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Glasgow FREE Federation of the Disco Pimp Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 6pm. Jazzy funk tuneage at this Funking Sundays night. FREE The Ray-Bandos Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 6pm. See Sat 4. FREE Rebel 69 and Vanetta Valls Slouch, 203–5 Bath Street, 221 5518. 6pm. Classic rocking from Rebel 69 and soft rock from Vanetta Valls at this week’s Blues Kitchen. ■ Boyz II Men O2 Academy, 121 Eglinton Street, 0844 477 2000. 7pm. CANCELLED. ■ The Devil Wears Prada The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120. 7pm. £13. Over-14s show. Christian metalcore band from Dayton, Ohio. FREE Cosmonauts and Mount Analogue Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7.30pm. Retro garage rock from Cosmonauts and art rock experimentation from MA. ■ The Sounds, Kids at the Bar and The Limousines Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7.30pm. £11. Swedish indie rockers with more than a touch of Blondie about them. ■ Blouse Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 8pm. £7.50. Dream pop trio from Portland, Oregon. FREE Blues Open Mic Box, 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431. 8pm. Weekly open mic with a bluesy slant. ■ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8pm. £10. Over-14s show. Big tunes on ‘prehistoric’ dubplates from Greco- Roman signings TEED. ■ What The Blood Revealed, Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster, Naisian and Without James The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. WTBR are a post-rock group from Irvine. FREE The Blokes Slouch, 203–5 Bath Street, 221 5518. 9pm. Blues and folk residency. FREE Retrospex Blackfriars, 36 Bell Street, 552 5924. 9pm. R&B, soul, pop and Latin styles. Edinburgh FREE Hair of the Dog Sunday Session The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 3pm. Chilled acoustic bill programmed by Roberta Pia of Red Dog Music. ■ Esperanza The Third Door, 45–47 Lothian St, 225 6313. 7pm. £5 in advance; £8 on door. Scottish eight-piece ska outfit. Part of Wee Dub Festival. FREE Sterling Roswell The Parlour Bar, 142 Duke Street, 555 3848. 8pm. See Sat 4. ■ Wee Dub Festival The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Rd, 558 7604. 9pm–2am. £15 in advance; £18 on door. The finale of this dub weekend headlined by the Mad Professor Dub Show (live) backed by Mungo’s Hi-Fi, Chungo Bungo and Big Toes.
Monday 6 Glasgow FREE Young Guns HMV, 235 Buchanan Street, 353 2993. 5pm. Acoustic instore performance and signing to launch new album Bones. ■ Young Guns, Polar and Tonight Alive King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8pm. £10. Buckinghamshire punk rock five-piece. ■ Big Country and Gun Barrowland, 244 Gallowgate, 552 4601. 7pm. £22.50. Veteran Scot-rockers reform to celebrate the life and bagpipe guitar sound of their late founder Stuart Adamson with their old buddy Mike Peters of The Alarm on lead vocals. On this 30th anniversary tour, the band will play their debut album The Crossing in its entirety.
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STILL CORNERS The whispery female vocal, the unsettling tone, the shoegazey guitars . . . There’s a very cinematic, 1990s David Lynch feel to the heavenly dream-pop of London-based Still Corners. The List finds singer Tessa Murray and songwriter Greg Hughes drinking coffee and listening to Kurt Vile when we call . . . Greg: ‘I’m also about to post some late Christmas presents home to Arizona [where he’s from]. I’m running kind of late . . . 2011 was a busy year.’ [They put out debut album Creatures of an Hour, and toured the States and Europe amongst other things.]
How big an influence is cinema on your music?
Greg: ‘Huge, I love Hitchcock, and films like Lantana, or weird, confusing stuff like Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet. I’d love our music to have that same kind of creepy atmosphere.’ Tessa: ‘We get lots of David Lynch comparisons which have been amazing. I hadn’t actually heard [Twin Peaks singer and Tessa soundalike] Julee Cruise before I started Still Corners. It’s been cool to get compared to her. I love Cocteau Twins too, who we seem to remind people of.
I was singing in a choir when we met. It’s really Greg who’s into movies, and I’m slowly developing the same addiction. I’m more of a book person.’
Plans for 2012?
Greg: ‘We’d never join a major label. I wouldn’t like the idea of our stuff being too heavily produced.’ Tessa: ‘Just more of the same. Festivals in the summer, writing the new record, keeping up the movie addiction . . .’ (Claire Sawers) ■ Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Sat 4 Feb.
Supported by 90s Scot-rockers Gun. ■ Canterbury, Straight Lines and Proxies O2 ABC2, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £7. Indie rock. ■ Terra Naomi and Rebecca Orr Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7.30pm. £10. Melodic acoustic set from New York singer-songwriter. FREE Michael Simons Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. Glasgow-based guitarist playing folk, blues and beyond.
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