Triptych: day two

The Tramway it was yesterday for the day-long show headlined by Mogwai, though unfortunately late arrival meant that I missed the first few acts - including an apparently superb Frightened Rabbit - though I did manage to catch Errors' rousing electro-rock finale with a frenetic Mr Milk. Their upcoming first album is one to watch out for...

Dirty Projector, who recently signed to Domino Records, were a lovely, technically accomplished skewed take on pop music, complete with a mesmerisingly manic drummer. Malcolm Middleton provided a more sedate prospect, the former Arab Strap musician's songs complemented and perhaps even enhanced thanks to the sparse arrangements that had double bass and Jenny Reeve from Strike the Colours on violin. Clinic were disappointingly bland despite the bright Hawaiian shirts worn on stage, and for most of the time they seemed rather lazy, only briefly hinting at the songwriting suss that saw them championed by Radiohead some years ago.

Mogwai were as sublime as you might expect, premiering new songs which bode extremely well for their next album. Saying that they were epic is to hardly encompass the expansiveness of their sound, a breathtaking Like Herod just one highlight of the set. We'd got seats on the balcony, which made things strangely civilised, a suprisingly pleasant way to spend a Saturday night in Glasgow. It makes the thought of having to stand on my own two legs at The Arches tonight almost too much to bear...