MUSIC ROCK & BLUES
Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free. ‘ I Red llot & Blue L‘Attache. Rutland
I landfall and Peanut Butter Trader Joe’s. Hope Street. 332 0905. 9pm. Free. Charged garage pop from Landfall.
I Glasgow Songwriters featuring Brian McDade Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free. Plus open platform. I live Music Ross's Bar. Mitchell Street. 221 2287. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I \vorkers In Song Gallery Bar. North Bank Street. The Mound. 9pm—1am. Free. information: 440 4303. Weekly forum for
Edinburgh-based singer-songwriters. with around ten performers playing three or four songs each.
I Everly Brothers Tribute Queen's Hall. South Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. £7.50. I Suicidal Goldfish Negociants. Lothian
Street. 1 lpiii. Free.
WEDNESDAY 29
Glasgow
I The levellers Barrowland. Gallowgate. 552 4601. 7pm. £9.50 plus booking fee. with the booking fee going to a homeless charity. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. Note rescheduled date. Tickets for the original 7 Oct gig are valid for this show; ticketholders must be in the venue for 8.30pm. See preview.
I Dne Dove Glasgow School Of Art. Renfrew Street. 332 0691. 8pm. £4 (£3). Plus Slam DJs. Part of the Art School‘s freshers’ week events. Glacial pop meets laidback beats for one of the most feted musical combinations to be witnessed in these parts in a long while. See LP review. I Dog, Trinity, Attica Rage and Soul Dive King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £4. Hard-hitting quadruple bill. A bit of mud and a bottle of Bucky and you could almost call this extended line-up a festival.
I lost 13th Note. Glassford Street. 553 1638. 10pm. Free. The return of the local pseudo-doomsters — will we see a levity in their outlook now?
I Cloud 9 MacSorleys. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.
I Retrospect Scotia. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. 60s and 70s cover versions.
Edinburgh
I Pertunied Galaxy, The Stanleys and Suicidal Boldtish Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 9pm. £3.
I Keeping up with the Jones’s and Solid Gone Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 8pm. £1.50. Bassy funk meets indie guitar.
I Mustang Sally L’Attache. Rutland
The Ftie Nice ‘n' Sleazy. Sauchiehall
I 29771. 10pm. £3.50. Both Pearl Jam- ; esque and billed as ‘Britain‘s answer to American alternative bands‘. Well.
5 Edinburgh
.5 I Bods at 61am Platform One. Rutland
l sounds of the 70s.
I? I Red L’Attache. Rutland Street. 11pm. i Free.
i shadowy music from those black~garbed
Street. 229 3402. 11pm. Free.
I Red Hot & Blue Platform One. Rutland Street. 225 2433. 9pm. Free.
I Ftshneck Say Goodnight Queen Street Oyster Bar. Queen Street. 226 2530.
MC? By arrangement with 10‘ Falrwarntng present
l Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.
10pm. Free.
I Woodslde New West End Oyster Bar. West Maitland Street. 225 3861. 10.30pm. Free. Uplifting cajun folk rock.
I Storm Poets Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.
I live music Black Bull. Grassmarket. 225 6636. Free.
THURSDAY 30
I Hideaway Blues Band and Paradise Canyon King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £4. Kings of the blues residencies are joined by diehard country rockers for a night of
rootsy abandon. I Mandrake Root, The Hardy Boys and
Street. 333 9637. 9pm. A while back there were two Mandrake Roots doing the rounds with a psychedelic garage bent - we can but assume this is something of the same.
I Billy Rivers McCool‘s Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free. Blues. I The Whole Shebang MacSorleys. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free. Folk rock.
I Scott Richardson Mission. Battlefield Road. Tennent's Live! sponsored acoustic gig from the King Hash man.
I BMX Bandits Motherwell Concert Hall. 0698 267515. 8pm. £5.50 (£4.50). The Bandits fall out of their beds and into the venue to bring some poppy light entertainment to the Motherwell Music Festival.
I Readswim Batcave. Bruce Hotel. Cornwall Street. East Kilbride. 03552
crumbs. Plus a Jam tribute disco.
I Bill York Twa Corbies. Kilbowie Road. Cumbernauld. 0236 727473. 9pm. Free. I live Music Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
Street, 225 2433. 9pm. Free. Rocky teen
I Dream Disciples Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 9.30pm. £2.50. Don‘t call them goths. right? The DDs get into gear for a heavy tour with Fish. Also featuring
Monday Club people.
I Acoustic larn session Granny’s Attic. Bath Street. Portobello. 669 1780. 9pm. Free. The duo One Point Two start off a session of folk. pop and whatever people can 30m in on.
I Freedom Train Negociants. Lothian
I live music Cas Rock Cafe. West Port. 229 4341. 10pm. Free.
GLASGOW BARROWLANDS
WEDNESDAY 3RD NOVEMBER
Tickets: £11.00 Credit cards Tel: 031 557 6969 (£1 per ticket booking lee) Available from Just The Ticket, Virgin, Ripping and all usual TOCTA outlets (Subiect to 70p per ticket booking lee)
‘ 0681. 9pm. £5. Students and guests. A
S I Fluke Slam Loco. Arches. Midland Street. 221 9736. 10pm. £6. A live set
9pm. Free. The winner ofthe UK Mouth
FRIDAY 1
I Utah Saints and Eight Miles High Strathclyde University Union. John Street. 552 1895. 9pm. £6. Students and guests only. The best use of samples. the most epic compositions. the most infectious beats and some gripping visuals - Utah Saints have deservedly garnered a reputation beyond their singles success as a compulsive live gambit.
I Doctor and the Medics Caledonian University Union. Cowcaddens Road. 332
blast from the past which might find favour in this era which elevates bad taste to some kind of aesthetic standard. No point slagging their stomping psychedelic rock as a novelty — they were always a cabaret turn for alternative rockers.
I Jump City and uuare King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £3. A popular draw at King Tut’s with Simple Minds inflections to their big-sounding pop/rock.
from the thoroughly English technoheads with a natty line in bleeps and samples.
I The Hemingways Nice ‘n’ Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm. Local band who run the Kazoo Club.
I The Supernaturals McCool's Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free. Everything from REM to Squeeze influences the diverse pop profiled by this group. Watch out for those loud stage outfits. Well. actually you won’t have to look out for them — they shout at you from across the street.
I Rev Doe and the Congregation MacSorleys. Jamaica Street. 221 8499.
Harmonica championships treats us to some trad R & B.
I The Brian Mcoade Band Cathedral House. Cathedral Square. 552 3519. 9pm. Free.
I Family love Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 9pm. Free. Summery soul band punting an excellent demo.
I After Hours Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 11pm. Free. The Supper Club. I Dick Banovich and Spider Mackenzie Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free. Blues duo.
I Pertect Stranger Centre Stage. West Nile Street. 353 2942. 9.30pm. Free.
I Apres Ski Lincoln lnn. Great Western Road. 954 9164. 9pm. Free.
I Raggle Taggle Gypsies Boon's Yard. Cathcart Road. 649 0184. 9.30pm. Free. See Fri 24.
I Errol Brown Motherwell Concert Hall. 0698 267 515. 8pm. £1 l/£10 (£9.50). He of the shiny pate and high-pitched whining vocals lays on some funk for the Motherwell Music Festival.
I Readswlni Blazers. Hamilton Town Hote1.Townhead Road. 0698 891 929. Doors 7pm; band 11pm. £3.50. See Thurs 30.
I Maxwell Park Dugout (lounge bar). Cathcart Street. Greenock. 0475 27918.
9.30pm. Free.
I TTF, orx and D-TEX Marco's Forum. Livingston. Tickets available from
TOCT A agents. 23rd Precinct and the venue. 7pm—1am. £15. See Sat 25. No age restrictions at this gig by the self- professed ‘Number one techno band in the UK'. Also featuring music by a variety of ‘happening‘ DJs.
I Kenny Cavendish. West Tollcross. 228 3252. 9pm—4am. £5.
I c-Charge Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 8.30pm. £3. Energetic and highly danceable nine-piece live act blending dub. funk. ragga and ska. This gig is a warm-up for a large UK tour in November. We‘re promised a fearsome 'bit of skanking'.
I Fish Music Box. Victoria Street. 225 2564. 6.30pm. £7. Ex-Marillion hero Derek William Dick heads off on another of his infamous small venue tours.
I The Comedians La Belle Angele. Hasties Close (behind The Pelican). Cowgate. 225 2774. 10pm-3am. £4/£3. Funky. rootsy sounds from a local band. Also ‘big dance sounds' from the Squid sound system.
I Dr Octopus Granny‘s Attic. Bath Street. Portobello. 669 1780. 9pm. Free. Do that ‘octo acid funk’ thing all over the dance floor with one of Spider Man’s slimiest enemies.
I Bluetlnger Brewsters. South Bridge. 558 3457. 10.30pm. Free.
I Black Cat Bones Cas Rock Cafe. 229 4341. 10pm. Free.
I live music Tolbooth Tavern. Canongate. 556 5348. 9pm. Free.
I live music Abbey. South Clerk Street. 667 3023. 8.30pm. Free.
Kirkcaldy
I Baby Bartok, Shadowland and llaked See Ollerton Hotel. Victoria Road. 0592 264286. 8pm. £2.50 advance/£3 door. A showcase gig for three of the more interesting unsigned bands around. See live review for Naked See.
SATURDAY 2
I The McCloskey Brothers Renfrew Ferry. Clyde Place. 552 0767. 9pm. £7 (£5). Tickets from the Ticket Centre, Candleriggs. 227 5511. A welcome dose ofcontemplative folk songs after the headspin of Young Ar Heart‘s Number One success earlier this year.
I Monie Loire Tunnel. Mitchell Street. 204 1000. 10pm. £6 (£3). A set from the expatriate rapper early in the evening.
I The Bronte Brothers King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5. Tickets from King Tut’s and Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. Ex-Brendan Croker and the Five O’Clock Shadows. now firing off vinyl on This Way Up Records.
I Society and The Sherbet Nice ‘n‘ Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm.
I lama Buchanan Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 11pm. Free. The Supper Club.
I Rev Doe and the Congregation Boon’s Yard, Cathcart Road. 649 0184. 9.30pm. Free. See Fri 1
I (loan The Dugout. Cathcart Street. Greenock. 0475 27918. 9.30pm. £3.
I live Music MacSorleys. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free. A performance by MacSorleys‘ Battle of the Bands winner. still to be discovered at time of going to press.
I live Music The Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
I live Music McCool's Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Utah Saints Music Box. Victoria Street. 225 2564. 8pm. See Fri 1.
I Sad Society, Swine Flu and Jan’s Eye
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