José Antonio Fajardo + Howie Reeve (matinee) / 8.11 / The Glad Cafe, Glasgow

Schedule

Sat Nov 08 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

The Glad Cafe | Glasgow, SC

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José Antonio Fajardo + Howie Reeve
All ages matinee (under 18s must be accompanied)
Doors 1pm
£8 / under 18s go free

José Antonio Fajardo comes from Fuerteventura and resides in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Ever since 2009, when he first embarked on a tour of the Spanish mainland, Fajardo’s career has matured into something quite unique; projected throughout several singles and splits, one EP and four albums, the last which ,’Trecho’, will be released by 2024.
José Antonio Fajardo has developed a certain diction while (not) controlling his own voice beyond recognition. The Canary Islander has left everything aside and is able to overwhelm his own body, to have the word at the service of songs that pursue truth everywhere. From the instinctive to the deepest delicacy, Fajardo’s voice holsters his personal stamp in a beautiful and necessary fashion. Like a riverbed, parts only exist in relation to their other complementary halves.
The quality of his performance applies equally to his song-writing craft, with a metric discourse that is as accurate as natural, and structures that reveal and conceal depending on the nature of the lyric. Tension and sweetness, suspense and repose: these are songs that are as complex in their harmony as they are simple to the listener to take in. Although, while quantity and austerity can function as a formal anteroom, getting at the content of the album is something else… It is here where Fajardo’s pallet of emotions reveals itself. A rainbow of redeeming solemnity, which spreads from the sincerity and, gradually , takes shape in essential aesthetic forms.

Howie Reeve is a Glasgow-based acoustic bassist and singer/songwriter. He's collaborated with Mike Watt (Minutemen/Iggy and the Stooges), Andy Kerr (NoMeansNo), GW Sok (The Ex) and many others.
“Unplugged-punk genius Howie Reeve is a linchpin in Glasgow's DIY community…a breathtaking bass player." (Nicola Meighan, The Herald)
"Life affirming...fragile, funny, oozing with empathy and above all fantastic songcraft."
“Howie Reeve is a unique and singular figure in the current British underground...delivering a fragmented and dexterous music that takes in post-punk and avant-folk. Increasingly turning to songwriting, he further engages audiences with cryptic, intimate and unsettling lyrics." – Chris Joynes.
"The DIY gigs in which Howie is involved do feel like acting out on more controllable, microcosmic stage ideals and on how the world should be rather than how it is presented." (Andrew Neal, Louder Than War, 23/02/2015)
"Howie Reeve’s approach is essentially one divorced from the traditions of 'making a pop record'…part of a wider tradition of underground troubadours and gleemen, musical ranters and shakers, who hold audiences through their strength of character." (Richard Foster, The Quietus, 22/02/2021)
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The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road,Glasgow, United Kingdom

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