MUSIC ROCK & BLUES
ROCK & BLUES
LISTINGS _
Rigs are listed by date, then by city. notes will be listed, provided that details reach our offices art least one week before publication. Rock and Blues listings couplled by Elona Shepherd
and Jim Byers. Ticket information
Tickets for most medium/large concerts can be bought from the following:
Just The Ticket Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679.
Tower Records Argyle Street. 204 2500.
Credit card bookings from:
TOCTA: 556 5555.
Ticket Link: 227 5511.
Virgin Princes Street. 220 2230. Ripping Records South Bridge. 226 7010.
Credit card bookings from:
TOCT A 557 6969.
FRIDAY 4
Glasgow I Wollstone Barrowland. Gallowgate.
552 4601. 7.30pm. £8 plus booking fee. Politicised Celtic folk rockers stir up the emotions on one of their regular visits to Glasgow.
I Space and Octopus The Garage. Sauchiehall Street. 332 1120. 7pm. £6.50 plus booking fee. See preview for the quirky Scousers Space. Support from London-based Scots OctOpus who are touting their debut album From a 7}) I; with its hectic. bouncy pop and melancholy psychedelia.
I Tinderbox, Men lie and Trousered King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £3.50. Chaotic folk rock from Tinderbox. Can we expect woozy sounds from the wonderfully- named Trousered'?
I Alive She Cried, The Sires and The Dougals The Arena. Oswald Street. 221 3010. 9pm. £4 (£3). including entry to Britpop club Parklife.
I Space Kittens Nice ‘n’ Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm. Single launch for the dayglo punk grrrls.
I Catcher Strathclyde University Union. John Street. 552 1895. Students and guests. Local four-piece whose single ‘Autumn' jangled along nicely in an 80s Scotpop vein.
I Rollin’ Joe And The Jets McChuills. High Street. 552 2135. 10pm. Free. Fifties and 60s rock 'n‘ roll.
I Eric Cuthbertson And The iioochie Coochie Band The Brewhouse. John Street. 552 3801. 8pm. Free. Blues.
I Gallus Alice MacSorleys. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.
I Free At last Ragnarok. Clyde Street. 332 2780. 10pm. £3. Cover versions night.
I The Freebooters Twa Corbies. Kilbowie Road.Cumbernau1d. 01236 727473. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Deus, Ego Superstars and Pilotcan Music Box. Victoria Street. 225 2564.
7pm. £6 in advance. £7 on the door. See preview.
I Brian Connelly’s Sweet Cavendish. West Tollcross. 228 3252. 10pm-3am. £5. Over 25s. Classic 70s material from the band who charted with ‘Hellraiser' and ‘Fox On The Run‘ .
I Little Green Monkeys Whistle Binkies. Niddry Street. 557 5114. 9pm. Free. Raucous folky rock.
I Defunkt and Mirage Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 9pm. £2. Quite a buzz gathering around the young headliners whose lead singer is the wee brother of one of the guys from now defunct (l) nouveau grungers Flood. With support from young Nirvana-type rockers.
I Ugly Groove Movement Cas Rock Cafe. West Port. 229 4341. 10pm. £3. Heavy rock.
I live Music Abbey. South Clerk Street. 667 3023. 8.30pm. Free.
SATURDAY 5
Glasgow
I The Whisky Priests and Rich Hill King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5. Raucous fiddle- laden folk rock from a band who are now over a decade old and on to their seventh album Life '3' Tapestry for which f rontmen and band founders Gary and Glenn Miller changed the group‘s line-up yet again.
I Area 51 Nice ‘n‘ Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm. The techno collective put on another Of their regular Sleazy evenings. this time billed as a cross-dressing party. with cheap booze promised for anyone who takes the plunge.
I Catcher Different Class. Asylum. Caledonian University Union. Cowcaddens Road. 332 0681. 9pm. £3. Students and guests. See Fri 4.
I The Raisers McChuills. High Street. 552 2135 10pm. Free. Invoking the spirit
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I Eric Cuthbertson And The iioochie Coochie Band The Brewhouse. John Street. 552 3801. 5-7pm. Free. Blues.
I Hideaway Blues Band The Brewhouse. John Street. 552 3801. 9.30pm. Free.
I Die Happy Kilkennys. John Street. 552 3505. 9 m. Free.
I The utpatients MacSorleys. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.
I Framework Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free.
I Knucklebone Ragnarok. Clyde Street. 332 2780. 10pm. £3. Rock night.
I iialley's Comet WOlburn’s Wharf. Yoker Ferry Road. 959 2016. 9pm. Free. I The Diplomats Boon's Yard. Cathcart Road. 649 0184. 9.30pm. Free. Gritty AOR in a Springsteenesque mould.
I live Music The Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Manic Street Preachers and Catatonia Livingston Forum. Almondale West. Livingston. 01506 419 191. 7.30pm. £10 plus booking fee. Welsh double bill with the headliners back in Scotland following triumphant sets at both T in the Park and Loch Lomond. For sheer full-on vocal performance nobody gives as much as The Manic's James Dean Bradfteld. With support from fellow Valley folk Catatonia whose excellent new album Way Beyond Blue is out now.
I Fixation and Read Like A Buffalo Subway. COWgatC. 225 6766. 9pm. £2. Young local indie rock.
I Rosetta Stone, libertina and The Tortured Cas Rock Cafe. West Port. 229 4341. 10pm. £4 in advance. £5 on the door. Time to dress up like a dead person and get very. very depressed at this goth rock spectacular.
I Raccy Cavendish. West Tollcross. 228
3252. 10pm—3am. £5. Over 25s. Classic
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