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DR JOHN COOPER CLARKE & HUGH CORNWELL
O2 ABC, Fri 9 Dec, academymusicgroup.com/ o2abcglasgow Punk poet Dr Cooper Clarke teams up with ex-Strangler Hugh Cornwall to tour their first album together This Time it’s Personal, a celebration of the sounds of their younger years.
OCEAN COLOUR SCENE The SSE Hydro, Sat 10 Dec, thessehydro.com The epitome of the Britpop / rock mod revivalist movement.
SCHOOLBOY Q O2 ABC, Tue 13 Dec, academymusicgroup.com/ o2abcglasgow American rapper and member of hip hop group Black Hippy.
TWIN ATLANTIC Barrowland, Tue 13–Thu 15 Dec, glasgow-barrowland.com/ ballroom Glasgow alt.rockers get a three-date homecoming.
MESHUGGAH
FRIGHTENED RABBIT Barrowland, Fri 16–Sun 18 Dec, glasgow-barrowland.com/ballroom Folk infused indie rockers from Selkirk sweeping all before them. CAGE THE ELEPHANT O2 ABC, Tue 17 Jan, academymusicgroup.com/ o2abcglasgow Yelpy UK / US punk- funk and angular rock’n’roll.
O2 ABC, Sun 15 Jan, academymusicgroup.com/ o2abcglasgow Complex, technically astonishing death, thrash and prog metal fusion from Swedish stalwarts.
BLACK SABBATH The SSE Hydro, Tue 24 Jan, thessehydro.com The founders of heavy metal are on their farewell tour, featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler.
Frightened Rabbit
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Southern Tenant Folk Union
EDINBURGH
LORDI La Belle Angèle, Mon 14 Nov, la-belleangele.com The masked metal monsters from Finland who won the Eurovision Song Contest back in 2006.
THE BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND The Queen’s Hall, Wed 16 Nov, thequeenshall.net A 50th anniversary show from the legendary surrealist Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
LEE RANALDO & THE DUST Summerhall, Wed 16 Nov, summerhall.co.uk Alternative rock by the American singer-songwriter and guitarist and member of Sonic Youth with his accompanying band.
RM HUBBERT AND RICK REDBEARD
Electric Circus, Mon 21 Nov, theelectriccircus.biz Guitar instrumentals from SAY Award winner and Phantom Band singer.
SOUTHERN TENANT FOLK UNION Scottish Storytelling Centre, Wed 23 Nov, tracscotland.org/scottish- storytelling-centre Gospel- influenced seven-piece with their own mix of old-time, bluegrass and Celtic folk music. Album launch show.
MODERN STUDIES AND WOODPIGEON
Summerhall, Thu 24 Nov, summerhall.co.uk Double headline show from newly-formed Glasgow-via- Yorkshire chamber pop supergroup Modern Studies and Canadian indie pop collective Woodpigeon.
PEJA The Mash House, Sun 27 Nov, themashhouse.co.uk Polish rapper and songwriter, best known as the frontman of Slum Attack.
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Usher Hall, Mon 12 Dec, usherhall.co.uk Welsh surrealists are back after six years, with their skewed take on Beach Boys melodies, late 60s psychedelia and anything else they fancy throwing into the pot. Playing Fuzzy Logic and Radiator.
CONCERT IN THE GARDENS: PAOLO NUTINI
Princes Street Gardens, Fri 30 & Sat 31 Dec, edinburghshogmanay. com This year’s famed Princes Street Gardens Hogmanay will be headlined by Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini. So popular they had to announce a second ‘Night Afore Concert’.
GIRL BAND Summerhall, Thu 26 Jan, summerhall.co.uk Not really a girl band but an all male four piece from Dublin playing energetic noise rock and post punk.
KIRKCALDY
JAMES YORKSTON’S TAE SUP WI’ A FIFER Adam Smith Theatre, Sat 3 Dec, onfife.com/venues/adam- smith-theatre Fife’s folkster James Yorkston curates a programme of club nights. Christmas special with King Creosote, Laura Cannell and Kadialy Kouyate. See preview, page 103.