Mono, Glasgow
28th October, 2023
Mono restaurant & live music venue is in a very interesting and enjoyable position near Glasgow’s Tron gate, it takes its name from the simple fact that it is underneath a now unused railway bridge. It is loved for food, socialising and finding great live music. It was filled to the brim and can I say heaving for the evening’s performance of Philip Seth Campbell, a musician of extraordinary talents.
Beginning about 8.30 pm on came support Alice Faye who is a self titled titan of folk, classical and rhythmic music. The three sat there on acoustics and poured out like a fairytale soft and vivacious melodies like lullabies. She plucks from the world of music a very sophisticated trajectory with a great presence and leading quality.
Philip assumed onto the well positioned stage, a corner of the great room, with an energy that he has sustained for some decades. His whipping songs were in the shape of a simple 3 – piece band of bass, keyboard and himself on acoustic guitar and vocals. His powerful sound screamed in a much larger entourage as it growled into the room.
His life has been in total dedication to music and as a young man he found himself in London, with a voice that should destroy a human being, and perhaps it has. He had lots of fun talking to the crowd who were there with a special feeling including a hugely strongly bonded room shared between everyone. His musical travels have had him take on numerous projects and involvements with bands in his ever so flexible talents that have often been much sought after, he is something quite special.
In his adorably broad Glaswegian accent he headed the gig with a relatively new band who have released this year a new album titled ‘City Lights’ and have released for streaming a single from it called ‘Magical West’ he sells to the point of big success in sell out concerts such as was this evening at Mono.
Mono is part of an historic building with tourist attracting features not least the magically encircling skylight that billows the night straight into the room. They juggled old and new songs in a way that has actually affected this new album with long ago written songs put into fresh compositions.
Full energy of a stadium rock gig, impressively emanated from the group to a crowd lively and bubbling and made him stand put as a hero, with vocals to match as big as the night outside. He has lived an intensely interesting life with his charisma topped so far it was as if it were painful, dragging about reality and physically moving around with ninja speed. A remarkable musician from Glasgow pouring out some of the most lovely and distressing concerts, of adorable music, a fete of magical effort.
Daniel Donnelly
Mumble Music 