New York had CBGB.

London has the 100 Club. Leeds, the Brudenell Social Club. And Glasgow has The 13th Note. A gig venue that would generously be described as a toilet, the Note shares characteristics with those other legendary venues that have helped shape the music scenes of their cities. Rough around the edges, it skulks on a corner that acts as a border between two very different parts of town.

You probably don't want to be wandering south of here alone at night, but that famous "Golden Z" is minutes away. From its entrance you can see the enclave of indie businesses around King Street, the Transmission Gallery, the Afro-Caribbrean Centre and the fleamarket just off the Saltmarket.

It's an area of contradictions; a confluence.

The venue's musical programme is similar. Here, a melting pot of stuff you really just don't hear anywhere else makes for an eclectic and never boring gig roster. When we stopped by, a foursome from Brighton called Daskinsey4 were doing their lo-fi pop punk thing in the basement, with locals Pennycress in support, a "new wave of post punk noise classic Glasgow art school queercore."

On Sunday local hardcore label Struggletown have their Christmas Party in the basement, on Tuesday the fledgling comedy collective Chunks - who are very weird and very hilarious - have a night of borderline-insane standup, and on Wednesday it hosts Australian freakbeat combo The High Learys.

It's a brilliantly diverse schedule, and when combined with the excellent vegan food in the cafe upstairs, it all adds up to one of Glasgow's coolest venues. The 13th Note is, pleasingly, not a bum one