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Glasgow’s Volcanic Tongue, run by Heather Leigh and longtime Wire contributor David Keenan, is closing after ten years in business. The forest green website, featuring a picture of a girl striking a pose in dressing up clothes (a young Heather Leigh preparing for a Madonna fancy dress party) became a mecca for underground music in the UK, stocking CD-Rs, tapes and vinyl often unavailable elsewhere. It began as a mail order business, run out of Keenan and Leigh’s kitchen, before expanding into a Glasgow shop. Kawasaki kmx 125 manuals. Since then, it has moved locations, started its own and hosted regular in store performances.

The website's regular longform write-ups by Keenan now total an estimated two million words, forming an archive of sorts for underground music released in the last decade. Musicians and artists also passed behind the desk for spells of employment, including Alex Neilson. “As a reflection of the abundance of its music scene, Glasgow has always boasted a healthy number of high quality record shops,” writes Neilson, who worked at Volcanic Tongue between 2004–07. “Suffice to say, none of these ever had anything like the intensely focused aesthetic or the monomaniacal commitment to alternative culture and experimental art as Volcanic Tongue. As a tender 22 year old with an obsession for free jazz and feral folk music, it was a first class back seat education, which often felt like the equivalent of jet skiing behind a runaway train.' Neilson says that the shop became a crucial hub for underground music at a time when there was a ground swell of musicians and non-musicians using the internet and cheap recording equipment to short-circuit the existing production lines of art and music.

“Volcanic Tongue provided a platform for people to record and self-release their most personally conceived expressions with the knowledge that it would be discussed with intelligence, sensitivity and on its own peculiar terms,” he explains. “Its closure hasn't just left a gaping hole in Glasgow's cultural landscape, but that of the world.” “The noise explosion and the CD-R revolution was something that Volcanic Tongue helped channel,” says Keenan, “and by about 2006 it was really at its apex: glory years where it seemed like there were amazing new releases coming out every few days in incredible inventive packaging and with radical new approaches to the form. But when the recession hit in 2008, it hit hard. I don’t think the economy has ever really recovered, nor ever truly will.” Last year, Volcanic Tongue announced plans to shut up its physical shop and instead return to mail order, but despite these plans Keenan says that this set off a “chain reaction' which could only end in the shop closing completely.

'We started Volcanic Tongue as a mail order run out of our kitchen, and we ended that way,” he says. “We were very fortunate in that we developed a reputation in the underground community for breaking and bringing to people music they had never heard of before, so many of our customers were willing to buy blind purely on our own recommendation. We resisted modernising or upgrading the website, as we wanted to preserve the experience of reading a magazine – the way you would take a pitch on something purely after reading a review, with your imagination on fire and a fantasy image of what you were about to hear.” One of the key factors leading to the closing of the shop is the increasing number of projects both Keenan and Leigh are working on outside of the shop. Keenan’s debut novel, The Comfort Of Women, will be published by Strange Attractor this year, along with a reprint of his book on the UK underground, England’s Hidden Reverse. He’ll also be continuing to contribute to The Wire, and running his cassette label. Leigh is working on new solo and group projects, with a number of releases planned for this year.

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In the coming weeks the site will be holding a sale of all shop stock and used items. Follow David Keenan at, and Heather Leigh. Read the original announcement.

'Chris Cutler started messing about with banjo, guitar and trumpet at school, settling for drums and playing shadows and other instrumental covers in his first band in 1963. Subsequently he played in R'n'B and Soul Bands, winding up in 1967 playing in London's psychedelic clubs. At the start of the seventies, with Dave Stewart, he co-founded The Ottawa Music Co, a 22 piece Rock composer's orchestra, eventually joining British experimental group Henry Cow with whom he toured, recorded and worked in dance and theatre projects until it's demise in 1978.

In 1977 Henry Cow, The Mike Westbrook Orchestra and Frankie Armstrong formed a big-band and toured around Europe. After Henry Cow, Cutler went on to co-found a series of mixed national groups Art Bears, News from Babel, Cassiber, The (ec) Nudes, P53 and The Science Group. He was a permanent member of American bands Pere Ubu, Hail and The Wooden Birds and now works sporadically with John Rose, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Iancu Dumitrescu, Peter Blegvad and Stevan Tickmayer. Other lasting collaborations have included Aqsak Maboul (Belgium), Lussier/Derome and Les Quatre Guitaristes (Canada), The Kalahari Surfers (Africa), Perfect Trouble (Germany), Between (Sweden), N.O.R.M.A., (Italy), Telectu (Portugal), Mieku Shimuzu (Japan),The Hyperion Ensemble (Romania), The Film Music Orchestra, 'Oh Moscow', Gong, The Work and Towering Inferno (UK), The Residents (USA), and stateless Tense Serenity and Mirror Man.

There have also been countless improvisational groupings and solo performances. Recent projects include Radio pieces with Lutz Glandien and Shelly Hirsch, Live Soundtrack for Carl Dreher's Vampyr (with Italians Musci and Venosta), his Timescales project and work with David Thomas and Linda Thompson. He also founded and runs the independent label and distribution service ReR/Recommended and, until 1991, the East European specialist label Points East. He is editor of the New Music magazine Unfiled and author of the theoretical book File Under Popular as well as of numerous articles and papers published in 14 languages. He lectures intermittently on theoretical and music related topics.

He has appeared on more than 100 recordings.' -Chris Cutler Website 1/3/2018 Have a better biography or biography source? Please so that we can update this biography. 'Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 Ð 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist.

Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians. She collaborated with a number of musicians, including Chris Cutler and Sally Potter, and co-founded the Feminist Improvising Group. She wrote scores for film and TV and a song cycle Oh Moscow which was performed live around the world in 1987. She also recorded a number of solo albums, including Rags (1980), The Gold Diggers (1983) and Music For Other Occasions (1986). Cooper was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the late 1970s, but did not disclose it to the musical community until the late 1990s when her illness prevented her from performing live. In September 2013, Cooper died from the illness at the age of 62, 15 years after her retirement.' -Wikipedia 1/3/2018 Have a better biography or biography source?

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