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104 THE LIST 15 Dec 2011–5 Jan 2012
Music ROCK&POP
■ Milk Flat 0/1, 162 Bath Street, 331 6227. 9pm–3am. £4. A new indie night with two live bands plus an acoustic act, visuals and DJs. The Milk Christmas Party featuring The Dirty Beggars, Blochestra, a gospel choir singing hits and carols, and mulled wine served alongside the usual Milk white/pink/mint Russians. FREE Open Mic The Halt Bar, 160 Woodlands Road, 353 6450. 9pm. Daves Dixon and Rae host the weekly open mic session. Edinburgh ■ Bastion Cabaret Voltaire, 36–38 Blair Street, 247 4704. 7pm. £5. Rock. ■ Messiah Komplex, Hope in Dystopia, Lunar Landing Module and The Downs Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8- 16 Morrison Street, 228 9393. 7.30pm. £4. Dark noise. FREE Size Queen and 3 Card Trick Whistlebinkies, 4-6 South Bridge, 557 5114. 7.30pm. Rock and covers. ■ National Jazz Trio of Scotland, Pianotapes and Stevie Jackson Old St Paul’s Church, 39 Jeffrey Street, 556 3332. 8pm. £8. Bill Wells presents a new set of instrumental tracks. Tracer Trails Christmas party of jazz, indie and other audio goodness. See preview, page 94.
Thursday 22
Gallowgate, 552 4601. 7pm. £20. Glasgow FREE Bear Bones, Black Bros, Bigg Taj, Herculean and Dave Jolly George Square, 6pm. Mix of local acts play this Hear Glasgow! Loves Christmas gig. ■ Altered Sky Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 6.30pm. 6. Energetic female fronted alt.rock act. ■ Brazen Cars, Sunshine Social, Blue Sky Archives and Soothsayer Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. Shoegazey sounds. ■ Cherri Fosphate, The Dirties, The Preventers, Visions of and The Serious Men Stairway Club, 95 Union Street, 221 1009. 7pm. £5. Indie. ✽✽ Mogwai Barrowland, 244 Glaswegian post-rock instrumental heroes reveal their new slightly softer sounding side on current album Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. See preview, page 93. ■ The Rezillos O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £16. See Sat 17. FREE Ruff Angel, Ross Turnbull and Born Accused Box, 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431. 8pm. Local indie and rock acts. FREE A Winter’s Night with Holy Esque Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. Glasgow four-piece with an epic post-rock sound. FREE Jam Session Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. See Thu 15. ■ Joe Strummer Tribute Night King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £8.50. The now annual celebration of the life and music of the redoubtable Joe Strummer, raising money for Strummerville, a charity which funds music-orientated youth projects. ■ Withered Hand, Second Hand Marching Band and The Last Battle The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8.30pm. £5. Plaintive and celebratory indie folk sounds from Edinburgh and Glasgow’s many-tentacled Second Hand Marching Band. FREE Acoustic Open Mic 1901 Bar and Bistro, 1534 Pollockshaws Road. 9pm. See Thu 15. FREE Open Mic Night The Bay, 142 West Regent Street. 9pm. See Thu 15. FREE Ray Harris & The Fusion Experience The Grosvenor Café, The Grosvenor Theatre, Ashton Lane, 0845 166 6028. 10pm. Nu-jazz fusing Latin vibes, funk and soul with the Brazilian sounds of the 60s.
5 BEST
GIGS OF 2011 Remember Remember & Miaoux Miaoux Planetarium, Glasgow, Sat 8 Oct We don’t throw about words like ‘mesmerising’ and ‘spellbinding’. But for a gig that asked us to lie back and gaze at the stars, while laptop wizardry and shimmering electro-prog-rock washed over us, we feel it deserves both. With clever use of backdrop (and ‘above- drop’?) from the Detour team, it created an aural and visual delight.
St Vincent Stereo, Glasgow, Tue 15 Nov
This was the year Annie Clark smashed it – with her best album to date (Strange Mercy, and a string of powerful live shows. Shapeshifting sounds, high-waisted leather shorts, the quirk of an updated Kate Bush and Clark’s guitar-wielding skills – all meshing together to create something very memorable.
Archive Trails Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, Sun Oct 16
How does an archive of forgotten Scottish songs reignite interest in its treasure trove of material? By staging a national tour, with help from wordsmiths (Wounded Knee used hip hop and drone in his reworkings), puppeteers (Shane Connolly and a horse skull added gothic thrills), and folk song (Ali Roberts sang and Aileen Campbell performed with her iPod.) Innovative, inspired, and massively enjoyable. Group Inerane
Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, Fri 2 Dec A co-promo from Scotland’s hottest underground music promoters; Braw Gigs, Tracer Trails and Cry Parrot. Niger’s Group Inerane barely speak English, but still had the crowd going wild with their cries of ‘Ca va?’ and ‘Merci à tous!’ Rolling Saharan grooves, a sublime onstage energy, Chris Corsano and Mick Flowers supporting, exciting new venue: Boom. This one had it all.
Arcade Fire
Edinburgh Castle, Thu 1 Sep As if the sounds of AF’s album The Suburbs weren’t epic enough (albeit detailing small-town angst and claustrophobia), hearing it played with the added wallpaper of a giant castle, and exploding canons – it was always going to bring a sense of spectacle. Rolling visuals helped, as did onstage pogo-ing and improv percussion against stage rigging.