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Name Radioactive Man aka Keith Tenniswood.
Occupation Non-lone member of Two Lone Swordsmen. alongsrde somewhat legendary house and rock'n'roll producer Andrew Weatherall. Tenniswood is also a DJ for hire whose tastes centre on dirty electro and hard- edged techno; his liking for assorted off-the-wall strangeness is almost as diverse as Weatherall's. He runs the Control Tower electro label alongside Simon Brown. aka The Dexorcist. and the Rotters Golf Club imprint with Weatherall.
Greatest hits DeSpite releasing various records under his Radioactive Man alias on Rotters Golf Club (notably 2001 '3 self- titled debut and 2003's Booby Trap), Tenniswood is most famous for Two Lone Swordsmen’s output. His association with Weatherall started when the pair frequented the same mid-908 techno clubs together — including Weatherall's own Sabresonic - and Tenniswood began helping engineer Weatherall's old band Sabres of Paradise. The Swordsmen‘s releases have appeared on Warp and their own label. the most recent being this year's punk-disco studio-set Wrong Meeting and Wrong Meeting //.
Any other business? Also on the bill is Kid Twrst. aka Colin Bailey. who adopts an upbeat kind of glitch-disco sound. Originally from Oban. Bailey started DJing and producing when he lived in Glasgow (he still helps run the monthly New Wave/Krautrock/ rock'n'roll night Kaput! at the Hold. underneath the Admiral Bar), but his career has taken off following a recent move to London. Regularly played on Mary Anne Hobbs' Radio One show and a semi-regular at Fabric (the club). Tenniswood‘s debut LP is pencilled in as the first non- compilation artist album on Fabric (the label). It's intended that record will be produced by fellow Scot Howie 8. who famousiy worked with the likes of Bjdrk and U2. Catch him here before everyone knows his name. (David Pollock) I Radioactive Man and Kid Twist play Kinky Afro 's eighth birthday at the Sub Club, Glasgow. Fri 26 Oct.
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Xplicit at the Arches. Glasgow. Thu 1 Nov; Potterrow. Edinburgh. Fri 2 Nov
They’ve become firm friends with the crew at Xplicit and Pendulum are once again winging their way up to Scotland. Their visit coincides with Xplicit making their Arches debut in Glasgow, taking the club to another level on the west coast. But that‘s not the only change to the Xplicit format as the three-headed beats monster that is Pendulum will be performing as a full live band. amping up their heavy drum & bass sound with snarling guitar riffs, pounding drums and thudding bass, mixed with a bank of furious samples and MC skills.
Hailing from Perth, Australia, producers Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen joined forces with DJ Paul
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Harding back in 2002 and Pendulum was unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Mixing their love of hip hop, breaks, metal and punk, they created their own brand of in your face drum 8. bass. ‘Slam' was a huge crossover hit and led to them remixing the likes of the Prodigy, as well as the release of their debut album Hold Your Colour.
Now the band are moving to the next stage with this live tour. ‘We want our music to be an escape,‘ they explain. ‘That was the energy we picked up on and liked about electronic music when we first got into it. It felt like the same energy found with bands like Led Zeppelin and even The Beatles. and still occasionally today with bands like Tool, The Mars Volta, and Queens Of The Stone Age. To us. it made perfect sense to combine the best of both worlds.‘ (Henry Northmore)