Music ROCK&POP This Will Destroy You
The predominantly instrumental Texan band recently released their second album, Tunnel Blanket (Monotreme Records); an intense, sludgy post-rock blur that draws from the band’s droning metal and 80s shoegaze influences. Their music most definitely won’t destroy you, but it will take you on a languid, occasionally pummelling journey between the ambient and the apocalyptic. Or as one music critic put it: ‘[Their music] creates a vortex in your brain, sucking the entire cosmos through one ear and out the other, leaving behind only the secrets of the universe and the unerring tranquility of space.’ Quite. ■ Ivory Blacks, Glasgow, Tue 28 Jun.
FREE Open Mic Blind Poet, 32c West Nicolson Street, 667 4268. 9.30pm. Original music preferred. FREE Shameless, Siphon Plane and The Diversion Whistlebinkies, 4-6 South Bridge, 557 5114. 10pm. Classic rock. Musselburgh ■ Diana Schad The Birdcage, Stuart House, Eskmills, Station Road, 273 5240. 7.30pm. See Fri 24.
Wednesday 29 Glasgow ■ Motown’s Greatest Hits Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647.
7.30pm. £22. Over 50 years of Motown hit, including the music of The Temptations, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson Five. ■ The River 68s, Cities & Skylines, We Used To Call This Summer and Broken Indigo Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7.30pm. £5. Alternative rock line-up. ■ The Senses, The Jury and The Last of the Free Capitol, 468 Sauchiehall Street, 0845 166 6009. 7.30pm. £4. Alt.pop and rock bill. ■ Charlie Simpson King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8pm. £10. Over-14s show. The former Busted and Fightstar frontman in
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more reflective, acoustic solo guise. ■ Last Witness, Breaking Point, Grader and By My Hands The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £6. Modern hardcore band return after a five-year absence. ■ Sean Rowe Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £7. See Tue 28. FREE The Zonules of Zinn, Slim Mistress, Penny & the Restless, Young O’Reilly and Wilie McCormack Box, 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431. 8pm. Off-kilter indie pop band promote their new album, ‘Zinn Love’. FREE Boycotts Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. Free before 11pm. Angular indie-poppers with an energetic frontwoman in the shape of Stina Twee.
Exchange, 11 New Market Road, Edinburgh ✽✽ Fleet Foxes and The Bees Corn 477 3500. 7pm. £21.50. Baroque harmonic folky pop jams from this dreamy Seattle quintet. See preview, page 78. FREE Toby Mottershead Nobles Bar, 44a Constitution Street, Leith, 629 7215. 8.30pm. The Black Diamond Express man presents ‘the Jack of Diamonds Scrimshaw shanties’. ■ Jammin’ The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 9pm. £15. Live jam session. Featuring very special guest James Burton. FREE Catcher, Umbilichord and 3 Card Trick Whistlebinkies, 4-6 South Bridge, 557 5114. 9.30pm. Indie plus rock covers.
Musselburgh ■ Diana Schad The Birdcage, Stuart House, Eskmills, Station Road, 273 5240. 7.30pm. See Fri 24.
Thursday 30 Glasgow ■ Dirty Keys and The Kleptocrats Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. Indie, rock and pop sounds. ■ Sneak Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7.30pm. £3 with a Sneak badge. Showcase of Scottish hip-hop hosted by MC Louie Bhoy. ■ Thee Beatles Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7.30pm. £5 in advance; £6 on door. Beatles tribute band. ■ Citizens, Julie Krishun, Hush and Suckinim Baenaim Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £5. Post hardcore from Glasgow’s Citizens. ■ Departures, Avenge Thee & Naime and Septic Discharge The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £tbc. Heavy metal thunder.
■ Detail, Jesus H Foxx and Battery Face Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 8pm. £4. Pavement- esque indie from Jesus H Foxx. FREE Party Culture, The System and Kiss to Kill Box, 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431. 8pm. Local band line- up. FREE The River Flowing, Oreste Gargaro and Rose Parade Black Sparrow, 241 North Street, 221 5530. 8pm. Stripped back sounds. FREE Jam Session Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. See Thu 23. ■ The Symptoms Live in Concert King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5. Danceable punk pop. FREE Acoustic Open Mic 1901 Bar and Bistro, 1534 Pollockshaws Road. 9pm. See Thu 23. FREE Kochka, The Meatmen, Discopolis and The Toi Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. Free before 11pm. Indie with soul from Kochka. See page 20 for a Discopolis profile. FREE Live! in the Saint The Saint on Bath Street, 190 Bath Street, 352 8800. 9pm. See Thu 23. FREE Open Mic Night The Bay, 142 West Regent Street. 9pm. See Thu 23. Edinburgh FREE Henry Ibbs The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. See Thu 23. ■ Cornersessions The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7pm. £tbc. Fabrikant Records showcase. ■ Darren Hayman, Gordon McIntyre and Dan Willson Pilrig St Paul’s Church, Pilrig Street, Leith Walk, 553 1876. 7pm. £7 in advance; £9 on the door. Hayman is the ex-frontman of acerbic indie trio Hefner, John Peel favourites in their day. Support from fellow solo indie frontmen McIntyre (ballboy) and Dan Willson (Withered Hand – see interview, page 76). ■ Every Day at Ten and Paul Hartill Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £7.50 (twin ticket £10). Pop rock also featuring DJ Mike Young in support. Please note new date. ■ Half Man Half Biscuit and The Mannequinns The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. 7pm. £17.50. The acerbic post-punk outfit, formed in Birkenhead back in 1984, are on the road again with their cutting social satire and esoteric song titles. ■ Homesick Aldo, Greetings from DS, The Lost Telegrams, Lee Patterson and Das Contras The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7pm. £7 (£6). Electric roots night down at the Cornersessions. ■ The Last Battle Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. 7pm. £7 (£6). Edinburgh folk-pop six piece with a hint of Belle & Sebastian. Launching a new EP with help from King Creosote. ■ Rob Zombie Corn Exchange, 11 New Market Road, 477 3500. 7pm. £26. CANCELLED. FREE Hailey Beavis Nobles Bar, 44a Constitution Street, Leith, 629 7215. 8.30pm. See Thu 23. FREE Bad Sign, Kolumbia and Purple Grip Whistlebinkies, 4-6 South Bridge, 557 5114. 9.30pm. Alternative, indie and rock. FREE Mark Burwell’s Rockeoke Blind Poet, 32c West Nicolson Street, 667 4268. 9.30pm. See Thu 23. ■ MusiqueBoutique The Caves, Niddry Street South, 557 8989. 10.30pm–3am. £8 in advance; £10 after. Young Fathers, Riddim Tuffa Sound, Indra, Jacou and Ali-T have all signed up with more to come for this live gig/club crossover featuring everything from hip hop and funk to indie and techno. ■ Future Heroes The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). See Thu 23.