KING Tut’s New Year’s Revolution returns for its fourth consecutive year this January, kicking off 2016 by celebrating the biggest and the best in Scottish talent.

Music fans will be able to enjoy great new music at ‘Britain’s Best Small Venue’ until January 16 when more than 80 bands will play across 16 nights.

You buy your ticket - currently £35- and go along to watch as many acts as you like. Simples.

One band that promises to put on a spectacular show is the Edinburgh born, Glasgow bred Acrylic.

The alternative rock quintet are a self-described ‘uni band’ with all five of the members currently studying in the heart of the city.

Bassist Lewis Drieg says growing up he always dreamed of starting a band and hoped that studying in Glasgow would help him connect with other musicians,.

He said: “But I never expected it to happen so quickly.

“We all met in Freshers Week and agreed to form a band after days of knowing each other. It was ridiculously fast.”

Three years down the line and the boys all now live together.

“It helps us stay committed,” shrugs the band’s songwriter and guitarist Ross Patrizio.

“We know we have to practice at least three times a week.”

And their tracks have been played everywhere from XFM to Radio 2.

Their last single, 'It's Been a While', was XFM Scotland's Breakout track on both Jim Gellatly and Fraser Thompson's shows.

“It's been incredible to hear ourselves being played on all these stations,” says lead singer Andreas Christodoulidis.

“Our manager actually found us through the radio.”

“It’s a funny story really,” says guitarist Jack Lyall.

“My mum went on Dermot O’Leary show on Radio 2 for a feature called ‘Some Mothers Do Indie.’

“The least cool name for anything,” Ross cuts in.

“I begged her not to do it but before I knew it my mum was on the radio introducing us.

"Dermot asked her what genre was it and she told him she didn’t know.” Jack laughs.

“I was like, ‘Mum, the clue was in the title. Mums do indie, come on.”

Despite the initial embarrassment Jack’s mum’s efforts managed to snag the band a manager.

Terry Felgate, an ex-music director at EMI and past creative and marketing director at Parlophone heard the show and immediately got in touch with the band saying he wanted to work with them.

Terry, who also runs the Blackheath festival in London, is helping the boys to build an even bigger name for themselves and in the last year they made their television debut performing live on STV Glasgow's 'Riverside Show' and have played at Tenement TV's Tenement Trail.

The boys are long-time fans of the Glasgow music scene, even favouring it to their hometown of Edinburgh.

“It's just a different vibe here as there is so much going on.” says Jack.

“In Glasgow there is a bit of a community, everybody helping each other out.”

Favourite gig venues to play?

“Broadcast and Nice n Sleazys are good, really good,” says Andreas.

“But we just love King Tuts. It just lives up to its name. You think it can’t be as good as everyone says but it definitely is. We just love it.”

Outside of Glasgow’s finest music venues, the band is hoping to start playing more festivals next summer.

“T in the Park is the big one for us of course,” smiles Lewis.

“But there are so many great festivals all over Scotland that it would be great to play - Belladrum maybe or Electric Fields would be incredible.”

And the band will be well prepared; in April they performed a mini Scottish tour with Hit the Road.

The Creative Scotland funded tour saw them playing Edinburgh, Ayr and Glasgow alongside Beeches and Dirty Money Handlers.

“We’ve be lucky enough to get a lot of help from Creative Scotland,” says Ross.

“They’ve gone beyond what we would ever expect.

"It’s been more than just giving us a hand with free gigs, they’ve also been great at offering advice.

"So far it’s been a really good experience for us.”

The band was also thrilled to be awarded the Young Scot Nurturing Talent fund by Creative Scotland and were able to use the money they received to spend a week recording two new songs at a cottage on Loch Fyne in the west of Scotland.

“These two tracks will be our first release in about a year,” says Ross.

“We worked really hard to develop our sound so we’re really excited for people to hear the new tracks.

"They really give a sense of what we want to do and the direction we are going in.”

“The two songs are very different,” promises Liam.

“They show off the variety we have as a band. The crowds are going to love them.”

Acrylic play King Tuts on January 20 as part of King Tut’s New Year’s Revolution. Tickets available at dfconcertsandevents.com/nyr/ now.

Learn more about Acrylic and all their latest releases on acrylicmusic.co.uk