Music ROCK&POP
FREE Hard Rock’s Battle of the Bands Hard Rock Café, 18–20 George Street, 260 3000. 8pm. See Tue 8. FREE Hailey Beavis Nobles Bar, 44a Constitution Street Leith, 629 7215. 8.30pm. See Thu 3.
Friday 11 Glasgow ■ Bruno Mars O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. SOLD OUT. Soppy ballads and R&B with a tasteful hip hop edge from the all- conquering commercial troubadour who has also written a bunch of hits for other artists including Travie McCoy and BoB. ■ Caitlin Rose Stereo, 20–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. £8. Up-coming
alt.country siren from Nashville, with indie appeal. ■ Does It Offend You Yeah? O2 ABC2, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £10. Dayglo, electro punk scenesters from Englandshire play tracks from their ominously titled second album Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You. ■ Echofires, Vanishing People, Ryan Patterson and Scott Beaton O2 Academy 2, 121 Eglinton Street, 0844 477 2000. 7pm. £6. Echofires are a new band fronted by singer/songwriter David Ell. ■ FNUK The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 7pm. £6 in advance; £7 on door. Nine-piece funk, soul and disco act. ■ Gallus Cooper Ivory Blacks, 56
LABEL OF LOVE
WE CAN STILL PICNIC ‘We Can Still Picnic is a brand new trick in town – a loose collective of artists, musicians, writers, provocateurs, poets, aesthetes and facilitators,’ proclaims DIY maverick Douglas McIntyre, who also runs indie record label Creeping Bent. The List needs to know more.
When and why did you start We Can Still Picnic? ‘We Can Still Picnic was born in Glasgow on 10/10/10. It was started to amuse ourselves and challenge the residing orthodoxy and general malaise enveloping the city.’
Do you have a label manifesto?
‘The stated aim is to stimulate/manipulate/agitate. Social interaction is high on the agenda; all uptight and designed to thrill.’ Can you tell us about your output to date?
‘The first two albums by The Nectarine No 9, originally released on the Postcard label: both their debut (A Sea With Three Stars) and its follow up (Saint Jack) have been unavailable for a number of years, so it is our pleasure to release them in digital format. We’ve started a monthly WCSP club on the last Saturday of every month in Mono, Glasgow. We are interested in intervention in any media, so will be presenting visual and audio ideas across a range of formats.’
Would you say there’s any common thread that runs through your productions? ‘We share ideological and artistic ground with Mao, Marx, Marc and Godard. We aim to disappoint.’
What are your goals for WCSP?
‘Our goals are to get loaded and have a good time, as Peter Fonda once said. WCSP is a communications and design company operating across multiple platforms. We’ve started our club and radio show; our next goal is to distribute WCSP pamphlets which will feature musings on everything from Yves Klein to Sun Ra to Boards of Canada.’
What records are coming up?
‘We’re currently working with a group called POST – they’re a kind of modernist take on [Eno’s] Here Come the Warm Jets meets Arthur Russell’s disco material. POST are as interested in design and art as they are music. We’ll be packaging and releasing audio by POST later in the year.’ (Nicola Meighan) ■ Vic Godard (above) & Subway Sect/Sexual Objects/Wake the President at Accies Club, Glasgow, Fri 11 Mar; WCSP club at Mono, Glasgow present: Monochrome Set/Wake the President/Spectorbullets/POST, Sat 26 Mar.
92 THE LIST 3–31 March 2011
Oswald Street, 248 4114. 7pm. £8. Alice Cooper tribute. ■ The Levellers and The Wonder Stuff Barrowland, 244 Gallowgate, 225 2564. 7pm. £23. Crustie overlords and purveyors of political folk rock celebrate the 20th anniversary of their Levelling the Land album, with suitable fraggle rock support. ■ Till This Night Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7pm. £5. Launch of the ‘Never Wise By Chance’ EP. ■ Midnight Lion, Capitols, Bellow Bellow and Portraits Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. £tbc. Accomplished electro-pop from ex-Drive-By Argument members Midnight Lion. ■ Sing-a-Long-a-ABBA King’s Theatre, 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. 7.30pm. £21. The spirit of the super Swedes lives on in this musical extravaganza with live singers, on-screen lyrics, fancy dress and a party atmosphere. ■ Maggie Reilly Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. 7.45pm. £11–£15 (£7–£11). Veteran singer/songwriter who was the voice of the Mike Oldfield hit ‘Moonlight Shadow’ performs her first Scottish concerts in over 20 years as part of the Limelight Music Festival. With support from Little Eye (Fri only) and Sally Clay. ■ The Bands Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 8pm. £6. Live music. ■ John Hailstones, Zoobizaretta, Massacre Cave and Borborigmi The Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £tbc. Quirky sax- driven sounds from Zoobizaretta. ■ Vic Godard & Subway Sect and The Sexual Objects The Accies Club, Helensburgh Drive Jordanhill. 8pm. £10. Punk-pop pioneer and sometime Postcard Records-signed artist Godard, supported by Davy Henderson’s (of Fire Engines) Sexual Objects. Plus Wake the President. ■ Seerauber Jenny, The Rudiments and Blank Canvas King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5. Duo whose name means ‘Pirate Jenny’, comprising Brighton-based Fran Barker and ex-Mint Royal man Neil Claxton from Mint Royale. FREE The Do or Dies, Ghosts of Progress and Audio: Model Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. Free before 11pm. Raffish indie troupe from London town. FREE The Hardy Souls, Switchback Road, The Dirty Suits and Shaun Philbin Slouch, 203–5 Bath Street, 221 5518. 9pm. Local indie rockers. ■ Terror Bird, Golden Grrrls and Tangles The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 9pm. £tbc. Piano/synth-led dramatic indie pop from LA, supported by fuzzy C86 sounds from the Golden Grrrls trio. ■ RPZ & Wrong Island Present Den Haan Stereo, 20–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 11pm–3am. £6–£7. Brilliantly seedy Glasgow electro-disco duo Den Haan launch their new LP Gods From Outer Space, with DJ support from David Barbarossa (Hung Up!), Teamy (Wrong Island) and RPZ and Death Disco resident Hushpuppy. Edinburgh ■ Black International Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. 7pm. £tbc. Post-punk and alt.rock. Album launch party with support acts tbc. ■ Iron & Wine The HMV Picture House, 31 Lothian Road, 0844 847 1740. 7pm. £15.50. Beardy indie folk troubadour whose voice graced the Garden State soundtrack. ■ The Mystery Girls Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 228 9393. 7pm. £4. Punk rock from The Mystery Girls who play from their debut album
Radioactive! ■ Y’All is Fantasy Island, Loch Awe and Two Wings Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £tbc. Stripped-down melancholy set from Falkirk’s Y’All is Fantasy Island at their final show. FREE Martin Andrews Whiski, 119 High Street, 556 3095. 10pm. See Fri 4. Stirling FREE The Acoustic Bar – Factory Records Night Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, 01786 274000. 7pm. Free night of acoustic music by local acts, drinks promos and more.
Saturday 12
Glasgow FREE The MeatMen Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 6pm. See Sat 5. ■ Blue Sky Archives, SAFARI, Poor Things and Little Fire Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. £5. Launch of the Saraseto Records compilation Everywhere You Are with set from some of the featured bands. ■ Buffalo Tom and Stevie & the Moon Òran Mór, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £15. Return of the rootsy/grungey/indie rockers from Boston, who made many a grown man cry in the 90s. ■ Eye’s Own, Coup D’Etat, Silverscreen and Calum Jarvie O2 Academy 2, 121 Eglinton Street, 0844 477 2000. 7pm. £6. Live music. ■ Mike Posner and Talay Riley O2 ABC2, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £10. Rap/rock crossover dude from Detroit. With support from new R&B contender Talay Riley who has written songs for Chipmunk, Justin Bieber and JLS. ■ Boyzone SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. 7.30pm. £35.50. The Irish boy band return with their ballads and pop hits, this time touring new album ‘Brother’, recorded in tribute to late member Stephen Gately. ■ Mellifluous Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. £tbc. Five-piece alt.rock/pop-punk band from Dumbarton. ■ Maggie Reilly Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. 7.45pm. £11–£15 (£7–£11). See Fri 11. ■ Barbara Dickson Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 8pm. £22.50–£25. See Thu 10. ■ Penguins Kill Polar Bears, Little Yellow Ukuleles, The Darien Venture and Verse Metrics Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £5. Post-rock mixing grunge, heavy rock and pop influences from PKPB. ■ James Owen Fender, Jonathan Carr and Brian Cattigan King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5. Another likely lad London troubadour in the Jack Peñate mould. Fender is 24 and originally from Leeds. ■ Abrasive Wheels, Prairie Dugz and We Free Men Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald Street, 248 4114. 9pm. £9. Punk veterans from Leeds. ■ Aucan The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 9pm. £tbc. A synthesis of digital and acoustic, melody and dissonance from Italy’s Aucan. FREE The Fortunate Sons 1901 Bar and Bistro, 1534 Pollockshaws Road. 9pm. Harmonious Glaswegian blues- meisters. FREE Revelry Thieves Slouch, 203–5 Bath Street, 221 5518. 9pm. Indie. FREE Your Loyal Subjects and Vakunoht Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 11pm. Free before 11pm. Edinburgh alt.rock duo and progressive space rock sounds. Edinburgh FREE Bruncheon! Featuring The Sound of Muesli Out of the Blue Drill