ROCK & BLUES MUSIC
ROCK & BLUES
lISTINGS
Dates listed below are for one-oft shows: see separate section ior residencies. Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Dates will be listed, provided that details reach our ottices art least one week before publication. Rock and Blues Listings compiled by Alastair Mabbott and Fiona Shepherd
FRIDAY 7
I Mayrest. See separate listings.
I The llocturnals and The larch King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £3. A local band double bill. The Noctumals present a wide variety of indie-orientated sounds.
I The Honeychurch, Deep Sleep, Planet X and Trumpetwonn Nice'n‘Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm. Four local bands. The thoughtful. pleasantly poppy Honeychurch are fronted with strong female vocals. while Trumpetworm are fronted by a worm playing the trumpet. or something.
I Doctor Pop and The llule Mandela Bar. Strathclyde University Union, John Street. 552 1895. 9pm. Free. Students and guests. I Bop Street McCool‘s Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free.
I Cloud 9 MacSorley’s. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.
I The Henry Brothers Cathedral House. Cathedral Square. 552 3519. 9pm. Free. Pop/rock with a folk edge.
I Fraser Splers And The lloadrocltets Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 9pm. Free.
I Angela Cameron Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 11pm. Free. The Supper Club.
I Band Dt Gold Rockin‘ Horse. Cathcart Road. 649 0184. 10pm. £2.
Edinburgh
I Jacob’s Mouse and Chickweed Wilkie House. Cowgate. On the crest of the Wiiija wave come Bury St Edmunds’ noisiest threesome. punting their I ’m Scared album. ‘Grindcore‘ and ‘youthcore‘ would appear to be the most apt of the babbling adjectives that accompany the record. Or should that be ‘rotten-to-the-‘. such is their punkgrunge noiseterror? Support from forceful. melodic Edinburgh combo in the American underground mould.
I Klngmalter and Delicious Monster Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 7.30pm. £5.50. The pathological touring machine
that is Kingmaker return to the road. flagging their new EP. IO Years Asleep. Whether the powers-that-be at Chrysalis like this stuff better than they did the Hull trio's early offerings for their second album remains to be seen. What do they know anyway? Last year at The Venue. Radiohead were Kingmaker’s ascendant support. Now. the turn of Delicious Monster. whojust might sound like The Sundays with a hangover.
I Papa’s Magic Beard Queen Margaret College. Clerwood Terrace. 339 1990. Spin—midnight. £2. Edinburgh funk collective.
I Steve Ellis And love Attair Cavendish. West Tollcross. 228 3252. 9pm-3am. £5. Sixties nostalgia.
I Fool Circle Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.
I The Seats La Belle Angele.1.a Belle Angele. Hasties Close. Cowgate. 225 2774. 9pm. £3 (£2). Extremely sweaty rootsy stompability. Apparently.
I The Brothers Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816. £1.50 after
9 m.
I Goat Science Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 8.30pm. £2. Husker Du-esque band from Edinburgh.
I The Debonairs Cas Rock Cafe. 229 4341. 10pm. Free.
I Cactus Jack Marine Lounge. Bath Street. Portobello. 669 1780. 9pm. Free. I Stepping Dut Marlborough Bar. Burn Street. 554 6828. 8.30pm. Free. Local band.
I Grahame Adams Tollbooth Tavern. Canongate. 556 5348. 9pm. Free.
I live music Fortunes Tavern. Candlemaker Row. 226 7190. 9pm. Free.
SATURDAY 8
Glasgow
I Maytest. See separate listings.
I David Essex SECC. Finnieston Quay. 248 3000. £12.50. £10.50. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. A bit of a chequered career for David — the tower of tack that was Stardust. that song about the motorbike and. er. ‘A Winter‘s Tale‘ being the artistic statements that stick most readily in the memory.
I The Woltetones Mayfair. Sauchiehall Street. 332 3872. 7pm. £12. £9.50. Tickets only from The Mayfair. Irish Celt rockers who make regular trips to Scotland and habitually slot in a Mayfair fashion show. I Sub Sub Tunnel. Mitchell Street. 204 1000. 11pm. £8 (£4). Responsible for producing the very wonderful ‘Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)‘. Sub Sub show in their live set that they have even more than tacky 90s disco talents to their name. I Doctor Phibes And The House or Wax EquationsKing Tut's Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5. A Liverpudlian trio who deliver a compelling brew of psychedelia. space rock. dub and heavy Jimi licks. and
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release the occasional record when whim dictates. Theirs is a dynamic set - lazy waves of improvised guitar giving way to pure. insistent riffola. Lasers on stun.
I lloney, Baby Chaos and The Mighty Human Generator Nice’n‘Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm. M8 celebrate their 50th issue with a bill featuring two of Glasgow‘s most hyped entities in Honey and Baby Chaos. Both play in an indie style with Honey going for melodies and janeg effects and Baby Chaos reaching for the wah-wah pedal and displaying a bit of swagger.
I The Funkollective Mo‘ Jazz With Attitude. 13th Note. Glassford Street. 553 1638. 9pm. Free. As the name suggests. an extended fatnin of groovy funksters. I The Blues Poets McCool’s Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free.
I The naggle Taggle Gypsies Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 9pm. Free. Celtic rock. more Waterboys than Runrig. I Storm Gordon Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 11pm. Free. Silky larynx and smoochy sounds at The Supper Club.
I Touch MacSorley's. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.
I Willy And The Hand Jive Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free.
I Glasgow Songwriters Centre Stage. West Nile Street. 353 2942. 9pm. Free. Four acts from the weekly Tuesday night sessions at Blackfriars.
I Fastlayne Rockin' Horse. Cathcart Road. 649 0184. 10pm. £2.
I Woodrow Wilson Dugout. Cathcart Street. Greenock. 0475 27918. 9.30pm. £2.50.
I live Music Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Date Gatharsis Assembly Rooms. George Street. 10pm. An Edinburgh Fling bash. MC’d by the craggy and dry wit that is Arthur Smith. Headlining is Michael Chapman. early 70s folk-rock guitar hero (it sez here). with Shooglenifty. the country-rocking and Milli Vanilli look- alike Gary Hall (joined by one of his recently-demised band The Stormkeepers). and bluesy singer- songwriter Woodstock Taylor.
I That Petrol Emotion and Miraclehead Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 7.30pm. £5.50. The indefatigable Petrols continue onwards and sideways. A casualty of Virgin’s merciless roster-pruning. the band have recently released their
F irepmuf album on their own Koogat label. Still full of firey ire. still playing the Venue. Life‘s cruel like that.
I lights Out By lline Marco's Leisure Centre. Grove Street. 228 4141. This nine-piece soul band’s scorching live set includes songs by Sam & Dave. Marvin Gaye. Temptations. and Otis Redding. Wot. no Hue & Cry?
I llllton Babbits’ Club Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 8.30pm. £2. Ex-goths.
I Avalon Preservation Hall. Victoria
Street. 226 3816. £1.50 after 9pm. Folk- rock.
I The cratins and ShagnastiesCas Rock Cafe. West Port. 229 4341. 9pm. Ramones impersonators supported by Edinburgh punks.
I Dlango Cavendish. West Tollcross. 228 3252. 9pm—3am. £4. Motown covers group.
10Feemolator St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 557 2925. 10.30pm. Free. One guy and a machine. apparently. Synthesiser? I Shibboleth Platform One. Rutland Street, 225 2433. 9pm. Free.
I The Skunky Beavers Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.
I Skin It Back Marine Lounge. Bath Street. Portobello. 669 1780. 9pm. Free. Blues
I Mark Robertson Tollbooth Tavern. Canongate. 556 5348. 8.30pm. Free.
SUNDAY 9
Glasgow
I Mayiest. See separate listings.
I Michael Bolton and Kenny G SECC. Finnieston Quay. 248 3000. £22. £20 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just The Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. A man whose crimes against Motown and hairdressing are too numerous to mention. yet who commands an inexplicably large degree of popularity. At least Kenny G‘s atrocities are largely instrumental.
I The Fat Lady Sings Arches. Midland Street. 221 9736. 10pm. £6 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. See preview.
I That Petrol Emotion and Roundhouse Cathouse. Brown Street. 248 6606. 8pm. £5.50 (advance). £6 (door). Tickets from The Cathouse. Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street and 23rd Precinct. Bath Street. 332 4806. See Sat 8.
I Jacob’s Mouse and Slaughterhouse 5 King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £4. See Fri 7. I Carol laula Cafe Blankitt. Cathcart Road. 423 5172. 7.30pm. £15.95. Tickets from the Old Athenaeum Theatre. Buchanan Street. 332 2333. This is a benefit for Scottish Youth Theatre. also featuring Glasgow Herald raconteu'r Jack McLean and other guests.
I The Dazes Nice‘n‘Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 10pm. Young Coatbridge band who are 1993's chosen act for the annual release on Different Class Records. the label owned and run by West Lothian College’s music management course. ‘Danceomatic’ is a jolly indie dance affair but by no means the only trick in their book. Sixties influences are sometimes evident and Celtpop occasionally makes the agenda. I Summertleld Blues Rockin‘ Horse. Cathcart Road, 649 0184. 9.30pm. Free. Blues band from Kirkcaldy.
I landfall, Roundabout and The Naked See Liquor Store. Paisley. 848 5096. 9.30pm. Free. Three of the prime movers involved with the Gnet‘ss CD compilation
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