MUSIC ROCK & BLUES
Glasgow
I David Essex Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 7.30pm. £12.50. £10.50. £8.50. Tickets from the box office and the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. Surely ticket sales will have rocketed after his supremely sexy performance of “Gonna Make You A Stat" on Suit/tilt" ()_/"l'/t<' 70.x; Skill.
I Obituary, Pitchshitter and Eye Hate God Garage. Sauchiehall Street. 332 1120. 7.30pm. £7.30 plus booking fee. Tickets from The Garage. Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 2264679 and Tower Records. Argyle Street. 204 2500. Three thoroughly charming death metal hands you could take home to your mother. Along with Sepultura. ()bituary tower above the scene. and their most recent albutn. li'iW/(l I)t'/tli.\'('. is ambitious stuff
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I Yellow Cake Popcorn, Deadcat Motorbike and Sulaco Kazoo Club. The 13111 Note. Glassford Street. 553 1638. 9pm. Free.
I Christina Vic Bar. Glasgow School of Art. Renfrew Street. 332. 0691. 9pm. Free. New Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter. I Glasgow Songwriters featuring Andy
McGarvey Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552
5924. 9.30pm. Free. Plus open mic.
I Dionysus llarleys. Quarry Street.
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Edinburgh
I Gene and Shriek Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 9pm. £5.50 plus booking fee from Virgin. TOCTA and Ripping Records. See preview.
I Bananatish Kitchen. Cowgate. 225 5413. 9pm. Free. They used to be called A Perfect Day For Bananalish and they dish out bright and beautiful poppy sounds.
I Songwriters’ Showcase and Workshop Tron Tavern. Hunter Square. 8pm. £1. Information: 228 3147. Weekly forum for Fdinburgh-based sitiger-songwriters. with anybody welcome to perform a fifteen- minute set. One local songwriter is highlighted at 10.30pm each night.
I Tom and Steve Sandy Stone's. downstairs at Les Partisans. High Street. 2266192. 10pm. Country blues.
I De lliros Rutland No 1. Rutland Street. 2293402. 5pm. Free.
I Shibboleth Rutland No l. Rutland Street. 2293402. 10pm. Free. Soft rock.
Glasgow
I Blubber, Gouge and lucrece King Tut's Wah Walt llut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £4. Tickets frotn King Tut's and Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 2264679. Blubber are New Punk from Brighton.
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I Galvin’s Dream Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free. Melodratnatic pop in a sub-Nick Cave vein.
I Fuzed, Huxley attd Just Another Dream Arena. Oswald Street. 221 4583. 8pm. £2. I 0kso, December and "5°l)isapparu Fixx 11. Miller Street. 221 1568. 9pm. Free. Continuing the Battle of the Bands.
I S.l.l., Big Rain and Idle Poor
MacSorley‘s. Jamaica Street. 221 8499.
9pm. Free. Three bands frotn North
Glasgow College. 3 I Junk Republic Mission. Battlefield
Road. 10pm. Free. Acoustic session. Edinburgh
I The Lost Soul Band Stones. tirettei-iek
Street. 220 1226. 10pm. £2. See Fri 18.
I Steve and Tom \Vest lind Oyster Bar. West Maitland Street. 225 3861. 10.30pm. Free.
. I Gave Boss Queen Street Oyster Bar.
5 Queen Street. 226 2530. 10pm. Free. ; I Sideshow Bob Sandy Stone's.
downstairs at Les Partisans. High Street. 226 6192. 10pm.
I Be lliros Rutland NoI. Rutland Street. 229 3402. 5pm. Free.
Falkirk
j I Blues ’n’ Trouble and Bo Weevil Martell. Burnbank Road. 0324 62176-1.
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8pm. £2.50. One of Britain‘s hardest
, working and best blues bands rolls into
town. The support know how to whip up a
crowd as well.
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Glasgow
I The BMX Bandits and Superstar Mercat Theatre. Drumchapel. 944 9022. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). A cotntnunity gig for the ever-
! cuddly Bandits. made even more enticing
I by the presence of Superstar. who don't I grace the public with their swelling pop
harmonies often enough.
I But or My Hair, Ball 0t Confusion and Selah King Tut's Wah \Vah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £3. Mellow hippy pop vibes from Out Of My Hair. alias corkscrew-curled fronttnan Comfort and local representation from Ball Of Confusion. formerly.mainstream pop/rock act Slide but now tempering their sound with a dash of Welleresque mod cool.
I Pink Kross, The Poison Sisters, The Ten-Pence Invaders and Soul Bossa Club 99p. The 13th Note. Glassford Street. 553 1638. 9pm. 99p. Garage grrrl punk abandon courtesy of Pink Kross.
I Strangecrazy and The Cloud Assassins Nice 'n’ Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm. See Fri 18 for Cloud Assassins.
I Easy, Trout and The Badoos Cathouse. Brown Street. 248 6606. 8pm. £2.50.
I Brave, The Tinglies and Negative Emotion Tree MacSorley's. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 8pm. Free. The fourth
Battle of the Bands heat.
I Transtiction and The Key Underground at Ventura. King Street. 552 1388. 9pm. £2. Frotn Germany and France respectively.
I The Moondials Church On The Hill. Langside Monument. 649 5189. 9.30pm. Free. limotional garage pop with all the essential classic reference points.
I Papa’s Boses Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
I Waterglass, The Wilderness and The Wheelies Arena. Oswald Street. 221 4583. 8pm. £2.50.
I Engine The Batcave. Bruce Hotel. Cornwall Street. East Kilbride. 03552 29771. 10pm. £4.
Edinburgh
I Carcass and Cubanate Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 8pm. £6.30 plus booking fee in advance from TOCTA and Ripping Records. Trying to categorise the various branches of metal would swiftly drive anyone tip the wall. How do you distinguish between thrash and speed? Anyway this lot pose no such problems. File under gore tnetal and check out those song titles. ‘Vomited Anal Tract"? Curiously. for all the blood and guts. three-quarters of them are vegetarians.
I The Kaisers Potterrow Student Union. Bristo Square. 8pm. £2. Students and guests only. The 60s beat pastiche boys swing them quiffs once tnore.
I The Supernaturals and Sister Stones. Frederick Street. 220 1226. 10pm. Free. They've just released their first Cl). Sitting In The Sun. which doesn‘t excuse their debilitating clothes sense.
I Seattle Sandy Stone's. downstairs at Les Partisans. High Street. 2266192. 10pm. Free. Blue Nile and Crowded House type stuff.
I Crimson Lake Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 9pm. £2.
I Stompin’ McGlean Queen Street Oyster Bar. Queen Street. 2262530. 10pm. Free. Country blues.
I Hollywood Bockets Platform One. Rutland Street. 225 2433. 9.30pm. Free.
Jump-jive and swing from a big band who all drive cars frotn the 50s and 60s. Not content with playing the music they live the life. man.
I Bolling Fork Conan Doyle. York Place. 557 3700. 9pm. Free. Blues covers.
I Space Monkey Maria Legends. Cowgate. 225 8382. 9.30pm. Price on the door. Reggae-orientated material.
I Hogwash Neighbours. McDonald Road.
557 4928. 9pm. Free. Sup your pint and wallow in R & B vibes.
I Be lliros Rutland Nol. Rutland Street. 229 3402. 5pm. Free. The Corleone family do some Crowded House covers. I Be Niros A.J. Ramsay's. Broughton Street. 5570627. 9pm. Free.
I Beanbag I.‘ Attache. Rutland Street. 229
3402. 10pm. Free. I Mr Pititul Rutland No1. Rutland Street. 2293402. 10pm. Free.
Glasgow
I Goats Don’t Shave Garage. Sauchiehall Street. 332 1120. 7.30pm. £7.50 plus booking fee. Folky lrish showband jollification. along the same lines as the risible Saw Doctors.
I Gene and Shriek 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. See preview for Gene. Shriek play charged indie rock with breathless momentum but enough twists and turns to keep you on your toes.
I Moby Arena. Oswald Street. 221 4583. 9pm. £7.50 plus booking fee. Tickets from Arena. Just the Ticket, Virgin. Union Street. 2264679 and Tower Records. Arger Street. 204 2500. Plastikman a.k.a. Richie Hawtin DJs. See preview.