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Glasgow ■ Hope Up High The 13th Note Café/ Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 7pm. £7. Pop punk band from Arbroath for fans of The Wonder Years and Real Friends. ■ Red Sky July Òran Mór, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £13.50. Vintage country rock from husband and wife duo Ally McErlaine (Texas) and Shelly Poole (Alisha’s Attic) plus singer Charity Hair. ■ Wreckless Eric and Sterling Roswell Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 7pm. £11.50. Punk era survivor, best known for his hit ‘Whole Wide World’. ■ The Cabeytu Brothers Queen Margaret Union, 22 University Gardens, 339 9784. 7.30–10.30pm. £10. Multi-instrumental Argentinean duo playing mixed, multiple cross- genre covers. ■ Haight-Ashbury King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £7. Countrified psych- rock from Miyagi and friends. FREE Good Grief’s Goop Shop Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. DIY zine collective present ‘The 1st Annual Annual Battle Of The Bands Bands’.
Edinburgh ■ Bombay Bicycle Club and Peace Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7pm. £24. Youthful alt.popsters from London out promoting their fourth album, Carry Me. ■ Caroline Gilmour and Jonny Jack Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £6. The Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter and guitarist plays sweeping and melodic rock and pop with her backing band. ■ Band of Gypos Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £7. Jimi Hendrix tribute. ■ Charity Fundraiser Party The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4. Charity do with live music to raise funds for a good cause. Raising funds for Edinburgh Uni travel mag Nomad. Dundee ■ The Phantom Band Non-Zero’s, 24 Castle Street, 07540 377506. 8pm. £10.11. Glasgow’s compelling Krautfolk ensemble.
Friday 12 Glasgow ■ The Hell Audio, 14 Midland Street. 6.30pm. £7. Heavy, hardcore metallers from Watford. ■ Beards Òran Mór, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £12. Hirsute comic folk rock troupe from Australia present such musical wares as ‘If Your Dad Doesn’t Have a Beard, You’ve Got Two Mums’. ■ HEAT O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £9. Swedish rockers. ■ Inspiral Carpets O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £18.50. Revisit those golden days of the early 90s with Inspiral Carpets, performing hits old and less old. ■ The Phantom Band The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. 7pm. £12.50. See Thu 11.
5 REASONS TO GO SEE . . . DIE ANTWOORD 1 Everybody will be talking about it Much of South African trio Die Antwoord’s (‘The Answer’ in Afrikaans) cultural capital has come from precisely that, getting people talking about them. Following years floating about the lower reaches of their home country’s rap-rock scene in various bands, Ninja, Yolandi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek blew up online with the 2009 single ‘Enter the Ninja’. Since then their combination of brash beats and even more aggressive visuals has built them a loyal, not to mention obsessive, fanbase. 2 They have a scene of their own It’s called ‘zef’, and debates over the precise translation are ongoing. Their style – shellsuits, shaved hair and rat-tails, bold colours and flesh on display – makes obvious what they’re going for, though, and lends credence to the idea that a precise UK translation of ‘zef’ would be ‘chav’ or ‘ned’. 3 They’re taboo-breaking See point 2, above. Are they, though? It’s been put forward online that Ninja (real name: Watkin Tudor Jones) is neither Afrikaans-speaking nor working class, unlike the milieu he mirrors. ‘Cultural appropriation’ was a phrase used. The band say they’re playing characters. 4 The show should be hard to forget Their three albums so far ($O$, Ten$ion and this summer’s Donker Mag) have been cult hits, and their brand of snotty rave-rap has as many fans as the head-clubbing subtlety of the fashions. Check their videos on YouTube and tell us you aren’t at least morbidly curious. 5 ‘My bodyguard helps me get to the bar / Neill Blomkamp’s makin’ me a movie star.’ So rapped the band on their 2012 single ‘Baby’s On Fire’, and it has come to pass. See Ninja and Vi$$er later this year in Chappie, the third feature from District 9 and Elysium writer and director Blomkamp. (David Pollock) ■ 02Academy, Glasgow, Wed 14 Jan.
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