glint music: Competition 'the bored fire' London release show + jb glazer + Megan Alice Clune

Competition launches a new album 'the bored fire' in london alongisde jb glazer + more tba 'the bored fire' out April 2nd via glint music the bored fire by Competition there’s an internal logic to the bored fire that in different moments references Nina Simone, the 1969 film Medium Cool and passages from Don Delillo’s JFK novel. outwardly Competition channels something of Loren Connors or the collaborations of claire rousay & more eaze. the bored fire operates as a guitar album, one that sees him reflect on feeling for years that playing guitar was deeply embarrassing, accepting that the world keeps spinning and time, as ever, renders all things eternally untethered. the field recording that underpins the album was recorded in Newcastle’s now forgotten Monument Mall in 2011 by artist and expert archivist ex tynam. it holds together alongside a feeling that shapes the album, of a realisation that comes after the fact, of an end that was overlooked but is increasingly felt now. (reluctantly hauntological in 2026) -- Competition is the performance moniker of Craig Pollard. Craig is an artist and academic interested in time, tenderness and the worlds we create. credits ++ jb glazer jb glazer is an experimental composer, producer and songwriter from south east london. jb glazer uses live instruments and sampling to create music that turns tv, youtube, field recordings and other musical sources as the foundations, layering them against melody or with distortion into apparitions; from the internet and like sinking through the present. He has produced work for labels such as 33-33 and Them There and shared bills with Still House Plants, feeo and John T. Gast. jb also runs his own digital archive ‘glint music’ which has released records by excel dj, Alexandra Python and CJ Calderwood, as well as glint’s recent compilation ‘making sick in the alley of permanence’ featuring Betty Hammerschlag, Bernard Rocks and Vuai. “jb glazer is situated somewhere between computer music, concrete collage and choreographic impulses. With a practice shaped by digital culture and performance, his work probes the uneasy boundaries between intimacy and artifice” – Café Oto, October 2025 +++ Megan Alice Clune Megan Alice Clune is a musician, artist and composer based on Gadigal and Wangal lands. Her work explores the dynamic relationship between music, technology, the body and temporality through composition, performance and installation. In recordings described as ‘breathtakingly intimate’ (Bandcamp Daily) ‘visionary ambient’ (Rockerilla), and a 'pristine exercise in precise simplicity' (boomkat.com), Megan delicately balances an elemental tonal palette that is both sparse and emotionally rich.