A clip of us playing Contradiction at TJ’s in Newport recently!

Thanks to Sue for filming this

Nice review!:

Bristol-based trio Glow met while studying music at uni. You might expect, then, an album of virtuosic knob-twiddling and lab-tested musical perfection: and, though that does fuel this extraordinary debut, it runs more on a sheer fascination with music and all its strange, atmospheric possibilities. Thickly layered beats and samples, melancholy, sighing glides of brass, twitches and swerves from sequencers and keyboards: textbook electronica thus far. What’s far less expected is their pairing with Ben Johnson’s downbeat, almost nakedly honest vocals. There are echoes of Radiohead’s nervy electronica or Spiritualized’s celestial comedown drone, but there’s more warmth, emotion and vulnerability than either. Highlights: ’Open Your Heart’, a duetted autopsy of a relationship; ‘Tape Riser’, a twitching, bewitching beast, feverishly kinetic like The The’s epic synth/drum thumpalongs. And ‘Mathematikoi’ simply entrances: synth and trumpet that sound like a new planet being discovered. 

4/5

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We’ve just booked a last-minute gig supporting Halflight at Cardiff Barfly.

It’s this Wendesday - 11th June. Tickets are £5 (£4 with a flyer - we’ll try and get some) and doors are open at 7:30pm.

The original headline act pulled out, so Halflight took over as headline and kindly asked if we’d like to play. We love Halflight and have never played at the Barfly, so we’re really looking forward to it.

If you’re free on Wednesday, please come along and show your support. We’ll thank you by playing some excellent tunes and giving you free CDs, badges etc.

We had a great day out at Raglan yesterday and the weather was so nice that we played outside! A first for Glow… Here are some pics of the day.

Thanks to Doug Williams for taking these photos and allowing us to use them on the site!

We’ve been a bit quiet this month… After our gig in Chester early in May, where we showcased tracks from the new album, we took a bit of time off.

Now it’s June and we’re back, eager to show more people our new tracks and aim for world domination. Ha!

Upcoming this month we have a couple of great gigs. The first is next Sunday, the 8th of June, at Raglan Baptist Church. It’s part of Raglan Music Festival and the evening is being very kindly hosted by Rob Atkins of Frost at Midnight. The fun is kicking off at 5pm with a BBQ (weather permitting). Next up is music from Armstrong and then us. It’s only £3 and we’ll be giving a first airing of Borderline alongside new favourites Tape Riser, Contradiction and Your Turn.

Next up after that is a gig at the legendary TJ’s in Newport. Deano, who used to run nights at the Riverside Tavern, has moved over to TJ’s and started up ‘Black Cherub’ Promotions to showcase the best new music in South Wales. We’re playing there on Wednesday 25th June, alongside Project Serpo and Thinking with Sand.

So, a couple of gigs there for you lovely folk. Soon we’ll book some more gigs outside of South Wales.

Oh, one last thing… We’ve got a new toy. It’s a 1995-built harmoniser. Come along to one of our upcoming gigs to see it in action!!

Rob x

Last night we went over the bridge to Cardiff to record a radio interview with Adam Walton for his show on the Big British Castle’s Radio Wales. You can hear the interview by using the BBC’s listen again feature here.

In other news, all three of us have done remixes of Radiohead’s ‘Nude’. The band offered up the track to the general public this month and we though “yeah, why not”.

Here are our remixes:

Rob’s remix
Ben’s remix
Jim’s remix

Please vote for them if you like them!

There’s is an excellent review of Glow at godisinthetvzine.co.uk! Check it out:

Hailing from Bristol via Liverpool and Newport come heart stopping three piece Glow. Inventively splicing together comedown break beats akin to Fourtet dabbling with Aphex Twin - all delicious aching brass, glistening guitar lines that hark back to the work of Ride and hypnotic vocals that sigh and ache and reach, giving warmth to these electronic manoeuvres. Their dynamic structures even bring to mind the work of “Kid A” Radiohead without the all pervading sense of gloom. Instead, they create a hypnotic, heart melting sound that’s simultaneously life affirming and post apocalyptic, the glow on your child’s face after a screaming fit. It should be heard by many more ears than it currently is. Their debut album “I, Yeah” is out now digitally for the bargain price of five English pounds. As for the album supposedly being dead, each song burrows its way into the next with the awe inspiring power and warmth of Spiritualized at their best. The afterglow of creation never sounded so heartening.

Original article

Last night Adam Walton did something marvellous. He played the ENTIRE 53 minutes of ‘I, Yeah!’ on his radio show.

If you haven’t bought the album yet or just want to hear the album in full with a Glow-ing review (sorry, bad pun), you can, using the BBC’s listen again service:

LISTEN AGAIN HERE

It will be available for the rest of the week, after which it will be lost into the void…

If you haven’t bought the album yet, why not?! It’s only a fiver!!

Adam Walton has posted a really lovely blog post about our album, which you can read here.

Massive thanks go out to Adam, who has been extraordinarily supportive of Glow since we formed back in 2005. He’s helped get our music out to many new people and introduced us to lots of other new music at the same time.

Now available from iyeah.co.uk.

Only £5 to download, including a 23-page digital artwork booklet.

Glow x