“Is this singer wearing some sort of red nun’s habit?” asks one bemused punter as core. 2025 gets underway with self-styled local ‘noisey basterts’ cranking the volume in Glasgow’s 100-year-old Woodside Hall. Yes, indeed. A gleefully heavy, unapologetically odd new project born from big name acts Mogwai , The Twilight Sad, Aereogramme, Desalvo and Stretchheads, they feel like perfect bannermen for a festival on the outer reaches of alternative. Clashing sounds as ostensibly disparate as hardcore, doom and avant-garde electro out in the Scottish city’s lesser-rocked West End, and jumping around the calendar for the last three years (there will be ‘new dates’ again in 2026), core. might be an event that’s hard to get a handle on, but it’s a mind-bendingly good time.

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