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dear diary, here's what we've got coming up in May

Ticks at the link in bio

Art by @eippek

dear diary... here is the Pop Mutations 2025 spring/summer collection so far, lots to look forward to and lots of good stuff TBA over the next few months so keep your peepers peeled

Info and Tickets at www.popmutations.com, Citizen Ticket, See Tickets, Tickets Scotland and Resident Advisor ***links in bio***

poster by @eippek

Pop Mutations presents:
Norman Blake
and support from Adam Ross
Saturday 4th July
The Old Hairdresser's
18+ show
🎟️: via See & Citizen Ticket

Norman Blake is a Scottish songwriter and founding member of Teenage Fanclub. The band rose to prominence in the 1990s with hit albums such as Bandwagonesque and Grand Prix and quickly became known for their guitar-heavy melodic sound and sun-soaked harmonies. They have continued to develop into one of Scotland’s best loved bands and are currently working on a new album. Norman has also collaborated with a range of artists including Joe Pernice, Jad Fair, The Tenniscoats, Euros Childs, Bernard Butler and James Grant. This will be a rare opportunity to hear Norman sing songs from his extensive back-catalogue in a stripped-back setting.

Support comes from Adam Ross. Adam is a songwriter described as “one of Scotland’s most talented singers and songwriters” (Klof). His new album, Bring On The Apathy, is his third solo record, following on from 2024’s Littoral Zone produced by Andrew Wasylyk. He is known for his unique blend of indie-folk characterised by intricate lyrics which blend storytelling, humour and moments of poignancy. He is also the creative force behind indie-pop band Randolph’s Leap.

Pop Mutations presents:
Norman Blake
and support from Adam Ross
Saturday 4th July
The Old Hairdresser's
18+ show
🎟️: via See & Citizen Ticket

Norman Blake is a Scottish songwriter and founding member of Teenage Fanclub. The band rose to prominence in the 1990s with hit albums such as Bandwagonesque and Grand Prix and quickly became known for their guitar-heavy melodic sound and sun-soaked harmonies. They have continued to develop into one of Scotland’s best loved bands and are currently working on a new album. Norman has also collaborated with a range of artists including Joe Pernice, Jad Fair, The Tenniscoats, Euros Childs, Bernard Butler and James Grant. This will be a rare opportunity to hear Norman sing songs from his extensive back-catalogue in a stripped-back setting.

Support comes from Adam Ross. Adam is a songwriter described as “one of Scotland’s most talented singers and songwriters” (Klof). His new album, Bring On The Apathy, is his third solo record, following on from 2024’s Littoral Zone produced by Andrew Wasylyk. He is known for his unique blend of indie-folk characterised by intricate lyrics which blend storytelling, humour and moments of poignancy. He is also the creative force behind indie-pop band Randolph’s Leap.

monday~~
Pop Mutations & Freakender present:
screensaver
+ Pink Pound
Monday 25th May
The Old Hairdresser's
18+

Throwing off the shackles of existential dread with hypnotic beats, punk energy and swirling synths, screensaver take weighty themes about power, lies, corporate coercion and systemic failure and deliver them via their blend of maximalist post punk. With a dance heartbeat, a kraut-rock back bone and new wave glimmer, there’s a catharsis in their anxiety induced compositions that is both dark but danceable.

The band has released 3 full length albums to date all of which have received praise from the likes of
Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll, KEXP, Post Punk.com and Henry Rollins to name a few. The band has toured
Australia multiple times, embarked on two international tours, the USA in September 2022, playing Gonerfest 19 in Memphis, Tennessee and the UK and Europe in August 2024 including Get Lost Fest X in Hamburg, Germany.

They’ve also shared bills with Sleaford Mods, Tropical Fuck Storm, Party Dozen, Snooper, Coffin, Power Plant and more. The band on tour in Europe and the UK thanks to Annibale Tours in May/June 2026.

One week to go!
Pop Mutations & The Glad Cafe present:
@blind_yeo_band (@lostmaprecords )
+ @r4ggs
Tuesday 26th May at the Glad
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk
Video clip from Blind Yeo session for @kexp at @transmusicales
--
Led by Will Greenham, Blind Yeo features a shifting cast of members which at present includes Henry Greenham, Sam Pert, Anoushka Helm, Phil Self, Phyllida Bluemel and Dan Gilbert. The project began in the quiet and solitude of lockdown, before coming alive in a creatively explosive residency at the newly opened Cornish Bank in 2022 – a vibrant not-for-profit community arts space in the centre of Falmouth which has become the heart of a thriving underground Cornish scene of which Blind Yeo are very much a part. The band has since grown into a psychedelic carnival of sound best experienced live, as their memorable sets at festivals including Lost Map’s Christmas Humbug in Edinburgh and Great Estate and Tropical Pressure in Cornwall have proved.

Blind Yeo self-released their debut EP Echoes in April 2023, with tracks receiving plays from NTS, Soho Radio and BBC Introducing. It was followed in May 2024 by their Lost Map debut single ‘Otherside’ – a six-and-a-half-minute blur of motorik beats, rave synths and jagged electric guitar runs which received support from BBC 6 Music’s New Music Fix. Blind Yeo’s second EP Anam Cara was recorded last summer in bassist Jake Sheridan’s cob house, off-grid, solar powered studio hidden in woodland just off the north coast of Cornwall. Instead of putting it out as a purely standalone release, they’ve decided to pair it up with Echoes to create a revealing document of the band’s first two years together, and the thrilling journey of discovery they’ve been on to date – a journey that shows no time of stopping anytime soon

One week to go!
Pop Mutations & The Glad Cafe present:
@blind_yeo_band (@lostmaprecords )
+ @r4ggs
Tuesday 26th May at the Glad
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk
Video clip from Blind Yeo session for @kexp at @transmusicales
--
Led by Will Greenham, Blind Yeo features a shifting cast of members which at present includes Henry Greenham, Sam Pert, Anoushka Helm, Phil Self, Phyllida Bluemel and Dan Gilbert. The project began in the quiet and solitude of lockdown, before coming alive in a creatively explosive residency at the newly opened Cornish Bank in 2022 – a vibrant not-for-profit community arts space in the centre of Falmouth which has become the heart of a thriving underground Cornish scene of which Blind Yeo are very much a part. The band has since grown into a psychedelic carnival of sound best experienced live, as their memorable sets at festivals including Lost Map’s Christmas Humbug in Edinburgh and Great Estate and Tropical Pressure in Cornwall have proved.

Blind Yeo self-released their debut EP Echoes in April 2023, with tracks receiving plays from NTS, Soho Radio and BBC Introducing. It was followed in May 2024 by their Lost Map debut single ‘Otherside’ – a six-and-a-half-minute blur of motorik beats, rave synths and jagged electric guitar runs which received support from BBC 6 Music’s New Music Fix. Blind Yeo’s second EP Anam Cara was recorded last summer in bassist Jake Sheridan’s cob house, off-grid, solar powered studio hidden in woodland just off the north coast of Cornwall. Instead of putting it out as a purely standalone release, they’ve decided to pair it up with Echoes to create a revealing document of the band’s first two years together, and the thrilling journey of discovery they’ve been on to date – a journey that shows no time of stopping anytime soon

Friday~ ticks running low~
Pop Mutations presents:
The Ex
+ The Chop
Friday 22nd May
The Flying Duck
18+

Few bands are as focused on potential challenges, on what is yet to come, as The Ex. Which is pretty remarkable for a band that celebrated 45 years of existence last year, a turbulent journey filled with an impressive series of highlights. However, nostalgia has never been this band's forte, as they like no other succeed in reinventing themselves, finding new alliances and fascinating challenges along the way. Stay out of that comfort zone for long enough and it just might disappear.

Take a look at the band's story - an unpredictably winding road you can partly keep track of with the chronological series of reissues that they have been making available - and you'll conclude that there never was any stagnation. What started with raucous punk, rooted in the squatting and punk movements of the late 70s, turned into an impossible-to-label range that made its mark nationally as well as internationally.

The Ex played more than 2000 concerts in 45 countries, often as a pioneer. In the 80s, they were one of the very first Western bands to explore Central and Eastern- Europe, from Hungary to the former Czechoslovakia, Poland and Russia. Only after that, Canada and the United States followed. A crucial link turned up at the start of the new millennium, when the band traveled to Ethiopia for the first time, backed by a VPRO TV crew. It was the start of a unique chapter in the band's history: several tours (on several continents), an intense collaboration with Ethiopian artists (from Getatchew Mekuria, with whom they played more than 100 concerts, to dancer and cultural ambassador Melaku Belay, and many others) and lots of releases ensured The Ex also became a pioneer in the 'crossover' world, where music from different regions collides.

poster by @cal.donnelly

📢 LAST CALL for @dylanhenner live at the Glad tomorrow night, with special guests @neilpquigley + @louary_
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk / RA
Video clip from Henner's visual album, 'Bart vs The World (ambient Simpsons)'
--
Little is known about Dylan Henner, who landed on the ambient scene in 2020 with cassette releases for Phantom Limb, Belgian label Dauw, and cult tastemakers AD93. He barely promotes himself publicly, instead choosing to communicate through disarmingly poetic song titles. His debut album “The Invention of the Human” (AD93, 2020 - a recipient of BBC 6Music’s Album of the Year honours) responds to a set of philosophical questions - what exactly makes us human? What good is civilisation when there’s so much misery attached to it? How will technology affect humanity in the long run? In 2022, he released follow-up You Always Will Be on AD93, which traced the course of a single life from birth, to childhood, to adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle-age, old-age, and demise. He has also covered Raymond Scott, Terry Riley, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Su Tissue among numerous further projects.

Dylan Henner's new album is a deeply considered choral-laced experimental album of ambient music 'Star Dream FM', and said to be taped from a mysterious radio broadcast that plays his favourite memories from adolescence.

Neil Quigley is a composer, artist and writer from Ireland who is currently living between Kilkenny, Ireland and Glasgow, Scotland.
His recent solo works centre on a speculative history of an audio research laboratory based in parochial Ireland in the late 20th century. This work is released as an ongoing anthology series entitled the "Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology”, the third volume of which is coming out on May 1st.

Louary is a Scottish-Canadian sound artist and composer who draws on field recordings as compositional material to translate their inner and outer worlds sonically. Blending malleable analog synth, broken textured percussion and ambient vocal melodies, their work explores the intersection of found sound and introspective storytelling influenced by the sonic life around them.

📢 LAST CALL for @dylanhenner live at the Glad tomorrow night, with special guests @neilpquigley + @louary_
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk / RA
Video clip from Henner's visual album, 'Bart vs The World (ambient Simpsons)'
--
Little is known about Dylan Henner, who landed on the ambient scene in 2020 with cassette releases for Phantom Limb, Belgian label Dauw, and cult tastemakers AD93. He barely promotes himself publicly, instead choosing to communicate through disarmingly poetic song titles. His debut album “The Invention of the Human” (AD93, 2020 - a recipient of BBC 6Music’s Album of the Year honours) responds to a set of philosophical questions - what exactly makes us human? What good is civilisation when there’s so much misery attached to it? How will technology affect humanity in the long run? In 2022, he released follow-up You Always Will Be on AD93, which traced the course of a single life from birth, to childhood, to adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle-age, old-age, and demise. He has also covered Raymond Scott, Terry Riley, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Su Tissue among numerous further projects.

Dylan Henner's new album is a deeply considered choral-laced experimental album of ambient music 'Star Dream FM', and said to be taped from a mysterious radio broadcast that plays his favourite memories from adolescence.

Neil Quigley is a composer, artist and writer from Ireland who is currently living between Kilkenny, Ireland and Glasgow, Scotland.
His recent solo works centre on a speculative history of an audio research laboratory based in parochial Ireland in the late 20th century. This work is released as an ongoing anthology series entitled the "Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology”, the third volume of which is coming out on May 1st.

Louary is a Scottish-Canadian sound artist and composer who draws on field recordings as compositional material to translate their inner and outer worlds sonically. Blending malleable analog synth, broken textured percussion and ambient vocal melodies, their work explores the intersection of found sound and introspective storytelling influenced by the sonic life around them.

📢 LAST CALL for @dylanhenner live at the Glad tomorrow night, with special guests @neilpquigley + @louary_
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk / RA
Video clip from Henner's visual album, 'Bart vs The World (ambient Simpsons)'
--
Little is known about Dylan Henner, who landed on the ambient scene in 2020 with cassette releases for Phantom Limb, Belgian label Dauw, and cult tastemakers AD93. He barely promotes himself publicly, instead choosing to communicate through disarmingly poetic song titles. His debut album “The Invention of the Human” (AD93, 2020 - a recipient of BBC 6Music’s Album of the Year honours) responds to a set of philosophical questions - what exactly makes us human? What good is civilisation when there’s so much misery attached to it? How will technology affect humanity in the long run? In 2022, he released follow-up You Always Will Be on AD93, which traced the course of a single life from birth, to childhood, to adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle-age, old-age, and demise. He has also covered Raymond Scott, Terry Riley, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Su Tissue among numerous further projects.

Dylan Henner's new album is a deeply considered choral-laced experimental album of ambient music 'Star Dream FM', and said to be taped from a mysterious radio broadcast that plays his favourite memories from adolescence.

Neil Quigley is a composer, artist and writer from Ireland who is currently living between Kilkenny, Ireland and Glasgow, Scotland.
His recent solo works centre on a speculative history of an audio research laboratory based in parochial Ireland in the late 20th century. This work is released as an ongoing anthology series entitled the "Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology”, the third volume of which is coming out on May 1st.

Louary is a Scottish-Canadian sound artist and composer who draws on field recordings as compositional material to translate their inner and outer worlds sonically. Blending malleable analog synth, broken textured percussion and ambient vocal melodies, their work explores the intersection of found sound and introspective storytelling influenced by the sonic life around them.

📢 LAST CALL for @dylanhenner live at the Glad tomorrow night, with special guests @neilpquigley + @louary_
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk / RA
Video clip from Henner's visual album, 'Bart vs The World (ambient Simpsons)'
--
Little is known about Dylan Henner, who landed on the ambient scene in 2020 with cassette releases for Phantom Limb, Belgian label Dauw, and cult tastemakers AD93. He barely promotes himself publicly, instead choosing to communicate through disarmingly poetic song titles. His debut album “The Invention of the Human” (AD93, 2020 - a recipient of BBC 6Music’s Album of the Year honours) responds to a set of philosophical questions - what exactly makes us human? What good is civilisation when there’s so much misery attached to it? How will technology affect humanity in the long run? In 2022, he released follow-up You Always Will Be on AD93, which traced the course of a single life from birth, to childhood, to adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle-age, old-age, and demise. He has also covered Raymond Scott, Terry Riley, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Su Tissue among numerous further projects.

Dylan Henner's new album is a deeply considered choral-laced experimental album of ambient music 'Star Dream FM', and said to be taped from a mysterious radio broadcast that plays his favourite memories from adolescence.

Neil Quigley is a composer, artist and writer from Ireland who is currently living between Kilkenny, Ireland and Glasgow, Scotland.
His recent solo works centre on a speculative history of an audio research laboratory based in parochial Ireland in the late 20th century. This work is released as an ongoing anthology series entitled the "Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology”, the third volume of which is coming out on May 1st.

Louary is a Scottish-Canadian sound artist and composer who draws on field recordings as compositional material to translate their inner and outer worlds sonically. Blending malleable analog synth, broken textured percussion and ambient vocal melodies, their work explores the intersection of found sound and introspective storytelling influenced by the sonic life around them.

We have some very exciting news

On the 24th of June, The Floordwellers will be supporting @levitation_room at Stereo.
You will deeply regret missing this show so make sure you get tickets before they sell out.
Levitation Room are a fantastic psych band all the way from LA.

Big thanks to @popmutations and @freakenderglasgow for putting us on this bill.

TFD x

Pop Mutations & The Glad Cafe present:
@blind_yeo_band (@lostmaprecords)
+ @r4ggs
Tuesday 26th May at the Glad
🎟️: www.thegladcafe.co.uk
Video clip from Blind Yeo session for @kexp at @transmusicales
--
Led by Will Greenham, Blind Yeo features a shifting cast of members which at present includes Henry Greenham, Sam Pert, Anoushka Helm, Jake Sheridan, Phil Self, Phyllida Bluemel and Dan Gilbert. The project began in the quiet and solitude of lockdown, before coming alive in a creatively explosive residency at the newly opened Cornish Bank in 2022 – a vibrant not-for-profit community arts space in the centre of Falmouth which has become the heart of a thriving underground Cornish scene of which Blind Yeo are very much a part. The band has since grown into a psychedelic carnival of sound best experienced live, as their memorable sets at festivals including Lost Map’s Christmas Humbug in Edinburgh and Great Estate and Tropical Pressure in Cornwall have proved.

Blind Yeo self-released their debut EP Echoes in April 2023, with tracks receiving plays from NTS, Soho Radio and BBC Introducing. It was followed in May 2024 by their Lost Map debut single ‘Otherside’ – a six-and-a-half-minute blur of motorik beats, rave synths and jagged electric guitar runs which received support from BBC 6 Music’s New Music Fix. Blind Yeo’s second EP Anam Cara was recorded last summer in bassist Jake Sheridan’s cob house, off-grid, solar powered studio hidden in woodland just off the north coast of Cornwall. Instead of putting it out as a purely standalone release, they’ve decided to pair it up with Echoes to create a revealing document of the band’s first two years together, and the thrilling journey of discovery they’ve been on to date – a journey that shows no time of stopping anytime soon.

Monday~~
Pop Mutations & Freakender present:
MAQUINA.
+ ALL MEGA
Monday 18th May
The Flying Duck
18+

The fierce Lisbon trio MAQUINA. pushes the edges of body music with hypnotic krautrock rhythms, driving industrial beats, and raw punk power. Their live-centered sound thrives on relentless drums, gritty bass, and sharp guitar noise, delivering primal intensity that breaks genre boundaries. Their 2024 album ‘PRATA’ channels organic dance energy perfect for both underground clubs and dance floors alike. MAQUINA.’s live performances are second to none where the repetition leads to steaming mosh pits every single time.

couple weeks away~ supports added~
Pop Mutations presents:
Car Culture
+ Loris S. Sarid
+ Loradeniz
Wednesday 27th May
The Old Hairdresser's
18+

New Jersey born, Queens based artist Car Culture, the alias of Daniel Fisher (best known as Physical Therapy), releases his new album Rest Here via NAFF Recordings. Exemplifying Fisher’s wide ranging approach to production, Rest Here plays like a well-worn mixtape: ranging from fuzzy dream pop to hypnotic downtempo. Rest Here includes the single “Doesn’t Really Matter,” a hazy power ballad duet with vocals from Fisher and Chicago-based indie star Squirrel Flower.

As Car Culture, Fisher brings focus to his sentimental side. In the fan-favorite Remissions mix series, he collages fuzzy folktronica, found sounds and unexpected edits into foot-gazing narratives.

As Physical Therapy, Fisher has gained a cult following for his dynamic DJ sets and playful productions. From unassuming beginnings in New York City dive bars, Fisher carved a path through the Brooklyn warehouse scene before moving to Berlin in 2013 and starting his own label, Allergy Season. In Germany, Fisher absorbed the sounds of the scene and developed his own, singular interpretation of dance music — closer to the jocular energy of the 90s than the heads-down thumpers Berlin is known for. Regular slots at Berghain and Panorama Bar soon followed. Meanwhile Fisher kept a presence on the New York scene with Allergy Season parties at warehouses and venues like Bossa Nova Civic Club.

Over the course of the last 15 years, Fisher has had a prolific, zig-zagging career, releasing genre-agnostic music under a number of aliases, often on his own Allergy Season label. From his first EP on the ground breaking label Hippos In Tanks, Fisher has continually created surprising, playful electronic music. Through his DJ sets around the globe and his long running NTS Radio show, Fisher manages to weave these many threads together.

friday night~~
Pop Mutations presents:
Chris Stamey (The dB's, Big Star)
+ The Martial Arts
+ Chris Reeve
Friday 15th May
The Glad Cafe
18+

Chris Stamey is an indie-rock icon with a long and illustrious history that’s encompassed co-founding seminal avant-pop band The dBs, playing with Alex Chilton in the 70s, and more recently with Jody Stephens's Big Star Quintet. His upcoming album, Modernism (May 1) was conceived as a companion piece to 2025’s lauded Anything Is Possible (with guests the Lemon Twigs), and is a further “love letter” to the kaleidoscopic variety of music heard on AM and free-form FM radio in the 1960s and early 70s. It features many of his favorite songs from that era, with special guests such as Jody Stephens (Big Star), Pat Sansone (Wilco), long-time cohort Mitch Easter, Probyn Gregory and Nelson Bragg (formerly of the Brian Wilson band), The dB’s, NC legend Wes Lachot, and Emily Frantz (Watchhouse), among others. First singles are “Hey Bulldog” (with Stephens) and “Waterloo Sunset” (with The dB’s).

As a producer and a featured singer/songwriter with the Paris-based Salt Collective project, he has collaborated with Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Juliana Hatfield, Richard Lloyd (Television), Matthew Sweet, Aimee Mann, Andy Partridge, The Lemon Twigs, Mike Mills, and Lynn Blakey, among others. As a producer, arranger, and mixer, he has worked with over a hundred artists, including Alejandro Escovedo, Kronos Quartet, Flat Duo Jets, Skylar Gudasz, Branford Marsalis, Tift Merritt, Le Tigre, Those Pretty Wrongs, Ryan Adams, and Yo La Tengo.

Other tracks on the new record Modernism include Sly and the Family Stone’s “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” (featuring the Uptown Horns, Brian Dennis [DAG], and Jon Wurster [Mountain Goats, Superchunk]), “Shadows Breaking Over My Head” by the Left Banke, “Hernando’s Hideaway” (from The Pajama Game, and a 1954 hit for Everly Bros. producer Archie Bleyer), “At Last” (by Harry Warren), as well as three new interpretations of his own earlier tunes. There’s also a closer of the Rolling Stones’ “Ruby Tuesday,” a version produced by Alex Chilton in 1977.