Please Please You presents
Savage Mansion
Martha Ffion + Aiming
Thursday 22nd February, 7.30pm
Tickets are £8 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.

*This is a standing show*

A Lost Map Records double bill of note with riffy Glasgow five-piece Savage Mansion who’s new LP ‘The Shakes’ lands this month and top sixties-pop influenced singer-songrwriter Martha Ffion. Sweet York Shoegaze-y newbies Aiming open.

Savage Mansion

A dark true-life tale wrapped in a dissonant jangle that imagines Richard Thompson playing the Velvet Underground, ‘Present Tense’ is the latest new track from Glasgow-based slanted indie-rock five-piece Savage Mansion. Released as part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service in the month of December (b/w ‘Night School’), it’s the latest taste of the band’s forthcoming fourth album The Shakes, which will be released on February 16, 2024. It’s Savage Mansion’s most exciting record yet – a set of 11 songs which better than ever capture the explosive live energy of a band whose best gig is always their next gig, rooted in a deep well of emotion, and the rigorously thought-through reasoning of writers thoroughly in love with their influences.

Formed as a vehicle for the effervescent, speak-sung, slice-of-life songs of guitarist and vocalist Craig Angus, Savage Mansion features long-standing members Andrew Macpherson (guitars), Jamie Dubber (bass) and Lewis Orr (drums and percussion) plus newest member Adam Forbes (keys). One of Lost Map’s most prolific bands, they released their debut album Revision Ballads on the label in 2019, swiftly followed by 2020’s Weird Country and 2022’s Golden Mountain, Here I Come.

Savage Mansion have toured the UK, both as headliner and as support for artists including Pictish Trail and We Were Promised Jetpacks, and played at festivals including Electric Fields, Estrella Galicia Monkey Week in Sevilla, Tenement Trail and Lost Map’s Howlin’ Fling.

Recorded live to tape with minimal overdubs at Analogue Catalogue – the Newry, Northern Ireland analogue studio of producer Julie McLarnon (Lankum, Junior Brother, The Vaselines, Brigid Mae Power, Barbarossa) – Savage Mansion’s new album The Shakes is full of raw and instinctual playing, happy accidents embraced and not glossed over. It’s the end product of months of patient and painstaking groundwork, Craig working closely with co-songwriter Andrew Macpherson to shape and re-shape ideas, until they represented the best version of the band we’ve heard yet. “As part of the writing of this album I would cycle out to Paisley and just listen to music with Andrew,” says Craig. “We would get a bit high and put a few records on. The man has the most amazing record collection.

“There was,” Craig reflects, “a conscious effort to take a bit more care writing this album. To preserve the immediacy of an exciting idea, but envelope it in something more sophisticated and reflective.”

Martha Ffion

Scottish Album of the Year Award nominated Glasgow-based Irish singer-songwriter Claire McKay AKA Martha Ffion makes her much-anticipated return with ‘The Wringer’ – an elegant and heartfelt piano pop song for a companion in need, inspired by Carole King’s ‘You’ve Got A Friend’.

A back-to-basics set of classic pop songs in the 60s songbook vein, taking a raw and unfiltered look at love and how it cuts both ways, it reaffirms Martha Ffion as one of the most fluent songwriters of her generation.

Please Please You presents
Savage Mansion
Martha Ffion + Aiming
Thursday 22nd February, 7.30pm
Tickets are £8 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.