CORE FESTIVAL, WOODSIDE HALL, GLASGOW, DAY 1, AUGUST 2 2024

CORE is back! Same city, new venue, more metal than you could reasonably expect to see on a weekend in August. And other stuff.

Venue: WOODSIDE HALL, GLASGOW

Line-up:

NÜ CROS: Opening up this year's fest, Glaswegian alt-rock quartet. Punky and noisy.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/Ub2MgEsDkMY   https://www.facebook.com/NuCrosBand

WHITELANDS: Top class Emo-gaze kinda thing from London. Not metal in the slightest.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/Id0YP01lfLo   https://www.facebook.com/whitelandsband

GLITTERER: Emo-punks from Washington D.C.. That's in America, y'know. Slightly sadly, the only glitter on display is the eye make-up of the keyboard player.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Yeh2w1qt3IE   https://www.facebook.com/glitterererer

SHOW ME THE BODY: Incendiary New York Hardcore/Banjo-core/hip-hop trio. If that makes no sense to you, just watch the video.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/GU4ITRD8Qvw   https://www.facebook.com/smtb.official

There ye go. Day 1. A fair contrast to last year's relatively gentle emo-led Friday, with Glasgow lying in ruins after SHOW ME THE BODY's  furious set. Your intrepid blogger took a few sore ones to the back, but survived and will return for more.