The Old Hairdressers

Nappy Nina playing The Old Hairdressers Sat 16th Dec

Brooklyn based rapper Nappy Nina has carved out a distinctive niche within contemporary hiphop. Her storytelling skills and conversational but precise flow have seen the MC collaborate widely over the course of a young career, with figures ranging from hiphop veterans such as Quelle Chris and Stas Thee Boss, to DIY and avant garde musicians such as Moor Mother.
Growing up inn Oakland, she soaked up the confident sounds of the thriving West Coast hiphop scene of the 1990s, and made associations with writers and poets in the Bay Area and in the slam poetry community. After moving to New York in 2012, she quickly made a host of connections with the hiphop scene in Brooklyn, including a close relationship with Nelson Mandela, who she met on the street. She released a debut EP Naptime in 2015, and extended a lineage of jazz in her family (a broadcaster father-in-law, a musician grandfather) when she toured with Oakland trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire in 2019, a year that also saw the release of her debut album The Tree Act. In the years that followed, she has released music with producers JWords (Double Down) and Bandela (Really Good), among others.
Her talent for observational detail and evoking inner states with her wordplay have seen her address issues including family relationships, mental health and the Black q***r expérience in her music. Her new album Mourning Due addresses the experience of grief, and is released by the Lucid Haus label, of which she is co-founder.
Stas THEE Boss was born on Hilltop in Tacoma, but raised in the Southend of Seattle, Stasia represents her home through and through. After learning all the lyrics to Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice" at the age of 8, she realized that a career in Hip-Hop was her destiny. She is formerly one half of the Psychedelic-Space-Rap-Jazz duo THEESatisfaction, with whom she produced, wrote and performed. She signed with Sub Pop Records in 2011, and released two albums. She was able to spread her love of music to many countries like France, UK, Australia, China, Portugal and Iceland. She DJ’s for her labelmate, Nappy Nina.
Dip Friso's brilliant new record Crocodile or Real? A ghost dub broadcast shaped from a special K. Over-ripe bananas and quaaludes, looking across the concrete at screeching burn outs resonating into echo-streaked good morning sunshine. Beat a zig zag serpentine passage, and drift towards solid ground on the platform, are you coming down? Ported and stacked, slip into a stuttering seventh dub. Alarm bells and scattering footsteps in the carriage, that is ugly (what’s going on?) Space liquid danger waters, sink or swim, float forward inside out, Queens Park conga, last train (to Glasgow Central). Perfect storm clouds, take a beat dub cut-up bud, splash it out. Wherever you are, listen in, K!

Mourning Due, by Nappy Nina 14 track album

Announcing Pop Mutations 2023 - All Dayer down the lane!
An all day festival of music across two venues!
Tickets available at https://www.citizenticket.co.uk/events/pop-mutations/
Join us for 12 hours of music across Renfield lane in Stereo & The Old Hairdresser's on 14th of October!
Featuring (A-Z..)
Aaliyah Enyo
Apostille
Bis
boosterhooch
chizu nnamdi
Dorica
Eyve
Lung Leg
Plantainchipps b2b Elanda
+ more !
18+

This Sat 26th August, 8pm... 'Pull Shapes is back! An indie disco playing an eclectic mix of tunes to move your body to. Music policy - wall to wall bangers.'

We Are Hiring!

Bar Staff (Part Time) 1-2 Shifts (8-12 hours) per week.
Will be responsible for quick, efficient and friendly service of drinks.
Keeping tables and public areas clean and presentable.
Stock replenishment.
You must be available to work evenings and weekends.
More hours may become available to cover holidays or when available.

If you are interested please email your CV to [email protected]

This Monday 24th April

Birdleif Erikson at The Old Hairdresser's A new folk trio of Americans playing Scottish traditional music, performing live at The Old Hairdresser's with support from Miguel Girão.

GLASGOW CALLING! 🚨

FRIDAY 31ST MARCH2023, 8PM



ADAM MATSCHULAT - FORMOSA ALBUM LAUNCH + MARK VERNON + OLIVER PITT (DJ SET) .oliver

Adam Matschulat

Adam Matschulat is a London based composer and sound designer. His approach to composition and performance are deeply influenced by musique concrete and Grotowski’s poor theatre. He is a multifaceted storyteller focused in rendering internal psychological research to sonic experience, using field recording as materia prima.

Mark Vernon

Mark Vernon is a sound and radio artist whose practice is focused upon concepts of audio archaeology, magnetic memory and nostalgia. Operating on the fringes of sound art, music and broadcasting, his works main concerns are with field recording, the manipulation of environmental sounds and the power of the disembodied voice. A rich collection of domestic tape recordings; audio letters, dictated notes, answer-phone messages and other lost voices often find their way into his bewitching soundworlds. A keen advocate of radio as an art form, he also co-runs and curates Glasgow’s art radio station, Radiophrenia. His solo and collaborative music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Staalplaat, Flaming Pines, Ultra Eczema, Entr’acte, 3Leaves, Misanthropic Agenda and Canti Magnetici.

OLIVER PITT (DJ SET) .oliver

Oliver Pitt is graphic artist and musician based in Glasgow. He also runs Akashic Records, a label of unusual music in hand made packaging.

This Friday at Old The Old Hairdressers!!!!

27th August 2021, 7.30pm Cafe OTO Café OTO

CALLING CARDS PUBLISHING PRESENTS:
MARK VERNON & LAURA PHILLIPS + MARY HURRELL + JOHN MACEDO + ZIAD NAGY (DJ SET)

Laura Phillips

Laura Phillips, b.1986 Bristol, is a Sagittarius, non-smoking artist who lives and works between Bedminster, South Bristol and Southmead, North Bristol. Her work investigates the complexity of obsolescence and precarity as narrative devices. Phillips uses a mixture of photochemical processes, sounds and digital imagery and often makes work through conversation and collaboration. She makes films and plays waterphone in the audio-visual project Viridian Ensemble, who perform live improvised music and images (both digital and analogue) to produce an ethereal blend of film and noise which reimages folklore and femininity. Their recent releases include The Prelude commission for The Quietus and Aerial Festival 2020. Her work has been acquired by the Arts Council England Collection, and previous presentations of her work include at International Film Festival Rotterdam (2020); Supernormal Festival (2019) Oxfordshire; NAWR at BBC Studios Swansea (2019); and Arnolfini (2019/20), Bristol.

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A GIANT thank you to all the event organisers, artists & ticket holders who donated their deposit so we can pay the freelance sound engineers half their expected wage for cancelled events in April. Your support is above & beyond anything we could have expected. 🥰😭😇luv oldhairx

Venue closure due to developing health crisis.

In light of the COVID 19 outbreak we will be closing our doors at 10pm tonight, Monday 16th March. We must help protect the health of our staff and the public at large. Following the advice announced today by the UK Government and Public Health Board we will remain closed until further notice. We appreciate the custom and support you have shown over the years and particularly the past few difficult weeks. We will post further updates as we get them. Stay safe and hopefully we will serve you again soon.

8-11PM, 4th MARCH 2020
AN EVENING OF DANCING, POETIC PERFORMANCE, & SOUNDSCAPING

Join Jess Holdengarde and collaborators for an evening of spoken word, music, costume, and collective imagining toward the possibility of a future world. You are invited to dress for the future! using recycled and thrifted materials: come as post-human, part-human, super-human, or future-human, all imaginations welcome! Further details below.
https://imaginethefuture.cargo.site/Party