Credit: David Adam
Live
VLURE
Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow
February 15 2020
Words: Izzy Butler
VLURE are fast proving they have a point, a presence and an ability to strike reaction - even if many have still yet to catch on to this bunch of Glasgow-based post-punks, and fewer yet to have witnessed their live mastery. Tonight provided a last minute chance for those who turned up early to The Murder Capital's Queen Margaret Union show to see the band in action.
With planned support Egyptian Blue succumbing to illness for a second night of their current outing with the Dublin band, VLURE were literally a late entrance earlier that day to replace them. And even Storm Dennis blowing into every crevice couldn't keep fans away, or, stop VLURE creating their own sonic tempest on stage.
Credit: Stephen Lovell
This is post-punk, but not as you might familiarly expect, couched as it is with a jet of passion, and yes, a certain vulnerability too. Frontman extraordinaire, Hamish Hutcheson gets to grips with it all from the off, launching immediately into 'Desire', the dark and epic song they unleashed at the end of last year, and transporting himself in what appears to be his favourite place - in amidst the crowd. As he stalks the floor, pummelling chest to the beats of Carlo Kriekaard, and mesmerising bass and guitar of brothers Niall and Conor Goldie respectively, and Alex Pearson's synth, it is both riveting, intense and - menacingly in your face.
Credit: David Adam
The Murder Capital may have been the headliners this evening, but there is no doubt that VLURE are hot on their heels and well worthy of taking the crown as Scotland's most impressive emerging act.
Credit: David Adam
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