ROCK & BLUES MUSIC
ROCK & BLUES
oates listed below are tor one-on shows: see seperate section tor residencies. Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Bates willbe listed, provided that details reach our offices art least one week before publication. Bock and Blues Listings compiled by Alastair Mabbott and Fiona Shepherd
FRIDAY 21
Glasgow
I Maytest. See separate listings.
I Iron Maiden and The Almighty SECC. Finnieston Quay. 248 3000. £14.50 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street, 226 4679. Last tour with Bruce Dickinson on vocals - the rock world will miss your banshee cry . . . and will your successor be able to stick his foot up on the monitor with as much panache as you? See preview for The Almighty.
I Stereo MCs and llrban Species Barrowland, Gallowgate. 552 4601. 7.30pm. SOLD OUT. One of those bands it‘s an utter relief to see p0pulating the Top 10. providing one of the best marriages of pop and funk you‘ll hear, and guaranteeing a gyrating audience at their gigs. The spectacle of Rob Birch the dancing skeleton only adds to the appeal. I lilng ilash King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £4. Local pop/rock group with an LP Humdinger out on lona Records which doesn‘t display the usual Celtic trappings of the label.
I The Ska-B-ougs Nice'n‘Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street, 333 9637. 10pm. Local ska collective.
I Patti llearst Band Blackfriars (upstairs). Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free.
I Tempus Fuglt Blackfriars (downstairs). Bell Street. 552 5924. 11pm. Free. Acid
Jazz. I Calvln’s Bream MacSorley‘s. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.
I Band 0t Gold McCool‘s Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free.
I The ilootsies Buo Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 9pm. Free.
I Angela Cameron Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. llpm. Free. The Supper Club.
I liev ooc And The Congregation Rockin‘ Horse. Cathcart Road. 649 0184. 10pm. £2. Harmonica-based blues.
I Kinky Machine Dock Lane Nightclub. Dock Lane. Greenock. 10pm. £3. The all- attitude English quartet who are a bit old to carry off their adolescent narcissism more convincingly.
I Edwin Starr Cavendish. West Tollcross. 228 3252. 9pm. £5. War. what is it good for. indeed? Without a doubt. this will be the most energetic and riveting show The Cavendish has had for a long while. from a true star.
I Verve and The "fled See Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. See preview.
I Boyiriend and lc-Wheeler Wilkie House. Cowgate. 225 2079. in the face of some of the worst press any band has had in along time (they‘re a little too close to their mentors Teenage Fanclub for comfort). Boyfriend soldier on. Curious punters may find l8-Wheeler more palatable.
I The Gods Ut Glam Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816. £1.50 after
9pm. Stompin‘ teen sounds from the 705. I Capone And The Bullets Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 8.30pm. Fine ska band from Glasgow.
I The Tartan Amoebas La Belle Angele. Hasties Close. Cowgate. 225 2774. 9pm. Free. Manic ceilidh indie dance riot. apparently.
I Black Cat Bones Cas Rock Cafe. 229 4341. 10pm. Free.
I Blutant Granny‘s Attic. Bath Street. Portobello. 669 1780. 9pm. Free.
I live music Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.
I live music Fortunes Tavern. Candlemaker Row. 226 7190. 9pm. Free.
Perth
I lights Out By lllne Twa Tams. Scott Street. 0738 345000. Acclaimed big soul/R&B band.
SATURDAY 22
Glasgow
I Maytest. See separate listings.
I Verve, Superstar and lc-Wheeler King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £4. See preview. Plus poptastic laidback supports from two rising Glasgow indie favourites.
I Killa Instinct and Tones 0i Twice Tankin’, Glasgow School of Art. Renfrew Street. 332 0691. 10pm. £2 before midnight. £3 after. Students and guests. Two hardcore rap acts, one from England. and Tones Of Twice (formerly Two Tone Committee) from round these parts.
I Elias Jazz With Attitude. 13th Note. Glassford Street. 553 1638. 8pm (band on at 11pm). Free. Ten-piecejazz-funk outfit who spice up their already infectious performances with trilling flute and tribal percussion.
I One By One, llisatiect and Sedition Nice’n'Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm. Another big value triple bill of obstreperous sounds from the Glasgow Music Collective.
I James Buzz James MacSorley‘s. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free. Maximum R&B.
I lied Green’s Blues Band Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free.
I The Basement The Hall Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free. A big open sound which mixes Celtrock influences with more diverting generic references.
I Clach lia Cudden McCool's Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free.
I Banovich and Mackenzie Scotia. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. I Spaced Gut Cowboys Cottiers. Hyndland Road, 357 5827. 9pm. Free.
I Storm Gordon Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 11pm. Free. The Supper Club. I Jamie Barnes and Cochise Rockin‘ Horse. Cathcart Road. 357 5827. 10pm. £2. Veteran blues.
I The llightshitt Dugout. Cathcart Street. Greenock. 0475 27918. 9.30pm. £2.50.
Edinburgh
I The Wollotones Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 7.30pm. £9. lrish Celt rockers who make regular trips to Scotland.
I The Gin Goblins, Psyche and landfall Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 9pm. £3. Hardcore extravaganza with three bands for three measly quid. Expect to have hearing problems in the morning.
I Roadrunner Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816. £1.50 after 9pm.
I Cheesegrater and U28 Cas Rock Cafe. West Port. 229 4341. 9pm. Earplugs night with 2128. whose music is in the mould of noisemakers like L7 and Seven Year Bitch. and thrashy upstarts Cheesegrater. I Maurice Traveller And The Jumpstarters Theatre Bar. The Pleasance. 8pm-12.30am. £4 (£3). Swing/R&B.
I Alba lloot St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 557 2925. 10pm. Free. The ‘rough Pictish' Clark lnnes and keyboardist
Simon Davidson display their affection for both reggae and Celtic melodies.
I The TCs Platform One. Rutland Street. 225 2433. 9pm. Free. Rock‘n‘roll.
I Sirln it Back Granny’s Attic. Bath Street. Portobello. 669 1780. 9pm. Free. Blues.
I live music Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.
SUNDAY 23 ‘
I Kelvingrove Festival Kelvingrove Bandstand. Kelvingrove Park. Starts 1pm. Free. For more details phone 041 204 1025. This year's running order is Harmonica Jones. The Dazes. Baby Chaos, Jump City, Marcha Fresca. Family Love. A Chocolate Morning. Buddha Grass Harbour. The Humpff Family and The Bleeding Hearts. Bands play a twenty-minute set with a flve-ten-minute changeover. See preview for The Dazes. I Crystal Gayle Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 7.30pm. £15. £13. £11. Tickets from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. Still on the go years after her most famous hit ‘Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue’. Still singing country-tinged ballad material. Still sporting unfeasibly long hair.
I Mother Earth and Corduroy Arches. Midland Street. 221 9736. 10pm. £6.50 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. See Clubs preview.
I Monster Magnet and Paw King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5. Heavy-handed hirsute grungers with an even more pronounced Deep Purple/Sabs influence than usual. A band for 'real men‘. not like those pussy frat boys Nirvana. etc. etc.
I Widening Gyre and Cheesegrater Nice‘n‘Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 10pm.
I loose Cut McCool’s Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free. Blues. I Bam Bam Rockin‘ Horse. Cathcart Road. 649 0184. 9.30pm. Free.
I Thrum Liquor Store. The Area. Bridge Street. Paisley. 848 5096. 9.30pm. Free. Country-influenced certainly. but local quanet Thrum end up producing big pop melodies and garagey guitar. Their debut EP demonstrates the range they‘re capable of.
I The lioctumals Clubhouse. Old Sneddon Street. Paisley. 889 4706. 8.30pm. £1.50. Jangly indie pop with more epic pretensions.
I Buddy Guy Usher Hall. Lothian Road, 228 1155. See preview.
I love Bumble, Sus and Roundhouse Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. Triple band package from Glasgow.
I live music Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.
MONDAY 24
Glasgow
I lnspiral Carpets and Molly llalt ilead Plaza. Eglinton T011. 423 3077. 7.30pm. £8 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. The band that fashion forgot prove their durability. if someone had said three years ago that they'd outlast Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses (practically obsolescent now) would we have mocked? Of course we would have. Now it transpires that cheesy organs and transparent 60s influences never go out of fashion. Support from dour but intriguing Mancunians.
I llage Against The Machine, Tool and Wool Barrowland, Gallowgate. 552 4601. 7.30pm. SOLD OUT. See preview.
I Showaddywaddy and Suzi ouatro Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 7.30pm. £11.50. £10.50. £9.50. Standing area also for this concert. Tickets
from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 551 1. The colour-coded saccharine teddy boys wheel out ‘Under The Moon Of Love‘ and the other hits everyone almost remembers, while Suzi tragically massacres supertrashy standards like ‘Devil Gate Drive‘. Are 70s has-beens really that hard up these days?
I Martin Stephenson and The Frames King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent
Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6.50. The Daintees were the first act to play King Tut‘s over three years ago; now their leader returns with more of his shrewdly- observed. semi-acoustic vignettes to add to the considerable number of appearances at the venue. Support from Irish folk rockers The Frames.
I Blyth Power, Jimmy Saville’s Wheelchair and Fortreye Glasgow School Of Art. Renfrew Street. 332 0691. 8pm. £2.50. Students and guests. A varied bill for those who like their music left of centre and attacking.
I Subsonlc Vice Rockin‘ Horse. Cathcart Road. 649 0184. 9.30pm. Free.
I live Music McCool‘s Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Big Country and ilugh Comwell Usher Hall, Lothian Road. 228 1155. £11. Touring to support their new single ‘Ships’. which comes with a bevy of cover versions on the tiresome two-pan- CD format. are Big Country. feeling back on form again on The Buffalo Skinners. Hugh-ln-Black‘s new solo LP. Wired. is released next month. and this is apparently the first chance to see him live since he left The Stranglers (unless. of course. you know differently . . .). Drummer on the tour is Robert Williams, with whom Comwell collaborated so memorably on 1979‘s Nosferatu.
I Corduroy and Mother Earth Venue. Calton Road, 557 3073. 10pm. £6. See Clubs preview.
I Sid Grittln And The Coal Porters Preservation Hall, Victoria Street. 226 3816. 9pm. £5. With their acclaimed Rebels Without Applause LP re-released today (or thereabouts), the Kentuckian former Long Ryder and his trusty sidekicks return for another helping of country roots rock — ‘Fairport Convention meets The Clash‘. Author of the authoritative Gram Parsons biography Grevious Angel. Griffin has more than enough credentials to be playing this stuff. I Electric Startish St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 557 2925. 10pm. Free.
I live music Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.
TUESDAY 25
I Martin Stephenson and The Frames King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6.50. See Mon 24.
I Superchunk Cathouse. Brown Street. 248 6606. 8pm. £5.30 plus booking fee. Tickets from The Cathouse. Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679 and 23rd Precinct. Bath Street. 332 4806. Capable of some moments of geekoid inspiration like recent single ‘The Question is How Fast‘. Superchunk nonetheless seem content to build a musical career on the same three chords. the same fuzz pedals and the tendency to mosh around on stage in charming adolescent-going-on-30 mode.
I Splda McCool's Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free.
I Glasgow Songwriters leaturlng Moore Mcllhatton Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free. Plus open platform.
I Eskimos & Egypt Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 9pm. £4. See Clubs preview. I Pete Jagger And The Jaggemauts Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226
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