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■ Joan as Police Woman The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. 7pm. £12.50. Former Anthony & the Johnsons, who lives by the slogan ‘beauty is the new punk rock’. ■ Carbona Not Glue The Ark, 3–7 Waterloo Place, 228 9393. 7.30pm. £4. Edinburgh Ramones tribute act headline this charity night (more acts tbc). ■ Your Loyal Subjects, The Fatalists and Clint Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16a Morrison Street, 228 9393. 7.30pm. £4. Post-punk, indie and rock. ■ Limbo The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 8pm–1am. £5 (£4). The Black Spring DJs host a special Saturday Christmas party with Come on Gang!, Kid Canaveral and Super Adventure Club. ■ Red2Red and Tourettes Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16a Morrison Street, 228 9393. 11pm. £4. Reggae and ska from Red2Red.
Dunfermline ✽✽ Biffy Clyro and Frightened Rabbit Alhambra Theatre, 35
Canmore Street, 7pm. £tbc. Over-14s show. The Glasgow rockers return with this massive arena date to close the year in style. As their fans say, ‘Mon the Biffy!’.
Glenrothes ■ Kingdom FM Party Night Rothes Halls, Kingdom Centre, 01592 611101. 7pm. £33.50. See Fri 12. Kilmarnock ■ Ocean Colour Scene The Grand Hall, London Road, 01563 554900. SOLD OUT. Survivors of both baggy and Britpop still reeling in the crowds in Scotland.
Sunday 14 Glasgow ■ Christmas at the Musicals: The Best of The West End Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 3pm & 7.30pm. £14–£24. Martin Yates conducts four leading West End artists in songs from major musicals. ■ Bury Your Dead, As Blood Runs Black, Emmure and Your Demise Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald Street, 248 4114. 6.15pm. £10. Heavy sounds at this night, dubbed ‘Santa Slaughter’, including St Albans hardcore band Your Demise. ■ Dashboard Confessional Carling Academy, 121 Eglinton Street, 0844 477 2000. 7pm. £15. Over-14s show. The US king of emo rock, with self-confessional, highly personal lyrics. ■ Electric Six ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £12. The novelty disco funk rock band truck on the strength of their ‘Gay Bar’ hit. ■ Herman Dune and The Baby Skins Oran Mor, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £10. Curious anti- folk from Herman Dune. ■ The Scheme Experience Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7pm. £7.50. Reggae rockers who have been around for almost thirty years. ■ The Wedding Present Queen Margaret Union, 22 University Gardens, 339 9784. 7pm. £14. See Sat 13. ■ [spunge], The Hostiles, The Hold Up and Ready 2 Fall Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7pm. £10. Over-14s show. Ska punkers from Tewkesbury who claim to be the hardest- working band in the UK. ■ Dutch Uncles, Washington Irving and Deadman Bed The Twisted Wheel, 73 Queen Street, 221 4851. 7.30pm. £5. Mancunian New Wave five-piece. ■ Status Quo SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0870 040 4000. 7.30pm. £31.50. The band with more UK hit singles than any other group in chart history are back for more on their ‘Pictures: 40 Years of Hits’ tour. FREE Dean Queazy, Andrew Jackson, Rell and Pride Tiger Republic Bier Hof, 323 Sauchiehall Street, 353 0953. 8pm. Intimate sounds in the Hof.
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We’ve packed in a lot of gigs, peered over lots of heads, and blown a fortune at the merch stand. Here’s The List’s very best live shows of 2008
It was packed but we loved the Electric Feel of MGMT in February (Beat Club), while in March Casiotone for the Painfully Alone’s (Nice N Sleazy’s) geeky synthesiser ballads charmed us, The Twilight Sad (King Tut’s) moved us, and Neil Young (The Playhouse) was not so much a concert – more a force of nature with sideburns. April, you were really spoiling us, with experimental post-rock from Toronto’s Holy Fuck (Stereo), bad boy alt.rock from The Gutter Twins (Oran Mor), a sassy Salford singalong from The Ting Tings (King Tut’s) and Triptych’s awesome finale with Mogwai, Magik Markers and Frightened Rabbit.
An outstanding set of glowing
techno and ambient krautrock came from Ulrich Schnauss (Voodoo Rooms) in May, followed by a star turn from Sweden’s smart indie-pop crooner Jens Lekman (Oran Mor). Boys ogled and girls shimmied along to Girls Aloud (SECC) before Fleet Foxes (ABC2) arrived with harmonies sweet enough to make our hairs’ hairs stand on end. Alison Goldfrapp (Glasgow Royal Concert Hall) ranged from shy child to glorious psychedelic diva, and in July, those German pioneers of motorik euphoria, Harmonia left the crowd ecstatic. Our ears are still ringing from the mighty My Bloody Valentine (Barrowland) then at Connect in August, we had our gobs smacked by Sigur Ros and Elbow, performing at sunset.
Jenny Lewis (QMU, pictured)) gave a saucy, soulful, country gospel performance, and in October, we asked why, oh why can’t every Tuesday be as amazing as Fuck Buttons and Errors, Mogwai (Corn Exchange) on Tuesday? Shellac (ABC) stunned 1000 people into awed silence before playing a note, and Leonard Cohen (Clyde Auditorium) displayed his towering, affable genius the night after the US election. TV on the Radio (ABC) confirmed their status as the band- most-likely-to-go-stellar any day now in November. All in all, a musically delightful year. So 2009, what you got? (Claire Sawers)