Music ROCK&POP
■ Seafield Foxes, The Fnords, November Orchid, Daddy No and Ste McCabe Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8-16 Morrison Street, 228 9393. 7pm–3am. £5. ‘Rock Chick Night’ of female fronted punk and rock. ■ Bandioke Citrus Club, 40–42 Grindlay Street, 622 7086. 7.30–10.30pm. £4 includes entry to Planet Earth. See Fri 6. ■ Rusty Cage Showcase Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £5. A night of heavy noise rock and blues. Saturday 28
Glasgow FREE Hidden Agenda Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 6pm. Motown and soul sounds. ■ Four Year Strong The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120. 7pm. £12.50. Pop punk from Massachusetts. ■ Man Overboard Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7pm. £8. Over-14s show. Pop punk quintet from New Jersey. ■ Snow Patrol and Everything Everything SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. 7pm. £32.50. See Fri 27. ■ Panic! at the Disco and Funeral Party Barrowland, 244 Gallowgate, 552 4601. 7.30pm. £tbc. Chisel-cheekboned emo quartet from Las Vegas take another crack at the whip, this time with exclamation mark restored. Because punctuation rocks. ■ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah SWG3, Studio Warehouse, 100 Eastvale Place, 357 7246. 8pm. £12.50. Brooklyn indie rockers on their third album. ■ Kasule and Gav Prentice The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King St, 553 1638. 8pm. Post-rock/alternative sounds. FREE Mozart Parties The Art School, The Beresford Building, 468 Sauchiehall Street, 353 4410. 8pm. Free for Art School students. Indie pop. ■ The Stones The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10.50 in advance; £12 on door; £24.45 for early dinner at 6. Relax - it’s not actually the Stones but these guys pride themselves in getting as close to recreating the Stones vibe as possible. ■ Psyko Dalek, Deviation, Hiroshima Blackout and Senzafine King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6. Rap/rock headliners. Edinburgh ■ Ged Hanley Trio, Safehouse, The Diversions and Mad Ferret Whistlebinkies, 4-6 South Bridge, 557 5114. 5pm. Free before midnight; £4 after. Covers, rock, blues and folky sounds. FREE Camii Sinclair The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. See Sat 7. ■ Bainbridge Music Showcase Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8-16 Morrison Street, 228 9393. 7pm. £5. See Fri 13. ■ The Classic Rock Show The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7pm. £20. Air guitars at the ready for this incredible musical journey through the best moments in rock featuring music by the likes of Supertramp, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Jimi Hendrix and The Who. ■ The Litigators and The 10:04s The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. 7pm. £5. Indie rock. ■ The Sensational David Bowie Tribute Band Electric Circus, 36–39 Market St, 226 4224. 7pm. £7. Glam rock tribute (formerly known as Tigers on Vaseline). FREE Stewart MacLennan Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover St, 225 2131. 7pm. See Sat 7. ■ The Hollywood Bees Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 665 2240. 7.30pm. £15.25 (£13.25). Tribute to The Hollies with a fantastic name.
5 REASONS
TO GO SEE . . . BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY 1 This will be first Scottish performance in over five years The music of Will Oldham (aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) has haunted independent music for over two decades now, through various monikers (Palace Music, Palace Brothers, Palace Songs to name a few) and his sound still strikes that emotional funny bone which straddles joy, filth and abject sadness. The Kentuckian singer- songwriter is returning as part of the Celtic Connections festival, and it’ll be his first visit to Glasgow since his tour of Scotland and Ireland with Harem Scarem back in 2006.
2 Each live set is always delightfully oddball His shifting live arrangements mean both backing arrangements and vocals can be free form, so don’t expect Palace Brothers classics or even cuts from his seminal I See a Darkness album to sound like they’re recorded artefacts. With that said, he might play them note for note. You can never really tell.
3 He has plenty to sing about Since his last visit upon touring with the The Letting Go LP, his releases over the past few years have been coming in thick and fast – and to a lot of critical praise. Choice tracks from with his collaborations with The Phantom Family Halo, The Cairo Gang and his newest LP Wolfroy Goes to Town will sound utterly regal in performance.
4 He has a great moustache Will is the original tached-up weirdo musician, and occasional arthouse cinema actor. Long before the recent rise in top lip foliage among the masses; his was (and still is) the mouser of Appalachian misery rock. 5 He wrote one of the saddest songs of the 90s ‘Come In’ by the Palace Brothers is a bona fide heart wrencher.
Watch it on YouTube at http://ow.ly/84Yl9 (Nick Herd) ■ Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, Sun 29 Jan, as part of Celtic Connections.
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■ Kiss Tribute Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £tbc. Tribute to mighty rockers in make-up. Sunday 29
Glasgow FREE Moving Mecca Slouch, 203–5 Bath Street, 221 5518. 6pm. Dundee rock band play Blues Kitchen Live. ■ Alfie Boe SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. 6.30pm. £20–£35. West End hits and light opera from tenor Boe. ■ Argent and Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash O2 Academy, 121 Eglinton Street, 0844 477 2000. 7pm. £22.50. Hoary 70s rockers formed by Rod Argent and Chris White of The Zombies and best known for their stomping hits ‘Hold Your Head Up’ and ‘God Gave Rock’n’Roll To You’. ■ Without Aeroplanes, Vasa and Ohm Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7.30pm. The launch of new monthly experimental/ambient/post- rock night Breadcrumb Trail. ■ La Dispute and Former Thieves King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £8.50. Post-hardcore quintet from Grand Rapids, Michigan, who add bluesy and spoken word elements to their music. Edinburgh FREE Open Mic Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry St, 556 3254. 3pm. See Sat 14. ■ The City Calls, Altered Sky, Modern Misfortune and Recipe for Disaster Cabaret Voltaire, 36–38 Blair Street, 247 4704. 7pm. £6 (£5). Pop punk from the Southampton supporting new mini-album A Spark to Ignite. ■ Napier Music Course Songwriters Showcase The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). A selection of singer- songwriters from the Napier music course. FREE Cranachan Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 9pm. See Sun 15. FREE Bigtime Acoustic and Bannockburn Whistlebinkies, 4-6 South Bridge, 557 5114. 9.30pm. Acoustic covers and Celt-rock.
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Glasgow ■ Wild Flag Òran Mór, 731-735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £12.50. New femme rock supergroup from Portlandia, formed by Carrie ‘put a bird on it’ Brownstein and Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney, Mary Timoney of Helium and Rebecca Cole of The Minders. FREE Michael Simons Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. See Mon 9. Edinburgh FREE Open Mic Whistlebinkies, 4-6 South Bridge, 557 5114. 9.30pm. See Mon 9.
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Glasgow ■ Reel Big Fish The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120. 7pm. £14.50. Southern California ska-punk band present their latest hyperkinetic stage show boasting juvenile humour, ironic covers and metallic shards of ska. ■ Fanny Pelmet & the Bastard Suits and The Plimptons The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. ‘Absurdo-pop’ from The Plimptons. ■ Babybird and The Sneaky Russians King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £12.50. Stephen ‘You’re Gorgeous’ Jones returns with a new album of offbeat pop, entitled The Pleasures of Self-Destruction. FREE Open Mic The Libertine, 45–47 Bell Street. 9pm. See Tue 10. Edinburgh FREE Blueprint and The Diversions Whistlebinkies, 4-6 South Bridge, 557 5114. 10pm. Rock and covers.
Wednesday 1 Glasgow ■ Biohazard and Heights King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8pm. £15. Over-14s show. Intimate show from the old school
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Let’s recap on the career of Brooklyn’s CYHSY. 2005: release buzz- generating, much-hyped debut album. 2007: follow up with Some Loud Thunder, to a range of gushing to very middling reviews. 2007 until this summer: dabble in side projects and consider splitting up. August 2011: release new album, Hysterical, which we at The List described as ‘all splashy disco beats, floaty synth-strings and wounded puppy yelping’. Have they still got it? Hopefully this SWG3 gig proves . . . er, yeah? ■ SWG3, Glasgow, Sat 28 Jan.