STAGE IS SET FOR HOMECOMING
TWIN ATLANTIC MAIN STAGE SUNDAY
A YEAR ago, Twin Atlantic announced their return with a new album named after their home city by playing King
Tut’s to just 300 lucky fans.
Now they’re bringing that campaign to a close – in Scottish terms anyway – with a main stage slot at TRNSMT on Sunday – alongside some of their idols such as Radiohead. And frontman Sam McTrusty can’t think of a better way to sign off from new album GLA than helping launch a festival in the heart of the city that inspired the record. He told us: “Is that a year? That is crazy. We feel pretty good about it. We stood by the whole point of this album, saw it through. It would have been easy to stray from the path and take an easier route halfway but it feels good to have an album that represents something a bit more solid.
“It was important to us, just trying not to play the game so much. We have enjoyed it and the gigs have been great.
“The whole thing was to not think about the future, just try to react more honestly in the moment.
“Finishing off an album called GLA by playing to all these people right in the heart of the city is special.
“I’ve always said being accepted by your home fans is the biggest compliment of all.”
The album certainly achieved what they set out to do, shocking many with its raw, angry sound, a world away from the soaring anthemic pop of previous hit single Heart and Soul.
In true Twin style, they have been working on the next album since the day GLA was released.
Sam, guitarist Barry McKenna, drummer Craig Kneale and bass player Ross McNae are thrilled with what they’ve written so far.
Sam revealed: “That Tut’s show and this whole record were, I guess, a kind of a reset for us, or maybe the start of the second half is a better way to put it.
“We have started thinking about it, we are quite bad for that – the day one comes out we start thinking about the next.
“We have been in the studio and made a bunch of music, a few new songs we are really, really excited about. Ross is finally