Esmerelda Road and Neon Waltz at Glasgow’s St Luke’s

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We speak to Belfast band Esmerelda Road - who recently supported Liam Gallagher on dates during his Definitely Maybe tour - and John O Groats band Neon Waltz following their performances at Tenement Trail.

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00:00You're coming with all the hard questions here, like...

00:02We got paid to say that.

00:04Hello, I'm called Jordan and I sing in Neon Waltz.

00:08What's the crack? We're at...

00:09Esmeralda Road!

00:11What's the crack? We're at Esmeralda Road!

00:12We're from a place called Jonagroats in Caithness, which is very north of Scotland.

00:20We've been a band for about 10 years now.

00:24Yeah, we just played in St Luke's here.

00:26It was our first time playing Glasgow.

00:28It was electric, I'd say.

00:30It was an awesome venue.

00:32We heard so much about Scottish crowds and we were buzzing to get stuck into one

00:38and they didn't disappoint at all, they were amazing.

00:40It was just so much fun.

00:42At one point we thought we were going to be really big

00:45and then we got dropped and now we're going to be really big again.

00:50And what's your favourite thing about Glasgow?

00:52Square Sausage.

00:55We got paid to say that.

00:57We're playing in St Luke's, which is right here.

01:01We've played it twice before as a headline show

01:09and they were both amazing, so I'm sure this will be amazing.

01:13It's Lorne's sausage actually.

01:16My favourite thing about Glasgow is it's very similar to Belfast but it's like...

01:20More fun?

01:20Yeah.

01:22It's just a lot of different people in it, it's very diverse,

01:24there's a lot of different cultures going on and it's cool to get...

01:27Just the fact that gig felt amazing as well.

01:29Yeah, that was good also.

01:31My favourite thing about Glasgow is the people.

01:33Yeah, the people are awesome.

01:34People make Glasgow.

01:35That's what they say.

01:36Beautiful songs, I would say.

01:38Loud, ballsy, beautiful.

01:41Our music is a load of s***.

01:44It's like indie fusion with jazz and a lot of post-punk,

01:49a lot of dance music in there as well.

01:51Drum and bass, garage-y stuff, house.

01:54House.

01:55House.

01:57Yeah, just a big mixing part of all the s*** we grew up listening to basically.

02:01It's like the music chose me.

02:04You know what I mean?

02:05I didn't really choose music.

02:08My family is very musical as well, so it was always going to be a thing for me.

02:16Describe the venue you just played in.

02:20Ethereal, I'd say.

02:21You had to do some Hail Marys.

02:22We're going to have to go over that word after.

02:25Yeah, I'll fill you in.

02:26Yeah, it was nice.

02:27Lovely big high ceilings.

02:28It felt very comfortable.

02:30It was a very comfortable stage.

02:31It was great.

02:32The sound was awesome.

02:33It was epic.

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