Music ROCK&POP ■ Gypsy Mojo Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald Street, 248 4114. 7pm. Glasgow four-piece. ■ The Stranglers and Wilko Johnson O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £23. The old punk warhorses play on without Hugh Cornwell. Expect classic hits from their back catalogue, such as ‘Peaches’, ‘Golden Brown’, ‘No More Heroes’ and ‘Strange Little Girl’. Support comes from Dr Feelgood guitarist Johnson. ■ Who’s Who O2 ABC2, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £11. Tribute band performing The Who’s greatest hits. ■ 10cc Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £24–£26. The hits of one of the most successful and influential English bands of the 70s, revisited by original member Graham Gouldman. ■ Abba Cadabra Condorrat Club, Main Road, Cumbernauld, www.abba- cadabra.co.uk 7.30pm. £10 (children £5 admitted until 10pm only). An Abba tribute act that plays 100% live. Dressing up, singing along and dancing
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WIN SOMA GOODIES Superb Glasgow- based dance label Soma has two reasons to be happy right now: one, the release of excellent album
Electrospective by Soma signee Vector Lovers (see review, page 84), and two, its 20th anniversary, which it has celebrated by releasing the Soma Compilation 2011, a collection of tracks by some of the label’s finest artists. Well, happily for you, we have two copies of Electrospective, two copies of the Compilation, and – why not? – two Soma T-shirts to give away. WIN JAMES BLAKE ALBUMS
Marrying soul-searching introspection with dubstep bass and beats doesn’t seem like the most likely combination, but it seems to have worked for the tastemakers at BBC Radio 1, who have chosen James Blake (wunderkind proponent of the aforementioned genre mashup) as one of their Sound of 2011 acts. The 22-year- old has just dropped his eponymous debut album on the world; if you’d like to win one of two copies, enter at www.list.co.uk/offers. For more on Blake, see our single review, page 85. HOW TO ENTER
Log onto list.co.uk/offers. Closing date for competitions is Mon 28 Mar, unless otherwise stated. There is no cash alternative. Usual List rules apply.
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in the aisles, all in aid of NSPCC Scotland. ■ Jack Bruce The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. 7.30pm. £21. The great Jack Bruce fronts the Ronnie Scott’s Blues Experience as part of a limited and prestigious tour. Full band (drums, keys, bass and horns) and Tony Remy on guitar. 18+. ■ Our Innocent Lost, Skarlett Riot and Streetlight Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. £tbc. Manchester rock five-piece headline. ■ Counterparts and Illicit Still The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10.50 in advance; £12 on the night; £24.45 with early dinner at 6pm. Rush tribute band. ■ Maranchez, Fireside Kicks and HeHateUs Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 8pm. £5. Maranchez describe their sound as ‘The Beatles dragged down an alley and battered by Iron Maiden’. ■ Surfer Blood, Young Prisms and No Joy King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £9. Indie pop from the Sunshine State. FREE Itchycoo Park 1901 Bar and Bistro, 1534 Pollockshaws Road. 9pm. 60s tunes and sharp suits. ■ Federation of the Disco Pimp Blackfriars, 36 Bell Street, 552 5924. 11pm. £3 before midnight; £5 after. Seven-piece band playing jazzy funk tunes from everyone from Herbie Hancock to Lettuce at this Pass the Peas night. FREE Pariso and Hush Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 11pm. Free before 11pm. Experimental hardcore. Edinburgh FREE William Douglas The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Unplugged session with William Douglas and friends. ■ Ben Ottewell Cabaret Voltaire, 36–38 Blair Street, 220 6176. 7pm. £12. Gomez lead singer and guitarist takes to the road for a solo show. ■ Echo Arcadia, Selective Service, Stve Heron and Rachel Morrison The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604. 7pm. £5. Edinburgh indie-pop five-piece
Surfer Blood
Echo Arcadia headline this Bainbridge Music Showcase. ■ The Illustrated, Steel Rose, Whigs & Rakes and Generic Stereo Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £6. Alt rock and indie. ■ Trapped Mice, Loch Awe and Taken at the Flood Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. 7pm. £5. Alt.folksters TM launch new EP Waving & Pointing. ■ Black Cherokee, Who’s Edna and Donna Maciocia Espionage, 4 India Buildings Victoria Street, 477 7007. 7.30pm. £6 (students £5). A night of ‘undiscovered’ Edinburgh talent, with many more to be confirmed, to raise funds for Cancer Research. ■ In the Flesh: The Pink Floyd Show Playhouse, 18–22 Greenside Place, 0844 847 1660. 7.30pm. £29.25. Pink Floyd tribute focusing on flashing lights, lasers, a full-on stage show and music from Floyd’s classic years. ■ Sad Society + Chinese Jocks Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 228 9393. 7.30pm–3am. £4. Legendary local punks Sad Society plus new wave/rock from Chinese Jocks. More acts tba. ✽✽ Withered Hand, Zoey van Goey and O’Messy Life The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 8pm. £9. Edinburgh’s alternative folk artist Withered Hand makes a very welcome return Limbo. FREE The Zips Captains Bar, 4 South College Street. 8pm. Scot skiffle punks.
Sunday 6 Glasgow ■ The Billy Walton Band and The Pat McManus Band The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 7pm. £12.50 in advance; £14 on the night; £26.45 with an early dinner at 5pm. Blues double bill featuring veteran acts from New Jersey and Ireland. ■ Blancmange O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £16. Rest easy – everyone’s third favourite 80s synth pop band are back, back, back. Living on the ceiling and all that. Now, how about a Thompson Twins’ reunion? ■ D.R.U.G.S. The Cathouse, 15 Union
Street, 248 6606. 7pm. £8. Post-hardcore Michigan band whose name is an acronym for Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows ■ Death Vessel and Rozi Plain Stereo, 20–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. £7.50. Aka singer-songwriter Joel Thibodeau whose unique voice is complemented by ukulele and upright double bass capturing the surreal and sublime aspects of life. ■ Terrorvision The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120. 7pm. £14. Over-14s show. Jolly 90s Britrockers who bouncing around to the strains of their biggest hit, ‘Tequila’. FREE A Band Called Quinn The Victorian Bar, Tron Theatre 63 Trongate, 552 4267. 7.30pm. ABCQ perform sultry trip-pop and music written for Vanishing Point’s production of The Beggar’s Opera. Appearing tonight at Club Sublime. ■ Former Ghosts The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. 7.30pm. £7.50. FG blend singer Freddy Ruppert’s Ian Curtis-esque vocals with searing synths, nervous drum beats and static noise. ■ Panda Su, Esperi and I Build Collapsible Mountains Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £tbc. Panda Su, aka Suzanne Shaw, is a one-woman band from St Andrews playing whimsical electroacoustic and folk pop. ■ A Trespassing Scot The Aragon Bar, 131 Byres Road, 339 3252. 8pm. Indie folk sounds from Glasgow musician. ■ Bearsuit King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6. Bearsuit are a Norwich- based band with a haphazard pop, rock and soul sound which met with the approval of the late, great John Peel. With Siamese Ghost. ■ Futures and Morning Parade King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £7.50. RESCHEDULED.This gig has been rescheduled to 8 Jun. ■ Three Wise Men Òran Mór, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 9pm. £10. Daintees frontman Martin Stephenson is joined by Bruce Morton and Roberto Cassani for a fusion of music and comedy.
Jangly surf-rock from this five-piece from West Palm Beach, Florida, who were all over the blogosphere two years ago thanks to their first single ‘Swim’. They’ve got big, sunshiney echoes of The Beach Boys and the catchiness of The Shins, and last year’s debut album Astro Coast often wandered into Vampire Weekend’s Technicolored indie-pop territory. ■ with Young Prisms and No Joy, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Sat 5 Mar.