MUSIC ROCK & BLUES
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anybody welcome to perform a fifteen- minute set. although turning up at 8pm is advised. Tonight T.G. McEwan is the featured minstrel with a country and blues leaning.
I liot Sausage Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free. Meaty funksters. lean and mean.
WEDNESDAY 2
I Manic Street Preachers Plaza. Eglinton T011. 423 3077. 7.30pm. £8. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. The Plaza seems to bring out the best in most bands - let‘s hope it delivers the Manics from the clutches of AOR before their still-vibrant rhetoric goes the same bland route as their music.
I Apple, Bed Wing Groove and Superslinky Fixx 11. Miller Street. 221
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- 1568. 9pm. Free.
I Jiveass McCool’s Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free. Traditional Chicago blues.
I Urban Gypsies Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
I live Music MacSorley’s. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 8pm. Free. Indie night. I live Music Fixx 11. Miller Street. 221 1568. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I The Blue Aeroplanes, A House and Sleeper Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 9pm. £7. See preview.
I Stiltskin Legends (formerly Phoenix). Cowgate. 225 8382. 9.30pm. £1. Metal without funk attached is becoming increasingly rare these days. Stiltskin run the gauntlet and manage a sharp edge with a decent amount of harmonic depth. They also perform the distinctive number 'Zombie Brain Syndrome'.
I Medicine Hat Pleasance Bar. Societies Centre. Pleasance. 650 2351. 8pm. Free. I .lune Frost Rocking Horse (formerly The Mission). Victoria Street. 225 3326. 10pm—3am. £2. Support promised.
I Oceans Eleven Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free. A mix of covers and original material. Not to be
if confused with the heavier Glasgow
rockers The Ocean, if you please.
THURSDAY 3
Glasgow I Mike Peters And The Poets or Justice
.‘ King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent
- Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6. Tickets from King Tut‘s and Just the Ticket.
Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. The ex- Alarm vocalist still commands a loyal following. in much the same way that Ian
McNabb still has to contend with heckles ; for Icicle Works songs - but it‘s an all- ' new show folks.
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i Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free.
’ the leading contender already for 1994 gig
I Valve, The Fortune Cookies and Rust Nice ‘n' Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm.
I Duest MacSorley’s. Jamaica Street. 221 : 8499. 9pm. Free. MacSorley‘s describe Quest as ‘blues rock with a difference'. A I Billy Rivers McCool‘s Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free. Blues. I Iii l.o lilo And The Flying Eyeballs Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
I Beast Di Burden Chicago Meatpackers. Hope Street. 248 4466. 8.30pm. Free.
I Bullet And Blue Eyes Batcave. Bruce Hotel. Cornwall Street. East Kilbride. 03552 29771. 10pm. £2.50.
I live Music Twa Corbies. Kilbowie Road. Cumbernauld. 0236 727473. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I President Gas and Dream Disciples Moray House Student Union. Holyrood Road. 556 5184. 9pm. £3 (£2). A return favour for the Cas Rock gig on Sat 29.
I Throgmorton Queen Street Oyster Bar. Queen Street. 226 2530. 10pm. Free.
I The Gods Di Glam Platform One. Rutland Street. 225 2433. 9.30pm. Free. Shock and terror with those scary history people. bringing back the 70s. Mud. Sweet. T-Rex. aargh. Wear your appalling tartan DMs.
I Acoustic jam session Granny's Attic.‘ Bath Street. Portobello. 669 1780. 9pm. Free. Strut your stuff in a session of folk. pop and whatever people can join in on. I Dirge Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free. Unsurprisingly. this lot aren’t the cheeriest of bands. and are said to languish bitterly somewhere between The Cure and Joy Division. So. hey. don‘t go with a headache.
FRIDAY 4
Glasgow
I Elastlca and Animals That Swim King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £4.50. Tickets from
King Tut’s and Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. Already labouring under the same weight of fawning press praise that Suede were afforded when their first records appeared and. whaddyaknow'?. Elastica vocalist Justine was an original member of Suede. Her current band are far spikier though. in a post-punk vein. G0 and see them because they’re great; not because they're the next big plaything.
I The iiucksters and The Hemingways Nice ’n' Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm. A Glaswegian take on American folk rock frotn The Hucksters. I Universal Mind and Crazy Nettie Grand Central Bar. Oswald Street. 221 4583. 9pm. £2.
I Charming Snakes MacSorley's. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.
I Bopstreet McCool's Ruling Cowboy.
I Spider Mackenzie, Dick Banovich and Jim Condie Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 9pm. Free. The ' Mackenzie/Bartovich partnership is joined ' by The Rootsie Tootsie Band's Jim Condie.
I Duke Bliss Trio Supper Club. Cottiers. Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 11pm. Free. I This ouick Boon’s Yard. Cathcart Road. 649 0184. 9.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Edison lighthouse Cavendish. West Tollcross. 228 3252. 9pm—3am. £5. Surely
of the year. They could play ‘l.ove Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)‘ 300 times in a row and it would still be an uplifting. timeless arrow fired straight into our hearts.
I Baby Bartok Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 9pm. £1.50. Subterranean pop this week from those notorious Sunday Post stars.
I Wildhouse Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free. An unknown quantity making their first appearance in Negociants.
I The oawntreaders Cas Rock Cafe.
, West Port. 229 4341. 10pm. Free.
Rescheduled date for those hairy folk from Aberdeen. This time they’ll be making their first appearance here.
I Blueiinger Brewsters. South Bridge. 558 3457. 10pm. Free. Reliable rock ’n‘ roll.
I live music Abbey. South Clerk Street. 667 3023. 8.30pm. Free.
Kirkcaldy
I The Works and Apparition J uke Joint. Ollerton Hotel. Victoria Road. 0592 264286. 9pm. Metal sounds rock Kirkcaldy. Familiar venue. new name.
SATURDAY 5
Glasgow
I Elton Jack King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £7. Tickets from King Tut‘s and Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. Rescheduled date for this reportedly extremely accurate Elton John pastiche from the home of tribute bands. Australia. Why don't we return the favour and tour a Neighbours tribute soap opera over there? I llugh need And The Velvet Underpants McCools Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free. Australian VU tribute band . . . sorry. that should read. ‘Glaswegian musical institution'.
I Boogalusa Cafe Loco. The Arches. Midland Street. 221 9736. 10pm. £5. Long-serving Dundee cajun men. Check out their recent album Careless Angels And C ruzy Cajuns.
I The Whole Shebang Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
‘ I The Outpatients MacSorley's. Jamaica
Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free. I Banovich and Mackenzie Scotia. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free.
1 I lorna Buchanan Supper Club. Cottiers. A Hyndland Road. 357 5827. 11pm. Free.
5 I Bev Boc And The Congregation Boon‘s ' Yard. Cathcart Road. 6490184. 9.30pm.
Free.
I The Pearltishers and Fiaere East Kilbride Arts Centre. Old Coach Road. The Village. East Kilbride. ()3552 61000. 7.30pm. £5 (£2).
Edinburgh
I Bullets And Blue Eyes Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 9pm. £3/£2. A Frottage package.
I Captain Shitty and Papa’s Magic Beard
Napier University Union. King‘s Stables Road. 229 8791. 8pm. £4 (£5). Two courses of fat. tasty funk plus DJs from
regulars with their popular selection. mainly of Drifters covers.
I The Fabians Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.
I Slammers Brewsters. South Bridge. 558 3457. 10pm. Free. 50s. 60s. 70s and 80s rock. pop and soul. Phew.
I Solid Gone Queen Street Oyster Bar. Queen Street. 226 2530. 10pm. Free. See Sat 29.
I 32/20 St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 557 2925. 10.30pm. Free. Blues. I live music Gold Tankard. Houdon Street. 667 0328. Free.
I live music Abbey. South Clerk Street. 667 3023. 8.30pm. Free.
Kirkcaldy
I The Rhymes and The Great McGlnty Juke Joint. Ollerton Hotel. Victoria Road. 0592 264286 9pm. £3. Bit of an R&B
Squid. This is a benefit gig to raise money j for the Ashish Gran Trust. an Indian cause involved in health education and
g protecting water supplies.
: I D’Jango Cavendish. West Tollcross.
E 228 3252. 9pm—3am. £5. Cavendish
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