Music Rock&Pop
Café, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 9pm. £tbc. US rebel folk. FREE Glasgow Mod Weekender Various Venues, See Thu 24. ■ We are the Physics Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. Free until 11pm. Self-styled mutant science punk rockers whose debut album proclaimed that We Are The Physics Are OK At Music. ■ Blues on the River The Ferry, 42 Clyde Place, 429 1010. Times vary. £12 (£16 for both days). Eighteen hours of blues spread over two days. The line-up includes Dealer, Alan Murphy, Alan Nimmo, Brown Eye Superfly and The Lindsey Dolan Band. Part of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival. Edinburgh ■ William Douglas The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6.30pm. Donation. Unplugged session with William Douglas and friends. ■ The Asps Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16a Morrison Street, 228 9393. 7pm. £tbc. A Great Junction Street Studios showcase, with more acts tbc. ■ Mammoeth Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. 7pm. £5 (£3). Indie night presented by Trampoline, with support tba. ■ Edinburgh Gay Men’s Chorus: World Tour St George’s West Church, 58 Shandwick Place, 225 7001. 8pm. £7 (children and unwaged £5). A trip around the world in a handful of tunes with the Edinburgh Gay Men’s Chorus, who’ll take you from a land Down Under to
Istanbul (not Constantinople) and many an exotic location in between. ■ Ghillie Gigs Ghillie Dhu, 2 Rutland Place, 222 9930. 10.30pm. £5 (£25 inc dinner from 7.30pm). Live Scottish music including covers from The House Band (29 May) plus soul, funk and rock from Dead Man Shoes (22 May/ 5 Jun). ■ DRD and Nostril Flashback Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16a Morrison Street, 228 9393. 11pm–3am. £4. Classic rock and psych improv. ■ Ten Tracks Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 11pm–3am. £5. The founders of www.tentracks.co.uk present a night of eclectic musical delights with guests tbc. East Kilbride ■ Straw Dogs East Kilbride Arts Centre, Old Coach Road, 01355 261000. 8pm. £8.50 (£6.50). Stiff Little Fingers tribute band.
Kilmarnock FREE Kilmarnock in Tune The Cross, Top of King Street, 2pm. A free concert featuring local bands and singers, including 4 Saxes, Boys 2 Men and The Symptoms. ■ The Wee Tree Secret Location, Times vary. £42. See Fri 25.
Sunday 27 Glasgow ■ Alex Cornish, Kitty the Lion, Findlay Napier and Barroom Mountaineers The Hidden Lane, 8
Argyle Court, 2pm. £6. Indie pop with hints of Coldplay, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright and Van Morrison from the headliner at the latest Hazy Recollections gig, hosted by Ali McCrae. ■ Beecake O2 ABC2, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £7. Over-14s show. Alternative rocking from the lil’ Billy Boyd-fronted Beecake, launching their album at this gig. ■ The Dead Weather O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £20. Sleazy garage rock as Jack White unleashes his latest musical project on Scotland, with singer Alison Mosshart (The Kills). FREE Doghouse Roses and Robyn & Amie Jinty McGuintys, 21–29 Ashton Lane, 339 0747. 7pm. Special acoustic show from atmospheric folk and blues duo Doghouse Roses. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Hamish Stuart Band Oran Mor, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £20. The man from The Average White Band keeps on going. ■ Dbass, The Forgotten Works and Jumble Sale Sounds Stereo, 22–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7.30pm. £7 (£6). Hip hop and jazz fusion from the headliners plus dancefloor dub from JSS. ■ Hollow Point Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. £5. Alt.rock and grunge. ■ Heretics & Lovers Rockers, 14 Midland Street, 221 0726. 8pm. £tbc. Live music. ■ Mecheer and Smackvan The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, 564
■ Ruff Diamonds Rockers, 14 Midland Street, 221 0726. 8pm. £tbc. Live music. ■ Tigers on Vaseline and Cha Cha Heels Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, Merchant City, 548 1350. 8pm. £5. Tribute to David Bowie. ■ Veronica Falls, Male Pattern Band and Water Wolves Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £8. Boy/girl indie pop dynamic from Veronica Falls, who feature ex- members of The Royal We. FREE The Wolves, Idiom, Inc, Forgotten Sunday and Battle at Cougar Box, 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431. 8pm. Live music line-up. FREE Demon’s Eye Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. Rock covers. ■ Sound of Guns and Penguins Kill Polar Bears King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6. Exciting new rock outfit from Liverpool. ■ Cry Parrot Afterparty SWG3, Studio Warehouse, 100 Eastvale Place, 357 7246. 9pm–2am. £3. The first of SWG3’s link-ups with Cry Parrot sees live guests Please and American Men joined by DJs Brian d’Souza and Bicep. FREE The Fusiliers and The Decent Souls The Wise Monkey, 508 Great Western Road, 334 5125. 9pm. Edinburgh angular indie pop. ■ The Ner-do-wells Sweepers Lounge Bar, Somervell Street, Cambuslang, 641 2090. 9pm. £5. Rock, blues and punk covers. ■ Potential Strangers, Calum McDonald and Ceylon Hay 13th Note Small Ads
Elvis Shakespeare’s fifth birthday Leith Walk’s hippest books-and-music store has been open five years this month, and to celebrate they’re
hosting one of their famous instore shindigs, commencing in the early afternoon and going on. . . well, as long as it wants, really. Present at the party will be My Electric Love Affair, Blueflint, Sharon King, The Nukes, Paul Paterson and The Fnords, and following the ‘international party rules’, we’re promised there will be fizzy juice and crisps too. ■ Elvis Shakespeare, Edinburgh, Sat 3 Jul.
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