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ROCK&POP Music
■ The Serious Men, Invidia and The Heretics The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 9pm. Indie rock. ■ Skinny Villains and I’m Sick The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, 564 1450. 9pm. £5. Unpredictable showmanship from Skinny Villains at this Pinup Nights Royal Rumble. ■ Button Up Blackfriars, 36 Bell Street, 552 5924. 10pm. £6. Live music at mod club Friday Street. ■ ’Til Death Us Do Part(y) SWG3, Studio Warehouse, 100 Eastvale Place, 357 7246. 10.30pm–3am. £tbc. Warehouse party from Optimo providing an alternative to all that wedding nonsense, with JD Twitch and JG Wilkes on the decks and a live set from local noisemakers Divorce. Edinburgh FREE The Grassmarket Festival Grassmarket. 12pm–8pm. Bank Holiday weekend special with an arts market featuring all the good things in life: cake, records and vintage clothing (and more besides) and live band stage programmed by Avalanche Records. ■ The Bottom Rung Big Beat Festival The Forest Café, 3 Bristo Place, 220 4538. 6pm–1am. £6 suggested donation. Tony 2-Eyes (Land of 1000 Dances) and Big Gus (The Go-Go) curate a garage punk, rhythm’n’blues, trash rock weekend of bands and DJs featuring Janey & The Ravemen, The Thanes, Les Bof!, Hideen Masters, The Brutes, The Fnords, Keith Douglas & The Corps of Discovery, Thee Par’I-sees, Charlie Randolph River’s Slim Rhythm Revue, Prairie Rose & The Wildwoods and The Leith Links over two days. FREE Rossco Galloway The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. The singer-songwriter-guitarist is regularly joined by a selection of special guests. ■ Houserockers, Day of Days and Roguestar Whistlebinkies, 4–6 South Bridge, 557 5114. 6.30pm. Free before midnight; £4 after. Blues, covers, electro and rock. ■ The Industry Cabaret Voltaire, 36–38 Blair Street, 220 6176. 7pm. £5. Melodic indie-rock five-piece from Edinburgh. ■ The Royal Wedding Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 228 9393. 7pm–3am. £4. A mixed bill of indie, punk and rock with Cha Cha Heels, Giant Monster Attack, Sad Society, Safeword, Glassface, Babylon Dub Punks, Dickie Le Voy and Seafield Foxes at this alternative royal wedding (of Lizzie Fox and Nora). ■ The Friday Fix The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7.30pm. £9 (£5 after 9.30pm for band only). A regular night of comedy fun, with up-and-comers and expert types, followed by a storming band to end the night and start the weekend. The acerbic Shazia Mirza stops in for a visit, with company from Simon Felder, Fern Brady, Robert Parker and compere Bratchy. Randan Discoteque do the post show tunes. ■ The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 8pm. £18. ‘One plucking thing after another’ from the all- singing, all-strumming group, who celebrate over 9000 days of ukulele- related mayhem. ■ Urban Scot Studio 24, 24–26 Calton Road, 558 3758. 8pm. £3. Scottish hip hop showcase featuring Silver Tongue and Dr Syntax.
Saturday 30 Glasgow ■ Cave ov Lights All-dayer The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 4pm. £5. Left-field bill including feedback noise pop from The Wildhouse, Newcastle sludgepunks Obey, Guanoman, The Cosmic Dead, Space Victim, Iain Campbell, CSB, 13th Rung and more.
■ Jamie Barnes & Cochise Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald Street, 248 4114. 6pm. £2. Rock covers and originals. FREE The MeatMen Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 6pm. Rockabilly, bluegrass and skiffle from Glasgow trio. ■ Bags of Rock and Siphon Plane O2 ABC2, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £12. New Celtrock crossover acts featuring ex-Red Hot Chilli Piper Gregor James. ■ Blaze Bayley Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald Street, 248 4114. 7pm. £9. The former Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane vocalist doles out hoary heavy metal. FREE The Fortunate Sons St Louis Cafe Bar, 734 Dumbarton Road, 339 1742. 7pm. Acoustic folk/rock/blues residency. ■ We Are the Ocean The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120. 7pm. £10. Over-14s show. Twin-vocalled London rockers play tracks from their new album Go Now And Live. ■ Frost & Fire Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, 429 0022. 7.30pm. £10. Howie Reeve presents an eclectic and almost uncategorisable line-up including harpist/singer Serafina Steer, whose latest album Change is Good, Change is Good was rated by Jarvis Cocker as ‘probably my favourite album of the year so far’; Marion Kenny; Keith John Adams and Leith-based experimental vocalist Wounded Knee, aka Drew Wright. ■ Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Shows and the Story Eastwood Park Theatre, Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. 7.30pm. £16 (£12; students £8). Peter Morrison with the best of Rodgers & Hammerstein, focusing on the ‘Big Five’ – Oklahoma, South Pacific, The King and I, Carousel and The Sound of Music. ■ Times New Viking, Wet Paint and Kill Surrrf Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. £7.50. Lo-fi indie racket from Ohio, much indebted to early Sonic Youth. ■ Barn Owl, Jefre Cantu- Ledesma, Heather Leigh and Hiiver The Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £7. Arcade Fire-meets-Mogwai sounds from San Francisco drone duo Barn Owl. ■ Big Vern & the Shootahs The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £12 in advance; £14 on door; £25.95 with early dinner at 6pm. Shake a tailfeather with Glasgow’s answer to The Blues Brothers. FREE The Boosts Box, 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431. 8pm. Featuring ex-members of Jyrojets. ■ Zimbabwe Independence Celebration Bash Soundhaus, 47 Hydepark Street, 221 4659. 8pm–2am. £10 includes food. Celebration party, featuring Bhundu Boy Rise Kagona and his Jit Jive Band, Dubbie Benzie, Abra Trppl, Roby Gee, Triple Threat, and the Vizzy & Ganyamatope Mbira Band. ■ Rab Noakes City Halls: Recital Rooms, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8pm. £12. Legendary Scottish singer- songwriter with a career spanning 40 years and 15 albums. ■ Aerials Up, I Dream in Colour and Michael Cassidy King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £7. Glasgow indie folk. FREE Confusion Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. Local rock band. FREE Bootleg Wonderland MacSorley’s, 42 Jamaica Street, 248 8581. 9pm. Funk, soul and pop covers on the last Saturday of the month. FREE Live! in the Saint The Saint on Bath Street, 190 Bath St, 352 8800. 9pm. See Thu 28. FREE Lucky 13 1901 Bar and Bistro, 1534 Pollockshaws Road. 9pm. Hard rock and dirty blues. ■ The Selective Service Chambre 69, Stock Exchange House, 69 Nelson Mandela Place. 9pm. £tbc. Rock, blues and rock’n’roll from SS, launching their second EP ‘You Best Believe’. With DJ support from DanRalphMartin.
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