Sunday 29 January 2017, 7.30pm
Sacred Paws return to OTO in a joyous line-up alongside double-drumming duo, Rattle.
“Undisputed band of the night are Sacred Paws, comprising Eilidh of Golden Grrls and Skeleton Bob on drums, and Rachel from Electrelane affiliates Trash Kit on guitar. Raw Soweto high-life riffs and rolling Afrobeat grooves are filtered through post-punk sass and ramshackle K Records charm. It’s an utterly joyous sound, the duo trading giddy melodies and righteous chants over febrile rhythms and chunky, infectious guitar. Judging by the dancing feet and smiling faces, Glasgow has a new favourite band.” – The List
RATTLE released their third album ‘Encircle’ on Upset The Rhythm at the start of the 2025. ‘Encircle’ sees the drumming duo expand their unique experiments in rhythm, metre and tension. Rattle have honed the four songs that make up ‘Encircle’ by playing them live over the last few years, adapting and stretching them into endlessly inventive new shapes, playing with the concept of time and expectation. With ‘Encircle’ Rattle have grown, writing songs alive with elemental power. They build-up and disintegrate, existing in two places at once, embracing the nuance, tracing the circle’s edge. These are modes of song as pure gesture and eternal imagination, refined in mirrors after midnight. Rattle have toured the UK with Animal Collective and Thurston Moore and toured Europe with The Julie Ruin and Protomartyr, and have also performed with Hot Snakes, Bill Orcutt Quartet and Codeine.
“Relative veterans of the UK’s ever-fertile DIY scene, Rachel Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers originally formed Sacred Paws while playing together in Glasgow-based lo-fi types Golden Grrrls, whose sole, self-titled album was jointly released by Slumberland and Night School in 2013.
Several mixtapes and many Megabus journeys later (they continue to be divided between Glasgow and London), Sacred Paws settled on a sound midway between afrobeat and US post-punk à la Pylon and The B-52’s. Soon after, they began to play shows together, which eventually escalated into a gigging schedule which would put many bands to shame.” - The Skinny
Serafina Steer is a harpist and composer who fronts the post punk quartet Bas Jan and works regularly with Jarvis Cocker’s band Jarv Is.
"Harp-wielding experimentalist." The Guardian
