Saturday 15th February 2025 (7-10pm)! See Tickets on sale at 10am tomorrow morning! www.shedrewthegun.com

Listen to the two new amazing singles, 'Howl' and 'Nothing Lasts', from the released later this year fourth album via the Spotify link in the comments.

"Over three studio albums and nearly a decade, Wirral-born Louisa Roach has built She Drew The Gun into a project that fully lives up to its incendiary name. A place for Roach to explore a visceral musical world informed by influences ranging 80's electronica, hip-hop, political poetry, and cosmic scouse psychedelia epitomised by hometown heroes The Coral (whose lead singer James Skelly took her under his wing during She Drew The Gun’s early days), lyrically it’s found her taking aim at the wild injustices she was persistently seeing in the world at large, decrying corrupt conservative governments and rallying for a more empathetic way of living.

2016 debut ‘Memories of Another Future’ was swiftly followed by a crowning as Glastonbury Festival’s Emerging Talent Competition winner; follow-up ‘Revolution of Mind’ was named one of BBC 6 Music’s Albums of the Year, while 2021’s ‘Behave Myself’ saw Clash praising the record as “some of her most finessed and contoured songwriting to date”. Having firmly carved out her niche of rousing, laser-sharp social commentary, it’s a side to Roach’s songwriting that will never leave her (not in this political climate at least). But sometimes, life sends you to a place where you have to finally turn your eye on yourself, and it’s with this in mind that She Drew The Gun presents fourth album ‘Howl’.

It’s still an album that is regularly furious at the world it finds itself
inhabiting; you only need glance at ‘Mirrors’’ protestations (“I’m an
enclosed animal born into service of the capitalist pigs”) to see that. But there’s also a new, vulnerable, self-examining side to Roach on display here, born from a transformative few years that saw the musician break down entirely and do the long, hard work to build herself back up. “I had my heart split open from many directions, but I had to go through that to realise I needed to heal and to get some help,” she begins. “I think sometimes you build up an armour to protect yourself when you’re younger and you keep wearing it until you can’t do it anymore. You start to see your patterns and you just get tired of it. You realise life’s too short.”

The journey to ‘Howl’ began, as many journeys do, from a place of real darkness. Following relationship breakdown and some additional personal traumas, Roach found herself in a spiral of shame and fear. She describes “cocooning” herself at home, living with her son, scared to go outside, and dredging through the lifetime of difficult feelings that had come from unprocessed grief and defences built from growing up q***r in a “homophobic, heteronormative environment”. “I was drinking too much, and then something happened that made me realise I couldn't keep myself safe when I was drinking,” she continues. “I started a journey in sobriety, and I thought it would make my life instantly better, but you have to face yourself. You’re there, conscious with yourself, for such a long time and there’s no escaping. I was trying to heal myself but to do that, you have to let yourself feel pain that you haven’t let yourself feel before.”

She started seeking out help, beginning therapy and doing somatic work, diligently pouring her innermost thoughts and feelings out via daily ‘morning pages’ which would eventually form the framework for some of ‘Howl’’s most personal lyrics. One day, meanwhile, during a chance visit to a festival bar, the universe threw her a lifeline. “I met a woman, now a friend, there who said she knew I would walk into her bar and that she manifested me,” Roach smiles. “She told me about a place she was creating in Portugal in the mountains, some farmland she had bought which was for helping people heal, and I just burst out crying. She was like, ‘What’s the matter, do you need somewhere to go?’ And I was just like, ‘Yes, I’ve been looking for somewhere’.”

Visiting the mountains of Serra de Estrella and being in nature (“It does things to your system”) became a pivotal part of the healing journey that ‘Howl’ would eventually document. Meditation, too, would prove integral to the process, as Roach embarked on guided sessions in which she would come face to face with previous versions of herself, working through the pain and trying to come to a place of peace. “It was a surreal journey into my psyche. I did a guided meditation about meeting my inner critic and having a conversation with them, and they said I had a dam of shame that they were trying to keep from spilling out,” she says. “I’ve cried with past versions of myself and made friends with them when sometimes at first it was too painful for us to face each other. I like to think of it as my ego structure showing itself to me so that I can understand myself better. With all its scars and its magic, it’s a beautiful thing.”

And so, with this great well of learning filling her up, Roach began to turn it all into her fourth album - one that she sees as “chapters” of this process, split into A side/ B side halves. The first sounds more traditionally like She Drew The Gun: prowling, primal offerings like ‘Howl’’s recently-released title track, that nods to swaggering artists like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club but with the societal dial turned up. Side B, however, sees Roach embrace the pop influences that have always been there (an ornament of Cher as a guardian angel hangs in her studio room). It is, for all intents and purposes, a collection of songs about love.

“There’s the side of the album which is the gun, the conscious spoken word, the thoughts and words on living in late capitalism, on war, on historical perspectives,” she explains. “But then there’s the other side of the album which is the heartbreak that I’ve been through, the love songs. I think it’s the thing of trauma being a coin with two sides; it opens up portals for you. The whole album’s got a bit of a magical side to it: witches, spells, the moon, the lovers, the cards being dealt, rituals, mirrors. I feel more connected to the Universe and there’s so much that it’s shown me.”

On ‘Mirrors’ (one of the Side A tracks born from her morning pages), she holds a glass up to herself over the years, addressing the reflections with grizzled stabs of guitar. ‘Washed In Blue’ - a second side highlight - meanwhile sees Roach harnessing her inner Springsteen with an unabashed heart-on-sleeve epic that allows itself to soar. They’re two totally different versions of the musician, but together they combine to paint a picture of an artist accepting and leaning into their multiplicities. “‘Nothing Lasts’ is about accepting that everything is transient, but another “What’s the Matter” is singing to yourself about remembering your own divinity and dusting yourself off and carrying on,” she continues. “The
message is to remember who you are and that you’re here in this realm to learn about yourself.”

Recorded alongside producer Ash Workman (Christine & The Queens, Metronomy) who helped bring the tracks’ pop side to life during sessions at his Margate studio, Roach also worked with her son Cole on ‘Howl’’s demos: the beginning of a familial working relationship that they’ve already shaken hands on to continue. It’s a heartwarming note in an album story that’s been far from plain sailing. Roach doesn’t claim to be ‘healed’ (if such a thing exists), but as she prepares to release She Drew The Gun’s impressively vulnerable fourth, she’s somewhere along the journey with a document that shows just how far she’s come.

“I’m not trying to say I’m enlightened at all. I’m just learning and doing better,” she says. “A howl can be a mourning thing, or it can be a scream out to the world, which is what a piece of art can be. It’s got a connection to primal energy and I feel like that’s what I’ve been connecting to - my past and a little bit of magic. ‘Howl’ captures that.”

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