SOiL/Finger Eleven/Adema Gig Review, Glasgow 3/11/2026

It is a rather mild evening for the first Tuesday in November. I am once again, back in Glasgow, This time I'm back at The Garage on Sauchiehall Street. Tonight I am here to see three bands that were quite popular with the crowd in one of the nightclubs I DJ'd in back in the early 2000s. This will be my first time seeing Adema and Finger Eleven in about twenty years, I've seen Soil the last few times the have played in Glasgow. 

First band to hit the stage are Adema, a bad from California. To say Adema have had a few line-up changes would be a bit of an understatement, if I tried to go through it here, this review would end up like a Wiki entry, so head over there if you want to know for yourself. What I will say is the band were originally a five piece, however, these days are a four piece. Excluding their intro, Adema have a seven song set, being totally honest, it has been that long since I even listened to Adema, the only song I recognised was their penultimate song "The way you like it" which was one of their songs I used to play in one of the clubs I used to DJ in. 

Adema were not here to make up the numbers, a fair section of the crowd were singing along during their set, I even remembered some of the lyrics to "TWYLI" which really surprised myself singing along. I did enjoy Adema tonight.

Tonight's change overs were rather sedate, twenty five minutes each, so plenty time to get to the bar. FYI, soft drinks for me, like every other gig I've been at The Garage, it was hot!  Tonight must have been very close to being SOLD OUT!

I still don't understand why some people refuse to move an inch when they get to a venue. 

Next band on stage, for our pleasure, are five piece Canadian hard rockers, Finger Eleven. Finger Eleven, like Adema, have gone through a couple of line-up changes, but are closer to Spinal Tap than Adema, they have gone through a few drummers.

As I said above, it has been more than a few years since seeing Finger Eleven, but this time I recognise more songs from their ten track setlist. wasn't sure of their opener "Above", however, their second song "Adrenaline", well that gone mine pumping again.

Frontman Scott Anderson, while he is a powerhouse of a vocalist, he doesn't use the stage like Soils Ryan McCombs, but it didn't really matter, because both guitarists certainly made up for Scott's lack of movement, especially rhythm guitarist Rick Jackett. Rick is on a different planet, long grey hair and a long grey beard, don't let all that grey hair fool you, this guy is like the Energizer Bunny crossed by The Duracell Monkey pumped up on rocket fuel. He is very animated, guys like that photographers dream about shooting people like that, I hope I get a chance to shoot more people like that sooner than later. I have to admit, I was really disappointed when Finger Eleven said their thanks and goodnights when they ended with "Parylizer", but not because they finished with this song, I was disappointed because their stage time was up, I was really enjoying Finger Eleven, lets just hope it's not another fifteen years before the come back to Glasgow.

It is now ten past nine and the photographers are let back into the pit, a few minutes later the lights go down and the cheer almost blows the roof off. Soil take to the stage and kick off with the song that I discovered the band "Redefine me" 

Soil are an American four piece (originally a five piece) band from Chicago that could fit into several hard rock/heavy metal genres, many fans covering those genres are here tonight.

Soil are a four piece formed back in the late nineteen nineties and still have three original members in todays line up, however, singer Ryan McCombs left the band for around seven years before returning in 2011. I digress. Soil stomp through what was a thirteen song set, however, roughly at mid point something goes wrong, whatever the issue the band stops playing, crew members are buzzing around like flies. Ryan has a chat with the crowd, saying that they'll have to cut about four songs, he also says that he should come down into the crowd to watch the end of the show, however, the technical issue doesn't take that long to remedy, but they do cut "Nightmare" from the set.

There is a brand new song in tonight's set "Enemy X" a song that has only been played a couple of times on this tour. Unless you have been following the band on this tour, Glasgow is honoured to have been one of the towns/cities where Soil have shared the new song, which should end up another fan favourite. 

The final three songs are also big fan favourites, starting with "Break me down" next the cover of Ram Jams "Black Betty" finishing the evening with no encore, with everyone's favourite "Halo". The only disappointment, well maybe I'm being a bit picky, it had nothing to do with the bands performance, it was stage time, tonight our headline played for fifty five minutes. 

HOWEVER, we had three fantastic bands, playing three amazing sets, there really wasn't anything to fault, if there was a second night tomorrow I would be there once again at the front of the queue! 

As always, if you don't know, or have just forgotten any of tonight's three bands, just head over to your favoured streaming platform and give them a listen, you never know you might discover, or even rediscover something to enjoy.

SEE YOU AT THE BARRIER