MUSIC ROCK & BLUES
I The Poison Sisters 13th Note. Glassford Street. 553 1638. 10pm. Free. I Glasgow Songwriters featuring This Gulclt Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free. Plus open platform.
I live Ahsic Ross’s Bar. Mitchell Street. 221 2287. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Mega City Four Music Box. Victoria Street. 225 2564. 9pm. Powerful. energetic group who manage to be angry and vulnerable at the same time. No longer living a claustrophobic Transit van existence.
I Marsha Fresca, Headst and Burn Venue. Calton Road, 557 3073. 9pm. £4. See Sun 3 for Marsha Fresca and Thurs 30 for Headswim.
I Workers ill Song Gallery Bar. North Bank Street. The Mound. 9pm—lam. Free. Information: 440 4303. Weekly forum for Edinburgh-based singer-songwriters. with around ten performers playing three or four songs each.
I Maya’s Voice Negociants, Lothian Street. 225 6313. 9.30pm. Free.
I lied Hot 8 Blue L’Attache. Rutland Street. 11pm. Free.
WEDNESDAY 6
I Matt King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5.50. Tickets from King Tut’s and Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. Hippy survivors with a prog slant. Look. it’s late in the day and we're all tired . . . I Hoel McCoy Horizontal. Volcano. Benalder Street. 337 1100. 11pm. £3 (£2). James Taylor Quartet vocalist doing a solo PA at the popularjazz funk club.
I Seventh Heaven MacSorleys. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free. Soulful R & B with strong female vocals.
I Horse Motherwell Concert Hall. 0698 267 515. 8pm. £6—£8 (£5). Smooth as
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Lemsip. deep as Loch Ness vocals; but even they can’t salvage their dull. pseudo- rootsy soul soundtrack. Part of the Motherwell Music Festival.
I Jim Diamond Motherwell Theatre. 0698 267 515. 7.30pm. £6.50 (£5.50). Whining castrato vibrato which hit paydirt with the bleating ‘1 Should Have Known Better’ back in the primordial mists of the 1980s. Part of the Motherwell Music Festival.
Edinburgh
I Afghan Whigs Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 9 tn. £6. See preview.
I The Sppoolts College of Art. Lauriston Place. 229 1442. 10pm. £2. Resurrected 60s pop funsters play a Freshers’ Week gig which is nevertheless open to all.
I Tartan Amoebas La Belle Angele. Hasties Close (behind The Pelican). Cowgate. 225 2774. 10pm-2am. £5 (£3). Su erior ceilidh band.
I he Gods of Glam L‘Attache. Rutland Street. 229 3402. 1 1pm. Free. See Thurs 1 30..
I Sliver Sun Queen Street Oyster Bar. Queen Street. 226 2530. 10pm. Free.
I Faithful West End Oyster Bar. West
Maitland Street. 225 3861. 10.30pm. Free. Acoustic duo. inclined in a folk rock
direction.
1 I Hearsay Negociants, Lothian Street. 225 6313. 9.30pm. Free.
1 THURSDAY 7
Glasgow
I Big George and the Business Mayfair, Sauchiehall Street. 332 3872. 8pm. £4.50. George Ross Watt does his heavy blues business as only he knows how.
I The Afghan Whigs and Whiteout
5 Cathouse. Brown Street. 248 6606. 8pm.
£5.50 (advance). £6.50 (door). Tickets from The Cathouse. Just the Ticket.
Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. and 23rd Precinct. Bath Street. 332 9740. See preview for Afghan Whigs. While The Whigs give a white American college
. rock reading of 'soul‘ music. Whiteout
’ delight with a Scottish schoolboy
rendering of beatpOp and sassy 70s rock.
I Highway 61 and Fastlayne Nice ’n‘
Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637.
9pm. Apparently they gad about in
cowboy outfits.
I Zoomshanlta The Halt Bar. Woodlands
Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free. Heady
dub.
I The McGlusitey Brothers Motherwell
i Theatre. 0698 267 515. 7.30pm. £5.50
(£4.50). See Sat 2. Part of the Motherwell
Music Festival.
} I The Bewlay Brothers Batcave. Bruce
1 Hotel. Cornwall Street. East Kilbride.
1 03552 29771. 10pm. £2.50. Plus a New Order/Joy Division tribute disco.
I Silver Train Twa Corbies. Kilbowie
. Road. Cumbemauld. 0236 727473. 9pm.
i Free.
‘ I live Music King Tut's Wah Wah Hut.
1 St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm.
I Tlnkerbell‘s nope Hing and eraclehead College of Art. Lauriston Place. 229 1442. 10pm. £2. TDR are high- powered rock. fused in lnvemess. and looking destined for great things these days. First album Beersmakespitpink is out now.
I Hope, Unreal and Spoo Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 9pm. £1.50. Weird electro-pop sounds can be heard echoing through the dank chambers of the Subway at unearthly hours tonight. Keep your windows locked.
I The Valley of the bolls La Belle Angele. Hasties Close (behind The Pelican). Cowgate. 225 2774.
I Martin Fransen St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 557 2925. 10pm. Free.
I Shibboleth L’Attache. Rutland Street. 11pm. Free.
I Acoustic jam session Granny’s Attic. Bath Street. Portobello. 669 1780. 9pm. Free. The duo One Point Two start a session of folk. pop and whatever people can 10111 in on.
I live music Cas Rock Cafe. West Port. 229 4341. 10pm. Free.
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SUNDAY 25 g
I Johnny Mathis SECC. Finnieston Quay. 248 3000. £22l£20. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. Hopefully he’ll play ‘Misty‘ for me. Then again. he’ll probably end up doing “A Child is Born’.
SUNDAY 3
I Terry Heason Motherwell Theatre. 0698 267 515. 7.30pm. £4 (£3). Terry brings her successful Crying F or The Moon show to the Motherwell Music Festival.
JAZZ
Dates listed below are for one-off shows: see seperate section for residencies. Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Performances will be listed, provided that details reach our offices at least one week before publication. Jan Listings compiled by Kenny Mathieson.
FRIDAY 24
I Tani White Trio Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. Paisley. 887 1010. 9pm. £5 (£3). The Paisley Festival is treated to an acoustic blues set from the popular Edinburgh singer.
I Tommy McLaren Trio Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 8.30pm. £3. An evening ofjazz for dancing with this local piano trio.
SATURDAY 25
l I Basetnent Jazz The 13th Note. 80
Glassford Street. 887 4733. 9pm. The jazz club at this atmospheric basement venue was due to resume tonight. but no programme details or prices have been forthcoming as we went to press. Check at the above number for details of any dates within this issue.
I John Murray Big Band Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 2-5pm. £1. Mainstream.
I George Penman‘s Jamnen Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 8.30pm—midnight. £4. Leading Dixieland band. plus guests.
SUNDAY 26 -
Glasgow
I Jim Galloway and The Sandy Taylor Trio Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 8pm. £7 (£4). The Canadian-based saxophonist is back in his native Scotland to celebrate his mother’s birthday. and the folk at the Society have not been slow to capitalise on that situation by slipping in this gig. Galloway is always well worth hearing. but it is ironic that. entirely by chance. he should be playing on the same night as another distinguished Scottish expatriate. Joe Tetnperley. has a gig in Edinburgh. 1 for one would love to hear them both — as it happens. 1 can‘t get to either. Who said September was a quiet month forjazz?
I Big Band Session Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 2—5pm. £1. The Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra alternate with the Tim Barella Big Band.
Edinburgh
I Joe Temperley and The Jack Finlay
Trio Jazz Cellar. Tron Tavern and Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 1550. 9pm. £4 (£3.50). A strong start to the new 1 Edinburgh Jazz Project season in this basement club. with Fife-born. New York- based saxophone giant (both literally and metaphorically speaking) Joe Temperley linking up with pianist Jack Finlay and friends. See preview.
MONDAY 27
Glasgow 3 I Ilit Carey’s Jazz Band Society of ' Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 6112. : 9pm—midnight. £2. Traditional. 1 I Hive Gauche Society of Musicians. 73 l
Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 2.30-5.30pm.
£1. A lively session of French-style swing to while away the Glasgow holiday afternoon.
WEDNESDAY 29 5
I Sandy Taylor and Henry Fullerton Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 8.30pm. £1. Mainstream piano and bass duo. plus guests.
Edinburgh ; I Russell Cowieson Gulntet Jazz Cellar. * Tron Tavern and Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 1550. 9pm. £3 (£2). Saxophonist Russell Cowieson is showing every sign of confirming the promise he revealed as a member of the Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra. He has a big. warm. Ben Webster-like tone which is unusual among his contemporaries. reared as they are on the more acerbic Coltrane-derived sonorities. and plenty to say with it.
I Soundbites Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £7.50—£9. This is essentially a classical programme (see Classical listings for details). but Evelyn Glennie‘s guests include jazz pianist Julian Joseph, who recently got over that ‘difficult second album‘ phase with the release of Reality (East West). If you can’t make it. or the rest of the programme doesn‘t appeal. catch it on the telly in due course.
38 The List 24 September-7 October 1993