Music ROCK&POP
■ Mothertone Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. 7pm. £5 (£4). Heavy stoner rock. FREE South West Sounds Showcase The Music Box, Stevenson College Edinburgh, Bankhead Avenue, 535 4840. 7pm. Local musicians have been getting together for jam sessions on a regular basis and now you can hear the fruits of their labour. ■ Stanley Odd Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £1.79. Scottish alternative hip hop outfit previewing new album Reject, out 17 Sep. With Silvertongue. ■ The Applebeggars and Callum Beattie The Caves, Niddry Street South, 557 8989. 7.30pm. £11. A night of classic 60s and 70s covers (from ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ to ‘Live and Let Die’) from Rab Howat and Kenny Herbert. FREE Betty’s Bar Unplugged Betty’s Bar, 14-16 Grosvenor Street, 337 4315. 8pm. See Thu 21. ■ Mad Nurse, Toecutter and Chupacabra’s Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £5. Post-rock. FREE Live Music The West End Hotel, 35 Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 8.30pm. Every Friday and Saturday evening, The West End Hotel plays host to a selection of some of Edinburgh’s best solo and duo acts. FREE Open Mic The Ale House, 18–22 Clerk Street, 629 0275. 9.30pm. All welcome, house guitar provided. Ayr ■ STV Appeal Racenight with Pixie Lott Ayr Racecourse, 2 Whitletts Road, 0870 850 5666. 4.40pm. £23–£25. Pixie Lott provides the live pop music at this charity race night for the STV Appeal, which supports young people affected by poverty across Scotland.
nr Biggar ■ Solas Festival Wiston Lodge, Wiston, 416 1650. Times vary. £85 (£55; under 18s £30; under 12s free). Music, books and discussion events form the backbone of the Solas programme, but the main thrust of the festival is providing an atmosphere that’s relaxed and accessible to all. The food on offer
is reasonably priced, the talks and discussions are wide ranging (covering art, politics, religion, music and more), and there’s a good variety of activities and events for kids and families. Artists confirmed for 2012 include Admiral Fallow, Raghu Dixit, Stanley Odd, Rory Butler, Adam Stearns, Stewart Henderson, John Bell and slam poetry champion Harry Baker. Saturday 23
Glasgow FREE Hidden Lane Festival The Hidden Lane, 8 Argyle Court, hiddenlane.co.uk 12–9pm. If this particular cobbled Glasgow thoroughfare wants to stay hidden, it’s going the wrong way about it – this all-dayer of live bands, open studios, fashion shows, BBQ-ing, market and food stalls and art installations is a sure way to attract attention. Last year’s music bill featured a line-up of Glaswegian music acts, and was followed by not one but two after parties at the city’s hippest dives. FREE David Duffy MacSorley’s, 42 Jamaica Street, 248 8581. 6pm. Weekly residency. FREE The MeatMen Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 6pm. See Fri 22. ■ Black Light District, Aitken, Bring on the Floods, A Sin Forgiven and The Ivory Coast Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7pm. £6. Over-14s show. Local live music. ■ Li’l Ze, Culture & Leisure and Abel Soul Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. Rock/dance crossover outfit. ■ Terri Clark Òran Mór, 731-735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £15. Canadian country artist. Part of the West End Festival. ■ *shels, Thula Borah and Analogue of the Sun Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7pm. £8. Over-14s show. Progressive and post- rock from former members of Devil Sold His Soul and Fireapple Red. ■ Colonies of God, Bacchus Baracus and Exile the Traitor Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. £5. Glasgow five- piece.
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■ Rafiki, Ruthless Young Souls, Emerald Sunday, The Hermitage and Jordan Reid Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Indie Rocks night. ■ Snowgoose and Stevie Jackson CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. 7.30pm. £5. Beguiling retro psych folk dreaminess from Snowgoose launching their debut album Harmony Springs with special guest Stevie Jackson of Belle & Sebastian. ■ Bad Manners, The Underground Jam and Esperanza The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £19.50 in advance; £21 on door. See Fri 22. ■ Robin Adams, Dead Temple, St John’s Ambience and End of Neil The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £4. Doune the Rabbit Hole preview gig with singer/ songwriters, shoegaze and Krautrock on the bill. ■ The Imagineers, The Abstracts and The Mix-Ups King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £7. Spanish rhythms and surf guitars embellish this Glasgow four- piece’s Scotpop. Please note new date. FREE Itchycoo Park Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. 60s tunes and sharp suits. FREE 25BC: 25 Years of Blackfriars Part Two Blackfriars, 36 Bell Street, 552 5924. 9pm–3am. A free weekender celebrating the best in live music and clubs at Blackfriars past and present. With live music from The Privates Hammond Orchestra and DJ sets from Osmium, All Tore Up and Shout Bamalama. FREE Tobita Pro Rock’n’Wrestling Extravaganza Bar Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. £tbc. Wrestling bouts and live music from The Bucky Rage, The Blunder and The Dynamite Pussy Club. Edinburgh FREE Edinburgh West End Summer Solstice Festival Various venues, West End. 11am. See Fri 22. FREE Camii Sinclair The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Songs and humour from comedian and singer- songwriter Sinclair and guests.
She’s a badass, and she could teach the DIY kids of today how it’s really done. Politicised, pioneering and never shy of getting on her protester soapbox, she’s been kicking off since founding Teenage Jesus and The Jerks in the late 70s, and shows no signs of stopping. Take that, the man. ■ Classic Grand, Glasgow, Thu 28 Jun.
5 REASONS
TO GO SEE . . . RICK REDBEARD AND ADAM STAFFORD 1 You may recognise these two Rick ‘Redbeard’ Anthony – here appearing in his alt-folk solo guise – as frontman of Glasgow kraut-folk six-piece the Phantom Band, and Adam Stafford from defunct grungy Falkirk noiseniks Y’all Is Fantasy Island, now going it alone as a kind of one-man band 2.0 employing looped vocals and guitars.
2 The A and the B side They’ve been brought together by a split 7” single on Gerry Loves Records, a boutique Edinburgh micro-label Anthony hails for releasing ‘music to show their love of the artefact as much as anything else.’
3 Brand new While Stafford already has an album to his name – last year’s impressive Build a Harbour Immediately – these shows will mark Anthony’s first solo release proper in seven years of activity. A longplayer is soon set to follow. ‘These songs have been rattling around my subconscious for years,’ he says. ‘It feels a bit like an exorcism.’ 4 You might get a power ballad . . . Anthony is surprisingly beholden to 80s-tastic tunes of gushing emotion and massive coda key changes. ‘A friend of mine gave me a triple-disc set of power ballads for my birthday last year and it’s been a staple in the car since,’ he says. Cigarette lighters at the ready.
5 But no grooming advice . . . He keeps a fine, fulsome set of auburn whiskers does Redbeard, but he won’t tell us the full secret for maintaining such a splendid chin-warmer. ‘Suffice to say I follow an ancient meditative method that involves manure and loneliness.’ ■ Henry’s, Edinburgh, Thu 21 Jun (with support from Wounded Knee); Captains Rest, Glasgow, Fri 22 Jun (with support from Yusuf Azak). Rick Redbeard/Adam Stafford split 7” single out on Gerry Loves Records Mon 25 Jun.
94 THE LIST 21 Jun–19 Jul 2012