Scottish Synth-Punk Tornado VLURE Hit BRUSSELS With Big Booming Bangs
7 November 2025
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VLURE are an electro-rock hit team from Scotland who
released their smashing debut LP Escalate last
September.
Imagine this. The techno punk pyrotechnics of The Prodigy and the bombastic disco sledgehammers of woofers Fat Dog. Sounds like an Apocalypse Now rave, right? You
bloody betcha. It earned them a blitzkrieg reputation in their home country of
Scotland and by extension the UK.
NME said about their firstborn in a 5-star review : “Because VLURE have spent years honing their sound, the sonic underbelly of ‘Escalate’ feels effortless – and almost subconscious. The togetherness with which dense guitars, electronic mayhem and shifts in pace intertwine enables the messages of ‘Escalate’ to take centre stage. The result is an inspiring, brutally honest album that matches the lofty standards to which VLURE hold themselves. They want it euphoric, and nothing can stand in their way.”
Last night, the mad for it 5-piece landed in Brussels as part of a
short Euro tour playing clubs to introduce that staggering album.
They played in front of about 50/60 curious music junkies (like me) whose appetite
for new exciting stuff is insatiable. I’m quite sure that every one of them (like me)
checked the album beforehand and then decided to go nuts to it in that small historic basement of Le Botanique building in Belgium‘s capital.
Vlure put us all in an ecstatic trance. They didn’t mind how many people were present. They left all they got (a lot!!) on the floor while turning the night into a sauna-like rave explosion of big booming electro bangs, extra fuelled with fierce drumming and fat
bass lines.
In the middle, front-giant-man Hamish Hutcheson rapped his butt off non-stop, vocally
assisted in the end by one of his bandmates, until the last Faithless beat, thanking us
all with a thunderous encore. Ace!!
By the end of the year, approximately 500 Belgians will claim to have been there.
Here’s an idea of their titanic live sound.
Their most recent singles and that boiling debut full-length below.
SINGLES
ALBUM
Live photos by Turn Up The Volume