Ex Libras

Glasgow’s 13th Note is an amazing little venue, with no windows and a very low ceiling that keeps all the music inside for a fantastically loud live music experience. 13th Note doesn’t have a stage either, more a space with amps, adding to the venue’s charisma. It’s almost as if 13th Note is putting two fingers up to every other venue that has candles, fairy lights or windows, as they push out all niceties to focus purely on the music.

Gracing 13th Note this evening are London-based trio Ex Libras, with support from Must Be Something. Must Be Something start the show with an instrumental, before adding strong and defined vocals to the set up. Watching some support bands can stir a feeling of overwhelming boredom and a lack of patience, but Must Be Something throw this stigma away with a soundtrack to keep you hanging on every complicated guitar riff and air-shattering beat.

Up next are out-of-towners Ex Libras, with another beautiful instrumental opener. For a good four minutes, it is completely uncertain just what direction this instrumental will take, and then BANG, it all clicks into place. Ex Libras create atmosphere through volume, providing a quintessentially brilliant noise-beat set up, and still demanding the sound tech 'turn it up’. Each instrument is played with respect tonight, and the sheer quality in sound is undeniably a massive success for the band.

Ex Libras performance this evening is a whirlwind of genres from start to finish, with pop, rock, experimental and even dance notes all incorporated into the show. The keyboards provide an interesting twist in sounds, and the energy from front man Armit Sharma is an essential cog in the elegant and charming production of music. Ex Libras do nothing less than astound the audience tonight with their atmospheric beats, and utterly fill 13th Note with a volume never to be forgotten.

Photograph©Claire Dyason