Glasgow band Lacuna on closing King Tut’s New Year’s Revolution 2025 with a headline set

We speak to Lacuna who are on the King Tut’s New Year’s Revolution lineup for 2025.

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00:00So I started Lacuna when I was in high school and Jack wrote with me as well but it was very,

00:05very bare bones, not very good. There's still evidence of it on the internet if you really

00:10want to go and have a look at it but then we all kind of met just through the Glasgow kind of music

00:15scene and that's when it all actually became Lacuna. We met in Slouch. We were introduced

00:22a very drunken night out in Slouch. I missed it though so I think it was just Will and

00:27everyone that was there. I was like I'll join. We had a practice and then that was kind of it

00:33and then I knew Sean from another band and then that was, then we wrote Robin and Red

00:37Fred together and did that and then wrote the Overgrown EP and then we were lucky enough to

00:41have Amy and Liv then join and then we evolved into this six piece and then we actually played

00:46King Tut's here for the first time as a six piece which is quite special for us. It was like the

00:51Lava Lamp showcase wasn't it which was amazing and yeah we headlined that as well so that was

00:55awesome so that and that just felt great. First time any of us had played Tut's. King Tut's,

01:02New Year's Rev and Summer Nights as well. When you get booked for that and when you're playing

01:06that as a support or as a headliner act that's like you're oh right okay I'm part of the Scottish

01:12scene now. We've played King Tut's before but I think to play New Year's Rev is like a whole other

01:17experience for us and to be playing the last show as well as yeah we feel very very chuffed with

01:23ourselves, very happy. It's just an iconic venue isn't it so it's I think yeah anytime you get

01:30offered it's a bit like it's still exciting even after playing it a couple of times it's still like

01:35King Tut's still on us so that's really nice. Yeah so it's like walking up the steps and seeing all

01:39the other artists that have played here and I've heard of it because I'm from Yorkshire but I've

01:43always heard of King Tut's so it's like it's amazing just to be here to be honest and now

01:46playing it it's like awesome. And everyone who's played it as well it's been like a different

01:52like era of the band or different. Yes true yeah. You know because we played first one we played

01:57was Lava Lamp which Meg runs and it was our first show as a six piece then when we played it for

02:03BBC Introducing we were starting to build up a wee bit more momentum and get a little bit more of an

02:09idea of our character as a band and now I feel like we've kind of come full circle with it which

02:14is really fun. Liv described it as when you're on the train back from like a

02:23like a kind of trip away or you're going home on the train and it's the music you listen to on the

02:27train. Oh that's good oh I like that. I don't know if train music is what we're going for. No

02:32especially like everything's passing you by kind of when you're looking out and it's like all the

02:36fields and stuff yeah. But that's probably not. Is that how we're describing it in one sentence?

02:43One sentence is hard. I guess you could just be like six piece alt folk rock.

02:50Full stop. Yeah very simply yeah. Very odd black and white. Dreamy girly gut-wrenching

02:58folk rock music. Yeah that's good.