ROCK & BLUES MUSIC 1“
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Dates listed below are for one-ott shows: 1 see separate section tor residencies. Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Dates will be listed, provided that details reach our offices art least one week before publication. Rock and Blues Listings compiled by Fiona Shepherd
and Jonathan Trew.
FRIDAY 19 9
Glasgow I East 17 SFICC. Finnieston Quay. 248 9999. £14.50 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. Those streetwise Walthamstow boys are looking increasingly good next to Take That‘s current descent into sub-Wets slop material. At least East 17 retain a bit of attitude.
I Fats Domino King's Theatre. 8th Street. 7pm/9.30pm. £10 (£5). Tickets from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. A Mayfest scoop with two concerts from the seminal New Orleans R & B pianist.
I Supergrass Plaza. Eglinton Toll. 423 3077. 7pm. £6.50 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. 1.asbings of teen attitude from a band who are young enough to carry it off but old enough to have digested a cartload of great music from the 60s and 70s. Current singie ‘Lenny‘ is a Top Ten stormer and the debut album I Should Com is a surefire smash.
I John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers and Samuel Eddy The Garage. Sauchiehall Street. 332 1120. 7pm. £10 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679 and Tower Records. Argyle Street. 204 2500. Clapton cut his teeth in one of the early incarnations of this veteran R & B/roots combo. but their 905 version lacks the rawness of the classic 60s recordings.
I The Moondials and Slimcea Girl King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £4. See preview for The 1vloondials. Support from the Small Faces/Kinks-inlluenced Slimcea Girl.
I Zion Train and Emperor Sly Glasgow School of Art. Renfrew Street. 332 0691. 10pm. £3. Students and guests. Heady dub exponents who have gone down a storm at this venue before.
I The Diggers and lloopster Mean Streets. The 13th Note (downstairs).
From Waltamstow wiv love: East 17. Glasgow, Fri 19 ;
. I Hate Fax, Toaster and Negative Emotion Tree Colors. llarleys. Cheapside
Marquee. 357 1115. 8pm. £8. ‘ I Blackwater Blues MacSoi‘leys.
‘ Castlemilk for Mayfest.
. I Mike Scott, Capercaillie and Thrum
benefit gig. The three bands cover a fair amount of the musical spectrum so
3 delectation. Crystal Gayle is probably the 1
Glassford Street. 553 1638. 9pm. £1. Scuffed (ills-influenced indie pop.
3 I Hersham Boys and Hanx Nice ‘n‘ Sleazy. Sanchiehall Street. 333 9637.
9pm. Just what we need ~- a Sham 69 tribute. supported by what sounds suspiciously like a Stiff Little Fingers tribute. linough. already.
I Brynner and Tonic Arena. ()swald ' Street. 221 3010. 9pm. £2.50. including entry to Parklife. Tonic were formerly The . Stanleys and release their debut F1) in the next couple of weeks.
Street (off Broomielaw). 10pm. £3. I I Rab Noakes And The Varatlames and Zydeco Ecosse Hillhead Sports Club :
Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free. 5
g I Raggle Taggle Gypsies McC‘liuills. ! 5 High Street. 552 2135. 9pm. Free. Infectious mix of roots styles.
I Glimax Blues Band Castlenlilk
Community Centre. Castlemilk Drive. 631 ’ 1166. 8pm. £5 (£1). Veteran AUR blues combo. whom most people assumed had split up years ago. but no. here they are in
I Baby Isaac Brewhouse. John Street. 552 3801. 8.30pm. Free.
I The Full Hog Coach House. Thornliebank Road. 8pm. Free.
I Wumttt Twa Corbies. Kilbowie Road. 01236 727473. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
Assembly Rooms. George Street. 220 4349. 7pm. £10. Sotne of Scotland's linest musicians entertain in a Trees For Life
there'll pretty much be something for everyone. I Rita Coolidge and Crystal Gayle Usher ? Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £14.50—£16.50. Two top flight chanteuses ‘ for your easy listening delight and '
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more interesting of the duo. what with her unfeasibly long hair and her back catalogue including standards like ‘1)on't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue‘ and ‘Talking In Your Sleep‘.
I Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders Cavendish. West Tollcross. 228 3252. 9pm—3am. £5. Famous for ‘Game of love and the deeply philosophical ‘Um Um L‘m Um Um Um'.
I The Gift and Hair Shirt Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 8pm. £2. Young indie rock hopefuls.
I Haze West End Oyster Bar. West Maitland Street. 225 3861. 10.30pm. Free. I Bluetinger Platform ()ne. Rutland Street. 225 2433. 9pm. Free. Maximum rock 'n' roll.
I Eat The Beatle (‘as Rock Cafe. West Port. 229 4341. 9pm. Free.
I Live Music Abbey. South Clerk Street. 667 3023. 8.30pm. Free.
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