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Red Bull Music Academy returns to Glasgow on its UK tour. This year’s lineup features nights from Numbers, La Cheetah, Jackmaster, a full live show from Kölsch and a conversation about music and politics with Mercury-winners Young Fathers.
ANGEL OLSEN SWG3, Sat 15 Oct, swg3.tv Chicago-based electro pop singer- songwriter. See album review, page 70.
BARB WIRE DOLLS Stereo, Sun 16 Oct, stereocafebar. com The quartet, formed on the Greek island of Crete, perform hard-edge punk-rock. Also Bannerman’s, Edinburgh, Sat 15 Oct, bannermanslive.co.uk
JAMIE T O2 Academy Glasgow, Mon 17 Oct, academymusicgroup.com/ o2abcglasgow London-based rap and reggae artist.
JENNY HVAL Stereo, Mon 17 Oct, stereocafebar.com Experimental singer-songwriter from Norway.
SLEAFORD MODS O2 ABC, Wed 19 Oct, academymusicgroup.com/ o2abcglasgow Nottingham punk and electro duo.
LE BUTCHERETTES King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Fri 21 Oct, kingtuts.co.uk Mexican garage punk two-piece outfit.
BIRDY O2 ABC, Fri 28 Oct, academymusicgroup.com/ o2abcglasgow The vocalist, also known as Jasmine van den Bogaerde, performs gentle folk pop including her well-known cover of Bon Iver’s ‘Skinny Love’. Also Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, Sat 29 Oct, edinburghcornexchange.com
AMON AMARTH O2 ABC, Tue 1 Nov, academymusicgroup.com/ o2abcglasgow Swedish Viking metal warriors, with support from thrash pioneers Testament and Grand Magus.
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MT DOUBT Henry’s Cellar Bar, Fri 2 Sep, henryscellarbar.co.uk Dark pop and alt.rock noises from Mt Doubt as they launch their single, ‘Thirst’.
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theelectriccircus.biz Scottish hip hop, reggae and funk seven-piece.
Sneaky Pete’s, Sat 3 Sep, sneakypetes.co.uk The company shows off its recent signings with We Came From Wolves, Exit the Theatre and We Came From the North.
WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS La Belle Angèle, Tue 6 Sep, la-belleangele.com Breakneck alt. rock with strident, jangling guitars.
REVOLUTION GIRL STYLE NOW Leith Depot, Sat 17 Sep, leithdepot.com Regular live music nights featuring Edinburgh’s best female artists, this time with Fistymuffs, Playing With Punkarella, Spat and The Twistettes.
RICHARD HAWLEY The Queen’s Hall, Thu 22 Sep, thequeenshall.net Solo acoustic show from the former guitarist with The Longpigs and Pulp, now punting his swooning, crooning sound.
VINNY PECULIAR The Voodoo Rooms, Fri 23 Sep, thevoodoorooms.com Salford- based art pop singer-songwriter and poet.
THE WONDER STUFF The Liquid Room, Fri 30 Sep, liquidroom.com Fraggle rockers from the late 80s and early 90s, scattering their perky, subtly clever indie pop around once more.
FUTURE ECHOES Thomas Morton Hall, Leith Theatre, Sat 1 Oct, lostmap.com Lost Map’s Howlin’ Fringe presents Future Echoes, an all-day cosmic party, featuring off-kilter indie- folktronica from Pictish Trail, The Comet is Coming, Kid Canaveral, Rick Redbeard, Monoganon and more. See Pictish Trail feature, page 68.
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SUPA & DA KRYPTONITES Electric Circus, Fri 23 Sep,
Electric Circus, Thu 6 Oct, theelectriccircus.biz Glasgow-
based grunge rock duo featuring Cat Myers on drums and Stina Tweeddale on guitar and vocals.
BOO HEWERDINE The Voodoo Rooms, Thu 6 Oct, thevoodoorooms.com Admired pop / blues songsmith, founder of cult band the Bible and frequent collaborator with Eddi Reader.
MYSTERY JETS The Liquid Room, Sat 8 Oct, liquidroom.com London band who are the missing link between Can, Dexy’s and The Zutons, now with an added 80s electro edge.
VIC GODARD & SUBWAY SECT The Wee Red Bar, Sat 15 Oct, weeredbar.co.uk Punk-pop pioneer Vic Godard and Subway Sect.
TELEMAN Electric Circus, Thu 20 Oct, the electriccircus.biz London trio who have been described as ‘like the Beach Boys if they were from Hackney’.