The Hunna, Everything Everything and Isaac Gracie will join Kings of Leon and The Wombats at Glasgow Summer Sessions on August 22. Following the release of their hugely successful debut album in the summer of 2016, The Hunna have established themselves as one of the UK’s most in-demand bands. Having experienced a rapid rise that saw the band land at #13 in the album charts 10 months into their career, The Hunna are sure to bring an enormous energy to their set at Glasgow Summer Sessions this summer. From selling out two back-to-back album tours that included London’s Kentish Town Forum and Shepherd’s Bush Empire, the band also headlined memorable nights nationwide at venues such as Barrowlands, Manchester’s Academy 1 and Nottingham’s Rock City. 2017 has also seen The Hunna headline Camden's prestigious Roundhouse as well as a pioneering moment topping the Festival Republic Stages billings at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festival.

Everything Everything will return to Scotland this summer at Glasgow Summer Sessions, following a momentous sold out show at Barrowlands earlier this year. The infectious gig followed the release of a brand new EP of fresh material, A Deeper Sea. Everything Everything are well equipped to match the energy of the legendary Scottish audience as their sublime set on the Main Stage at the inaugural TRNSMT Festival was a truly explosive highlight of the weekend in Glasgow Green. The latest release is the first new material from the four piece since their brilliant fourth album, A Fever Dream. A critical and commercial success, the astounding album hit the Top 5 on its release, the joint highest charting album of their career to date.

A self-taught musician and truly one of a kind, Isaac Gracie is not to be missed at Glasgow Summer Sessions in 2018. The former choirboy turned up-and-coming musical prodigy released his much-anticipated debut album in April of 2018, and has turned industry heavyweights such as Zane Lowe and Jay-Z into fans and champions of his music. For an artist only at the very beginning of their career, Isaac Gracie has all the components for a rockstar in the making and is an endlessly inventive songwriter. The singer’s star looks to be on the ascent and is therefore a must-see at this year’s Glasgow Summer Sessions.

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Wayne Kramer, leader of Detroit’s proto-punk/hard rock band MC5, has announced 15 concerts and 4 summer festivals for Kick Out the Jams: The 50th Anniversary Tour. MC50 includes guitarist Kim Thayil, drummers Brendan Canty and Matt Cameron, bassists Dug Pinnick and super producer Don Was, and 6’7” powerhouse frontman Marcus Durant. With it, Kramer will be celebrating the landmark anniversary of the MC5’s incendiary debut album Kick Out the Jams as well as the release of his memoir, The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities, to be published August 16 by Faber & Faber.

MC50 opens the tour with four shows in the UK in four consecutive nights. “I will come to England, where some of the greatest live shows of my life were performed in the MC5, to play Kick Out the Jams again with these great musicians. Doing so is the best possible tribute to the legacy. To borrow from Claude Lanzmann, there will be ‘No Retirement and No Retreat.’ Let’s rock.” In addition to performing the album in its entirety, Kramer and friends will follow it with an encore of other MC5 material that will change each night.

MC50 will have just completed a series of Detroit concerts back where it all began, and where Kick Out the Jams — recently cited by Pitchfork as one of the 50 best albums of the ‘60s — was recorded live in front of a raucous hometown audience at the Grande Ballroom on Halloween night in 1968. As Kramer explains, “This band will rip your head off. It’s real, raw, sweaty, total energy rock and roll, like a bunch of 40-to-70-year-old ‘punks on a meth power trip.’ I’m not interested in a note-for-note reproduction of a record you’ve known your entire life. The world has lived with these songs burned in amber for half a century, so we’re going for an energy blast to end all. Let’s bring the monster back to life with supremely talented musicians who will interpret it in their own unique ways.”

“The message of the MC5 has always been the sense of possibilities: a new music, a new politics, a new lifestyle,” Kramer says of revisiting Kick Out the Jams. “Today, there is a corrupt regime in power, an endless war thousands of miles away, uncontrollable violence wracking my country — it’s becoming less and less clear if we’re talking about 1968 or 2018. I’m compelled to share this music I created with my brothers 50 years ago. My goal is that the audience leaves these shows mesmerized by the positive power of rock music,” says Kramer. “I’ve come to accept that we were a dangerous band. The music we made at that time represented something that said — we are part of a tribe, we are part of a bigger movement — and apparently it still represents that.”

2018 Tour Dates

09 Nov – UK, Bristol Academy

10 Nov – UK, Glasgow ABC

11 Nov – UK, Manchester Albert Hall 

12 Nov – UK, London Shepherds Bush Empire