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Time Out
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Teenage Fanclub opens Primavera Club 2025
The Primavera Sound experience keeps expanding and is now launching the first local edition of Primavera Club in Buenos Aires—a curated concert series that brings key names from the international music scene to the city. In other capitals, the event has already become a must for music lovers and trend seekers. Its debut in Argentina will take place on September 9 with an unforgettable show: Teenage Fanclub, 'the best band in the world according to Oasis,' at C Art Media, with Sebastián Arpesella as the opening act. Tickets are available through Enigma Tickets. Formed in Glasgow in the late '80s, Teenage Fanclub is one of the cornerstones of British indie rock. Their discography—featuring essential albums like Bandwagonesque, Grand Prix, and Songs from Northern Britain —is pure cult. Their latest release, Nothing Lasts Forever (2023), proves the enduring relevance of a band that knows how to reinvent itself without losing its essence. The Buenos Aires concert, produced by PopArt Music, will mark the beginning of a series that promises to sync the city with the very best of the global music scene. What is Primavera Club? Unlike the festival format of Primavera Sound, Primavera Club offers a more intimate experience: indoor concerts, meticulous curation, and a direct connection between artists and audiences. The series brings together both established names and new trailblazers who are shaping the sound of today. "Primavera Club offers an intimate experience and meticulous curation" The arrival of Primavera Club in Buenos Aires represents an alliance between the international prestige of Primavera Sound and the local production expertise of PopArt Music, aiming to broaden the live music landscape with a solid, contemporary, and long-lasting concept. Who will perform at Primavera Club 2025 in Buenos Aires? Teenage Fanclub – September 9 – C Art Media Bloc Party – November 5 – C Art Media Otoboke Beaver – November 6 – Niceto Club Why you can't miss Teenage Fanclub at C Art Media: Because they're one of the most influential bands in global indie. Because their C Art Media show will be an emotional journey through more than 30 years of music. Because they're opening a new series that promises to change the way live music is experienced in Buenos Aires.
Scotsman
31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Teenage Fanclub Glasgow Kelvingrove Bandstand Stage Times: Gig set times, support, tickets, likely setlist
Teenage Fanclub have a date with Glasgow. | Getty Images One of Scotland's most beloved bands are playing Glasgow this week. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Formed in Glasgow in 1989, Teenage Fanclub were one of the leading lights of the C86 movement. They found fame with sophomore album Bandwagonesque, which beat Nirvana and R.E.M. to the top spot of Spin magazine's 1991 end-of -year poll. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Regularly cited by Kurt Cobain as one of his favourite bands, the 'Bellshill Beatles' were signed to Creation Records, with label mate Liam Gallagher calling them 'the second best band in the world" after the release of fifth album Grand Prix. Through the years the band have gone through a number of lineup changes, but founder members Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley remain - joined by long time drummer and vocalist Francis Macdonald, Dave McGowan and Euros Childs. They have now released no fewer than 13 studio albums, most recently 2023's Nothing Lasts Forever, and are playing a hometown gig this week. Here's everything you need to know. When are Teenage Fanclub playing Glasgow? Teenage Fanclub plays Glasgow's Kelvingrove Bandstand as part of the Summer Night series on Thursday, July 31. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Who is supporting Teenage Fanclub at the Kelvingrove Bandstand? Teenage Fanclub will be supported in Glasgow by constant follower - the Scottish Album Award shortlisted band led by Scottish songwriter Stephen McAll. What are the set times for Teenage Fanclub at the Kelvingrove Bandstand? Here's how the evening will play out: Doors: 6.30pm constant follower: 7.45pm Interval: 8.30pm Teenage Fanclub: 9pm Finish: 10.40pm Can I still get tickets for Teenage Fanclub's Glasgow concert? If you are looking for a late ticket you are in luck - there are still tickets available here. Tickets are priced at £48.25. Are there age restictions for Teenage Fanclub's Glasgow gig? Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted and it's suggested the show is only suitable for those over the age of 14. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18. What is the likely Teenage Fanclub setlist for Glasgow? Teenage Fanclub have only been playing festivals thusfar this year, so unless your name is Norman Blake nobody knows exactly what they'll play, Having said that, expect to hear the majority of the following, which they've been playing at festivals.
The Guardian
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Scotland's most reliable sunshine! Teenage Fanclub's greatest songs
In 2018, bassist Gerry Love departed Teenage Fanclub (TFC) after 29 years, much to fans' despair. It's perhaps a little romantic to see The First Sight as his parting gift, but it's certainly an impressive closing statement of his songwriting talent: an intricate mesh of guitars, a buoyant horn section, and a typically stunning tune. Most artists called upon to pad out a best-of collection with a few new tracks – by a major label about to drop them – would understandably offer something substandard. Not TFC. Driven by an unexpectedly tricky rhythm, Did I Say is folky, beautiful and a noticeable diversion from their usual style. Bandwagonesque's follow-up Thirteen gets a bad rap, not least from the band themselves – its recording was fraught – but 30-odd years on, it sounds better than its reputation suggests. Escher certainly smooths out Bandwagonesque's rougher edges, but its drawing of a muddled relationship is no less charming for that. From its title down, TFC's most recent album Nothing Lasts Forever conjured up a kind of twilit optimism: a band staring down their 60s, slightly bruised by life but facing forward. Final track, I Will Love You sums the mood up: slowly shimmering atmospherics that eventually burst into striking, warm vocal harmonies. A joy. The arrangement of Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From is almost wilfully understated – for most of its three minutes, you could be eavesdropping on a rehearsal – but its no-frills simplicity allows the songwriting, a sigh of contentment in musical form, to shine all the more clearly. TFC aren't famous for brooding, which makes the sombre tone of Cells all the more striking: the muted take on their sound perfectly fits a set of lyrics haunted by a very middle-aged sense of ageing and loss. And the lengthy acoustic guitar coda is just exquisite. Before their perplexing second album, The King – seven grungy instrumental originals and covers of Pink Floyd's Interstellar Overdrive and Madonna's Like a Virgin – TFC released one-off single God Knows It's True. It's solo-heavy and slacker sloppy but crucially also a fabulous song. Initially, TFC were a boozy, chaotic proposition, particularly live, but they proved surprisingly adept at growing up in public. Planets alchemises an unpromising subject – relocating to the countryside with your growing family – into musical gold. Sweet, but not cloying, there's something really moving about its string-laden sense of contentment. You couldn't miss the influence of Big Star on Bandwagonesque – it even featured a quote from their lyrics on the cover – but nowhere was it deployed more spectacularly than on Alcoholiday, a glorious, harmony-laden depiction of uncertainty over a blossoming relationship: 'Went to bed, but I'm not ready / Baby I've been fucked already.' It was Bandwagonesque producer Don Fleming who first suggested TFC concentrate on harmony vocals, but nowhere in their catalogue were they deployed to more euphoric effect than on the second single from Songs from Northern Britain, which is furthermore blessed with the kind of tune that isn't ripped off from anywhere yet sounds instantly familiar. The chaotic early Fanclub had their moments, but the release of The Concept introduced the TFC that Kurt Cobain called 'the best band in the world': the guitars are still unruly with feedback, but the melodies are amped up to match them, the vocal harmonies are luscious, the lyrics smart and witty. The idea that none of the singles from Grand Prix made the Top 30 seems absolutely confounding: how could anything as self-evidently brilliant, as insanely tuneful as Neil Jung – romantic disaster plus incredible chorus plus fantastic (and suitably Neil Young-ish) guitar solo – not have been a huge hit? What was wrong with people? The great TFC deep cut, Broken was inexplicably relegated to a B-side. An acoustic guitar and organ-driven masterpiece of beautiful, mournful simplicity – the lyrics feature just one line, endlessly repeated – it has subsequently also evaded streaming services. If you don't know it, seek it out and luxuriate in its divine melancholy. Packaged in a terrible sleeve and released by an indifferent major label to a decidedly muted response, 2000's Howdy! tends to get overlooked. But if it's not quite as good as its two predecessors (Songs from Northern Britain and Grand Prix), it's still pretty great, as demonstrated by opener I Need Direction: unassuming but utterly delightful, thick with Beach Boys harmonies. By the time of 2010's Shadows, it was clear that TFC were refining their sound rather than radically overhauling it, but they could still surprise you with the sheer quality of their songwriting. The Norman Blake-penned Baby Lee – lyrical misery, impossibly sunny music – is a triumph. Apparently, Love's favourite among the songs he wrote for Teenage Fanclub, the autumnal Don't Look Back builds wonderfully from reflective verses into a monster chorus. The advice said chorus doles out, and the acoustic version on the Teenage Fanclub Have Lost It EP, are both worth heeding. Debut album A Catholic Education is messier and noisier than the rest of TFC's output: a decisive, Crazy Horse-influenced, instrumental jam-laden break with the members' C86 pasts. But, Everything Flows – twentysomething ennui with a wonderful, wistful melody beneath the guitar overload – pointed the way ahead, an early song as good as any they've written. Star Sign initially sounds like a Sonic Youth-y drone experiment – over a minute of beat-less monotone guitar – before exploding into life: an irresistible tune built around the kind of descending-but-uplifting chord sequences that helped define glam rock, and a lyric that keeps indifferently shrugging 'big deal' in a way that's very early 90s. Songs from Northern Britain's jewel, and – perhaps – TFC's essence distilled: plangent guitars, sunlit harmonies, a melody the Fifth Dimension-era Byrds would have been proud of, life's simple pleasures unfashionably hymned at the height of Britpop's gruesome cokey grandiosity ('here is a sunrise – ain't that enough?'). What a lovely song. The songs at the top of this list are all so great, ranking them is mostly just a matter of personal preference, but the highlight of Grand Prix clinches it on the basis of its sheer ebullience – enough to pull any listener out of a gloomy mood – and its absolutely preposterous abundance of hooks: the main riff, the moment in the verses where the vocal melody soars upwards, the solo guitar motif that introduces the chorus, all three parts of the chorus. It's essentially an album's worth of incredible tunes crammed into three minutes – not a second of them wasted – and it sounds effortless.
