ROCK & BLUES IRIISIG
year. Don't fret if tickets are thin on the ground - they're bound to be back next week.
I Urban Dance Squad King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 9pm. £6. See preview.
I A Chocolate Morning (ien Club. Paisley College. High Street. Paisley. 8483000. Reasonable local indie band with some pleasant enough songs. but only one or two to really make you sit up and listen.
Edinburgh
I Smile Venue. Calton Road. 5573073. You may have seen this bunch on .N'B(or repeated on the show's pick of the year). Their mainstream sound has already won them quite a few fans. and this gigis something of a showcase for them.
I Black Cat Bones Negoeiants. Lothian Street. 2256313. 9.30pm. Free.
I Live music Subway. Cowgate. 2256766.
TUESDAY 21 Glasgow
I Electric Daisies Apollo. Renfrew Court. 3326231. 9pm. Free. Word is that we‘ll see a single from Fleetric Daisies soon — a chance for them to see if all the live work has paid off. For the moment. here‘s another taste of prime Scottish funk metal.
Edinburgh
I A Chocolate Morning (ien Club. lleriot Watt Student L'nion. Riccarton Campus. 4495111. 9.30pm. Free. See Mon 20.
I Honk Negoeiants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 9.30pm. Free.
I Live music Subway. Cowgate. 2256766.
WEDNESDAY 22 Glasgow
I Thee Hypnotics and Auntie Rose King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 9pm. £4. Posturing. leather-clad psych-biker gang who‘ve been touting laboured garage rock for a few years now with little change in their fortunes. Their second (and current) album Soul. Glitter AndSin marks a slight return to the more energised early singles. lfthey can give the stodge a bodyswerve. they should be excellent live.
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I The Wendys Cotton Club. Scott Street. 332 0712. 9pm. A strange time for
Factory 's Fdinburgh signings. Following the tentatively warm reception totheir releases last year. they‘ve barely been seen or heard. Will they have gained any fans as a result of the album or has the low profile dissipated any following they had in the first place 1’
I The Gods 0t Glam Fisx ll. Miller Street. 221 1568. 9pm. Free. (iodsof(ilam puton a brave lace in the wake of the festiv c re-screening of 1973'sChristmas 'I'np ()f The Pops. w hich implicitly hinted that 1973 was possibly the worst time to be a teenager.
IZoom Apollo. Renfrevy Court . . . . _. 8pm. Free. [ix-members ofSpamborskee.
Edinburgh
I The Shambles Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 9.30pm. Free. I Live music Subway. Cow gate. 2256766.
THURSDAY 23 Glasgow
I Free Airways Radio Glasgow School of Art. Renfrew Street. 332 9797. 9pm. Free. Local band with weighty aspirations but
whose pedestrian soul and funk sounds all guts and no panache to these cars.
I Marshall Curtis Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Featuring KitClark.
I Because Outhouse. Cathcart Road. 649 0184. 8pm. Free.
I The Steam Team Twa Corbies. Kilbowie Road. Cumbernauld. 0236 727473. 9pm.
Free.
Edinburgh
I Dig George And The Business Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816. 9.30pm. Free. Glasgow‘s string-shredding heavy bluesman comes to town with his band.
I Red Hot And Blue Platform One. Rutland Street. 225 2433. 9pm. Free. Rock‘n‘roll. I The Guilty Party Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 9.30pm. Free.
I Live music Faze One. Lothian Road. 228 3404.
I Live music Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766.
FRIDAY 24 Glasgow
I Barky! Darky and saidllorence KingTut’s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street.221 5279. 9pm. £3.50. Bruce Findlay'schargcs are allowed out for a romp. Barky! Barky are a sort of heavier Carter USM forthe more discerning ear. while saidflorence offer a bundle of attitude and not agreat deal else worth missing your supper for.
I A Chocolate Morning Mandela Bar. Strathclyde University Union..lohn Street. 552 1895. 10pm. Free. Students and guests. See Mon 20.
I The Dandy People Niec & Sleazy. Sauehiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm. Free. I The Answer Traders. Glassford Street. 552 6246. 10pm. Free.
I The Mislits Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free. Popular female duo. I Glasgow Songwriters Montrose Bar. Carrick Street. 221 7564. Dave Kelly isthe featured artist tonight. ' I The Pearlllshers Village Theatre. East Kilbride. 03552 48669. £5 (£2.50). The polished sound of experience . . .light years off what I want to listen to but the soul-tinged pop formula still appeals to a local crowd. A new single. ‘Hurt‘. is in the shops now. while Wooden wire. a tape of five acoustic songs. will be available at all gigs.
I Dur Lost Souls. Bass-kits and Purple Noise Dugout. Cathcart Street. Greenock. 0475 27918. 9.30pm. £2.
I K4 Assessors Clubhouse. ()ld Sneddon Street. Paisley. 8894706. 8.30pm.
Edinburgh
I Rhythm l‘lill Negociants. Lothian Street. 2256313. 9.30pm. Free. L'nflashy. soul-influenced band with some songwriting potential and a single. ‘Start
As You Mean To (io ()n‘. jUst out ontheir i I
own Daisy Records.
I Mr Rhythm Lord Darnley. West Port. 2294341. 9pm. Free. See Fri 17.
I Paul Gaynor and Laura Cummings Chesterfields. Royal Terrace. 5566918. 9pm. Free.
I Live music Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816. £1 after9pm.
I Live music Trading Post. The Shore. 553 5153. 9pm. Free.
SATURDAY 25 Q
Glasgow
I The Australian Doors King Tut‘s- Wah
Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279.
9pm show SOLD OUT. Still tickets left
for 6.30pm show. £6. See preview.
I The Naturals Nice & Sleazy. Sauehiehall Street. 333 9637. 10pm. Free. Highly 7 listenable 60s-influenced songs with classy . poparrangements and upfront trumpet sound. I Free Airways Radio Hall Bar. l Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm.
Free. See Thurs 23.
I Richie Henderson Cathedral House.
Cathedral Square. 552 3519. 9pm. Free. Ex-Liberties man.
I Willy And The Hand Jive Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free.
I Hitsvllle Greaseguns Dugout. Cathcart Street. Greenock. 0475 27918. 9.30pm. £2.50. George (Styng-Rites) Miller's rockabilly band. put together with his usual painstaking eye for detail.
Edinburgh
I The Darlinghearts Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 9.30pm. Free. Diverse and interesting new band from Kirkcaldy with a pot-pourri of influences and even a touch ofThrowing Muses. Watch them. I eluelinger Platform One. Rutland Street. 225 2433. 9pm. Free. Edinburgh‘s hardest-working 50s- and 60s-style rock'n‘roll band.
I The Block Brothers Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816. £1 after9.30pm. I Paul Gaynor and Laura Cummings Chesterfields. Royal Terrace. 556 6918. 9pm. Free.
I Billy Rivers Mission. Victoria Street. 4—6pm.
I Live music Lord Darnley. West Port. 229 4341. Afternoon. Free.
I Live music Trading Post. The Shore. 553 5153. 9pm. Free.
SUNDAY 26 Glasgow
I Bad Man And The NDX Tunnel. Mitchell Street. 204 1000. 11pm. £5.
I The Spirit Moves and The Tattie eogles Apollo. chfrew Court. 332 6231 . 8pm. Free. The Tattie Bogles are actually a renamed Tremens.
I Colour Fixx ll. Miller Street. 221 1568. 9pm. Free.
I The Naturals Dugout. Cathcart Street. Greenock. 0475 27918. 9.30pm. £1.50. See Sat 25.
I No Mercy Clubhouse. Old Sneddon
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I The Answer Tudor Lodge Hotel. Burnbank Road. Hamilton. 0698 457277. 9.30pm. £1.
Edinburgh
I American Music Club Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. See preview.
I Intimate Strangers and The Summertield Blues Band Music Box. Victoria Street. 225 2564. Edinburgh‘s Intimate Strangers are joined by Kirkealdy‘s finest exponents of the blues.
I Buddha Grass Harbour Negociants. Lothian Street. 2256313. 9.30pm. Free. Heavily Ame ricanised (ilasgow band with a good line in sincere soft metal power ballads.
MONDAY 27 Glasgow
I Simply Red SECC. Finnieston Quay. 248 3000. SOLD OUT. Nothingofany import to be said here — Simply Red are successful enough now to be unconcerned by the criticisms of those who still operate within the parameters ofgood taste. Criticisms like. you're so sanitised. you’re so self-satisfied. and why did you give the last of your half-decent repertoire to Lisa Stansfield'.’
I Ego Stick (ien Club. Paisley College of 'I'echnology. High Street. Paisley. 848 3000. From Dundee. and featuringthe former Better Backwards rhythm section with ex-members ofJoe Public in a new dance-rock hybrid( I).
Edinburgh
I The Australian Doors Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. See preview.
I Archbishop Kebab. Dawson and Badgewearer Music Box. Victoria Street. 225 2564. A very rare hometown gig from the Kebabs. who seem to find it a more rewarding proposition to take their
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