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ROCK&POP Music
Musselburgh ■ Diana Schad The Birdcage, Stuart House, Eskmills, Station Road, 273 5240. 7.30pm. See Fri 24. Friday 1
Glasgow ■ Combichrist, Mortiis and Aesthetic Perfection Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7pm. £16. Industrial metal and punk techno from Norway’s Combichrist. With support from black metal contemporary Mortiis, famed for his prosthetics. ■ Kobi Onyame O2 ABC2, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £5. Ghana-born, Glasgow-based hip hop act Kobi Onyame launches debut album Green Green Grasses. ■ The Last Battle Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. Edinburgh folk-pop six piece with a hint of Belle & Sebastian. EP launch gig. ■ Dennis Locorriere and Emily Maguire Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £20. The former member of Dr Hook (not him with the eyepatch though) plays a selection of the band’s classics alongside original material. ■ Leon Russell City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £24–£30. Biblically-bearded patriarch of blue-eyed soul performs hits from his vast and impressive back catalogue. To win tickets, see page 83. Part of Glasgow International Jazz Festival 2011 ■ Sons & Daughters SWG3, Studio Warehouse, 100 Eastvale Place, 357 7246. 7.30pm. £10. Heady indie pop, punk blues and dark brooding electro from the underrated Sons & Daughters, one of the most distinctive Scottish bands of recent years. ■ StoneRun Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. £tbc. Rock/metal. ■ Young Promoters Band Night Eastwood Park Theatre, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. 7.30pm. £5. Bands from East Renfrewshire at a gig organised by local youngsters. ■ Finding Albert Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium, ScottishPower Planetarium 50 Pacific Quay, 0871 540 1000. 8pm. £8. Nine-piece epic rock band from Dumfries. ■ Plastic Animals The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £tbc. Heavy alt.rock. Plus mellower support from The Scottish Enlightenment. Paws and Edinburgh School for the Deaf complete the line- up. ■ Stillmarillion and Genes-ish The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10 in advance; £12 on door; £23.95 with early dinner at 6pm. A two-pronged prog attack courtesy of these tributes to ‘classic era’ Marillion and Genesis. ✽✽ Jonny and Laura J Martin King Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £8. Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and former Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci frontman Euros Childs team up to perform songs from their playful self-titled album. FREE 2 Bob Rocket Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. Rock covers. FREE Live! in the Saint The Saint on Bath Street, 190 Bath Street, 352 8800. 9pm. See Thu 23. Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St
Edinburgh FREE The Sound of Young Scotland Scottish Parliament, Holyrood Road, 348 5000. noon. Five bands from across Scotland picked by Jewel & Esk College – Crayons, French Wives, The Imagineers, maydays and White Heath – perform as part of the Opening of the Fourth Session of the Scottish Parliament. FREE Electric Circus Live Lounge Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 5pm. Start the weekend early
5 REASONS
FIVE REASONS TO GO SEE. . . LYDIA LUNCH 1 She’s one of the most influential figures to come out of New York’s no wave scene Founder of the inspirational Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lunch has collaborated with Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, Michael Gira, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, to name a few.
2 She is a jack (or, rather, Jill) of all trades A photographer, musician, composer, writer, poet, narrator and actress, Lunch sticks two fingers up to commercialism and takes her DIY approach very seriously. ‘I didn’t start out performing with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks in 1977 thinking this is what it would become but this is what I do. I’m like a one-woman protest machine.’
3 No two of her live shows are the same ‘I’m doing a bunch of different things this year – solo, collaborations and gigs with Big Sexy Noise, my raunchy noise rebellion band. Glasgow is a solo show with words, music and video montages about loss, war, relationships, sex and surviving all those things.’ 4 Rebellion is her middle name ‘Politics are always involved, even in my love songs. I’m fucking stubborn. The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don’t either.’
5 She’s got a sense of humour, too ‘I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let “them” steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I’m here to thrive, not just to survive.’ (Lauren Mayberry) ■ Lydia Lunch, ‘Sick With Desire’, supported by Muscles of Joy, Stereo, Glasgow, Thu 7 Jul.
with a mix of musicians, comedians and DJs. Tonight’s line-up sees jazz, soul, Motown and R&B from Blue Saprhon plus Becca Fox. ■ JLS and Olly Murs Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, 335 6200. 5pm. £32.50. This bunch of urban-lite popsters have attracted hordes of adoring followers since their X-Factor-fuelled rocket to fame. FREE Rossco Galloway The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. See Fri 24.
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