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Get ready, Glasgow! John Legend's "Get Lifted" 20th Anniversary World Tour is hitting the OVO Hydro! Discover all the tour dates, and the ic
GET READY, GLASGOW! My ultimate musical idol, John Legend, is bringing his legendary 'Get Lifted' 20th Anniversary World Tour to the OVO Hydro! 🤯 Twenty years of pure genius wrapped into one incredible live experience.
I'm officially buzzing and just broke down everything you need to know about the tour, the iconic album, and why this is a must-see event. You know you want to relive those 'Ordinary People' vibes!
Full details & tour dates on my blog:
Slipknot - 25th Anniversary tour, Bleed From Within
Date and Loc: Dec 16, Ovo Hydro
You may have noticed nu metal is going through a revival atm - the genre everyone hated, everyone now loves.
Slipknot are probably the standard bearers least impacted by the genre's comeback, at least commercially - they're likely the band that best weathered the ebbs and flows of the genre's fortunes. From a scan of setlist.fm, the Hydro has been their regular home in Scotland over the years (versus Limp Bizkit, who sold out the Hydro in minutes for 2025, but who last played Scotland at the O2 academy, a fraction of the size).
All the same - the gig does still speak to this change. Slipknot's shows have been known for theatrics: mechanical risers, pyrotechical displays and all the rest. The 25th Anniversary tour speaks directly to the nu metal reassessment in that it disposes with all of that (and all of the later 00s rock & pop-orientated radio-hits that'd usually support the setlist).
Instead, the emphasis is solely on the music and the performance of that music. It makes a case of Slipknot's debut as foundational, one of the last rock/metal albums with enough cultural reach to feel seismic. It is, in any case, enough to anchor a full show. You don't really miss the hits.
The show is, very simply, nine people in gimp masks and boiler suits banging their instruments really hard for 85 minutes. It is as stripped back as you can get starting from that premise.
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The support act, Bleed From Within, I've seen before - opening for Trivium a year ago. I think they're good, but trade in a particular style of Architects-adjacent metalcore that doesn't do a massive amount for me. It is hard to stand out in this space, in my view, as there are a lot of bands mining a very similar sound atm. BFW *do*, just about, stand out is because of their approach to live performance. In terms of execution, they're obviously very strong.
I do think their latest single, which introduces bagpipes, feels like the band potentially alighting on a USP that'll make their next record worth checking out. And as a homecoming show - it does feel worth noting that they got the crowd moving even more than the headliner managed.
Charli XCX: BRAT, and Shygirl
Date and Loc: Dec 2, Hydro Glasgow
Who: this is Tumblr so Charli XCX, and the brat phenomenon, do not need an intro. A long-time popheads fav - most notable in the 2010s for being the act best able to straddle the early 2010s PCmusic movement *and* the mainstream charts.
Here's why 'brat' felt so significant as a release: the 'pc music' umbrella brand announced its formal closure, having remained firmly a cult item despite its obvious and consistent quality, and sophie's estate were tidying up her only posthumous release. It was over. 'brat didn't so much revive as reclaim and repurpose it. While also finally bringing Charli firmly into the pop mainstream. It is the album of the year.
Support act Shygirl meanwhile does experimental pop - as programming, a very good fit for Charli as someone coming from a related but distinct space, much more deconstructed club.
Why am I here: I am an OG. I was at university in London from 2010-2013. I literally thought about PC Music releases about as much as any of the books i did my silly english lit degree on. I have only seen Charli once before - opening for Taylor on the Reputation tour, a gig in which the sound was bad and which was still years prior to most of her best tunes.
Solo: no im with my beautiful gf and a friend.
Was it good: Yes. This is a perfect arena gig.
As a fan, there's an obvious, immediate joy in watching someone who has spent a decade calibrating their persona finally nail it. And the songs are great. She has complete command of the space.
But thing to note here is the production of the show - it is *so* expertly designed and staged.
It achieves contradictory effects simultaneously. It makes the arena feel as big a stadium, like you're watching the biggest show you've ever been to, while also feeling as immediate and intimate as a club.
The mechanism that makes this contradiction possible is actually really simple - it's a combination of a clean, unobtrusive set design and a camera.
The standard set-up is that the elements that facilitate productions at this scale - the camera operators most notably - are meant to be invisible. 'brat', as a show, works them explicitly into the choreography. As an album, 'brat' is about being famous - as a show, it embodies that narrative in the act of being filmed, loving and hating it. The choreography, at every moment of the show, is built around the mediation that shows like this generally both rely on yet try to de-emphasise.
This approach extends out towards the production design - it is very simple and stark, at once ensuring minimal obstruction for the camera, but I think also, as an aesthetic, is intended to feel like the backstage. 'brat' frequently feels less like a pop concert, than a play about putting on a concert.
When I say 'a play', there are specific plays I mean. It feels like significant influence is being pulled from Jamie Lloyd's company, maybe Ivo Van Hove, or even the Wooster Group - who also drag backstage mechanics into the body of the show, making the skeleton part of the text.
This meta element would be cool on its own, but not necessarily enough to carry a show on its own. Helpful then, that the setlist is just banger after banger and the performance essentially perfect.
Provisional hypothetical tier listing: S
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