The Skinny August 2006 by The Skinny

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GLASGOW ABC

SUNDAY 15TH OCTOBER

6-11 LIFESTYLE Join the Circus Glasgow Gourmet What’s On Red Onion Tempus Go Away! to Glasgow Godiva – One of a Kind Culture Vulture

CONTENTS

PLUS GUESTS

EDINBURGH QUEENS HALL

6 6 7 8 8 9 10 10

MONDAY 16TH OCTOBER THE ALBUM ‘CIVILIAN’ OUT NOW WWW.BOYKILLBOY.COM

Tempus - fine dining in Edinburgh

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12-15 FILM Snakes on a Plane Innocent Voices A Scanner Darkly Penelope Cruz Terry Gilliam Luc Besson

12 13 14 14 15 15

+ THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND

Innocent Voices: Indie Film of the Month page 13

16 LGBT

Scream Club

17 AT HOME

Backwards is the New Forwards

18 ARTS

Van Gogh and Britain

19 THEATRE Strangers on a Train

INCLUDING 32 page pull-out Festival preview SKINNYFest!

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20-29 SOUNDS Eagles of Death Metal Let’s Rock! Edinburgh The Easy Gramophone T in the Park Highlights Live Music Reviews Ross Clark Tapes ‘n Tapes Kaada – Music for Moviebikers

20 21 22 24 26 26 28 28

Glasgow Garage Tuesday 26th September Project: Venhell at T in the Park

30-31 BEATS

Southern Comfort Fat Tuesday Progression: End of an Era James Lavelle Six of the Best

62 62 63 63

32-45 LISTINGS

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THE SKINNY RATING SYSTEM EXPLAINED: 1 Skinny: Anything that receives one Skinny is probably best avoided. Chances are it will suck the will to live straight out of you. In other words, god awful baws.

46 - WIN STUFF!!

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2 Skinnys: Boring. Bog-standard or hugely derivative. Only for hardcore aficionados of the genre. 3 Skinnys: A good, solid rating. You’ll have a fine time but you won’t be bowled over. 4 Skinnys: Excellent stuff. Unmissable if you’re into this sort of thing.

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5 Skinnys: A rare honour indeed; a must-see for all and sundry. Sublime.

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August 06

ISSUE ELEVEN

LIFESTYLE Welcome to August! THIS MONTH

STAFF

ifestyle is looking different again this month as we’ve had to make some room for the brand spanking new SKINNYFest (see preview below). Your favourite regulars are still here though; our Rant, Mystic Moon’s astral predictions, London Calling and the Culture Vulture. Next month we will return with the fashion shoot and more local issues, but until then dear readers - welcome to August...

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August 06

JANE FENTON

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

CAROLINE HURLEY

MUSIC EDITOR

DAVE KERR

GLASGOW MUSIC EDITOR

JASPER HAMILL

CLUBS EDITOR

ALEX BURDEN

CLUBS LISTINGS

ANDREW COOKE

ONLINE EDITOR

ALEX KIRK

ASSISTANT ONLINE EDITOR

PAUL MITCHELL

LISTINGS EDITOR

TIGER REID

LIFESTYLE EDITORS

ANNA BATTISTA & CAROLINE HURLEY

FILM EDITOR THEATRE EDITOR

PAUL GREENWOOD YASMIN SUALIMAN

BOOKS EDITOR

JULIAN SMITH

LGBT EDITOR

NINE

DVD AT HOME

GRAHAM MCINTOSH

GAMES AT HOME

JOSH WILSON

GLASGOW MARKETING

ALISON FITZSIMMONS

EDINBURGH MARKETING

MIKE MCGRAIL

PICTURE ASSISTANT

RUPERT THOMSON AMY COPEMAN

LAYOUT ASSISTANCE

IAN SINKAMBA

Photographers: Bram Gieben, Lil Mark, Rennie Mack, Nine, Stuart Bissland, John Bryden, Jethro Collins, Lara Woolfson, Jim Law, Calum Barr, Fitz

SKINNYFest comes out on August 2, 9, 16, 23, in fetching red boxes at the best festival venues

According to Fleming, Glasgow is the right place for such a gastronomic event because it has become a dynamic and cosmopolitan city, in part thanks to its eclectic restaurant and café scene. “Glasgow is not only about the culture, the museums, the architecture and the retail experience, it’s about the food and the service as well. t”

PICTURE EDITOR

Neily Alimohamadi, James Allenby, Julie Balazs, Anna Battista, Vernon Baxter, Finbarr Bermingham, Jamie Borthwick, Aly Brown, Libby Brown, Mike Byrne, Rosie Capona, Fraser Cardow, Jane Carnall, Colin Chapman, Gemma Couper, Tom Donohue, Natalie Doyle, Mickey Dwyer, Sam Eccles, Lucy Faringold, Duncan Forgan, Sam Friedman, Megan Garriock, Bram Gieben, Campbell Glennie, Simone Gray, Billy Hamilton, Morag Hannah, Rebecca Heller, Emily Henderson, Keir Hind, Marcie Hume, Barry Hunt, Wilbur Kane, Jamie Krankeigh, Miles Johnson, Lindsey Johnstone, Gemma Kempthorne, Fiona Kerr, Johnny Langlands, Frank Lazarski, Jonathan Liew, Jon Lynes, Ted M, Rhona Macalister, Tommy Mackay, Ali Maloney, Milo McLaughlin, Sean McNamara, Alec Mcleod, Colan Mehaffey, Sean Michaels, Nick Mitchell, Suzanne Mitchell, Andrew Monroe, Mystic Moon, Simon Munnery, C A Murray, Chris Nordeng, Jonny Ogg, Struan Otter, Julie Paterson, Chris Pickering, Stuart Purcell, Dave Reid, Sam Saward, Jon Seller, Craig Simpson, Hazel Smith, Celia Sontag, Graeme Strachan, Karen Taggart, Melissa Thomson, Robbie Thomson, Amanda Turnbull, Gareth K Vile, Peter Walker, Tina Warren, Will White, Katy Whitelaw, Ed Witcomb, Leo Wood,

Keep your eyes peeled for free tickets in various venues across the city…

The brainchild of Alan Tomkins - owner and co-owner of many fine eateries across Glasgow, among them also Gamba, specialising in the best of Scottish seafood - this year’s event will also feature a food and drink festival at the Old Fruitmarket. The festival will offer wine and whisky tasting, cookery demonstrations with chefs Jean-Christophe Novelli, Aldo Zilli and Michael Caines, as well as chefs from Glasgow’s leading restaurants, and a Gourmet Evening in aid of the Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice at the Radisson SAS Hotel.

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CONTRIBUTORS

To introduce our new baby, the SKINNYFest launch party takes place at Cabaret Voltaire on August 3rd; come join us at the Circus where you’ll find burlesque dancing girls, clowning around on the decks from Skinny DJs and a host of others, plus monkeys on unicycles serving champagne (tbc)…

CREATIVE DIRECTOR SUB EDITOR

ROBBIE THOMSON

xciting news for August! The Skinny is proud to team up with established festival magazine Fest to produce, throughout August 2006, four issues of a free, full colour magazine: SKINNYFest. You can get your eager little paws on a copy at regular Skinny venues and dedicated Festival venues all over town. The preview edition can be found within this Skinny (turn to page 35) and future editions will hit the shelves each week of the festival. A 64 page issue containing up-to-the minute, comprehensive listings information for every event and every performance, every day of the week will also be contained in SKINNYFest, coupled with top quality features, previews and reviews of all the theatre, comedy, music and film available PLUS information on the Books, Jazz and International Festivals - completely free of charge! It’s an even skinnier SKINNY but look online at www.skinnymag.co.uk for full coverage of everything that Edinburgh in August has to offer. What more could you ask for to get you through the three-week whirlwind?

“Gourmet Glasgow is about putting the gastronomic spotlight on Glasgow at least once a year, showing the potential the city can offer in terms of a food festival and reinforcing its position as the gastronomic destination outside London,” explains Ian Fleming, GRA Chairman, owner of The Buttery in Glasgow and co-owner - with celebrity chef Nick Nairn - of the restaurant and hotel The Lake, in the Port of Menteith, Stirlingshire.

SOPHIE KYLE & XAVIER TOBY

RICHARD BULLIMORE

f you aspire to turn into a gourmet or if you already fancy yourself as a connoisseur of the pleasures of the palate, Glasgow is the place to go in August as Gourmet Glasgow, the city’s gastronomic event par excellence, is back.

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RANT “REINFORCING THE CITY’S POSITION AS THE GASTRONOMIC DESTINATION OUTSIDE LONDON.” by Anna Battista Whether you’re a gourmet, gastronome, bon vivant or bon viveur, Gourmet Glasgow – the event that promises to transform the ethos of eating out - offers a range of cuisine to satisfy everyone. Let your taste buds be tempted this August. GOURMET GLASGOW, VARIOUS RESTAURANTS ACROSS GLASGOW, AUGUST 1-31; FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL, OLD FRUITMARKET, AUGUST 18-20; GOURMET EVENING IN AID OF THE PRINCE & PRINCESS OF WALES HOSPICE, RADISSON SAS HOTEL, AUGUST 30TH. FOR A FULL PROGRAMME OR TO BOOK TICKETS FOR THE VARIOUS EVENTS, LOG ONTO WWW.GOURMETGLASGOW.COM WWW.GOURMETGLASGOW.COM

IF YOU’RE RIPPING US OFF, AT LEAST BUY SOME BINS Another T in the Park, another gigantic, open, land-fill of waste and litter which the organisers can’t be bothered to sort out by supplying bins. I can’t ever remember seeing a single bin there, and by the Sunday the entire place was a shit heap. Put some God damn bins out! It’s no fun walking around in a midden. Bins! For fuck’s sake; it can’t be that hard. I spoke to the rubbish collectors, mainly Polish girls, who were bewildered that we would waste so much. “Your country has so much money, why do you throw it away?” Good question. Secondly. £ 3.20 for a bottle of Tennents at T in the Park? That’s taking the piss! It’s the cheapest of all lagers, for crying out loud! They’re screwing us because they have us captive in their poxy festival. Sheer greed. For the price of the tickets, you’d expect better. Festivals are bad for exploitation, but it’s freaking sponsored by them. Come on Tennents! If you’re ripping us off, at least buy some bins.

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EDINBURGH compiled by Caroline Hurley

LIFESTYLE

What’s On?

Out of the Blue Arts Market The Drill Hall, Dalmeny Street, Sat Aug 19, 12pm-6pm. An Arts Market to celebrate the conclusion of the Gallery 37 project currently held in The Drill Hall, a work initiative teaching young people art skills. The young apprentices from the project will also have the chance to display their works for sale at the market. The last three markets were each attended by over 600 people and over 40 artists participated. Pirate Weekend Deep Sea World, Battery Quarry, North Queensferry, Fife. Sat Aug 26 to Tues Aug 29 Pirate activities include walking the plank, treasure trails and plenty of swash for your buckle. There’s every chance this event is aimed at kids, but The Skinny aims to redress the ageist bias all too common to present day Pirating events. WWW.DEEPSEAWORLD.COM The Free Fringe Sat Aug 5 to Sat Aug 26 2006 As an antidote to the high ticket prices of the Fringe, Laughing Horse Comedy present over 1,000 performances of exactly 69 free shows. Visiting worldwide acts, fantastic Scottish comedy, sketches, stand-up, storytelling, improv - plus music and theatre - and lots more! Full listings at WWW.FREEFRINGE.COM Maggie’s Building Life Walks Glasgow Sep 16 & Edinburgh Sept 30 10 miles around each city, getting you inside some of each city’s most treasured buildings whilst raising funds for those affected by cancer. Call 0141 341 5669 for an info pack and to sign up. WWW.MAGGIESCENTRES.ORG Edinburgh Mela Pilrig Park Leith, Weekend of Sep 2-3 An annual celebration of multi-culturalism and diversity now in its 12th year, the Mela features music, food, dance, visual arts and performances attracting artists from all over the world. While its roots may be in South Asian communities the Mela is definitely for everbody, as last year over 60,000 people visited over the two days. This year the event will feature all the usual highlights including the ever-popular Sakhian Ladies Night that will kick-start the festival on Friday Sep 1st, a special evening for mothers, daughters, grandmothers and aunties. WWW.EDINBURGH - MELA.CO.UK

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What’s On?

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Scottish Youth Theatre’s Summer Festival Citizens’ Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Tel. 0141 429 0022. Until 5 August In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the SYT, over 350 young people from Scotland and beyond bring you two classic plays, “Wee MacGreegor” and “Tales of the Arabian Nights”. World Sufi Festival, Tramway 25 Albert Drive, Tel. 0141 422 2023 www.sufifestival.org Aug 4-6 Featuring international and local performers, crafts workers, artists and experts on Sufism, this festival promises to be the biggest intercultural event of 2006 in Scotland. Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Indepen-dance Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Tel. 0141 422 2023 www.indepen-dance.net August 2 - 20 Indepen-dance offers creative movement classes for people with disabilities, their carers and people with an interest in dance and movement. The Tramway celebrates in style the 10th anniversary of the company with a retrospective exhibition. Slow Food Glasgow: A Spanish Celebration of Wine and Olive Oil Grassroots, 20 Woodlands Road, 0141 353 3278 info@slowfoodglasgow.com. August 23, 7-9pm The Glasgow branch of the Slow Food association invites you to Grassroots for an evening of discussion and tastings of wines and olive oils from Spain. Slow Food Members and Students £5/NonMembers £6. Pedal for Scotland 2006 August 27 www.pedalforscotland.org Scotland’s largest mass-participation cycle ride takes budding cyclists along a 50-mile route across the central belt of Scotland. This year’s event is in support of Leukaemia Research.

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August 06

ISSUE ELEVEN

LIFESTYLE ‘A’ is for Amicus Apple A

micus Apple is an anomaly not just for its daring decor; started by three close friends it’s a style bar with a positively friendly feel. As co-owner Kenny Graham put it, “We just wanted to create a bar for people like us.” The name itself came after months of deliberation, the first suggestion ‘Abacus Apple’ lifted from a list of cat names Kenny found on the Internet. It was then suggested to use ‘amicus’, the Latin word for friend, which stuck, obviously.

The Restaurant

Although located on busy Fredrick Street, Amicus Apple is set back below street level, lending the space a slightly isolated feel; a refuge from the bustle outside. The interior is every bit as unique, with every aspect down to the leather kick plates having been pre-planned. Ideas evolved following months of investigation, Kenny and co-owners Calum MacKinnon and Colin Heart venturing to London in order to investigate other bars for inspiration. At first the predominately white interior is a little blinding, until you notice the changing colours. A complex lighting system has

FOOD &DRINK

by Xavier Toby

It is rare that an eatery survives long enough, maintaining a busy client base, to become a regular fixture as this place has. Opened just two years ago by sometime celebrity chef John Quigley and his wife, the restaurant has become a success over a very short space of time.

In keeping with the bistro-like atmosphere, the menu is an all-day affair. Full of influences from cooking around the world, Red Onion offers a hotchpotch of styles including Scottish, Italian, Thai, French, Japanese and North American.

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TEMPUS

We then moved to the bar and discovered drink promotions including champagne cocktails for £5 (using Alain Thienot Champagne, a new non-vintage brand that has already won several awards) and double shots of spirits for £3.50. Sampling just a few examples from the extensive cocktail menu, our favourites were the Nutty Applewood (£5.95) with its hints of coconut, and Slip Me Some Skin (£5.95)with its subtle use of Bacardi Oro.

The spacious and thoughtfully designed bar area of recently opened Tempus nods heavily to the classical, with striking chandeliers and golden trimmings, but never feels overly elaborate, and features an extensive cocktail menu that is reasonably priced compared to other New Town establishments. The cocktails I enjoyed were meticulously prepared and dangerously easy to drink. The dining area is simply exquisite; high ceilings, ornate décor and classic Edinburgh cornicing. Our threecourse meal began with Eggs Benedict, a combination of disparate ingredients that was delicious, however the prawn cocktail, while excellently presented, was a little dry. For mains the Salmon Cordon Bleu was thick and succulent, and the Rib Eye steak was full of flavour – one of the nicest I’ve tasted in Scotland. The sides were worth special mention, all surprisingly tasty and it was clear that effort had gone into their preparation, refreshing since so many other more expensive restaurants treat them with less respect. Desert was a medley of ice cream and a lemon tart, and both were subtle and delicious. From the bar to the restaurant the service was excellent, a perfect mix of courteous and efficient, and considering all this I expected the experience to be a lot more expensive. Tempus is ideal if you need to impress, since from the doorway through to deser t the at tention to detail is unsurpassed within this price bracket in Edinburgh. (Xavier Toby)

AMICUS APPLE OPEN FROM 10AM–1AM 17 FREDRICK STREET EDINBURGH, 0131 226 6055 WWW.AMICUSAPPLE.COM

QUIGLEY’S RED ONION STRIKES A BALANCE BETWEEN PROFESSIONAL FOOD HANG OUT AND A FRIENDLY, DOWN TO EARTH HUB.

by Fraser Cardow

overall impression is of a busy, interesting and bustling room. A traditional maître d’ system adds a touch of class to the place, a pleasant return to traditional form in contrast to some of the cold, modern restaurants of late.

Often it seems that after the busy first flush of opening, the crowd moves on to the next new venue, but on this little corner of Bath Street and West Campbell Street, the crowd seems to have stayed.

The deserts of honey cheesecake (£6) and berry mousse (£6) were packed with flavour without being too sweet, a refreshing and decadent end to a cleverly thought out menu.

This was followed up by pan-fried sea bass with asparagus, new potatoes and brown shrimp buerre noisette (£16) and while I’m suspicious that some of those words are made up, the dish was convincing; so full of flavour that it demanded to be devoured slowly. The rack of

We opted for the grilled asparagus with soft fried egg and toasted goat cheese, and the avocado and walnut salad for starters. These are both strikingly simple, yet easy to foul up, so I was very happy to bite into perfectly cooked asparagus and enjoy a walnut salad which was deliciously in tune with its slab of goat cheese.

23 GEORGE STREET 0131 240 7197

URBAN ANGEL

Of all of the classics and favourites to choose from on the mains section, we went for a lamb navarin with button mushrooms, green beans and new potatoes and finnan haddie, mash, poached egg and mornay sauce. The lamb’s subtle spices and crisp vegetables were at once wholehearted and light while the haddock was tantalisingly delicate and comforting. With a strong and unpretentious menu that also features filled rolls and organic burgers for a young and hungry generation on the move, Quigley’s Red Onion is a fine place for socialising with friends over some delicious and perfectly prepared food.

John Quigley himself

August 06

RED ONION, 247 WEST CAMPBELL STREET, GLASGOW, G2 4SQ, TEL. 0141 221 6000, :EMAIL: INFO @ RED - ONION.CO.UK WWW.RED - ONION.CO.UK

The strength a nd complexit y of flavours in a Bellini’s meal are a direct result of the confidence and experience of head chef Angelo Cimini. My sta r ter of exotic wild mushrooms, simply fried in white wine and garlic, was a fine example. Cimini charmingly came out of the kitchen later in the evening to discuss with customers the finer points of Parma ham varieties, and indeed there is an old-fashioned emphasis to the service at Bellini; the dated paper doilies that accompany most dishes, or the large single-item helpings, are a slightly distracting side to this quality. Nevertheless, this is first rate Italian cuisine without a gloopy tomato sauce in sight, from Malfatti pasta filled with cheese, black truffles and wild mushrooms, or a T-bone of rosemarytinted veal, to perfect “Tira-misu”. Probably one of Edinburgh’s best restaurants. [R.J. Thomson] DINNER : 6-11 PM TUESDAY-SUNDAY LUNCH BY ARRANGEMENT WWW.BELLINIRESTAURANT.CO.UK 8B ABERCROMBY PLACE 0131 476 2602

‘C’ is for Cocktails

The food menu is also an adventure, full of brave combinations of flavours, and will be changing frequently as all the produce is locally sourced and therefore dependent on what is seasonally available. We began with the pork rillete and smoked pork hough terrine (£6) which sounds like a meat overdose but was brilliantly carried off and featured a variety of complex flavours, while the seared salmon, artichoke, cucumber and lime salad (£6.50) was simply exquisite, the only downside being that it wasn’t a main.

ohnny Lee Miller, The Kaiser Chiefs, Odetta, Jude Law, Jon Bon Jovi and The Skinny have all visited Red Onion, the Glasgow restaurant bringing class to the masses.

Quigley’s Red Onion is a warm and cosy restaurant which strikes the balance between a hard-nosed professional food hang out and a friendly, down to earth hub. It’s well laid out, with tables clustered in distinctive and separate areas and sports a mezzanine terrace up at the back, so the

lamb (£18) was a little fatty, but the meat was otherwise tender and succulent, while the mash and bean concoction that accompanied the dish would have sufficed as a meal on its own.

The cocktail menu also pushes the friendly persona with original concoctions dreamt up by head bartender Calum accompanied by some interesting anecdotes from Kenny, such as the, “Rosehip Romance (£7.25) – Those red berries you could rub down people’s backs in Primary School as a useful form of itching powder. Those were the days… Thundercats… Transformers and the legend that was Micro Machines.”

Catering for Rocking People J

BELLINI

“WE JUST WANTED TO CREATE A BAR FOR PEOPLE LIKE US.”

been installed, and uses the white surfaces to project different colours, softer during the day while stronger colours are used in the evening. The furniture is a mix of the modern and the classic - one piece pantone chairs, wooden chessboard tables, leather couches – which might sound like a peculiar combination but somehow fits together to give the bar it’s particular Kubrik-esque cool.

JOHN QUIGLEY’S RED ONION

EATING OUT

A popular option at Urban Angel, encouraged by the staff, is to share a selection of tapas as a starter. Our selection included lime and coriander hummus, a rich black tapenade, char-grilled artichoke and tomato concasse. It was all extremely tasty and each selection was perfectly proportioned to stand alone. It is a pleasure to eat somewhere as reasonably priced as Urban Angel and to be instantly rea s sured not only of the qualit y of the ingredients but of the thought that has gone into their combination. There is a reassuring Britishness to the way in which courses are neatly structured, that, though it prevents flavours from truly taking off, is brought off with a sharp-edged common-sense: sautéed figs were a fine compliment to confit of duck, and capers added a welcome edge to smoked salmon risotto. [R. J. Thomson] 121 HANOVER STREET 0131 225 6215 WWW.URBAN -ANGEL.CO.UK

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Go Away! To Glasgow

LIFESTYLE

by Melissa Thomson

(Yes, really!)

ake a day out of your busy Edinburgh festivals schedule to discover Scotland’s other city. Most of you will already know the best boozers, club nights and shops in Glasgow and if you don’t, then go to the tourist information office and find it out, you lazy middens. What we can tell you about Glasgow is everything that you might not find in your guide book or at the tourist office, either because it’s slightly odd, deserves more attention than it gets, or is not an obvious tourist attraction for an obvious tourist... You’d be a sovvie short of a full ned if you didn’t know that Tennents sponsored music festivals in Scotland, but did you know that they also produced something called the i-Tour? Forget historical tour buses telling you what to see, iTours’ ‘Glasgow: Sounds of a Music Capital’ uses the latest technology to create a guided walk round the city which can be listened to on iPods and other MP3 players, or burned onto CD. Grab your map and get ‘talked round’ the city by music journalist Jim Gellatly, taking you to some of the city’s best venues, the creative hotspots and some great hidden gems: discover what musical item David Bowie took home from the city, why the traffic cone permanently stays on the head of the Duke of Wellington statue outside the Gallery of Modern Art and where the late John Peel’s favoured jukebox can be found. Another place you’d think you’d get booted

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out of pronto if you weren’t a student is the Art School. But if you bypass the Vic bar (will power!) you are actually allowed to have a tour if you just go in and ask politely. Wander round the fascinating Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed hallways, or just sit on the benches and smile at pretty, paint-splattered boys and girls walking by... then make your way to the bar. On the weekends, bypass the high street shops and head east to The Barras. Aside from the crazy war memorabilia and the ‘80s rawk belt-buckles, the vintage clothes market is pretty decent, yet the real star of the show are the fish teas in the old school cafes, the traditional Glasgow meal of bread, butter, fish, chips and one veg washed down with a cup of Scottish Blend. It is indeed a fallacy that ‘pissy hill’ in Kelvingrove Park, the park nearest to Glasgow University, is the best green space in Glasgow - there are loads more parks in the city that are much less crowded and have less ‘morning after’ club casualties with bongos. Get an all-day bus ticket and explore places like Pollok Park, three miles south west of Glasgow, where there are Highland cattle and a mountain biking circuit, or the serene Victoria Park, beyond Partick. All of these activities should make for a satisfying weekend away from the Festival madness of Edinburgh in August, and what’ll make it even better is being able to understand the patter.

GO TRAVEL

HERE IS A SELECTION OF OUR MOST LOVED GLASGOW SLANG WORDS (BELTERS): um urnae = i’m not randan = drinking binge telt = told moan = come on now ya bass = forever emdy = anybody fandan = idiot peg = make love coupon = face gang = went boatle a soup = Buckfast wine

It’s only 70 mins on the bus (£6.00) or 50 minutes on the train from Edinburgh (a cheap day return costs £8.90). The easiest way to move around is on the tube (also known as “the clockwork orange”) or by First buses. You can plan your trip visiting the site www.travelinescotland.com

GO SLEEP If you don’t already live there or don’t have a floor to crash on, try Eurohostels or Scottish Youth Hostels Association www.euro-hostels.co.uk www.syha.org.uk

GO BOOZE, EAT, CULTURE, PARTY USE WWW.ITOORS.COM AND SELECT GLASGOW TO DOWNLOAD TRY WWW.SEEGLASGOW.COM READ THE SKINNY ! WWW.SKINNYMAG.CO.UK

August 06

ISSUE ELEVEN

LIFESTYLE

CREATIVE

Godiva - One of a Kind by Leo Wood

here are many reasons why you might choose to live in Edinburgh, but until now the clothes shopping certainly hasn’t been one of them. In a city starved for so long of any decent fashion, Godiva was already one of a kind when it first opened just off the Grassmarket a couple of years ago. Now even bigger and better, the clothes shop has recently relocated (just along the road) with a scaled up fashion vision.

photo: Daniel Rutter

Similar to before, the front area of the new Godiva shop houses one-off fashion pieces made by local designers. Knowing how difficult life can be for a newly graduated fashion student, shop owner Fleur likes the idea of providing a platform for hot young talent. As a result, many of the in-house designs at Godiva are by Edinburgh College of Art students or recent graduates, meaning that Godiva is to fashion designers what the Collective Gallery on Cockburn Street is to young Scottish artists.

Stars

At the back of the new shop there’s now an extensive vintage clothing section, filled with second-hand clothes that are sourced from all

Virgo 23/8 22/9 Pal, it’s really time to get some new moves for the dance floor, busting a groove like the bastard love child of Peter Crouch and the stupid silver robot dancer on Princes Street ain’t gonna win you any prizes! Libra 23/9 – 22/10 Umm, your bit was cloudy and that, so canae really help you. I’m sure it’ll be fine though … chin up. Scorpio 23/10 – 21/11 A cheeky public stumble on the way home from the ‘bab shop will remove your very last scrap of self dignity. Things to ponder: who is the greater bear – Winnie the Pooh or Baloo? Sagittarius 22/11 – 21/12 A new love interest brings adventure and excitement. If laughter is the best medicine and music is the food of love how come that rash isn’t going away and you’re still raiding the fridge in the small hours? Capricorn 22/12 – 19/1 Conversation at a family gathering will steer towards the unfortunate combination of HRT and intimate body piercing. The directions of the comets strongly suggest you should check for shampoo behind your ears before leaving the house in the morning. Aquarius 20/1 – 18/2 He who drinks in Ashton lane will achieve the true Zen inner peace of lightness of wallet.

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Godiva seems to work a little like an art collective, with the fashion designers regularly getting together to exchange ideas on design concepts and how the shop can grow. In support of this ethos, a studio is soon to be set up downstairs so that Godiva will be able to provide the in-house designers with room to create. Having workspace to hand also means that tailor-made clothes and alteration services will soon be available too. Tailor-made skirts by the designer Rowan Joy are already selling well - customers are able to come into the shop for a fitting and choose the materials they want. Given all these developments and with loads of new projects on the go (including setting up links with independent European designers), it’s evident that Fleur doesn’t want Godiva to be stagnant and is always on the look out for new designers and ideas. She says, “I always want to keep it interactive”, and with this outlook it is no surprise that the shop just keeps on growing and growing. Godiva will be staying open late during August to accommodate for festival madness, with a guarantee that there will also be a few late night parties during which the shop will be open to customers. Given Godiva’s new look and venue, as well as a surge of local interest, I envisage suitably international performers and punters popping in to buy a cute vintage outfit or offbeat designer piece. 9 WESTPORT, THE GRASSMARKET EDINBURGH 0131 221 9212 WWW.GODIVABOUTIQUE.CO.UK

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Leo 23/7 – 22/8 The charts predict that an opportunity to relax will bring you much joy but beware inexpertly applied suntan cream when combined with hearty, manly slaps across the shoulder blades.

over Europe. So with this mix of old and new, the clothes sold at Godiva wouldn’t be out of place in Berlin, Barcelona or any other similarly trendy European city; definitely filling a gap in the Edinburgh fashion scene.

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photo: Jethro Collins

“I ALWAYS WANT TO KEEP IT INTERACTIVE”

Pisces 19/2 – 20/3 The puffing volcanos of Mars indicate a swing towards the lighter side of life. Wear white socks with sandals on Mondays and Wednesdays at all times. Even in the bath. Take control and reclaim your coffee mug from the geek with braces in accounts. Aries 21/3 – 19/4 The drips from the squeezy fourth moon of Pluto bring with them a flood of temptation that may drown you at every opportunity this month. Beware pasty skin, ageing bags of salad and armpit sweat. Those who attain success must first relinquish all dependency on the Sunday T4 omnibus. Taurus 20/4 – 20/5 So you get back to his place, and it’s going fine, however you’re still not sure. I mean, he did mention his collection of rare 1970s British seaside post cards over the second drink. The alphabetically ordered DVD collection should really set alarm bells ringing. Run away while you still can! Gemini 21/5 – 21/6 An increasingly rampant overdraft threatens to get the better of you this month. The tried and tested head-in-the-Clyde, ignorance is bliss routine is starting to wear thin. A low cost loan with one easy payment? Carol Vorderman… you still would. Cancer 22/6 – 22/7 The clashing of ancient asteroids brings a wind of bad feng shui over all Cancerians. To combat such evil it is necessary each Monday and Wednesday to point and laugh hysterically at the footwear of sartorially inept Pisceans and bring upon them intense public humiliation, ridicule and shame.

The Culture Vulture

by April O’Neil

Women Told, “Be ugly to avoid rape” Following advice issued to women about their own consumption of alcohol being a factor in rape, the police authority has expanded upon this commenting, “Anything women can do, in terms of appearance or clothing might help. The responsibility is on women to prevent rape after all, we can’t be expected to crack down on the behaviour and attitudes of men.” The Skinny enquired whether the police force are advising the public to live in shit houses to avoid burglary or dress-down to avoid mugging and were told “Don’t be ridiculous.” Zero Reason for Manly Soft Drink New evidence suggests that a sof t drink aimed at men who want to watch calories without lowering themselves to purchasing ‘Diet’ brands actually makes fools of us all. A marketing expert told The Skinny, “recent research has shown that men are catching up with women’s image-obsessed mentality and are objectifying and reducing themselves in a way that’s really exciting for advertisers.” Festival Guide To 2005 Published A longstanding Edinburgh and Glasgow listings magazine has flown in the face of convention and published a guide to the Edinburgh 2005 clubbing scene. Rival publications were caught unawares, The Skinny commenting “we were so busy trying to cover what’s happening this year that we completely ignored the fact that readers might want to know what they missed last year at Revolution and the Honeycomb.”

Still “Too soon” for Beiruit gags While many satirists have been dusting off their Beiruit Tourist Board jokes, and sizing up Hezbollah for comic potential, The SKINNY can report that it widely considered too early for such attempts at inflammatory humour. Damn. Socialists Rumoured to have Sex Once thought of a s mi serable, whingy, humourless and naïve, it has been rumoured recently in the press that Socialists like their sex as kinky as anyone else. This news is confounding critics who presumed socialists would opt for the traditional efficiency and equality of the missionary position; opponents were forced to admit, “with this sort of scandal, they could establish themselves as a serious politicians.”

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Saturday 30th September 2006 Edinburgh walk with Ian Rankin

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ISSUE ELEVEN

“DOES SAMUEL L REALLY KNOW WHAT HE’S DOING HERE?” YOU CRY.

FILM

GLASGOW & EDINBURGH FILM NEWS

YOU BET HE DOES.

Attack of the Killer Bs

by Alec McLeod

by Dave Kerr

Summer is in full swing and so what better time to treat your holidaying child/nephew/niece/ sibling/jailbait to a couple of hours in a dark room. A trip to the Science Centre bes ide the currently regenerating Clyde could be just the ticket, as the Glasgow IMA X will be showing ‘The Ant Bully’, a new animation by the guys behind ‘Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius”. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Nicolas Cage all provide voices and, what’s more, it’s all in eye - popping 3D. It gets under way from Au g u s t 4t h a n d , fo r m o re i nfo, v i s i t w w w. glasgowsciencecentre.org.

on the internet since New Line picked it up in 2003 at a time when the very notion of any kind of on-a-plane catastrophe movie was taboo. Now with CGI chaos and copious elaborate death scenes guaranteed to ensue throughout this potential cinematic masterpiece, ‘SoaP’ is shaping up to become the long awaited successor to ‘Attack of the Killer Tomatoes’ in terms of sheer unadulterated idiocy. “Does Samuel L. really know what he’s doing here?” you cry. You bet. On much the same career trip as fellow Tarantino alum Michael Madsen, Jackson has never been one to shy away from a role in a bad movie (a la ‘The 51st State’), but this is one that would doubtlessly be bound for straight to DVD hell without his involvement. No, Jackson walked into this one with his eyes wide open, allegedly agreeing to it on the strength of a nutshell pitch, “That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title,” he proudly declared to Collider.com. With additional filming having taken place to ensure that a normally undesirable ‘R’ rating would be well worth it Stateside, fans also had their own way when the demand to have Jackson’s latest soon-to-becomeimmortal expletive laden line added was felt by New Line. To this extent the level of studio to fan reciprocation in building a behemoth from a crazy concept plucked from absolute thin air is unprecedented.

“One-eyed trouser ain’t no snake species I’ve ever heard of”

“I

want these motherfucking snakes off the motherfucking plane!” – an unlikely gambit to be sure, but one which is nevertheless about to be uttered from the mouth of Samuel L. Jackson this month as he launches what promises to be the underdog B-Movie masterpiece of the summer: ‘Snakes On A Plane’. Indeed, even if this is a load of ropey old schlock nonsense (never!), it’s still going to be good. For the uninitiated, ‘SoaP’ follows Jackson and Nathan Phillips (‘Teabag’ from Neighbours – I’m not even making this stuff up) as federal agents

MONSTER HOUSE DIR : GIL KENAN STARS (VOICES): STEVE BUSCEMI, K ATHLEEN TURNER, MITCHEL MUSSO RELEASE DATE : AUGUST 11TH CERT: PG Inspired by the legacy of ‘The Goonies’ and ‘The Burbs’, ‘Monster House’ is the story of three young friends and their quest to defeat the tricycleeating, kite-swallowing, monster across the street. When DJ, Jenny and Chowder combine forces to defeat the beast, they bring more than the house down. With the voice talents of Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Turner, and Jason Lee at his fingertips, a brilliant John Heder (Napolean Dynamite) character, and an obvious mastering of the tricky motion capture animation style, Gil Kenan has created what will no doubt become a timeless kids’ film. Knock on this door. [Megan Garriock]

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who find themselves tasked with the unenviable job of doing battle with a range of slithering serpents in order to save a witness protection program participant from the most bizarre of assassinations, whilst airborne of course. Whether the snakes are smuggled onboard inside giant Smartie tubes remains to be seen. Upgraded from the patently bland ‘Pacific Air Flight 121’ and helmed by ‘Final Destination 2’ director David R. Ellis (a B-Movie actor himself, “starring” as Ski Lodge Killer #3 in ‘Blind Fury’ and Laser Victim in ‘Nightbeast’), rumour and speculation surrounding ‘SoaP’ has been rife

The Ant Bully

Whether the inevitable sequel is tagged as ‘Wolves On a Hovercraft’ or ‘Bees On a Bus’, there’s no doubt that the potential is here for this to turn into a bona fide (and no doubt lucrative) franchise in its own right, given the organic overnight appearance of its fan base when ‘Snakes On a Plane’ was still little more than a title on a piece of paper, let alone a working project with a trailer. This is proof positive that in taking itself back to absolute basics, the Hollywood machine needn’t always thieve from comics and Japanese cinema in order to cull home a success story. DIR : DAVID R. ELLIS STARS : SAMUEL L. JACKSON, BYRON L AWSON, NATHAN PHILLIPS RELEASE DATE : AUGUST 18 CERT : TBC

I f yo u’re h a v i n g h o r r i b l e i m a g e s o f A & E prising those big plastic IMAX 3D glasses from wherever your terrible tot has managed to get them stuck, it might be safer to stick with the traditional 2D films, in which case it’s worth taking a trip to the GFT, who are offering free tickets to Young Scot cardholders at special kids’ film screenings every weekday until the 18th. The films start at 12:30pm, and unless you want to play Russiazn roulette with your fickle charge (a very risky strategy) it may be worth picking up a brochure to see which film best suits. However, looking af ter the children doesn’t stop there. Don’t you want them to grow up in a fairer, more peaceful societ y? Well, it turns out you can do that by watching films too, isn’t it great? Camcorder Guerillas are having another of their CCA events where they showcase socially and politically motivated documentaries and, joking aside, it could be the only chance you’ll get of seeing some of them. The next event is on the 23rd, and tickets are free. It’s probably better to pick them up sooner rather than later though - you know what market forces are like. Heading east, it’s not all just about the youknow-what thi s month. The bi - annual Leith Film Festival is currently on its year off, but its filmmaking competition, 2-4- 6 -8, takes place o n t he 11t h , a nd s ees a s p i r i ng f i l m ma ker s deprived of sleep and sanit y as they strive to make a 6 - 8 minute film in the s pace of 24 little hours. Competitors are permitted to come up with any film of their choosing, just as long as it features a universally prescribed c h a ra cte r, l i n e of d i a l o g u e a n d p ro p. Registration and more details can be found at WWW. LEITHFILMFESTIVAL .ORG. UK .

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Indie Film of The Month

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Innocent Voices by Paul Greenwood

he Civil War that raged in El Salvador throughout the ‘80s is the backdrop for this harrowing yet moving drama based on screenwriter Oscar Torres’ own childhood experiences. With boys being conscripted straight from their classroom when they reach their twelfth birthday, eleven year old Chava (Carlos Padilla) lives in fear of his day coming, as well as trying to survive the constant crossfire between the government forces and the local guerillas. He also has to accept his responsibilities as the man of the house, all the while trying to retain some semblance of a normal childhood. It’s in these scenes that director Luis Mandoki manages to unearth several moments of magical

lyricism amidst the carnage and despair. All the youngsters deliver strong performances but Padilla is especially impressive, carrying the often overwhelming emotion on his narrow shoulders. Interestingly, the distributors have chosen to make a cut (really just a subtitle alteration) for language in order to obtain a 12A certificate, something they were keen to achieve as they believe the film would be very well received by children. Even so, the intensity of some of the action may prove too much for a young audience and caution should be advised. DIR : LUIS MANDOKI STARS : CARLOS PADILLA, LEONOR VARELA, XUNA PRIMUS RELEASE DATE : AUGUST 11TH CERT: 12A

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DIR : BRYAN SINGER STARS : BRANDON ROUTH, KEVIN SPACEY, K ATE BOSWORTH RELEASE DATE : OUT NOW CERT: 12A

So the last son of Krypton has returned from a five year sabbatical of fruitlessly scouring the remnants of his home planet. Borrowing elements from various incarnations of the Man of Steel, Bryan Singer makes a valiant effort to pull the more notable characteristics of the DC legend together into a well structured comic book story in principle, but therein lays its relative undoing. Despite some sublime special effects and an adequately chiselled Routh as the Christ-like saviour, the film suffers where romanticised allusions to Reeve-era ‘Superman’ only confuses the frame of reference. Then again, a nonchalant Lois Lane and an understated Lex Luthor were never traits of the original, which makes it virtually impossible to consider this a sequel. Despite making for entertaining eye candy, ‘Superman Returns’ is confused and unevenly torn between homage and reinvention. [Dave Kerr]

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DIR : JARED HESS STARS : JACK BLACK, ANA DE LA REGUERA, HÉCTOR JIMÉNEZ RELEASE DATE : AUGUST 11TH CERT: 12A D i recto r Ja red H es s fo l lows u p h i s d ivi s ive ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ with another spiteful swipe at the socially woebegone in this supposed comedy that sees Jack Black as Nacho, an impoverished Mexican friar smitten with de la Reguera’s comely nun, who takes up wrestling ostensibly as a way to provide a better life for the local orphans. Hess aims low, with little more than the sight of Black in spandex to sustain us, and the rest of the purported comedy rooted in scatology, cruelty and cheap racial caricaturing. Black is a hugely talented performer, but the few smiles that are squeezed out by him and him alone are not enough to save this embarrassing movie that combines the lurid pallette of a Jodorowsky film with all the sophistication of an under-thebedcovers fart. [Paul Greenwood]

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WILL ‘A SCANNER DARKLY’ BE THE FIRST FILM TO CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF PHILIP K. DICK?

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Scanner Darkly, published in 1977, was probably writer Philip K. Dick’s most personal work of science fiction. A story that exists in the Bermuda-triangular world of drugs, paranoia and unseen authority, its everyman protagonist represented a view of a humanity boxed in and ripped apart by inner conflict, and was based on PKD’s own drug culture experiences in the ‘60s. Far from the slacker cool of gonzo journalism, Dick’s imbibing of vast amounts of amphetamines during the early part of his career was a move of cold necessity; on speed, he could write more, and get paid more. His stories showed the human spirit both persisting in and perpetuating the juggernaut of technology, seen not as a cure to our ills, but merely the coping mechanism. And so it’s apt that, in translating ‘A Scanner Darkly’ to the screen, director Richard Linklater has felt it necessary to employ rotoscoping, a hitec digital superimposition of illustration on film, seen previously in his philosophically-minded ‘Waking Life’. But is it the perfect solution for conveying such a perceptual story, or simply a stylish crutch to keep up an air of abstraction? It’s obvious that this film is a pet project for all involved, from executive producers George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh to the hip cast (Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Woody Harrelson to name a few), and that everyone on board wants it to be completely faithful to the book. But what sounds like a great idea is hampered by the fact that the beauty of Dick’s work was always in the detail. ‘Blade Runner’ chewed up the narrative of its source novel, but it was still, thanks to the richness and depth

SPOTLIGHT

DIRECTOR : RICHARD LINKLATER STARS : KEANU REEVES, WINONA RYDER, WOODY HARRELSON RELEASE DATE : AUGUST 18TH

SHE RECENTLY SHARED THE BEST ACTRESS AWARD AT CANNES, YOU KNOW

Top 5 Films Snakes On a Plane - Take a second to read that title again. How can we not be excited? (Aug 18th) Monster House - Probably the summer’s most satisfying film. (Aug 11th)

My Super Ex Girlfriend - See Uma Thurman throw a shark at Luke Wilson. Seriously. (Aug 4th)

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HARSH TIMES

DIR : DAVID AYER STARS : CHRISTIAN BALE, FREDDY RODRIGUEZ RELEASE DATE : AUGUST 11TH CERT: 15

CARS Store security had a policy of dealing very firmly with shoplifters of the world we were watching, the nearest thing cinema has seen to PKD’s vision - he himself was amazed at how close the images he saw were to what he had originally felt. While rotoscope is wonderfully fluid and, well, trippy, it may be too blunt an instrument for conveying the fraught humanity of the

DIR : JOHN L ASSETER, JOE RANFT S TARS ( VOICES ): O WEN W ILSON , PAUL N EWMAN , BONNIE HUNT RELEASE DATE : JULY 28TH CERT : PG

story, no matter how closely it’s matched by the script. Perhaps it’s time to realize that recreating the essence of Philip K. Dick’s work will not be any nearer to us through advances in technology, and we need only to read his books to get some understanding of why.

enélope Cruz doesn’t look like she’s had a hard life but, as she says, “The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress.” An exaggeration maybe, but the basic point is good - that it’s hard to be taken seriously as an actress when there are so few good roles available to you. It’s not all bad for Penélope though, because she’s from Spain, and on balance there are far better roles available to her there than, say, Hollywood. She started her career properly when she was eighteen, in the film ‘Jamon, Jamon’, a pretty girl role, but she followed this with ‘Belle Epoque’, which won the Best Foreign Film Oscar. She then made various films in Spain until, in 1997, she got to work with Pedro Almodóvar for the first time in ‘Live Flesh’. A director known for many good things, not least writing great roles for women, Cruz has since worked with him on ‘All About My Mother’, an international hit which led to roles in American films, and ‘Volver’ for which she recently shared the best actress award at Cannes – with all the other women in the film! She has had a number of American parts now, in the less than memorable likes of ‘Sahara’, ‘Gothika’ and ‘Vanilla Sky’, a poor remake of a Spanish film she starred in, ‘Open your Eyes’. But looking at her career, you’d have to say that Penélope Cruz has always tried to make the interesting choices. You can be sure a film with her in will be at least promising - she’s not just a pretty face, after all.

ON THE WEB Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest - Captain Jack is back. (OUT NOW) Miami Vice: Review online from August 1st. My Super Ex-Girlfriend: Review online from August 1st. Stormbreaker: - Harry Potter meets James Bond in this lacklustre kids’ actioner. (OUT NOW)

Lady in the Water - M. Night Shyamalan returns with another spooky tale. Could the twist this time Cult Movie Column - every month we pick a be that there is no twist? movie you should track down. (Aug 11th) This month: Office Space. Miami Vice - Our time machine works! Michael Mann brings his hit ‘80s show to the big screen. (Aug 4th)

REVIEWS Recently discharged from the army, slacker Bale and his buddy Rodriguez cruise the streets of LA scoring guns and drugs, all the while trying to fool everyone (especially themselves) that they’re going to become respectable citizens - Bale’s character in particular has aspirations of joining the police or security services. Unfortunately, the fact that he’s borderline psychotic means events are unlikely to follow a happy course, and this is the major flaw of this moderately compelling but ultimately puddle deep drama. It also suffers from some over direction, and while Bale proves his presence and versatility once again with an intense and committed performance, the narrative is so stale and the characters so unlikeable that it counts for very little. [ Paul Greenwood]

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by Alec McLeod

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As you may have heard from other sources, this isn’t another Pixar Instant ClassicTM, but it is by no means a bad movie. The locations and textures are the best yet seen, and the meandering storyline has a relaxed pace that older audience members will appreciate. Above all it feels like John Lasseter & co. are now comfortable enough with their storytelling not to be chained to the “gag per line” dogma of previous films. We’re actually given a protagonist who isn’t always nice (Wilson as cocky racecar Lightning McQueen), and his community service stint in Route 66 backwater Radiator Springs allows us to observe his relationships with towtruck friend Mater, love interest Porsche, Sally (Hunt) and mentor Doc Hudson (Paul Newman). In the end the story is like the car; it realises that it doesn’t need to be the best to be worthwhile. [Alec McLeod]

VOLVER DIR : PEDRO ALMODÓVAR STARS : PENÉLOPE CRUZ, CARMEN MAURA, LOLA DUEÑAS RELEASE DATE : AUGUST 25TH CERT : 15 Pedro Almodóvar brings together a tour-deforce female cast in a mythical tale of survival, friendship, and life after family. Penélope Cruz stars as Raimunda, a strong, young mother determined to protect her daughter from the unhappiness that has swallowed her. But when an unavoidable death occurs, and the ghost of Raimunda’s dead mother is sighted in the town, a change in the wind is eminent. Although Volver captures one of Cruz’s best performances to date, her feat only slightly betters that of the other four heroines, each of whom shared the Best Actress honours at Cannes. This award winning piece is Almodóvar at his best: telling a beautiful story, beautifully well. Volver will leave you yearning for the feminine touch. [Megan Garriock]

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Who did you say had a new film out?

by Keir Hind

ou should probably sit down before you read this: there are new films out this month from Terry Gilliam and Luc Besson, directors who have both taken time out from moviemaking in the last few years. Gilliam did bring out ‘The Brothers Grimm’ last year, but prior to that he hadn’t directed a film since 1998’s ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’. Besson hasn’t directed a film since 1999, when he gave us the story of Joan of Arc. Similar criticisms of style over substance have been directed towards the pair in the past, and the films they are bringing out now are notably smaller, more personal films than might have been expected.

TIDELAND DIR : TERRY GILLIAM, STARS : JODELLE FERLAND, JEFF BRIDGES RELEASE DATE : AUGUST 11TH

make it at all, since he has recently shown a liking for writing and producing (profitably, we may add) dumb but fun action movies like the ‘Taxi’ films, ‘The Transporter’, and ‘District 13’. The remarkable thing about ‘Tideland’ is how smoothly it seems to have been made (in fact, he knocked it out during a hiatus on ‘Grimm’), with Gilliam having spent his time since ‘Fear and Loathing’ fruitlessly trying to get various projects off the ground. You could say Besson makes films all the time, Gilliam just tries to, but remember that Gilliam’s proposed projects have all been enormously ambitious, like filming

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Gilliam brings us ‘Tideland’, the story of a 10 year old girl’s adventures in Texas that has been described as “Southern Gothic”. This would be something of a departure for the former Python, but then everything he has ever done has been in some way original. Besson counters with ‘Angel-A’, the story of a small time conman who is deeply in debt, but then saves the life of a mysterious woman who in turn starts saving his life, bit by bit. More of a personal story than the Frenchman’s usual action epics, ‘Angel-A’ was shot in black and white in the early hours of the morning to enhance the atmosphere. This is something he’s always been good at, most notably with ‘The Big Blue’, one of the most atmospheric films ever made. The remarkable thing about the film is that Besson decided to

ANGEL-A DIR : LUC BESSON STARS : JAMEL DEBBOUZE, RIE RASMUSSEN RELEASE DATE : OUT NOW

Alan Moore’s ‘Watchmen’, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s ‘Good Omens’, and even ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. Oh, and there was the attempt of sorts at making Don Quixote that resulted in ‘Lost in La Mancha’, an entertaining but sad film about not getting to make a film. After that, Gilliam could be forgiven for wanting to make something smaller. Besson’s reason for doing the same? He may well have just stumbled on a great story. Gilliam certainly did that too, calling the book ‘Fucking wonderful’. If ‘Tideland’, and ‘Angel-A’ even come close to living up to that recommendation, then we cineholics will be in for a treat this month.

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LGBT Film Review Scream Club Nibble Please, Don’t Bite SAVING FACE

“HOMOHOP NOW HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF BEING ACCEPTED.” CINDY, SCREAM CLUB’S MC

‘SAVING FACE’ IS THAT RARE BEAST: A LESBIAN-THEMED MOVIE THAT’S ACTUALLY A GOOD FILM

by Bram Gieben

Wil is a talented Manhattan doctor in a budding relationship with Vivian, a witty and beautiful dancer. When her mother shows up on her doorstep with nowhere else to go, Wil’s frustration at having to share a small apartment with her is only intensified by her reluctance to reveal the truth about her relationship. Meanwhile Ma, a 48 year-old widow, is pregnant, won’t disclose the father’s identity, and has been thrown out of her parents’ home, forbidden to return without a husband. The mother-daughter dynamic is what drives the film, masterfully using the strict social norms and obligations of the Chinese-American community to turn a mirror upon society at large. Half in (subtitled) Mandarin and half in English, it requires a certain amount of attention, but the script merges the two seamlessly - the film is almost worth watching just for that. For an indie film, it neither looks nor sounds like one - it has a jazzy, crowd-pleasing soundtrack and well-polished cinematography. With a snappy script and well paced plot, ‘Saving Face’ is that rare beast: a lesbianthemed movie that’s actually a good film. The DVD extras mostly involve director Alice Wu gushing about her three leads and how fabulous and talented and sexy they are, which is fair. Her commentary, however, is well worth listening to, as she has a lot to say about how she shot the picture and why. This film is both her writing and directorial debut, and it bodes well for future efforts. [Morag Hannah]

oming out (so to speak) of Olympia, Washington, Scream Club are a feisty DJ / MC duo whose sexy, orgasmic blend of hip-hop beats and lyrics and punk aesthetics are setting light to the scene they themselves call ‘Homo-Hop’. In the traditionally maledominated, misogynistic world of US hip-hop, Scream Club offer a much-needed breath of fresh air; their sound reassuringly free of bling cliches and aggressive posturing. Rapper Cindy and producer Sarah started Scream Club in 2003, when Cindy applied for a job at the appropriately named Desire Video, of which Sarah was the manager. The romantic chemistry was instant, and although the pair have since parted ways, their musical alliance has gone from strength to strength. Not seeking mainstream approval for their music, Scream Club have nonetheless managed to produce an appealing and challenging debut album, the fabulously-titled ‘Don’t Bite Your Sister’, out now on Tiny Sensational. “If you are a guy, it means don’t be a sexist jerk, if you are a lady it means it’s time to end femme competition in negative ways,” states Sarah. “We are already oppressed, we don’t need to work against each other. It means be original, as opposed to biting someone’s style.” The album, and most importantly Cindy’s lyrics, refuse to pigeonhole Scream Club as a quoteunquote lesbian band. The lyrics, replete with sexual references, are universally applicable on the subject of desire. “We didn’t set out to write a raunchy album,” says Cindy, “I guess that’s what inspired us at the time. The next album ‘Life of a Heartbreaker’ is a little bit darker. There is still lots of raunch to go around though, including a special guest appearance by our favourite kinky electro temptress, Peaches.” It is worth noting that on ‘Don’t Bite...’ Cindy claims she will make “... even Peaches look like a schoolgirl.” The mind boggles at what such a clash of raging libidos might produce. Not content to rest on their laurels despite garnering praise from the likes of Yoko Ono, Scream Club have moved straight from ‘Don’t Bite...’ onto the next project. This strong work

Top LGBT Events Love Sick (Legaturi Bolnavicioase)

From Romania - the only country in Western Europe that imprisoned lesbians as recently as the 1990s – comes a film depicting a love story between two girls. “One of the year’s most charming pictures”, according to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. August 15 at 7.15pm and August 17 at 5pm, Cineworld, Edinburgh; £7.45 (£5.20). www.edfilmfest.org.uk/movies/show/love_sick/

Death Disco Grade A DJs serve up electro, disco, new wave and pop to an eclectic mix of people with no bad attitudes. A top night out. August 19, 10:30pm - 3am, The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow. £10 in advance. http://www.deathdisco.info

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SAVING FACE IS OUT NOW ON DVD.

Going Out THE WATERLOO

Cindy and Sarah vamp it up ethic means the band are not in this game to pull poses and assume positions - they are here to make music. “HomoHop has a better chance of being accepted because now you have those TV shows like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” says Cindy. “Mainstream acceptance is not really a goal that we work towards. I think acceptance by the mainstream of all gay things is important, because it’s important for people to be respected and safe. Once more [straight] people are comfortable with gay people, there will be equal rights and less hate crimes.” The mission to educate homophobic hip-hop fans is secondary to the fantastic music that they make. Scream Club are not looking to change the world, just to represent their own sound and diverse set of influences. “We play such a wide variety of shows from basement shows, to college shows, to dance clubs, to really big venues - plus we play with anything from punk bands to folk singers to performance artists, to DJs and heterosexual rappers, so the atmosphere is always different,” says Sarah. “The vibe we try to project is one that is fun, accepting, entertaining, and most importantly inspiring.”

Moving to Olympia, (the “Capital of Independent Music,” according to the women) was an eye opener for Cindy. While growing up, she says: “I didnt relate to the gay people that I saw. It took me a long time before I found gay people I related to: radical queers. I was 18 before I came out, even to myself. Unfortunately all the gay people I was exposed to early on were into really bad music and fashion. That’s originally how I feel in love with Olympia; I was like: ‘Ahhhh this is heaven, so many queers, actually doing cool stuff, in bands, progressive.’ There were so many radical queer femmes. I was so happy not to have to date straight girls anymore.” The breathy tones of songs like And You Belong (featuring Amy Fantastic) or the menaceladen atmospherics of Dead Wrong (featuring trans male rapper Katastrophe) should ensure a growing legion of fans both scene and nonscene, straight and queer. Tuck into Scream Club now - but remember to nibble, not bite. ‘DON’T BITE YOUR SISTER’ IS OUT NOW ON TINY SENSATIONAL. WWW.SCREAMCLUB.COM, WWW.MYSPACE.COM/SCREAMCLUB, WWW.SOUTHERN.COM

The Waterloo Bar is not the most fashionable pub in Glasgow: with its traditional décor and discreet location near the Clyde, it’s a long way from the heart of the LGBT scene in the Merchant City. In spite of its friendly staff and fair prices, it’s rarely as busy or as dynamic as the Revolver Bar or the Polo Lounge. In fact, the Waterloo exists as an antidote to the glamorous bustle of the Polo: it serves a clientele of mature men and the atmosphere is more conversational than grand night out. Apart from the crimson velvet curtain and the well stocked jukebox, there’s little to distinguish the Waterloo from many other old-fashioned, wood-panelled pubs. This works to its advantage: the Waterloo is unpretentious and welcoming. The staff are courteous and efficient, the spirits selection varied and the range of bottled beers wide. It manages to be both lively and relaxed, catering to both preclubbers and regulars: a great place to start an evening out - convenient for the town centre - or to spend an evening chatting. [Gareth K Vile] 306 ARGYLE STREET, GLASGOW TEL 0141 229 5891 SUN 12.30 PM -MIDNIGHT, MON -SAT NOON -MIDNIGHT.

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by Josh Wilson

his year is it; THE NEXT GENERATION. Only with fewer Jean Lucs and more Sony itching to make you pay an extortionate amount of coin for their latest box. A new breed of consoles is all well and good unless you’re poor. Truly, the console I believe will do best is the Wii, not only for its new armflailing gameplay style, but also because Nintendo are letting you play their back catalogue on the new console. They are embracing emulation and giving you the opportunity to play all their quality games from the past for free. A good idea eh?

will kneel down and call you god. [CW] 2. Sonic Chaos (Master System): Mario’s nemesis at the peak of his game. It is platforming on amphetamines and will test your reactions well as you try to get all those rings and save a chaos crystal via the assault of a (floating) wheelchair ridden old man. Uber thumb-twitching fun. 3. Galaga [pictured] (Arcade): You may not have heard of it, but you will have played it. Arguably the best arcade game ever, you control a ship and shoot flying aliens as they try to drop bombs on you. Frantic high score driven action (you can get this on Xbox arcade nowadays as well…).

A little known fact is, you could be doing this now, and not just Nintendo games. If you own old games you can download them to your PC (or even PSP) and breathe a new lease of life into them. All you need for this is an emulator for the relevant console. This is a program which, well… emulates the console and allows you to play the games on your PC after downloading the ROM file (the game, basically) without any hassle of digging it out and setting up your old consoles. However you can only do this for games you own (I can’t stress this enough), for legal reasons, otherwise you’re just stealing, which neither I, nor The Skinny condone in the slightest. To get these programs and the appropriate ROMS you need to head to www.emulator-zone. com; here you will find a wealth of info on emulators for practically every console, and then at RomNation.net you can find downloadable versions of pretty much all your old games. And that, in a paragraph, is how to get yourself emulating.

GAMES COMING SOON August 11

Age of Empires: The Age of Kings (DS) Darkstar One (PC)

August 18

El Matador (PC)

August 25

Dirge of Cerberus Final Fantasy VII (PS2) ParaWorld (PC) Real World Golf 2007 (PC/PS2) Spinout (PSP) Star Fox Command (DS) Perimeter: Emperor’s Testament (PC)

September 1

Gangs of London (PSP) Saints Row (X360) Tekken: Dark Resurrection (PSP)

ON THE WEB Over the Hedge PS2 (2/5): Pretty standard movie merchandise fair. Could keep the kids quiet for a while

4. Earthworm Jim (Megadrive): The game that spawned its own cartoon. Full of brilliant, twisted, random humour, you platformed past many an enemy. My favourite being Bob the Killer Goldfish. Awesome.

Now there is the tough question of what to play. You can pick up old games on eBay (LEGALLY) for next to nothing, so you really can have thousands of games to choose from. Fortunately for you, we can make the tough decisions on your behalf… Here is our Top Ten (in no actual order, and no, there aren’t ten) retrosexual, must-emulate games. Enjoy. 1: Super Mario World (Snes): The main title for Nintendo’s main character. ‘World introduced us to in-depth and complex platforming, with more secrets than a mason’s briefcase. If you manage to complete ‘Tubular’ even I

FLATOUT II From straight forward foot-to-the-floor action to chaotic destruction derby carnage and ridiculous stunt man capers; Bugbear’s Flatout 2 has got it covered. You earn your keep and collect bonuses (to spend on the fair range of variables which can be tweaked by the rider during a jaunt to the body shop) while unlocking cars and brand new arenas through a bit of course by course progression, it can appear a task to fully enjoy the game with so much of it hidden away at first. Some of the stunt levels require a fair bit of mastery also, but these factors ultimately contribute to the longevity of the game. The generic ‘cpu’ racers of the original have been replaced with numerous characters featuring distinctive racing styles and with the availability of each players overall rank at any time you want to see them, you can zone in on whoever’s giving you trouble on the leaderboard, always handy in times of imaginary vendetta. Throw the 2-8 player tournament function in with all of the above (yes, Bugbear foresee that you may actually have real friends to compete with, an odd rarity among the software houses) and you’ve got a car-centric gem with easy appeal for all. (Johnny Langlands) OUT NOW FOR PS2. WWW.FLATOUTGAME.COM/

5. Elevator Action Returns (Saturn): After being dumped at the top of a huge building, your task is to clear floor after floor of various baddies, and reach the bottom with your life intact. It may not sound much, but it’s just so damn enjoyable, it’s as close to perfection as a side scrolling platformer could be. A game all need to experience. 6. Illusion of Time (Snes): A personal favourite, this little known RPG, had one of the best stories ever, as you crossed a globe with a history slightly twisted from our own. Infinitely charming and touching, very few games have ever been so poignant.

LOCOROCO Essential PSP exclusive titles are few and far between. Yes, ‘Lumines’ is a brilliant little title, as is ‘Field Commander’. But titles that we haven’t seen previously on another format that make the PSP an essential purchase are a fairly rare occurrence…and then a game like ‘LocoRoco’ makes an appearance. In ‘LocoRoco’ you start life as a tiny little blob. Then using the PSP’s shoulder buttons, you twist the landscape left and right in order to let your LocoRoco traverse the terrain and reach the end of the level. All so simple so far. But during these travels, you’ll need to not only pick up little flowers which increase the size of your LocoRoco, but the terrain itself holds a multitude of puzzles that need to be figured out if you’re to reach the end of the level. You can also split your LocoRoco up into it’s separate pieces in order to squeeze through tight gaps, and club them all back up again with a mere tap of the circle button. There’s even scope to replay levels in order to up the amount of collectibles you managed to pick up. And replay you shall, as this is an absolute cracker. [Chris Pickering] OUT NOW FOR PSP. WWW.LOCOROCO.COM

DVD Reviews BRAVO TWO ZERO

AT HOME

Backwards is the New Forwards

IF YOU OWN OLD GAMES YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THEM TO YOUR PC (OR EVEN PSP) AND BREATHE A NEW LEASE OF LIFE INTO THEM

J u s t re l e a s e d on DVD is the B BC’s mid -9 0 s adaptation of a “ true” stor y of a group of British Soldiers in the First Gulf War. Its release at thi s time i s questionable, as is its relevance, b ut s ta r S ea n Bean manages to del iver a s well as always. Overshadowed by l a s t yea r’s cinematic ‘Jarhead’, this is clearly a lowerbudget film, with a slightly detectable sense of hurried production; special effects are swept a s ide, with stock news reel footage being used in its place. Nonetheless, the acting is good and the story engaging enough for war film fans. In hindsight, however, the warning in the finale of ‘should there be another conflict’ t wi sts the mea ning of the film somewhat by today’s standard s. [ Graham McIntos h ] OUT NOW.

THROUGH HELL AND HIGH WATER Insipid TV Presenter Ben Fogle teamed up with Olympic Champion James Cracknell to row the Atlantic - this is their story. It has everything a feat of endurance tale should provide: problems, drama, joy and the sly hint that one of the rowers probably wanted to take a swing at his team-mate once the cameras stopped rolling. As the initial incarnation of the story was a TV programme, it’s a bit too long to comfortably sit through in one go, especially since a lot of the footage is clearly filler material. Fogle’s presenting technique is of its usual quality (“This wood – it’s very wooden, isn’t it?”) but fans of the sport or this genre of programming should find enough to get them past him. Ultimately, it’s a remarkable feat, but there’s very little point in owning this DVD. [Graham McIntosh] OUT NOW.

FAVELA RISING This is an astounding documentary; well made and fascinating, telling the story of one slum town in Brazil, and how a handful of their residents started music and dance classes to attract the youth away from drugs and crime. It doesn’t sound like much, but that’s what makes their story so inspiring. Using severely limited resources, the effect this little group has, and the rate at which it grows cannot help but to reaffirm the audience’s faith in the human spirit. It’s a story you want to see through to the end, thanks to the sheer variety of emotion that holds your attention. You would never realistically watch it more than once, but it’s definitely worth checking out. [Graham McIntosh] OUT NOW.

Juiced Eliminator PSP (2/5): Unimaginative street racing game. Its all been done and better. For die-hard fans only.

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August 06

ISSUE ELEVEN

ARTS KIRSTY WHITEN SCHEMIE CENTAURS THE PLAIN UGLINESS OF THE EPONYMOUS SCHEMIES, HERE DEPICTED FOR OUR AMUSEMENT AS A THREATENING PACK OF CENTAURS, COMES ACROSS AS RATHER PATRONISING

Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors

Kirsty Whiten’s stock is on the rise. Voted Young Scot ti s h Ar ti st of the Year in ’9 9 ; recently nominated for an award at the RSA; and last year thrown out of the Pittenweem arts festival after churchgoers complained about her images of lingerie models cavorting with wolves. You just can’t buy publicity like that. Here Whiten presents a series of new drawings showing strange crossbreeds; the offspring of mythical creatures and the kind of everyday folk you might bump into on your walk down to the dole office. The title of the exhibition (one hopes) comes across as quite light-hearted, but there is something uneasy in the way Whitten deals with class in some of these images.

by Jay Shukla

IT IS THE UNFAMILIARITY OF THESE IMAGES, UNTAINTED BY THE AESTHETIC CUDGEL OF MASS REPRODUCTION, THAT ALLOWS US THE PRIVILEGE OF FEELING AS THOUGH WE ARE ENGAGING WITH THIS BEHEMOTH OF ART HISTORY FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME

e’re all familiar with the tabloid version of Vincent Van Gogh’s life and times. Birth, poverty, absinthe, madness, more absinthe, sunflowers, ear, death is probably the aggregate of most people’s knowledge of the man. But thankfully the major new exhibition at the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh offers us the chance to see past the shibboleths and half-truths and engage with the only legacy that is really worth a damn – the pictures themselves.

On first inspection one may feel that that this exhibition seems a little incomplete – no Sunflowers, no self-portraits, no Chair, no Starry Night are to be found here – and yes, their absence is strongly felt. And yet it is precisely the unfamiliarity of these images, untainted by the aesthetic cudgel of mass reproduction, that allows us the privilege of feeling as though we are engaging with this behemoth of art history for the very first time. The exhibition guide sagely suggests that you ‘put yourself in the position of a visitor

from 1910’ - and a temporary suspension of our modern sensibilities is indeed the most profitable way to engage with this show. Of course, all this is perhaps being a little too kind to the curators. You can’t really go very far wrong with 32 Van Goghs at your disposal, but the heavy focus and exposition on the identity and background of these exclusively British collectors is at best extraneous and at worst positively distracting. The details and chronology of these acquisitions serve to illuminate nothing of the artist himself – only the relationship with his almost-doppelganger Alexander Reid providing a brief insight into the painter’s personal affinities. Some will inevitably leave the gallery longing to have been told more about the discord of his personal life. Thankfully Vincent put so much of himself into his pictures that there is no chance that the viewer will go home without feeling that they have learned a great deal about this patriarch of twentieth century art. Thatched Roofs (1884), executed quickly in ink, pencil and gouache, is a beguiling wee image – showing the artist in transition between a more traditional drawing style and the gestural, expressive confidence of his mature work. It’s far from laboured, but when we compare it to another drawing in the show – an image of a garden viewed from the window of his asylum in St-Remy – the contrast is extraordinary.

Oleanders by Van Gogh

SKINNY Top 5 Shows 1. Robert Mapplethorpe at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edi) until Nov 5. 2. Armour Boys by Laura Ford (pictured) at RSA (Edi) Aug 12 to Sep 10. 3. The Day Without Work, the Night Without Sleep at The Arches (Glas) until Aug 6. 4. Manfred Pernice at Modern Institute (Glas) until Sep 16. 5. Marijke van Warmerdam at Fruitmarket (Edi) until Sep 17.

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In this later image any naturalistic tendencies are abandoned - even the trunks of the trees bend and dance to the tune of the painter’s passionate (and some would say haunted) vision. It’s such a radical image that one could well argue that it was the work of a painter on the road to even more daring abstractions. In moments such as these it is easy to appreciate the force of the shockwaves felt by those artists who followed him, and the reasons that his genius was initially branded as ‘the art of the insane’. The highlight of the show is Peach Blossom in the Crau (1889), one of the last paintings that Van Gogh completed before he entered the psychiatric hospital at St-Remy. Here is a picture which vibrates with energy and feeling; the artist’s hugely unorthodox brushstrokes giving character to every aspect of the landscape, bringing it to life in a manner that no artist before him had managed to achieve. This picture, like much of Van Gogh’s best work, is imbued with a childlike sense of wonder towards the natural world – the penniless painter nourishing himself, and us, through the simple act of applying paint to canvas. DEAN GALLERY, EDINBURGH UNTIL SEPTEMBER 24 ADMISSION £6.00 (CONCESSIONS £4.00); FREE TO CHILDREN UNDER 12.

work by Laura Ford

The plain ugliness of the eponymous Schemies, h e re d e p i cte d fo r o u r a m u s e m e nt a s a threatening pack centaurs, comes across as rather patronising; particularly as the works are being exhibited in the uber-chic milieu of the Analogue bookshop. Elsewhere though, Whiten’s humour comes across more successfully. The expressions on Whiten’s Harpies will definitely raise a smile and her bawdy Special Faun equally so. The execution of the works is impactful but somewhat heavy handed throughout; the hard edges and plain backgrounds emphasising their cartoonish quality more than anything else. Nevertheless this is a memorable exhibition and one which will increase Analogue’s reputation as a serious gallery space. [Celia Sontag] ANALOGUE BOOKS, EDINBURGH. THIS SHOW HAS NOW CLOSED.

PHOEBE CUMMINGS FRAGMENTS THIS EXHIBITION CERTAINLY SUCCEEDS IN CONVEYING THE RICH MYSTERY AND HISTORY OF THE OBJECTS WHICH SURROUND US

For this, Phoebe Cummings first solo show in Scotland, the artist presents us with a varied selection of drawings, sculptures and installations. Cummings takes great delight in playing with scale and space, and her work deals with the way in which we think about objects, materials and representation. Many of these works have a significant psychological charge; one piece, woven delicately using clay forms before being allowed to set, enchroaches from the gallery space onto a windowsill, creating a lovely tension between the flow of the object and the distinct possibility that such a delicate sculpture will inevitably be broken. In another piece Cummings plays with duality again, creating a tiny desert landscape on the surface of a spoon, complete with two tiny figures navigating their way across it. The powerful charge of simple domestic objects is again exploited in another landscape which features aeroplanes taxiing across the surface of a lightbulb. The artist says that she is “interested in the presence imprinted on places and their objects” and this exhibition certainly succeeds in conveying the rich mystery and history of the objects which surround us. [Ted M] CORN EXCHANGE GALLERY, EDINBURGH UNTIL AUGUST 10. FREE.

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THEATRE

Strangers on a Train

king’s theatre edinburgh

by Marcie Hume

WHILE THEATRICAL ADAPTATIONS OF NOVELS ARE LESS COMMON THAN CINEMATIC ONES, THE FICTION OF PATRICIA HIGHSMITH APPEARS TO POSSESS A REMARKABLY LONG STAGE LIFE.

daptations are everywhere in a time when producers attempt to replicate the popularity of one project in the medium of another, with the ultimate aim of building on the monetary wealth that was initially generated. The lucrative nature of such efforts can be seen in films-from-novels such as ‘The Da Vinci Code’ or the Harry Potter films. But, apart from these high-profile ventures, many films are adapted from narrative fiction as often as they are scripted from scratch, commonly in an attempt to secure success. Theatrical adaptations of novels are less common, perhaps because the commercial opportunities are not a driving force in most theatre productions. Not many producers have accumulated great wealth from theatrical ventures alone. But, however rarely, these stage adaptations do occur; a theatrical reworking of Irvine Welsh’s ‘Trainspotting’ played to packed houses just as the novel and film were gaining colossal status. The whole ‘Trainspotting’ ruckus was noted as being a marketing phenomenon, while also presenting a story with intricacies that are elucidated in distinctive ways by the various forms it has taken.

This month, a stage adaptation of the wellknown Patricia Highsmith novel ‘Strangers on a Train’ will be presented at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal. But this is only one of many treatments the story has received: the book was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951, and another film adaptation is tentatively due to be released this year (although the press surrounding the project has included headlines such as “Hollywood is running out of ideas”). Highsmith is also responsible for ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’, the 1999 film adaptation of which was directed by Anthony Minghella. A theatrical version of Ripley would certainly seem absurd, and a little over the line of hyper-adaptation: for starters, who would play Gwyneth Paltrow’s character, and wouldn’t that be an insufferable task? But sure enough, a dramatic modification of the book has been performed in recent years - an adaptation which was fairly commended for maintaining the grittiness of the original novel. But why is there any need for a theatrical adaptation of a story that seems to have been well covered? Where would we draw the line: at a contemporary painting series, or ‘Ripley The Musical’ perhaps? Maybe it is more important to ask if, as a society, we even have a threshold for this kind of enduring re-hashing.

National Theatre of Scotland and His Majesty’s Theatre Aberdeen present

TUTTI FRUTTI by John Byrne

Tue 3 - Sat 7 October

Scottish icon John Byrne has adapted his 1987 TV series Tutti Frutti which still occupies a unique place in the Scottish psyche. This large scale music theatre production will bring The Majestics et al to the stage for the first time. Thu 5 Oct 7.30pm

Fri 6 Oct 7.30pm

THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW, 21-26 AUGUST 2006.

Winner of 19 major awards

THE HISTORY BOYS by Alan Bennett

Tue 17- Sat 21 October

An unruly bunch of bright, funny six-form boys in persuit of sex, sport and a place at university. ‘It is surely the richest play bennett has ever written. Wonderfully it blends wit and wisdom, with knockout humour and pain’ FINANCIAL TIMES Contains some strong laguage and verbal references of a sexual nature. Thu 19 Oct 7.30pm

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Fri 20 Oct 7.30pm

Post-Show Talk Thu 19 Oct

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“I’VE GOT TO TOOT MY OWN HORN HERE AND SAY THAT I HAVE THE GREATEST MOUSTACHE IN THE HISTORY OF ROCK N’ ROLL.”

SOUNDS “L Eagles of Death Metal:

by Dave Kerr

ast night, Gene hooked up with this 418 pound uh, well we thought it was a girl but it turned out to be a drag queen…” Calling The Skinny from Chicago as his tour bus rattles along the highway to hedonism, Jesse ‘The Devil’ Hughes gives us the kind of glimpse inside the curious cipher of his band that we really didn’t need, but lets roll. So did it go all ‘Crying Game’ Jessie? “…well when we got her down to the bus and there was meat and potatoes in the package, we knew what was up.”

Enjoying the lightning fast eight-day recording process immensely - “Fuck yeah, we recorded it on the same tape machine that Cheap Trick used to lay down some of their greatest hits” - and despite early indications that EODM might fall foul of one trick pony syndrome, album number three and a solo Devil record are already written. Hughes attributes this pre-emptive savvy to keeping them ahead of the game; “I think a lot of bands get so desperate and excited that they put all their eggs into one basket and they don’t think about the future. You’ve got to give yourself room to develop, you’ve got to give yourself a chance to go through the stages; you aren’t going to last forever, but I want to be here for a while.” It looks like The Devil’s in it for the long haul.

This isn’t any old conversation littered with heinous faux pas and misdemeanors from the road though, this is School of Rock 101 with its current headmaster. Along with ubiquitous childhood friend Josh Homme, Hughes has been ploughing something of a dusty furrow, ushering in a healthy return to no frills grassroots party rock n’ roll ethics. The Devil considers the dynamic of his and Homme’s relationship with an unorthodox fondness; “Have you ever seen ‘Das Boot’?” he asks, “This is an incestuous barge, to understand what our scene is, it’s a big gang and Josh is the captain of it. He’s been my mentor, the bodyguard with me on the playground when I’ve gone to fight the bully. I’m the face and the ass of Eagles of Death Metal but he’s definitely the asshole. It’s two best friends who love what they do and make rock n’ roll.”

With their recently released sophomore LP ‘Death By Sexy’ steadily raising the profile of the desert dwelling quartet, Hughes makes no bones about his dice rolling success at the fame game; “Every day in this business is a gift man and you have to appreciate it. I think the reason that so many people seem to be so full of shit is because they’re pretending that the reason they’re here is to save whales

Riding With The Devil instead of making money and getting fame. Of course that’s the reason, it’s always the reason and it’s a big reason for me because I want people to love us,” he admits. “I’m a lead singer in a rock band so I have deep insecurity complexes and I need everyone to love me right now, otherwise I’m gonna be very sad.” Although ‘Death By Sexy’ marks a distinctly cleaner sound than their garage-centric debut, The Devil is still a big believer in a less is more

ethos, yet this is a band who claims a clutch of abstract influences, from Dizzee Rascal to Diana Ross there’s no doubt that his passion is a plagiarism; “I steal from the best. I think there’s nothing new under the sun and you’re only as good as the people you want to be like, so if you want to be ten feet tall don’t cut yourself off at the knees. Try to be like Little Richard as opposed to being like Yngwie Malmsteen or try to be like Angus Young as opposed to CC DeVille, you know what I mean?”

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Love, adoration and death metal weren’t always so intrinsic for Hughes though, as the one time journalist took a little persuasion before he began to take any career as a rock n’ roller seriously. This dithering possibly explains the humble perspective he has on his present occupation; “If someone crossed the street to piss on me if I was on fire I’d look up and say thanks. So if they come to see me at a rock n’ roll show, they’re probably the most beautiful person I’ve ever seen in my life and that’s the truth man, I appreciate what I’m doing.”

Although Homme won’t be assuming his duty on drums for the band’s forthcoming Glasgow date (holed up in Joshua Tree, recording the new Queens LP), expect former Queens man Gene Trautman to fill his jeans more than ably; “If you gotta take band members from some band, you probably want it to be Queens of the Stone Age, but then, if you can turn your TV set on you could probably play in Eagles of Death Metal.” Inevitably, the chat teeters into the familiar territory of facial hair as Hughes throws down the gauntlet by proposing a “moustache-off” with Zutons’ Boyan Chowdhury: “The ‘tache on that old boy is a hunk of beef, but I’ve got to toot my own horn here and say that I have the greatest moustache in the history of rock n’ roll, that’s not my fault though, it’s supposed to be a soft boomerang of love. I’ve actually been asked to compete in the moustache championships three years in a row.” Quickly trading topics from moustache battles to women, it’s clear that Hughes is a man of simple vices, albeit complicated by a mind full of calculated measures; “It’s pure manipulation man. That’s why they call me the devil, I can’t help it.” EAGLES OF DEATH METAL PLAY THE GARAGE, GLASGOW ON AUGUST 27 THE SINGLE, I WANT YOU SO HARD IS OUT THROUGH COLUMBIA ON AUGUST 28. WWW.EAGLESOFDEATHMETAL.NET

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THE ONLY THING INGLISTON WILL BE TRADING ON THE 30TH SEPTEMBER IS ROCK N’ ROLL

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etter known for its Sunday market, the only thing Ingliston will be trading on the 30th of September is Rock n’ Roll. With a luxurious line up confirmed for this year’s Let’s Rock! Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital will bring the curtain down on the 2006 festival season in a manner that befits a George Street boutique.

Accommodating over thirty acts on three indoor stages, Let’s Rock! Edinburgh promises to be Scotland’s most exciting (mud free) all day festival. And, in showcasing thirteen up and coming local bands, it not only provides a gathering of internationally established acts but cultivates the future of the nation’s music scene. So, as Ingliston prepares for a day’s trading at this temporarily melodic market, make sure you don’t miss out on the musical deal of the year.

Staged at The Royal Highland Centre, this mini festival musters up a musical bargain to go easy on the pocket whilst electrifying the eardrums. Fresh from the release of a (not quite) chart topping singles collection, headliners Feeder will be setting their stadium-esque stall with a feisty barrage of anthemic rock that’ll have the penny pinchers reaching for their wallets. Whilst perennial indie bridesmaids Idlewild can be seen flaunting their stargazing punk in a brave attempt at finally selling it into your heart.

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Charity shop hipsters The Long Blondes are sure to be the festival’s most revered purchase. Sleek and slender, this art-chic quintet makes brassy retro-punk fuelled by the spirit of Ari Up and Blondie. But if you prefer a less vigorous sell there’s always the entrepreneurial craft of The Boy Least Likely To. Gushing with sickly sweet acoustics, this feyly twee duo will charm you to within an inch of your last copper coin.

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Rag (or should that be skag?) n’ Bone man Pete Doherty will be haggling the price of his street-urchin songsmithery in the guise of Babyshambles – so expect to be coaxed, or just slapped, into buying his ‘songwriter of a generation’ shenanigans. And with fellow Londoners The Rakes joining the bill, you’d best be on your guard as these southern ragamuffins attempt to steal your affection like a modern day Roger The Dodger.

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2. Herman Dune - Suburbs With You At the time of writing, there are rumours that Herman Dune will be appearing at Mono in August. Is it true? Who knows. If they’re not, I say we should all go down there anyway and PRETEND like the French-Swedes are in the room, all bird-legged and scraggly. Andre will have a ukelele and David will have sandals. They’ll make a noise for a summer of play, for an afternoon of dance, for daisies and dandelions and playing tag with ex-girlfriends. This is from a 2005 BBC session and will kick your ass straight into the swing-set. Download at: http://www.hermandune.com/media/livemp3soct2005.htm 3. Alec Ounsworth - Dee, Oh Dee Either you’ll like his voice, or you won’t. Just as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is, without Ounsworth, only some kids with high-hats and vintage synths, so is a song like this only a man with acoustic guitar and a microphone. But if you like Ounsworth’s bleat - a cracked and yearning sound, as much David Byrne as Bright Eyes, - then this becomes a strong, poignant thing. Like Wolf Parade stripped to roller skates; a young man walking home in his underpants and leather jacket. Download at: http://www.happyhomerecords.com/ao.htm

4. Pants Yell! - My Boyfriend Writes Plays Pants Yell! play this new, laid-back twee that’s descended from Belle and Sebastian and The Lucksmiths but mixed with some GoBetweens guitar-work and The Shins’ sun-baked shuffle. While no one will be buying Pants Yell vinyl to help bring their dancepunk parties to life, if I were Mayor we’d be piping this stuff onto the Meadows on Sunday afternoons. Here a boy sings sadly of his holed-up boyfriend. The dude spends his days, you guessed it, writing plays. And our narrator’s had enough. Over a melancholy jangle: “Fuck your stories! I’m leaving, it’s true.” Download at: http://www.asaurus.org/records/audio.html

5. Spank Rock - BBC Radio 1 Breeze Block Set Before Spank Rock hit Edinburgh on August 23rd, get your brain and booty acclimatised with this Breeze Block set from BBC Radio 1. Strange that a thing could feel simultaneously like air conditioning and an overheated room - chilled skin and sweat running down backs. The Philadelphia crew is tight with M.I.A. and Diplo, Baltimore Club and big-beat hip-hop. They wield “Rick Rubin” like a cruise missile, use synths so cheesy you could bake a crisp pizza. They make everything fat and easy, hot and sweet. And their raps ticktock like shoulder-hoisted metronomes. Download at: http://www.spankrock.net/download.html

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1. Jamie Radford - This A Breakup Song Somewhere deep in Georgia there’s a man with a thumb-piano and a Bjork sample, Notorious BIG records and a broken heart. This is the sort of break-up that calls for strawberries and cool nights, Nick Drake and too many stars. No anger here - just sadness, sadness. Radford’s pragmatic. He’s trying not to wallow. “This a break-up song,” he says, like a hip-hop Eels. “Got me broken up.” “I-” Bjork answers. “I- I- I- I-” You what? Just tell us. Download at: http://www.jamieradford.com/

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As global warming begins to caress our planet, spare a thought for those poor folk at the Ingleby Gallery. Sweating from heat and embarrassment as a result of working with artist Peter Liversidge, the staff has reluctantly agreed to a month of dressing up as woodland animals. This isn’t just a subtle foxtail here, or sexy bunny ears there. Oh no, this is serious stuff, with each costume tailor made and strict guidelines stipulating that the staff must remain in character all day every day for the month of August. This was just one of one hundred and five proposals that Liversidge has been working on to present at this year’s festival. Not all will come to fruition. His proposal to build a death slide from Edinburgh Castle to the Scott monument was blocked only because those boring people at the council said it may pose a health and safety risk. THREAD WILL FEATURE A VERITABLE FEAST OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS

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As well as becoming accomplices to Liversidge’s hair brain schemes, the gallery will also be presenting its summer show ‘Thread’, which will feature a veritable feast of contemporary artists, namely Carl Andre, David Batchelor, Alexander Calder, Ian Davenport, John McCracken, Cornelia Parker, Smith/Stewart and Richard Wright. The presence of Andre, one of the pre-eminent figures of the minimalist movement, and Calder, whose work focuses on movement, line and colour, should make for an intriguing show. What ties these apparently disparate artists together is their pieces’ pre-meditated manipulation of the space that the inhabit. Andre’s minimal copper floor tiles discreetly dividing a room will sit alongside more playful and immediately obvious works, such as Davenport’s exuberantly colourful ‘Poured Lines’, where the artist will use the gallery wall and floor as his canvas. The quality of artists on show should ensure a high standard of work. A critical point will be the interaction between the pieces, and so the success of this exhibition largely hinges on the ability of the curator to successfully organise the space, Joe Lewis whilst keeping his thread. THREAD

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The Flight into Egypt by Adam Elsheimer

They say the devil plays the best tunes. Well now it seems he also paints the best pictures. The Royal Scottish Academy’s summer exhibition of Adam Elsheimer’s paintings, ‘Devil in the Detail’, is an intoxicating and intriguing mix of light and dark, of heaven and hell, which seeks to reestablish the reputation of an unjustly forgotten old master. The first picture of the exhibition, The Witch, has all the nightmarish darkness of a Brothers Grimm fairytale. A boney hag sits naked astride a horned beast, her greenish sagging flesh and clumped wild hair rendered in minute but exacting detail. And it is here that the exceptionality of Elsheimer’s painting lies; in its miniature proportions. Rarely exceeding the dimensions of the phone book, his work is more reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript than a conventional painting. . Elsheimer himself is reported to have been an oddity - the epitome of the tortured genius: introspective, morose and shy. His self-portrait humanises this awkward and serious man who stares beyond the viewer with an air of diffidence. Only a few years after its completion, at the age of thirty-two, he was dead. He departed this world in abject poverty, yet his art lived on: his influence pervaded the work of Rubens, Rembrandt and Claude. How then, did his esteemed name disappear into the mists of obscurity? One cannot help but feel that had he painted on a larger scale his reputation would not have suffered to the extent it has. Hopefully, this captivating exhibition signals a comeback. It certainly gives weight to the old saying: “It’s not size that counts; its what you do with it that matters.” C A Murray AT

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SINGLE REVIEWS THE FUTUREHEADS

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NEW IDEAS/WILL IT HAPPEN TONIGHT? (King Tut’s)

Having recently listened to The Futureheads’ second album ‘News and Tributes’ with passive interest at best, it was necessary to rethink matters on a second hearing of Worry About it Later. It’s really just more of what we’ve come to expect from the Sunderland outfit – punk power-chords undercutting barbershop-style (well, sort of) vocal harmonies – but what they do they do bloody well. And while this justification may seem distinctly humdrum, the driving progressions and off-key singing serve to defy unduly blasé expectations. Apparently The Futureheads deserve our full attention. [Nick Mitchell]

Sorry Cube, but not I gotta wet ‘cha. A tune about slugs, thugs and drugs with ‘Fiddy’ hand-claps and a weak Dre imitation handling the production was never really going to fly now, was it? Socially aware lyricism is cancelled out by tired and mindless tough guy bravado and a lazy, horrible, squealing reminiscence of Ghetto Bird’s far more authentic and grittier aesthetic. Hopefully his forthcoming seventh album ‘Laugh Now, Cry Later’ isn’t as apt as this first cut suggests. Come on Cube, son, chiggidy check yo self before you wriggidy wreck yo self, ‘cos nonsensical singles is bad for your wealth. [Dave Kerr]

The Dykeenies debut single, the first release through King Tut’s new record label, is a threem i nute s na ps hot of g u ita r- po p a nt hem ia , featuring a sing-along hook that’s memorable, if contradictory. Repeating “I’ve got so many new ideas” over old ideas, recycled down the years by anonymous and forgotten indie fops forever, doesn’t really count as a ‘new idea’ - so where are they lads? The B-Side is a simple Franz Ferdinand/Bloc Party hybrid, which could be enjoyable live in their boss’s home, but still offers little evidence of any independent thought. [Ally Brown]

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RODRIGO Y GABRIELA THE HEDRONS STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (RUBYWORKS)

BE MY FRIEND (Measured)

Once unknown and likeable, Snow Patrol have become hugely popular and bland in equal measures, thanks to their formulaic start-quietget-loud-end-quiet song structures. Having tasted success with last album ‘Final Straw’, it seems Gary Lightbody & co are determined to maintain their mainstream status with unchallenging if pleasantly hummable pop material. Chasing Cars continues this predictable pattern with lyrics that are emptily universal and unadorned chord changes presumably meant to be rousing, if you like this kind of thing. If you don’t, too bad, because this song is already everywhere. [Nick Mitchell]

Although more critically acclaimed for her talents in other aspects of the entertainment industry, Paris Hilton has made the transition into pop music. Stars Are Blind is her latest attempt to maintain her status as a media-whore. Cynics of her musical abilities should note that Paris’ singing is surprisingly average, though one can’t help but wonder how extensively her vocals have been ‘mastered’. It has a catchy pop/reggae beat that is reminiscent of, well, almost every UB40 song ever recorded. With basic lyrics, her new target audience of 10-16 year-olds will be able to learn them quickly so that they can sing along loudly on public transport as the song inevitably pollutes our airwaves in the coming weeks. [Suzanne Mitchell]

Covering a rock classic is often an unwise move, with little scope for improvement on the original and with the inevitable muso sneers resulting in an offering which will more than likely go down like a Led balloon. However, with a little imagination and bucketloads of guitar brilliance, Mexico’s finest export have done it. Rodrigo y Gabriela’s take on the Zeppelin masterpiece is superb; spine-tinglingly powerful and instantly addictive, the only drawback with this effort is that, being a radio edit, it’s over in minutes. Rock and Roll cliché? Too right, this is heavenly. [Jon Seller]

Glaswegian girls with guitars can rock without getting their boobs and Shareen Nanjiani out like Courtney Love. The Hedrons debut single Be My Friend went down a treat at T in The Park and on CD it still sounds punchy, fresh and leaves you thirsty for more. Punky guitars, thrashing drums and the sound of lead singer Tippi make a formidable force. They have the energy and cut of an early Blondie with a modern rock twist. The girls are only teasing with this first single as the album won’t be out for a bit, but they are on a mammoth tour so you can catch them before then. [Katy Whitelaw]

CHASING CARS (Fiction)

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It can’t be easy being The Common Redstarts. Billed as Edinburgh’s most exciting new group, the pressure is beginning to mount on this zesty quartet. So, to a certain extent, new single Save It For Your Friends is pivotal in the band’s development. Can the record capture the frantic energy of their live performances? Well, yes and no. Oozing confidence, it’s a swaggering stomp that recalls the naivety of ‘Definitely Maybe’-era Oasis but leaves the distinct impression the best is yet to come. Brimming with potential, here’s hoping The Common Redstarts have just set foot on what could be a long and successful journey. [Billy Hamilton] THIS SINGLE IS OUT ON NOW. WWW.THECOMMONREDSTARTS.CO.UK

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ALBUM REVIEWS COMETS ON FIRE AVATAR (SubPop)

There’s no time to wait - with a neo - psychedelic noise too urgent to hold back, ‘Avatar’ joins aptly-named Californian five - piece Comets On Fire already right into their Interstellar Overdrive to hell. The thundering riffage and swirling feedback are what good headphones were invented for, to feel every last drop of carnage and then, for the slower songs, every aching squeal of overdriven guitar and the rolling bass, almost funky. This is not funk, mind, nor wetarsed balladry – Iggy Stooge is riding this comet, crashing through London streets in search of lost madcap Syd Barret, rest in peace. When previous album ‘Blue Cathedral’ landed from nowhere in 2004, it was a flaming great space-ball from the far-flung reaches of nothingness: but you’ve been warned about ‘Avatar’. Do you get hurricanes in space? Aye, but it’s bar-room-brawl time now, Syd, get the drinks in. [Ally Brown] ‘AVATAR’ IS OUT ON AUGUST 7. WWW.COMETSONFIRE.COM

MR TUBAOB’U ERASE THE BORDERS (SELF RELEASED)

W h o i s M r T u b a o b’u ? Mystic? Traveller? Prophet? A side project of the hardest working gypsy reggae band in the world, Terminal Blue? Maybe we’ll never know, but his disciples here on Earth, an unassuming looking bunch, spread his message with a voodoo reggae bounce that is unstoppably infectious and endlessly joyous. Fans of Manu Chau will lap it up, and Erase the Borders is every bit as capable of beaming smiles when and where the sun don’t shine. Avoiding the trap that a lot of reggae albums fall prey to, every song sounds different. Triumphant trumpets clash with double-time multi-lingual vocals and easy skanking guitar. 556 string bass pumps the subs with Scooby Doo-esque mystery ska and political polemic polka, all simmering in Tubaob’u’s magical cauldron. Skank, stomp, groove. Repeat. Let the voodoo vibes fly. [Ali Maloney]

ere we go, pitch your tent on a cow pat, get the acoustic, the Pringles and the Kestrel Super out and step lively people, it’s T in the Park 2006! After bum-rushing our way past the extra vigilant guards with 20 kilos of crack (not really kids, we’re shady… I mean shandy drinkers), The Skinny stumbles upon Wolfmother who set the Radio 1 stage ablaze early by turning out more hair than Mars Volta throughout a set smothered in 70s flavoured riffage and Purple Hazed affections. A more nocturnal gig in one of the tents could suit these gents perfectly in T’s to come. The early bird syndrome also has its way with the Twilight Singers as it takes the redemptive power of a blinding Massive Attack cover (Live With Me) and a stomp through Too Tough To Die to stir up the curiosity level of an initially lacklustre assembly. As the soulful euphoria of the Twilights fades, the frantic blellum of young Aberdonian quartet Project: Venhell jolts to life on the T Break stage. Putting in a blistering half hour of orchestrated chaos which sounds something like Oxes being ushered through Fugazi’s school of post-hardcore delirium at double speed, this is an all too brief smattering of the underground diversity that Scotland’s more popular cultural outlets snobbishly refuse to shout about. “My face isn’t Sally’s!” frontman Hines screeches - you what? The Skinny digs it with an industrial quarry scooping shovel nevertheless. By complete contrast, back in King Tuts Tent, Hope of The States seem somewhat subdued in their mid-afternoon meandering through offerings from recent sophomore effort ‘Left’. Their faithful followers appear to somehow understand the rationale behind the lethargy but the

stray revellers from elsewhere seize the opportunity to pass out in the shade at the back, careful near those wet patches now. Bracing the rain and bringing it to the T crowd 10 years after their first T appearance, Placebo have it well within their grasp to steal the show but choose to weigh in more heavily with the bedroom breakup ballads than the all out mechapunk anthems. They still cut the mustard regardless and Brian Molko even hauls out Nancy Boy for a rare “plugged in” airing. Come teatime, as the noodles flow and The Skinny pilfers porkpies from the press tent, White Rose Movement pump up the Futures Stage with dynamic synths and dramatic squelching grooves. Like Kraftwerk colliding with Orgy, this deftly tuned London quintet leave Hard-Fi standing cold at the Cash Machine. Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand do what they do best and rouse the lions share of the Balado crowd into an impenetrable swarm by delivering their respective indie flavours, predicting riots and advising us to aspire for something so much better. Meanwhile, across the site Pharrell reminds us that day one is “almost over now” as he and his band dish out freshened up takes on various Neptunes and N*E*R*D numbers to revitalise a crowd jaded by the schizophrenic weather. Around the same time, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have similar ideas and seek to shimmy some summery vibes around the Pet Sounds Arena. Their songs dwell in strange places and have varying effects; no sooner has the likes of In This Home On Ice picked your eyes up than Over and Over Again has got you looking for the bar again. It’s all pleasant stuff but it’s almost enough to make the clichéd mention of Brian Wilson here… shit, too late.

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After sobbing into a pint after missing both Ben Harper and Uncle John & Whitelock, The Skinny picks itself up and takes in The Charlatans, who prove that they’re not quite ready to bow out with their pipe and baffies just yet. Tim Burgess puts the harmonica down for a minute to pull out the classics which have seen them pack out these tents for years; One to Another and The Only One I Know are all it takes to ignite a packed Tut’s before handing over to the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the main stage who take Saturday’s festivities to the bridge. Although the eternal debate rages on over whether their indulgence in ‘Stadium Arcadium’ truly brings out their best, tonight Balado has no cause to care about such syntax; it’s the Chilis, man. Put a sock on that thing and stand to attention. There’s nothing left for it but to get down with the funk and adopt a Brothers Gibb impression to accompany the sound of John Frusciante’s peculiarly (for such an avant-garde virtuoso) faithful performance of How Deep Is Your Love (or “the weird Take That cover” as a confused young lass refers to it on the way home). Wrapping things up nicely with the one-two encore combo of Under The Bridge and Give It Away, it becomes clear that The Skinny is spent, but The Who and Eels are on tomorrow, so we must endure this night of Tennents induced shivering to gig another day. HTTP ://WWW.TINTHEPARK .COM

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irst up to bat for a spot of lunchtime gigging and having migrated themselves over to the Pet Sounds Arena since their performance on the Futures stage last year, My Latest Novel conjure up a few lush narratives (that really do sound bugger all like The Arcade Fire, by the way) enticing varying levels of fervour and reminding us why, as far as Scottish music goes, this should really be their year. Like David Bellamy on Safari, The Skinny cautiously slips in to the Slam tent where Coldcut are making Mylo look like a kid who sat on his keyboard at Christmas. As mesmerising at the sounds from these high priests of the remix are, this world frightens and confuses. Retreat! The Skinny’s Beats crew have this covered. The murkiness of the morning is finally beginning to clear and correspondingly The Magic Numbers endeavour to resurrect some good cheer from their perch on the main stage. They do their job well, if a little quietly. Alas, their brand of joyous twee soon collides with a certain Southport quintet and so we make the pilgrimage through

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Disappointingly, Zero 7 have bailed on us, and so the running of the Pet Sounds arena becomes more relaxed than an afternoon with Cheech and Chong as we wait for what turns out to be a delayed and uncharacteristically heavy rock n’ roll set from the Eels. If you came here looking for a melancholic breeze through Susan’s House you’re in the wrong tent – Mr Everett’s got something else in mind. Kung Fu dancing security guards and dishevelled flowerpot men stomp on stage like militia and tear the house down, this is the Jekyll to E’s more renowned Hyde side. So which idiot decided to put The Strokes on at the same time as The Go! Team? New York’s trendiest Stooge-loving sons win the toss and flaunt just a smidgeon of versatility

Now The Strokes have vacated and we’ve definitely missed these Found lads, Who can captivate the masses one last time this weekend? Who’s better? Who’s best? There’s no denying that even with the ever notable absence of the legendary manic rhythm section comprised by Moony and The Ox, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey still keep a tight house. Touchstones like Pinball Wizard, Baba O’ Riley and Won’t Get Fooled Again make appearances via a seasoned variant of Daltrey’s piercing howl and Townshend’s inimitable windmill arm tactics. For a set which was quite dependably wedged in the past, The Who easily succeeded in recollecting an era of non-generic rock and roll at a time when music, at least in the popular realm, sorely misses the bands of this breed. So was 2006 “The best T in the Park yet”? Well in 1994 an intrepid Rage Against The Machine faced off with Cypress Hill while Bjork bounced up and down on top of a van. That’s all I’m saying. WWW.TINTHEPARK .COM

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LUXURY CAR ANNIE’S WELL (Biophonic)

S o, yo u’ve j u s t b o u g ht your dream machine; the sleeker, sassier model of that old A to B reliable. But, as you hit the accelerator, reality comes crashing in – it’s merely a frivolously rehashed version of your previous motor. Yes, it may incorporate all the trimmings but the end result is exactly the same. And if you listen to any early New Order record you’ll realise this analogy perfectly encapsulates Luxury Car’s debut LP ‘Annie’s Well’. Viscerally dark, it’s an electronically captivating example of mid-80s introversion. Combining exquisite synths and haunting vocals this atmospheric automobile provides an exhilarating journey that ’s the musical equivalent of a Ferrari Testasrosa. The only problem is ‘Annie’s Well’ sounds like it’s already been steered in this direction by a different owner over two decades ago. Thoroughly retreading the tracks of the past, this Luxury Car owes all its prestige to the classically designed engines of yesteryear. [Billy Hamilton]

VIVA VOCE

Heavily backed by Rock A c t i o n’s c row n j ew e l , Mogwai and touring buddies Isis, ‘Insomniac Doze’ marries these bands’ pos t- rock ma jes t y with a soul-crushing brand of ambient hardcore to produce a feel of polished, angst-ridden triumph. Opener Further Ahead of Warp kicks off this chestpuffed-out defiant exultation and progresses, tremolo guitars reverbing for all they’re worth, to a distressing distortion fed denouement, riddled with engaging hooks and stirring depth. Tetsuya Fukagawa’s vocals, delivered in his native tongue, have a haunting desperation to thrill fans of epic screamo but may prove a little inaccessible to followers of a more traditional vocal style. The final tracks, Night in Winter and A Warm Room merge into one epic movement, as drummer Dairoku Seki teases his snare through constellations of string-led ambience to the band’s gloriously heavy focal points. At times this structure can seem a little formulaic, but it doesn’t make each track any less worthy of one’s fullest attention. [Jamie Borthwick]

GET YR BLOOD SUCKED OUT (Full Time Hobby)

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Gomez prove they’ve still got the prerequisite magnetism to attract a huge draw as they shape shift their way through an hour riddled with classics as well as more recent efforts from new record ‘How We Operate’. It’s a conundrum whether they’ll ever step out of the shadow of Get Myself Arrested’s blues-drenched beauty but it’s clear they’ve got the keys to Balado to try it out any time they like as they prove to be one of the highlights of the weekend so far.

with a surprisingly lively stage show. A punchy rendition of Juicebox singlehandedly renders the sleepy tones of Is This It? and its brethren near verveless by comparison.

What to make of The Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club? Aside from the brilliantly misleading name, this English, Cardif f-based girl- girl-boy trio’s eponymous debut album is a 35 minute study in eccentric, abrasive pop music. VEGC construct broken, repetitive slabs of guitar and dirty bass around nonsensical narratives which only rarely touch any shred of reality, exemplified in the discordant harmonies of My Son Spells Backwards. Not just a product of the current wave of postpunk imitators, VEGC also hark back to the more recent days of grunge, with their consciously rough-around-the-edges sound recalling The Pixies (a lot) and even Nirvana (at times). Although their harsh, fucked-up style can be off-putting at first, patient listeners will be rewarded when the carefully considered, consistently original pop tunes begin to emerge from all the chaos. [Nick Mitchell]

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a sea of discarded burger buns and emo haircuts for Gomez over at King Tut’s.

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Husband and wife duo Viva Voce’s last album ‘The Heat Can Melt Your Brain’ was a lo-fi gem, and they have released this more ambitious follow up only a year later, displaying a work rate that puts the Kaiser Chiefs to shame (admittedly not very difficult). It’s still a stoner’s paradise of retro fuzz, but it’s a rockier, more extroverted and much angrier record. From the Devil Himself is seemingly a rant against the record industry, and We Do Not Fuck Around is languidly aggressive in the way only a stoner rock band can be. Like the first record, the best moments come via Anita Rober tson’s gentle vocals and during more intimate moments such as the closing track How to Nurse a Bruised Ego Back to Health. It’s lacking the fun experimentation which made their previous release so endearing, but it’s still a good solid album that’s worth a spin. [Milo McLaughlin] ‘GET YR BLOOD SUCKED OUT’ IS OUT ON AUGUST 21. WWW.FULLTIMEHOBBY.CO.UK

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SOUNDS Ross Clark

he romance seems to have disappeared from band-forming. Instead of bonding up trees during childhood summers or shooting up in doss houses, bands these days seem to rely on a more efficient vetting process. Realising that your friends might not cut it in your worldbeating band/business, all the smartest go-getters trawl the internet and NME classifieds to find that elusive member. Drummers seem to be the hardest people to find, both Bloc Party and Razorlight found theirs lurking in the classifieds; some bands, like new bunch Fields, are completely manufactured from the ground up by a shadowy svengali. No such problems for Ross Clark. Without a band, a decision based on not wanting to “make his friends’ lives any harder,” he plays acoustic music as if he was fronting a rock group. Eighteen, young enough for the listener to wonder quite where his fantastic lyrics come from; on stage armed with only a mop of hair, an acoustic guitar and huge NHS specs, Clark is a beguiling, captivating figure. Resembling Elvis Costello, although insisting he’s “more like a proclaimer,” his coruscating take on folk

ARMED WITH ONLY A MOP OF HAIR, AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR AND HUGE NHS SPECS, CLARKE IS A BEGUILING, CAPTIVATING FIGURE

shows as much influence from punk as it does from the seminal American label Saddle Creek. Believing that too much acoustic music is performed in a “static” manner, too torpid to be truly involving, Clark’s showmanship, dropping to his knees for a particularly complicated chord or running from the venue to play on the street outside during a song, brings an unexpectedly thrilling passion to his performance. The trick to song-writing, he claims, is realising that “it’s meant to be about words and music, not one or the other.” Rather than mumbling like Jose Gonzalez or over-emoting like any number of chart-toppers, he croons, shrieks and chirps his eloquent, poetic lyrics over his intricate picked or bashed guitar playing. Whilst he insists his music is “apolitical, just about balance between song and lyric,” his bizarre imagery, which has the sheen of the very best poetry, and naïve, occasionally arch wit evidences a strange, fertile muse. Young, but certainly not doomed, there is a romance about Ross Clark quite unlike any other musician in Glasgow. ROSS CLARK PLAYS ORAN MOR, GLASGOW ON AUGUST 9. WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ELECTRICPOLYESTER

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GUNS N’ ROSES

DEEP FAT FRIED

PLAN B

This was thought of as a thing of the past; W. Axl Rose descending on a stage laden with pyrotechnic paraphernalia (albeit sans Slash and Duff) yet somehow, here he is. Welcome to the Jungle instantly sells the house to something far stronger than a belated nostalgia trip and it’ll take more than cheesy background videos of drag race crashes to repress the undeniable might of Mr Brownstone or You Could Be Mine. As Axl momentarily stops changing shirts and sprinting laps around the stage to float his arm across his skyline of fans - the jaded, the committed, the old and the new, screeching out a familiar “nyanna-nyanna-nyannanyeeeeeeeaaawwh” during Nightrain - it’s a serving of inimitable crowd controlling prowess which recalls the very fact that, when it’s all said and done, this crazy recluse has written some outstanding songs amid the pantomimic chaos of his career. “Ready to crash and burn, I never learn” he reminds us – would you really want it any other way? [Dave Kerr]

AKA the Fox are down a drummer. Ione Campsie has his arm in a sling after an unfortunate tackle by the band’s sax player during a game of football at the Organic Beats festival in Fort William. But it was all good at Deep Fat Fried, singer Brendan’s new and hopefully regular night. They had expertly programmed beats, their customary raging enthusiasm and big sunglasses to get them through. Plus a superb set from The Very, whose doleful rock’n’roll - featuring foot-stamping bass lines and heartfelt urgency - contrasted nicely with AKA the Fox’s relentless, cynical electro howl. As nights out go, this one felt like a house party. Upstairs at The Universal looks like a swanky loft conversion anyway, and the whole shebang had a come-over-to-our-place vibe where band and gig goers alike took turns on the decks. The demented and not always entirely successful mixing led to dancefloor appreciation of legends as diverse as The Buzzcocks, Marlena Shaw, Devo, Wu-Tang Clan, Kelis, Michael Jackson, Hot Chip and The Prodigy. The only thing missing was a kitchen for everyone to inexplicably congregate in. [Lindsey Johnstone]

The recent debut album from Plan B (a.k.a. Ben Drew) drew comparisons with Eminem; by ironic coincidence the young east-London rapper takes to the stage as the megastar MC’s collaboration Forgot about Dre booms from the speakers. The pair’s lyrics cover similarly edgy subject matter as opener Kidz illustrates, Drew immediately fixing the crowd’s attention with a dark tale of inner city youth; a 14 year-old’s existence spattered with murder, rape and thieving. Rather than beats and samples, his own acoustic guitar forms the key musical backdrop to the vicious lines he spits, giving them an added poignancy; Drew’s more sophisticated street poet than straight-up rapper. When breaking from guitar he prowls the stage mic in hand, the head-nodding, testosteronecharged audience following his every move, camera phones thrust forward, keen to capture the obvious poise of an artist determined to share the raw and brutal realities of his own existence. [Colin Chapman]

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DIESEL U-MUSIC SHOWCASE KING TUT’S, GLASGOW, JULY 5

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by Jasper Hamill

This gig was the Glasgow leg of an international competition that has helped past winners like Mylo and Tom Vek get a much needed legup, career-wise. With eight thousand bands sifted through, the band that played were local Libertines fans The Mode, pink-haired Edinburghers The Ver y, large - lunged R & B Glasgwegian L-Marie and the one-man winner of the electronic section of the competition, The English Channel. The line-up, which was commendably diverse, was average on the

whole with an unexpected star in the form of L-Marie, whose nuclear-powered lungs belted out soul tunes through a sound system quite unused to such decibels. All three other bands were good, but not great, with local band The Very reliably closing the night on a high. Levis have always obviously had an eye for a good tune but, at least on the basis of this leg of the competition, Diesel seem to be developing a cataract. [Jasper Hamill]

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CAPULET

Touring in support of their wordy release ‘The World Is A Tragic Place, But There Is Grace All Around Us, So Attend To The Grace’ on motivesounds, Capulet rolled into town to offer their post-rock wares to the Edinburgh public. F a n s o f t h e g e n re wo u l d n ot h a ve l ef t disappointed. Affecting, poignant guitars? Yip. Reverb-ridden progressions? Plenty. Pumpedup distortion fed climaxes? By the book. The traditional ingredients of post-rock were pulled off with the eerily perfect efficiency of a band who know their influences explicitly. The band rarely become animated on stage, save for

SOUNDS

HENRY’ S CELLAR BAR, EDINBURGH, JULY 4 the thrilling crescendos where Steve Hodson’s feverish scatter-drums implore kinetic bursts of animation. Though their shoe-gazing movements require an attentive ear, they innovate little in this mode: the rewards of patience truly make Capulet shine. They slip with minimum fuss into grippingly tight time signatures and inventive flashes of robust musical sparring; a just compensation for what was a relatively short set from the headliners. [Jamie Borthwick] WWW.MOTIVESOUNDS.COMV

Capulet: “Is that a penny down there?”

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AINSLIE HENDERSON THE LOT, EDINBURGH, JULY 15

That elusive heatwave is once again upon us and the best way to greet it must be to squeeze yourself into an old church that was constructed long before air-conditioning as we know it was invented. Most importantly, we do so tonight because the event on the agenda proves too good to ignore. Launching his debut album ‘Growing Flowers By Candlelight’, Ainslie Henderson and his band of bohemians wash over us like a swift breeze and manage to spellbind the audience from the first second. Ainslie himself provides

intimate acoustics that, combined with his fragile and sensitive voice brings Damien Rice to mind, but before we know it his band backs him up with enough orchestral pleasantries to put a personal touch to the spectacle. Tonight proves that Mr Henderson has talent by the bucket load, although it’s slightly too polished and radio-friendly for an indie-puritan like myself to let go completely. [Chris Nordeng]

DELTA MAINLINE

KULA SHAKER

Delta Mainline do not make music - they create spiritually staggering sound. Rather than conferring to generic structuralism, this Edinburgh sextet produce a psychedelic mass of swirling blues inspired by the cosmic intricacy of Spaceman 3. Enveloping and engaging, tonight is a euphoric performance that feels colossal and, perhaps more importantly, evolutionary. Like a continuation of Laser Guided Melodies, this band floats between the plundering introversion of Suicide and the lo-fi incessancy of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Never aesthetically confronting, they build a skewered sonic soundscape that aurally challenges with a crescendo of perpetual bleeps and stargazing synths. This astral bellowing gushes like A Storm In Heavenera Verve that makes you believe anything is possible if you want it enough. And with such gloriously captivating sound, an intravenous injection of Delta Mainline is the perfect stimulant to help you realise your dreams. [Billy Hamilton]

The incessant efflux of incense from the Eastern wing of the stage heralded the first manifestation of Kula Shaker to Edinburgh in an age; and you could’ve been forgiven for thinking that Mills and co had been hidden under a huge kaleidoscopic crag for the past 30 years. But then again, wasn’t that what we were saying a decade ago? Charming a crowd seemingly made up of devotees for whom the lyrics of Tattva and Hey Dude were as vivid as the day the first circulation of ‘K’ flew onto (and subsequently off) the shelves back in ’96 was never going to be all that bothersome, but Kula Shaker did it with a panache they’re not normally given credit for. The old favourites were all in check and although some new tracks will never clamber the nosebleed inducing heights of Govinda etc, they held their own on the night. [Finbarr Bermingham]

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SOUNDS Tapes ‘n Tapes: Sheer Loon-acy

“WE’RE REALLY CONSCIOUS OF SOUNDING LIKE ANYONE ELSE – IF ANYTHING DOES WE’LL TRY AND CHANGE IT BY FUCKING IT UP A LITTLE.”

by Billy Hamilton

f money-motivated fat-cats are to be believed, the internet is destroying music. File sharing is starving our financially rotund rock stars and major labels can no longer risk signing up-and-coming bands. In the archangelic eyes of the music industry, the internet is Lucifer incarnate.

But hasn’t a certain Sheffield collective infiltrated social discourse through the relentless buzz of online music blogs? The simple answer is yes, and with the UK release of Tapes ‘n Tapes’ wonderfully shuffling ‘The Loon’, the web has uncovered another gem from the confines of its abyssal interior.

Speaking to The Skinny, Tapes ‘n Tapes’ keyboardist Matt Kretzmann cites the internet as an integral element in developing this Minneapolis-based quartet’s debut LP. “[The internet] launched our record,” he says sheepishly. “When we released [The Loon] in Minneapolis we got a few write-ups in the local press, but as soon as we posted our songs online, bigger magazines and record labels began sniffing around.” However, the American media didn’t just sniff ‘The Loon’; it virtually inhaled it. From Rolling Stone to Pitchfork, the reviews have glowed like an indified Olympic Torch. So, why all the universal praise? “I guess it’s the warmth of the record - there’s something catchy in every song,” says a bashful Matt. “We didn’t want it to be too abrasive, just listenable from start to finish. I think that’s its greatest achievement.” Combining cavernous vocals and elasticising blues, ‘The Loon’ is more than just listenable – it’s engorging. But with its perennial Pavement comparisons, Matt is anxious to dispel suggestions of plagiarism: “It’s strange because we all grew up on The Beatles and Bob Dylan and you definitely hear more of that on the album,” he says, “but we’re really conscious of sounding like anyone else – if anything does we’ll try and change it by fucking it up a little.”

With such ardency in retaining the record’s integrity, it’s not surprising to find ‘The Loon’ was a collaborative affair: “We generally started with some sort of riff for each track and improvised from there,” Matt enthuses. “Essentially, we were striving to add a bit of urgency and drive to it – but really we were just as clueless as everyone else.” They may feel clueless, but with such a cohesively furious record there’s no doubting Tapes ‘n Tapes’ panoptic passion. Unlike much of America’s new wave however, Matt refutes any claims of political symbolism: “The songs all come from different places and Josh (Grier – Guitarist/Vocalist) is far too difficult to pin down lyrically,” he says. “This was never any hired gun idea – we just want to make music that people love.” Having released one of 2006’s most exquisite albums, the band is on the cusp of achieving its goal. With a UK tour at the end of August, their devoted internet following will surely be transformed into a rash of sold-out shows. And as the industry fat-cats lick their lips in anticipation, let’s hope it’s the sound of Tapes ‘n Tapes that purrs the loudest. ‘THE LOON’ IS RELEASED THROUGH XL ON JULY 24TH TAPES ‘N TAPES PLAY INDIAN SUMMER, VICTORIA PARK ON SEPTEMBER 3. WWW.TAPESNTAPES.COM

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Kaada - Music for Moviebikers by Ali Maloney

“I TRY TO MAKE THE MUSICIANS DO SOMETHING THEY’RE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH DOING”

ilm composer, musician and Mike Patton collaborator Kaada’s latest album, ‘Music for Moviebikers’ is a grandiose epic that stirs the soul in a way that few albums can hope to. A melting pot of vast cinematics and Scandinavian pop, the album draws upon all Kaada has learnt from scoring soundtracks as well as his time touring with his band, Cloroform. “The album was a huge project involving 22 musicians and all kinds of adapted instruments,” Kaada tells The Skinny, “It was completely different compared to my previous albums where I was sitting in front of my computers and controlling everything myself. We recorded the strings and the melodic instruments in a mausoleum in Oslo and it was a very inspiring place to record in. The only problem was that it was very dark so I couldn’t read any of my notes that I had written down.” Utilising guitars, strings, vocalists, and several home-made instruments, it is easy to take the scale of this album for granted in an age of digital samplers and synths. “I try to make the musicians do something they’re not comfortable with doing,” Kaada explains. “Because when they’re challenged they’ll give you their edgiest music.

between her strings, but after a while they understood what I meant.” With such attention to performance and his expansive musicality, it is little surprise to hear that Kaada has standing offers to compose for two of the big symphony orchestras in Norway and for the Norwegian Opera. “It will be enormously challenging to play live with all 22 musicians, but we’re talking about playing this material with a small ensemble. I’ve been touring on so many dirty rock stages, it would be really nice to tour old theatres,” Kaada muses. Already an accomplished and awarded soundtrack composer, ‘Music for Moviebikers’ suggests a very narrative or image driven theme, but Kaada is keen to separate the two with none of his movie soundtracks having been released on CD. “I’m not a fan of soundtrack CDs. I don’t think film music works out of context,” he says. “I wanted to make something that worked just as an album. I just brought all the instrumentation and the colourful soundscapes of film music to focus on trying to push moods. I wanted to make an album that wasn’t happy or sad, but conjured a bit of both in everything.” Mission accomplished.

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WELCOME TO A SLIMLINE BIKINI BEATS! Beats has been trimmed for August to accomodate the Festival Foolery, but it’s all for a good cause as the section goes weekly with SKINNYFest in Edinburgh during August – three 64 page issues in three weeks – that’s 192 more pages that will include coverage of the latest action from Edinburgh’s decks and dancefloors. Also it’s worth mentioning that all the Beats content that didn’t make issue 11 can be found on the Skinny website, check the web box for details. Oh and do you want some free stuff? Eh? Well do you? To win tickets to Optimo tell us; where do The Presets originate from? Include your name and a phone number, and email answers to: competitions@skinnymag.co.uk

PREVIEWS

BEATS A Fat Tuesday During Indian Summer

RED ALERT’S 6TH BIRTHDAY THE WEE RED BAR, EDINBURGH, AUGUST 11

These days you’re fairly lucky if a club lasts longer than five weeks, nevermind five years. Red Alert reaches six this month, and will be chasing away any inertia with the drum n’ bass, jungle and breaks-stylings of Paul Reset, Marc EP, and support from Alcane, JL Boco, and Kid Ill. The night will also double as an extended licence launch party for their new website and MySpace pages. The club has gone from a friend-filled function room in Dumfries, to Glasgow in 2005, and then on to Edinburgh for appearances at Xplicit and Obscene before settling into the Wee Red Bar. “We knew there would never be a huge audience for our beats in the town (Dumfries), but we persevered and gradually the crowd started to grow,” says Chris Bruce aka Overchore/ Kid Ill. Expect choice cuts from the breakbeat spectrum, an electro warm-up and a final bass thrashing, and keep an eye out for some special guests and promotions. The crew are already looking forward to the late-night birthday bash: “We hope everyone will join us to celebrate in August - from all our long-time regulars through to any open-minded people out for a great evening! We’ve always got some exciting tricks up our sleeves so you’ll just have to look out for more details. Doubtless to say, there will be treats for everyone, birthday cake and a whole load more.” [Alex Burden) 10.30 - 4AM, £4/3

by Fraser Cardow

THE AMAZING LINE-UP WILL NO DOUBT PUT A TWIST ON THEIR SOUND

ndian Summer, an innovative new two-day extravaganza that brings together the best pieces of the festival experience while leaving out some of the most despised (like camping and Paul Weller) is happening over the weekend of September 2nd and 3rd in the prettiest little park in Glasgow. Want to know more? The event is a shift away from the big, intense festivals such as Glastonbury and T in the Park, opting for a more mellow, luxurious style with a smaller capacity, better facilities and a meticulously selected line-up. The Southern Comfort Fat Tuesday tent will be creating an oasis for the weekend, offering an alternative to the frenetic atmosphere which usually dominates dance tents at festivals. Taking its cue from the infamous New Orleans Mardi Gras, the tent will be knee-deep with dancers smouldering with French sexiness and a languid, deep-south attitude. It’s the same tent that was used recently in Ibiza for a Southern Comfort Fat Tuesday event, and will no doubt feature the same lavish décor, creating a similarly surreal experience. At the Ibiza event, laidback partying was the order of the night, as actors danced through the crowd in their New Orleans-themed dresses and lingerie. A half-man, half-goat on roller-skates cajoled and danced around while a crazed, beautiful Greek nymph put a confused smile on everyone’s face. It was the attention to detail through decoration and performance that kept the crowd enthralled for the entire night. While the trimmings were superb, the musicians were the true highlight and the line-up that starred Alice Russell, Rob Da Bank, The Idjut Boys, Coldcut and TM Duke played a mixture of vibrant classics and fat, heavy grooves that gelled perfectly with the ambience of the evening. At the Indian Summer in Glasgow the tent will be taking on more of a disco and soul persona, and the amazing line-up will no doubt put a twist on their sound to ensure it’s another memorable Southern Comfort Fat Tuesday event. Mr Scruff, on the Ninja Tunes label with Coldcut, has just been announced as the headliner. Anyone who has experienced the cratedigging, genre-spanning madness of his sets at traveling club night ‘Keep It Unreal’ will tell you that his will be a set to drool over, as he builds from dub and hip-hop classics to frenetically pitched-up french house and heavy dancefloor jazz (not to mention the odd fish or two).

THE PRESETS (LIVE)

OPTIMO, SUB CLUB, GLASGOW, AUG 13 Fresh from Aussie super label Modular come The Presets, here to inject some antipodean sunshine into our muggy Scottish summer. Their debut album ‘Beams’ is a heady mix of punk rock, 80s electro, industrial techno, cinematic instrumentals, and a definite sense of rebellion against any constraints of genre or composition. Their current hit Are You The One? is described by band member Julian Hamilton (vocals, keyboards) as similar to “football hooligans playing Brazilian house music.” It’s one of the coolest albums of the summer, and they are hitting the road again to bring their music to the Optimo masses. The Presets will be on stage at midnight, so don’t drag your heels, be sure to catch the start of their set. JD Twitch and JG Wilkes’ reputation proceeds them: expect a lovingly concocted and sequenced set of aural treats from the men who Love Your Ears. You know you won’t be disappointed. [Peter Walker & Alex Burden]

The Southern Comfort Fat Tuesday Tent at The Big Chill Mr Scruff will be joined by the self-proclaimed ‘superhero of house’ Maurice Fulton, who has revived the flagging funk edges of the genre. Also present will be Amp Fiddler, with some sweet sounds from soul’s heyday, while the Butch Cassidy Sound System provide gritty and harmonious reggae. Accompanying that amazing line-up Bill Brewster and Quiet Village, with their cosmic disco, along with a host of others represent some of the most eclectic and skilled DJs and electronic live acts around. They’ll be pushing out disco, reggae, funk, jazz, and rare breaks in the cosy confines of the idyllic Southern Comfort Fat Tuesday tent. See our preview in Sounds for the line-up on the main stage. The event is being held in the West End’s Victoria Park, a setting that’s a world away from the big festivals and their rubbishstrewn fields, skyscraper speaker stacks and unmentionable toilet facilities. There are still some tickets left, but don’t expect them to last long - get on it before your only option is a triple-price ticket from eBay that most likely doesn’t even exist. See you there! TICKETS FROM WWW.TICKETWEB.CO.UK OR WWW.INDIANSUMMERGLASGOWCOM PHONE 08700 600 100 FOR CREDIT CARD BOOKINGS. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE IN PERSON FROM TICKETS SCOTLAND (GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH), RIPPING (EDINBURGH) AND MONORAIL (GLASGOW).GATES OPEN AT 2PM, ENDS 10.30 PM.

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Progression: End of an Era fter years of putting on some of the biggest parties Edinburgh has ever seen, the Progression crew have announced that they are ending their five-year residency at the Liquid Room. Over the years Progression have strived to provide a unique experience, born of a passion for “all things house,” and have played host to some of the biggest names in the music scene, including Layo and Bushwacka!, Darren Emerson and Pete Tong. They have recently come to the decision to bring an end to these legendary monthly events, as they feel its simply time to move on. They are certainly planning on going out with a bang with a string of massive events “...laced with some guaranteed messiness,” according to the promoters.

If any lucky readers are venturing to the White Isle in August, then be sure to catch up with residents Derek Martin, Alan Dobson and Gav Grant, who will be appearing at some of the coolest bars and venues in Ibiza from August 6 to 13, including Savannah, Bar X and Plastic, before finishing off on the Friday at Es Paradis (San Antonio) co-hosting

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alongside London based club Pukkaup’s DJs Mark Graham and Christopher Gaster.

photo: Calum Barr

by Karen Taggart

Back in sunny Edinburgh, August 26 sees the Progression Classics night, with the residents bringing out the house anthems that have made Progression such a big name over the past six years. There will be a free Progression Classics CD for all who attend. As it’s the Festival they have secured a 5am license, with a ‘filthy’ after-party planned (due to kick off at 6am - details disclosed on the night), so you can carry on the party for as long as you can handle it. The grand finale is on September 30, featuring guests Steve Angello and Desyn Masiello, promising an outstanding send off to this Edinburgh clubbing institution. There are plans for a final barbeque starting at 2pm on the Liquid Rooms patio the day after, giving regular punters a chance to bid Progression a fond farewell. However, this will not be the last we see of Derek, Alan and Gav, as they have plans to hold one-off events in Edinburgh and beyond,

including a huge 6th birthday bash at the end of the year. One such occasion is Unlock the House on August 19 at Ocean Terminal. Derek and Gav will be appearing as part of a massive lineup for this unique event, designed to showcase ‘the cream of the Edinburgh house scene’. Presenting over 25 of the capital’s best and most well-loved house DJs, alongside a selection of funk, soul and alternate beats, this event is sure to sell out fast, despite the 1800 capacity venue. Grab your chance to see the Progression crew in

action while you still can, and see what special surprises are lined up for the final messy nights. PROGRESSION : AUGUST 26, TICKETS £8. SEPTEMBER 30, £12.50. UNLOCK THE HOUSE : AUGUST 19, £12.00, TICKETS SCOTLAND, RIPPING, CITY CAFE. WWW.LIQUIDROOM.COM, WWW.PUKKAUP.COM WWW.UNLOCKTHEHOUSE.CO.UK (S EE OUR PREVIEW ONLINE) WWW.CLUB - PROGRESSION.CO.UK

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“WE PUT OUT 200 RECORDS IN 4 OR 5 YEARS, I DON’T THINK I’D EVER BE ABLE TO DO THAT AGAIN. I DON’T THINK I COULD EVER WORK LIKE THAT AGAIN, IT WAS JUST INSANE.”

aving just returned from a club tour of the States, James Lavelle sounds as though he’s in good form as he chews his lunch down the phone to The Skinny; “It was quite interesting because I was playing with Sasha, doing all these closing parties out there, very big clubs with two to three and a half thousand people a night. I wandered off the beaten track a bit too. America’s pretty popular for me at the moment, so it’s been good.”

The bloke who produced Kyuss records?

“Goss is one of my heroes and Autolux are one of my favourite bands at the moment.” Lavelle affirms; “Things have come from a mutual respect, it’s just the wonder of constantly discovering music.” UNKLE mark III appears set on an entirely different course, and in tune with his infatuation with the cinematic aesthetic of his records, the way Lavelle explains it, ‘The Future Is Unwritten’ sounds like the completion of some sort of trilogy; “It’s rawer [than ‘Psyence Fiction’ and ‘Never, Never, Land’] although it’s more in the vein of the traditional singer/ songwriter. If the first record was UNKLE does hiphop and the second record was UNKLE does electronic, then this one is like UNKLE does rock, but it’ll hopefully still have its continuity.”

Hold on, touring the States? Don’t you have a label to run James? James Lavelle no longer likes the music industry. Creating the seminal DIY label Mo’ Wax to rid himself of the usual everyday pressures to conform, the venture was apparently not without its hassles. Finally, after juggling jobs as both recording artist and boss for years, he put the label on hiatus. He ponders the dissolution of his baby with little regret, “I’ve learnt to just move on. I set up Mo’ Wax to be free, when we were kids we were told to go and fucking work in a shop or a bank, get up at 8’oclock in the morning and live a routine life. I enjoy the freedom to do what I want to do in my life, the way that it was before just wasn’t happening anymore. I see the music industry for what it is now.”

So what else is on the boil in chez Lavelle? Still partaking in the soundtrack work? “I’m working on a film with Darren Aronofsky at the moment, so definitely. It’s a collaboration between me and Clint Mansell who did the score, it’s to remix the score and do a whole new DVD package, the film is unbelievable. I’m working on a documentary about (‘The Driller Killer’ director) Abel Ferrara as well.” Fear not though Cabaret Voltaire attendees, James won’t be playing sounds to accompany some ‘Requiem For A Dream’-styled kaleidoscopic cinescape or jamming to big riffs when he assumes the wheels of steel this month; he laughs, “This will be completely the opposite, I’m playing really underground house, very electronic. I’m really enjoying it, it’s very different than what I’m doing when I make records, it’s just a completely different thing. I’ve really found my place as far as

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Indeed, label concerns seem truly a thing of the past as Lavelle is enjoying being afforded the time to tour and score soundtracks, not to mention the continuation of a little known project called UNKLE. Flanked by desert rock uber-producer Chris Goss and L.A avantgarde weirdos Autolux, James is currently putting the finishing touches to latest LP ‘The Future Is Unwritten’ while on home soil, due in early 2007. Hold on, Chris Goss?

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by Andrew Cooke

HENRIK SCHWARZ what I want to do as a DJ, but, you know, it’s club music. It’s still eclectic; it’s still not the same as if you’re going to see Steve Lawler of if you’re going to go and see fuckin’ Oakenfold or whatever. But equally, I’m not doing what Soulwax are doing; I feel I’ve got my own place.” With all of the above and fatherhood keeping him busy, does James feel any more productive in 2006? “I don’t know if I’ll ever be as productive as I was when I was 21” he states earnestly, “I mean we put out 200 records in 4 or 5 years, I don’t think I’d ever be able to do that again. I don’t think I could ever work like that again, it was just insane.” JAMES L AVELLE PLAYS SUGARBEAT AT CABARET VOLTAIRE, EDINBURGH ON AUGUST 25, £7 (TBC), 10.30 PM -5AM. WWW.UNKLE.COM

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I Love Acid @ Cabaret Voltaire, Aug 6, £5 (£4) On the one hand it’s a Sunday acid session with Mr. Gareth Somerville, Red 6 (Gent) and Yasmin (live PA) in the main room, on the other it’s a Sunday roast with Domu (Sonar Kollectiv) and The Trouble DJs out back!

Numbers, Point.One & WireBlock @ Vic Bar, Aug 4, £10 Mashed up live wrongness from Errorsmith (Smith n’ Hack, Berlin), Feadz and his missus Uffie (Bpitch Control, Paris), with Glasgow regulars Jackmaster & Spencer in support.

Solescience @ Cabaret Voltaire, Aug 11, £7 Chicago’s DJ Heather jacks the place, with room two’s guest Craig Jamieson (Modern Lovers) dropping northern soul, funk and jazz.

Graeme Park @ Sub Club, Aug 4, £8 (£6) The Subbie welcomes Hacienda legend narky Parky fet the ‘deen with big bags o’ funky hoose records. Dance To The Beat @ The Art School, Aug 12, £13 (£12 students) Optimo presents an NYC-centric party with legendary live punk-funk group ESG. Also DJing with JD Twitch & JG Wilkes is NYC’s Beats in Space radio host and DFA DJ Tim Sweeney.

Event Reviews The Hacker, Cabaret Voltaire, July 7 Loki Boat Party & The Admiral After Party, Renfrew Ferry, July 1 T in The Park, Slam Tent, July 9 Namosh, Record Playerz, GSA, July 27

Odyssey & The Nut House @ The Vaults, Aug 12, £8 The DJ Producer and The Teknoist mangle heads in the main room, whilst Acid Fairy, Luke McMillan, Greig Smith and plenty others scramble yer bonce in the hard but not quite as hard room.

Features A Separate Agenda: Percy X & the Separatists The Festival After Dark: August clubbing delights Electro Blanket: We love Linus Loves Extended Review: Great Ezcape Planet Paradinas: µ-ziq on Planet Mu’s Sacred Symbols

Bass Syndicate @ The Liquid Room, Aug 19, £12 A new night from the makers of Bio-Rhythm and Manga. The festival launch features the Plump DJs. Fat, funky and farty breaks. Split Special @ Cabaret Voltaire, Aug 22, free The healthy mid-week rave welcomes Manc’ DJ and producer Marcus Intalex and MC Verse to the drum & bass room, with strong techno/electro next door… and it’s still free! Xplicit @ The Bongo Club, Aug 25, £13 Another festival xclusive with Planet Pendulum playing alongside solid drum & bass residents ENO, Prophecy, Skye with MC’s Tonn Piper & BZ. Meldrum & B-Raw chill upstairs.

Monox @ Soundhaus, Aug 19, £tbc Suburban Knight and DJ Clandestine (Buzz Goree) from the UR assault team touch down for some intimidating Detroit sets, working their way through the seminal UR catalogue. Iridum @ Basura Blanca, Aug 26, £8 The first birthday with a DJ set from Sativae’s Steve Glencross and live techno courtesy of DJ Sueme (SubHead) - Merchant City’s most experimental evening.

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Free hip hop is rare; even harder to come by is a club that doesn’t turn into RnB after midnight, like some bling Cinderella-story with a glass Nike slipper. Introducing... some young blood to Edinburgh’s hip-hop scene. The concept behind the night is to showcase the talents of local DJs and emcees and the ever-growing output of bedroom producers; new faces who are otherwise excluded from the tightly-knit clique who have been at it for years in the city’s smaller venues. Warm up sets from K-Tang and Camilo that featured everything from A-Ha to Kano were followed by an Open Mic session, a Route One product-toss, some deck-dabbling with the classics and new tunes from Jaisu, SType and Prolifik - all ‘Introduced’ by the rumfuelled mumblings of Meton emcee Robbie Hurley. Surprisingly busy for the Bongo Club, the crowd seemed to get the idea; new faces who take their hip hop seriously, but thankfully not themselves. [April O’Neil] MONTHLY. WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MODERNMETON

C LP Reviews FORHECK O MO NLIN R R Great Ezcape - ‘Escapades EP’ R EVIEEVIEWSE SING E , CL LE WS (Great Ezcape Sounds) FEA & FANT UB The Remote - ‘Too Low to Miss’ TUR ASTI ES! C (Global Underground) Various Artisits - Soma 200 (Soma) Spank Rock – ‘Couche Tard’/‘YoYoYoYoYo’ Instrumentals’ (Big Dada) The Dark Craftsmen – ‘No Shadow On Your Sundial’ (Drop Zone) The Separatists - ‘Akilak’ (Soma)

Sumo @ Berlin, Aug 12, £7, £6 b4 12am Scotland house producer Milton Jackson plays live with Droido. House support comes from Geoff M, Harry and Steve Wanless, with Craig Smith in the bar.

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THE BONGO CLUB, by Dave Kerr EDINBURGH, JULY 12

BEATS

What became of the man from UNKLE

CLUB REVIEWS

Previews Iridium First Birthday, Basura Blanca, August 26 Sven Vath, Digitalism (live) and Yousef at Pressure w/Cotton Cake, The Arches, Sept 1 Max Tundra at dfrnt Trouble, Cabaret Voltaire, Aug 4 Unlock the House, Ocean Terminal, August 19 I Love Acid and Warehouse Classics, Cabaret Voltaire, Aug 6

SUBCULTURE, THE SUB CLUB, GLASGOW, JULY 22

T he s e l f- p roc l a i m e d ‘S u m m e r of S u b b i n’ continued with the arrival of Henrik Schwarz to Subculture for an underwhelming live house set. The German’s recent techy output, such as his split 12” with Villalobos, was mostly overlooked to the detriment of a set that lacked any real momentum. Harri and Dominic warmed up well in their usual fashion, hitting a range of house and tech-house that had a sizable saturday night crowd dancing by one o’clock before handing over the controls to Mr. Schwarz. Beginning on a slow burning melodic tip, Schwarz floundered for the first half hour without ever hitting any real groove. His mixdown of a swing beat into a danceable techno number was well received although his overly eclectic taste for disco-inspired tribal and heavily vocallead house left many people a little bemused. By the end the handful of faithful clubbers left needed to be encouraged to ask for an encore: one more tune? - maybe next time Henrik. [Robbie Thomson] WWW.SUBCLUB.CO.UK

LIL’ MARK

TELEFUNKEN, NICOL EDWARDS EDINBURGH, JULY 1 A small, tightly packed crowd created an atmosphere to rival any larger club in the compact Nicol Edwards, set deep in Edinburgh’s foundations; the punters able to get up close and personal with the proceedings without spending hours waiting at the bar. Lil’ Mark started his set to a quiet club but his choice of house wound its way through the warren, and was enough to bait a crowd from the bar upstairs and get the vaults buzzing. Good lively house, and a crowd definitely enjoying it. If you’re not in the mood for a techno workout and handbag house is lacking the substance you crave then Telefunken is a great middle ground without the inflated prices. Only the residents and future guests can determine which way this club will go but my hope is that it builds from the solid windy city foundation and gets the following that it deserves. [Mike Byrne] CHECK OUT THE FIRST OF A TWO PART FESTIVAL SPECIAL FROM T ELEFUNKEN WITH DA S UNLOUNGE , THE VAULTS , A UGUST 5 TH , 10.00 PM - 5 AM (£ 5). F ULL PHOTO GALLERY ON WWW.FACTION.CO.UK

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GLASGOW COMEDY Tuesday 1st August

Red Raw, The Stand, With compere Teddy featuring an extended preview set from Glasgow’s own Frankie Boyle, 8.30pm, £3/£2

Wednesday 2nd August EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE PREVIEW DOUBLE BILL!, The Stand, A.L. Kennedy, ‘Feel the Love’, & Brendan Dempsey, ‘England Expects’, 9pm, £6/£3

Thursday 3rd August The Thursday Show, The Stand, Junior Simpson, Teddy, Susan Calman & Antony Murray. Hosted by Raymond Mearns., , £6/£5 Big Bluu Comedy Gong Show, Glasgow Bluu, Beat the gong & win £100 prize, 8.30pm, Free

Pick of the Fringe, The Stand, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Reginald D. Hunter, Tim Clark, Steve Day & Ross Baillie., 8.30pm, £7/£6/£5 Big Bluu Comedy Gong Show, Glasgow Bluu, Beat the gong & win £100 prize, 8.30pm, Free

Friday 11th August Pick of the Fringe, The Stand, Bruce Devlin presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Brendan Dempsey, Gary Little, Ava Vidal & Antony Murray, 8.30pm, £8(£7) Jongleurs Comedy Club, UGC Building, R David, Dominic Woodward, Jim Tavare, 8pm, £10 Ha Ha Comedy, Curlers, TBC, 8pm, £3

Saturday 12th August

Friday 4th August Jongleurs Comedy Club, UGC Building, Silky, Simon Bligh, Gerry McDade, 8pm, £10 Ha Ha Comedy, Curlers, TBC, 8pm, £3

Saturday 5th August The Stand, Junior Simpson, Teddy, Susan Calman & Andy McPartland. Hosted by Raymond Mearns., 9pm, £10(£8) Jongleurs Comedy Club, UGC Building, Silky, Simon Bligh, Gerry McDade, 8pm, £13

Sunday 6th August

Michael Redmond’s Fringe Sunday, The Stand, Kevin McAleer, Zoe Lyons, Andrew Bird & Lazyhand with host Michael Redmond, 8.30pm, £4/£3/£1

Pick of the Fringe, The Stand, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Jeff Green, Shappi Khorshandi, Tanya Lee Davis & Billy Kirkwood, 3pm, tbc The Stand, Nick Wilty, Andy Sir, Juliet Meyers & Gus Tawse. Hosted by Joe Heenan, 9pm, £10(£8) Jongleurs Comedy Club, UGC Building, R David, Dominic Woodward, Jim Tavare, 8pm, £13

Sunday 13th August Michael Redmond’s Fringe Sunday, The Stand, Tonight featuring Stewart Lee, Tanya Lee Davis, AL Kennedy & Ross Baillie, 8.30pm, £5/£4/£1

Monday 14th August

Monday 7th August

Pick of the Fringe, The Stand, Doug Stanhope - entire show, 8.30pm, £7

Fringe Special, The Stand, Simon Munnery’s AGM, 8.30pm, £7

Tuesday 15th August

Tuesday 8th August Red Raw, The Stand, Fresh comedian flesh for your maw, 8.30pm, £2(£1)

Wednesday 9th August Pick of the Fringe, The Stand, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Michael McIntyre, Nik Coppin, Lee Barnard & Niall Browne, 9pm, £6/£5/£4

Thursday 10th August

Save Cardross Seminary Benefit, The Stand, Comedians including Simon Munnery, Tony Carter & Kevin Bridges are giving up their time free to help save this historic building, why not come down? All ticket money goes towards the cause, 8.30pm, £6/£4

Thursday 17th August

Thursday 24th August

Pick of the Fringe, The Stand, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Owen O’Neill, Adrian Poynton, Kerry Godliman & Del Strain, 8.30pm, £7/£6

Pick of the Fringe, The Stand, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Alun Cochrane, Die Clatterschenkenfietermaus, Keith Farnan & Ross Baillie, 8.30pm, £7/£6/£5

Big Bluu Comedy Gong Show, Glasgow Bluu, Beat the gong & win £100 prize, 8.30pm, Free

Friday 18th August

Friday 25th August

Pick of the Fringe, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Owen O’Neill, Ronnie Golden, Henrik Elmer & Gus Tawse, 9pm, £10/£9/£8

Pick of the Fringe, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Michael McIntyre, Tony Law, Lee Nelson & Phil Differ, 8.30pm, £10/£9/£8

Ha Ha Comedy, Curlers, TBC, 8pm, £3

Ha Ha Comedy, Curlers,Line Up TBC,8.30pm, £6

Ha Ha Comedy, Blackfriars, Line Up TBC, 8.30pm, £6

Jongleurs Comedy Club, UGC Building, Brendan Riley, Charlie Ross, 8pm, £10

Jongleurs Comedy Club, UGC Building, Paul Chowdhry, Sandy Nelson, 8pm, £12

Saturday 19th August

Saturday 26th August

Pick of the Fringe, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Karen Dunbar, Paul Sinha, John Hegley & Del Strain, 9pm, £10

Pick of the Fringe, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Jeff Innocent, Kevin Bridges, Steve Day & Antony Murray, 9pm, £10

Ha Ha Comedy, Blackfriars, Hosted by Raymond Mearns, 8.30pm, £6

Jongleurs Comedy Club, UGC Building, Paul Chowdhry, Sandy Nelson, 8pm, £13

Jongleurs Comedy Club, UGC Building, Brendan Riley, Charlie Ross, 8pm, £13

Ha Ha Comedy, Blackfriars, Line Up TBC, 8.30pm, £6

Sunday 20th August

Sunday 27th August

Michael Redmond’s Fringe Sunday, The Stand, Michael Redmond at the helm. Tonight featuring Gordon Southern, Tara Flynn, Henrik Elmer & Phil Differ, 8.30pm, £4/£3/£1

Michael Redmond’s Fringe Sunday, The Stand, Michael Redmond at the helm. Tonight featuring Simon Munnery, Maeve Higgins, Terry Saunders & Billy Kirkwood, 8.30pm, £6/£5/£4

Monday 21st August

Tuesday 29th August

Release U Win Tin, The Stand, Boothby Graffoe & Nick Pynn, 8.30pm, £7/£6

Red Raw,The Stand,With Vince Fluke,8.30pm, £2

Wednesday 30th August

Tuesday 22nd August

Best of Irish, The Stand, tbc, 8.30pm, £7/£6

Red Raw, The Stand, With headliner Steve Williams , 8.30pm, £2(£1)

Thursday 31st August

Wednesday 16th August

Wednesday 23rd August

Pick of the Fringe, The Stand, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Andy Zaltzman, Kevin Dewsbury, Diane Morgan & Andy McPartland, 8.30pm, £6/£4/£3

Pick of the Fringe, The Stand, Raymond Mearns presents four of the best acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. Tonight featuring Josh Howie, Keith Carter, Stuart Goldsmith & Niall Browne, 8.30pm, £6/£5/£4

GLASGOW ARTS

The Arches, 153 Argyle St,

Animalario, Grafitti art by Enrique Cintrano, August 9 - 31, Free, Mon-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun midday-10pm The Day Without Work, the Night Without Sleep, New work by Elph, Until August 6, Free, Mon-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun midday-10pm The Auld Kirk Museum, Cowgate, Kirkintilloch, Various artists, Featuring objects of local, national&international significance, Daily, Free, Tue-Sat, 10am-1pm, 2pm-5pm The Burrell Collection, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 17th Century samplers, Embroidered samplers from Sir William Burrell’s wonderful collection of British embroideries, End date tbc, Free, Mon-Thu+Sat 10am-5pm, Fri+Sun 11am-5pm CCA, 250 Sauchiehall St, Marcel Dzama - Tree with Roots, Idiosyncratic work by the Canadian, August 5 to September 16, Free, Tues-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12pm-6pm, closed Mon Erica Eyres, Exploring how women portray themselves through self-portraits, August 5 to September 16, Free, Tues, Wed, Fri 11am-6pm, Thurs 11am-9pm, Sat, Sun 12pm-6pm, closed Mon Compass Gallery, 178 West Regent St, Exhibition tbc, Various artists, Open all year, Free, Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm

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Collins Gallery, 22 Richmond St, The Scottish Glass Society, Annual exhibition, Until August 12, Free, Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 12pm-4pm Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Exchange Square, Contemporary Collection, The work of seven artists who have all studied at the city’s art school, End date tbc, Free, MonWed, Sat 10am-5pm, Thurs 1oam-8pm, Fri, Sun 11am-5pm Material World, Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection, Until Sept 25, Free, MonWed, Sat 10am-5pm, Thurs 1oam-8pm, Fri, Sun 11am-5pm Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew St. Atrium Gallery, Cordelia Oliver, Portraits of artists from festivals passed, Until August 31, Free, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm Mackintosh Gallery, Mackintosh’s Architectural Drawings, Tracing the evolution of his architectural language, August 8 to September 30, Free, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm Mackintosh Building, Jane Topping&Billy Teasdale, Work from the new Emergent Artists programme, August 19 to September 15, Free, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, Dumbreck Road, Various Artists, A new show different each month featuring a selection of contemporary Scottish artwork, Opening times vary, Free, Sat, Sun 10am-1pm

Hunterian,University of Glasgow,82 HillheadSt, Margaret Macdonald Macintosh, Watercolours&design work, August 12 - November 18, Admission charge, Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm

The Thursday Show, The Stand, Craig Campbell, Nick Doody & Phil Differ. Hosted by Sandy Nelson, 8.30pm, £6/£5/£3 Big Bluu Comedy Gong Show, Glasgow Bluu, Beat the gong & win £100 prize, 8.30pm, Free

Project Ability (CDA gallery), 18 Albion St, New Work by Garvald&KCAT Artists, Works in many mediums, Until September 22, Free, MonFri 10am-5pm Project Ability (Trongate Studios), 18 Albion St, Future Relics, An exhibition of two&three dimensional work by Trongate Studios artist Martin McCann, Until September 1, Free, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm

Doves&Dreams, The Art of Frances Macdonald&J Herbert McNair, August 12 - Nevember 18, Admission charge, Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell lane, Marcel Breuer, Marking the 25th anniversary of the death of one of the most influential designer-architects of the 20th Century, Until August 27, £3(£1.50), Mon, Wed-Sat 10.30am5pm, Tue 11am-5pm, Sun 12pm-5pm Defining Place, Photpgraphs of Edinburgh&Glasgow, Until August 27, £3(£1.50), Mon, Wed-Sat 10.30am-5pm, Tue 11am-5pm, Sun 12pm-5pm Katy West, New ceramic work, Until August 6, £3(£1.50), Mon, Wed-Sat 10.30am-5pm, Tue 11am-5pm, Sun 12pm-5pm Lillie Art Gallery, Station Road, Milngavie, Shona Barr, Landscapes, Until August 18, Free, Tue-Sat 10am-1pm, 2pm-5pm Face&Figure, Figurative work from the permanent collection, Until August 18, Free, TueSat 10am-1pm, 2pm-5pm

Sorcha Dallas, 5 St Margaret’s Place, Alex Pollard, New solo show, August 5 to September 2, Free, Tue - Sat 11am-5pm St Mungo Museum, 2 Castle St, Women&War, Photojournalism by Jenny Matthews, Until August 13, Free, Mon-Thu, Sat 10am-5pm, Fri, Sun 11am-5pm The Modern Institute, 73 Robertson St, Manfred Pernice, New Solo Show, Until September 16, Free, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 12pm-5pm Tramway , 25 Albert Drive, Keith Coventry, Paintings, August 18 to September 17, Free, TuesFri 10am-5pm, Sat, Sun 12pm-5pm How to Do White, Where fine art&fashion, desire&repulsion, surface&substance, cross, collide&diverge, August 18 to September 17, Free, Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat, Sun 12pm-5pm

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EDINBURGH ARTS The Adam Pottery, 76 Henderson Row, The Adam Pottery, Selling exhibition, August 7 September 2, Free, 10am - 5.30pm

Analogue, 102 West Bow, Will Barras, New work , August 4 to September 2, Free, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm Amber Roome, 75/79 Cumberland St. Andrew Mackenzie - Delicate Ground, August 3 to September 7, Free, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm Assembly, 58 Shandwick Place, Zimbabwe Sculpture, Haunting, spirit-oriented work, August 4 - 28, Free, Tue - Sun 10am - 8pm Augustine’s, 41 George IV Bridge, Multiply, Five animated music videos, August 15 - 19, £2 (£1.50), 11.35am (25 minutes) The Bongo Club, 37 Holyrood Road, Scott Donohue - People Love Machines, a satirical response to modern society’s obsession with machines, August 2 to September 4, Free, MonFri 11am-late, Sat 12.30pm-late Cameo Cinema Bar, Home St, Eilidh Baxter, Photographs exploring the diversity of textures & patterns in the macro scale, Until August 8, Free, Open each day during bar hours Camera Obscura, Castlehill, Royal Mile, Where Seeing is Not Believing, Endless handson fun’, Until September 3, £6.95 (£5.50) (£4.50 C), 9.30am - 7.30 pm (last show 6.30pm) Cell 77, 77 Montgomery St, Invitation to Mood, Including Darius Jones & Lu Flux, August 18-25, Free, 11am-4pm City Art Centre, 2 Market St. Toulouse-Lautrec & the Art Noveau Poster, Rare lithographic prints, Until October 22, £5 (3.50), Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12pm-5pm Albert Watson - Frozen, Retrospective of the Scottish-born photographer, Until October 22, £5 (3.50), Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12pm-5pm Anne Redpath & the Edinburgh School, Exploring the work of the acclaimed Scottish artist, Until October 22, £5 (3.50), Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12pm-5pm Collective Gallery, 22-28 Cockburn St. Matt Stokes, Winner of this year’s Beck’s Futures, Until September 16, Free, Tue-Sat 12pm-5pm Concrete Wardrobe, 317 - 319 Cowgate, Eclectic mix of design work, Until September 2, Free, 12pm - 6pm Corn Exchange Gallery, Constitution St, Leith, Phoebe Cummings - Fragments, Exploring the psychological space of objects, Until August 10, Free, Wed-Sat 11am-4.30pm Lauren Kirkman, A large-scale installation of an Edinburgh road, August 16 to September 28, Free, Wed-Sat 11am-4.30pm Danish Cultural Institute, 3 Doune Terrace, Some Paintings of Life, By Leif Sylvester, August 7 to September 2, Free, Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm

Doggerfisher, 11 Gayfield Square , Moyna Flannigan, Solo Show, August 4 to September 30, Free, Wed-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12pm-5pm Edinburgh Academy, 42 Henderson Row, Gordonstoun Ogs Art Works, Showcase, August 14 - 19, Free, 10am - 5pm

National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Audubon’s Adevntures in Edinburgh, How Scotland shaped the work of the great wildlife artist, Until October 15, Free, 10am - 5pm (8pm during festival), Sun 2pm - 5pm National Museums of Scotland, Chambers St, Reflections, A decade of North lands creative glass, Until January 2007, Free, Daily 10am - 5pm

St John’s Church Hall, Corner of Princes St & Lothian Road, New Scottish Furniture, Prestigious exhibition, August 5 - 27, £2.50 (£1.50), Daily 10am - 6pm

Nomad’s Tent, 21 St Leonard’s Lane, The Story of Khmer Sculpture, Cambodian sculpture, Aug 2 to Sep 2, Free, 10am - 5pm, Sun 12am - 4pm

St John’s Church Gardens, Cnr Princes St & Lothian Road, 3d/2d Craft & Design fairs, 80 exhibitors daily, Aug 5, 7 - 27, Free, 11am - 6pm

Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union St. David Shrigley - Recent Prints, Recent prints by the Ocean Terminal, Ocean Drive, Leith, Art in the Glasgow-based scallywag, Until September 16, Mall, Showcasing local artists, August 6 - 28, Free, Daily 10am - 12pm Free, Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

Stenton Gallery, 120 george St, Scottish Art Today, Group Show, August 13 - September 3, Free, 10am - 6pm

ONEZERO, 10 Northumberland St, Magazine OffEdinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow, Discover Islam, A dynamic exhibition, August Site, Talks & workshops, Super 8 workshop Aug 15/16, Talk Aug 17, tbc, tbc 1 - 31, Free, 12am - 6pm, Fri 2pm - 6pm

Studio One Gallery, 10 Stafford St, Sorry You Missed the 60s, Images by Philip Townsend, August 6 - 27, It’s free baby!, 9.30am - 6pm, Sun 11am - 5pm

Open Eye Gallery, 34 Abercromby Place, Rembrandt - The Etchings, Celebrating the King St, International Photography, More than 400th anniversary of his birth, Until September 5, 200 prints, August 6 - September 3, £3 (£2), Free, Mon-Fri 11am-6pm, Sun 10am-4pm 10am - 8pm, Sun 1pm - 5pm Edinburgh Photographic Society , 68 Great

Patriothall Gallery, WASPS, 1d Patriothall, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 25 Stockbridge, Crossflows, Seven international Hawthornvale, Magazine, Contemporary artists interpret Japanese woodblock, August 5 sculpture, August 12 - 20, Free, 10am - 5pm, Sun - 27, Free, Tue-Sun 10am-5pm 12pm - 5pm The Queens Gallery, Palace of Holyrood House, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market St. Marijke Canaletto in Venice, Paintings & Drawings, Until van Warmerdam - First Drop, New & recent January 7 2007, £5(£4), Mon-Sun 9.30am-6pm photographs, sculpture & film, Until Sep 17, Free, Mon-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 12pm-5pm The Red Door Gallery, 42 Victoria St. Various arts & crafts, Art to buy at a reasonable price, EmergeD, Scottish Book Trust, 55 High St, Scott Free, Mon-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm Laverie, New collaborative installation, Until Sep 3, Free, tbc Rias Gallery, 15 Rutland Square, My Favourite Place, Architects reveal their visions, August 7 Galerie Mirages, 46a Raeburn Place, - 26, Free, Mon - Fre 9am - 5pm, Sat 91m - 1pm Jewellery of the World, Jewellery from all over the shop, Until September 2, Free, 10am - 6pm, Royal Botanical Garden, Palm House, Sun 12pm - 5pm David Batchelor - Candela 7/450, Specially Treasure Chests, Pirates take note, Until September 2, Free, 10am - 6pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm comissioned sculpture, From August 15, Free, Daily 10am-7pm Greyfriars Kirk, Candlemaker Row, Human Rights Denied & Jesus Laughing & Loving, Protest pictures + paintings of Jebus laughing, August 9 - 10, 15 - 18, 21 - 25, 28 - Sep 1, Free, 10.30am - 12.30pm Heart Gallery, 6 Waterloo Place, Sex Machines, Duchamp, Picabia & the Large Glass, Until September 2, Free, Sun - Sat 12pm - 6pm Hyperground, 16 Bruntsfield Crescent, Roll Over, Four evening installations by various artists, Aug 6 - 12, Free, See www.annuale.org I2, 34 Abercromby Place, David Hockney, Two decades of printmaking, August 12 to September 23, Free, Mon-Fri 11am-6pm, Sun 10am-4pm Ingleby Gallery, 6 Carlton Terrace, Thread, Featuring numerous contemporary artists, Until September 9, Free, Tue-Sat 10am-5pm

Thomson’s Bar, 182 Morrison St, Architectural Designs of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson, Scotland’s second favourite architect, Until September 2, Free, 12am - 11pm Total Kunst at Forest, 3 Bristo Place, Nowa Huta- Unwanted Heritage, Work by Polish Photographers, August 2 - August 6, Free, Daily 11am-11pm Living Room Banter, The living room as a hub of inspiration, tbc, Free, Daily 11am-11pm Traverse Theatre, Cambridge St, Dazzle, 50 Contemporary Jewellers, August 4 - 28, Free, Daily 10am - 12am

Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Devil in the Detail: Adam Elsheimer, Investigating the much overlooked artist, Until September 3, £6 (£4), Daily 10am-5pm, Thu 10am7pm Ronnie Forbes Arsa & Doug Coker Arsa - Parallel paths, New works by these Academicians, Until August 6, Free, Daily 10am-5pm, Thu 10am-7pm Ron Mueck, See preview in Skinnyfest section, August 5 until October 1, £6 (£4), Daily 10am-5pm, Thu 10am-7pm Laura Ford - Armour Boys, New, emotive sculptural works, August 12 to September 10, Free, Daily 10am-5pm, Thu 10am-7pm

Scotlandart.com, 2 St Stephen Place, Best of Scottish Contemporary Art, Art for Sale!, August The Leith Gallery, 65 The Shore, Leith, Various 3 - September 2, Free, 10.30am - 5.30pm, Sun 12am artists, Group Show, Open all year, Free, Mon- 5pm Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm

Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road, Eduardo Paolozzi: Prints & Drawings, Superb wee exhibition, Until October 1, Free, Daily 10am5pm

Lyon & Turnbull, 33 Broughton Place, Treasures from Lennoxlove, Furniture & art from Lennoxlove, August 1 - 18, Free, Mon - Sat 11am - 5pm

Designshop UK, 116 Causewayside, & We Too Want to Change the World, Sensually minimalistic design by Karim Rashid, August 1 - September 2, Free, 10am - 6pm, Sun 12am - 4pm

The Village, 16 South Fort St, Global Village, Exploring contemporary existence, Until September 2, Free, 12am - 11pm

Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers St, Beyond the Palace Walls, A Cornucopia of Islamic Art, Until Nov 5, £6(£5), Daily 10am - 5pm

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 75 Lucie Fenton Gallery, 20a Raeburn Pl, Athens Belford Road, Robert Mapplethorpe, The of the North, Watercolours of Edinburgh’s first Scottish retrospective of the artist, Until Cityscape, August 6 - 26, Free, 10am - 5.30pm, November 5, £6 (£4), Daily 10am-5pm Sun 12am - 4pm

Ten Bindings, Book bindings by Faith Shannon, Until October 8, Free, Daily 10am-5pm

Talbot Rice, University of Edinburgh, Southbridge, Girlpower/Boyhood, Realistic fantasy painting, August 6 to September 30, Free, Tue-Sat 10am-5pm

Robert Ryman, Modernist works by the American painter, Until Oct 1, Free, Daily 10am5.30pm

David Zyoung Gallery, 29 Albany St, PostImpressionism, Work by Andriy Yalanskyi, August 5 - 26, Free, Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm

Van Gogh & Britain, The first Van Gogh exhibition in Scotland for over 50 years, Until September 24, £6 (£4), Daily 10am-5pm

Stills, 23 Cockburn St. Tracey Moffat, Carefully orchestrated retro imagery, Until October 29, Free, Daily 11am-6pm

Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Phoebe Ann Traquair Murals, Gilded Murals, August 6 - 25, Free, Sun - Fri 11am - 1pm National Gallery of Scotland, The Mound, Rembrandt at 400, Master prints from the National Gallery of Scotland, Until August 27, Free, Daily 10am-5pm, Thu 10am-7pm

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Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen St. Thoroughly Modern Women, All the portraits of women that the gallery has acquired in the last year, Until August 28, Free, Daily 10am-5pm, Thu 10am-7pm Face of Craft, Celebrating the work of ten makers, Until October 8, Free, Daily 10am-5pm, Thu 10am-7pm Harry Benson, Celebrating fifty years of photojournalism, August 4 to January 7, £6(£4), Daily 10am-5pm, Thu 10am-7pm St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Phoebe Anna Traquair Song School Murals, Painted between 1888 - 1892, August 1 - 31, Free, Mon - Sat 11am & 12 pm (45 mins)

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GLASGOW CLUBS

Tuesday 1st August

12 Hour Tuesdays, SSU, Chart music & live comedy, 3pm-3am, £2, free b4 3pm Abolicano Capoeira Scotland, RSAMD, Brazilian martial art with dance & music, 6pm7.30pm, £tbc All Star, Bamboo, Andy Wilson plays funk with DJ Kash on the hip pop, 10pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 11pm/12.30am with matric Camouflage, Liquid Lounge, The best in midweek hip hop, breakbeat, electro & house, 11pm3am, £2 Funky Luv, Play, Driving vocal house, 10pm-3am, £5, £3 NUS Inflatable Fun, The Garage, Naughty Nicola with inflatables & groovy tunes, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 12am with PIYP Kaleidoscope, ABC2, Old school rock & roll, motown, pre-1984 music, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2) Killer Kitsch, The Buff Club, The Glimmers DJ a mixed bag from disco & dub to post-punk & hip hop, 11pm-3am, £6 (£5) Rock Karaoke, The Cathouse, Karaoke to rock, Free b4 12am

Wednesday 2nd August Deliverance, The Cathouse - Level 2, DJ Dec with alternative music, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12am with PIYP Eletricat Dance Group, RSAMD, Brazilian Street Dance classes, 6pm-7pm, £4 (£3.50), £3 RSAMD Gossip, SSU, Gay/mixed night with DJ Ricci, 8pm-late, Free Joints & Jams, Cube, The Longest running RnB night in Glasgow, 11pm-3am, £3 (£2) Mjam Salsa, Liptons, Salsa classes from 8pm with Chris Traynor, free club from 10.15pm, 8pm12am, Free New Flesh, Fury Murry’s, Rock, metal, punk, rap, industrial & alternative music, 10pm-3am, £4, £2 from 10pm-11pm, £1 with flyer/after 11pm Octopussy, The Arches, Student night with a bouncy castle, swimming pool?, jacuzzi?? & wedding chapel???, 10pm-3am, £4 Scottish Drum & Bass, The Liquid Lounge, Weekly session, 10.30pm-late, £2 Tongue In Cheek, Bamboo, Lounge, RnB & indie, 10pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with matric Whatever, The Garage, Andy & Brian, chart music, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP The Bunker Bar, Martin Bate (Beat 106) plays vintage rock & indie, 9pm-late, Free

Thursday 3rd August *.*, The Buff Club, Rock’n’roll & northern soul, 11pm-3am, £3 Abolicano Capoeira Scotland, RSAMD, Brazilian martial art with dance & music, 6pm7.30pm, £tbc Babaza, BeLo, Hip hop with the funk, 10pm-3am, £6, free b4 11pm Chix On Dex, Chinawhite, Rock, funkpunk & house all mixed by lovely ladies, 10pm-3am, £4, free b4 11pm Cigarettes & F**k All, The Butterfly & The Pig, Craig McGee plays indie & rock ‘n’ roll, 9pm-late, Free Club Olum, Bloc, DJ Dirty Marc featuring Deaf Mutes, 9pm-3am, Free Ctrl+Alt+Del, MacSorleys, Live electro-tech sets from Michael Forshaw, Alexsandr Jurczyk & Glacier, 8pm-12am, Free Disko Box, Oran Mor, Electro, disco punk & indie with Drive By Argument, We Are The Physics & FO Machete (DJs), £6 (£4) Freakmoves, Glasgow School of Art, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts from the Freakmenoovers DJs, Record Playerz in the bar, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Freakscene, Polar Bar (ABC), Retro & alternative sounds, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) The Funky Precedent, Saint Jude’s, Hip hop, funk, soul & motown with D_Fade, Duncan Harvey & Boom Monk Ben, 8pm-late, Free Homebrew, The Sub Club, Hip hop to nasty electro via the rest with Tiff Peaches, Provinylist Karim Ill Technique & Groundskeeper GC, 11pm3am, £3, £2 matric. card

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Audio, Bloc, House, techno & electro from DJ Aiden , 9pm-3am, Free Backtrax, Betty’s, 100% old skool tunes, £8 Colours, The Arches, Sasha Gabriel & Dresden (4 hour set) with Audiofly Spooky (live) & Hed Kandi DJs in the 1st arch, 10pm-3am, £25

Confusion, Soundhaus, A night of organised Lollipop, GUU, Pop, RnB & Indie , 10pm-2am, £3 chaos with 69 db live and hard tekno, breaks & (£2, £1), free b4 9pm electro from Kaotek/Confusion/Iridium residents, On Demand, The Shed, DJ Euan takes requests 10.30pm-4am, £7 by text message at this interactive club night, Digital Harlot, SSU, Dr. Butcher, DJ Dawnimatrix 10.30pm-3am, £3 & DJ Effigy play industrial EBM & digital hardcore Plastic Funk, Bamboo, Mark Robb, Tania & with fucked up costumes along the way, friends play funk, soul & rock n roll, 10.30pm-5am, 10.30pm-3am, £5 £4 (£3), free b4 11pm/12.30am with matric Dirty Recordz, GUU, Paul N’Jie (Beat 106) plays

Pump Up The Jam, SSU, Old school cheese, live current tunes, open decks downstairs, 10pm-2am, bands & funky house, £2 £3 (£2, £1), free b4 9pm Radiomagnetic, Gazelle, Funk, soul & latin Divine!, The Vic Bar, Mr. Divine & Hushpuppy grooves with Radiomagnetic DJs, From 8pm, Free bring you northern soul, funk, ska & mod tunes, 11pm-3am, £6 (£5) Record Playerz, The Vic Bar, Hi-Fi Sean & Hushpuppy play disco electro, 11pm-3am, £4 Fractured, QMU, Techno, drum n bass, indie, rock (£3) & alternative, 8pm-late, £6 Rubbermensch, ABC2, A night for indie lovers, Groovejet, Mas, Weekly house & RnB mix, 11pm11pm-3am, £4 (£3) 3am, £7 (£5) Skint, The Cathouse - Level 2, DJ Billy with metal Hip Drop, Brel, Funk, soul, electro & disco from hip hop & rock, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 Robbie Rolex & Nel, 9pm-1am, Free 12.30am with PIYP Home Cookin’, BeLo, Urban music showcase, The Thursday Club, The Garage, Gerry Lyons & 10pm-3am, £7, free b4 11pm Brian playing chart anthems, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), Homegrown, Bamboo, The 3rd birthday, free b4 12am with PIYP 10.30pm-5am, £8 (£6), free b4 10.30pm/12.30pm The Bunker Bar, CJ plays grunge & new rock, with matric 9pm-late, Free I Love The Garage, The Garage, Classics,

Friday 4th August Ballbreaker, The Cathouse, Barry & Billy with rock & metal, 10.30pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30am with PIYP Boogie Down, Bluu, The groove-merchant Stewart Reid plays a jazz, disco & house sound, 10pm-3am, £5, free b4 11pm

10.30pm-3am, £7 (£5), £6 (£4) b4 12am Lust Fot Life, ABC1, Gerry Lyons plays soul, punk, rock & indie dance, 11pm-3am, £7 (£5) Lust Fot Life, ABC2, David Sinclair (Killer Kitsch) plays electro, house & pop, 11pm-3am, £7 (£5) Numbers, CCA Bar, Electronics with Father & Son DJ set featuring Bobbycleaver, plus Spencer & Jackhammer, 9pm-1am, Free

Brown Baggin’ It, The Garage, Retro, britpop, Nu-school, The Buff Club, Fresh northern soul, alternative, chill, RnB & soul, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), jazz & funk featuring live percussion, classics free b4 11.30pm with PIYP downstairs, 10.30pm-3am, £6 Burly, The Arches, Bi & gay men aged 25+, Open Dex, Deep 6 (GUU), Bring your vinyl/CDs 10.30pm-3am, £10, £8 members if you think you can do better, 9pm-1am, £1, £2 Critical Mass, Polar Bar (ABC), No Music Policy, non-members 11pm-3am, £6 (£4) Revolution, The Vaults, House & trance , 10pm3am, £8 Festival, ABC1, Genre mash-up from Euan Neilson, 11pm-3am, £6 (£4) Subculture, The Sub Club, Deep, speccy house & techno with King Britt (Philadelphia), 11pmFluid, Mas, Funky house from Lisa Littlewood, 3am, £10, £8 b4 12.30am 11pm-3am, £5 Thefling, The Tall Ship, Ceilidh in the club with The Kilters, Billy Milligan, Ross Mcmillan, whisky & Freakmenoovers, Blanket, Fresh hip hop & funk Alex on Keys, 7pm-1am, £12 Voodoo, The Cathouse, Under-18 club with cuts from the Freakmenoovers DJs, 11pm-3am, metal, emo & punk, 5pm-9pm, £6 (£3) £6 (£4) Freakmenoovers, Rust Bar, Early doors serving of hip hop, funk, RnB & soul, 9pm-12am, Free

Goodfoot, The Riverside, Northern soul, motown, latin & funk, 12am-3am, £5 Its My Birthday, The Sub Club, Hacienda DJ Graeme Park, 11pm-3am, £8 (£6) Numbers/Point.One/Wireblock, The Vic Bar, Errorsmith, Feadz n Uffie, Jackmaster & Spencer with mashed up electronics, 10.30pm-late, £10

Xpress, November, House from special guest Huggy (XFM) & Tom Morgan, 9pm-3am, £5, free b4 11pm ABC, Room 1 plays soul, funk & punk with Gerry Lyons, room2 plays electro with Wasted Youth, 10pm-3am, £5 (£4), free b4 11.30pm with matric

The Bunker Bar, Martin Bate (Beat 106) plays Old School, The Buff Club, Old school tunes with vintage rock & indie, 9pm-late, Free The Cathouse, Barry & Andy with all things rock, Gordie & Jack, 10.30pm-3am, £6 Red & Gold Room, Arta, Soul musak, 10pm-3am,10.30pm-3am, £6 (£5), free b4 12am with PIYP £7, free b4 11pm

Chinawhite, DJ Naeem playing main room RnB

& classics, Mirrirbaw playing dunky house in the Rocket, Bamboo, House music from Geoff M, Mao room, 10pm-3am, £10 hip hop & lounge from Junior Campos & Max, 9pm-3am, £6 (£4), free b4 10.30pm/12.30am with The Goat, Paul Needles, 8pm-late, Free matric MacSorleys, Jazz band downstairs, Paul Cawley & Karim The Pro-Vinylist upstairs, 9pm-late, Free Souljam, Arches Café Bar, 6 hour live set with singers, bongos, sax, trumpets & DJs, 9pm-3am, Sunday 6th August £5, free b4 11pm Club Cuba!, Favela, Latin rhythms, 9pm-late,

Sound Museum, Brel, DJ Hushpuppy (Art School) Free & Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian) dig out some Club Priory: Retox Rooms, Blanket, RnB with DJ retro soul, 9pm-1am, Free Richard Levinson, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3) Stereodog, Chinawhite, Mr. Livewire & Gary Curley play house, 10pm-3am, £8 (£5)

Cold Night Song, The Goat, Guests & DJs play acoustic gems, 8pm-late, Free

TFI Friday, SSU, DJ Phil, 4pm-3am, £2 after 5pm, Disco Badger, Bamboo, Classic house music free 4 students all night long from Dominic Martin, other boogie Vandal, Liquid Lounge, House sessions with from Kash & Max, 10pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 residents Mash & Gianni, 10pm-3am, £5 10.30pm/12.30pm with matric Vice, The Cathouse - Level 2, Indie rock party Junk, The Buff Club, Jazz & funk, with Marky with Martin Bate (Xfm), 11pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 b4 Mark featuring live percussion by Duffy, 11pm11.30pm, free b4 11.30pm with PIYP 3am, £3, free with matric ABC, Electro, funk & indie with Euan Nielson, Optimo, The Sub Club, Twitch & Wilkes with They 10pm-3am, £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with matric Came From The Stairs, I Saw Them (live), 11pmThe Bunker Bar, Tam Coyle plays vintage rock & 3am, £7 (£6) indie, From 5pm, Free Sound Sundays, Arches Café Bar, Death Disco The Goat, Robbie Rolex & The Radio Magnetic regulars The Manhattan Project offer the Sunday Soundsystem on Weekly Rotation, 8pm-late, Free social, 9pm-2am, Free Spank, The Cathouse, Rock, punk & dance, Cube Fridays, Urban tunes from Clyde 1’a 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 1am with PIYP George Bowie, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3) The Bunker Bar, Neil Wyper playing new & old rock & electronica, 9pm-late, Free Saturday 5th August

YELLOW BOX DENOTES SKINNY HIGHLIGHTS

Monday 7th August Burn, The Buff Club, Glasgow institition with Normski & Zeus playing underground classics, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free for pub/club workers Eletricat Dance Group, RSAMD, Brazilian Street Dance classes, 6pm-7pm, £4 (£3.50), £3 RSAMD Fresh, The Polo Lounge, Popular gay venue with house & indie, 11pm-3am, £5 Poptimism/Rocktimism, The Garage, DJ Andy & DJ Dec, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP

Tuesday 8th August 12 Hour Tuesdays, SSU, Chart music & live comedy, 3pm-3am, £2, free b4 3pm Abolicano Capoeira Scotland, RSAMD, Brazilian martial art with dance & music, 6pm-7.30pm, £tbc All Star, Bamboo, Andy Wilson plays funk with DJ Kash on the hip pop, 10pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 11pm/12.30am with matric Camouflage, Liquid Lounge, The best in midweek hip hop, breakbeat, electro & house, 11pm3am, £2 Funky Luv, Play, Driving vocal house, 10pm-3am, £5, £3 NUS Inflatable Fun, The Garage, Naughty Nicola with inflatables & groovy tunes, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 12am with PIYP Kaleidoscope, ABC2, Old school rock & roll, motown, pre-1984 music, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2) Killer Kitsch, The Buff Club, Electroclash & that, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Rock Karaoke, The Cathouse, Karaoke to rock, Free b4 12am

Wednesday 9th August Deliverance, The Cathouse - Level 2, DJ Dec with alternative music, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12am with PIYP Eletricat Dance Group, RSAMD, Brazilian Street Dance classes, 6pm-7pm, £4 (£3.50), £3 RSAMD Gossip, SSU, Gay/mixed night with DJ Ricci, 8pmlate, Free Joints & Jams, Cube, The Longest running RnB night in Glasgow, 11pm-3am, £3 (£2) Mjam Salsa, Liptons, Salsa classes from 8pm with Chris Traynor, free club from 10.15pm, 8pm-12am, Free New Flesh, Fury Murry’s, Rock, metal, punk, rap, industrial & alternative music, 10pm-3am, £4, £2 from 10pm-11pm, £1 with flyer/after 11pm Octopussy, The Arches, Student night with a bouncy castle, swimming pool?, jacuzzi?? & wedding chapel???, 10pm-3am, £4 Scottish Drum & Bass, The Liquid Lounge, Weekly session, 10.30pm-late, £2 Tongue In Cheek, Bamboo, Lounge, RnB & indie, 10pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with matric Whatever, The Garage, Andy & Brian, chart music, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP The Bunker Bar, Martin Bate (Beat 106) plays vintage rock & indie, 9pm-late, Free

Thursday 10th August *.*, The Buff Club, Rock’n’roll & northern soul, 11pm-3am, £3 Abolicano Capoeira Scotland, RSAMD, Brazilian martial art with dance & music, 6pm-7.30pm, £tbc Babaza, BeLo, Hip hop with the funk, 10pm-3am, £6, free b4 11pm Chix On Dex, Chinawhite, Rock, funkpunk & house all mixed by lovely ladies, 10pm-3am, £4, free b4 11pm Cigarettes & F**k All, The Butterfly & The Pig, Craig McGee plays indie & rock ‘n’ roll, 9pm-late, Free Club Olum, Bloc, DJ Dirty Marc featuring AKA the Fox, 9pm-3am, Free Freakmoves, Glasgow School of Art, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts from the Freakmenoovers DJs, Record Playerz in the bar, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Freakscene, Polar Bar (ABC), Retro & alternative sounds, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) The Funky Precedent, Saint Jude’s, Hip hop, funk, soul & motown with D_Fade, Duncan Harvey & Boom Monk Ben, 8pm-late, Free Homebrew, The Sub Club, Hip hop to nasty electro via the rest with Tiff Peaches, Provinylist Karim Ill Technique & Groundskeeper GC, 11pm3am, £3, £2 matric. card Lollipop, GUU, Pop, RnB & Indie , 10pm-2am, £3 (£2, £1), free b4 9pm On Demand, The Shed, DJ Euan takes requests

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GLASGOW CLUBS by text message at this interactive club night, 10.30pm-3am, £3 Plastic Funk, Bamboo, Mark Robb, Tania & friends play funk, soul & rock n roll, 10.30pm-5am, £4 (£3), free b4 11pm/12.30am with matric

well into the night. 9pm-3am, Free Back To The Future, Carling Academy, Old school hardcore with live acts, DJs & MCs, 8pm3am, £10

The Bunker Bar, Neil Wyper playing new & old rock & electronica, 9pm-late, Free

Monday 14th August

Dance To The Beat NYC!, Glasgow School of Art, Optimo host a NYC centric party with punkfunk act ESG & Beats in Space radio host/DFA DJ Tim Sweeney, 10pm-4am, £13 (£12)

Burn, The Buff Club, Glasgow institition with Normski & Zeus playing underground classics, 11pm3am, £5 (£3), free for pub/club workers

Riff Raff, Bamboo, Mashed up house with street soul & electro-indie in the Red Room, 10.30pm5am, £4 (£3), free b4 11pm/12.30am with matric

Divine!, The Vic Bar, Mr. Divine & Hushpuppy bring you northern soul, funk, ska & mod tunes, 11pm-3am, £6 (£5)

Rubbermensch, ABC2, A night for indie lovers, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3)

Emergency, The Universal, Underground electronics with Kelvin Andrews (Soul Mekanik) & residents, 11pm-3am, £5

Poptimism/Rocktimism, The Garage, DJ Andy & DJ Dec, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP

Pump Up The Jam, SSU, Old school cheese, live bands & funky house, £2 Radiomagnetic, Gazelle, Funk, soul & latin grooves with Radiomagnetic DJs, From 8pm, Free Record Playerz, The Vic Bar, Hi-Fi Sean & Hushpuppy play disco electro, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3)

Skint, The Cathouse - Level 2, DJ Billy with metal hip hop & rock, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with PIYP The Thursday Club, The Garage, Gerry Lyons & Brian playing chart anthems, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 12am with PIYP The Bunker Bar, CJ plays grunge & new rock, 9pm-late, Free

Friday 11th August Ballbreaker, The Cathouse, Barry & Billy with rock & metal, 10.30pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30am with PIYP The Basement House Party, Basura Blanca, House all night long on behalf of the Scottish Society for Autism, 9pm-2am, £4, £2 b4 12am Blitzkrieg Bop, The Arches, All-oddball lineup with noisy music from Statik, Vancouver Deluxe & iLiKETRAiNS, 10.30pm-3am, £6 Boogie Down, Bluu, The groove-merchant Stewart Reid plays a jazz, disco & house sound, 10pm-3am, £5, free b4 11pm Brown Baggin’ It, The Garage, Retro, britpop, alternative, chill, RnB & soul, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with PIYP Critical Mass, Polar Bar (ABC), No Music Policy, 11pm-3am, £6 (£4) Festival, ABC1, Genre mash-up from Euan Neilson, 11pm-3am, £6 (£4) Fluid, Mas, Funky house from Lisa Littlewood, 11pm-3am, £5 Freakmenoovers, Rust Bar, Early doors serving of hip hop, funk, RnB & soul, 9pm-12am, Free Freakmenoovers, Blanket, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts from the Freakmenoovers DJs, 11pm-3am, £6 (£4) Old School, The Buff Club, Old school tunes with Gordie & Jack, 10.30pm-3am, £6 Red & Gold Room, Arta, Soul musak, 10pm-3am, £7, free b4 11pm Return To Mono, The Sub Club, Slam & The Separatists live - techno, 11pm-3am, £10 (£8) Rocket, Bamboo, House music from Geoff M, hip hop & lounge from Junior Campos & Max, 9pm-3am, £6 (£4), free b4 10.30pm/12.30am with matric Sound Museum, Brel, DJ Hushpuppy (Art School) & Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian) dig out some retro soul, 9pm-1am, Free Stereodog, Chinawhite, Mr. Livewire & Gary Curley play house, 10pm-3am, £8 (£5) Technolab, Soundhaus, Techno with Makaton, Monox DJs, Davie Clark & Chris Miles, 10pm-4am, £8 (£7) TFI Friday, SSU, DJ Phil, 4pm-3am, £2 after 5pm, free 4 students Turbo-fun, The Vic Bar, Hosted by Konx-OmPax featuring Dogs, 11pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 art students Vandal, Liquid Lounge, House sessions with residents Mash & Gianni, 10pm-3am, £5 Vice, The Cathouse - Level 2, Indie rock party with Martin Bate (Xfm), 11pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30pm with PIYP ABC, Electro, funk & indie with Euan Nielson, 10pm-3am, £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with matric The Bunker Bar, Tam Coyle plays vintage rock & indie, From 5pm, Free The Goat, Robbie Rolex & The Radio Magnetic Soundsystem on Weekly Rotation, 8pm-late, Free Cube Fridays, Urban tunes from Clyde 1’a George Bowie, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3)

Saturday 12th August Siren DJs, Bloc, Fabulous grooves to take you

Eletricat Dance Group, RSAMD, Brazilian Street Dirty Recordz, GUU, Paul N’Jie (Beat 106) plays Dance classes, 6pm-7pm, £4 (£3.50), £3 RSAMD current tunes, open decks downstairs, 10pm-2am, Fresh, The Polo Lounge, Popular gay venue with £3 (£2, £1), free b4 9pm house & indie, 11pm-3am, £5

Freefall, The Arches, The past, the present & the future with Simon Foy, Alan Belshaw & Fraser Latta, 11pm-3am, £12

Tuesday 15th August 12 Hour Tuesdays, SSU, Chart music & live comedy, 3pm-3am, £2, free b4 3pm

Abolicano Capoeira Scotland, RSAMD, Brazilian martial art with dance & music, 6pm-7.30pm, £tbc Groovejet, Mas, Weekly house & RnB mix, 11pmAll Star, Bamboo, Andy Wilson plays funk with DJ 3am, £7 (£5) Kash on the hip pop, 10pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 Hip Drop, Brel, Funk, soul, electro & disco from 11pm/12.30am with matric Robbie Rolex & Nel, 9pm-1am, Free Camouflage, Liquid Lounge, The best in mid-week Home Cookin’, BeLo, Urban music showcase, hip hop, breakbeat, electro & house, 11pm-3am, £2 10pm-3am, £7, free b4 11pm Funky Luv, Play, Driving vocal house, 10pm-3am, Homegrown, Bamboo, Stevie Sole Middleton, £5, £3 NUS Domenic Martin & Scottie B play house and smooth RnB, jazz & funk, 9pm-3am, £8 (£6), free Inflatable Fun, The Garage, Naughty Nicola with inflatables & groovy tunes, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 10.30pm/12.30pm with matric b4 12am with PIYP I Love The Garage, The Garage, Classics, Kaleidoscope, ABC2, Old school rock & roll, 10.30pm-3am, £7 (£5), £6 (£4) b4 12am motown, pre-1984 music, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2) Lust Fot Life, ABC1, Gerry Lyons plays soul, punk, Killer Kitsch, The Buff Club, Electroclash & that, rock & indie dance, 11pm-3am, £7 (£5) 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Lust Fot Life, ABC2, David Sinclair (Killer Kitsch) Rock Karaoke, The Cathouse, Karaoke to rock, plays electro, house & pop, 11pm-3am, £7 (£5) Free b4 12am Nu-school, The Buff Club, Fresh northern soul, jazz & funk featuring live percussion, classics Wednesday 16th August downstairs, 10.30pm-3am, £6 Deliverance, The Cathouse - Level 2, DJ Dec with Odyssey & The Nut House, The Vaults, Hard acid techno to breakcore from The DJ Producer, alternative music, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12am with PIYP Teknoist, Acid Fairy & more, 9pm-3am, £8 Open Dex, Deep 6 (GUU), Bring your vinyl/CDs if you think you can do better, 9pm-1am, £1, £2 non-members

Eletricat Dance Group, RSAMD, Brazilian Street Dance classes, 6pm-7pm, £4 (£3.50), £3 RSAMD

Gossip, SSU, Gay/mixed night with DJ Ricci, 8pmlate, Free Subculture, The Sub Club, Chicago, Detroit, Glasgow, the deepest house & techno with your Joints & Jams, Cube, The Longest running RnB hosts Harri & Domenic, 11pm-3am, £8, £5 b4 night in Glasgow, 11pm-3am, £3 (£2) 12.30pm Mjam Salsa, Liptons, Salsa classes from 8pm with The Basement, Soundhaus, House & electro Chris Traynor, free club from 10.15pm, 8pm-12am, through to techno with residents, 11pm-4am, £6 Free (£5) New Flesh, Fury Murry’s, Rock, metal, punk, rap, Vegas!, The Renfrew Ferry, Rat-pack, swing, jive industrial & alternative music, 10pm-3am, £4, £2 & lounge with all the usual flamboyance, 9.30pm- from 10pm-11pm, £1 with flyer/after 11pm 2am, £9, £7 for the fabulously dressed Octopussy, The Arches, Student night with a Voodoo, The Cathouse, Under-18 club with bouncy castle, swimming pool?, jacuzzi?? & metal, emo & punk, 5pm-9pm, £6 (£3) wedding chapel???, 10pm-3am, £4 ABC, Room 1 plays soul, funk & punk with Gerry Scottish Drum & Bass, The Liquid Lounge, Weekly Lyons, room2 plays electro with Wasted Youth, session, 10.30pm-late, £2 10pm-3am, £5 (£4), free b4 11.30pm with matric Tongue In Cheek, Bamboo, Lounge, RnB & indie, The Bunker Bar, Martin Bate (Beat 106) plays 10pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with matric vintage rock & indie, 9pm-late, Free Whatever, The Garage, Andy & Brian, chart music, The Cathouse, Barry & Andy with all things rock, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP 10.30pm-3am, £6 (£5), free b4 12am with PIYP White Heat, Glasgow School of Art, Soho’s club Chinawhite, DJ Naeem playing main room RnB on tour with Glasgow’s Dananananaykroyd & Rock & classics, Mirrirbaw playing dunky house in the Action Records’ Errors, 11pm-3am, £5, £4 with flyer, Mao room, 10pm-3am, £10 £3 myspace.com/whiteheatscotland The Goat, Paul Needles, 8pm-late, Free The Bunker Bar, Martin Bate (Beat 106) plays MacSorleys, Jazz band downstairs, Paul Cawley vintage rock & indie, 9pm-late, Free & Karim The Pro-Vinylist upstairs, 9pm-late, Free

Thursday 17th August

Sunday 13th August Club Cuba!, Favela, Latin rhythms, 9pm-late, Free

*.*, The Buff Club, Rock’n’roll & northern soul, 11pm-3am, £3

Abolicano Capoeira Scotland, RSAMD, Brazilian Club Priory: Retox Rooms, Blanket, RnB with DJ martial art with dance & music, 6pm-7.30pm, £tbc Richard Levinson, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3) Babaza, BeLo, Hip hop with the funk, 10pm-3am, Cold Night Song, The Goat, Guests & DJs play £6, free b4 11pm acoustic gems, 8pm-late, Free Chix On Dex, Chinawhite, Rock, funkpunk & house Disco Badger, Bamboo, Classic house music all night long from Dominic Martin, other boogie from Kash & Max, 10pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 10.30pm/12.30pm with matric Junk, The Buff Club, Jazz & funk, with Marky Mark featuring live percussion by Duffy, 11pm3am, £3, free with matric Optimo, The Sub Club, Twitch & Wilkes & The Presets (live), 11pm-3am, £8 (£7)

all mixed by lovely ladies, 10pm-3am, £4, free b4 11pm Cigarettes & F**k All, The Butterfly & The Pig, Craig McGee plays indie & rock ‘n’ roll, 9pm-late, Free Club Olum, Bloc, DJ Dirty Marc featuring Bad Dancer, 9pm-3am, Free Doublespeak, MacSorleys, Live sets from I.R. Tiger & The Village Orchestra, 8pm-12am, £2

Sound Sundays, Arches Café Bar, Death Disco Freakmoves, Glasgow School of Art, Fresh hip hop regulars The Manhattan Project offer the Sunday & funk cuts from the Freakmenoovers DJs, Record social, 9pm-2am, Free Playerz in the bar, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Spank, The Cathouse, Rock, punk & dance, Freakscene, Polar Bar (ABC), Retro & alternative 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 1am with PIYP sounds, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3)

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LISTINGS GLASGOW CLUBS The Funky Precedent, Saint Jude’s, Hip hop, funk, soul & motown with D_Fade, Duncan Harvey & Boom Monk Ben, 8pm-late, Free Homebrew, The Sub Club, Hip hop to nasty electro via the rest with Tiff Peaches, Provinylist Karim Ill Technique & Groundskeeper GC, 11pm3am, £3, £2 matric. card Lollipop, GUU, Pop, RnB & Indie , 10pm-2am, £3 (£2, £1), free b4 9pm On Demand, The Shed, DJ Euan takes requests by text message at this interactive club night, 10.30pm-3am, £3 Plastic Funk, Bamboo, Mark Robb, Tania & friends play funk, soul & rock n roll, 10.30pm-5am, £4 (£3), free b4 11pm/12.30am with matric Pump Up The Jam, SSU, Old school cheese, live bands & funky house, £2 Radiomagnetic, Gazelle, Funk, soul & latin grooves with Radiomagnetic DJs, From 8pm, Free Record Playerz, The Vic Bar, Hi-Fi Sean & Hushpuppy play disco electro, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Rubbermensch, ABC2, A night for indie lovers, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Skint, The Cathouse - Level 2, DJ Billy with metal hip hop & rock, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with PIYP The Thursday Club, The Garage, Gerry Lyons & Brian playing chart anthems, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 12am with PIYP The Bunker Bar, CJ plays grunge & new rock, 9pm-late, Free

Friday 18th August

Fluid, Mas, Funky house from Lisa Littlewood, 11pm-3am, £5 Freakmenoovers, Rust Bar, Early doors serving of hip hop, funk, RnB & soul, 9pm-12am, Free Freakmenoovers, Blanket, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts from the Freakmenoovers DJs, 11pm-3am, £6 (£4) Freq, The Sub Club, Live techno from Hardfloor with visuals from No Input, 11pm-3am, £10 Hardcore Radio Live, The Vaults, Hardcore, £tbc Noise Pollution, Club 69, Percy X (Soma), Sean Matthews & DJ Bunty with hip hop, electro & techno, 10pm-2am, £8 Old School, The Buff Club, Old school tunes with Gordie & Jack, 10.30pm-3am, £6 Red & Gold Room, Arta, Soul musak, 10pm-3am, £7, free b4 11pm Rocket, Bamboo, House music from Geoff M, hip hop & lounge from Junior Campos & Max, 9pm-3am, £6 (£4), free b4 10.30pm/12.30am with matric Sound Museum, Brel, DJ Hushpuppy (Art School) & Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian) dig out some retro soul, 9pm-1am, Free Stereodog, Chinawhite, Mr. Livewire & Gary Curley play house, 10pm-3am, £8 (£5) Stop Drop & Roll, Soundhaus, House, breaks & electro - old school & classics with live percussion, 11pm-4am, £7 (£5) TFI Friday, SSU, DJ Phil, 4pm-3am, £2 after 5pm, free 4 students Turbo-fun, The Vic Bar, Hosted by Konx-Om-Pax featuring rotating DJs including ShitDisco, Park Attack, Goodhand, Errors & Nok La Rok, 11pm3am, £5 (£4), £3 art students Vandal, Liquid Lounge, House sessions with residents Mash & Gianni, 10pm-3am, £5 Vice, The Cathouse - Level 2, Indie rock party

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The Bunker Bar, Neil Wyper playing new & old rock & electronica, 9pm-late, Free

Record Playerz, The Vic Bar, Hi-Fi Sean & Hushpuppy play disco electro, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3)

Monday 21st August

The Bunker Bar, Tam Coyle plays vintage rock & indie, From 5pm, Free

Fresh, The Polo Lounge, Popular gay venue with house & indie, 11pm-3am, £5

Cube Fridays, Urban tunes from Clyde 1’a George Bowie, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3)

Saturday 19th August 19.08.06, Club 69, Variety of electronic music, 11pm-2am, £5

Tuesday 22nd August

12 Hour Tuesdays, SSU, Chart music & live comedy, 3pm-3am, £2, free b4 3pm Abolicano Capoeira Scotland, RSAMD, Brazilian martial art with dance & music, 6pm-7.30pm, £tbc

Audio, Bloc, House, techno & electro from DJ Aiden , 9pm-3am, Free Death Disco, The Arches, Live frenchy electro from Blackstrobe with support from Twitch, DJ Mingo-Go & The Manhattan Project, 11pm-3am, £10

Funky Luv, Play, Driving vocal house, 10pm-3am, £5, £3 NUS

Camouflage, Liquid Lounge, The best in mid-week hip hop, breakbeat, electro & house, 11pm-3am, £2

Inflatable Fun, The Garage, Naughty Nicola with Dirty Recordz, GUU, Paul N’Jie (Beat 106) plays current tunes, open decks downstairs, 10pm-2am, inflatables & groovy tunes, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 12am with PIYP £3 (£2, £1), free b4 9pm Kaleidoscope, ABC2, Old school rock & roll, motown, pre-1984 music, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2)

Killer Kitsch, The Buff Club, Electroclash & that, Groovejet, Mas, Weekly house & RnB mix, 11pm- 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) 3am, £7 (£5) Rock Karaoke, The Cathouse, Karaoke to rock, Free b4 12am Hip Drop, Brel, Funk, soul, electro & disco from Robbie Rolex & Nel, 9pm-1am, Free Wednesday 23rd August Home Cookin’, BeLo, Urban music showcase, 10pm-3am, £7, free b4 11pm

Deliverance, The Cathouse - Level 2, DJ Dec with alternative music, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12am with PIYP Eletricat Dance Group, RSAMD, Brazilian Street Dance classes, 6pm-7pm, £4 (£3.50), £3 RSAMD

Nu-school, The Buff Club, Fresh northern soul, jazz & funk featuring live percussion, classics downstairs, 10.30pm-3am, £6 Open Dex, Deep 6 (GUU), Bring your vinyl/CDs if you think you can do better, 9pm-1am, £1, £2 non-members Subculture, The Sub Club, Detroit house with Mike Huckaby (Detroit Beatdown), 11pm-3am, £10, £8 b4 12.30pm Voodoo, The Cathouse, Under-18 club with metal, emo & punk, 5pm-9pm, £6 (£3) ABC, Room 1 plays soul, funk & punk with Gerry Lyons, room2 plays electro with Wasted Youth, 10pm-3am, £5 (£4), free b4 11.30pm with matric The Bunker Bar, Martin Bate (Beat 106) plays vintage rock & indie, 9pm-late, Free

The Bunker Bar, CJ plays grunge & new rock, 9pmlate, Free

Friday 25th August

Ballbreaker, The Cathouse, Barry & Billy with rock & metal, 10.30pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30am with PIYP

Brown Baggin’ It, The Garage, Retro, britpop, alternative, chill, RnB & soul, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with PIYP Critical Mass, Polar Bar (ABC), No Music Policy, 11pm-3am, £6 (£4) Festival, ABC1, Genre mash-up from Euan Neilson, 11pm-3am, £6 (£4) Fluid, Mas, Funky house from Lisa Littlewood, 11pm3am, £5 Freakmenoovers, Rust Bar, Early doors serving of hip hop, funk, RnB & soul, 9pm-12am, Free Freakmenoovers, Blanket, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts from the Freakmenoovers DJs, 11pm-3am, £6 (£4) Metal Up Your Ass, The Q Club, Thrash, doom, black, grind & classic metal, 11pm-3am, £5 Old School, The Buff Club, Old school tunes with Gordie & Jack, 10.30pm-3am, £6 Red & Gold Room, Arta, Soul musak, 10pm-3am, £7, free b4 11pm

Rocket, Bamboo, House music from Geoff M, hip hop & lounge from Junior Campos & Max, 9pm-3am, £6 (£4), free b4 10.30pm/12.30am with matric

Gossip, SSU, Gay/mixed night with DJ Ricci, 8pmlate, Free

Joints & Jams, Cube, The Longest running RnB night Lust Fot Life, ABC1, Gerry Lyons plays soul, punk, in Glasgow, 11pm-3am, £3 (£2) rock & indie dance, 11pm-3am, £7 (£5) Mjam Salsa, Liptons, Salsa classes from 8pm with Lust Fot Life, ABC2, David Sinclair (Killer Kitsch) Chris Traynor, free club from 10.15pm, 8pm-12am, Free plays electro, house & pop, 11pm-3am, £7 (£5) New Flesh, Fury Murry’s, Rock, metal, punk, rap, Monox, Soundhaus, Monox & Rubadub present Suburban Knight & DJ Clandestine of Underground Resistance - Detroit techno and passion, 11pm-5am, £13 (£12)

Skint, The Cathouse - Level 2, DJ Billy with metal hip hop & rock, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with PIYP

Boogie Down, Bluu, The groove-merchant Stewart Reid plays a jazz, disco & house sound, 10pm-3am, £5, free b4 11pm

All Star, Bamboo, Andy Wilson plays funk with DJ Kash on the hip pop, 10pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 11pm/12.30am with matric

Divine!, The Vic Bar, Mr. Divine & Hushpuppy bring you northern soul, funk, ska & mod tunes, 11pm-3am, £6 (£5)

Rubbermensch, ABC2, A night for indie lovers, 11pm3am, £4 (£3)

The Thursday Club, The Garage, Gerry Lyons & Brian playing chart anthems, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 12am with PIYP

Poptimism/Rocktimism, The Garage, DJ Andy & DJ The Goat, Robbie Rolex & The Radio Magnetic Soundsystem on Weekly Rotation, 8pm-late, Free Dec, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP

I Love The Garage, The Garage, Classics, 10.30pm-3am, £7 (£5), £6 (£4) b4 12am

Festival, ABC1, Genre mash-up from Euan Neilson, 11pm-3am, £6 (£4)

Radiomagnetic, Gazelle, Funk, soul & latin grooves with Radiomagnetic DJs, From 8pm, Free

Eletricat Dance Group, RSAMD, Brazilian Street Dance classes, 6pm-7pm, £4 (£3.50), £3 RSAMD

Boogie Down, Bluu, The groove-merchant Stewart Reid plays a jazz, disco & house sound, 10pm-3am, £5, free b4 11pm

Critical Mass, Polar Bar (ABC), No Music Policy, 11pm-3am, £6 (£4)

Spank, The Cathouse, Rock, punk & dance, 11pm3am, £4 (£2), free b4 1am with PIYP

ABC, Electro, funk & indie with Euan Nielson, 10pm-3am, £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with matric

Homegrown, Bamboo, Stevie Sole Middleton, Domenic Martin & Scottie B play house and smooth RnB, jazz & funk, 9pm-3am, £8 (£6), free b4 10.30pm/12.30pm with matric

Chi-town Baby, The Brunswick Hotel, Jackin house with Leon Knowles, Craig Hamilton, Chris Mac & Esteban Carracas, 9pm-2am, £6

Pump Up The Jam, SSU, Old school cheese, live bands & funky house, £2

Burn, The Buff Club, Glasgow institition with Normski with Martin Bate (Xfm), 11pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 b4 & Zeus playing underground classics, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free for pub/club workers 11.30pm, free b4 11.30pm with PIYP

Ballbreaker, The Cathouse, Barry & Billy with rock & metal, 10.30pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30am with PIYP

Brown Baggin’ It, The Garage, Retro, britpop, alternative, chill, RnB & soul, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with PIYP

regulars The Manhattan Project offer the Sunday social, 9pm-2am, Free

industrial & alternative music, 10pm-3am, £4, £2 from 10pm-11pm, £1 with flyer/after 11pm Octopussy, The Arches, Student night with a bouncy castle, swimming pool?, jacuzzi?? & wedding chapel???, 10pm-3am, £4 Scottish Drum & Bass, The Liquid Lounge, Weekly session, 10.30pm-late, £2 Tongue In Cheek, Bamboo, Lounge, RnB & indie, 10pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with matric Whatever, The Garage, Andy & Brian, chart music, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP The Bunker Bar, Martin Bate (Beat 106) plays vintage rock & indie, 9pm-late, Free

Sound Museum, Brel, DJ Hushpuppy (Art School) & Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian) dig out some retro soul, 9pm-1am, Free Stereodog, Chinawhite, Mr. Livewire & Gary Curley play house, 10pm-3am, £8 (£5) TFI Friday, SSU, DJ Phil, 4pm-3am, £2 after 5pm, free 4 students Tramps With Amps, Soundhaus, Featuring the bands Baby Strange, Brady Cole, The Skarsoles, Myshotgunsisters & The Arguments, 9.30pm-late, £8, £5 b4 11pm Turbo-fun, The Vic Bar, Hosted by Konx-Om-Pax featuring rotating DJs including ShitDisco, Park Attack, Goodhand, Errors & Nok La Rok, 11pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 art students Vandal, Liquid Lounge, House sessions with residents Mash & Gianni, 10pm-3am, £5

Thursday 24th August

Vice, The Cathouse - Level 2, Indie rock party with Martin Bate (Xfm), 11pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 b4 11.30pm, free b4 11.30pm with PIYP

*.*, The Buff Club, Rock’n’roll & northern soul, 11pm3am, £3

ABC, Electro, funk & indie with Euan Nielson, 10pm3am, £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with matric

Abolicano Capoeira Scotland, RSAMD, Brazilian martial art with dance & music, 6pm-7.30pm, £tbc

The Bunker Bar, Tam Coyle plays vintage rock & indie, From 5pm, Free

Babaza, BeLo, Hip hop with the funk, 10pm-3am, £6, free b4 11pm The Cathouse, Barry & Andy with all things rock, Chix On Dex, Chinawhite, Rock, funkpunk & house 10.30pm-3am, £6 (£5), free b4 12am with PIYP all mixed by lovely ladies, 10pm-3am, £4, free b4 Chinawhite, DJ Naeem playing main room RnB 11pm & classics, Mirrirbaw playing dunky house in the Cigarettes & F**k All, The Butterfly & The Pig, Craig Mao room, 10pm-3am, £10 McGee plays indie & rock ‘n’ roll, 9pm-late, Free The Goat, Paul Needles, 8pm-late, Free Club Olum, Bloc, DJ Dirty Marc, 9pm-3am, Free MacSorleys, Jazz band downstairs, Paul Cawley Freakmoves, Glasgow School of Art, Fresh hip hop & Karim The Pro-Vinylist upstairs, 9pm-late, Free & funk cuts from the Freakmenoovers DJs, Record Sunday 20th August Playerz in the bar, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Club Cuba!, Favela, Latin rhythms, 9pm-late, Freakscene, Polar Bar (ABC), Retro & alternative Free sounds, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Club Priory: Retox Rooms, Blanket, RnB with DJ The Funky Precedent, Saint Jude’s, Hip hop, funk, Richard Levinson, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3) soul & motown with D_Fade, Duncan Harvey & Boom Cold Night Song, The Goat, Guests & DJs play Monk Ben, 8pm-late, Free acoustic gems, 8pm-late, Free Homebrew, The Sub Club, Hip hop to nasty electro Disco Badger, Bamboo, Classic house music via the rest with Tiff Peaches, Provinylist Karim Ill all night long from Dominic Martin, other boogie Technique & Groundskeeper GC, 11pm-3am, £3, £2 from Kash & Max, 10pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 matric. card 10.30pm/12.30pm with matric Lollipop, GUU, Pop, RnB & Indie , 10pm-2am, £3 (£2, Junk, The Buff Club, Jazz & funk, with Marky £1), free b4 9pm Mark featuring live percussion by Duffy, 11pmOn Demand, The Shed, DJ Euan takes requests by 3am, £3, free with matric text message at this interactive club night, 10.30pmOptimo, The Sub Club, JD Twitch & Wilkes will 3am, £3 play pretty much anything and mix it well, 11pmPlastic Funk, Bamboo, Mark Robb, Tania & friends 3am, £7 (£6) play funk, soul & rock n roll, 10.30pm-5am, £4 (£3), Sound Sundays, Arches Café Bar, Death Disco free b4 11pm/12.30am with matric

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The Goat, Robbie Rolex & The Radio Magnetic Soundsystem on Weekly Rotation, 8pm-late, Free Cube Fridays, Urban tunes from Clyde 1’a George Bowie, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3)

Saturday 26th August

Boat Party After Party, Bloc. Late night grooves to twitch the ol’ sea legs. 9pm-3am, Free Dirty Recordz, GUU, Paul N’Jie (Beat 106) plays current tunes, open decks downstairs, 10pm-2am, £3 (£2, £1), free b4 9pm Divine!, The Vic Bar, Mr. Divine & Hushpuppy bring you northern soul, funk, ska & mod tunes, 11pm-3am, £6 (£5)

Groovejet, Mas, Weekly house & RnB mix, 11pm-3am, £7 (£5) Hip Drop, Brel, Funk, soul, electro & disco from Robbie Rolex & Nel, 9pm-1am, Free Home Cookin’, BeLo, Urban music showcase, 10pm3am, £7, free b4 11pm Homegrown, Bamboo, Stevie Sole Middleton, Domenic Martin & Scottie B play house and smooth RnB, jazz & funk, 9pm-3am, £8 (£6), free b4 10.30pm/ 12.30pm with matric I Love The Garage, The Garage, Classics, 10.30pm3am, £7 (£5), £6 (£4) b4 12am Inside Out, The Arches, Hard dance with Yoji Biomehanika, Matt Hardwick & Anne Savage, 10pm3am, £18 (£16)

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Tuesday 1st August

Iridium, Basura Blanca, 1st birthday party with DJ Sueme & Steve Glencross (Sativae), 9pm-3am, £8

(£3), free b4 12am with PIYP

Loki Boat Party, The Moat House, Featuring Simon Melting Pot & Andy Disco Not Disco, all day, £17

Killer Kitsch, The Buff Club, Electroclash & that, The Diamond Dice, Massa, Hip hop, RnB & grime 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) with your host Mr. Jinx, 10.30pm-3am, £5 Rock Karaoke, The Cathouse, Karaoke to rock, Frunt, The Liquid Room, DJ Stuart Johnston Free b4 12am playing house music all night, 10.30pm-3am, Free

Lust Fot Life, ABC1, Gerry Lyons plays soul, punk, rock & indie dance, 11pm-3am, £7 (£5) Lust Fot Life, ABC2, David Sinclair (Killer Kitsch) plays electro, house & pop, 11pm-3am, £7 (£5) Melting Pot, Starka, Underground house & techno featuring Modus live, 8pm-1am, £5 Nu-school, The Buff Club, Fresh northern soul, jazz & funk featuring live percussion, classics downstairs, 10.30pm-3am, £6 Ohm, Soundhaus, Charlie n Craig welcome aussie dance band Morph, 11pm-4am, £10 (£8) Open Dex, Deep 6 (GUU), Bring your vinyl/CDs if you think you can do better, 9pm-1am, £1, £2 non-members Subculture, The Sub Club, Chicago, Detroit, Glasgow, the deepest house & techno with your hosts Harri & Domenic, 11pm-3am, £8, £5 b4 12.30pm Voodoo, The Cathouse, Under-18 club with metal, emo & punk, 5pm-9pm, £6 (£3) ABC, Room 1 plays soul, funk & punk with Gerry Lyons, room2 plays electro with Wasted Youth, 10pm-3am, £5 (£4), free b4 11.30pm with matric The Bunker Bar, Martin Bate (Beat 106) plays vintage rock & indie, 9pm-late, Free The Cathouse, Barry & Andy with all things rock, 10.30pm-3am, £6 (£5), free b4 12am with PIYP Chinawhite, DJ Naeem playing main room RnB & classics, Mirrirbaw playing dunky house in the Mao room, 10pm-3am, £10 The Goat, Paul Needles, 8pm-late, Free MacSorleys, Jazz band downstairs, Paul Cawley & Karim The Pro-Vinylist upstairs, 9pm-late, Free

Sunday 27th August

Beach Party, The Garage, Surf, Sand & Sangria with house anthems, just like Ibiza but in Glasgow , 1pm-4am, £5 (£3), free b4 12am Club Cuba!, Favela, Latin rhythms, 9pm-late, Free Club Priory: Retox Rooms, Blanket, RnB with DJ Richard Levinson, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3) Cold Night Song, The Goat, Guests & DJs play acoustic gems, 8pm-late, Free Disco Badger, Bamboo, Classic house music all night long from Dominic Martin, other boogie from Kash & Max, 10pm-3am, £5 (£3), free b4 10.30pm/12.30pm with matric Junk, The Buff Club, Jazz & funk, with Marky Mark featuring live percussion by Duffy, 11pm3am, £3, free with matric Optimo, The Sub Club, Optimo present Voxtrot (live), 11pm-4am, £9 (£8) Sound Sundays, Arches Café Bar, Death Disco regulars The Manhattan Project offer the Sunday social, 9pm-2am, Free Spank, The Cathouse, Rock, punk & dance, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 1am with PIYP The Bunker Bar, Neil Wyper playing new & old rock & electronica, 9pm-late, Free

Monday 28th August

Burn, The Buff Club, Glasgow institition with Normski & Zeus playing underground classics, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free for pub/club workers Eletricat Dance Group, RSAMD, Brazilian Street Dance classes, 6pm-7pm, £4 (£3.50), £3 RSAMD Fresh, The Polo Lounge, Popular gay venue with house & indie, 11pm-3am, £5 Poptimism/Rocktimism, The Garage, DJ Andy & DJ Dec, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP

Tuesday 29th August

12 Hour Tuesdays, SSU, Chart music & live comedy, 3pm-3am, £2, free b4 3pm Abolicano Capoeira Scotland, RSAMD, Brazilian martial art with dance & music, 6pm-7.30pm, £tbc All Star, Bamboo, Andy Wilson plays funk with DJ Kash on the hip pop, 10pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 11pm/12.30am with matric Camouflage, Liquid Lounge, The best in midweek hip hop, breakbeat, electro & house, 11pm3am, £2

Kaleidoscope, ABC2, Old school rock & roll, motown, pre-1984 music, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2)

Wednesday 30th August

Antics, Subway Cowgate, Rock, emo, punk & metal, 11pm-3am, Free

Jacek, Pivo Caffe, Eastern block house party, 9pm-3am, Free

Deliverance, The Cathouse - Level 2, DJ Dec with alternative music, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 Motherfunk, Opal Lounge, Fryer & Gino play 12am with PIYP original soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 10pmEletricat Dance Group, RSAMD, Brazilian Street 3am, Free Dance classes, 6pm-7pm, £4 (£3.50), £3 RSAMD Rewind, Prive’ Council, 100% upfront RnB & hip hop, 10pm-3am, £2, ladies free b4 12am Gossip, SSU, Gay/mixed night with DJ Ricci, 8pm-late, Free Run ‘Dat, The Bongo Club, Reggae & dub from The White Wastafarians, 10pm-3am, £3, free b4 Joints & Jams, Cube, The Longest running RnB 11pm night in Glasgow, 11pm-3am, £3 (£2) Mjam Salsa, Liptons, Salsa classes from 8pm with Chris Traynor, free club from 10.15pm, 8pm12am, Free

Split, Cabaret Voltaire, Blend of house, techno, D&B, breakbeat from Edinburgh, healthy midweek rave, 11.30pm-3am, Free

New Flesh, Fury Murry’s, Rock, metal, punk, rap, Swing Dance Classes, The Bongo Club, industrial & alternative music, 10pm-3am, £4, £2 Beginners at 7pm, advanced at 8pm, 7pm-9pm, £4 (£3) for one, £6 (£5) for both from 10pm-11pm, £1 with flyer/after 11pm Octopussy, The Arches, Student night with a bouncy castle, swimming pool?, jacuzzi?? & wedding chapel???, 10pm-3am, £4 Scottish Drum & Bass, The Liquid Lounge, Weekly session, 10.30pm-late, £2

Wednesday 2nd August Chambles, Opal Lounge, Funk & chart with DJ Jez Hill, 9pm-3am, £5 (£4)

Hot Sushi, Tokyo, Lisa Littlewood plays House & Tongue In Cheek, Bamboo, Lounge, RnB & indie, club classics, 10pm-3am, £tbc 10pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with matric Indi-Go, The Liquid Room, Indie & alternative,

Whatever, The Garage, Andy & Brian, chart music, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP The Bunker Bar, Martin Bate (Beat 106) plays vintage rock & indie, 9pm-late, Free

10.30pm-3am, £2, £1 students Insomnia, Prive’ Council, Warner Powers & Claudio bring fresh house tunes each week, 10pm-3am, Free

Thursday 31st August

Paul Daley, Pivo Caffe, Free flowing funk to house, 9pm-3am, Free

*.*, The Buff Club, Rock’n’roll & northern soul, 11pm-3am, £3

The Pit, Subway Cowgate, Rock & metal, 11pm3am, Free

Abolicano Capoeira Scotland, RSAMD, Brazilian Stir Fried, The Outhouse, Pre-club with indie & martial art with dance & music, 6pm-7.30pm, rock from B-Sides & Bootross Rock, 9pm-1am, Free £tbc Tease Age Wednesdays, Citrus Club, Indie,

Babaza, BeLo, Hip hop with the funk, 10pm-3am, mod & soul with DJ Monkee Mike, 11pm-3am, £3, £6, free b4 11pm free b4 11.30pm Chix On Dex, Chinawhite, Rock, funkpunk & Toxik, Opium, DJ Nu-Clear playing new & old house all mixed by lovely ladies, 10pm-3am, £4, metal & hard rock, 8pm-3am, Free free b4 11pm We Are … Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Mac Cigarettes & F**k All, The Butterfly & The Pig, & guests DJ Quirky & Silver Storic play house, Craig McGee plays indie & rock ‘n’ roll, 9pm-late, electro, tech-house & breaks with Trouble DJs Free in the back, 11.30pm-5am, £2, free b4 12am/ Club Olum, Bloc, DJ Dirty Marc, 9pm-3am, Free members Freakmoves, Glasgow School of Art, Fresh hip hop & funk cuts from the Freakmenoovers DJs, Record Playerz in the bar, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Freakscene, Polar Bar (ABC), Retro & alternative sounds, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3)

A Hard Day’s Night, Wee Red Bar, Indie, soul & rock n roll with Danny B, 11pm-4am, £4 (£3)

Beatsville, Henrys Cellar, Featuring surfy tunes from The Masonics & Preston Pfanz & The Seaton Sands, 11pm-5am, £5 (£4) Cosmos, Faith, Derek Martin (Progression), Claudio, Little Grooves & Steve Wanless play funky & sexy house, 10.30pm-3am, £5, free b4 11.30pm Cult, Po Na Na, DJ Nicki & guests playing hip hop, disco, funk & RnB, 10pm-3am, £5, £2.50 b4 11pm

de luxe, Hudson Club, House with resident DJs, 11pm-3am, £3, free b4 12am

Dfrnt Trouble, Cabaret Voltaire, Quirky live act Max Tundra plays live with support from Dfrnt Drum & Trouble DJs, 11pm-late, £7 (£6) Evol, The Liquid Room, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats & rock, 10.30pm-3am, £5 Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar, DJ Astroboy & Sorenson Soul Workout, 11.30pm-3am, £5 Free Party ‘86, The Bongo Club, Old skool hip hop & early disco with Red6, 11pm-3am, Free Get Funk’d, Medina, Double D & Isla play hip hop to house, 10pm-3am, £4, £3 b4 11pm

Groovejet, Tokyo, Tony McHugh with dancefloor hits, 10pm-3am, £6 Jam Friday, Heriot-Watt University, Pop & cheese, 10pm-3am, £2 Misfits, Subway Cowgate, Indie, electro, punk, rock, retro & a tequila girl, 11pm-3am, £2 Modern Lovers, Cocteau Lounge (downstairs at Ego), Soul, funk & ska with Craig Jamieson & Mr. Divine, 11pm-3am, £6, £4 b4 12am Night Train, Liberty’s Bar (Heriot-Watt), 8pm2am, Free Planet Earth, Citrus Club, 80s tunes with residents, 10.30pm-3am, £5 Salsa Caribe!, The Lot, Salsa DJs on the special dancefloor, 9pm-1.30am, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm Satchmo Sessions, Pivo Caffe, House Session, 9pm-3am, Free

Vegas!, The Famous Spiegeltent, Rat-pack, swing, lounge & more, 10.30pm-3am, £10

On Demand, The Shed, DJ Euan takes requests by text message at this interactive club night, 10.30pm-3am, £3

The Hobo, Henrys Cellar, 12am-5am, £4

Grafitti, Medina, Kipp$ & Master Caird play party tunes all night, 10pm-3am, £3 (£2)

Housebound, Ego, Sexy house, funky stuff, Plastic Funk, Bamboo, Mark Robb, Tania & electro & disco with DJs from Edinburgh & friends play funk, soul & rock n roll, 10.30pm-5am, Glasgow, 10pm-3am, £5 £4 (£3), free b4 11pm/12.30am with matric Jackhammer, Studio 24, Radioactive Man plays Pump Up The Jam, SSU, Old school cheese, live tough electro & breaks, 11pm-3am, £7 bands & funky house, £2 Lel Palfrey, Pivo Caffe, Disco & jazz & disco & Radiomagnetic, Gazelle, Funk, soul & latin more, 9pm-3am, Free grooves with Radiomagnetic DJs, From 8pm, Free LuckyMe, City Café, Hip hop, soul & off beats, Record Playerz, The Vic Bar, Hi-Fi Sean & 8.30pm-1am, Free Hushpuppy play disco electro, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Salsa Disco, Cuba Norte, Salsa dance & tasty Rubbermensch, ABC2, A night for indie lovers, tapas, 10pm-1am, Free 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) SKINNYFest Circus Party, Cabaret Voltaire, Skint, The Cathouse - Level 2, DJ Billy with metal The launch party featuring DJs from Access, hip hop & rock, 11pm-3am, £4 (£2), free b4 Solescience, Musotica, 100% Dynamite, 12.30am with PIYP Departure Lounge & The Skinny, with burlesque The Thursday Club, The Garage, Gerry Lyons & performers & a glamour animal dress code, Brian playing chart anthems, 11pm-3am, £5 (£3), 11pm-late, £4, £3 b4 12am free b4 12am with PIYP Souled Out, Opal Lounge, Soul, disco & dance

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Friday 4th August

Beat Root Juice Club, The Jazz Bar, Live afrobeat, latin & ska from resident band The Goat Stew Orchestra & resident DJ B*Wax, 10pm-3am, Free

11pm-3am, £2

Inflatable Fun, The Garage, Naughty Nicola with inflatables & groovy tunes, 11pm-3am, £5

Assembly Bar, The Departure Lounge DJs, 9pm1am, Free

Thursday 3rd August

Lollipop, GUU, Pop, RnB & Indie , 10pm-2am, £3 (£2, £1), free b4 9pm

Funky Luv, Play, Driving vocal house, 10pm-3am, £5, £3 NUS

Traffic, Heriot-Watt University, Indie & alternative, 11.30pm-2am, Free

Subsound, Berlin, Low frequency house music from Simon Baines, Greg Wood & Kevin Taylor, 11pm-3am, £5, £4 b4 12am

The Funky Precedent, Saint Jude’s, Hip hop, funk, soul & motown with D_Fade, Duncan Harvey Bounce, Po Na Na, DJ 2three playing urban & Boom Monk Ben, 8pm-late, Free sounds, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Homebrew, The Sub Club, Hip hop to nasty Class!, Subway Cowgate, DJ Lucky Luciano electro via the rest with Tiff Peaches, Provinylist plays cheese, student anthems & requests, Karim Ill Technique & Groundskeeper GC, 11pm- 11pm-3am, £2, £1 students, free b4 12am 3am, £3, £2 matric. card Genetic, Citrus Club, Night of rock anthems,

The Bunker Bar, CJ plays grunge & new rock, 9pm-late, Free

House, RnB & hip hop, 10pm-3am, £4 (£3)

with Leon Easter (33 45), 9pm-3am, £4 (£3), free b4 11pm Snatch Social, The Liquid Room, Messy night guaranteed at eclectic student bash, 9pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 members Step It Up, Wee Red Bar, Mark, Skeetz & Cedric promoting reggae music, 11pm-4am, £4 (£3) Tokyo Kyouyou, Tokyo, Scott Granger mixes

YELLOW BOX DENOTES SKINNY HIGHLIGHTS

CLUB LISTINGS

Unknown Pleasures, Teviot Union, Indie club, 9pm-3am, £3 (£2)

Assembly Bar, Trouble DJs , 5pm-1am, Free

Saturday 5th August 100% Dynamite, The Bongo Club, MCs & DJs from the Soul Jazz Records Sound System, 11pm5am (tbc), £6, £4 b4 12am 2Hot, Ego, RnB & hip hop with Ritchie Ruftone & friends, under 18s only (14-17), 6.45pm-9.45pm, £5 Afterdark, Cabaret Voltaire, Funky electr & house from Neil Bartley, Jammy & the Frisco Disco DJs, 11pm-late, £10 (£8) Allsorts, Subway Cowgate, Chart, cheese & party, 11pm-3am, £2, free b4 12am Diskokitten, Berlin, The Wild West End Party with Arrogant Mike, 10pm-4am, £7, £5 members The Egg, Wee Red Bar, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 11pm-3am, £5, £4 students/members Liquid Soul, Po Na Na, Mark B & guests with chirpy music, 10.30pm-3am, £6, £3 b4 11pm Logjam, Secret forest, The Annual Forest Party with Williams (Get Physical), Brian D’Souza live & Operator live, check www.myspace.com/ forestparty, 9pm-2am, £20 Lounge, Liberty’s Bar (Heriot-Watt), Eclectic mix of tunes, 8pm-1.30am, Free Luvely, The Liquid Room, Wild wild west themed bangin’ house, 10pm-3am, £12 (£10) Mash, Henrys Cellar, Soulful party tunes with DJ Nomad Soul, 12am-5am, £5 Much More, Medina, Hip-hop & funk cuts with Nasty P & Cunnie, 10pm-3am, £4, £3 b4 11pm Party Night, El Barrio, Salsa night with DJ Papi & Alex Gato, free classes 10pm, 11pm-3am, Free Retribution, Studio 24, Goth music for the old,

August 06

ISSUE ELEVEN

LISTINGS

EDINBURGH CLUBS

11pm-3am, £5, £3 students

Sanctuary, Studio 24, Goth music for the young, 6pm-10pm, £5 Saturday Night Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar, Erik D’Viking & Astroboy with live music from Gecko 3, 11.30pm-3am, £5

The Institute for Electronic Artists, The Left Bank, Live local electronic music, line up tbc, 9pm-5am, Free Kayos, Opium, Rock, metal & indie with residents, 8pm-5am, Free

Zoot Swing, Café Royal, Swing dance classes, beginners 7pm, improvers 8pm followed by bigband swing jazz & neo-swing beats, 9pm-late, £4.50 (£3.50), free after 9

Jez Hill, 9pm-3am, £5 (£4) Fat Wednesday, The Caves, Soul & electro-funk from Digital Jones with DJ sets from Departure Lounge & Trouble DJs, 11.30pm-3am, £5

Sientelo!, El Barrio, Latin America music mixed with chart tunes, 11pm-late, Free

Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £5

Sophistifunk, City, John Hutchison (Tokyoblu) plays house remixes, funky RnB & bootlegs, 11pm-3am, £8

Taste, The Liquid Room, Edinburgh’s longest running gay friendly club night, eclectic dance music, 11pm-5am, £8 (£6), £5 b4 11.30pm

The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!,1am-5am, £5

Tease Age, Citrus Club, All things rock, motown & soul, 11pm-3am, £5, free b4 11.30pm

Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £5

Henrys Cellar, Flamenco, latin & reggae with Kinkey, 10pm-late, £3

Seiteki Saturdays, Tokyo, House, 11pm-3am, £6

Telefunken, The Vaults, House with residents & Da Sunlounge, 10pm-5am, £5 Velvet, Mariners, Women’s club night for gay girlies & their friends, 10pm-4am, £6 (£5), £4 b4 10.30pm Assembly Bar, Gareth Somerville (Ultragroove) & Jonnie Lyley (Scratch), 9pm-1am, Free Pivo Caffe, Electronic music from house addicts in this warm-up venue, 9pm-3am, Free

Monday 7th August Happy Mondays, Po Na Na, Night for students & Industry folk, indie, rock & funk, 11pm-3am, £4, free for students Hobbes, Pivo Caffe, Eclectic mix with Hobbes (Trouble), 9pm-3am, Free

Sunday 6th August Baby Doll, Po Na Na, House, 11pm-3am, £5, £4 b4 12am Bootylushous, Medina, RnB, soul & disco with Trendy Wendy& Simone,10pm-late,£4/2 b4 12am Club Simba, The Jazz Bar, Afro, carribean, RnB, hip hop, live pa & audio visual images with DJs Red Alert, Wellaz & guests, 10pm-late, £3, free b4 11.30pm Disuko, Tokyo, John Tokyoblu plays upfront disco, house with percussion & sax from Pepe & saXingh, 11pm-late, £3 (£2), free b4 11pm Freshmode, City Café (downstairs), Peas & DJG play hip hop, breaks, funk & open mic, 8pm-1am, Free I Love Acid, Cabaret Voltaire, Red 6, Yasmin & Gareth Somerville play house & acid classics, Domu & Trouble DJs play freestyle out back, 11pm-late, £5 (£4)

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The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!,1am-5am, £5

August 06

Hot Sushi, Tokyo, Lisa Littlewood plays House & club classics, 10pm-late, £tbc

Tuesday 8th August

The Pit, Subway Cowgate, Rock & metal, 11pm3am, Free

Antics, Subway Cowgate, Rock, emo, punk & metal, 11pm-3am, Free

Stir Fried, The Outhouse, Pre-club with indie & rock from B-Sides & Bootross, 9pm-1am, Free

The Diamond Dice, Massa, Hip hop, RnB & grime with your host Mr. Jinx, 10.30pm-3am, £5

Tease Age Wednesdays, Citrus Club, Indie, mod & soul with DJ Monkee Mike, 11pm-late, £3, free b4 11.30pm

Frunt, The Liquid Room, DJ Stuart Johnston plays house music, 10.30pm-3am, Free

Toxik, Opium, DJ Nu-Clear playing new & old metal & hard rock, 8pm-5am, Free

Jacek, Pivo Caffe, Eastern block house party, 9pm-3am, Free

We Are … Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, The first birthday with Andrew Weatherall, 11.30pm-5am, £2, free b4 12am/members

The Latin Quarter, Medina, Salsa, funk & latin house, 10pm-late, Free Pony Club, Tokyo, House, RnB & hip hop, 10pmlate, £4 (£3)

Rewind, Prive’ Council, 100% upfront RnB & hip hop, 10pm-late, £2, ladies free b4 12am

The Reggae Lounge, Beluga, With Joel Shaw (Dubstations), From 9pm, Free

Speeddater, Grape, 25-35 & looking for love quick?…, 7pm-1am, £19.95

Rock Karaoke, Opium, ROAR, 10pm, Free

Split, Cabaret Voltaire, Blend of house, techno, D&B, breakbeat from Edinburgh, healthy midweek rave, 11.30pm-5am, Free

Soundproof, The Outhouse, Open decks night hosted by the Soundproof DJs, 8pm-1am, Free Trade Union, Cabaret Voltaire, Night for deserving bar, club & Fringe staff, DJ Beefy plays anything, 10pm-late, £2, £1 Trade Union members/ECCF members You Control, Subway Cowgate, Current & classic indie, rock & chart, 11pm-3am, Free

Insomnia, Prive’ Council, Warner Powers & Claudio bring house each week, 10pm-late, Free Paul Daley, Pivo Caffe, Free flowing funk to house, 9pm-3am, Free

Motherfunk, Opal Lounge, Fryer & Gino play original soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 10pmlate, Free

Salsa Dance Classes, The Bongo Club, Cuban Salsa, drop-in classes, 7pm for beginners, 8pm for the advanced, 7pm-9pm, £5

Indi-Go, The Liquid Room, Indie & alternative, 10.30pm-3am, £2, £1 students

Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £5

Chambles, Opal Lounge, Funk & chart with DJ

YELLOW BOX DENOTES SKINNY HIGHLIGHTS

Thursday 10th August Beat Root Juice Club, The Jazz Bar, Live afrobeat & ska from residents The Goat Stew Orchestra & resident DJ B*Wax,10pm-late, Free

The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!,1am-5am, £5

Wednesday 9th August

The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!,1am-5am, £5

Bounce, Po Na Na, DJ 2three playing urban sounds, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Class!, Subway Cowgate, DJ Lucky Luciano plays cheese, student anthems & requests,11pm-3am, £2, £1 students,free b4 12am

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Grafitti, Medina, Kipp$ & Master Caird play party tunes all night, 10pm-late, £3 (£2) The Hobo, Henrys Cellar, 12am-5am, £4

The Egg, Wee Red Bar, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 11pm-3am, £5, £4 students/members Fusion, Henrys Cellar, Soul, funk & hip hop with a live set from Groovestate, 9.30pm-5am, £5

Housebound, Ego, House, funk, electro & disco with DJs from Edinburgh & Glasgow,10pm-late, £5

Headspin, The Bongo Club, With crowd pleaser DJ Yoda, 11pm-late, £10

Lel Palfrey, Pivo Caffe, Disco & jazz & disco & more, 9pm-3am, Free

Liquid Soul, Po Na Na, Mark B & guests with chirpy music, 10.30pm-3am, £6, £3 b4 11pm

LuckyMe, City Café, Hip hop, soul & off beats, 8.30pm-1am, Free

Lounge, Liberty’s Bar (Heriot-Watt), Eclectic mix of tunes, 8pm-1.30am, Free

Salsa Disco, Cuba Norte, Salsa dance & tasty tapas, 10pm-1am, Free

Mocha Rocka!, Berlin, House & disco, 10.30pm3am, £6, £2.50 b4 12am

Souled Out, Opal Lounge, Soul, disco & dance with Leon Easter, 9pm-3am, £4 (£3), free b4 11pm

Much More, Medina, Hip-hop & funk cuts with Nasty P & Cunnie, 10pm-3am, £4, £3 b4 11pm

Snatch Social, The Liquid Room, Messy night guaranteed at eclectic student bash, 9pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 members

Party Night, El Barrio, Salsa night with DJ Papi & Alex Gato, free classes 10pm, 11pm-late, Free

Tokyo Kyouyou, Tokyo, Scott Granger mixes House, RnB & hip hop, 10pm-late, £4 (£3) Traffic, Heriot-Watt University, Indie & alternative, 11.30pm-2am, Free Tweek, Cabaret Voltaire, A mix of house, techno & mash-up with Brainstorm, Bruno F-K, Ryan Ellis, DJ Believe & Ian Brandon,11pm-5am,£5 Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5) The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!, 1am-5am, £5 Assembly Bar, The Departure Lounge DJs, 9pm1am, Free

Friday 11th August Cult, Po Na Na, DJ Nicki plays hip hop, disco, funk & RnB, 10pm-3am, £5, £2.50 b4 11pm de luxe, Hudson Club, House with resident DJs, 11pm-3am, £3, free b4 12am Evol, The Liquid Room, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats & rock, 10.30pm-3am, £5 Fake, Studio 24, Bastard Pop, punk-funk, electro & rock n roll, 11pm-3am, £4, free b4 12am Fast, The Bongo Club, Punk-disco-electro-nuwave club with special guest Gay Against You, 11pm-late, £tbc Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar, DJ Astroboy with Balkan music from Moishie’s Bagel,11.30pm-5am £5 Fur Burger, Twist, Eclectic mix for eclectic girls from The Funki Diva, Debi Tits, Boy Toy & DJ Michelle, 10pm-2am, £4 Get Funk’d, Medina, Double D & Isla play hip hop to house, 10pm-late, £4, £3 b4 11pm Groovejet, Tokyo, Tony McHugh with dancefloor hits, 10pm-late, £6 Jam Friday, Heriot-Watt University, Pop & cheese, 10pm-3am, £2 Misfits, Subway Cowgate, Indie, electro, punk, rock, retro & a tequila girl, 11pm-3am, £2 Night Train, Liberty’s Bar (Heriot-Watt), 8pm2am, Free Nuklearpuppy, Ego, Tech-trance & hard dance from Tylor Leight/Jason Cortez & dirty house downstairs, 10pm-5am, £7, £5 b4 12am Planet Earth, Citrus Club, 80s tunes with residents, 10.30pm-late, £5 Red Alert Overchore, Wee Red Bar, 6th birthday with D&B, jungle & breaks from Alcane, Hex, Dangamouse & D’Sylva with guests Paul Reset & Marc EP, 10.30pm-4am, £4 (£3) Salsa Caribe!, The Lot, Salsa DJs on the special dancefloor, 9pm-1.30am, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm Satchmo Sessions, Pivo Caffe, House Session, 9pm-3am, Free Sleazy Cheezy, Studio 24, Boutique Burlesque Club with a mash-up of music & entertainment - theme is Atomic Burlesque, 11pm-5am, £tbc Solescience, Cabaret Voltaire, DJ Heather (Chicago) joins Rob & Nick for a massive chi-town session, with Craig Jamieson (Modern Lovers) in the back, 11pm-5am, £7

Retribution, Studio 24, Goth music for the old, 11pm-3am, £5, £3 students Sanctuary, Studio 24, Goth music for the young, 6pm-10pm, £5 Saturday Night Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar, Erik D’Viking & Astroboy with live music from Voces Del Sur, 11.30pm-5am, £5 Seiteki Saturdays, Tokyo, House, 11pm-late, £6 Sophistifunk, City, John Hutchison (Tokyoblu) plays house, funky RnB &bootlegs,11pm-3am, £8 Stereotype Motel, The Liquid Room, Yousef headlines the bill, with house from Huggy & the Solescience DJs, 11pm-5am, £8 Sumo, Berlin, Festival special with Scotland housefreak M.Jackson, 9pm-3am, £7, £6 b4 12am Tease Age, Citrus Club, All things rock, motown, alternative & soul, 11pm-late, £5, free b4 11.30pm Ultragroove, Cabaret Voltaire, House party with Gareth Somerville, Alan Grey (Telefunken) & northern ‘Soul Sam’, Marco Santucci & Dean Anderson, 11pm-5am, £8, £7 members

The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!, 1am-5am, £5 Henrys Cellar, Flamenco, latin & reggae with Kinkey, 10pm-late, £3

Tuesday 15th August Antics, Subway Cowgate, Rock, emo, punk & metal, 11pm-3am, Free The Diamond Dice, Massa, Hip hop, RnB & grime with your host Mr. Jinx, 10.30pm-3am, £5 Frunt, The Liquid Room, DJ Stuart Johnston playing house music all night, 10.30pm-3am, Free Jacek, Pivo Caffe, Eastern block house party, 9pm-3am, Free Motherfunk, Opal Lounge, Fryer & Gino play original soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 10pmlate, Free Rewind, Prive’ Council, 100% upfront RnB & hip hop, 10pm-late, £2, ladies free b4 12am Split, Cabaret Voltaire, Blend of house, techno, D&B, breakbeat from Edinburgh, healthy midweek rave, 11.30pm-5am, Free Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5)

Wednesday 16th August

Sunday 13th August

Chambles, Opal Lounge, Funk & chart with DJ Jez Hill, 9pm-3am, £5 (£4)

Baby Doll, Po Na Na, House, 11pm-3am, £5, £4 b4 12am Bootylushous, Medina, RnB, soul, funk & disco with Trendy Wendy, Dale & Simone, 10pm-late, £4, £2 b4 12am Club Simba, The Jazz Bar, Afro, RnB, hip hop, live pa & audio visual images with DJs Red Alert, Wellaz & guests, 10pm-late, £3, free b4 11.30pm Disuko, Tokyo, John Tokyoblu plays upfront disco, latin house with live percussion & sax from Pepe & saXingh, 11pm-late, £3 (£2), free b4 11pm Freshmode, City Café (downstairs), Peas & DJG play hip hop, breaks, funk & open mic, 8pm1am, Free

Fat Wednesday, The Caves, Epic live tunes from Keiretsu with support from DL & Trouble DJs, 11.30pm-3am, £5 Hot Sushi, Tokyo, Lisa Littlewood plays House & club classics, 10pm-late, £tbc Indi-Go, The Liquid Room, Indie & alternative, 10.30pm-3am, £2, £1 students Insomnia, Prive’ Council, Warner Powers & Claudio bring fresh house tunes each week, 10pm-late, Free Paul Daley, Pivo Caffe, Free flowing funk to house, 9pm-3am, Free The Pit, Subway Cowgate, Rock & metal, 11pm3am, Free

Jackhammer, Cabaret Voltaire,Techno,11pm5am, £10

Stir Fried, The Outhouse, Pre-club with indie & rock from B-Sides & Bootross Rock, 9pm-1am, Free

Kayos, Opium, Rock, metal & indie with residents, 8pm-5am, Free

Tease Age Wednesdays, Citrus Club, Indie, mod & soul with DJ Monkee Mike, 11pm-late, £3, free b4 11.30pm

Sientelo!, El Barrio, Latin America music mixed with chart tunes, 11pm-3am, Free Taste, The Liquid Room, Edinburgh’s longest running gay friendly club night, eclectic dance music with guests Parallel Sound, 11pm-5am, £8 (£6), £5 b4 11.30pm Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5) The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!, 1am-5am, £5

Monday 14th August Happy Mondays, Po Na Na, Night for students & Industry folk, indie, rock & funk, 11pm-3am, £4, free for students Hobbes, Pivo Caffe, Eclectic mix with Hobbes (Trouble), 9pm-3am, Free

Pony Club, Tokyo, House, RnB & hip hop, 10pmlate, £4 (£3)

Saturday 12th August

The Reggae Lounge, Beluga, With Joel Shaw (Dubstations), From 9pm, Free

Club Noir, Ego, Burlesque heaven with Rick McMurray from Ash & DJ Loveless,10pm-4am, £15

Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5)

Pivo Caffe, Electronic music from house addicts in this warm-up venue, 9pm-3am, Free

Assembly Bar, Trouble DJs , 5pm-1am, Free

Club Lick & Pukkaup, Faith, Tom Murgatroid (Ministry of Sound) & locals play island house music, 11pm-5am, £8, £6 b4 1am

Zoot Swing, Café Royal, Swing dance classes, beginners 7pm, improvers 8pm followed by bigband swing jazz & neo-swing beats, 9pm-late, £4.50 (£3.50), free after 9

The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!, 1am-5am, £5

The Latin Quarter, Medina, Salsa, funk & latin house, 10pm-late, Free

Allsorts, Subway Cowgate, Chart, cheese & party, 11pm-3am, £2, free b4 12am

You Control, Subway Cowgate, Current & classic indie, rock & chart, 11pm-3am, Free

Assembly Bar, Gareth Somerville (Ultragroove) & Jonnie Lyley (Scratch), 9pm-1am, Free

Unknown Pleasures, Teviot Union, Indie club, 9pm-3am, £3 (£2)

2Hot, Ego, RnB & hip hop with Ritchie Ruftone & friends, under 18s only (14-17), 6.45pm-9.45pm, £5

plays anything, 10pm-late, £2, £1 Trade Union members/ECCF members

Rock Karaoke, Opium, ROAR, 10pm, Free Salsa Dance Classes, The Bongo Club, Cuban Salsa, drop-in classes, 7pm for beginners, 8pm for the advanced, 7pm-9pm, £5 Soundproof, The Outhouse, Open decks night hosted by the Soundproof DJs, 8pm-1am, Free Trade Union, Cabaret Voltaire, Night for deserving bar, club & Fringe staff, DJ Beefy

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CLUB LISTINGS

Genetic, Citrus Club, Night of rock anthems, 11pm-late, £2

Toxik, Opium, DJ Nu-Clear playing new & old metal & hard rock, 8pm-5am, Free We Are … Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Mac & Jacek Zamojski play house, tech-house & breaks with The Blonde Flash & Gaz Bowman out back, 11.30pm-5am, £2, free b4 12am/members Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5) The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!,1am-5am, £5

Thursday 17th August Beat Root Juice Club, The Jazz Bar, Live afrobeat, latin & ska from residents The Goat Stew Orchestra & resident DJ B*Wax, 10pm-late, Free Box Wars, Studio 24, The Fringe Box Wars featuring indie dance punks The Very, 7pm-late Class!, Subway Cowgate, DJ Lucky Luciano plays cheese, student anthems & requests, 11pm3am, £2, £1 students, free b4 12am Essential, Po Na Na, Tony Vegas (Scratch Perverts) with support from Alan Dunbar & The Resonance & Spider, 11pm-4am, £8 (£6) Genetic, Citrus Club, Night of rock anthems, 11pm-late, £2 Grafitti, Medina, Kipp$ & Master Caird play party tunes all night, 10pm-late, £3 (£2)

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The Hobo, Henrys Cellar, 12am-5am, £4 Housebound, Ego, Sexy house, funky stuff, electro & disco with DJs from Edinburgh & Glasgow, 10pm-late, £5

YELLOW BOX DENOTES SKINNY HIGHLIGHTS

August 06

ISSUE ELEVEN

LISTINGS

EDINBURGH CLUBS Lel Palfrey, Pivo Caffe, Disco & jazz & disco & more, 9pm-3am, Free

Messenger, The Bongo Club, Roots & dub reggae system with MC Ras Echo, 11pm-late, £8

LuckyMe, City Café, Hip hop, soul & off beats, 8.30pm-1am, Free

Much More, Medina, Hip-hop & funk cuts with Nasty P & Cunnie, 10pm-late, £4, £3 b4 11pm

On Request, Ego, Ask, 11pm-3am, £3 Salsa Disco, Cuba Norte, Salsa dance & tasty tapas, 10pm-1am, Free

Obscene, Cocteau Lounge (downstairs at Ego), D&B wiv Marc EP, Calvin, BT & Dave Lowe & MC IB, 10.30pm-late, £5, £3 b4 12am

Souled Out, Opal Lounge, Soul, disco & dance with Leon Easter, 9pm-3am,£4 (£3),free b4 11pm

Party Night, El Barrio, Salsa night with DJ Papi & Alex Gato, free classes 10pm, 11pm-late, Free

Snatch Social, The Liquid Room, Messy night guaranteed at eclectic student bash, 9pm3am, £5 (£4), £3 members

Retribution, Studio 24, Goth music for the old, 11pm-3am, £5, £3 students

Tokyo Kyouyou, Tokyo, Scott Granger mixes House, RnB & hip hop, 10pm-late, £4 (£3) Traffic, Heriot-Watt University, Indie & alternative, 11.30pm-2am, Free White Heat, Cabaret Voltaire, Soho’s club on tour with Glasgow’s Dananananaykroyd & Rock Action Records’ Errors, 11pm-5am, £5, £4 with flyer, £3 myspace.com/whiteheatscotland Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5) The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!,1am-5am, £5 Assembly Bar, The Departure Lounge DJs, 9pm1am, Free

Friday 18th August Absolute, Studio 24, Hard trance & powernoise with Jon O’bir (Godskitchen), William Daniel (Inside Out) & residents - Carnival theme, 10pm-late, £10, £8 b4 12am/DSI forum Beatroot, Cocteau Lounge (downstairs at Ego), Techy house & electro with Audiojack & residents, 10.30pm-5am, £7, £6 b4 12am Cult, Po Na Na, DJ Nicki & guests playing hip hop, disco &RnB,10pm-3am,£5,£2.50 b4 11pm de luxe, Hudson Club, House with resident DJs, 11pm-3am, £3, free b4 12am

Sanctuary, Studio 24, Goth music for the young, 6pm-10pm, £5

Henrys Cellar, Latin, jazz & flamenco DJs, 10.30pm-5am, £5 Pivo Caffe, Electronic music from house addicts in this warm-up venue, 9pm-3am, Free

Sunday 20th August Baby Doll, Po Na Na, House, 11pm-3am, £5, £4 b4 12am

Disuko, Tokyo, John Tokyoblu plays upfront disco, latin house with live percussion & sax from Pepe & saXingh,11pm-late, £3 (£2), free b4 11pm

Planet Earth, Citrus Club, 80s tunes with residents, 10.30pm-late, £5 Salsa Caribe!, The Lot, Salsa DJs on the special dancefloor, 9pm-1.30am, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm Satchmo Sessions, Pivo Caffe, House Session, 9pm-3am, Free Soma, Cabaret Voltaire, Soma showcase with Slam & Vector Lovers live, 11pm-5am, £8 Unknown Pleasures, Teviot Union, Indie club, 9pm-3am, £3 (£2) Assembly Bar, Trouble DJs , 5pm-1am, Free Henrys Cellar, Latin Jazz DJs, 10.30pm-5am, £5

Saturday 19th August 2Hot, Ego, RnB & hip hop with Ritchie Ruftone & friends, under 18s only, 6.45pm-9.45pm, £5 Allsorts, Subway Cowgate, Chart, cheese & party, 11pm-3am, £2, free b4 12am Bass Syndicate, The Liquid Room, New breaks night with guests the big fat Plump DJs, 10.30pm-5am, £12 The Egg, Wee Red Bar, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 11pm-3am, £5, £4 students/members Liquid Soul, Po Na Na, Mark B & guests with chirpy music, 10.30pm-3am, £6, £3 b4 11pm Lounge, Liberty’s Bar (Heriot-Watt), Eclectic mix of tunes, 8pm-1.30am, Free

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August 06

Henrys Cellar, Flamenco, latin & reggae with Kinkey, 10pm-late, £3

Tuesday 22nd August

Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5)

Get Funk’d, Medina, Double D & Isla play hip hop to house, 10pm-late, £4, £3 b4 11pm

Pins & Needles, Red, The Lost Edinburgh Sessions is brought to you by KMG, Paul Bendoris & features an Ableton set from Twitch (Pure, Optimo), 10pm-5am, £5 (£4)

The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!, 1am-5am, £5

Assembly Bar, Gareth Somerville (Ultragroove) & Jonnie Lyley (Scratch), 9pm-1am, Free

Club Simba, The Jazz Bar, Afro,RnB, hip hop, live pa & audio visual images with DJs Red Alert, Wellaz & guests, 10pm-late, £3, free b4 11.30pm

Night Train, Liberty’s Bar (Heriot-Watt), 8pm2am, Free

Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5)

Split Special Edition, Cabaret Voltaire, Blend of house, techno, D&B, breakbeat from Edinburgh plus special guest Marcus Intalex & MC Verse, 11.30pm-5am, Free

Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar, DJs Erik D’Viking, Astroboy with live music from Glasgow’s Sidewinder, 1am-5am, £5

Misfits, Subway Cowgate, Indie, electro, punk, rock, retro & a tequila girl, 11pm-3am, £2

Zoot Swing, Café Royal, Swing dance classes, beginners 7pm, improvers 8pm followed by bigband swing jazz & neo-swing beats, 9pm-late, £4.50 (£3.50), free after 9

Unlock The House, Ocean Terminal, The ultimate Edinburgh house party with DJs from across Edinburgh’s house clubs & live percussion, 8pm-3am, £12.50

Evol, The Liquid Room, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats & rock, 10.30pm-3am, £5

Jam Friday, Heriot-Watt University, Pop & cheese, 10pm-3am, £2

You Control, Subway Cowgate, Current & classic indie, rock & chart, 11pm-3am, Free

Antics, Subway Cowgate, Rock, emo, punk & Saturday Night Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar, The Baby metal, 11pm-3am, Free Elephants live with latin & boogaloo DJ sets from The Diamond Dice, Massa, Hip hop, RnB & grime Lubi Jovanovic & Astroboy, 11.30pm-5am, £5 with your host Mr. Jinx, 10.30pm-3am, £5 Seiteki Saturdays, Tokyo, House, 11pm-late, £6 Frunt, The Liquid Room, DJ Stuart Johnston Sophistifunk, City, John Hutchison (Tokyoblu) playing house music all night, 10.30pm-3am, Free plays house remixes, funky RnB & bootlegs, Jacek, Pivo Caffe, Eastern block house party, 11pm-3am, £8 9pm-3am, Free Tease Age, Citrus Club, All things rock, Motherfunk, Opal Lounge, Fryer & Gino play motown, alternative & soul, 11pm-late, £5, free original soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 10pmb4 11.30pm late, Free Ufreak, Cabaret Voltaire, Ufreak moves venue Rewind, Prive’ Council, 100% upfront RnB & hip & their first guest is French techno star Agoria, hop, 10pm-late, £2, ladies free b4 12am 11pm-5am, £13

Bootylushous, Medina, RnB, soul, funk & disco with Trendy Wendy, Dale & Simone, 10pm-late, £4, £2 b4 12am

Groovejet, Tokyo, Tony McHugh with dancefloor hits, 10pm-late, £6

Trade Union, Cabaret Voltaire, Night for deserving bar, club & Fringe staff, DJ Beefy plays anything, 10pm-late, £2, £1 Trade Union members/ECCF members

Freshmode, City Café (downstairs), Peas & DJG play hip hop, breaks, funk & open mic, 8pm-1am, Free I Fly Spitfires, Cabaret Voltaire, Club/gig crossover gig with The Flying Matchstick Men & Copy Haho, 11pm-5am, £5

The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!, 1am-5am, £5

Wednesday 23rd August Chambles, Opal Lounge, Funk & chart with DJ Jez Hill, 9pm-3am, £5 (£4) Fat Wednesday, The Caves, Edinburgh’s new school jazz group, Joe Acheson Quartet join the DL & Trouble DJs, 11.30pm-3am, £5 Futuro, Faith, Funky & electro house with Dave Bernadi & Fraser Shaw & guest Huggy, 11pm-5am, £3, £2 NUS, free b4 12am Hot Sushi, Tokyo, Lisa Littlewood plays House & club classics, 10pm-late, £tbc Indi-Go, The Liquid Room, Indie & alternative, 10.30pm-3am, £2, £1 students Insomnia, Prive’ Council, Warner Powers & Claudio bring fresh house tunes each week, 10pm-3am, Free Paul Daley, Pivo Caffe, Free flowing funk to house, 9pm-3am, Free

Kayos, Opium, Rock, metal & indie with residents, 8pm-5am, Free

The Pit, Subway Cowgate, Rock & metal, 11pm3am, Free

Rebel Salute, Henrys Cellar, Dub, reggae & flamenco, 10.30pm-5am, £5

Stir Fried, The Outhouse, Pre-club with indie & rock from B-Sides & Bootross Rock, 9pm-1am, Free

Sientelo!, El Barrio, Latin America music mixed with chart tunes, 11pm-late, Free

Tease Age Wednesdays, Citrus Club, Indie, mod & soul with DJ Monkee Mike, 11pm-late, £3, free b4 11.30pm

Taste, The Liquid Room, Edinburgh’s longest running gay friendly club night, eclectic dance music, 11pm-5am, £8 (£6), £5 b4 11.30pm Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5) The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!,1am-5am, £5

Monday 21st August Happy Mondays, Po Na Na, Night for students & Industry folk, indie, rock & funk, 11pm-3am, £4, free for students Hobbes, Pivo Caffe, Eclectic mix with Hobbes (Trouble), 9pm-3am, Free The Latin Quarter, Medina, Salsa, funk & latin house, 10pm-late, Free Pony Club, Tokyo, House, RnB & hip hop, 10pmlate, £4 (£3) The Reggae Lounge, Beluga, With Joel Shaw (Dubstations), From 9pm, Free Rock Karaoke, Opium, ROAR, 10pm, Free Salsa Dance Classes, The Bongo Club, Cuban Salsa, drop-in classes, 7pm for beginners, 8pm for the advanced, 7pm-9pm, £5 Soundproof, The Outhouse, Open decks night hosted by the Soundproof DJs, 8pm-1am, Free

Toxik, Opium, DJ Nu-Clear playing new & old metal & hard rock, 8pm-5am, Free We Are … Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Mac & Jacek Zamojski play house, electro, tech-house & breaks with Dava in the back, 11.30pm-5am, £2, free b4 12am/members Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5) The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!, 1am-5am, £5

Thursday 24th August Beat Root Juice Club, The Jazz Bar, Live afrobeat, latin & ska from residents The Goat Stew Orchestra & resident DJ B*Wax,10pm-late, Free Bounce, Po Na Na, DJ 2three playing urban sounds, 11pm-3am, £4 (£3) Class!, Subway Cowgate, DJ Lucky Luciano plays cheese, student anthems & requests, 11pm3am, £2, £1 students, free b4 12am Genetic, Citrus Club, Night of rock anthems, 11pm-late, £2 Grafitti, Medina, Kipp$ & Master Caird play party tunes all night, 10pm-late, £3 (£2) The Hobo, Henrys Cellar, 12am-5am, £4

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Housebound, Ego, Sexy house, funky stuff, electro & disco with DJs from Edinburgh & Glasgow, 10pm-late, £5 Lel Palfrey, Pivo Caffe, Disco & jazz & disco & more, 9pm-3am, Free LuckyMe, City Café, Hip hop, soul & off beats, 8.30pm-1am, Free Salsa Disco, Cuba Norte, Salsa dance & tasty tapas, 10pm-1am, Free Souled Out, Opal Lounge, Soul, disco & dance with Leon Easter, 9pm-3am, £4 (£3), free b4 11pm Snatch Social, The Liquid Room, Messy night with antics from The Cuban Brothers,9pm-3am, £9 Spies In The Wires, Cabaret Voltaire, The Acute & De Rosa play live with Spitfire DJs in support, 11pm-5am, £3 (£2) Step It Up, Wee Red Bar, Mark, Skeetz & Cedric promoting reggae music,11pm-4am,£4 (£3) Tokyo Kyouyou, Tokyo, Scott Granger mixes House, RnB & hip hop, 10pm-late, £4 (£3) Traffic, Heriot-Watt University, Indie & alternative, 11.30pm-2am, Free Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty , 11pm-1am, £10 (£5) The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!, 1am-5am, £5 Assembly Bar, The Departure Lounge DJs, 9pm1am, Free

Friday 25th August Big Toe’s Hi-Fi, Wee Red Bar, Reggae, dub, dancehall & hip hop, 10.30pm-4am, £5 (£4), free b4 11.30pm Cult, Po Na Na, DJ Nicki & guests playing hip hop, disco & RnB, 10pm-3am, £5, £2.50 b4 11pm de luxe, Hudson Club, House with resident DJs, 11pm-3am, £3, free b4 12am Electric Boogaloo, Henrys Cellar, An electric special with Dundee secret Architeq & special electrified guests, 11pm-5am, £5, £4 b4 12am Evol, The Liquid Room, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats & rock, 10.30pm-3am, £5 Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar, Groovenik live & Erik D’Viking, 11.30pm-5am, £5 Get Funk’d, Medina, Double D & Isla play hip hop to house, 10pm-late, £4, £3 b4 11pm Groovejet, Tokyo, Tony McHugh with dancefloor hits, 10pm-late, £6 Jam Friday, Heriot-Watt University, Pop & cheese, 10pm-3am, £2 Misfits, Subway Cowgate, Indie, electro, punk, rock, retro & a tequila girl, 11pm-3am, £2 Night Train, Liberty’s Bar (Heriot-Watt), 8pm2am, Free Nightstrike & Michigan, Red, Detroit techno & electro, 10pm-5am, £3 (£2), free b4 12am Orange Street, Studio 24, Official Max Romeo after party with special guest DJ Sil (Supreme Radio, London), 11pm-5am, £5, free with MR ticket Planet Earth, Citrus Club, 80s tunes with residents, 10.30pm-late, £5 Salsa Caribe!, The Lot, Salsa DJs on the special dancefloor, 9pm-1.30am, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm Satchmo Sessions, Pivo Caffe, House Session, 9pm-3am, Free Sugarbeat, Cabaret Voltaire, James Lavelle (Mo Wax) guests, 11pm-5am, £7 Tokyo Blu, Ego, 4th birthday party with house & live percussion on 2 floors, 11pm-late, £8 (£5) Unknown Pleasures, Teviot Union, Indie club, 9pm-3am, £3 (£2) Assembly Bar, Trouble DJs , 5pm-1am, Free

Saturday 26th August 2Hot, Ego, RnB & hip hop with Ritchie Ruftone & friends, under 18s only (14-17), 6.45pm-9.45pm, £5 Allsorts, Subway Cowgate, Chart, cheese & party, 11pm-3am, £2, free b4 12am The Egg, Wee Red Bar, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 11pm-3am, £5, £4 students/members Fever, Ego, Gay friendly night with guest Lisa German & residents, 11pm-late, £10, £8 members, £5 members b4 11.15pm Give It Some, The Bongo Club, Red6 & Decoy Roy with funk, soul, jazz & reggae, 11pm-late, £6, £4 b4 12am Liquid Soul, Po Na Na, Mark B & guests with chirpy music, 10.30pm-3am, £6, £3 b4 11pm Lounge, Liberty’s Bar (Heriot-Watt), Eclectic mix of tunes, 8pm-1.30am, Free Much More, Medina, Hip-hop & funk cuts with Nasty P & Cunnie, 10pm-late, £4, £3 b4 11pm

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Party Night, El Barrio, Salsa night with DJ Papi & Alex Gato, free classes 10pm, 11pm-late, Free Progression, The Liquid Room, The 2nd ever night for Progression bringing you the anthems of the last 6 years, 10.30pm-5am, £8 Retribution, Studio 24, Goth music for the old, 11pm-3am, £5, £3 students Sanctuary, Studio 24, Goth music for the young, 6pm-10pm, £5

Kayos, Opium,Rock,metal &indie,8pm-5am, Free

9pm-3am, Free

Sientelo!, El Barrio, Latin America music mixed with chart tunes, 11pm-late, Free

Motherfunk, Opal Lounge, Fryer & Gino play original soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 10pmlate, Free

Taste, The Liquid Room, Edinburgh’s longest running gay friendly club night, eclectic dance Rewind, Prive’ Council, 100% upfront RnB & hip music with Fisher & Price & Martin Valentine, 11pm- hop, 10pm-late, £2, ladies free b4 12am 5am, £8 (£6), £5 b4 11.30pm Split, Cabaret Voltaire, Blend of house, techno, D&B, breakbeat from Edinburgh, healthy midweek rave, 11.30pm-5am, Free Monday 28th August

Saturday Night Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar, Erik Happy Mondays, Po Na Na, Night for students D’Viking & Astroboy with BTNJ live,11.30pm-5am,£5 & Industry folk, indie, rock & funk, 11pm-3am, £4, Seiteki Saturdays,Tokyo,House,11pm-late, £6 free for students

Vaudeville Cabaret Club, The Bongo Club, Cabaret showcase & chaotic dancehall afterparty, 11pm-1am, £10 (£5)

Sophistifunk, City,John Hutchison (Tokyoblu) plays remixes RnB & bootlegs, 11pm-3am, £8

Hobbes, Pivo Caffe, Eclectic mix with Hobbes (Trouble), 9pm-3am, Free

Tease Age, Citrus Club, All things rock, motown, alternative & soul, 11pm-late, £5, free b4 11.30pm

The Latin Quarter, Medina, Salsa, funk & latin house, 10pm-late, Free

The One O’Clock Club, The Bongo Club, Cocktail Lounge & Mac’s Big Gay Disco, follows Vaudeville, precedes Penny Black!, 1am-5am, £5

Telefunken, The Vaults, House with Jacob & The Bionic Bump Band, 10pm-5am, £5

Pony Club, Tokyo, House, RnB & hip hop, 10pmlate, £4 (£3)

Ultragroove, Cabaret Voltaire, Frank Tope & Gareth Somerville in the main room, The Blonde Flash & Potty play disco in the back, 11pm-5am, £8, £7 members

The Reggae Lounge, Beluga, With Joel Shaw (Dubstations), From 9pm, Free

Vegas!, Ocean Terminal, Rat-pack, swing, lounge, jive & flamboyance, 10pm-3am, £tbc Assembly Bar, Gareth Somerville (Ultragroove) & Jonnie Lyley (Scratch), 9pm-1am, Free

Pivo Caffe, Electronic music from house addicts in Trade Union, Cabaret Voltaire, Night for this warm-up venue, 9pm-3am, Free deserving bar, club & Fringe staff, DJ Beefy plays anything, 10pm-late, £2, £1 Trade Union members/ECCF members Sunday 27th August Baby Doll, Po Na Na, House, 11pm-3am, £5, £4 b4 12am Bootylushous, Medina, RnB, soul, funk & disco with Trendy Wendy, Dale & Simone, 10pm-late, £4, £2 b4 12am Club Simba, The Jazz Bar, Afro, carribean, RnB, hip hop, live pa & audio visual images with DJs Red Alert, Wellaz & guests, 10pm-late, £3, free b4 11.30pm

Wednesday 30th August Chambles, Opal Lounge, Funk & chart with DJ Jez Hill, 9pm-3am, £5 (£4) Futuro, Faith, Dave Bernadi, Fraser Shaw & Kris Lindsay play funky & electro hoose, 11pm-5am, £2, free b4 12am Hot Sushi, Tokyo, Lisa Littlewood plays House & club classics, 10pm-late, £tbc Indi-Go, The Liquid Room, Indie & alternative, 10.30pm-3am, £2, £1 students Insomnia, Prive’ Council, Warner Powers & Claudio bring fresh house tunes each week, 10pm-late, Free

Paul Daley, Pivo Caffe, Free flowing funk to You Control, Subway Cowgate, Current & classic house, 9pm-3am, Free indie, rock & chart, 11pm-3am, Free The Pit, Subway Cowgate, Rock & metal, 11pm3am, Free Zoot Swing, Café Royal, Swing dance classes, beginners 7pm, improvers 8pm followed by bigband swing jazz & neo-swing beats, 9pm-late, £4.50 (£3.50), free after 9 Henrys Cellar, Flamenco, latin & reggae with Kinkey, 10pm-late, £3

Disuko, Tokyo, John Tokyoblu plays upfront disco, latin house with live percussion & sax from Pepe & saXingh, 11pm-late, £3 (£2), free b4 11pm

Tuesday 29th August

Freshmode, City Café (downstairs), Peas & DJG play hip hop, breaks, funk & open mic,8pm-1am, Free

The Diamond Dice, Massa, Hip hop, RnB & grime with your host Mr. Jinx, 10.30pm-3am, £5

Antics, Subway Cowgate, Rock, emo, punk & metal, 11pm-3am, Free

Frunt, The Liquid Room, DJ Stuart Johnston Headspin, Pivo Caffe, Mash-up of freestyle beats playing house music all night, 10.30pm-3am, Free with Headspin DJs, 9pm-3am, Free Jacek, Pivo Caffe, Eastern block house party,

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Stir Fried, The Outhouse, Pre-club with indie & rock from B-Sides & Bootross Rock, 9pm-1am, Free

Stew Orchestra & resident DJ B*Wax, 10pm-late, Free Class!, Subway Cowgate, DJ Lucky Luciano plays cheese, student anthems & requests, 11pm3am, £2, £1 students, free b4 12am Essential, Po Na Na, Brazil’s DJ Marky plays D&B with support from Mark EP & Codenine, 11pm4am, £8 (£6) Genetic, Citrus Club, Night of rock anthems, 11pm-late, £2 The Goulag Beat, Cocteau Lounge (downstairs at Ego), Super-long explanatory music policy with Silvia Substance, Major Tam & Korova (live), 10.30pm-3am, £4 (£3) Grafitti, Medina, Kipp$ & Master Caird play party tunes all night, 10pm-late, £3 (£2) The Hobo, Henrys Cellar, 12am-5am, £4 Housebound, Ego, Sexy house, funky stuff, electro & disco with DJs from Edinburgh & Glasgow, 10pm-3am, £5 Karnival, Cabaret Voltaire, A live set by Digitalism, with DJ sets from Frisco Disco, Ryan Ellis & Mike Pinkerton, 11pm-5am, £tbc Lel Palfrey, Pivo Caffe, Disco & jazz & disco & more, 9pm-3am, Free LuckyMe, City Café, Hip hop, soul & off beats, 8.30pm-1am, Free Salsa Disco, Cuba Norte, Salsa dance & tasty tapas, 10pm-1am, Free Souled Out, Opal Lounge, Soul, disco & dance with Leon Easter (33 45), 9pm-3am, £4 (£3), free b4 11pm Snatch Social, The Liquid Room, Messy night guaranteed at eclectic student bash, 9pm-3am, £5 (£4), £3 members

Synthetic, Berlin, The 1st birthday party with Tease Age Wednesdays, Citrus Club, Indie, mod techno from Morphos (live), Patrick Walker & soul with DJ Monkee Mike, 11pm-late, £3, free b4 (Avionix) & free shots, with backroom dub & hip 11.30pm hop from Blag 1, Tam O Banter & Rod Gnarley, Toxik, Opium, DJ Nu-Clear playing new & old 10pm-5am, £3, free b4 12am metal & hard rock, 8pm-5am, Free Tokyo Kyouyou, Tokyo, Scott Granger mixes We Are … Electric, Cabaret Voltaire,The House, RnB & hip hop, 10pm-late, £4 (£3) birthday party - part 2 with Padded Cell & Mstrkrft, Traffic, Heriot-Watt University, Indie & 11.30pm-5am,£2, free b4 12am/members alternative, 11.30pm-2am, Free

Thursday 31st August Beat Root Juice Club, The Jazz Bar, Live afrobeat, latin & ska from resident band The Goat

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GLASGOW LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 1st August

Fickle Public & The Elvis Suicide, 8.30pm, tbc

Tom Hingley, The Vale , 8.30pm, £6 James Morrison , King Tuts, Acoustic Hearthrob, 8.30pm, £6 Ross Clark, Bloc, live, 8.30pm, free Tom Verlaine & Jimmy RIP, ABC2, Legend from Television, 8.30pm, £16 Orko, Tellison, Ten Easy Wishes & Piano Bar Fight, Nice’n’Sleazys, 8.30pm, tbc

Friday 4th August The Loungs, King Tuts, , 8.30pm, £5 Emmylou Harris, Royal Concert Hall, Country superstar, 8.30pm, £26 Pop Up, Barfly, Everybody’s favourite new Glasgow band, 8.30pm, £4 The Gems, Nice’n’Sleazys, 8.30pm, tbc

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Saturday 5th August

Goatfest, Barfly, Tons of the bearded blighters, 8.30pm, £5

The Fling: Ceilidh in the Club, The Tall Ship, A right old knees up & no mistake, 8.30pm, £12

The Hussys, King Tuts, Indie band, 8.30pm, £5

I Fly Spitfires, Barfly,8.30pm, £5

Roddy Woomble & friends, Oran Mor, List columnist, Manhattan dweller & singer with Idlewild has made some buddies, 8.30pm, £15

Colours Summer Party featuring: SASHA, Gabriel & Dresden Audiofly, Spooky, Arches, Grind down those dentures, 8.30pm, £25

Hillcoats, Nice’n’Sleazys, supported by Gavin Urie, 8.30pm, tbc

Figure 5, Firewater, Indie band plus DJ set, 8.00pm, free

Scunner, Bloc, live, 8.30pm, free

The Epicureans, Nice’n’Sleazys, With the Daisy Park, 8.30pm, tbc

Thursday 3rd August Seafood, King Tuts,Very old britpop, 8.30pm, £7 No. 1 Son, Ivory Blacks, 8.30pm, £5 Ray Wylie Hubbard, ABC2, 8.30pm, £9 In Ernest, Yashin, Piano Bar Fight, Barfly, 8.30pm, £4 Disko Box , Oran Mor, Featuring Drive By Argument, We Are The Physics & Djs, 8.30pm, £6/4.00 Club Olum, Bloc, Featuring Deaf Mutes, 9.00pm, free The Moogs, Buff Club, tbc, tbc Yaman, Tchai-Ovna Deanston Drive, Sitar, flute & mixes, 8.00pm, £2 Julie McKee & Steve Lawrosi, Brel, Jazz singer & celebrated bassist, 8.00pm, free

Sunday 6th August The Beautiful Girls, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £7 The Bishops, Barfly, 8.30pm, £5

Finlay MacDonald, Arches, Part of the Piping Live Festival, 8.30pm, £15

The Gordon Bruce Band, Brel, Part of the Piping Festival, 8.00pm, free

iLikeTrains, Arches, Plus Statik & Vancouver Deluxe, 11pm, £5

Midasuno + The Ocean Fracture, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Saturday 12th August

Wednesday 9th August Psyko Dalek & Rip in Reality, ABC2, 8.30pm, £6 Blue Label Violence, Barfly, With Bang She’s Dead & Dashing White Sergeants, 8.30pm, £4 Band ‘Re, Brel, Part of the Piping Festival, 8.00pm, free Peter Bjorn & John, Nice’n’Sleazys, With the Russian Futurists, 8.30pm, tbc

Rumble Strips, King Tuts, London abrasive indie, 8.30pm, £5 Bayan & Andrea Marini, Barfly, 8.30pm, £4 I Fly Spitfires, Barfly, Edinburgh’s finest (or only?), 8.30pm, £4 Back To The Future, Carling Academy, Retro night, 8.30pm, £10.00 till 24/7/6 £ Kobai & Castro, Barrowland 2, 8.30pm, £6

Streetside, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Freefall Boat Party, Riverboat, Keep an eye out for lifejackets, 8.30pm, £20

Thursday 10th August

The Beat Trap, Nice’n’Sleazys, Local indie, 8.30pm, tbc

The Ronelles, Barrowland 2, Local retro indie band, 8.30pm, £6 Mouthwash & My Own Religion, Barfly, 8.30pm, £7 Club Olum, Bloc, Featuring AKA The Fox, 9.00pm, free The Common Redstart, Buff Club, tbc, tbc

Innes Graham, The Goat, Part of the Piping Festival, 8.00pm, free The Towers, Trabeca, The Ghandi Band, Miso, Free eats & beats night, 8.00pm, free

The Michael Deans Jazz Quintet, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Sunday 13th August I see Hawks in LA, ABC, Plus Tom Morton, Joe West & Tony Gilkyson, 8.30pm, tbc Hiding Place, Prezident Prime, Thy Shall Reign, Barfly, 8.30pm, £4 Chris Difford, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £12 Chris Gibb & Friends, The Goat, Part of the Piping Festival, 8.00pm, free Union of Knives open mic night, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Nell Bryden, Eoghan Colgan & Oliver Piggott, The Goat, American mid-tempo rockers, 8.00pm, free

The Mode, The Front, Firewater, 8.00pm, free

Monday 14th August

Blitzhoney, Nice’n’Sleazys, With Clearfall, 8.30pm, tbc

Luke Toms, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £5 Lorraine,Barfly, Plus City& Local Hero,8.30pm, £6

Middleman & the Maple Thieves, Nice’n’Sleazys, 8.30pm, tbc

John Alexander, Brel, Scottish folk, 8.00pm, £6

Acoustic Jam Session, Nice’n’Sleazys, free acoustic jam, 8.30pm, free

Union of Knives open mic night, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Friday 11th August

Samantha Seth, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Monday 7th August Chris & Thomas, Brel, 8.30pm, £6 Billy Joe Shaver, Arches, Unsung legend, 3.30pm, £12

The Jackals, The Valor, Firewater, Indie pop & rock, 8.00pm, free

Lost on Landing, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Les Reno Amps, Nice’n’Sleazys, Supported by

Tuesday 8th August

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Benchmark, Daylight for Decades, The Rapyds, The Borthwicks, Fury Murry’s,8pm, tbc

Howling Bells, King Tuts, Plus The Cinematics, 8.30pm, £6

The Michael Deans Jazz Quintet, Bloc, 8.30pm, Yaman, Tchai-Ovna Deanston Drive, Sitar, flute free & mixes, 8.00pm, £2

The Passengers, Stroszek, Wildflowers, Miso, Free eats & beats night, 8.00pm, free

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Daylight for Deadeyes, Barfly, With Angry Monk & Breakpoint, 8.30pm, £3

The Apple Scruffs, Barfly, Plus The Last Project & The Tommys, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £5 Kessler, 8pm, £4 John Alexander, Brel, 8.30pm, £6

Michael Simons, Tchai-Ovna Deanston Drive, Folk, blues & beyond, 8.00pm, £2

Playtone, Nice’n’Sleazys, With geoff Martin, 8.30pm, tbc

Blondelle, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £6

The Bees, GUU, Isle of Wight loonies,8.30pm, £12 Weapons, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £6 Opportunity Club, Barfly, Plus Wrong Hands & the Deletes, 8.30pm, £4

Tuesday 15th August Little Man Tate, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £6

Funhouse, Barfly, Featuring the Needles, 8.30pm, £4

Wednesday 16th August

Job for a Cowboy, Cathouse, 8.30pm, £8

His Girl Friday, Barfly, With Innes Graham & Small Green Table, 8.30pm, £4

Yellow Bentines, Firewater, Indie faves, 11.30pm, £3

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M Ward, ABC2, 8.30pm, £8

Michael Simons, Tchai-Ovna Deanston Drive,

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GLASGOW LIVE MUSIC Folk, blues & beyond, 8.00pm, £2

Born Ruffians, Nice’n’Sleazys, 8.30pm, tbc White Heat, Art School, Great club night with Danananananakroyd & Errors.. Not to be missed!, 8.30pm, tbc

Thursday 17th August Cryptopsy / Goreotted, Barfly, Metal mayhem, 8.30pm, £13 Sworn Enemy & 100 Demons, Barfly, 8.30pm, cancelled Club Olum, Bloc, Featuring Bad Dancer, 9.00pm, free Young Knives Album Launch, Buff Club, With Red Snowman, tbc, tbc Yaman, Tchai-Ovna Deanston Drive, Sitar, flute & mixes, 8.00pm, £2 Cel, Vulture Speak, Elbo Rooms, Subliminal Psyche & P Folk Navigating (?), 8.00pm, £3

Thursday 24th August Yaman, Tchai-Ovna Deanston Drive, Sitar, flute & mixes, 8.00pm, £2 “Invisible Jim, Locked Out Boundless Rouges, Sunset Knows Secrets, Ross Clark”, Miso, Free eats & beats night, 8.00pm, free, Miyagi & Koba, Firewater, Indie pop, 10pm, £3 The 44s, The Excerpts, Nice’n’Sleazys, 8.30pm

Friday 25th August Tramps With Amps, Soundhaus, Excellent night featuring a gazillion bands including The Arguments & Baby Strange, 8.30pm, £5 The Grates, Barfly, Inde band, 8.30pm, £6 Cursive, King Tuts, But still thorough , 8.30pm, £8 Disco Ensemble , Barfly, 8.30pm, £6

Lizzies Arcade, Tiny Montgomery, Lou-Jac, Miso, Free eats & beats night, 8.00pm, free

Funhouse, Barfly, Club fun, 10.30pm, £4

The Rise,Star 27,Firewater, Indie faves, 10pm, £3

The Ronelles & the Revivals, Firewater, Retro indie rockers, 10pm, £3

The Ten to Five Project, Nice’n’Sleazys, With Bulloch Jackson, 8.30pm, tbc Union of Knives Album Launch Party, Arches, Intimate gig to the celebrate the great band’s new debut album, tbc, tbc Mother Spit, Damien’’s The Regicide, Arches, Progressive Art Rock, 8pm, £6

My Morning Jacket, ABC2, 8.30pm, £13

Loris, Nice’n’Sleazys, 8.30pm, tbc

Saturday 26th August Our Lunar Activities, King Tuts, Local boys, led by the ex-Zephyr frontman, 8.30pm, £5 Winter, G2, , 8.30pm, £8

Friday 18th August

Bert Jansch, ABC, Legend & no mistake. Can’t remember what for though, 8.30pm, £16

Sex Pistols Experience, Barfly, The Sex Pistols if they weren’t the Sex Pistols, 8.30pm, £8

Merchants, ABC, 8.30pm, tbc

Emergency Red, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £5 Club Fandango , G2, Featuring Cinematics, Pop Up, Low Miffs, 8.30pm, £9 The Decent Souls, Firewater,Indie pop, 10pm, £3 Club Fandango, Nice’n’Sleazys, Brillo Club Night, 8.30pm, tbc Marachez, Soul Circus, Airspeil, Soze, Arches, PM Music’s showcase night for bands, 8pm, £6 The Jetpack Penguins, Electric Ghosts, Them Over Here, Fury Murry’s, 8pm, tbc

Saturday 19th August Kharma 45, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £5 The Little Kicks, Barfly, With Fred, V-2 Schneider & Redhouse, 8.30pm, £4 I Fly Spitfires, Barfly, Edinburgh’s brightest clubland stars, 10pm, £4 Drive Carefully Records Presents…., 13th Note, With Boyfriend/ Girlfriend, babybones, Gay Against You & Drive Carefully DJs, 9pm, £3 The Hip Parade, The Apple Scruffs, Nice’n’Sleazys, 8.30pm, tbc Black Strobe, Arches, Dark electro at Death Disco, 10pm, tbc The Michael Deans Jazz Quintet, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Sunday 20th August The Tyrant Lizard Kings, Barfly, With Elchupacobras, 8pm, £4 Desert Hearts, 13th Note, Gargleblast records night, 8.00pm, £3

Inside Out featuring Yoji Biomehanika, Matt Hardwick, Anne Savage & residents, Arches, 8.30pm, £18 The Phantom Band, Barfly, 8.30pm, £4 I Fly Spitfires, Barfly, Edinburghs favorite disco whippers, 10.30pm, £4 Miss the Occupier, Nice’n’Sleazys, 8.30pm, tbc The Michael Deans Jazz Quintet, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Sunday 27th August Mi & L’au,Mono,xmodels make music,8.30pm, £8 Marble Index, King Tuts, , 8.30pm, £5 Eagles of Death Metal , Garage, Sleazy rock played with an erection, 8.30pm, £9 The Wendy House, Barfly, Cutesy Indie pop, 8.30pm, £4 Futuro, The Goat, T-Break hotshots, 8.00pm, free Baby Jane, Nice’n’Sleazys, With Tibi Lubin & Scunner, 8.30pm, tbc Union of Knives open mic night, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Monday 28th August Acoustic Jam Session, Nice’n’Sleazys,8.30pm, free

Tuesday 29th August Gang Gang Dance, King Tuts, Avant ensemble from New Yoik, 8.30pm, £7 Spargo, Confusion, Hoodwink, Barfly,8pm, £4

Wilburnsilver, Nice’n’Sleazys, 8.30pm, tbc

Wednesday 30th August

Union of Knives open mic night, Bloc, 8.30pm, free

Nick Oliveri & his Mondo Generator, King Tuts, Another Queen of the Stone Age, 8.30pm, £9

Monday 21st August Paul Kelly, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £9 Acoustic Jam Session, Nice’n’Sleazys, Please be hushed, 8.30pm, free

Tuesday 22nd August Presidents of the USA, Carling Academy, Old comedy punk outfit, 8.30pm, £13 The Hype, Barfly, Plus Indafusion, 8.30pm, £4

Wednesday 23rd August Quasi, Mono, Odd but great kind of alt country band, 8.30pm, £9 The Enemy, King Tuts, 8.30pm, £5

Michael Simons, Tchai-Ovna Deanston Drive, Folk, blues & beyond, 8.00pm, £2 AKA The Fox. Nothing Yet, Electric Boyshock, Barfly, Popular local band, 8.30pm, £4 Phillip Roebuck, Nice’n’Sleazys, With Adam Beattie & Down the Tiny Steps, 8.30pm, tbc The Hedrons, King Tuts, Feminised pop-punk, 8.30pm, £6

Thursday 31st August Yaman, Tchai-Ovna Deanston Drive, Sitar, flute & mixes, 8.00pm, £2 The Lost Marbles, Mocha Nights, Damiens The Regiside, Miso, Free eats & beats night, 8.00pm, free

Blind Pew, ABC2, 8.30pm, £6

Miss the Occupier & Hitlist Youth, Firewater, Indie & electro , 8pm, free

Marshall Law, Soundhaus, 8.30pm, £7

Invective, Barfly, 8.30pm, £4

The Felt Tips, Barfly, With Blueflint & Captain Howdie, 8.30pm, £4

Petty Vendetta, Daddy & the Husband, Barfly, 8.30pm, £4

Michael Simons, Tchai-Ovna Deanston Drive, Folk, blues & beyond, 8.00pm, £2

Repeat to Fade, Kiale, Arches, 8pm, £6

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EDINBURGH LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 1st August

The Vacant Tourists plus Danika Star and Jakata, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4

Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4

IX plus Eye, Naked Shit, Take A Worm For A Walk Week, Subway Cowgate, Also includes Barry White House and Mothertrucker, 7.30pm, £5

Thursday 10th August

T on the Fringe: Kasabian, The Corn Exchange, TBC, £20

PopUp plus Kid Canaveral and Five Day Hemingway, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4

Big Hand, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

(Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC

Band Showcase, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Covington plus Recreational Homicide, , Subway Cowgate, Also includes Cut Out And Keep and Aevum, 7.30pm, £3 Festival folk at The Oak, The Royal Oak, Running regularly throughout the festival, 8.30pm, £5

Crevis Inspection, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, £4

96 Tears plus Starry Wisdom Cult, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free

T on the Fringe: Bell X1, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £10

T on the Fringe: Little Man Tate, Cabaret Voltaire, 7.30pm, £6

Rhythmic Coughings, The Three Tuns, 8pm, £TBC

Bus Station Loonies plus Harakira Karaoke, Subway Cowgate, Also includes Down To Kill, 7pm, £TBC

Tuesday 15th August

Richie Gallacher, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC

David Gibson, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC

Craig Jeffery, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

T on the Fringe: Lambchop, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £18

Edinburgh Unplugged with The Kays Lavelle, The Mercat, 9pm, Free

Leith Folk Club, The Village, 8pm, £8

T on the Fringe: Warren Suicide, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £7

Inge McIlroy, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

Wednesday 2nd August

The Rab Howat Band, Bannerman’s Underworld, Weekly house band afternoon slot, 3pm, £4

Folk n’ Friends, The Waverley, Open Mic Night, 8.30pm, Free Henry’s Hot Music Festival, Henry’s Cellar Bar, 7pm, £5 Jazz Bar Jazz, The Jazz Bar, Running regularly throughout the festival, 8.30pm, Free

Allister plus The Aquabats, The Riverclub, Studio 24 , 7pm, £10 Almeda, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free David Gibson, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC Henry’s Hot Music Festival, Henry’s Cellar Bar, Running regularly throughout the festival, 7pm, £5 Interstate 6 plus Kiddo, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Jimmy James, The Bongo Club, Running regularly throughout the festival, 9pm, £12 Mazaika, C, Running regularly throughout the festival, 3.45pm, £9 Out of the Blue, C, Running regularly throughout the festival, 2.45pm, £9 Screaming Blue Murder, Subway Cowgate, 7pm, £4 Simon Pollitt, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC Wronghands plus Stem, Big G, Bannermans Underworld, 8.45pm, £4

Thursday 3rd August Blackwaterfoot, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC Edinburgh Unplugged: Miyagi , The Mercat, 9pm, Free Esther, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC Jase, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free Out of the Bedroom, The Canon’s Gait, *Note venue change from previous events., 9pm, Free Tenbobslider plus Raising Miss June, Bannermans Underworld, 8.45pm, £4 Unknown Hagana plus The Fighting 69th, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

Friday 4th August Antonio Forcione Quartet - Absolutely Live, Assembly @ George Street, Running regularly throughout the festival, 8.55pm, £7 Festival 24, Studio 24 , 7pm, £5 Flu plus The Yard, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free Inge McIlroy, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free Louis Prima, Valvona & Crolla, 8pm, £7 Mt. plus UpCDownC plus Gasgiant, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4 Rain Pryor, Gilded Balloon Teviot, Running regularly throughout the festival, 9.15pm, £6 Rosie Wilby, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC Stewart Traquair, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC T on the Fringe: Cerys Matthews, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £12 T on the Fringe: New Young Pony Club, Cabaret Voltaire, 7.30pm, £7 The Masonics plus Preston Pfanz & The Seaton Sands, Henry’s Cellar Bar, R’n’B Two Chorders’ and ‘Punk Sea Shanties’, 11pm, £5 (£4) Underling plus Pigeon Style Kung Fu, IQ, Subway Cowgate, 7.30pm, £4

Saturday 5th August Blue to The Bone, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free Cabal, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Cloudland Blue Quartet, Beanscene

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Sunday 6th August Darklight plus the Pedestrians and In Ernest, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4

Band Showcase, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Folk n’ Friends, The Waverley, Open Mic Night, 8.30pm, Free

Out of the Bedroom, The Canon’s Gait, *Note venue change from previous events., 9pm, Free Simon Pollitt, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC T on the Fringe: Iain Archer, Cabaret Voltaire, 7pm, £8

Jojocoke, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, £4

The Sphygs plus My Next Girlfriend and The Cigarettes, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4

Open Mic, Bannerman’s Underworld, 3pm, Free

Urban Explosion, City Nightclub, TBC, £7

Raff, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free T on the Fringe: Mark Ronson, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £12 T on the Fringe: My Robot Friend, Cabaret Voltaire, 7pm, £7 The Cat Empire, George Square Theatre, See SkinnyFest, 10.45pm, £16

Monday 7th August Festival Ceilidh, The Lot, Traditional teuchter music featuring Heeliegoleerie, 8.30pm, £6 Left At The Lights plus Sexcapade, Roots of Unity, Studio 24 , Also includes Roots of Unity, 6.30pm, £4

Haram plus Violent Breakfast, Subway Cowgate, Also includes The Night and City Of Broken Promises, 7.30pm, £5 Pete Clark Trio, The Village , A Leith Folk Club Event, 7.30pm, £8.00 T on the Fringe: Euros Childs, Cabaret Voltaire, 7pm, £7

Wednesday 16th August Almeda, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free Broken Records plus Kilo and The Apologies, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4 Danika Star, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

Friday 11th August

Ian Sclater, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC

Cloudland Blue Quartet, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC

Rosie Wilby, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC

Dead Beat Club plus Douglas Kay and Neil Brydon, Bannerman’s Underworld, Also includes Alan Davidson, 8.45pm, £4

Sabai, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free

Fringe Ceilidh, Greyfriars Kirk, With HLI or Hebrideans, look out for the ghost of Auld Jock, 7pm, £10 (£5, £8 adv), (£5) Richie Gallacher, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC

T on the Fringe: Michael Franti & Xavier Rudd, The Corn Exchange, 7.30pm, £12.50

Thursday 17th August Birds of Wales, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free

T on the Fringe: Jo Mango, Cabaret Voltaire, 7pm, £6.50

Cloudland Blue Quartet, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC

Mike Park plus Taking Chase, The Ansion, Henry’s Cellar Bar, Acoustica/Reggae/ Electronica, 7.30pm, £5

T on the Fringe:Nizlopi,The Liquid Room,7, £10

Edinburgh Unplugged: The Dead Beat Club and Hoochie Fig, The Mercat, Also includes Michelle Hughes, 9pm, Free

Open Mic Night, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

Without Malice plus Scope, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free

Harlem 75 plus The Jack, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

Saturday 12th August

Out of the Bedroom, The Canon’s Gait, *Note venue change from previous events., 9pm, Free

Shermer plus Machines Will Take Over and Auslander, Subway Cowgate, Also includes The Void, TBC, £TBC Social Schism plus Mafafi and Red Snowman, Bannerman’s Underworld, Also includes the Repulsive Love Fairys, 8.45pm, £4 T on the Fringe: Scritti Politti, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £15 The Beautiful Girls, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £7 The Cat Empire, George Square Theatre, See SkinnyFest, 10.45pm, £16 The Hype and Revere, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

The North Foundation, Subway Cowgate, 7.30pm, £4

Jason Wringe, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

Blackjack Blues Band, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

Simon Pollitt, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC

Chris Difford, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £13

T on the Fringe: Quinn, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £7

Demons Eye, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Distant Soul plus Washington Street, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

T on the Fringe: Starsailor, The Corn Exchange, Also includes Grim Northern Social, 7.30pm, £18

Ian Sclater, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC Rosie Wilby, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC

Tuesday 8th August

T on the Fringe: The Beautiful South, The Corn Exchange, 7.30pm, £25

Culluna with Christine Kydd, The Village , 7.30pm, £8

The Common Redstarts plus Rubikons and The Valiums, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4

Folk n’ Friends, The Waverley, Open Mic Night, 8.30pm, Free

The Rab Howat Band, Bannerman’s Underworld, Weekly house band afternoon slot, 3pm, £4

Jackson Browne and David Lindley, Edinburgh Playhouse , 8pm, £25, £35 Jason Wringe, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free Just Turn Up, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free Martha Wainwright, George Square Theatre, 11pm, £15 The Des Moines Riot, Henry’s Cellar Bar, Also includes The Graeme Mearns Band, 7.30pm, £5

Wednesday 9th August Band Showcase, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Blackwaterfoot, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC

The Unexplainable plus Slow Motion Replay, Subway Cowgate, Also includes The Ubiquitous Kings Of Rhythm, 7.30pm, £4

T on the Fringe: The Fratellis, The Liquid Room, TBC, £9 The Sex Pistols Experience plus Nasty Nasty, The Exchange, 8pm, £5 The Volts, Bannerman’s Underworld, AC/DC Tribute, 8.45pm, £4 Urban Explosion, City Nightclub, TBC, £7 White Heat: Errors plus Dananananakroyd, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £TBC

Friday 18th August David Gibson, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC First Born, Subway Cowgate, 7.30pm, £TBC

Yousef, The Liquid Room, TBC, £8

Kitchen Party, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free

Sunday 13th August

Lee Patterson, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

Charles Wood, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

Magdalen Green plus The Hussys, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

Jeanine Noyes, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Open Mic, Bannerman’s Underworld, 3pm, Free STML plus Project Reno and Moya, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4.00

Simon Pollitt, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC Sugababes, The Corn Exchange, 7pm, £20

Craig Jeffery, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

T on the Fringe: Breaks Co-op, Cabaret Voltaire, 7pm, £8

T on the Fringe: The Dandy Warhols, The Liquid Room, TBC, £9

Martha Wainwright, George Square Theatre, 11pm, £15

T on the Fringe: Richard Hawley, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £13

Saturday 19th August

Moonface plus Henderson Park, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

U Know Hoo, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, £4

Lady Mercedes plus Size Queen, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

Stewart Traquair, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC

Monday 14th August

Missing Cat, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

T on the Fringe: The Bees, The Liquid Room, Also includes Tiny Dancers, see SkinnyFest, 7pm, £12 T on the Fringe: The Sunshine Underground, Cabaret Voltaire, 7pm, £8

Festival Ceilidh, The Lot, Traditional teuchter tunes featuring Heeliegoleerie, 8.30pm, £6 Just Turn Up, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free Open Mic Night, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Secrets We’ve Told plus Twenty 43,

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Norman Lamont, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC Setting Sons, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, £4 Stewart Traquair, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC

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T on the Fringe: Babybird, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £10

T on the Fringe: Best of T-Break, The Liquid Room, With 3-Style, How To Swim, The Acute and Found, 7pm, £5 The Rab Howat Band, Bannerman’s Underworld, Weekly house band afternoon slot, 3pm, £4 The Tyrant Lizard Kings plus Jackie Treehorn, Bannerman’s Underworld, Also includes Cambian Down, 8.45pm, £5

Sunday 20th August Charles Wood, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free Flying Matchstick Men, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £4 Inigo Montoya plus To The Rescue, Bannerman’s Underworld, Also includes A Very Secret History, 8.45pm, £4 Open Mic, Bannerman’s Underworld, 3pm, Free Roguestar, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, £4 T on the Fringe: The Automatic & OK GO!, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £10.00

Monday 21st August Festival Ceilidh, The Lot, Traditional teuchter music featuring Heeliegoleerie, 8.30pm, £6 Oatbeanie, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free Open Mic Night, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Radar plus Ballantines, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4 T on the Fringe: Captain, Cabaret Voltaire, 7pm, £8 T on the Fringe: Editors, The Corn Exchange, Also includes Deers and Komaniko, 7.30pm, £15 T on the Fringe: Regina Spektor, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £12

Tuesday 22nd August

Cowgate, 7.30pm, £TBC

Folk n’ Friends, The Waverley, Open Mic Night, 8.30pm, Free Gordon Gunn and Nuala Kennedy, The Village, 7.30pm, £8 Just Turn Up, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free Radiohead plus Beck and Deerhoof, Meadowbank Stadium, SOLD OUT, TBC, £33 T on the Fringe: Matisyahu, The Liquid Room, See SkinnyFest, 7pm, £10 T on the Fringe: The Upper Room, Cabaret Voltaire, 7pm, £9

Wednesday 23rd August Cloudland Blue Quartet, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC Craig Jeffery, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free Norman Lamont, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC Sugardaddy plus Fine Dining, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free T on the Fringe: Dead 60s, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £10 T on the Fringe: Maria McKee, Cabaret Voltaire, 7pm, £15 T on the Fringe: The Raconteurs, The Corn Exchange, 7.30pm, £20 The Dresden Dolls, The Spiegel Garden, 8pm, £12 The One Day Speakers , The Three Tuns, 8pm, Free The Penny Blacks plus Epic 26, Grace Emilys, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4

SkinnyFest, 11.30pm, £10

Stewart Traquair, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC

Saturday 26th August

T on the Fringe: Maximo Park, The Corn Exchange, Also includes The Research, 7.30pm, £15 T on the Fringe: Muse plus My Chemical Romance, Meadowbank Stadium, 4pm, £25 T on the Fringe: The Secret Machines, The Liquid Room, CANCELLED, N/A, N/A

Edinburgh Unplugged: Ardentjohn, The Mercat, 9pm, Free Esther, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC Jase, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

Band Showcase, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

The Cuban Brothers, The Liquid Room, TBC, £TBC The Madisuns, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free Toe’d Up plus Starry Wisdom Cult, Runt Hornet, Bannerman’s Underworld, Also includes Maya 29 and Februus, 8.45pm, £3 Urban Explosion, City Nightclub, TBC, £7

Friday 25th August

Charles Wood, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

Safehouse, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Spies In The Wires: The Acute plus De Rosa,

Fringe Ceilidh, Greyfriars Kirk, With HLI or Hebrideans, look out for the ghost of Auld Jock, 7pm, £10 (£5, £8 adv), (£5) Ian Sclater, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC Lee Patterson, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free Max Romeo, Studio 24, TBC, £14 T on the Fringe: Money Mark, The Liquid Room, Stay tuned to SkinnyFest for an exclusive interview with the reclusive Beasties keys man., 7pm, £13 T on the Fringe: Shy Child, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £7

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Dakota, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free David Gibson, Beanscene (Haymarket), 7.30pm, £TBC

T on the Fringe: My Morning Jacket, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £12.50

T on the Fringe: Paolo Nutini, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £8 The Des Moines Riot plus Joe Viterbo, Bannerman’s Underworld, Also includes Dick Dangerous and The Love Bastards, 8.45pm, £4

The Rab Howat Band, Bannerman’s Underworld, Weekly house band afternoon slot, 3pm, £4

Open Mic, Bannerman’s Underworld, 3pm, Free

Degrassi plus The Last Great Wilderness, Bannerman’s Underworld, Say nae mare., 8.45pm, £4

Meadowbank Stadium, 4pm, £25

Blue Vintage City, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

Sunday 27th August

Adriana, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC

SLF Skinny ad 25/7/06 12:21 T on -the Fringe: Snow Patrol plus Elbow,

Blackjack Blues Band, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free

Ian Sclater, Beanscene (99 Nicolson Street), 9.30pm, £TBC

T on the Fringe: Young Blood Brass Band, Cabaret Voltaire, 7.30pm, £8

Sub-Opt, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free

Thursday 24th August

Out of the Bedroom, The Canon’s Gait, *Note venue change from previous events., 9pm, Free

Five Finger Discount plus Crashdown, Subway

Cabaret Voltaire, Also includes Does It Offend You, Yeah?, TBC, £TBC

LIVE MUSIC LISTINGS

EDINBURGH LIVE MUSIC

Players Of The State plus The Valkaryas and Alonia, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4 Sabai, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free T on the Fringe: Belle & Sebastian, Princes St Gardens, 6pm, £20 T on the Fringe: The Subways, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £8.00

T on the Fringe: The Twilight Singers featuring Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan, Cabaret Voltaire, Heart on their sleeve rock, blues, rhythm and soul, TBC, £14 The Hustlers, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, £4

The Outside Track, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

Monday 28th August

Ian Hardie, Kevin Macleod and Freeland

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Open Mic Night, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

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Sher Khan Damn Shames Q without U Copy Haho

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LISTINGS EDINBURGH LIVE T on the Fringe: Dirty Pretty things, The Corn Exchange, 7.30pm, £15

Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4

T on the Fringe: Metric , Cabaret Voltaire, 7pm, £8 T on the Fringe: Plan B, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £8

Goulag Beat: Korova, Ego, Local lads playing in support of their recent single (see skinnymag. co.uk for review), TBC, £7 Jason Wringe, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free Out of the Bedroom, The Canon’s Gait, *Note venue change from previous events., 9pm, Free

T on the Fringe: Simple Minds, Princes St Gardens, 6pm, £25

Sugarhouse, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free

The Camiorillo Houseband, Bannerman’s Underworld, 8.45pm, £4

Tuesday 29th August

Band Showcase, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Folk n’ Friends, The Waverley, Open Mic Night, 8.30pm, Free Inge McIlroy, Whistle Binkies, 6pm, Free Just Turn Up, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free T on the Fringe: Jamie T, The Liquid Room, TBC, £7.50 T on the Fringe: The Hedrons, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £7

Wednesday 30th August

Almeda, Whistle Binkies, 9pm, Free Imogen Heap , The Queen’s Hall, 7pm, £14 Rejected by Hannah, Whistle Binkies, Midnight, Free T on the Fringe: Keane, Princes St Gardens, 6pm, £20 T on the Fringe: Sandi Thom, The Liquid Room, 7pm, £10 T on the Fringe: Spank Rock, Cabaret Voltaire, TBC, £9 Underling plus Pigeon Style Kung Fu, Bannerman’s Underworld, Also includes Y’all Is Fantasy Island, 8.45pm, £4 This is Music: Sher Khan, Damn Shames, Q without U & Copy Haho, Henry’ Cellar Bar, Festival Special, 8.00pm, £5

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Andy Zaltzman is back. Eleven long months after last setting foot in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, he will make his long-awaited return with an afternoon-based show at The Stand Comedy Club. To be in with a chance of winning tickets (Monday-Thursday not valid Friday,Sat Sunday) email us with the answer to this question: Where is Zaltzman performing in the Fringe?

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Over the last 10 years, Mirrorball, part of the 60th EIFF (14-27 August), has conquered the music promo scene and more recently has taken to premiering beautiful and eclectic features.

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