Nevereasy, Live @ THe Classic Grand, Glasgow | What Went Down

Nevereasy bring their I Still Care tour to Glasgow, with Newshapes and Love Is Noise proving the scene’s bench is deeper than ever.

Words & photos by David Prentice (davidprentice_media) | May 07, 2026

Some tours feel like a moment in motion, and the I Still Care run has the right ingredients to become one. Three bands at three different points in their arc, all pulling in the same direction, and a Classic Grand crowd that turns up early enough to mean it.

Newshapes open the night, and the hometown crew waste no time turning a polite gathering into something lairier. There’s a confidence to their set that suggests these aren’t just buzz-band whispers. The choruses land, the riffs bite, and by the time they bow out, the floor is properly warmed and the room knows it has work to do to keep up.

Love Is Noise have the harder job. New to the circuit and down a bassist tonight, which is never an easy hand to play, they refuse to let the absence dent the set. What they bring instead is sheer commitment, the kind of borrowed-time intensity that turns a four-piece into a force, and the Classic Grand responds in kind. There’s a real band in here, and on this evidence it won’t take long for the rest of the country to clock it.

Then Nevereasy. The headliners trade in a sound that owes a clear debt to Deftones, all melodic shimmer wrapped around teeth-baring heaviness, and they wield it with the assurance of a band who know exactly what their crowd wants. The genius of their set is its breadth. There are stretches built for closed-eyes drift, and stretches that send the front rows colliding into each other, sometimes inside the same song. By the encore, the room has done both several times over.