MUSIC ROCK & BLUES
WEDNESDAY 22
Glasgow
I Spida McChuill's. High Street. 552 2135. 10pm. Free.
I live Music Quadrophonic. Basement Bar. Glasgow University Student Union. University Avenue. 339 8697. 8pm. Free. Students and guests. Four local bands.
Edinburgh
I Dominic Waxing lyrical Stones. Frederick Street. 220 1226. 10pm. Free. You won't see anything quite like this lot anywhere. Quirky and possibly barking but thoughtful at the same time.
I Phil MacFadden West End Oyster Bar. West Maitland Street. 225 3861. 10pm. Free. Acoustic covers.
I The Johnson Brothers Queen Street Oyster Bar. Queen Street. 226 2530. Free.
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Glasgow
I Aztec Camera and Goya Dress Barrowland. Gallowgate. 552 46(11. 7.30pm. £10 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. Astrid Williamson’s Goya Dress are an esoteric. atmospheric bunch who have still been known to rock out in an arty way.
I Melonhaus pH 1. Strathclyde University Student Union. John Street. 552 1895. 9pm. £4. Students and guests. Local techno act inaugurate the Union‘s new dance club night.
I Nerve and Christine Nice ’n' Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm.
I The Spooks, Shakin’ Spear And The Cannibals and The Snorkels Club 99p. The 13th Note. Glassford Street. 553 1638. 9pm. 99p. An evening of mayhem and pastiche awaits.
I Tom Mclliyen Quintet McChuill's. High Street. 552 2135. 10pm. Free. Acidjazzy sounds.
I The Corleones, Gut or Time and Sugarbush The Arena. Oswald Street. 221 3010. 9pm. £2.50.
I Strangeness Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
I Pulse and Here MacSorley‘s. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.
I Arc Batcave. Bruce llotel. Cornwall Street. East Kilbride. 013552 29771. 10pm. £3.
I llhaill, D’Moio’Ann and Deep End Sax. Teviot Walk. Cumbernauld. 01236 733 200. 8pm. £3.
Edinburgh
I Alice Donut Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 7.30pm. £6. Disturbed and disturbing American band whose songs frequently bear titles like ‘Cow's Placenta To Armageddon‘. Support comes from two Japanese bands.
lI Aura La Belle Angele. Hasties Close. ;Cowgate. 225 2774. 10pm. Playing as part lof Fiction. a new club that promises
é intelligent techno and trance. so it‘s fair to E assume that Aura are not a thrash metal icrew.
:I True North Subway. Cowgate. 225 :6766. 8pm. £2. Folk-rock with a poppy
slant.
lI Congy Ben Queen Street Oyster Bar. ;Queen Street. 226 2530. 10pm. Free.
Gruesome twosome with guitars. tine
tunes and the blues.
I Hot Tamales West End Oyster bar. West tMaitland Street. 225 3861. 10pm. Free.
Blues duo.
.I Bazaar L'Attaehe. Rutland Street. 229 33402. 10pm. Free. Recently got to number iiive in the Irish charts with their single
'Touch'.
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3 I M118 and Backstreet Boys StZCC.
3Finnieston Quay. 248 9999. £13.50 plus
; booking fee. The Smash Hits tour hits
‘ town with those boys who‘ve got a little
something for us and a variety of new teenybop acts vying to be the next Take
That. or at least the next 1.et Loose.
I Urusei Yatsura, The Delgados and Spam Snare Nice 'n' Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm. A Kitten Frenzy
evening of some note. Kitten Frenzy
uberlords Urusei Yatsura tear through their monster rifting indie wall of sound.
: The Delgados pause every so often to
‘ insert some quirky melody and Spare
: Snare go the whole hog on the quirky lo-ti front.
I Sin City, Sharkbait and Redwood King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £3.50. Tickets frotn
King Tut‘s and Just the Ticket. Virgin.
Union Street. 226 4679. Hard rock from
Sharkbait.
I McFloyd Strathclyde University
Student Union. John Street. 552 1895. 9pm. £4. Students and guests. The
Scottish Pink Floyd tribute. We could say
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g I Blackwater Blues Band MacSorley‘s.
: Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.
' I Hideaway Blues Band and John Hannah
Brewhouse. John Street. 552 3801. 8pm.
Free.
: I The Journeymen McChuill's. High Street. 552 2135. 10pm. Free.
I Doing The Biz Twa Corbies. Kilbowie Road. Cumbernauld. 01236 727473. 9pm. Free.
I Edinburgh
I Thurman, Big White Stairs and Atlantis Wee Red Bar. Edinburgh College of Art.
= Lauriston Place. 9pm. £4. Britpop from
the headliners. Big White Stairs have had
' two sessions on the ever-fab Mark
1 Radcliffe show and local boys Atlantis
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I The Cheeky Monkees Cavendish. West Tollcross. 228 3252. 9pm—3am. £5. It had to happen . . . a tribute band for a band who were manufactured to be an American remake of The Beatles.
I Surf City Rockers Tap O’l.auriston. ' Lauriston Place. 2294041. 9pm. Free.
The name says it all.
. I Eddie Felson Whistle Binkies. Niddry
Street. 557 5114. 9pm. Free. Rockabilly outfit.
I En Sabah llur and Protondo Bosso Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 8pm. £2. lleavy rock for the hairheads.
I The Skywalkers and Cutlery Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 8pm. £2. lndie pop. I Do Weevil Cas Rock Cafe. West Port. 2294341. 10pm. Free. Hot dawg rhythm and blues.
I I Live Music Abbey. South Clerk Street.
667 3023. 8.30pm. Free.
SATURDAY 25
Glasgow
I Sheep On Drugs 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. Fetishistic electro the like of which hasn't been readily seen since the perv days of Soft Cell. Sheep ()n Drugs don‘t bother with the camp melodrama; they just go the whole way with the performance art thang.
I Jamie Barnes And Cochise MacSorley's. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free. Veteran blues act.
I Lights Out By Nine Brewhouse. John Street. 552 3801. 8pm. Free.
I The Badoos Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
I Blackwater Blues Band Brewhousc. John Street. 552 3801. 5—7pm. Free.
I The Mo’llawks McChuill‘s. High
Street. 552 2135. 10pm. Free. I The Disco Sergeants Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free.
I Deep Blue Sea Boon's Yard. Cathcart
Road. 649 0184. 9.30pm. Free.
I Slam Wolburn's Wharf. Yoker Ferry Road. 959 2016. 9pm. Free.
I The Banters, God’s Boyfriend and The
Divers East Kilbride Arts Centre. ()ld
Coach Road. The Village. liast Kilbride. 013552 61000. 8pm. £2 (advance). £3 (door). Garage power trio all the way from Toronto (via Glasgow).
I Fiaere Clyde Bar. West Clyde Street. Helensburgh. 01463 673 257. 10pm. £1.
' The Edinburgh-based songwriter who
could take on the likes of Aimee Mann
any day.
; Edinburgh I Odyssey Assembly Rooms. George , Street. 2204348. 10pm. £10. Disco
2774. 7pm. £5.30 plus booking fee in advance. £6 on the door. See preview.
The Tortured Cas Rock Cafe. West Port.
Glasgow
‘ Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226
204 2500. A group who seem forever
1 I Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Tunic
Potterrow Student Union. Potterrow. I Bristo Square. 650 2656. 8pm. £4.
' Students and guests only. Mad Welsh )astards. See preview.
Set to stun: Urusei Yatsura, Glasgow, Fr124 anthems as part of a Disco Inferno night.
ll Dubstar and Audioweb La Belle Angele. llasties Close. Cowgate. 225
I Chinese Burn Tap O'l.auriston. Lauriston Place. 229 4041. 9pm. Free. Local punk regulars.
I Shake The Shack Whistle Binkies. Niddry Street. 557 5114. 9pm. Free. Airing some material from their genre- hopping new album. [fast ufHuy.
I Midnight Configuration, Suspiria and
229 4341. 9pm. £3.50 in advance. £4 on the door. Dodgy goth night. The headliners' publicity indicates an unhealthy obsession with bondage. leather. S & M and. ofcourse. graveyards. 1t doesn't help that they come from Nottingham.
I Foxx Cavendish. West Tollcross. 228 3252. 9pm—3am. £5. Choreographed band doing covers from the last three decades as well as sotne New American stuff. Very popular with the ladies on account of toned pecs. well-tipped jeans. cheesy grins and cheeky charm. Not so popular with the lads at the bar for some reason. I The Rain Kings King‘s Buildings. lidinburgh University. 8pm. £5 including buffet. Nosh while you dance to the
I Read It And Weep Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 8pm. £2.
I The Supernaturals Platform ()ne. Rutland Street. 225 2433. 9.30pm. Free. Sunny pop pups from Glasgow.
I Wet Wet Wet SECC. Finnieston Quay. 248 9999. SOLD OUT. We unflinchineg print this band‘s name in our rock listings. aware that we could be infringing a registered trademark. but our commitment to bringing you news of gigs all over the city is so great that we’re prepared to risk all. lfyou didn't already know about 'his spate ofgigs then hard luck cos they':-: all sold out.
I Dubstar and Audioweb King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5. Tickets frotn King Tut's and Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. See preview for Dubstar.
I WeKnowWhereYoulive Cathouse. Union Street. 221 5412. 8pm. £5.50 plus booking fee. Tickets from The Garage.
4679 and Tower Records. Argyle Street.
fated to he referred to as ‘ex—members of The Wonderstuff and F.at'.
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