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■ Ruff Diamonds and Swagger Rockers, 14 Midland Street, 221 0726. 8pm. £tbc. Quality rock covers and self- styled ‘rock salvation’ from Swagger. FREE The Selective Service McChuills, 40 High Street, 552 2135. 8pm. Indie rockers play mod night Friday Street. FREE Them Beatles!, Filthy Dirty Secret, General Franco, The Last Gasps and Midnight Box, 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431. 8pm. Beatles tribute head this bill. FREE The Latecomers Lauries Bar, 34 King Street, 552 7123. 8.15pm. Acoustic set of originals and classic covers. ■ The Bluetones and Kizzy Star King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £14. See Thu 17. FREE Confusion Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. Local rock band. ■ Kaddish, United Fruit and Black Channels 13th Note Café, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 9pm. £tbc. Female- fronted horror punk trio headline this alt.rock and hardcore bill.
Edinburgh ■ Teatime Acoustic The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 5pm. Donation. The Pretty Little Wizard session of singers and bands. ■ Rolled Up 20s and The Alibis Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16a Morrison Street, 228 9393. 7pm. £5 (£4). Indie. ■ Root System, The Rioteers and The Manikees Cabaret Voltaire, 36–38 Blair Street, 220 6176. 7pm. £6. Ska, rock and indie respectively. ■ The Snow Ball 2009 The Lot, 4–6 Grassmarket, 225 9922. 7pm. £15. Harry Potter inspired ‘Wizard Rock’ night in the city that gave us Howarts, muggles and the like featuring Riddle TM, Romilda Vane & The Chocolate Cauldrons, Siriusly Hazza P, The Black Sisters and California’s The Remus Lupins. Proceeds will be split between Cancer Research UK and the Harry Potter Alliance. ■ The Colour Pink is Gay, Corpses, Shields Up, Hey Vampires and Fights & Fires Bannerman’s, Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £6. Hardcore Xmas party. ■ The Hurricanes The Ark, 3–7 Waterloo Place, 623 7147. 8pm. £tbc. Indie rock’n’roll from Edinburgh. FREE Open Mic Night The Maltings, 81–85 St Leonards Street, 667 5946. 9pm. Originals and covers, all musicians welcome (house guitar available to all). ■ Music Comes First Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16a Morrison Street, 228 9393. 11pm. £tbc. Music Comes First Records showcase (bands tbc).
Ayr ■ The MacDonald Brothers ‘X- Mas’ Show Town Hall, Carrick Street, 01292 611222. £13.50. The X Factor runners-up who started out as a wedding band are still going strong, despite not scooping the top prize. Now they bring their fun-packed Christmas show to town. Cowdenbeath ■ Crayons, Psychedelic, Smalltown Playboys and Moment of Truth British Legion Crossgates, 60 Main Street, Crossgates, 07599 705418. 7pm. £5. A bumper bill headlined by Fife’s Crayons, purveyors of ‘awkward pop’.
Dundee ■ The Cundeez Xmas Cracker with The Daze Hanney and The Secrets The Doghouse, 15 Ward Street, 01382 206812. 5.30pm. £tbc. Get festive with Dundonian punk rockers Cundeez and friends. ■ Christmas with The Rat Pack Caird Hall, City Square, 01382 434940. 7.30pm. £22.50–£25.50 (£20.50–£23.50). Beat the winter blues with the Christmas version of Frank, Sammy and Dean – The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas, with
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1 Best bit of something for nothing When Spotify let UK users sign up for free this February, the floodgates were open for hours of random music searches. (Beatles, Fugazi, Metallica, no; Battles, Can, Phantom Band, yes) Non-stop, customised radio – and all free? It was like all our electric dreams had just come true.
2 Best tearjerker Even glass eyes were welling up when SuBo wowed the Britain’s Got Talent judges in April – and it was nothing to do with all that crotch gyrating of hers either. Her performance of ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ from Les Miserables raised hairs on backs of necks around the world, and launched a record-busting star.
3 Best use of bagpipes Proving bagpipes aren’t just for kilted buskers on Princes Street (or Korn), Yeah Yeah Yeahs brought the East Kilbride Pipe Band on stage at T in Park in July. Karen O belted out ‘Skeletons’ in a multicoloured headdress, while the boys tunefully whined along in the background. Cue crowd going nuts.
4 Best odd couple There were strange pairings aplenty this year, with Dizzee Rascal sharing a stage with Shirley Bassey at Children in Need; The Maccabees doing a single with Roots Manuva; Patrick Wolf making sweet music with Tilda Swinton; plus Laddy and Maddie cavorting and catfighting on Saturday Night Live. Lil Wayne with Weezer was one we really didn’t see coming though. 5 Best impression of Jarvis Cocker There was a slight whiff of déjà vu last month when Calvin Harris mounted the stage, stealing the glory from concrete quiffed twins, Jedward, as they performed Queen’s ‘Under Pressure’ on X Factor. His pineapple waving antics called to mind Jarvis’s storming of the Brits stage while Michael Jackson sang ‘Earth Song’ in 1996. (Claire Sawers)
seasonal classics including ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’, ‘Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer’, ‘Let It Snow’ and many more. Dunfermline ■ The Red Hot Chilli Pipers Alhambra Theatre, 35 Canmore Street, 01383 740384. 7pm. £18.50. A unique brand of ‘bag rock’ (that’s bagpipes plus rock, if you were wondering). Expect everything from ‘Flower of Scotland’ to Coldplay’s ‘Clocks’, via AC/DC and Deep Purple.
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