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TRNSMT: Edinburgh band swim school on using lockdown to explore and revamp their sound

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. As political leaders announced the country was going into lockdown last March, Edinburgh band swim school saw the momentum they’d been working hard to build ground to a halt. With live performances put on hold and the gig diary emptied, the group’s four members couldn’t even meet up to channel their frustrations into something productive. But, as they saw bands around them give up on their
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TRNSMT: Singer / songwriter Ryan McMullan on upcoming documentary charting his independent success

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Releasing a debut album was meant to be the final scene in an upcoming documentary centred around Northern Irish singer/songwriter Ryan McMullan. But then Covid hit. Fortunately though, it just means that there’s plenty of opportunity for a sequel. Ryan McMullan: DEBUT charts the story so far for the 31-year-old from Portaferry, County Down, who has played sell-out shows across the continen
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TRNSMT: Joesef on Glasgow's backing, being new to fame and friendship with Arlo Parks

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Joesef swigged from a can of Tennent’s on stage and later celebrated a stunning TRNSMT set by popping the champagne. Like many, his time at the festival was a celebration of a return to live music after the unpleasantness of the past 18 months. And it was also a chance for the crowd to once again champion a local boy done good. It was
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TRNSMT: Sibling duo SAINT PHNX on paying tribute to their dad with emotional song Happy Place

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. As Glasgow duo SAINT PHNX prepared to launch into new song Happy Place, vocalist Stevie Jukes told the audience gathered around TRNSMT’s River Stage that he might need a little help finishing this one. The emotional track was penned as a tribute to the Jukes brothers’ father, who passed away earlier this year from a terminal lung condition. It was an ode to the rolling hills of the countrys
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TRNSMT: The Ninth Wave on a hometown crowd and new song Piece and Pound Coins

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Night has fallen across TRNSMT’s River Stage, with the only lights coming from the stage and the un-curtained windows of the Gorbals tower-block backdrop. It’s the perfect setting for Friday night’s closing act, The Ninth Wave, to fill the area with their dark, layered synth sound. The Glasgow-based quartet, made up of Haydn Park-Patterson, Amelia Kidd, Kyalo Searle-Mbullu and Calum Stewart
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TRNSMT day three: Chemical Brothers provide the city rockin' beats as local stars Joesef and SAINT PHNX shine

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: The final day of TRNSMT festival ended in spectacular fashion with The Chemical Brothers putting on a show for all the senses, and homegrown acts getting their chance to shine. The story of the festival has really been of big returns, not just for fans to live music but also for Scottish acts who have been desperate for the chance to pl
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TRNSMT: Rising star Rianne Downey makes the most of late festival call-up

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. On Friday, Rianne Downey came to TRNSMT to soak in a day of live music on Glasgow Green. Little did she know that she should’ve been using the trip as a scouting mission, as she received a late call-up to play a set on the River Stage on Sunday after another artist pulled out. “It’s been a pretty surreal experience,” she said. “It was unbelievable, I’m still struggling to put words together
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TRNSMT: Former choir singer Charlotte Jane on working her way back to arenas now she's a solo act

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. At the age of eleven, Charlotte Jane was part of the Voice In A Million choir and singing to thousands in London’s O2 and Wembley Arenas. Now she’s twice the age and in the early stages of what she hopes will be a long and successful solo career, working her way up to hit the headline slots once again. “I started in the arenas, got relegated to playing in front of three people in a dingy pu
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TRNSMT day two: Wonderwall singalong with Liam Gallagher ends festival's second day

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: If day one was all about dipping toes in and getting reacquainted to the festival experience, Saturday at TRNSMT saw revellers dive right in. With a wide variety of acts on show there was probably a bit of something for everyone on the event’s second day. At one point, if you stood in the middle of Glasgow Green, you’d hear the sound o
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TRNSMT: With a voice too big for Zoom, Irish star Lyra is delighted to get back on stage

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Having found during lockdown that her voice was too big for Zoom and her baking was a disaster, Lyra is delighted to be able to get back to what she does best. The Irish singer opened TRNSMT’s main stage as revellers flooded in to Glasgow Green on the final day of the festival, warming them up for the day with her dark electronic pop sound. “I don’t think I could go back to another lockdown
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TRNSMT: Relief overpowered nerves for King Tut's stage opener Mike McKenzie

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. For Mike McKenzie, the relief of being back performing again outweighed the nerves and pressure of being handed the opening slot on a TRNSMT stage. The Edinburgh singer-songwriter and producer was delighted to get the chance to be first up on the festival’s King Tut’s Stage on Saturday. And not even a late change to the style of the set quelled the enthusiasm. “It was a bit of pressure, li
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TRNSMT 2021 day one review: Little Simz shines as Glasgow Green festival makes its long-awaited return

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. It’s been a long wait but, once the gates to Glasgow Green opened, music fans were back in their element and TRNSMT festival was go. Of course, quite a lot has happened since revellers last descended on this corner of the city in 2019. Or actually, when it comes to live shows, not a lot has happened. There’s a few differences from last time around. It’s a little later in the year, there’s t
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TRNSMT: Joy Crookes on returning to festivals and looking ahead to her debut album

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. In a tartan outfit and holding a saltire thrown onto the stage, Joy Crookes looked more than at home on the TRNSMT stage. The South Londoner enthralled the crowd on the King Tut’s stage as the light began to fade on Friday evening, showing no signs of nerves about returning to festivals after a long absence. Drawing on her Bangladeshi-Irish heritage and with deeply personal lyrics, the audi
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TRNSMT: Declan Welsh & The Decadent West on a big date with a hometown crowd

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. For those heading to TRNSMT festival, there have been a few nervous waits as the lateral flow test does its work. Entry to Glasgow Green is dependant on a negative test, and that’s added a hurdle for those heading along – performers included. As fellow Scots acts Luke La Volpe and The Snuts pulled out over Covid issues, Declan Welsh and the Decadent West were praying for the second line on
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TRNSMT: Holly Humberstone on finally being able to share her music with crowds in person

Something went wrong - please try again later. Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Holly Humberstone was delighted to get a first taste of a Glasgow crowd after a strange year of releasing music without anyone to play it to. The singer-songwriter, from Lincolnshire, has made her big breakthrough in a world of online livestreams and shows played and viewed from home. But stepping out onto the stage at TRNSMT, she was delighted to discover that real-life people actually wan
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TRNSMT day three: Super-sub Lewis Capaldi steals the show as he marks festival hat-trick

He was drafted in as a late replacement for Snow Patrol, but Lewis Capaldi made TRNSMT’s final day his own with a set packed with singalongs and the man-of-the-moment’s trademark humour. The Whitburn star wasn’t Sunday night’s headliner – that honour went to George Ezra- but it was Capaldi’s performance that was probably the most eagerly anticipated. He arrived on stage to pounding sounds of GBX dance classic Bits N’Pieces, telling the crowd that if they liked a “chubby guy singing sad songs”
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TRNSMT day one recap: Stormzy brings fire in the park on festival's opening night

Revellers descended on Glasgow Green for the first day of TRNSMT and were treated to a mix that ranged from country to grime. Across the Main, King Tut’s and Queen Tut’s stages there was a bit of everything for a beautiful summer’s day of music. Gus Dapperton opened the main stage as the sun shone down on Glasgow green, with Mabel, Fredo and Amine keeping the growing crowd moving. Grime star AJ Tracey then came ‘live and direct’ with an energetic set.
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