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ROCK&POP Music
Spectral singer-songwriter with ancient folk leanings teams up with Gaelic singer Morrison for a souped-up folk crossover album Urstan. Friday 28
Glasgow ■ Alavano, Tornado Jones and The Motives O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £6. Over-14s show. Glasgow rock band previously known as Ruff Angel. ■ DragonForce, Alestorm, The Defiled and Cavorts O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £17.50. London-based extreme power metal band back with fifth album The Power Within that promises more ridiculously fast, dexterous guitar theatrics. Support comes from Scottish pirate metallers Alestorm. ■ Joshua Radin Òran Mór, 731-735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £15. Singer/songwriter from Ohio whose music has been featured on Scrubs and Grey’s Anatomy. ■ Richard Hawley and Lisa Hannigan Barrowland, 244 Gallowgate, 552 4601. 7pm. £20. Over-14s show. The former guitarist with The Longpigs and Pulp is now punting his swooning, crooning sound, as heard on new album Truelove’s Gutter. ■ Yeasayer and Trust The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. 7pm. CANCELLED. ■ Clyde 1 Live SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. 7.30pm. POSTPONED until 17th March 2013. FREE Tango in the Attic Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 7.30pm. Uplifting Glenrothes indie swingers head the bill. With support from The Blindfolds. ■ Elohymn and Pump Action The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. Hypnotic and sinister post rock from Manchester. ■ How To Swim, The Paraffins and GRNR The Old Hairdressers, Opposite Stereo, Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 8pm. £5. Characterful, eclectic pop collective headline. ■ No Tolerance, Give, Clocked Out and No Island Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 8pm. £6. Straight edge hardcore band from Boston. ✽ Om Stereo, 20–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 8pm. £13 in advance. Stoner rock duo from California. ■ Pat Cairns sings Neil Diamond & Kenny Rogers The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10.50 in advance: £12 on door: £24.45 with early dinner at 6pm. Does what it says on the tin. FREE Wing & A Prayer Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. Folk/blues duo. ■ Dr Feelgood and The Zips King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £15. Rhythm’n’blues veterans from the 70s, whose unhinged sound inspired the early punk acts, but who now have the dubious honour of no longer featuring any original members. FREE Fistfights’n’Foreplay Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. Rock with a capital R. FREE Fantastic Man Club Bar Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. before midnight. Gender-bending macho metal. FREE Friday Night Live The Grosvenor Café, The Grosvenor Theatre, Ashton Lane, 0845 166 6028. 9pm– midnight. Live music from a selection of Glasgow-based bands and DJs. Featuring the The Shiverin’ Sheiks. FREE Hidden Agenda Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 9pm. Motown and soul covers in the bar. Edinburgh FREE Sher Watson The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. See Fri 21.
EXPOSURE
AZEALIA BANKS
Well done to Harlem’s Azealia Banks, who’s managed to build the foundations of an entire career with three and a half minutes of non-stop, glorious filth. We never knew swearing could get quite so eloquent until we heard last year’s ‘212’, the bass-ridden monster with a pathological aversion to radio play. Now she’s coming to Glasgow. Can she outswear the whole city?
No. No she can’t, because you know what? As those who saw the 21-year-old in the ‘probably going to be the most successful of the lot’ opening slot of this year’s NME Awards Tour date at the Academy will tell you, she actually seemed like a really nice girl, albeit one with a tendency to get over-aggressive with the lyrical put-downs. Abiding memories are of her amusing shock at the amount of people before her and a wildly unexpected cover of The Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’. So. . . a lyrically bitch- slapping one-hit wonder, then? Not if she plays it right. The ‘1991’ EP emphasised a talent for ferocious rhymes married to what sounds like speeded- up Chicago house, with more to follow on the debut album Broke With Expensive Taste next February. She’s already guest- starred with Major Lazer, Scissor Sisters, MIA and, er, Lana Del Rey on tracks, and is reportedly writing for Lady Gaga’s third album. It’s all just waiting to happen.
Anything else? Her hair. Read her Twitter feed, it’s pages of retweets from fans and magazines saying how much they love her hair. The List would like to draw your attention to the photo above these words, of her looking like a ‘young Rapunzel’, with typically good hair. (David Pollock) ■ ABC, Glasgow, Sat 29 Sep.
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