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Editorial The Changing Face of Punk One of the best music writers around is Garry Mulholland, and one of his excellent books is This Is Uncool - subtitled ‘The 500 Best Singles Since Punk and Disco’. His clear message is that much of the best pop music for the past 30 years (the book is a few years old, but the argument stands) has been strongly influenced by ‘punk’ (as well as ‘disco’, though that’s for another issue), and he makes a very convincing case. Mulholland’s distinct qualities are his clarity of vision and the flexible yet well-structured worldview he operates with. Though most of This Is Uncool is made up of short passages on individual songs, the way he allows his reader to link concepts – like, say, punk – through the various references he makes, is educational in its own right. This is especially true for the more surprising punk moments, like Born Slippy (a near-perfect blending of punk and disco influences), Windowlicker (in which the countercultural impulse is relocated in computers and art design, not guitars and shouting), or even Smith and Mighty’s pretrip hop Anyone... (which Mulholland digs in part for its punk-style ‘leap into the unknown’ approach to production). He gets you to reevaluate without hammering you with his point; it’s as though a punk agenda has been met with the subtlety of the best disco records. This issue, though, we use a series of interviews to try to understand how punk – both as a cultural force and a semi-definable genre of music – has evolved: both by looking at where it came from and how it manifests itself now. We speak to a range of key figures, including Sex Pistols manager and general trouble-maker Malcolm McLaren, Buzzcocks and Magazine key-player Howard Devoto (both on page 34), as well as stalwarts the Melvins (page 30), and newcomers like the thoroughly challenging Fucked Up (page 31). One thing that emerges very clearly, apart from the considerable difference between perspectives on what punk is or might be, is that there is a broad range of creative activity that could be classed as ‘punk’, and that it’s very unlikely

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anyone’s going to like all of it. Personally, for example, I’m inclined towards the kind of creative/ disruptive behaviour favoured by McLaren, – it’s just that his own approach, and somewhat smug way of reflecting on it, leaves me a bit cold (I think it’s safe to say the Sex Pistols achieved more than being his mere puppets; and you only have to listen to Public Image Ltd to know John Lydon had his own clear ideas on what he was doing). And while I always get a bit put off when artists get too hung up on the ‘authenticity’ of their approach versus that of others, as many punks are wont to do, there’s no escaping the fact that punk has generated a lot of the best pop music going – and a stripped-back yet conceptually adventurous approach is often key to their success. To further this discussion, we’re running a ‘Best Punk Tracks Ever – the hows and whys’ forum on theskinny.co.uk, so if you’d like to voice your opinion log on and get involved. There are more punk connections throughout the magazine too, which came about largely as a result of accident. We interview Adrian Edmonson (page 27), for example, who famously played cartoon punk Vyvyan in The Young Ones, and also Glasgow techno stalwarts Slam, who casually (yet entirely appropriately) refer to their adoption of the punk DIY ethic when interviewed about the ten years they have been running mega-night Pressure (page 49). As you choose your cultural activities for this month, spare a second to consider how punk has already seeped into your tastes (‘cause it almost certainly has). And if you can’t see any appeal in what punk has to offer at all, well, I can only assume you haven’t been reading (this, or in general). Punk has enriched our lives: so feel lucky.

It’s a Wrap This issue we’re running an advertising wrap (technical term for the four extra pages as front and back cover) around the issue, a first for us here at The Skinny. It’s certainly something we thought hard about – we’ve always placed a very high value on our content and the idea of giving away our cover was a challenging one. But really, when you’re busting a gut on a low salary, supported by an extended team of volunteers, it’s a no brainer really. The Skinny is coming along nicely, but you have to take the big opportunities.

Publisher Sophie Kyle editor Rupert Thomson Creative Director MATT MACLEOD ENterprise Manager Lara Moloney Production editor David Lemm sales Executive Becca Pottinger Aberdeen Editor Jaco Justice online & Music editor Dave Kerr CLUBS EDITOR CHRIS DUNCAN Heads up Editor Erin McEIlhinney Deviance EDITOR Nine Fashion Editor Lindsay West theatre EDITOR Gareth K. Vile FILM EDITOR GAIL TOLLEY DVD EDITOR Michael Gillespie comedy editor Lizzie Cass-Maran Books EDITOR Keir hind games EDITOR Josh Wilson ART editor Rosamund West FOOD & Drink editor Ruth Marsh Live music Listings Jason Morton Club Listings andrew cooke Subeditors Rosamund West Paul Greenwood ally brown PAUL MITCHELL euan ferguson Showcase curator Rosamund West Listings Editor becca Pottinger

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Issue 38 :: November 2008

Showcase

thirty years of rough trade records

Daniel P Irwin on Daniel P Irwin

Heads Up

Edinburgh The Picture House

Dance like there’s no tomorrow

Friday 28th November

www.myspace.com/jarvspace / www.roughtraderecords.com

Fashion Fashion tips for boys.

Food & drink

Great food from a maverick Fife farm

Daniel P Irwin:: P6

Deviance

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TUESDAY 25TH NOVEMBER DEBUT ALBUM ‘YOUTH NOVELS’ OUT NOW. SINGLE ‘LITTLE BIT’ OUT NOW WWW.LYKKELI.COM

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Film

A documentary on post-war Liverpool, plus the standard smorgasboard of reviews.

Games

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Gaming on the iPhone - are touchsensitive games the future?

Thursday 27th November

Books

Allergic to poetry?

Fantastic Fashion: P12

New single "You Know Me Better" out now. www.roisinmurphy.com www.myspace.com/roisinmurphy

Theatre

The Traverse’s new writing program, and previews of our favourite upcoming shows.

comedy

Laugh it up.

Art

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The Ingleby Gallery and New Work Scotland

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Wednesday 5th November

The changing face of punk, plus Death Cab, Fucked Up, Melvins, Dälek and Desalvo

New Album ‘Seventh Tree’ out now. www.goldfrapp.com

Records

Top albums and singles of the month.

Clubs

Mutate Records and Classic Grand.

Listings

Who, what, where, when. Sort your life out!

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DF CONCERTS PRESENTS…DF CONCERTS PRESENTS…DF CONCERTS PRESENTS…

THE SKINNYShowcase

This month's Showcase, painter Daniel P. Irwin, in his own words: "And it beats me. Fevered surfaces. Rolled harsh words. Black fucked fist. Sweet things. Wide-eyed and facing the music. Terror. Beauty and dear God. Sensuous and intelligent. Hard and soft, simultaneously flat and deep. Unsympathetic, ominous. Spit – soured. Vexed, shit-gripped. Horrible low brutality – punky, culty, unpleasant. Black. Holding your breath. Choked. Brutal harshness and intimate coaxing tenderness. Bastard smile. Pretty blush. Hungry. Single to my fingers. Sad songs. Wide-eyed and facing the music. Hot, clinging, wet. Love and all manner of filth.” "My work occupies a space between physicality and desire. It suggests evasive narratives of seduction, emotional fragility and lost love, whilst vearing headlong from the overbearingly aggressive and fearful to intimate, coaxing tenderness. Poetic nihilism, rarefied elegance. Decadent, pornographic, sensuous and clever, the work elicits strong reactions from its audience: revulsion, shock or laughter." www.theboysbadnews.com To submit your work send images and personal statements to showcase@theskinny.co.uk

HEADS UP Put on your red shoes... Lauren

Laurie

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Ryan

Shiona

Wullie & Steven

Gutter Talk the mean streets of Glasgow

by Patrick Kondracki

Laurie Pitt, 21 Dancebase [Maria Falconer]

Yo yo yo, listen up. My girl Mi Mi is in the house and she be teaching us some moves, dawg. Ahem. Fortunately, Turn Up & Hip-Hop Beginners – one of the many drop-in classes available at Dance Base in Edinburgh – doesn’t actually require you to be in any way cool in order to attend, which is a bit of a relief for yours truly. It does require you to put your inhibitions aside and give it some welly though, so it’s a good thing that teacher Mi Mi Mackenzie is adept at dispelling that awkward feeling one has when the realisation dawns that you’re about to get hot and sweaty in front of a bunch of strangers. We skip the chat and get stuck straight in. The best bit is that before you know it, you’re doing a pretty thorough workout…and its fun. Even the warm-up exercises require a bit of ‘tude, the hour slips by fast, and before you know it, you’re

on the floor with your bum in the air and your left leg knotted round your right ankle. I think. The drop-ins are designed for two reasons: to give you a taste of a particular style, so you can ascertain whether you actually enjoy doing the cramp roll (tap), the grapevine (line dancing) or the cross basic (salsa) before signing up for a full term; or for those who baulk at committing to regular classes, and prefer the freedom of dropping in as and when. There are benefits to both, but if you’re dithering, the drop-ins are well worth a shot. They’re fairly cheap, on at a variety of times, a good workout, and judging by the looks on the faces of the attendees coming and going, a good laugh too. Word. [Erin McElhinney] www.dancebase.co.uk

Movember’s here...

The aim is to start the month with a clean shaven face and cultivate your tache for the next thirty days. Clip it, groom it, wax it or curl it – the style is entirely up to you.

McCAIN OR OBAMA? Obama, because a lot of bands that I like, like him. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU GREW BY YOURSELF? When I was working at a pub I spilt half a barrel of beer and it turned into a mushroom! IF THE RECESSION LEADS TO WORLDWIDE MARTIAL LAW, WOULD YOU BUNKER IT OUT, OR TAKE TO THE STREETS? Get out there and take to the streets… I’m all for anarchy and that…yeah. FAVOURITE PIECE OF ART SEEN IN THE LAST MONTH? There was an amazing thing I saw at the CCA called Autoconstrucción, by Abraham Cruzvillegas. He wrote lyrics and sent them round to 15 different bands, who wrote songs to go with them.

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Steven: My kickass mutton chops. IF THE RECESSION LEADS TO A WORLDWIDE MARTIAL LAW, WOULD YOU BUNKER IT OUT, OR TAKE TO THE STREETS? Wullie: Take to the streets and start my own clan. Steven: I’d go robbin’ and lootin’. FAVOURITE PIECE OF ART SEEN IN THE LAST MONTH?

Lauren Cunningham, 20 McCAIN OR OBAMA?

Shiona Duffy. 20 McCAIN OR OBAMA? Obama, because he’s a Democrat and Republicans are bad. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU GREW BY YOURSELF? Cresshead, when I was quite small. IF THE RECESSION LEADS TO WORLDWIDE MARTIAL LAW, WOULD YOU BUNKER IT OUT, OR TAKE TO THE STREETS? I would probably bunker it. I work in a garage and I’m supplied up. FAVOURITE PIECE OF ART SEEN IN THE LAST MONTH? Found Magazine event, where the founders read out some of the notes and then played songs about them. There was also this balloon swallower. I don’t know how he did it, it boggles the mind, but it looked good.

Ryan Cleary, 25 McCAIN OR OBAMA? Obama – cause he’s black. No, I’m joking. Because he’s got proper views and he’s not trying to mock other candidates. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU GREW BY YOURSELF?

Mohawk, took six months, and then a hairdresser chopped it. Even though I told her not to! Bitch.

Obama. He’s the lesser of two evils.

IF THE RECESSION LEADS TO WORLDWIDE MARTIAL LAW, WOULD YOU BUNKER IT OUT, OR TAKE TO THE STREETS?

Patience for public transport.

I re-grew my eyebrows. Some guy at a house party shaved them off. A week later I found him: now he’s got no eyebrows and no hair.

IF THE RECESSION LEADS TO WORLDWIDE MARTIAL LAW, WOULD YOU BUNKER IT OUT, OR TAKE TO THE STREETS?

Streets, it’d be more fun. Go for the shits and giggles.

I’d be out in the streets, on the front line. You can’t get anywhere without martyrs.

FAVOURITE PIECE OF ART SEEN IN THE LAST MONTH?

The Dark Knight at the Imax. I hung onto to every word he (Heath Ledger\The Joker) said.

Grieshan’s brother from New Town Logistics is an artist, saw some of his stuff, it was some kind of graffiti art in K- Mag.

Saw an amazing band called The Final Voyage of the Liquid Sky; that’s shameless self promotion cause I’m actually in it.

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU GREW BY YOURSELF?

ing a gala party at The Caves, where the Mo Bros get a chance to flash their tache in the hope of winning prizes and being crowned Man of Movember. And Mo Sistas can get involved too, as any girls who wish to sign up and raise some money are welcome; moustache grow-

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Wullie: Ganja. It’s the only thing I’ve grewn – Did I just make up a word there? Grewn ha ha, I sound like a right jakey.

Steven: There’s some new graffiti artists dotted all around Glasgow, kinda like Bansky, they are great.

FAVOURITE PIECE OF ART SEEN IN THE LAST MONTH?

The aim is to start the month with a clean shaven face and cultivate your tache for the next thirty days. Clip it, groom it, wax it or curl it – the style is entirely up to you. Stop your friends laughing long enough to dig out their wallets and sponsor you and all money raised goes to The Prostate Cancer Charity.

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU GREW BY YOURSELF?

MCCAIN OR OBAMA?

Head for the streets and try and mount some neo-punk post-apocalyptic movement!

It may have started with just thirty mates in Australia but has quickly taken over the world, with top lips sprouting caterpillars in the US, Canada, Spain and - for the second year running - the UK. Scotland’s first Movember in 2007 was a particularly huge success so the organisers chose Edinburgh as their third key location in the UK.

Steven: Whatever he said.

Wullie: Edvard Munch’s The Scream.

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU GREW BY YOURSELF?

At the end of the month the Movember lads are throw-

McCAIN OR OBAMA? Wullie: Well other than the fact McCain sounds like he should own his own food company, Obama has some great libertarian views.

Linky Grey, 20 Obama, McCain is too old school: he’s not up to date on the new politics.

One dull afternoon in the pub, some five years ago, two friends decided it was time to bring reintroduce the world to the moustache. And to hell with it, they said, let’s raise some money for charity while we’re at it. And so Movember, the month of the Mo, was born.

Wullie “the Red” Williamson, 27 and Steven Hand, 27

Also on...

the skinny highlights some bits & pieces coming up in November

ing not obligatory... Prostate cancer is not something generally talked about, and few people realise it’s the commonest cancer for men; fact is, one man dies every hour from prostate cancer in the UK. So what could be easier to raise some cash – and awareness - than looking silly or dashing or mad for a month with a great fluffy tache on your face. Check out the website for details on how to sign up. [Edward Whelan] 1 - 30 November

Also on this month… Now til 15th Ernst Loger’s industrial exhibition Invisible Oil at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen… Dan Antopoloski visits Perth Theatre on 3rd… 6th is the deadline for submitting work for the first Cryptic Nights event at the CCA in Glasgow… 8th - 9th and 15th - 16th the artists of the East Neuk Studios open their doors… Trendy Wendy launches new club night Mumbo Jumbo on 15th at The Bongo Club... on all month at Dundee Contemporary Arts is Gravity Always Wins, an exhibition by Spencer Finch,

one of America's finest contemporary artists... 15th – 22nd cutting edge computer music at the Dialogues Festival in Edinburgh… there's a highly recommended Butoh Training & Workshop event at the Trongate on 22nd... 28th – 29th The Mighty Boosh return to perform at Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow… and to finish off the month, The Manifesto Political Kabaret, hosted by Tam Dean Burn and Sonic Sinema features digital agit-punk on 30th at Victoria Bar in Glasgow... see www.theskinny.co.uk for more details.

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Fashion

SKINNY Jeans Wake Up (to) Mr West

An innovator, a risk-taker and a serial style champ, Mr West’s eclectic, composite sound and retreat from the hypermasculinities of rap are samples drawn from the same playlist as his fashion sense. As the man himself has oft observed in interview, his musical distinction from the mainstream, low-slung, XXL, hip hop underground is exemplified by the fact that his clothes fit. Simply put? Kanye is hip hop – but neater. And don’t be fooled by what you think you know of the Kanye style formula. The slatted glasses and ultraviolet accented sweatsuits are stagewear, on the whole; and besides, if you had an adoring, packed-out arena to play to every night, who wouldn’t choose to dress like a superhero?

’05), Kanye’s style, like his sounds, is a heady fusion of external influences, mashed up and made new. Part Ralph Lauren, All-American preppy, part Jean-Luc Godard hero, part street, part GQ centerfold; the Kanye West style vibe is studied and specific, never fussy, and always immaculate. Yes, here’s the rub, my friends: the key to Kanye is in his attention to detail – experimentation may be the fuel, but it’s the fit and the finish that really revs the style engine. For it’s that pinch of preppy precision and the fashion industry anoraking, that really makes Kanye something special. As a result, in order to lean over and copy Kanye’s A+ style average, your homework is to scour Google images for shots of the man in those front rows, and to complete the following six steps. Thank you, and you’re welcome. 1. Get a tailor. (Both Stitch ‘n’ Go and your mother count.) 2. Pick a Casio G-Shock over an iced-out, big-deal watch – even if you could afford a Jacob-the-Jeweller, they’re terribly Usher, c.1995. 3. Keep your trainers clean. If you were Kanye, you’d buy new ones when yours were dirty, but ‘til you hit it big, a toothbrush and Oxyclean will have to suffice.

Off duty, Clark Kent Kanye is in abundant possession of the lynchpin of true style - the art of appearing not to give a shit when clearly having given several – sporting ensembles that consistently whisper ‘fashion groupie’, rather than squealing ‘fashion victim’. And as a seemingly permanent fixture in the front row of the couture shows of New York, Milan, and Paris; Kanye’s groupie status is scarcely in question.

5. Invest in one big name, designer accessory to wear with everything.

With his own, long-awaited label, Pastelle, apparently finally on its way to department store shelves next year (having been in the works since

*Sadly no relation. But that’s not what I’ll be telling the bouncers at the SECC…

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In honour of this month's neo-punk theme & rebellious spirit, three fearless representatives of The Skinny's team were dispatched to experiment with the cosmetic/testosterone vortex. In layman's terms? We made our boys wear eyeliner. paul mitchell tells their story.

“There’s still a bit on one eye, it’s a cunt to get off” said Josh, while David (real names) nodded in agreement, adding “In the cold light of day I felt like a sexy emo pirate”. Thus male members of The Skinny editorial team recounted their experiences having succumbed to the Fashion Ed’s (well, she’s the expert!) brow-beating/suggestion that guys could and should don make-up as a matter of course. Inebriated confessions revealed we’d all adorned a bit of slap before (shhh), but then again, fancy dress parties and general ossification are always convenient excuses for the curious!

Nick Cocozza

To begin: an apology. Boys, it’s true - you really have been left out in the cold as far as column inches go, for as many months as the fashion section has been up and strutting. Therefore, in the interests of righting the imbalance of countless months of girl-centric fashion coverage, the entire November section is devoted to you: boys, boys, and more boys. Behold! A menswear shoot; the section’s first male-authored article; and here in Skinny Jeans, the return to the We Like Your Style high-five format, offered up to a man whose fashion sense is locked down beyond any Yale we’ve ever had on our LV keychain. Gentlemen, I give you Kanye West*.

Cheer up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)

4. Non-prescription, NHS-style faux specs are only uncool if you wear them sans swagger.

6. Extra bonus points for wearing anything by Tom Ford.

Kanye West plays Glasgow SECC on 16 November 2008

It’s known that men have been wearing make-up for at least 6000 years and of course, everyone from Brando to Jon Snow can get away with it because it’s necessary under the glare of an unforgiving studio light (hmmm…). Bowie, Gene Simmons and Boy George liked to deliberately provoke reaction in the face of conservative twentieth century mores. However, for the rest of us (notwithstanding anyone in the current music scene), wearing make-up is pure emasculation, suggesting we’re on our way to post-op nirvana! Art Editor Ros (aesthete and noted cosmetic advocate) told us that, “Eyeliner makes eyes look good, simple,” and took over application duties after Josh’s inadvertent attempt at ocular surgery. Highlighting the cultural ingrainment of the whole process she ranted that, “We now live in a world where some women readily confess to being unable to make even a phone call without first putting on their lipstick.” Are men destined to end up with the same level of dependence? Maybe…there’s a big market out there. Already Boots and H&M offer a men’s make-up line, though the products themselves sport much more ‘manly’ nomenclatures such as Complexion Enhancer or Confidence Corrector… GRRR, HEAR US ROAR!!! London-based cosmetic company Taxi London were keen to supply us with a selection of Guyliner, Manscara and the soon to launch Disguys (yep, you read correctly). Director Jane Williamson thinks there’s definitely a growing trend. “On first launching there were many raw comments about drag queens and pantomime dames etc, but now website sales have escalated and Superdrug can’t keep up with demand.” It seems a new era dawns, but will my esteemed colleagues join me in a dabble next Monday night in our real-ale local? “Not a fucking chance!”

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Fashion

Remember, remember the fifth of November, it’s the ideal time to become a member. It’s a penny for the guys and the girls this Bonfire night as we plot to get your fitness programme started with a bang. Yes, from 03 – 09 November, you can join the city’s biggest health and leisure club for only 1p. Visit our website at www.edinburghleisure.co.uk for further details. Don’t let your money go up in smoke. Join us.

Shirt Howick college check shirt £35 Jeans Levis 501’s £60 Jacket & watch stylists own Bag vintage

The Outdoorsman Shirt Paul Smith men’s slim fit shirt in Sky £85 Jeans Polo Ralph Lauren Riverside straight-fit jean £95 JackeT stylists own Shoes vintage

Top Superdry stripe rugby Royal / Gold £59.99

The clocks are going backwards and there’s a nip in the air, but venture forth into the great outdoors and layer, layer, layer, for effortless Autumn/Winter style.

Shoes Timberland Tenerife leather casuals £85 T-shirt Superdry stripe pocket tee £24.99 Coat Ralph Lauren double breasted wool coat £325 White t-shirt models own Jeans Levi 501’s £60

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Fashion T-shirt superdry pocket tee grey £24.99 Jumper Polo Ralph Lauren Navy Knit £105

Shoes Kurt Geiger Amadeus lace boot £145 Jeans Superdry mineworker straight jean £54.99 Shirt (underneath) Paul Smith Henley shirt in white £60 Shirt (on top) Paul Smith long sleeve shirt in red £90 Jacket vintage Belt Diesel £50

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November 08

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Food and drink

Fife is beautiful

Ruth Marsh talks to a maverick Fife farm that’s taken the radical step of cancelling its contracts with the big supermarkets and selling direct to you. It started three years ago as a quirky sideline to Ardross Farm’s large-scale, commercial production, when the Pollock family acknowledged the growing resurgence of public interest in what was actually on their plates. “People were very removed from their food and were quite content to have it appear in the shops without knowing where it came from or how it was farmed”, says farm shop manager Nikki Pollock. “That attitude has changed dramatically over the last five years.” The farm shop began in a typically low-key way, in the hope that it would appeal to their neighbours and the holidaymakers who coast past the gates on their way to one of the East Neuk’s picture-postcard fishing villages. “We started on a very small scale”, says Pollock. “We cleared out a beautiful old cart shed that we were using as a workshop and had beef from one animal that was hung for 21 days. We posted leaflets through local people’s doors - we didn’t really know what to expect as we had never done anything like this before”. Gaining a small but loyal and regularly returning customer base, they were on their way to becoming one of Scotland’s major farm shops. Nowadays, they stock a wealth of products from sticky toffee pudding to rapeseed oil, and enforce a rigorous sourcing policy - everything on the shelves must be grown and produced by UK farms. The beef is still their best-seller, admits Pollock, but “by ‘limiting’ ourselves to only selling produce made in the UK by farming families we found a host of amazing things. One of my favourites is rhubarb vodka produced by a farmer, Andrew Lyle, who farms on the banks of Loch Ness. He’s one of the biggest organic rhubarb farmers in Scotland, but he found that when the summer fruit season started, demand for rhubarb dropped. So he now makes organic rhubarb vodka and it’s a great seller - perfect over ice or in a cocktail with champagne!” Such was their success that, in 2008, they were confident enough to take the major step of cancelling their contracts to supply the UK’s major supermarkets, reducing their yield and producing a greater variety of crops entirely for their on-site punters. “We don’t supply to the supermarkets anymore”, beams Pollock, “and it feels great! This year, for the first time, all of our vegetables are grown solely for the shop. This was a huge step for us as we have always grown vegetables on a large scale, but it’s one that’s been highly rewarding. Having more time means that we’ve been able to experiment a lot more - it’s been great fun growing things such as pumpkins and celeriac which we’d never even considered growing.” So was their motivation to cut the cord for ethical, financial or emancipation reasons? “A bit of all three, really”, she muses. “Like a lot of farms we were struggling. But they say necessity is the mother of invention, and as soon as we realised that we had a strong direct sales business we focused on the ethics that mean a lot to us as a family. We stopped growing vegetables for them because demand for our freshly cut vegetables in the shop was growing at such a rate.” And do they feel what they have achieved is a workable model for similar-scale farms across the country? A categorical ‘yes’ from Nikki. “Selling direct to the consumer is possible for anyone provided they are near a busy road or town… and are prepared to work very hard. Our family work on average six to seven days a week all

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Ardross Farm

fiona prepares a batch of jam

year round. Someone has to dig the vegetables every morning and have them ready for opening at 9am. Our home and farm is now on show 365 days a year and so keeping the farm presentable takes a huge amount of time. It’s worth it though. Well worth it.” Ardross Farm is keen to point out that they aren’t an organic venture. “We are not organic, we are traditional”, Pollock says firmly. “Our farm is traditionally farmed, using crop rotation to nourish the soil and keep pests down. We farm alongside wildlife, rather than against it. Cows graze clover rich swards (meadows dedicated to soil replenishment) or are fed from farm grown feed which is guaranteed GM free; areas of crops are left unharvested to provide winter feed for wildlife and nesting boxes have been put up for owls. We try to take the best aspects of old and

new husbandry techniques.” So, what’s in season over the November month? “Are you ready?” asks Nikki, before she launches into a breathless list of what could be ingredients for the world’s greatest stew - romanesco cauliflower, red, green and savoy cabbage, purple, white and orange carrots, leeks, pumpkins, squash, beetroot, curly kale, Isle of Jura potatoes, flat leaf parsley... In these credit-crunch times, I feel I have to ask if buying from an independent is inevitably more expensive than buying from the dreaded Tesco, with its big boy buying-power and ability to take the impact of a 4p tin of beans. “I think that depends on the product”, Nikki says honestly. “Some of our meats are more expensive – but that’s because our red meats are all hung prop-

The Ardross farm Family

erly, our chickens are free range, the lamb we sell is organic and our pork is rare breed. As far as meats go we don’t try – or need – to compete on price with the corporate giants. What we offer is a totally different product from what you could find in a supermarket. That said, I checked our vegetable prices today and we are charging the same or less for the majority of our vegetables.” Ultimately, Ardross Farm Shop is taking a stand based on having open eyes and simple common sense. As Nikki points out: “What most people get annoyed with is buying apples from Spain during the British apples season, or broccoli from Poland when there are fields of it all around them.” Ardross Farm Shop Elie, Fife KY9 1EU Tel:01333 330415 Fax:01333 330048 ardrossfm@aol.com www.ardrossfarm.co.uk

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A Crustacean Bar is not an establishment visited by the little mermaid in her later years, but a fish frenzy now open on the Grassmarket. Part of the Apex Hotel, decor is sensible, straightforward, and understated. Boasting a variety of fish from pollock to bream, there are no prawn cocktails or fried calamari on this menu. Out of six starter options (veggies beware) I plumped for Caledonian scallops with a carrot and lemongrass puree, pea shoot, cress and apple salad. Three tender scallops sans roe (“the orange bit”) were well presented, with a slight crust, the fragrant puree complementing the crunchy apple. A ceviche of salmon, Crail crab, chilli, lime and coriander, however, was disappointingly bland, with the texture pleasing but no supporting flavour. On to mains - the stand-out halibut with herb crust, confit tomatoes and zucchini (erm are we in the southern hemisphere?) was sumptuous, prepared to a perfectly moist finish. The pollock with champ, bacon and red wine sauce was questionable; the fish could not be faulted yet the accompaniments lacked any real substance to enhance the taste buds and left a little to be desired. An unusual honey crème brulee was delectably rich - although it was completely cold throughout. Scottish berries “minestrone” and lemon sorbet was an architectural feat and startlingly plated, but a sweet tooth was required. New Zealand sauvignon blanc (£25.50) was fruity, sharp and hit all the right notes. While the food was reasonable and service attentive the meal was much more forgettable than the bill. [Esme Jones]

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I was looking forward to trying the new menu (food provided by Devil’s Kitchen), having enjoyed their confit belly of pork over the summer. The cocktail bar nature of the place was evidenced by the cucumber and mint in the jug of tap water which was brought automatically with our house red (tempranillo, £13, pretty good). This may work well in Pimm’s but tap water definitely prefers a slice of lemon. Starters of pumpkin gnocchi and ‘lady of the night’ spaghetti (aka puttanesca) both disappointed – the large gnocchi weren’t bad but seemed to be smothered in Campbell’s Condensed tomato soup, pumpkin undetectable. The puttanesca was a bit over anchovied and couldn’t boast the heat or depth required for balance.

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BAR REVIEWS

Deviance Editorial Okay, the thing is, right, on one hand I’m kind of power-hungry and I like having an editorial. On the other hand, sometimes it feels like a flashback to my schooldays, struggling to write a mini-essay that’s at least vaguely on-topic. And so, here we are again: another deadline is looming and I’m panicking because I feel like I don’t have a whole lot to say about sexuality. On closer examination, I know this isn’t strictly true. I mean, I’m always having discussions about sexuality. I just met up with my friend Alex to plan the queer zine we’re writing together, and shortly before that I checked out sex shops while on a date-or-maybe-not. Plus I spent some time explaining dental dams to a straight male friend who’d never heard of them before. And another relevant topic is the Stonewall Awards drama, which I’ve been following closely: basically, the nomination, by a prominent LGB organisation, of the notoriously transphobic Julie Bindel for Journalist of the Year. Apparently bigotry is all well and good as long as it comes from a “lesbian perspective”. The transgender community, though, has had enough, just like the trans people who took part in the riot Stonewall was named after. (It’s worth noting that Stonewall Scotland is committed to trans rights, while the branch down south is missing the T.) Cue petition, protest, angry letters and a flurry of activity all over the internet. By the time you read this, it may have died down somewhat, but there’s a chance this could be a turning point in making the wider LGB(T) community examine its commitment to trans issues. And what has gender identity got to do with sexuality anyway, I hear you ask? Stay tuned for a forthcoming article on exactly that.

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Book review Look Both Ways Jennifer Baumgardner

“Part memoir, part pop-culture study, part feminist theory,” enthuses the blurb on the back of the book. Maybe that’s the problem: Look Both Ways tries to do too many things at once. On one hand, it’s the story of the author’s bisexuality, her significant relationships, and how her identity tied in with her journey as a feminist. All well and good. The problem is when she seemingly extrapolates a onesize-fits-all approach from her own experiences. Even when she interviews other bisexual women, the feeling is that she’s selecting their responses to fit assumptions she’s already settled on: not least that relationships with men are harder because they don’t clean up after themselves and they’re out the door as soon as they’ve had sex with you! Um, really? Add to this a couple of well-meaning but clueless references to trans issues that could easily have been left out, and you’ve got a gendered analysis that doesn’t quite match up to the diversity of people’s experiences. It’s an interesting read from the personal narrative point of view, but would have been richer had it just focused on that. [Nine] Out now, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, cover price £9.99.

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Going with the flow There are dozens of euphemisms to signify that sex is out of bounds during menstruation. Lily Dumont asks why this notion persists. Menstruation is still one of society’s biggest taboos - if you don’t believe me, start up a graphic conversation about mooncups with a bunch of lads and see how far you get. To an extent, this is perfectly understandable. Aside from the fact that most women will remember the moment they started their first period with shivering clarity (and we all saw Carrie), we associate blood with pain and suffering, with something being outside the body that should generally be inside. Needless to say, when one taboo (sex) meets another (menses), the topic is avoided at all costs. In books about either subject, the two very rarely overlap and it’s often covered in a very clinical, tokenistic way. Do modern, sexual adults still feel the sting of shame and revulsion around periods? Do all the adverts for scented sanitary products reaffirm what the school nurse told us when girls and boys were ushered into separate rooms for ‘the talk’ – that periods are to be hushed up at all costs? Can I still have mind-blowing sex if I’m surfing the crimson wave? So, I asked a few people about sex and menstruation. Women I spoke to felt mixed about it, to say the least. They reported various insecurities about smells and breaking the mood, but the main issue was mess. Stains on the bedclothes are a hassle, and not very sexy. A lesbian friend said she was really too tender and unsettled during her (very painful) periods to have sex, so it wasn’t so much a taboo as an impracticality. Not one of the women I spoke to about menstrual sex gave me a glowing, or even blasé, account, and some told horror stories (like one who started her period during the act of coitus and didn’t realise whilst in a friend’s bed). The men I spoke to, however, had a totally different story. Maybe this is because my informants were mostly sexual, liberal types aged from their mid-twenties up … but they couldn’t see what the issue was. Almost uniformly, the response was “If she wants to have sex, it doesn’t bother me, as long as she’s all right.” Variations on this were tales of the skill of pulling out their partners’ tampons with their teeth; one friend enjoying the slower, more sensuous nature of sex if his partner was horny but feeling a little sensitive; and another who had extended sessions with his partner in the shower after the ‘main event’. Excuse me … what?! The awkward teenager in me was saying “Why don’t you find this yucky? Everything I’ve ever been told about periods said that if anyone else can tell you’re bleeding into your knickers, it spells social suicide.” I’m not saying that all men feel the same as my oversexed friendship group, but it would seem that men, especially those who have had live-in female partners, know the highs and lows of the menstrual woman and are well used to her. The fact that this was a near-revelation to me speaks volumes – the silence around this taboo area means women feel all icky and awkward about negotiating and having period-sex, but they don’t need to. To this end, take a look at my handy, cutout-and-keep (ish) Period Sex Tips for Girls. As ever, it all comes down to individual choice. It’s more difficult broaching such topics if you’re having casual sex, rather than sleeping with someone who has known you for an age, but it’s clear that menstrual sex does not have to be the anxious affair most women build it up to be. In fact, pardon the pun, it can be bloody marvellous.

Alison Glanville Jones

Period Sex Tips for Girls 1. Do TELL your partner you’re on your period. Whispering it into his/her ear whilst in the midst of the act is not really advised as it could come as a bit of a shock. Timing is pretty much everything here – if they’re worth their salt, your lover will be aware that you’re still randy as all hell, whip out a dark coloured towel to put over the bedsheets, and carry on groping to unhook your bra. 2. Safety first. There are obvious increased risks of HIV transmission if there is blood flying around, so make sure you keep condoms handy, and latex gloves, if your partner has any tiny cuts on their fingers. Unprotected oral is largely illadvised, so use a dental dam (though it’s possible to do without if you use certain types of menstrual protection – more of which in a minute – and stay focused on the clitoris rather than engaging in deep cunnilingus). 3. If you are very squeamish about mess, you can still engage in sexual activity whilst menstruating. A mooncup (a

menstrual cup worn inside the vagina, designed to catch menstrual fluid) does mean that fairly shallow fingering is possible, owing to the conical shape, without any mess escaping. Alternatively, experiment with sea sponges (sterilised and reusable, they absorb the flow and are squashy so won’t be uncomfortable during sex) but make sure it has been changed recently or you may get a little splop of mess as the movement squishes the sponge. Sex workers swear by products such as Beppy’s Wet Tampons - a stringless, disposable alternative to something like the sea sponge – so they can carry on working during their periods. Note: none of these are contraceptive. 4. Find yourself a menstrual fetishist (or ‘menophilist’). The fetish manifests in various ways with varying levels of safety – from arousal from the pheromones and scent of a menstruating woman through to consuming the ‘contents’ of used sanitary products – but they won’t ever make you feel ashamed or awkward about menstruating during sexual activity, that’s for sure.

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Slutty McWhore:

To have and to hold What's the deal with married clients of sex workers? Slutty McWhore explains their faulty logic.

Alasdair Boyce

Whenever a man comes to see me for a handjob, he assumes that only he and I will be in the massage room together. However, there is always a third person there, and her shadowy, intangible presence makes me feel uncomfortable every time. Sometimes I forget about her for a few minutes, but she never lets me neglect her for very long. Yes, she is always there ... The Wife ... reprimanding me silently for laying my hands on her husband’s body. Despite being so intimately acquainted with what is presumably nearest and dearest to her, I know surprisingly little about The Wife. What I do know I have only managed to piece together from the fragments of information my clients give me. She is a strange and selfish creature, this Wife. Apparently, she does not offer up her body often enough for her husband’s liking or, worse still, she no longer offers it at all. There was once a time, the husbands tell me, when The Wife was more accommodating and eager to please, but having children soon put paid to this. At first, it struck me as very curious that there should exist in the world such a large number of uncooperative, unappreciative wives. A tiny seed of doubt began to grow at the back of my mind – “Why do these husbands never seem to be at fault? Why is it always The Wife?” Eventually I began to wonder if the husbands could be exaggerating the extent of The Wife’s wrongdoings but, thankfully, it didn’t take long for my clients to put me straight. Now I know that men have ‘needs’ and, well, they just have to satisfy them somewhere if The Wife isn’t up to the job. Despite The Wife’s many shortcomings, it appears that she is often a loving and devoted mother. Clearly, she provides the stability and safe environment that her husband needs to flourish in his career. It is a shame that she

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“At first, it struck me as very curious that there should exist in the world such a large number of uncooperative, unappreciative wives” can’t meet his sexual ‘needs’, too, but, well, it would be rather unseemly for a mother to indulge in kinky sexual practices, wouldn’t it? That’s why there are women like me around – naughty, sexually adventurous women good for a fuck or two, but not the kind to get involved with for the long haul. It’s perfectly understandable that a man wouldn’t want to get attached to a slutty woman. He would spend so much time worrying that the baby in her belly wasn’t really his, and that would be terribly unsettling. Sometimes it strikes me as sad that women should be reduced to such simplified categories such as ‘virgin’ or ‘whore’ when we are all so beautiful, complex and multi-faceted. Whenever I venture to raise this issue with my clients, they get uncomfortable, and their dicks begin to go limp in my hand. It’s not my job to question, challenge or talk about complicated issues; instead I’m supposed to create a soothing fantasy where men can escape from the responsibilities and burdens of their lives before returning to The Wife. There’s only one problem: whenever The Wife appears in my massage room she doesn’t look very happy. I wonder where she can go to escape her own life for a while? I can only hope that she’s screwing the shit out of the postman when her husband is with me. After all, women have ‘needs’ too, and she can’t help that. November 08

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Film Editorial Memory is a strange thing. It’s even stranger at the cinema where someone else’s memories are portrayed and projected through the medium of film. Think of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, where reality, dream and memory collide and merge creating a bizarre world that exists somewhere between the conscious and the unconscious. Or Resnais’ Last Year in Marienbad, where a woman, referred to mysteriously as ‘A’, searches for a contested and confused memory that she’s not even sure is hers. Or perhaps Christopher Nolan’s Memento, a film that plays with the very notion of memory itself.

Of Time and the City Gail Tolley talks to the British director Terence Davies about his latest film: a documentary based on his experiences growing up in post-war Liverpool.

Memory was a key theme at this year’s London Film Festival where Terence Davies’ lyrical documentary, Of Time and the City, was screened. It’s a film that delves into the director’s own memories of growing up in a post-war Liverpool and is the focus of our feature this month. The idea of memory is certainly fertile ground for filmmakers and a theme that will undoubtedly be one that is revisited time and time again. This must surely be because, above all other mediums, film is where the combination of image and sound bring an audience as close as they can to experiencing memories that aren’t their own. It’s what makes the cinema so thrilling and keeps us going back for more. /Gail

Preview Inverness Film Festival 2008 If you’re planning to head North this month you’d be wise to check out this year’s Inverness Film Festival. Now in its fifth year, it offers a varied programme with a focus on top British talent. The bill includes several Scottish premieres including Tilda Swinton’s new film Julia, Michael Winterbottom’s Genova and the Steve Coogan comedy Hamlet 2, giving you a chance to watch them before they reach the cinema. Swinton also appears in Orlando, Sally Potter’s multi award-winning film made in 1992 and based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. The actress herself will be in town to introduce the screening, a great opportunity to see this key British film on the big screen. Also worth catching is Beautiful Losers, the story of a group of artists in 90s New York who unintentionally create an artistic movement through innovative work that embraces both a DIY ethic and a variety of subcultures. And there’s a Scottish presence at the festival in the form of Robert Carlyle in the film Summer. A role for which he won ‘Best Actor’ at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. And failing that you can always catch Bill Forsyth’s 80s hit Local Hero. [Gail Tolley]

Inverness Film Festival runs from 19 - 23 Nov. www.invernessfilmfestival.com

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The poster for Terence Davies’ documentary - Of Time and the City - is emblazoned with an almost iconic image; a solitary, silhouetted figure walking through an urban wasteland in a post-war Liverpool. It could almost be Davies himself, a self acknowledged ‘outsider’ who has drawn extensively on his own, often unhappy, past to create a number of remarkable British films with a distinct cinematic style. I interviewed Davies on the eve of the release of his latest film, described as a ‘love song and eulogy’ to his hometown of Liverpool. Comprised of archival film, photography and modern day footage, Of Time and the City is narrated by Davies himself creating a highly personal cinematic poem. The result is a film that has been lauded by critics, receiving top reviews both at its Cannes premiere, and also closer to home at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. Yet Davies initially felt reluctant about working on the project. “I was driving along the Embankment and I suddenly got cold feet and thought oh Lord, perhaps I’ve bitten off more than I can chew here,” he says. “And I was going to ring the two producers and say look, I’m withdrawing, find someone else, and I stopped by the lights by the Houses of Parliament and I remembered that one of the big things that happened at the end of the war and all over the North were slum clearances and these new estates being built. And I thought, if I use that and I run Peggy Lee’s The Folks Who Live on the Hill underneath it, it will work and we’ve got a film. At that moment one of the producers rang me and I said we’ve got a film now.” Perhaps this hesitation was in part due to the different approach required in assembling footage for the documentary – a contrast to the carefully crafted and scripted approach required by feature films which have been Davies’ staple up until now.

“It was completely different, the absolute reverse of fiction. What was incredibly liberating was getting all this material and that prompting other memories and prompting the narration as well. Very hard work, but incredibly exciting. It makes you look with a different eye to other shot material and that was fantastic.” Using other people’s footage hasn’t prevented Davies from exploring familiar autobiographical ideas that his earlier feature films have also dealt with, in particular the concept of outsiderness, something that Davies doesn’t deny. “I always felt as though I was looking in on life rather than being a participant. It seems to be a subtextual meaning to all my films because I think I am an outsider.” As well as feeling like an outsider growing up he also feels it today, in his own city. “I don’t know that city any more. The city that I know is in my imagination now. It’s gone, absolutely gone”. Yet the aim of Of Time and the City isn’t to evoke a romantic nostalgia for the past, as Davies says “I hope it’s not nostalgic, because nostalgia always in my mind implies a certain level of sentimentality. And I don’t think I look back with any kind of sentimentality, I try to look back at it as it was, but that still fills you with a bitter sweetness and regret.” Despite having a series of critically acclaimed films, in particular Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) which won awards in Cannes, London and Toronto, Davies found it almost impossible to get funding following the production of The House of Mirth in 2000. There is little doubt that he blames the British film industry at least in part for this. He despairs at a constant “looking over our shoulder to America for validation. Will it be a big success there and then that circumscribes the way in which they fund and what they will fund.”

He goes so far as to say “the way in which things are funded in this country is just quite chaotic. it’s a miracle that any films in this country get made at all.” I ask him if he feels any hope for the future of the British film industry. “I can’t feel any joy about it. I feel very worried about it. I don’t think it will ever be a really strong national cinema anymore, that died in the fifties or early sixties.” The love of the cinema that is mentioned in Of Time and the City sadly seems not to have followed Davies into adulthood. “I go very rarely now because I can’t suspend my disbelief anymore, maybe because I’m getting old, maybe because I make films myself and I’m aware when I see cinema grammar used incorrectly – it just makes me angry. For me, where cinema is concerned the great days are over, with the death of Bergman we’ve seen the last of the great filmmakers.” There’s an air of pessimism surrounding Davies, which he doesn’t refute. He’s always seen the cup as half empty rather than half full he says. And whilst traces of this pessimism tinge his latest film, it is far from being a desolate piece. There is both humour and a sense of hope, the latter represented by numerous shots focusing on the children of Liverpool. For all his pessimism, his frustrations with the British film industry and unease with the idea of contemporary cinema-going, our ‘outsider’ has created a distinctively British, cinematic experience which not only delves into the past but alludes to the future. From the wasteland that our solitary figure passes through, a new Liverpool has grown, and while we feel a loss for a city that no longer exists there is also the sense of it being passed on, handed over, for a new generation to make their own.

Of Time and the City is released on 31 October

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November Film News Jonathan Melville takes a look at some of the films screening away from the multiplexes this month.

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Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh

Skinny favourite The Fall, the visually stunning fantasy epic from director Tarsem Singh, runs until Thursday 6 Nov at the Filmhouse. Set in 1915 Los Angeles, the film starts off low key before exploding with life, defying easy categorisation.

At the Cameo there’s French film Let’s Talk About the Rain, a drama revolving around Agathe Villanova (Agnes Jaoui), who returns to her home in the South of France where she is filmed as part of a new documentary…with unexpected consequences. There’s also the acclaimed biopic Hunger from artist-turned-director Steve McQueen, based on the last six weeks in the life of Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands. One of the more intriguing films out this month is Der Ba der Meinhoff Komplex, a look at Germany’s terrorist group The Red Army Faction (RAF).

On the top ten lists of many film critics, this month also sees a classic re-release of Italian film, The Bicycle Thieves (1948) which tells the story of a poor man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, which he needs to be able to work. Ending on Sunday 2 Nov, the Africa in Motion Festival screens eight films over the weekend. With 1992 horror film Dust Devil (including a discussion with director Richard Stanley) and two documentaries under the title Voices of the Bushmen showing on Saturday 1, plus dramas Barakat! and Clouds over Conakry on Sunday, there’s still time to see some much celebrated, rarely screened films.

Glasgow Film Theatre A retrospective of acclaimed Italian director Valerio Zurlini takes place this month at the GFT (and across at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh). Zurlini collaborated with some of the biggest names in European cinema, such as Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon. There are six films being shown here, including Family Diary (9 Nov) and Black Jesus (16 Nov). The latter centres around three prisoners thrown together in jail who must endure torture in the Congo, one of whom could become a martyr if he dies.

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Aberdeen Belmont Cinema With a similar line-up to its cousin, the Cameo, Aberdeen’s Belmont will have all the above along with possible break-out hit Waltz with Bashir from 21 Nov. It’s an animated Israeli film detailing events leading up to the 1982 atrocities in Lebanon. There will also be regular screenings of new Bond flick, Quantum of Solace.

Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre Typically eclectic in its programming mix, the DCA will be showing a number of new films you might struggle to see anywhere else. Summer of the Flying Saucer is set in Ireland in 1967 and asks what’s a good catholic boy to do when the love of his life turns out to be an alien from another planet? A coming of age story about 15 year-old Danny, director Martin Duffy appears at the screening on Sat 1 Nov. Other films include Italian film Red Like the Sky and Mickybo and Me.

waltz with bashir from friday 21 Nov at aberdeen belmont cinema

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Film Reviews Blindness

director: Fernando Meirelles

rrrr “It feels like I’m swimming in milk.” The White Sickness begins with a young professional struck blind while behind the wheel. An abrupt affliction of unknown origins, it soon spreads from a local to a global epidemic. Ruffalo, the eye doctor, becomes blind and is forced into quarantine, along with his wife Moore, who feigns blindness to stay with him. Despite their stifled relationship, Moore remains staunchly dedicated to her husband and all of the others who join them and become dependent on her secret sight. Although loss of vision does not equate to a downward spiral of corruption, the savage prison existence that the multicultural cast is forced into leads to just that. Women are the thankless heroines here, consistently bearing the burdens, providing comfort, and sticking their necks out in unexpected ways. This is perhaps best demonstrated when they band together to cleanse the body of a martyr, in a scene reminiscent of biblical art. Beautifully shot to give the viewer a sense of visual deterioration, this film is fraught with metaphorical statements on the different ways people are guilty of being blind. Race, identity, sex and age are all challenged subjects, as unlikely relationships are forged. [Sara Nowak] Starring: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo Release Date: 21 Nov Certificate: 18

Hunger

Conversations with My Gardener

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The idea that war is messy and destructive is nothing new. But in Hunger, Steve McQueen’s film on the IRA prisoner Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), the focus on the physical body as both victim and weapon is novel and compelling. Hunger is heaving with a sense of the body – we see the grimace of the prison guard as he bathes his grazed knuckles, we feel the impact of the truncheons of the riot police brought in to ‘control’ the inmates and finally we experience the slow deterioration of the body of Bobby Sands as he subjects himself to starvation. And with the body comes bodily fluids; excrement is smeared on cell walls, blood colours the water during forced bathing, urine seeps from under prison doors – a constant reminder of how primitive this fight has become. Religion too plays a role with the implicit idea of martyrdom running through the film. Pale naked bodies are carried Christ-like through the prison corridors and scenes of prison beatings evoke images of the crucifixion. Despite the bleak subject matter Hunger is beautifully shot, exhibiting McQueen’s artistic background (he won the Turner prize in 1999) and while this style at times feels a little self-conscious, it rarely detracts from what is a remarkable debut. [Gail Tolley]

There’s a sense of déjà vu in this pleasant, yet predictable French drama. Our central character, a painter from Paris, returns to the village where he grew up and hires a gardener who turns out to be a school friend he hasn’t seen since childhood. The film pivots around the renewal of this relationship, as two men with different backgrounds, experiences and outlooks engage and learn from each other. Moments of endearing dialogue keep it engaging for the most part but the idea of the down-to-earth, workingclass gardener teaching the well-off Parisian artist a lesson on the true values of life feels somewhat trite. As our protagonist develops along all too familiar lines the film reaches its conclusion with little impact. [Gail Tolley]

Director: Steve McQueen

Director: Jean Becker

Starring: Michael Fassbender

Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Release Date: 31 Oct

Release Date: 21 November 2008

Certificate: 15

Certificate: 12A

Choke

Quarantine

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Clark Gregg’s strangled adaptation of lit cult favourite Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of masculine malaise really wants to be an edgy, twisted little indie satire but fudges all its promise of energetic sleaze and cynicism with an uncertain blend of diluted hipster nihilism and glib sentimentality. Sam Rockwell is suitably louche and skittish as sex addict (and indefatigably irritating narrator) Victor Mancini, alternating between his two default attitudes – horny and glum – attending group therapy sessions and boinking pretty much every female that wanders into the frame. The obligatory Oedipal subtext gives Anjelica Huston, as Victor’s unhinged mother, something to chew on, but she has so much plodding exposition to get through that all the zanyness begins to fall rather flat. Lacking the energy and bite of David Fincher’s adaptation of Palahniuk’s Fight Club, Choke just isn’t as debauched as it thinks it is, ending up a tired and sloppy paean to the woes of fucked-up self-pitying white guys everywhere. And American independent filmmaking was really crying out for another one of those. [Laura Smith]

After the success of the little-seen but highly regarded Spanish horror [REC], it was only a matter of time before Hollywood brought out the remake. Jennifer Carpenter (star of TV show Dexter) is Angela, a news reporter sent with her cameraman Scott (Steve Harris) to film an item on local firefighters. They are called to an emergency at an apartment building where a distressed woman appears to be locked in her flat. Soon after arriving the cast find themselves attacked by zombie-like creatures – and it’s not long before everyone’s locked in the building to prevent anyone else becoming infected. The result is a nerve-wracker that grips right from the start and never lets go, even if you’ve seen the original, which, aside from the subtitles, is almost exactly the same flick. It’s a movie that should be experienced in the cinema with a good sound system – just watch the people around you jumping from their seats. [Kevin McHugh]

Director: Clark Gregg

Director: John Erick Dowdle

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston

Starring: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Jay Hernandez

Release Date: 21 Nov

Release Date: 14 Nov

Certificate: 18

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Film

Silent Running

Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic

Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin

Starring: Sarah Silverman, Brian Posehn, Laura Silverman

Dir: Douglas Trumbull

Dir: Liam Lynch

Shine A Light

Dire: Martin Scorsese

Starring: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood

Release Date: 3 Nov Certificate: U

Release Date: 13 Oct Certificate: 15

Release Date: 10 Nov Certificate: 12

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While an eco-friendly sci-fi film starring a handful of robots trying to preserve the remnants of the Earth’s plant population may sound familiar to viewers of 2008’s WALL-E, this particular plotline comes from a film 36 years its senior, 1972’s Silent Running. With all plant life on Earth now extinct, it’s left to the crew of orbiting spaceships to tend to the few examples of vegetation being saved for future generations. Ordered to destroy the specimens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) enlists the help of three robots, Huey, Dewey and Louie, to help him go on the run with the remaining greenery. A breathless performance from Dern, not to mention some impressive FX are supported by a fine script, dark themes of ecological disaster and murder shot through with moments of humour. Constantly highlighting the absurdity of both Lowell’s and humanity’s predicament, the question of whether Lowell is on the edge of madness or the sanest man in the universe remains. [Jonathan Melville]

Best known to British audiences for her Comedy Central sitcom and “f***ing Matt Damon (youtube it)”, Sarah Silverman specialises in the kind of subversive, misanthropic and very un-PC brand of humour associated with South Park or Larry David. Watching Jesus Is Magic, essentially a stand-up concert interspersed with songs and sketches, it can be hard to shake the feeling that some of this is rather old hat. Thankfully, however, it is very funny. Drawing inspiration from such modern standards as AIDS, race, gay sex, rape and the holocaust, Silverman is unafraid of offending her audience’s no doubt liberal sensibilities, yet her impeccable timing and bitchy delivery are laced with an irresistible irony not usually found in American comedy. Director Liam Lynch (he of the United States of Whatever) understands that Silverman’s relentless provocation can be wearying, wisely interspersing deadpan sketches (involving her sitcom’s cast) appropriately, and giving the musical numbers a cinematic pizzazz. And never have you heard a more restrained American standup audience! [Michael Gillespie]

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has picked the Rolling Stones for his next music documentary after the success of 2005’s Dylan documentary, No Direction Home. Seamlessly cutting new and old footage with a newly recorded concert, shot by no less than ten award-winning cinematographers, the film captures all of the raw energy of the Stones live on stage. Old rubber face Mick Jagger, in particular, shows no signs of slowing down as he dances up and down the stage performing classics and previously unplayed tracks from the Stones’ back catalogue, which makes this more of a straightforward concert movie than a documentary. That said, interviews with the band from days gone by does provide more than enough of an insight into the band to compliment the superbly-shot concert footage. Scorsese has crafted a movie that delivers more than enough ‘Satisfaction’ for fans and newcomers alike. [Kevin McHugh] www.shinealightmovie.com

Kung Fu Panda

Sordid Lives

Solstice

Starring: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane

Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau

Starring: Shawn Ashmore, Amanda Seyfried, Tyler

Release Date: 17 Nov Certificate: PG

Bridges

Hoechlin

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Release Date: 17 Nov Certificate: 15

Release Date: 20 Oct Certificate: 15

Dir: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson

Jack Black in a funny movie? No it’s not School Of Rock 2. Kung Fu Panda is about Po, a portly panda who works in a noodle shop with dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master. Improbably, he’s chosen to fulfil an ancient prophecy that will see his dream become a reality when he’s called upon to defend his village and take on Tai Lung, a strong contender for most frightening animated villain to date, voiced by TV’s Lovejoy Ian McShane. Black works with one of the best scripts he’s had in years, with lines that make him appealing and funny again, while DreamWorks has done a great job with the animation, making you often forget you‘re watching a toon. Unlike last year’s dull Bee Movie, here’s a terrifically fun flick with characters that you’ll both like and care about, with enough humour to keep adults and kids entertained throughout. [Kevin McHugh]

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Director: Del Shores

Alfred Hitchcock once said that the problem with so many movies was that they were essentially “filmed plays”. Sordid Lives is one such beast, not least because it is based upon writer-director Del Shores’ stage production, but also because he shows little in the way of cinematic flair or invention. Boiled down to a series of conversations between members of a white-trash Texas family preparing for their cheatin’ heart mother’s funeral, the film is fortunate to have such terrific performers as Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges and Delta Burke to distract us from the flat and colourless imagery. Any film which gives a nod to Klaus Nomi and casts Olivia Newton-John as a lesbian ex-con is worth a look, but the increasingly ludicrous plot becomes tiresome, the timing is weak, the pacing mismatches the speedy dialogue, and the inexpensive production values help no one. As Dolly Parton may have said, “It takes a lot of budgetary constraints to look this cheap”. [Michael Gillespie]

Director: Daniel Myrick

Hinging on the desperate idea that the summer solstice is the most phantomfriendly day of the year (it says so in Fortean Times), this latest DTV release from The Blair Witch Project’s Daniel Myrick attempts to frighten its audience with flash-cuts, minor chords, red-eyed kids, tar-spewing toilet taps and slimy bayou rednecks. Yes, it really is that bad. Following a cast of attractive young folks without even a cliché character trait between them (including X-Men’s Shawn Ashmore and Mamma Mia!’s Amanda Seyfried), the woodenly constructed plot (lifted from a no doubt superior Danish thriller) poses two major questions: why do ghosts in movies always communicate with living relatives by scaring the bejeesus out of them; and, without a single scare or the currently en vogue flashes of blood and boobies, will this film actually appeal to anyone? No matter what time of year you watch Solstice, it will always feel like the longest day. [Michael Gillespie]

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Film & DVD

dvd Reviews

Games

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Touch Me The iPhone 3G hit the shelves this summer, less than six months after the original model was released. Boasting faster 3G internet and assisted GPS, the gadget was heavily marketed as THE ultimate pocket companion. The sleek design is twinned with the iPod touch and combines the world’s most recognised mp3 player with mobile phone functions to remove needless pocket clutter. In fact, if you believe the hype, there’s nothing it can’t do. The motion-sensing accelerometer and touchscreen controls combine to make a simple yet innovative mobile interface. Support from the AppStore means downloads like Bejewelled, Spore Origins and Crash Nitro Kart are finished in seconds, whether you’re on a bus or queuing for a sandwich. Another game worth a look is the side-scrolling action game Kroll - to say these Apps are classed as ‘mobile gaming’ feels like belittling the iPhone’s capabilities. Things have moved on since Snake won our hearts in the pixel-munching nineties. The games don’t stop there, either. Wannabe developers can download cheap dev kits to add to the growing number of innovative titles being produced by bedroom coders. This means there’ll always be a fresh wave of new titles appearing in the AppStore, even if most of them are weak efforts at recreating old favourites. At £180, the iPhone is nearly twice the price of a DS, but games are comparatively cheap, ranging from completely free software to new titles priced at £5.99.

No one really knew what to expect from Apple’s iPhone when it entered the handheld gaming arena. And with Nintendo and Sony both on the verge of releasing new models of the DS and the PSP, it seems like a good time to review the iPhone’s capabilities. Does mobile gaming stand a chance fighting it out with the big guns?

All in all, the iPhone is a neat bit of technology. It’s a fine competitor to the PSP but it will always be looked on as a phone before it’s seen as a gaming system. It’s not without its faults either; one clumsy movement could see the device shatter your phone and your soul in one swift movement. Likewise, accidentally pocketing the iPhone in with your keys can cause nasty damage to the touchscreen. Favouring the touchscreen over digital button input can lead to some frustrating to-ing-and-fro-ing within the menus but that’s not a fault as such - nothing practice can’t resolve. So is there anything it can’t do? Well, apart from match up to the phenomenal popularity of the DS, not really. The iPhone was never intended as a pure gaming system, but if you’re looking for an all-in-one gadget to store your life in while getting your game on, this is it. It’s newer, sleeker, smaller and (dare I say it…) it shows more innovative promise than any other pocket system out there. It won’t have the support of the DS or the PSP but the iPhone strikes me as the system that’s happy to cruise along in third. Mobile gaming has finally begun to earn the respect it’s been yearning since Snake. Pocket gaming eventually has something to offer everyone. If you’re a busy tech-head then the iPhone seems like the obvious gizmo to discreetly waste time on long journeys. That’s not to say it’s out of reach for anyone. The entire generation of handhelds manages to accommodate everyone. It’s refreshing to have a threehorse race for a change, but don’t expect the iPhone to go and redefine portable gaming anytime soon. It is a phone, after all. [Tony Maguire]

Reviews Pro Evolution Soccer 2009

Pirates: Duel on the High Seas

Fifa 09

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Pirates: Duel on the High Seas (or PDHS if you want to make it sound like an illness) sails a broad course between dull to look at and dull to play with: it’s the arranged marriage of your nightmares. You play a tiny pirate vessel out to steal booty, find keys, collect beards (seriously) and wipe out every last ship on the seven seas, playing from a top down perspective, navigating your boat from bland river to bland river. Indeed, contrary to the game’s title, none of it actually takes place on the ‘high seas’.

PES 2009 is in some ways, a much different game of football than its predecessors, making it bigger, better and more accessible to newbies while ramping up the difficulty curve for veterans. Everyone wins! Except Scotland of course...

controlling the whole team at once. Online plays well with no real difficulty, graphical letdown or connection problems, which is absolutely crucial for a sports game. This is definitely a much more streamlined affair than what has gone before, doing away with multi-button

For the first time you have a full separate mode for the UEFA Champions League. Here you take one of a range of teams through the 32-team tourney in a bid for glory. As with every new PES, there are more licensed teams and players, doing away with some of the really rubbish made-up names of old. Likenesses are better than ever too, and there are more of them. In fact the overall appearance has been kicked up a notch, but still trails behind the briliant graphics of FIFA. ‘Become a Legend’ mode allows you to play as one member of the team on the field, meaning you need to work with the CPU players if you are going to win the league. It sounds boring and at points it is. However, once you get into it you might find it more tactical than

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The controls are simple: one button to go forward, another to eh… reverse your sail ship (with the d-pad to turn), and another for your cannonballs. Pick-up weapons take up a fourth button. That’s it, the whole game: navigating through dull canals, turning the ship to shoot at waves of other uninteresting ships. Occasionally a downed enemy will leave a crewmember floating around, who you can pick up and use to boost guns, speed, healing and your map’s draw distance.

tricks and favouring for a slew of analogue swivels and good positioning. It’s always interesting to see how well the commentary

The enemies themselves are slightly varied, but rarely do anything fancy. Half of them sail around so fast you’ll spend ages chasing the bastards down in a manner so devoid of fun you’d have a more enjoyable time playing football with a brick.

ends up in footy games and it flows well here, although occasionally you might be lazily sauntering up the wing, outside the penalty box and they start shouting as if you’re just about to score the greatest goal in history. Calm down lads... This year’s Pro Evo is more of the same excellence you have come to expect from the series; simplified in some places, ramped up in others. Veteran players will

This really isn’t much of a game; it could easily have been on the original gameboy and have played pretty much the same. It’s clear that at some point one or two developers loved something about this game—it has a cute kooky feel in the cut-scenes that borders on likeable—but it doesn’t stop the game from being blander than a ryvita sandwich. Take your booty elsewhere! [Craig Wilson]

In theory at least, 09 is just another update to the game that was FIFA 08 (see what they have done there?). Boasting some 250+ enhancements to… stuff. And as such it’s never immediately apparent as to whether you should fork out for a game that is really just an update. But it seems 09 is not a year to mess around with, and is actually shaping up to be a bit of a ‘must have’ year. Beyond all the minor improvements to the game that likely no-one will ever notice, there are several key additions. One is the new animation and movement system. Players are, in theory at least, all a bit weighty; some more so than others, and this is now reflected in game with the new jostle system. What this means is that (locations, direction etc. permitting), you can muscle folk off the ball if you are dense enough. This actually is a massively engrossing addition. Changing when you pass, and to whom, alters the goal scoring chances quite a lot. Other changes take the whole experience a step closer to simu-ball: players are all a fair bit slower, as is the game in general. Scores remain realistically low, but as such any goals you get are realistically satisfying. Big changes to the team play have come about in the form of an on-the-fly tactics system allowing, via a range of sliders and button taps, for you to change battle plans. Chock full of new things and improvements, FIFA 09 is definitely more than just an update to UEFA 2008; it plays well and feels so much more engrossing. Teams play as teams and players battle for the ball as they should. Controls are the best of any FIFA so far, and options both online and off give you plenty to do. And as for whether it’s better than PES? It’s possibly more realistic, perhaps a bit slower as a result, so in the end personal preference will be the only decider as things are certainly too close to call now. But anyone who does buy FIFA 09 will certainly not be disappointed. [Josh Wilson]

relish the overall increased difficulty levels, making the game challenging and fresh once more.[Dave Cook] Out now, £44.99

Out now on nintendo DS, £29.99

Out now, £44.99

Games

Books

Allergic To Poetry? Ryan Van Winkle—Reader-in-Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and Edinburgh City Libraries—flags up unique ways to get poetry into your life.

reading at the scottish poetry library Julia Gomez

The man was eating a ham sandwich when I offered him a poem. “No thanks,” he said, “I’m allergic.” He wiped a bit of pickle from the crack of his mouth and continued his chew. “You’re allergic to poetry?” I puzzled, “What happens - do you get hives, watery eyes, itchy nose, abdominal pain? Diarrhoea?” “Yeah,” he swallowed, “all of that. Diarrhoea – hate it.” “You know you’re sitting in the ‘Poetry Gardens’ at the moment, how you feeling?” “Not bad. Thanks anyway,” he said and I went away. Allergic to poems. Not a bad response to our covert strategy to bring poetry into people’s daily grind. This was on National Poetry Day in St. Andrew’s Square (now dubbed ‘The Poetry Gardens’). Thankfully, not everyone was so dismissive. Most seemed pleased to stop and wonder why we were out on a cold day not trying to sell anything. The answer was simple: we wanted to remind people of how good poetry can be. It is easy to understand why poetry is avoided. For many, reading a poem is the literary equivalent of eating your vegetables as a kid. Although you know it’s good for you, some part of you resists. Yet poetry, like any other art form, can help us articulate our thoughts and emotions in a brief and memorable fashion. On the SPL website we’ve got a section where musicians, artists and writers recall their favourites. Amanda Palmer from the Dresden Dolls chose the classic poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” because she remembered being fifteen and, “wandering around screaming: ‘It will never get better than your expectation of What Is To Come!’” When a friend put Keats in her hands she “(imagined) Mr. Keats checking out this crazy old Grecian vase and thinking the same thoughts as my little 15-year old self ... Just goes to show we are all wired together.” In a way, that’s art – a thread that binds us.

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My goal, as Reader in Residence, is to run that thread as far as possible - to help people find what they may or may not like. Online, you can look to others like Amanda Palmer, who have contributed to the website. There you’ll see what poem Mark Francis (St. Jude’s Infirmary) interprets as a Call To Arms and what poem acousticpunk musician Billy Liar found to encapsulate our Edinburgh streets with the line: “I hate the bustling citizen, / The eager and hurrying man of affairs I hate.” You can log onto the discussion forums on the SPL website or, better yet, come and have a chat with me on the first Tuesday of every month between 4 – 6pm. (That’s 4 November and 2 December for those keeping track at home.) Let me know who’s on your MP3 player, how many times you’ve seen Lost in Translation or what comic books you’re reading and I (almost!) guarantee I can find a poem for you. And, since poems often need to be heard, you can listen to our podcast series with new spoken word tracks from Jennifer Williams and Laertes, Why Are You Crying?, St. Jude’s Infirmary, The Chemical Poets and many more along with readings of classic poems and tips on good books to sink into. Further, if it is an eclectic live event you’re after, come to The Golden Hour – a monthly literary cabaret featuring not only poetry but music, performance art, and cartoons. This month, on 19 November at The Forest, The Zorras will be kicking their brand of “poetry-music fusion weirdness” with megaphones and a wicked loop pedal. And if in all of that you can’t find a line that lingers like a thread you want to tie around your finger - then maybe you just need to wait till one of the Poetry Army passes you on the street and hands you a poem. Unless, of course, you too are allergic. Ryan Van Winkle is the Reader-in-Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and Edinburgh City Libraries. He also is a long-time member of the Forest Arts Collective and an Editor at Forest Publications which is releasing a new anthology entitled Stolen Stories in November. www.spl.org.uk

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Theatre Editorial Amongst the plethora of entertainments this month, two pieces stand out. At the Assembly Rooms, Theatre Workshop stage the notorious “theatre of cruelty” of Marat/Sade, while Sarah Kane’s stinging 4.48 Psychosis hits Cumbernauld and Glasgow.

Traversing New Ground Agata Maslowska looks at a couple of new strands in the Traverse's New Writing programme

I adore Sarah Kane. 4.48 Psychosis is a ferocious, gruelling exposition of desperation. Yet I have reservations. Like Tennessee Williams, star of Glasgay!, her personal mythology and mental torment upstages the art. Kane’s suicide marks her authenticity. At worst, suffering is glamorised, and accepted truths neatly avoid challenge. Agony is vicarious entertainment, and we feel superior through false compassion and our willingness to confront ‘difficult issues’. If the classics don’t speak meaningfully to the modern condition, does contemporary theatre merely tame awkward, uncomfortable emotions? The Marat/Sade is an aggressive response to political tyranny. Set in an asylum, it references the failed revolutions of 1789 and 1968. Director Robert Rae and actor Nabil Shaban have been working together for over a decade, stirring up shit-storms around disabled rights, the conformity of theatre and political apathy. This is a bleak work, rejecting utopianism and critiquing capitalism- a timely and relevant topic, but will it be more than a passive substitute for meaningful action? In both cases, the answer is in the act. If a production can challenge both the form and content of the theatre, engage the audience and undermine the safety offered by the auditorium, it can have a serious impact. Should it fail, it remains a social pacifier, little more than a live action version of televisual slop. But I’ll still be in the front row, hoping. /Gareth

Top 5 events 1. SweetScar: 4.48 Psychosis Tramway 6-15 November

A trip to the dark place, courtesy of one of the few writers who has experimented with language after Beckett. Notebooks out, plagiarists.

2. Stephen Petronio Company: Bloom Theatre Royal 4-5 November

Inspiration to Scottish Ballet, blender of camp and perfect technique, Petronio offers his latest collaborations with Rufus Wainwright in another Glasgay! special.

3. Mary Rose

Lyceum, 24 October- 15 November Peter Pan author’s atypical ghost story, dusted off and spruced up by Tony Cownie. Edwardian in style, but promising modern chills.

4. Scottish Opera: La Traviata

various venues across Scotland EFT 19, 27, 29, 23 November

At only £10 a seat for the under 26, Scottish Opera are hoping to woo a new audience with an old favourite. A dynamic and taut company working towards that Scottish renaissance.

5. Richard Alston Dance Company EFT 11 November

Good humoured dance, intensity, live music onstage: Alston is England’s contemporary laureate.

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Midsummer with Matthew Pidgeon (Bob) and Cora Bisset (Helena)

Can Edinburgh theatre thrive and surprise after the intense summer festival? Waking us up from our slumber, the Traverse has sprouted new ideas and come up with a crisp autumn/winter programme with a twist called Shoot. Two new strands aim to cultivate new audiences and question how theatre is presented. The Traverse brings in Traverse Too, which promises to make audiences “experience new, experimental, off-the-wall work by both [the] newest and more established writers”. Katherine Mendelsohn, the literary manager at the Traverse expands on the theatre’s motivation behind the project: “We created Traverse Too because we wanted to get more plays out quicker and because we wanted artists to try new things in a spirit of fun and adventure. Traverse Too is a new production strand for the Traverse that will feature throughout the year and which will sit alongside our regular, larger-scale Traverse Theatre Company productions. Midsummer is the first ever Traverse Too production and we’re very excited that it’s launching this new way of producing shows.” The new way of producing shows means that the tickets will be cheaper – good news for all of us who are feeling the pinch – because less money will be spent on productions, while keeping quality on a high level. Breaking down boundaries between theatre and the music scene, the first Traverse Too production, as Mendelsohn reasons, is likely to attract both theatre and indie rock fans: “Midsummer is ‘a play with songs’: written by leading playwright David Greig with the music & lyrics by Gordon McIntyre (from indie band Ballboy). It marks the first time these two have collaborated, and offers indie music lovers a chance to tap into the Scottish Theatre scene and theatre-goers the chance to enjoy some great song-writing and a different night out. Future Traverse Too productions will continue to work

with high quality artists: both well-known names and the exciting new voices of the future.” Cutting-edge artistic collaboration, working across art forms, calling on new audiences – these are just some of the aspirations underlying the idea of Traverse Too. The ultimate goal is to create a space in which the confinement of conventional expression is suspended and innovative forms of theatre artwork are devised by artists of various backgrounds: “What Traverse Too offers playwrights and artists is the freedom - created by a relaxed atmosphere - to try out new methods, styles or forms that they’re intrigued by. For David and Gordon mixing theatre and song-writing has allowed them both to explore new creative ground that can go on to inspire their main work. Traverse Too is a strand of the theatre’s work that lets everyone let their hair down. It’s created to be enjoyed in an intimate venue, allowing audiences to see dynamic new work by high quality artists, being encouraged to innovate.” Apart from creating new spaces for artistic collaboration, the Traverse has teamed up with the National Theatre of Scotland to realise the Debuts project – this time for developing writers who have never had their work professionally produced. The Artistic Director of the NTS, Vicky Featherstone, explains how the project came about: “When John Tiffany and I started at the National Theatre of Scotland, one of the things we wanted to do was to start developing writers. So earlier in 2008 we had a ‘writers’ jamboree’ and worked with eleven writers, most of whom hadn’t had their work professionally performed. It was an opportunity for us to connect with those writers, to develop their work and to get to know them. We asked Dominic Hill, Artistic Director of the Traverse, to come and do it with us. By the Thursday of that week, John and Dominic and I had agreed to put on some of the work we had

developed. By the Friday we’d worked out how we could stage four of these plays and decided to do them as a co-production between the National Theatre of Scotland and the Traverse. I think it’s so important to create a culture where people are genuinely flexible, that even though we’re planning big shows, we always have this space where we can react so quickly.” This season, the Debut series comprises four new dramatic voices: Sam Holcroft, Kenny Lindsay, Andy Duffy, and Paul Higgins. Holcroft’s Cockroach, directed by Vicky Featherstone, touches upon the brutalisation of war. Set in a school context, the play explores the crisis of relationships, lost hopes and dreams of the school kids. A double bill: Lindsay’s The Dogstone and Duffy’s Nasty, Brutish and Short, directed by Dominic Hill, touch upon the idea of home and family: the first play poetically delves into the comic and tragic of the father-son relationship, while the latter represents the modern and brutal type of theatre exposing the rough bond between two brothers. Higgins’s Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, a dark comedy about Glasgow, is his playwriting but not theatre debut, as he performed in the original production of Black Watch. Interestingly, John Tiffany who directed Higgins in Black Watch will be directing his debut play this time round. Focussing on the writing and the actors, the Debuts “… is a great way for [the Traverse and NTS] to present four new pieces together like this as it takes the pressure off one individual piece to be the Big New Play.” What the Traverse offers in its current programme is the sense of spontaneity and adventure. It is high time Edinburgh theatre scene shaped alternative ways of theatre production, letting audiences hear new voices and it seems the Traverse is on the right track. There is room in arts for all kinds of artistic experiments and projects and it is thrilling that there are people out there who understand it and follow it through.

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Fish and Game promise traditional delicacies with a modern twist. Susannah Radford tastes the special.

You’ve got to be bold to tackle the tricky territory of national identity but Glasgow Theatre Company Fish and Game aren’t ones to back down from a challenge. With half the company Scottish and the other half English they’re in a prime position to define Scottishness from the inside and out. Their latest offering, Otter Pie, had its genesis when they were exploring the theme of happiness. Artistic directors Robert Walton and Eilidh MacAskill explain that the company began asking the questions: ‘is Scotland happy?’, ‘are Scottish people happy? and ‘what is Scottishness?’ Dr Carole Craig’s book The Scots’ Crisis in Confidence was highly influential and got them thinking about Scottish stories as a way of understanding cultural identity. “In our attempt to get to the nub of Scottishness we looked for some answers in Sunset Song, as we saw it being described as the ‘quintessential Scottish novel’ and it had been voted ‘Scotland’s favourite novel’. As we were working on the show, parts of the book and the characters started to interest us and gave us a way to link all our material together”. Based around Lewis Grassic Gibbons’ classic Sunset Song, Fish and Game developed Otter Pie through improvisation over a period of several weeks at Glasgow’s Tramway during which, MacAskill says, they “sang Scottish songs, learned ceilidh dances and made our own Scottish Health Board adverts”. Their exploration led them to the conclusion that they “agreed with Craig about the fact that Scottish national identity is not in any danger of disappearing and that instead we should be concerned with individual identities”.

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Opening at the Paisley Arts Centre in early November, Fish and Game will then be taking Otter Pie on the road in what is their first Scottish tour; the company are excited to be touring. “We’re particularly interested to see how people react when we perform in the North East of Scotland where Sunset Song is set and is sometimes revered. We hope they realize that we love the book and are not trying to ridicule it!” That said humour is a key element of their work. “Rather than trying to ram an issue or idea down peoples’ throats, we tend to make light of things even if they are difficult or horrific, and this highlights the seriousness,” says Walton. Otter Pie looks at bridging the gap between the past and the present. “A lot of the humour in the show comes from our difficulties as young people in the 21st Century trying to represent and perform a farming life that belongs firmly in the past and the outdoors”. As for the enigmatic name, trust the team behind Eilidh’s Daily Ukulele Ceilidh to pull a fast one on us. It’s not just about pies! “When we were working with some Australian artists, we managed to convince them that Otter Pie was a special Scottish delicacy that they would be able to sample in Glencoe” MacAskill says. “It became a byword for something really Scottish but slightly unpalatable. Otters are so happy-looking, but they’re not so happy in a pie”. [Susannah Radford]

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Otter Pie

Even if it snows this Christmas there will still be Sunshine on Leith

Performed by Dundee Rep Ensemble, Sunshine on Leith follows the highs and lows of Ally and Dave as they return home from the army. Families, relationships and life in Leith are not all plain sailing in this truly exceptional love story about everyday life in Scotland. This fun and deeply moving musical features over 20 classic hits such as “I’m Gonna Be (500 miles)”, “I’m On My Way”, “Letter from America” and lots lots more.

“One of the hottest tickets of recent Scottish theatre” ★★★★★ The Scotsman “A show worth walking 500 miles for, if not more” ★★★★ The Guardian Limited Run

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Previews Snow Clowning

Mary Rose

11–15 November

until 15 November

King’s Theatre, Glasgow

Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh

Slava’s Snowshow, the brainchild of one of the world’s greatest and most loved clowns, returns to the King’s Theatre in Glasgow for a one-week engagement. Mixing classic clowning styles with music, physical performance and audience interaction, the production has won universal acclaim for its innovative and imaginative staging.

The Royal Lyceum Theatre’s upcoming production of J.M. Barrie’s Mary Rose may prove to be surprising for audiences who are only familiar with Peter Pan. The play has had many fans, among them acclaimed actor and director Tony Cownie, who actively approached the Lyceum with the hope of staging the piece.

Russian Slava Polunin showed promise from an early age. He took a short detour in life, choosing to study engineering at university to appease his mother. However, he dropped out after a few years and returned to his great love: performance. Polunin has since had a lucrative career that has seen him perform throughout the world. While he has created numerous productions, Snowshow firmly makes its mark through its longevity.

A self-proclaimed fan of Barrie’s work, Cownie said “It seems to me to be a real surprise that [Mary Rose] hasn’t been done more, which seems like a great reason to do it.” He describes it as a good story for Halloween but also thinks that “it has a lovely charm to it.” The plot follows a young woman who, on different occasions, manages to mysteriously vanish, only to reappear much later without any sense of time passing. At its heart, Mary Rose is a multi-layered ghost story. And with themes of loss, strained parent/child relationships, hints of the supernatural and the important setting of an island, one can easily see parallels between the works of Pan and Rose.

Rather than following a story arch, Snowshow is more about tone, environment and emotional responses. Broken into two acts, the production is a hodgepodge of scenes that have little in common other than a reliance on music, spectacle and imagination, ending with a spectacular snowstorm, encompassing the entire theatre. The production has won numerous awards throughout the world, and it has been a massive box office hit. And although it is in its second decade, there seems to be no immediate end in sight. The production is still successfully touring and continues to acquire great demand throughout the world, including its upcoming Broadway run during the Christmas season. If you haven’t had the pleasure yet, make sure you book tickets for what many have found to be a moving, magical experience. [Michael Cox]

In talking about his fondness for the piece, Cownie speaks about the atmosphere that the play evokes. Atmosphere is something that greatly excites Cownie, not only as an artist but as an audience member. “I love the ‘other worldliness’ and the depth of Barrie’s writing.” He also describes Barrie’s prose as rich, disturbing and yet comforting while challenging to the material world.

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“I think it will be a nice surprise for people who come along and see it.” [Michael Cox]

reviews Mary Poppins

Playhouse, Edinburgh Until 6 December

rrrr Mary Poppins is that rare entity that one stumbles upon occasionally: an adaptation that equals, if not surpasses, the original source. The story follows Jane and Michael Banks, two spoilt children who, through the use of imagination and game-playing with a magical nanny, find themselves on many adventures which lead to their eventual maturity. Fans of the Disney film will recognise many aspects. Most of the Sherman Brothers songs are used, but they have been moved around and transformed, sometimes quite drastically. Some of the film’s characters have been slimmed down or cut, and a few characters from P.L. Travers’ original books are reinserted. The result is a completely original experience that honours the novels and the film while being its own work of art. What’s also interesting is how relevant the play feels. It may be based on a book series that began in the 1930s and set at the turn of the 20th century, but many of the plotlines prove to be timely, especially its focus on family dynamics, the influence of neglectful parents and its rather innocent insight into the banking business. The creative team are all quite impressive, with some of theatre’s greatest talents not only contributing but acting at the top of their game. And with a crackerjack cast that uniformly turn in wonderful performances, the production is a complete joy that easily stirs the emotions and proves to be a ‘jolly’ evening for audiences of all ages that’s Supercali…(you know the rest). [Michael Cox]

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Comedy Q & A:

Adrian Edmondson The comic turned musican spills the beans on his own punk roots to Erin McElhinney Hello, thanks for doing this interview! My pleasure. Well, it might be, I don’t know, we’ll see. What was the inspiration for Vyuyan (Edmondson’s character in The Young Ones) - were you a bit of a punk? It came from the fact that The Sex Pistols are my ultimate band; truly and sincerely I think it’s the most exciting music that’s ever been created. My one sadness is I know Johnny Lydon would think I’m a complete middle class wanker. It’s horrible when you know that one of your idols wouldn’t actually like you. What do you think he’d think of The Bad Shepherds (Edmondson’s new band)? I think he’d actually quite like them, we do a version of Rise by PiL and it’s a very folky tune in it’s way; it’s got those lyrics in the middle.. “May the road rise with you”. I know for a fact that he likes folk music, as a member of our band, Troy, used to play with Maddy Pryor, and Johnny once rushed across the room just to hug her. Is there any comedy in the show? [coyly] There are moments of comedy that I have planned....a couple of psalms that I’ve rewritten from the perspective of a bad shepherd.

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You’ve been a comedian, a musician, a writer, and a film director; what’s been your favourite role? Ah you missed out promo director, I did a lot of pop promos in ‘87-88. [proudly] I won the MTV award for Best Video for Hourglass by Squeeze. It was like doing Art O Level. It was easy for a year and then it peetered out, but that was my favourite job, cos I was mixing with people I really liked. I was almost in the band... I WAS THE 12TH POGUE! read this interview in full online at www.theskinny.co.uk/articles/comedy www.thebadshepherds.com

Sean Lock So Sean, you’ve just finished recording your first live DVD. How do you think it went? I’d say it was very good. I don’t know. I’m probably the least effective public relations man on earth - I’m the anti-Russell Brand. I think that deep down I know in my heart that fame is all bollocks. I can’t quite bring myself to be shameless about it. No-one likes a show off. Don’t get me wrong - I still do it, because I’m also a whore. 19 years is a long time in one industry. In what ways has comedy changed from when you started out? [In the old days] there were a million ways of making people laugh. It was exciting, barmy,

Sean Lock talks to Ciaran Woods ahead of his first live DVD release on November 17th.

foolish. It had a great charm to it. Now it’s all very professional. It’s about how successful you are, how big a venue you can fill. People don’t mess around as much. The adventurous, the experimental face of comedy has changed. It’s a very successful period for comedy, but quite a dull one as well. Have you got any plans for the future? No idea. I could be dressed as an orange with the face cut out, going “would you like to taste this fizzy drink” in a shopping centre near you. Or I could be in a hit TV show. Showbusiness is more precarious than any stock market or housing bubble. read this interview in full online at www.theskinny.co.uk/articles/comedy

Previews Simon Day

What A Fool Believes

garnered past theatrical experience in the Fast Show Live and touring with Vic and Bob in the 90s. With the recent telly return of his former playmates Harry Enfield

Ah, Simon Day. That bloke who stuck in the public consciousness as the Competitive Dad and pub bore Billy Bleach from the glory days of The Fast Show. The one with the endearingly gormless expression, which has graced the screen in everything from Happiness to Heartbeat and made him a familiar face in British TV comedy. But now he’s breaking away from the safety of the script and performing his first stand-up show, coming to Scotland in November.

and Paul Whitehouse, the public has been tuned back

‘What a Fool Believes’ is the story of his career as a modern clown - stripped of characters and catchphrases - and a chance to see the man himself in all his shining glory. Although a solo stand-up virgin, Day’s

8:30 PM, THE STAND GLASGOW, MON 3 NOV, £10

into the style of humour which made him a household face, if not name, and tales of his experiences are surely rich comedy pickings. Time will tell whether Day can compete as a bona fide stand-up, but his fascinating career alone promises for an intriguing evening of entertainment. Let’s just hope the clown is funny. [Siân Bevan] 8:30 PM, THE STAND EDINBURGH, SUN 2 NOV, £10

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Art Editorial In the midst of the current economic climate, with its alliterative title so appropriately daft for the era of the deceptively benign soundbite, one question keeps coming up: how’s it affecting you? And I think I speak for a fair proportion of the art graduate community when I say: I can’t really tell the difference. I don’t know many people with “real” jobs, or mortgages, or designer handbag addictions that could mean they were about to be bitten in the ass by credit card repossession. Obviously, my understanding of the situation is so limited as to verge on the retarded, despite my having (skim) read vast swathes of text on the ongoing machinations in the course of my other job. However, right now it seems that artists are in a comparatively good position. On a fundamental level, they’re mostly used to being broke. They already shop at Lidl, and don’t need a pull-out supplement to tell them how to cook without the aid of Waitrose. Also, similar supplements are being hastily assembled across the media to inform the newly frugal of ways to entertain themselves on the cheap. Quick answer? Art! It’s mostly free! And indoors, which is good in the Scottish winter! Or indeed in the Scottish summer. It deals with ideas, and emotions, and is designed to transcend material concerns (leaving out Damien Hirst, as usual). Although the oftmentioned irony of him, the artist, raking in the cash from his Sotheby’s sale on the very same week all the financial markets went to hell continues to please. In the spirit of the credit crunch, all the recommended exhibitions are free. They usually are anyway, but I thought I’d jump on that bandwagon. /Ros

Top 5 events SPENCER FINCH GRAVITY ALWAYS WINS

DCA, DUNDEE, 25 OCT – 4 JAN, (free)

The American artist creates a false cloud of gels and lights within the gallery in order to recreate the experience of light moving in and around a real cloud. A complementary show of his drawing work is on in Glasgow’s Common Guild.

KATY DOVE RHYTHM SECTION

PLATFORM, THE BRIDGE, EASTERHOUSE, GLASGOW, 1 NOV – 6 DEC, (free)

The culmination of Dove’s two-year residency in the new arts and leisure space, combining both her studio practice and community-based projects.

DO NOT DANCE UK HOME-MADE DANCES

PERFORMANCES: ST GILES CATHEDRAL, 8 NOV, MIDDAY; DANCEBASE, 14 NOV, 4PM. CLASSES: DANCEBASE, 4 & 11 NOV 10AM (FREE)

Edinburgh’s newest art-dance collective. Should be witnessed, as it defies easy definition and indeed logic.

CHRIS DYSON & STEPHEN MURRAY INTERMEDIA

CCA, GLASGOW, 6 – 8 & 13 – 15 NOV, (free)

Sculpture, text, drawing and research-based work in Intermedia’s latest pair show.

LANGLANDS + BELL TALBOT RICE GALLERY, EDINBURGH, 25 OCT – 13 dec, (free)

Survey of the Turner Prize-nominated duo’s film works.

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Richard Forster & Ruth Claxton Rosamund west finds that this exhibition Transforms the subject of dry academic discourse into something irreverent and fun

On the floor of the Ingleby’s Gallery 2 lies a spunklike trail of mother of pearl droplets inset into the boards. This remnant of the inaugural exhibition, a fragment of Susan Collis’s subtly entrancing show of tiny interventions in semi-precious stones, lends the new space a sense of continuity, suggesting the notion that this is the beginning of a history. The second exhibition for Ingleby #2 features the work of Ruth Claxton downstairs, and Richard Forster upstairs. Claxton works with and into colour postcards of old master paintings, precisely incising the surfaces along the lines of the gaze, pulling up the incised strips and manipulating them to make the 2D become 3D, leaving exposed the raw blank paper below. Upon the Postcard (Portrait of a Boy), the gaze rises up from the paper, lines tangling and twisting to tail, comet-like, behind him. In Postcard (Peace and Plenty Binding the Arrows of War) the gazes of the different characters interlock, the exposed paper shooting down to an intersection as the top layer remnants curl up and over the eyes in a seeming parody of vast, drag queen false eyelashes. The gaze is a fundamental issue in the study of art and of art history, and indeed in the study of film. Its study traces the power relations between viewer and viewed, subject and object. It is frequently, largely, a gendered discourse, in the sense that the traditional power balance lay in the ready-femaleas-object, appreciative-male-as-viewer/observer. Witness the furore surrounding the brazenly returned gaze of Manet’s Olympia to see evidence of the power of the inversed objectification. Claxton’s work deals with the notion of the gaze in an investigative yet playful manner, documenting the routes and relations of the lines of sight within the canvases, then manipulating their remnants to render the lines fantastical tiny sculptures, transforming the subject of dry academic discourse into something irreverent and fun. Upstairs, Richard Forster’s oak-framed pencil drawings punctuate the walls. Executed around Scotland’s coastlines between June and September of this year, Forster’s meticulous drawings document close-up after close-up of the tide line licking the sand of the shore, trails of surf and foam advancing and retreating in repeated freeze frames. The act of drawing renders the ephemeral permanent, and magnifies its importance in the patience of the viewer. The initial reaction is one of slight ennui, however closer inspection seduces, the act of looking at snapshot following snapshot having a lulling effect rather like that of watching the real surf advance and retreat, advance and retreat. The scope of the frame seems to change, to zoom in and out, creating the impression that we are physically inhabiting the tableaux, ourselves advancing and retreating, stepping back, surveying the scene. In some frames the image pans out to reveal both sea and sky, a glimpse of light through stormy cloud providing a moment of radiance, a metaphorical chorus of angels above the ebb and flow of the sea. The 45-piece strong series ends with a close-up of a breaking wave, the imagined CRASH providing a culmination which lends narrative and pace to the preceding frames.

Above: Ruth Claxton, postcard, portrait of a boy (2008, cut found postcard) Below: Richard Forster, Untitled 54, seascape (2008, pencil on card)

The freeze-frame, quasi filmic qualities of the work are aided and abetted by the hum of construction work which inhabits the redeveloping building, recalling the clatter of an elderly projector. The space itself throws up interesting dialogues, the white calm and ponderous examinations of nature becoming more oasis-like as a glance out the window reveals the industrial girders of the back end of Waverley.

In all, the current exhibitions offer a touch of solace, a celebration of looking, time, intricacy. The space itself is a flash of calm, its position bordering on the madness of commuter central emphasising the fact that this is a place to pause, draw breath, and focus on the subtlety offered by the senses. www.inglebygallery.com

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reviews Gregor Laird

Q! Gallery, 7 Oct - 9 Nov ‘08

Gerhard Richter

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One of the most important artists of our time

A key motif in the stylised landscapes of Gregor Laird’s Plastic Pastorals, the Edinburgh artist/designer/DJ’s offering to this year’s Glasgay!, is that of mediation between apparently opposing forces. This motif is manifest in a variety of forms: in the mediation of our preconceptions and our sense of experience upon viewing Scottish landscapes; in the mediation of the inorganic materials and new media methods used in many of the pieces; and in the mediation of viewing this exhibition, which is to experience not a Scottish landscape but instead Gregor Lairds’ idea of a Scottish landscape. His background as a designer is obvious – flat, neon, plastic, with recurrent stylised motifs that signify what we think of as ‘nature’ in frames, on canvas, and on the ceiling and window. The pieces range from clean and intricately cut out bi- or tri-colour plastic layered depictions of mountain-scapes (each piece based on a specific location), to more painterly mixed media

pinkpurple mountain

pieces combining styles and approaches, drawing on map gradients, pencil drawing and digital images. Many of the pieces are overlayed with man-made elements like pylons, but somehow this use of urban motifs avoids the cliché-ridden moralising I feared. Laird’s opinion is not apparent; instead we are presented with an ambivalent juxtaposition of form and content, un/ natural, in/authentic, in/organic. It seems the artist’s intention is to draw on these different subjects and styles with aesthetic, not political or ethical, intentions. While setting out to transcend rather than satirise the high and low culture romanticisations of Scottish landscape, Laird has created his own romantic and wonder-filled aesthetic, one that takes concrete places as their inspiration but ultimately uses them in the service of a glimpse into the artist’s unique, colourful and ultimately beautiful language. [Lucy Nicholas]

National Gallery Complex The Mound, Edinburgh

Ernst Logar

Peacock Visual Arts, 4 Oct - 15 Nov

rrrr The metaphors come thick and fast in Austrian Ernst Logar’s Invisible Oil exhibition, understandable to a city whose life is traditionally dictated by the non-polar substance. A transparent oil barrel takes centre stage, and by its side Logar has listed all the requests, motions and enquiries he has engaged in with multinational companies to gain access to and information on the somewhat guarded oil industry and its sites. At the opposite end of the gallery a dark room presents sticky, oiled frames containing prints Wellhead and Laboratory, the latter continuing Logar’s intriguing and longstanding NonPublic Space theme. In this branch of his practice, Logar endeavours to gain access to and document spaces that are not usually open to the public, spaces that at first may seem irrelevant or uninteresting, but on closer inspection reveal their significance in the apparatus of power and their consequent relevance to everyday life. Here, Logar has documented crucial locations in the oil production process, creating images of apparently rather dull spaces made fascinating by their exclusivity, and by the lengthy negotiations necessary to gain access. Illustrating the point that the oil industry is inextricably linked with the life of Aberdeen, we see the North Sea oil and gas pipelines mapped out and pulsing artery-like through Scotland to the refineries. Elsewhere, the artist has utilised oil as a material. Prints, produced in conjunc-

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tion with Peacock Visual Arts, reunite crude oil with modern plastic debris, their fossil like imagery eerily skewing the timeline of where and when this work has been created. In Reflecting Oil the artist cheekily employs continuously pumping crude oil as the substance of a mirror, secure in a perspex-bound box, the viewer’s reflection unnervingly, accusingly becoming part of the piece. Logar’s masterstroke on regional comment lies in the ‘rig’ sculptures he has constructed from plastics and other petrochemical-fabricated objects washed up on nearby shores. Photographed upon Aberdeen beach strutting proudly before the vast ocean that offered up its contents, each oil rig has been given the illustrious name of one of the most deprived areas in the city, in stark contrast to the conventional naming of North Sea rigs after free-flying Scottish birds. These sobering yet fun pieces work wonderfully, and it would be nice to think they are still out there on the beach being battered and aged by the elements. Logar’s subject matter is supremely timely, under the current economic and environmental climates, and his injection of black humour illustrates, perhaps, the final line of comic-attack that some folk in Aberdeen have in understanding their role in energising Britain. [Jaco Justice]

8 Nov 2008 to 4 Jan 2009 For tickets and information visit www.nationalgalleries.org £6/£4 Under 22s free Media partner: The Scotsman

Gerhard Richter, Kerze, 1982 © Gerhard Richter Photo: Frieder Burda Collection, Baden-Baden National Galleries of Scotland is a charity registered in Scotland (No. SC003728)

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Music Editorial In much the same way as the phrase 'sha hoor sir' is overused in East Fife as a colloquial expression of excitement / disbelief / whatever you fancy, the word 'punk' is bandied around frivolously in music these days, at odds with the common perception that the genre died with Sid Vicious after Iggy so gloriously gave birth to it in the gutter. You know the story; its carcass was notoriously co-opted by "the man", maimed and eventually sold to Daphne and Celeste for a pittance. As an ethos, however, you can only pray that the spirit of the thing will never die, and this issue is ultimately an excuse for us to say that the attitude is everywhere - it just doesn't come equipped with a mohawk and a pair of tartan breeks anymore.

The Melvins:

Live! Tonight! Sold Out! Chris Cusack speaks to Buzz Osborne and finds it ironic that his band, perhaps more than any other, lie at the root of grunge's messy ascension into the mainstream and the compromise of punk ethics that saga entailed.

/Dave

A Muso’s top 10:

Bonehead

Since his departure from Oasis at the turn of the millennium, the whereabouts of Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs have remained a mystery – ‘somewhere in Manchester’ is about all the streets have murmured - until now. This month he returns with six strings, the truth and a bloke called Pete MacLeod to play a gig in Glasgow. But first there’s the more pressing matter of recommending some choice cuts for a mix tape and telling us where in the b’jeesus he’s been all this time: “I’m still playing guitar at home and whatever - doing stuff myself - but I met up with these lads called the Vortex and just love the whole attitude, they’re sort of like Primal Scream with Denise Johnson. They’ve a girl called Jaxx on backing vocals who’s just joined and she’s really lifted them up. When they asked me if I’d play on the record I jumped at the chance. Then they asked if I’d like to come up onstage and thought ‘yeah, love to’. Their whole approach really caught my eye and ear. The atmosphere of the gigs reminds me of the feeling I had about Oasis in the early days. “Now, I’ve not had a chance to get near my iTunes because the kids have been swamping it, but here goes…”

1. Oasis – Columbia 2. Kings of Leon – Red Morning Light 3. N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton 4. The Charlatans - Oh Vanity 5. Led Zeppelin – Good Times, Bad Times 6. Mark Lanegan Band – Sideways in Reverse 7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Spread Your Love 8. The Staple Singers - When Will We Be Paid For the Work We’ve Done 9. Jimmy Cliff – Vietnam 10. The Creation – How Does It Feel to Feel Read the full interview online at www.theskinny.co.uk to find out what Bonehead makes of the new Oasis album. Bonehead (featuring Pete MacLeod) plays Pivo Pivo, Glasgow on 22 Nov. www.myspace.com/boneheadoasisdj

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Twenty-one years on from their debut album, few bands could still expect to be as compelling as The Melvins. With a career of obstinate single-mindedness behind them, they lay claim to one of the most “punk” reputations in modern music. All of this is despite - or perhaps because of - having drifted between so many different sounds, many of which were far from the snotty, up-tempo thrashings most people traditionally associate with that label.

tual implosion). It’s ironic then that The Melvins, perhaps more than any other band, probably lie at the root of grunge’s messy ascension into the mainstream and the wanton compromising of punk ethics the saga entailed. It was Buzz and long-time drummer Dale Crover, after all, who originally inspired Kurt Cobain to form Nirvana - the band that made Grunge a brand name having taught him guitar and introduced him to many of the bands that changed his life.

Enthusing about his punk roots, wild-haired frontman Buzz Osborne recalls falling in love with the Sex Pistols: “None of my teenage friends in the 70s could stand Rotten’s voice. To me this was a perfect extension of the heavy metal I was already listening to and The Pistols’ no-redeeming-social-value-whatsoever stance completely appealed to my developing juvenile-delinquent brain. It made sense to me. Still does.”

The rest is obviously history, though it’s no secret that, despite their protestations, the financial benefits of Melvins’ tenure on Atlantic were considerable. They reputedly walked away with an advance of almost half a million dollars upon signing to Atlantic. Not bad considering that same label refused to release their second offering, the awkward and unfriendly Prick, which ultimately only saw the light of day on an indie label under the moniker “Snivlem”. This was a move that once again secured them underground credibility.

Having accrued an untouchable reputation on the US underground since the mid-80s, The Melvins’ well-documented, though short-lived, affair with Atlantic Records between ‘93 and ‘97 brought substantial criticism their way. Yet as Osborne says: “It’s not a whole lot different than things we have heard for much of our career. Hell, we had people accusing us of ‘selling out’ with the Bullhead record.” It’s clearly a subject he’s touchy about though, responding with short-tempered suspicion to questions about how a younger “King Buzzo” might have viewed the contemporary Melvins (“Buzz then wasn’t stupid and neither is Buzz now”). However it’s also maybe an understandable sore point, given years of putting up with complaints about the success they enjoyed on the back of Nirvana’s well-documented explosion (and even-

In 2008, with The Melvins swollen to a fourpiece, encompassing Seattle duo Big Business, their sound has again changed direction, albeit more subtly than the transition from thunderous mulch to pseudo-electro farce on Colossus of Destiny (incidentally the second most important album Buzzo recommends for any new listeners to the Melvins’ catalogue). On the subject of the two new(ish) recruits and the effect that has had on the band’s style, Buzz explains: “The writing process has changed significantly throughout our entire career, listen to a wide variety of our records and it’s obvious. It’s great to have them in the Melvins, we are all equals. At least I’d like to think that. They are great players and can do pretty much whatever I dream up.”

However he’s reluctant to acknowledge the increasingly apparent influence of classic rock on recent work, especially 2008’s Nude With Boots. Maybe it’s due to the common perception of “classic” rock as antithesis to the punk ethic, conjuring images of overblown stadium shows and long, indulgent solos. “Classic rock? I suppose, but I don’t hear it that way and I’ve probably listened to more classic rock than most. Actually, I don’t hear any of that kind of influence on Nude With Boots.” Ever the contradiction, Buzz then goes on to gush over ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres album, pointing out that “the genius is in the delivery.” More so than most acts, The Melvins have had to juggle such contradictions throughout their history. Their ability to slow a riff down to ludicrous proportions and play to timings with complete disregard for musical convention is in itself regarded as “punk”, yet they excel at moments of grand, righteous guitar riffage and, lest we forget, performed twice with a certain Gene Simmons on bass guitar, having released a Kissinspired trilogy of albums. Thankfully, this internal conflict has had no noticeable impact on the success of a band that, having outlived and outplayed most of their peers, continue to produce music the equal of any of their previous output. They have succeeded entirely on their own terms, never compromising their material at anyone’s behest. And that alone has to be a chapter in any book about punk ethics. Nude With Boots is out now via Ipecac. Melvins and Mike Patton curate ATP’s Nightmare Beofre Christmas, Minehead between 5-7 Dec. www.melvins.com

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As Fucked Up's second full-length LP begins to ooze out of speakers across the land, Jorge Marticorena has a nice little chat with frontman Pink Eyes about punk rock, self-induced injuries, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and working out

Some people like to shimmy. Others like to do the twist. Pink Eyes (aka Damien), lead singer of Canada’s dearest punk aggressors Fucked Up, likes to bleed profusely on stage with his ass out. It just happens. That’s his thing. The truth is, there are two kinds of eccentric people in this world - the many who consciously labour at their weirdness and the few who just are. The latter camp is much more fun, and Pink Eyes seems to have weird oozing from his pores. “We can never really tell the way the chaos is gonna happen,” he says, referring particularly to the band’s live television debut on MTV in 2007. “I busted myself open; I don’t know what happened because I do it a lot, but, seriously, I had never bled like this in my entire life. Blood was like streaming out of my face and getting everywhere - on the equipment, it was getting on the kids…” Like I said, it just happens. Enough with the blood though; that’s for the shows. In the studio, Fucked Up are significantly - and astoundingly - more methodical. There’s a trace of artistic ambition in

their music that makes it confoundingly mercurial. Punk? Yes - it sounds like punk. But it’s also fairly experimental - they did release an 18minute single entitled Year Of The Pig last year. And it’s definitely hardcore, mainly owing to Pink Eyes’ throat-wrenching growls (on a side note, he attributes his vocal abilities to “working out” and “eating only about…seven times a day”). Many of their songs also feature gorgeously-voiced female vocalists. Can we call it post-hardcore, then? No. The important thing is that Fucked Up are in constant motion, be it reckless and oblique. Playful inventiveness seems to run through virtually every aspect of the band, though they’ve so far shunned the more contemporary internet-based conventions of music promotion. They all have pseudonyms (Pink Eyes, 10,000 Marbles, Mustard Gas, Mr Jo, Concentration Camp), they’ve done without MySpace or a band website, and until last year’s LP Hidden World, they only released their music through an extensive series of 7” singles. “I still think 7”s are the ideal format for punk, because you’re dealing with one or two direct concepts. We were always a little nervous about recording LPs because you have to ideally link a number of things together and the whole process is astronomically larger.” Fucked Up’s new album, The Chemistry Of Com-

mon Life, really is astronomically - or agrochemically - larger. Epic themes of birth, death, fatalism, and hope abound. The title is taken from a 19th century book of the same name written by James F.W. Johnston (born in Paisley, Scotland, actually), which essentially describes hallucinogenic qualities found in plants and mushrooms. “It’s kind of about finding the magical in the mundane,” reflects Pink Eyes, “you know, because you think of mushrooms and fungus as being some of the lowest forms of life on earth, but yet at the same time there’s this hallucinogenic extrasensory power contained within this base life-form - in other words in this shit - and I think the trick is more about recognising, well, the magic inside the shit, and that’s what punk is, really.” This shit truly runs deep. Until they play it live and it’ll all go up in flames.

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“When I’m on stage I really get a chance to explore the psychedelic extra-sensory aspect of it all. I’m up there, you know, drunk as shit, walking around with my ass out, bleeding from the head…” (Pink Eyes)

The Chemistry of Common Life is out now via Matador. Fucked Up play King Tut’s, Glasgow on 16 Nov. www.matadorrecords.com/fucked_up

Jack & Kyle:

“The D Will Never Die!”

Untroubled by the lukewarm reception to their silver screen debut but bolstered by the gigs – nay, folk metal odysseys – that followed, Tenacious D muscle in on the pre-Christmas DVD scene early and recount to Dave Kerr their formative days of riding flumes, writing tunes and hunting the elusive McHaggis burger. Hello? Kyle Gass [sounds baffled]: You’re not German? No, I’m a Scot… Jack Black: See, I knew that was the accent. KG: Oh, that’s a much better country. Who is your president now? Gordon Brown is our prime minister – also a Scotsman. KG: Aaaah. JB: You’ve passed the test, Kyle tried to stump you. Folk metal lore has it that the two of you forged your alliance here - in Edinburgh 20 years ago. Is this true? JB: Yes, yes we did. What were the circumstances? JB: Well, technically we met in Los Angeles. We were in a theatre company called the Actor’s Gang and we bonded in Edinburgh while we were trying to get some authentic Scottish food. We saw a sign that said McDonalds… KG: We thought ‘That’s it, we’ve found it! Finally, some real Scottish food. JB: We were pleasantly rewarded. KG: Even though the burgers didn’t quite taste right. JB: Did they taste a little strange to you? KG: Mmhmm. Yeah. JB: Can you get the McHaggis burger yet? It would probably be illegal to produce and sell such a thing. KG: You’ve got to lose the haggis.

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Did you sample some of our great national dish while you were here? KG: Oh, I tried it… JB: I didn’t have the haggis, but I did have me some shepherd’s pie. That dish is pretty heavy metal. So me and Kyle bonded, we went up to the top of a mountain and laid out the plans, the groundwork for what we were going to do for the next 20 years. That “mountain” didn’t happen to be Arthur’s Seat, did it? JB: Arthur’s seat! You know already? Legend, isn’t it? And then we celebrated with a ride down the flume [at the Commonwealth Pool]. Flumes were big back then, you guys had good flumes. The thing is, most of the people on the flumes were under 10 years of age, so it felt a little awkward. Speaking of awkward, have you unwittingly competed with the man you’ve referred to as your nemesis - Phillip Seymour Hoffman - for any acting roles lately, Jack? KG: Oh man, right for the jugular… JB: Low blow… KG: What’s interesting is that Jack just signed on to do Capote Part 2. The weird thing is that I’m scheduled to play him in the television series. JB: You got Truman - the TV series? KG: Yeah. JB: There’s nothin’ wrong with that. KG: No, no, it’s going to be a great gig. Is this the new Masterworks DVD volume? What’s the premise there? KG: Well, there’s an instructional video on how to rock. No, it’s a live concert we did in Seattle – blowing up with the band, all kinds of theatrics and there’s an unflinching full-length documentary about what really happens behind the scenes of Tenacious D.

What plans do you have beyond the DVD? Kyle, you’ve suggested that you might be hanging it up to “go out on a high,” but Jack’s been quoted as saying you’ll have an album out in 2012…what’s it to be? KG: We’d like to get together with Flight of the Conchords and have a rock off for an HBO payper-view special. JB: It’s important to me that music be glorious. And it’s important to me that whatever we do next be glorious. But will it be a tour? Will it be a movie? Will it be a TV show? Or will it just be me and Kyle talking to you? I don’t know. KG: You’ve posed some interesting questions here. JB: One thing’s for sure, it shall be glorious. Were you disappointed by The Pick of Destiny’s performance at the box office? JB: Yeah... Are you going to say ‘fuck it’ and make a sequel anyway? JB: Not right away, we’re going to make another album and take it naturally, see how things flow. Let it be. The D will never die, but we’re probably not going to be living large on the movie sets anytime soon. We’ll have to knock it down to cable television or internet films. Those things can catch fire, so we will see.

Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks Vol 2 is released on 3 Nov. www.tenaciousd.com

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These Arms Are Snakes:

Apocalypse? No! Office jobs? Pension plans? Breaking bands? These Arms Are Snakes crave not these things, as Brian Cook tells Ryan Drever.

Recent headlines have read like the end of days. The whole world is in a rapid sate of decline and we are all going to be broke and homeless and eventually die of poverty, right? Ok, so perhaps everything isn’t quite so apocalyptic just yet, but still, there is an undeniable and well-documented sense of global financial turmoil in the air. So what does this mean for those bands who have little or no money, whose names would gather little or no response from most of the general public? Well, before you can say “These Arms Are Who?” (didn’t you read that piece last year?), Brian Cook, the Seattle quartet’s resident multiinstrumentalist, has a surprisingly upbeat take on it all. “I really have nothing. I don’t own a home or a car. I have no savings. I have no retirement plan. That might strike some people as depressing or frightening but I find it pretty liberating.” The idea of being in a band on a grassroots level, somewhat alienated from the riches of the mainstream, is a path taken by many but is often hard to keep up for various reasons - too hard, too long, too broke. Still, for over a decade, Cook – a former member of defunct hardcore troupe Botch - has lived this way, almost hand to mouth, with seemingly no major regrets. “I’ve been autonomous and managed to see and do some amazing things in the last 13 years, while other people I know have just been working their office jobs to amass property and retirement plans that are all in jeopardy.” Rather than rub it in, he continues, self-aware. “Granted, I’m just as fucked as they are but at least I’ve been living my life.” Still operating on a level many would dub ‘underground’, These Arms Are Snakes are about to embark on a relentless tour of mostly intimate venues, but long gone are the days when this was compulsory to get ahead. Now it seems anyone with a laptop has the potential to record, showcase, and release music independently online, as well as promote said release with increasingly powerful networking tools. I ask Cook whether he engages with these technological advances – is this the definitive way to make it as a band or does the heart still lie in live music? “Promo and networking is fake and costly,” he dismisses. “Mike Watt once said fIREHOSE (post-Minutemen project) were the inverse of the average rock band. Whereas most bands toured to support a record, fIREHOSE made records to support their tours. I always liked that idea.” Although we seem to be drowning in a sea of download hits and ‘overnight successes’ these days, Cook’s band - despite being active online - have yet to achieve such enormous yet fleeting success, but still seems confident enough to shrug off the growing trend. “Maybe you can become an overnight success on the internet but that doesn’t really seem like the ideal way to do things. The air is already out of the balloon for blog sensations like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tapes n’ Tapes and - at least in America - the Arctic Monkeys. I predict Vampire Weekend to follow that trend.” Has the blogosphere then levelled the playing field, or simply opened the floodgates, making it harder for a band like TAAS to stand out from the crowd? “I think ultimately, it’s kind of a bad thing”, ponders Cook. “While I’m all for a level playing field, I also believe that to be a musician you have to really want it. If you’re going to make music, you have to do it despite the odds.” And it seems that attitude is the driving force for the band, which still appears to possess the raw passion required for any band to keep its head above the water.

Now on their (not so difficult) third album, Tail Swallower And Dove – a collection of progressive hardcore blasts, as angry as they are interesting – TAAS show they are still capable of producing music that is lapped up by those who tune in as well as constructing records that are creatively satisfying for the band itself. With nothing to lose but everywhere to go, does it seem like there is or ever will be a limit to what they can achieve? “Who knows?” the four-stringer puzzles. “We’re all pretty active in the music world. Chris (Common, drums) records and produces bands and plays with Mammifer. Ryan (Fredericksen, guitar) just recorded the Narrows full-length. I’m still doing stuff with Russian Circles and Roy.

Even if this band becomes inactive, we’ll all be doing other projects. To be honest, I’m surprised we’ve made it this far. We’ll keep going as long as it’s interesting.” Fortunately there are no signs of These Arms Are Snakes disappearing down the plughole with the world economy just yet, even if none of us can afford the next album. These Arms Are Snakes play Stereo, Glasgow on 17 Nov. Support comes from Russian Circles. Tail Swallower and Dove is out now via Suicide Squeeze. www.myspace.com/thesearmsaresnakes

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Nobody really knew what punk was in the late 70s. Thirty years later, it's not much different. Jorge Marticorena speaks to former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, original Buzzcocks frontman Howard Devoto, Times New Viking members Adam Elliott and Beth Murphy, and guitarist Randy Randall from No Age, and tries to sift through all their musings for a sense of what it’s all about. Punk is just a bit of ink on paper - one syllable, spelt p-u-n-k. That’s about as far as we’re going to get. The term - with all its musical connotations - was originally propagated by the media, most notably when writer Legs McNeil and illustrator John Holmstrom created Punk Magazine, a fanzine, or, as they referred to it, ‘some sort of media thing’, dedicated to the unchristened developments of the mid-70s underground. Since then, the name has been spat around in all different directions. For all its shifting manifestations over the years - nihilism, self-expression, anti-establishment, sadomasochism, DIY, anarchy, honesty, energy, apathy, self-destruction, being yourself, not giving a shit, saying NO - it’s interesting how scarcely music crops up in the denomination. “I never thought that music was that important,” says impresario and former manager of the Sex Pistols Malcolm McLaren. “Not even in 1976; the look of it, yes, but not in itself. I was always searching for a way to make the ‘look of music’ subversive, provocative, obsessive, sexy and stylish.” McLaren’s image-heavy concept of disenfranchised youth culture came to fruition with his London-based clothing shop on King’s Road - Let It Rock and later Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die - which sold a variety of bondage and fetish clothing designed and promoted by McLaren and his partner Vivienne Westwood. After McLaren discovered the tatters-and-rags look in New York, he renamed the place Sex and it soon became more of a concept than a shop: one would walk in to leather on one side, rubber on the other, ripped sleeveless shirts, Cambridge Rapist masks, chicken wire, nudity here and there, and a dwarf named Helen. But the shop’s greatest advertisement was the Sex Pistols. “Sex got it right,” says McLaren. “The music that was borne out of Sex came via those young sexy assassins who invaded my store on behalf of the new generation. I called some of them the Sex Pistols.” And that was it. The safety pins came out, the Pistols learned how to tune their guitars, they spiralled violently out of control, the shock value got sweeter by the day, the antichrists and the anarchists multiplied across the board, and the movement took hold. 28 months later, Britain was filled to the brim with punks. The revolution isn’t always so romanticised, though. Howard Devoto, the original frontman of Manchester’s Buzzcocks, reflects on the time he left the first-wave punk scene to form his genre-defying art-band Magazine. “I don’t like movements,” he says. “Punk wasn’t necessarily a movement when it started out, and then, suddenly, it was. And after a while it just started to become stupid. The conclusion to all this really was: Sid’s way - Sid Vicious’ way. For me it was

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over when the Sex Pistols split up. If you want to sum it up and try and sort it all out: it was Sid’s way. And who wants to be there? Not me.” Sid’s way was one of propulsive self-destruction: he very instantly became the iconic face of punk in the UK. His musical incompetence was irrelevant; he had the look and the attitude McLaren’s ideal incarnate - and a fury that could only end in kamikaze. Vicious burned out as soon as the fire started, and some may say he took it with him. McLaren sees it a little differently. “The Sex Pistols,” he reflects, “were, it is true to say, just puppets for our - my gang of disenfranchised ex-art students in search of ideals - own destructive but creative terrorism. We were simply hell-bent on making spontaneous revolution. Our humour was deadly. No one - not even the Sex Pistols - could stop us from tearing the status quo, its power, its religions, its values, apart.” He goes on: “Punk was the cry of blue murder by a pre-pubescent child. That child was printed on the first Sex Pistols T-shirt. I found him in a book of nude ten-to-twelve year olds. He was smoking a cigarette. That was my image of Punk, and so, by appropriation, my invention, my art.”

It’s a bold statement that some people disagree with. “He co-opted it,” says Beth Murphy of Ohio’s noise-punk band Times New Viking. “And I admire him for co-opting it. But after a while it became so commercialised.” Drummer Adam Elliott chimes in on the scepticism: “The whole nihilistic concept just didn’t work; it didn’t really pan out the way he thought it would.” But at least McLaren’s got a clear-cut conviction - avaricious as it may be. Nowadays, everybody (including your little brother) is so eager to claim the rights of punk - or at least the knowledge of its origins - that the finger-pointing, paralleldrawing, record-scavenging, vision-narrowing, and genre-shoe-horning (proto-punk) severely tangle punk rock’s embryonic history. The one thing most of us can agree on is that a lot of it started in America. “I think the idea of punk pretty much took root in New York,” says TNV’s Murphy, “and it was then crafted by bands like Television and Pere Ubu. McLaren got a hold of it and said ‘Ooo, we should do this…sounds like it has some money in it.’ I mean, he created a movement, but I don’t know, it was very managed, whereas in America I think it was more honest and down-home.”

The ‘forefathers of punk,’ so to speak, can be traced within an overwhelmingly wide array of styles, backgrounds and generations (from los Saicos in South America to the Saints in Australia to, say, Marcel Duchamp [1]) but the most commonly cited - the Stooges, the Modern Lovers, MC5, the New York Dolls, Patti Smith, the Heartbreakers, Television - were all from the States. As soon as the CBGB [2] club scene kicked off with bands like Ramones and the Dead Boys, the underground phenomenon started coming to life. But it’s difficult to say how many of these bands directly influenced the British uproar that followed. “Television was just a name you read in the newspapers,” says Howard Devoto. “You read up on Suicide, you read up on Television, and at the time they were just names, because there were no records available, and these groups were never big enough to come over and play in Britain. So yeah I had no idea what they sounded like. The Stooges, though, yes, with some difficulty you could get a hold of the Stooges records.” You can never know who heard what, of course. However, the one thing few people can deny (and if you do, we might need to have a talk) is the influence of the Velvet Underground. They took a stab at everything - pop, rock, art, sex - and spun it on its head. The Velvets, amateurish in their technique, marginal in their lyrics, brutally honest in their approach, represented a massive challenge to everyone’s perception of what contemporary music could be. ➠

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Howard DEvoto malcom mclaren at “The Butterfly Ball” at the notorious Area club in New York celebrating Malcolm McLaren’s second solo album, FANS. “It was the first club event in history that played opera all night long” no age before their recent glasgow gig JOhn lewis times new viking freezing on a glasgow roof top JOhn lewis Customized ghetto-blaster by Malcolm McLaren turned into a “Duck Rocker” “The idea was to make the tape machine look like an animal running wild. That is why it has casters, so you can take it for a walk. We made five and gave them away as prizes across the planet wherever we were promoting the record at the time.”

“Andy Warhol was catholic in his attitude and cultural savvy,” says McLaren, concerning his attributed association with the pop artist. “I am not. But on the surface, we both created artist factories that sent out a style, an aesthetic, a way of looking at the world.” He’s of course referring to Warhol’s Factory and McLaren’s Sex shop the old US vs. UK ordeal that punk aficionados love to squabble over. Let’s just say they were both quite different. In America, everyone inspired by the Velvet Underground contributed to a protracted, eclectic, and relatively regional assortment of early punk rock, though it was never a cohesive movement. In Britain, McLaren brought it to a younger grasp, and after the first stroke the whole damn thing exploded prematurely into a commercial sensation. By 1978, McLaren’s ‘spontaneous revolution’ got considerably less spontaneous. “Quite a lot of people started doing it,” comments Devoto on the time he split from the Buzzcocks, “and everyone was getting so much more doctrinaire about it.” The part-time punks started doing the pogo and the rich kids started ripping up their brand new T-shirts. Things were becoming overridingly fashionable and formulaic, and if punk rock is about saying no, there were many who were saying no to punk rock itself. “Its strength, to me, was also its weakness,” continues Devoto. “Stylistically it was very defined; there were pretty rigid rules about what new material should be about, and that’s okay for a while, but then…I wanted something else, something more, you see.” After a while, three-chord aggro runs its course. Post-punk bands like Magazine, Wire, and Mission of Burma took the formula and twisted it into a whole different form of expression. Image became subordinate, and a naked sincerity harkened back to punk’s earliest incarnations. Thirty odd years later, this is the sort of reaction that’s resonating the most. “We never really got into the Sex Pistols,” says Randy Randall of Los Angeles-based noise-pop duo No Age. “We relate more to bands like Black Flag and The Minutemen, when punk became a really eclectic, strange sort of…expression, you know, freedom of expression is

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really what punk represents. We try to break it down to a sense of honesty.” The spirit of bare-faced hollering seems to be surfacing more and more these days. “If punk’s making some sort of comeback,” says TNV’s Adam Elliott, “then it’s doing so in the right way - with the idea that anything that happens, goes, and you’re not too worried about your image, or whether people will like it, you just do it.” And many kids are doing it. Those embracing some remnant of the punk aesthetic cleverly enough to absolve themselves from second-hand banality - Thee Oh Sees, Parts and Labor, Times New Viking, Sic Alps, Titus Andronicus, No Age, Tyvke, the Vivian Girls, to name a few - are doing so with a very pungent and overarching degree of rawness. For the most part, it’s not just Brooklyn hype. Music is deliberately being torn to pieces. “I think what’s happening in America right now,” says Elliot, “is a direct or indirect reaction to Bush being in office for eight years. It’s just like ‘the world’s fucked up, let’s get up and do something else’. If you think of old punk bands like Television or The Stooges - they weren’t being overtly political - but they observed how politics existed, and they were responding to it; they weren’t trying to necessarily change it, they were simply expressing themselves in response to the way politics functioned.” Likewise, the modern lo-fi current isn’t necessarily inflamed with politics, and there are no cries of anarchy. “We grew up in the suburbs,” says Randy Randall, “and we reacted to what we saw and made music because it felt like the right thing to do at the time.” It’s the sort of action/reaction tug-of-war that punk has always manifested itself as - a stimulus against your surroundings. The urge is circumstantial in nature, and that’s why punk is never the same thing twice - whether you’re Iggy in New York or Sid Vicious in London. Or anyone, anywhere. The Dadaists were punk; the French Expressionists were punk; the Beats were punk. The only thing that vaguely unifies all these figures is a certain indefinable inertia - a raw, confrontational, brutish energy seized by those willing to seize it. It has always been around, and it will probably never die. So, really, what is punk? You won’t find the answer in print. Where next: Magazine play Carling Academy, Glasgow on 16 Feb 2009. Stay Awake by Times New Viking is out now via Matador. Nouns by No Age is out now via Sub Pop. Footnote: [1] French artist and leading figure of the Dada movement, which condoned subversion, anarchy, and provocation. His most famous stunt was his submission of Fountain, a urinal, to the Society of Independent Artists exhibit in 1917. [2] CBGB was a club founded in Manhattan in 1973. Central to New York’s underground scene, it became the local venue for many punk-influenced bands, including the Ramones, Misfits,Television, the Patti Smith Group, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Fleshtones, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Blondie, and Talking Heads.

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In these financially dubious days where loyalty is worth less than the Pound, Meursault's devotion to Edinburgh is admirable. Billy Hamilton catches up with frontman Neil Pennycook to uncover what it is that keeps his band under the watch of Auld Reekie In these cold, recession-baiting days, loyalty gets you zip - and in the murky world of the music industry it gets you even less. Sure, your band’s established a devoted following and put on a few gigs in the local boozer; you’re even quoted as never, ever wanting to leave Scotland’s blustery shores. But when push comes to shove and you’re staring face first into the abyss – otherwise known as the 12.30 to King’s Cross – can you really resist the lure of the all-consuming A&R machine? Meursault founder Neil Pennycook thinks he can... “I know nothing about how PR companies work but my impression is that you’re better off being rooted and having a loyal fanbase,” says the shaven-haired 27-year old as he chats about his band’s future in Auld Reekie. “The idea is that the momentum we’ve built up in Edinburgh will carry us and bring us to people as naturally as possible without being forceful and cramming it down anyone’s throat. We don’t have a super-duper A&R team behind us - we’d rather success came to us.” The difference between Neil and other prize-eyeing musos blurting out similar mission statements is this: he practises what he preaches. He’s front-

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man of one of the country’s most promising new bands - a group who in the wondrously evocative Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues have created one of Scotland’s records of the year - but he’s also a co-conspirator in the Edinburgh-based music collective Bear Scotland Presents. “Bear Scotland Presents is just an umbrella name for ourselves and others in and around Edinburgh making music,” explains Neil as he sips his Sunday ale. “It’s a group of local bands like us, Les Enfant Bastard, Withered Hand, Dead Boy Robotics and The Foundling Wheel making music together. And if you come and see a Meursault show and buy a record you’ll see the little ‘Bear Scotland Presents...’ logo and hopefully look it up and go and see other bands through that. It seems like a nice idea and for a city like Edinburgh, where there’s not been much of a scene until now, it can only be a good thing.” As anyone whose witnessed the band live will testify, Meursault and their soiree of synth-scratched folk trinkets – crafted by an eclectic blend of instrumentation that includes banjo, accordion, ukulele and cajon drums - are at the forefront of this sonic rejuvenation.

With the nation’s earlobes slowly unpeeling to the quartet’s heart-melting “ukeleletronica”, does Neil have any long-term game plan for gold-plated success, other than to set it in motion from his doorstep? “This is the one thing I’m confident with and feel I’m pretty good at, so to be able to live and feed myself would be great,” he states with assur-

ance before laughing: “Christ, I don’t fool myself into thinking I’m going to be some Bono-sized rock star. [Pauses] Honestly.” Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues is released on 1 Dec via Song, By Toad. Meursault play Gimme Shelter at The Caves, Edinburgh on 29 Nov.

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“I’m sitting in my truck in the car park of the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.” Symbols of Americanism don’t normally manifest themselves as boldly as that. “It’s pretty intense,” admits Chris Walla, lead guitarist and producer for Washington state indie-pop stalwarts Death Cab For Cutie. But partisan symbolism isn’t something he’s too comfortable with right now. “It’s a troubling and complicating time to be a progressive American,” he sighs, his resigned tone speaking volumes. Over a lifespan of seven albums, Death Cab For Cutie have carved themselves an educated and attractive niche; one filled with irresistible melodies and impressively literate song writing. Transatlanticism, Plans and most recent offering Narrow Stairs are a catalogue of safe but sound twee-tinged tunefulness, but not some of the hardest hitting records put to press. Yet despite being affable and polite throughout, Walla’s conversation is at odds with the niceties of his band. To go with his ear for a sugar-coated melody comes a keen eye for politics, bulging at the socket and baying for reform. “A John McCain presidency runs the risk of being potentially worse than the last couple of years of Bush’s reign have been,” he states matter-of-factly. “He is so angry and so committed to the destruction of Iran. In the same way that George W really had it out for Iraq in 2003, I think McCain has got it out for Iran and I don’t think there is any way around this.” Having appeared on the Vote For Change Tour in 2004 in support of John Kerry alongside

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more illustrious politico-musicians Springsteen and Stipe, Walla’s fear of another Republican tenure in the West Wing is hardly surprising. But his viewpoint is certainly not blinkered. Speaking to The Skinny around the time of the Democratic Primaries in June of this year, his frustration with former prospective candidate Hillary Clinton is almost as impassioned as his fiery mistrust of McCain. “It’s mathematically impossible for Clinton to win the nomination for the Democratic Primary in any conventional sense and yet she is continuing to run. She’s started to run her campaign the way Bush has run his whole presidency; by ignoring the facts; by operating as though everything’s great and by hammering away on her opponent relentlessly. It’s so hideous and tiring. There was so much excitement at the beginning of this primary season. Everybody was energised in a way that I haven’t known in my lifetime and that excitement is quickly waning.” With retrospect we can now see that Mrs Clinton has fallen into the party line, tail between her legs. The energy Walla had feared was lost has been recaptured in the form of Barack Obama’s trailblazing campaign of glitz and glamour as he prepares to lead the Democrats into what promises to be a pivotal, if bitter and tense final stretch. With both sides picking at the issues of credit crunch, Bin Laden and global warming like vultures, trying desperately to endear themselves to the electorate, it’s easy to forget, Walla says, that thousands of miles away there’s a real war going on, one not based wholly on rhetoric.

“We’ve got 130,000 troops overseas and the war doesn’t make headlines in the States. You can go 3 or 4 days and lift any newspaper anywhere in the country and not see a front page story about Iraq or Afghanistan. The reason? Well in marketing terms, it doesn’t react well with the public at large. Nobody is really that interested. People are running the news industry as though it were the entertainment industry. It’s so sad because so many kids are overseas fighting for something, but it’s so unclear as to what they’re fighting for. Clearly they’re incredibly brave patriotic kids. But what the hell are we doing?” Walla seems unafraid of putting anyone’s nose out of joint, politically at least. And whilst it may be fashionable for musicians to take a pop at Congressmen, it should be noted that since they first came to prominence around the turn of the century, Death Cab have always been fiercely independent. Signing to Atlantic Records in 2004 was viewed as a move that could have alienated fans who’d been with the band since the outset. So much so, in fact, that it prompted front man Ben Gibbard to issue a statement to reassure them. “The only thing that will change,” he promised, “is that next to the picture of Barsuk (the band’s longtime home before the move) holding a “7”, there will be the letter “A” on both the spine and back of our upcoming albums.” According to Walla, though, the transition was not as painless as they might have expected.

That record felt like making a record for a major label. It felt big. It felt important. It felt like something critical was about to happen and there was really this sense of anticipation and anxiety about it and I think we played that down at the time. We didn’t really recognise what it was and what it felt like.” Despite Plans being released to critical acclaim, Walla thinks it is the sound of Death Cab trying too hard to be Death Cab. The “coming to terms with it,” as he puts it, took place after the record. After a three year hiatus, in which both he and Gibbard took their solo material on the road, the band reconvened, more settled and comfortable with their status as a major label act. From Walla’s perspective, the results (this year’s Narrow Stairs) are a better representation of what the band are all about. “Making this record felt so much more like making a Death Cab record. We did it in places that are familiar to us. It was just so much more comfortable than the last record. I feel like we have a confidence about us now that I don’t know that we’ve ever had before. I don’t think its cockiness and I don’t think it’s particularly brash. I just think it’s… well, I think that for the first time, we completely know what we’re doing.” Death Cab For Cutie play the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh on 14 Nov with Frightened Rabbit as support. Narrow Stairs is out now via Atlantic Records

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Death Cab are Voting: Change

The USA is in its biggest economic crisis in years. Hurricanes are literally tearing the country's infrastructure apart. The upcoming election is the most pivotal in years. Oh, and there's a war going on? Finbarr Bermingham finds Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla with a head full of steam

The Dälek of of Q-Tip Enlightenment Can He Kick It?

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On 3 November, hip-hop legend Q-Tip (also known as Kamaal the Abstract and Jonathan Davis) releases his first album proper in nine years, The Renaissance. To refresh your memory of the genius, gillian watson runs down five of his finest moments on wax.

Many players, labels, fads and facets have come and gone since Dälek came to play with rugged beats and dystopian rhymes ten years ago. Will Brooks tells Dave Kerr exactly why they’ve survived. From Massive Attack to Mastodon, Dälek (no, no – it’s pronounced ‘Die-a-lek’, Dr Who lovers) have shared the stage with too many unusual suspects to mention in one sentence. The question shouldn’t be who, it’s why. What unifying properties do this Brooklyn duo possess to attract fans from such disparate pockets of the musical spectrum? Known for their jazzy and abrasive industrial sampling aesthetic, they produce engaging hip-hop that leaves Lil’ Wayne looking like some gun-toting kid who slavers shite about lollipops into a vocoder. Here, their MC explains why theirs is no sound for the faint of heart. First things first, how do you feel about everybody mispronouncing your name?

1. Can I Kick It? (A Tribe Called Quest) This Walk On The Wild Side-sampling cut, taken from the 1990 debut People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, provides a blueprint for the NY hip-hop outfit’s sound, honed over five albums until their split in 1998. Tip and schoolfriend Phife swap verses over a shuffling drum beat and that loping bassline, and as always it’s Davis’s easy bravado that stands out. When he asks “Can I kick it?”, he doesn’t sound like there’s any doubt in his mind. 2. What? (A Tribe Called Quest) The Tribe drew huge critical acclaim for the minimalist jazz-funk stylings on 1991’s The Low End Theory. On this crunchy workout, Tip demonstrates his verbal dexterity with an endless round of questions. “What’s an MC if he doesn’t have stamina?”, indeed. 3. A Rollerskating Jam Named “Saturdays” (De La Soul feat.Q-Tip) Although Q-Tip featured on many De La Soul tracks (first coming to recognition with his cameo on Buddy, the innuendo-fest bringing up the rear on 3 Feet High and Rising), this is the one to hear. Tip beats De La’s own Pos and Trugoy - no mean feat - at their own abstract game as he effortlessly rides Maseo’s expert scratching. 4. Get It Together (Beastie Boys feat. Q-Tip) The Abstract swings by the studio as New York’s snotty frat-rappers-turned-sociallyconscious-MCs record Ill Communication, freestyles a few verses over a Moog loop while under the influence, and almost single-handedly makes it one of the record’s standouts, coining the album’s title while he’s at it. 5. Breathe and Stop vs. Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough (Q-Tip vs. Michael Jackson) An inspired mash-up. Tip’s spitting is lent extra intensity by the swooping strings of this Jacko classic, which drop in and out with heartstopping unpredictability. The Renaissance is released on 3 Nov via Universal. www.myspace.com/qtip

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“I’m just happy that people are saying my name at all! I’m not a Dr Who fan, but we’ve always said we’ll take those fans too [laughs], I don’t give a fuck. The first time we went to England, every question people asked me would be about Dr Who. So now I know everything about that shit, and in all honesty I’ve never watched an episode.” Your songs aren’t the cheeriest and often deal in Orwellian nightmares that only offer brief moments of hope for respite; where do you take your inspiration from? “Honestly, I’ve always said that lyrically and musically it’s been more about expressing myself and it’s become just like self-therapy. I’m a big fan of historical works; I think there aren’t enough of us learning from history, which is why I think we find ourselves in the position that the world is in today. I like to try to be at least a small voice for people that haven’t been heard throughout history.” They’re also often pretty epic in their length and lyrical scope; does a certain level of perfectionism take over in the studio during the course of writing, or have you mastered the art of letting go? “I wouldn’t say we’re perfectionists, because I do consider it a gift to know when to let go of a composition. Unfortunately, a lot of my favourite bands don’t have that gift, ie My Bloody Valentine – we’re still waiting for that follow-up, which will hopefully come out now. There’s a danger in that, though, where if you try to perfect something it’ll never come out. I feel as though you can never write a perfect song, it’s just a matter of knowing when to move on to the next one.” Has your perspective on what you might achieve in music changed much since you started out? “You could say yes and no. I think part of the mystique is gone. For example, I never in my life thought we might do a show where Kool Herc is the one DJing that night. You realise that we’re all just people trying to make our livings and make our art. Within that paradigm there’s good people and there’s assholes. I think that once you see it like that it just becomes more a part of regular life. Then again, I could say that Kevin Martin [AKA The Bug] is a close friend of mine, but at the same time I’m in awe of the music that he makes. So there still is that mystique of it, on a day-to-day basis I hear people create unbelievable art, so I’m still very excited about music. The older I get, my pace may change a little and things that I used to be into I’m not into now, but overall I just feel very lucky and blessed to be involved in this as a career.”

How do you stay fresh after 10 years? Oh, and what happened to hip-hop? “I think the same thing that happens to every genre happened to hip-hop: it starts as a local underground movement, it catches on because it’s good, people embrace it, people make it into something that it’s never been before and at some point people will get tired of it and throw it away. And the people that love it will just keep doing it. It’s all a cycle. You could ask people that are into jazz what happened to jazz, or people into rock what happened to rock, same shit happens to everyone. As far as staying fresh after 10 years? I mean, honestly, I try to stay as true to myself as I can; I don’t expect to write the songs of an 18 year old right now, because I’m 33. I expect my music to reflect that. I think there should be a maturity to it; I think there should be a deeper understanding than there was when I was 18 or 22. Hopefully I can just keep growing, having people like Faust or the Melvins as role models has helped a lot because I see that they’ve carried on in the way they wanted to. They just keep making more innovative music, and they keep doing it over and over again. If I can apply that to my music I’d be a very happy man.” Was it ever your hope to take that idea to the next level and become leaders in your own right - creating a new template for other crews to follow? “That’s never been an intention and I think that all we’ve tried to do – at least in our minds – is stay true to the core of what hip-hop is. Not soni-

cally or record wise, but the mentality behind it, the whole DJ culture behind it, the digging through the crates idea - being into all different types of sounds and music – taking it all and making it into something brand new. That’s all we really have done. The philosophy isn’t brand new, it’s the same philosophy that Afrika Bambaataa had, that KRS has, that A Tribe Called Quest has. We’re just trying to carry it on, but our sound palette is different.” You’ve a new album due out in January. Can fans expect to hear some of that material debuted when you play Glasgow? Is initial crowd reaction important to you before releasing new music, or is the recordmaking process a bit more selfish? “It’s a lot more selfish, I don’t think we’ve done anything in our career because of what people liked or didn’t like, if that was the case we probably would’ve stopped writing records a long time ago because when we first started no one liked anything we did [laughs]. We definitely appreciate it when crowds are raised by what we do, but as artists, primarily you have to make music for yourself and I think people see that honesty in music and appreciate it themselves. This upcoming tour will primarily only be new material, so it’ll be nice to play new stuff.” Gutter Tactics is released on 27 Jan via Ipecac. Dälek play The Arches, Glasgow on 25 Nov. Support comes from Sileni and Destructo Swarmbots.

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Chris Duncan catches up with Slam DJs Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle who, To celebrate the tenth birthday, have created an exciting line-up for their next outing

November 28 marks the tenth birthday of Pressure, one of Scotland’s longest running club nights. After a decade of filling the Arches with all manner of noise the night shows no sign of slowing down and to celebrate, Slam DJs Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle have created an exciting line-up for their next outing. Boys Noize, Carl Craig, DJ Yoda, Damian Lazarus, Dusty Kid, Radio Slave, David Holmes and Jesse Rose are all set to make an appearance at the event which will run until the liver-crippling time of 5am. The Skinny caught up with Slam to discuss Pressure, Return to Mono and all things Soma related. Did you ever think Pressure would last this long? We had been doing Fridays in the smaller front room of the Arches every week for six years as ‘Slam at the Arches’. They never had an alcohol licence in the back before and we had the idea of doing a night where we could have two rooms open and cater for our tastes in house music as well as techno. It was a great incentive to move to the bigger monthly night, the venue is so versatile that we were able to do busy nights with 900 or 2000 people depending on the time of year and the line-up. After ten years at the reins of Pressure, is there anything you would do differently? We wouldn’t change it, no way. We’ve always just booked DJs we liked and tried to maintain the balance between big names with the new and varied talent, experimenting where possible. So

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you have guys like Marco Passarani, Jesse Rose, Radio Slave, Paco Osuna or Len Faki alongside headliners like Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin or Laurent Garnier. It’s been nice to be able to put on Ricardo Villalobos one month then Felix da Housecat and Vitalic the next without the crowd being too snobby about it. A lot of these guys go around the world and Glasgow is up there with their best gigs of the year thanks to the crowd. The night’s been strong all the way through the past ten years and the policy of mixing up the bigger names we like with more experimental or up and coming acts works. We’ve also had the same light and sound guys working at Pressure the whole ten years too, we have a great set up in the Arches for Pressure.

scope to get bigger names in that might not play the Arches. But the kind of guys that appear at major dance festivals these days have played Pressure. Acts like Underworld and the Chemical Brothers have played, in fact Tom and Ed appeared at the very first Pressure. Underworld and Daft Punk both closed two of our ‘Slam at the Arches’ nights before Pressure began. We are even more open minded booking the Slam Tent than we are in the Arches, this year we had Aphex Twin at one end of the spectrum and Justice and Erol Alkan at the other.

and over four years old. Although we haven’t celebrated any birthdays for this, what with Pressure and Soma and the Slam Tent we already have more birthdays than the Queen. At the Sub Club we play more house and deeper stuff, music we can play in the early sets at Pressure but not towards the end of a night in the Arches when things go up a gear and we play more techno. Also, we only ever have one guest at Return to Mono and it’s quite often a live set, so we get to play for longer. It’s a more back to basics night for us and we love it.

How did the creation of Soma come about? What motivated you both to create your own label?

What does the future hold for Slam, Soma and Pressure?

Which nights at Pressure stand out in particular?

We wanted to put some records out without dealing with any of the majors. There weren’t any indies at the time and we had been brought up through punk with the DIY ethic firmly instilled, so it seemed the natural progression. We had been doing the acid house club nights - a few big all nighters and a few away gigs at the Hacienda - so we used our small network of contacts and our common sense to press and sell 1000 12 inches, and the rest is history.

Too many to mention! Laurent Garnier had a saxophone player on stage with him one night and his face when playing The Man With The Red Face is a great memory. He went bright red but it he was also ecstatic and humbled by the audience reaction. Other nights that stand out include Vitalic playing La Rock live for the first time and the crowd reaction when we played Azure at our last birthday. Do you find that hosting the Slam tent at T in the Park allows you to experiment with different line-ups that you perhaps couldn’t do at Pressure? Certainly we don’t just book Pressure type acts and DJs for the Slam Tent: obviously there is

How does Pressure differ to Return to Mono? We had ten years out of the Sub Club but it was always one of our spiritual homes, we cut our teeth there and even before we were DJs we partied there. When our mates ended up owning the place it was only a matter of time before we did something so now Return to Mono is monthly

We are making new music, working with new artists and long term associates of Soma. Selling music is hard with everything a click away for free but we are trying new things all the time and working as hard as ever. We just started a new label called Paragraph, the first single City Destroyer is on Beatport (an online music download site specialising in dance music), the Soma site and Rub a Dub are distributing the vinyl worldwide for us. It’s going to be all Slam stuff but more the kind of music we make to play in our live and DJ sets and more experimental than the music we release as Slam on Soma. For Pressure there is a long list of people we are planning to bring next year, some who have rocked it before and as ever some new names, we don’t ever plan too far ahead though. Pressure, Arches, Glasgow, Nov 28, 10pm - 5am, www. www. slamevents.com www.myspace.com/slamofficial

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A Decade Under Pressure

Singles

The Dirty Dozen

By Nick Mitchell

And November’s single of the month goes to... Razorlight. Sorry, wrong envelope. I meant to pick up the one for 'Most nauseous, mock-sincere rock ballad of the month'. That one goes to them for Wire to Wire ( r, Out Now), Johnny Borrell’s latest rectum-dwelling soliloquy. Presumably the misspelling of Isle of Man band Loverman's debut single, Crucifiction ( rr, 17 Nov), is deliberate. At any rate, they're trying to be the new Bad Seeds but veer far too close to Jet-style rock-schlock for their aim to be taken seriously. Employing a similar low-wave distortion frequency, The Hold Steady do a much better job of keeping blue-collar rock’n’roll alive. Stay Positive ( rrr, Out Now) is a brazen, fists-in-the-air chant-a-long (insert other masculine rock clichés here). A very different proposition, Haunts open London’s Burning ( rr, 17 Nov) with a gothic, kitsch, Hammer Horror intro, then break into a much sunnier indie-pop chorus, which they alternate throughout the song. Interesting? Yes. Enough to sustain a career in the music industry? Perhaps not. With newcomers like Gavin Gordon, Alex Cornish and Rob St John, the Scottish singer/songwriter scene is blossoming, and now we can add another name: Brendan Campbell. On Burgers and Murders ( rrrr, Out Now) the

This month sees the return of Razorlight, the lesserspotted five-star rating, and practically everything in between. Nick Mitchell dons his headphones.

Glaswegian Campbell sings evocatively about a summer walk through his native Pollock, in all its dubious glories. In this respect it’s a bit reminiscent of the Paul Weller song Stanley Road, which brings me neatly onto the Modfather’s latest effort. The double A-side Sea Spray/22 Dreams ( rrr, 3 Nov)

reveals nothing new from him, but it's still good enough to warrant his eternal presence on the covers of the nation’s dad-rock magazines. I have so far managed to live my life in complete indifference to Tracy Chapman. And after a swift spin of Sing For You ( rr, 3 Nov) I'm happy to

remain undisturbed in this respect. Can Gabriella Cilmi, the just-turned-17

rr, 10 Nov) which, if there were electro calories, would be twice your recommended daily intake. The battle for single of the month comes down to two of the most hyped bands to break this year. Friendly Fires have put the funk firmly back into, er, punk-funk, their debut album a pulsating onslaught of slap bass and cowbell. Paris ( rrr, 10 Nov), though, is let down by a rare burst of Hallmark schmaltz: “And every night we’ll watch the stars / They’ll be out for us.” In truth there was never any contest. Late of the Pier couldn’t fail to win in

Aussie songstress, follow Chapman’s path to MOR success? If she keeps

this or any month with Bathroom Gurgle ( rrrrr, Out Now). Let me break

churning out Radio 2-ready songs like Sanctuary ( rr, 10 Nov) it’s quite likely.

down this extraordinary four-minute song: a long intro of Sparks-esque

Lykke Li, on the other hand, is the real deal. The Twilight Sad voted her single

electro; slow, stately stadium rock guitars crash in behind a soaring falsetto

of the month in their anarchic Dirty Dozen takeover in June, and Little Bit

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again; stadium rock again; falsetto soars off the scale; ends. Bands take

There really isn’t enough electro in this column. So Mr Beasley (not a man but a boy-girl duo) has attempted to right this wrong with Right As Rain

note: that’s how you win single of the month. www.myspace.com/lateofthepier

reviews Youthmovies

Misty's Big Adventure

Okkervil River

3 Nov, Blast First (petite)

17 Nov, SL Records/Grumpy Fun

3 Nov, Jagjaguwar

Polyp EP

The World Outside

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It seems that the career strategy for any serious new band these days is to maintain the momentum of the debut album with an EP six months later. And though Oxford experimentalists and mates-of-Foals Youthmovies would balk at terms like 'career strategy', that’s exactly what they’ve done. It will come as no surprise to fans of their March debut Good Nature that Polyp EP is no less oblique, multiform and downright difficult. The music runs the gamut from trumpet-led math rock to slick electro, underscoring Beefheartian levels of lyrical weirdness: “Lachrymose, lachrymose, how you have your grip, twisted like a Möbius strip.” If such lines don’t have you reaching for the dictionary (or the eject button) you're just the kind of intellectual Youthmovies are evidently targeting. Congratulations. [Nick Mitchell] www.myspace.com/youthmovies

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Lost Coastlines

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Oddball Birmingham octet Misty's Big Adventure introduce the concept of their fourth LP Television’s People on The World Outside, an eerie tour around the mind of the album's protagonist, a man who becomes dangerously dependent on TV. Lead singer Grandmaster Gareth’s doomy croon and brass instrumentation suggests variety shows gone wrong, while the skittering beat evokes dark paranoia. Misty's music is capable of reflecting the concepts behind their songs à la Parklife -era Blur, yet the lyrics lack the wit and insight of Damon Albarn’s. Moreover as TV is increasingly irrelevant in the face of the internet, the subject matter seems somewhat antiquated. [Gillian Watson]

On this first single from The Stand Ins, companion piece to 2007's critically acclaimed The Stage Names, Okkervil River's Will Sheff takes the role of beleaguered captain, pointing out the similarities between life on the road and life at sea. With the propulsive beat and wandering bassline that channels Lust for Life, the song perfectly evokes the giddiness and aimlessness of travel. Meanwhile, Sheff’s desperate yelp is a counterpoint to Jonathan Meiburg's resigned baritone. Meiburg recently left the band to concentrate on his pet project, Shearwater; this story of a man overboard renders Lost Coastlines' balanced tale of touring particularly poignant. [Gillian Watson]

Misty's Big Adventure play Barfly, Glasgow on 16 Nov.

Okkervil River play Òran Mór, Glasgow on 9 Nov

www.mistysbigadventure.com

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Gabby Young and Other Animals

Asobi Seksu

Revere

17 Nov, One Little Indian

3 Nov, Albino Recordings

17 Nov, Albino Recordings

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Me & Mary

Bear With Me EP

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The Escape Artist

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This, the debut EP from Gabby Young and Other Animals, is original if nothing else. The songs are instrumentally imaginative and thoughtfully arranged, amounting to a strange mixture of theatrical jazz, folk and pop-rock. Young’s classical training is evident in her range and ability to effectively utilise held notes and the occasional cheeky warble. Opener Snakebite is attention-grabbing but not as suited to Young’s vocal style, at points seeming to lack strength. The rest of the EP, however, is more coherently vocal-centred, yet not one-dimensional, with gentle folk-ballad Mole the stand out track, delicately emotional and dynamic. A promisingly mature sound for an artist so young, and with a barnet uncannily reminiscent of Hayley Williams (ask your little sister). [Lauren Mayberry]

Asobi Seksu demonstrate what would happen if the ghost of Bob Mould (were he actually dead) found its way back to Earth via the bodies of a more electronically-savvy, alternative pop duo. In this case they channel Sugar's fuzzed-up indie-rock into less than three minutes of racy, optimistic sparkle, the cloud-soft vocals of Yuki Chikudate standing in pleasant contrast to the buzzing guitar of the chorus. Me & Mary is the consummate single, checking all the requisite boxes - catchy, succinct, conventionally structured and quick to get going. Though ultimately a little on the disposable side, it's a modest triumph. [Chris Cusack]

With a full-length version of this single coming in at just over six minutes, Revere are theatrical to say the least. Drawing comparisons to Sigur Ros and encapsulating aspects of Arcade Fire, this track from the Londonbased collective is huge: slow-building to an orchestral burst and a powerfully melodic payoff. At points understated and a little post-rock, these elements are counter-weighted by sinister vocals and accompanying harmonies. This is a thoughtful, at times epic offering which leaves the impression that the only way to experience it properly would be to witness it live. [Lauren Mayberry]

www.myspace.com/gabbyyoung

www.asobiseksu.com

www.myspace.com/reverelondon

General Fiasco

Punch & the Apostles

Broken Records

10 Nov, Another Music = Another Kitchen

27 Oct, Luck Number 9

3 Nov, Distiller Records

Rebel Get By

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If feeling generous, General Fiasco might warrant the epithets “competent”, or perhaps “unpretentious”, but one listen to the vapid indie-bynumbers of Rebel Get By and the ruse would be up: for “competent” read “bland”, for “unpretentious” read “uninspired”. Their website proudly boasts of supporting “massive acts such as One Night Only, The Enemy and the Pigeon Detectives,” suggesting their limitations far more succinctly than this bored reviewer, aligning them with past wooden-spoon indie mediocrities like Mumm-Ra or Ripchord. Of course, they may yet win over the masses, but on this evidence 'General Fiasco’ is an apt two-word summary of their forgettable sound. [Chris Buckle] General Fiasco support One Night Only at ABC, Glasgow on 21 Oct

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I'm a Hobo/Can of Worms

November 08

'1930s influenced avant-garde ska-punk swing' is not a genre that one could say was in danger of over-saturating the market, a fact that certainly works in favour of Glasgow's Punch & the Apostles. The first track on their double-A side single, I’m a Hobo, seems intent on preaching the virtues of taking a homeless person home with you (for what purpose is never quite clear), while Can of Worms sees Paul Napier cheerily proclaim 'no more fucking around for me' to a veritable jazz explosion: it's fair to say that this is not a band characterised by shoe-gazing or self-mutilation to prove their authenticity. [Ewen Millar] Punch & The Apostles play The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh on 13 Nov, Stereo, Glasgow on 14 Nov and Doghouse, Dundee on 15 Nov. www.myspace.com/punchandtheapostles

Lies

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Kurt Cobain once stated that the only two places he would ever live would be Seattle or Edinburgh, a comment that aptly summed up a transatlantic love affair between many Scottish indie bands and their grunge cousins (Nirvana/Teenage Fan Club; Snow Patrol/Sebadoh; Biffy Clyro/anything with a lumberjack shirt). The latest Scottish band to epitomise this 'special relationship' is Broken Records, whose singer Jamie Sutherland offsets an ability to make his voice tremble with old-school generation-X teenage angst with a wry Scottish stoical twist. Sutherland manages the neat trick of being able to roar in a hoarse baritone and then switch into a windowshattering falsetto, whilst lush strings, a piano, and guitars hammer frantically away in the background. A great snapshot of a band on a rocket trajectory. [Ewen Millar]

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Parts & Labor Reveal New LP Is it a moog? Is it a keyboard? Or is it just a bloody bagpipe? Don't trouble yourself. B.J. Warshaw of popular Brooklyn instrument recylists Parts & Labor dissect their forthcoming album - comprised of literally hundreds of samples sent to the band by the public - track-by-track and especially for you.

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#1 Satellites This was one of the last songs Dan [Friel - keys / vocals] wrote for the record. We had been talking about starting some future record with a very long and slow build because a lot of Parts and Labor songs tend to come out guns blazing from the onset. One of the other things we were toying with is stretching things out, playing with open spaces more and having longer movements, so this was a really good choice to bring that idea in straight away.

#2 Nowhere’s Nigh I wrote the music to this last summer when I was up in Vermont for a friend’s party. We were up in the country at his parents’ house where they have this old family piano, I sat down and started playing those chords. I wrote the lyrics while we were on tour a few weeks later that same summer, so it’s to do with driving around the country, the energy crisis and the endless monotony of American exurbia – things seem a little worse when you spend as much time on the highway as we do.

#3 Mount Mysery Dan wrote the lyrics about Donald Rumsfeld who moved into a house that used to be a notorious slave plantation and apparently Frederick Douglass was horribly tortured there. Donald Rumsfeld moved in and lives there now. It used to be called Mount Misery. So it’s a song about torture.

#4 Little Ones Our keyboards often sound like bagpipes and people often think there are bagpipes on the record, but in this case there actually are! That’s another one I wrote up in Vermont, it has this sort of lilting country melody to it that was challenging to bring into the Parts and Labor sound so we just went for this driving krautrocky rhythm underneath, with what I think is a really folky and pretty melody.

#5 The Ceasing Now This is another departure for us, it’s one of the slowest, more ballad sounding songs I think we’ve ever put on a record, which is very fulfilling but also a little daunting. I feel like it’s the most emotionally exposed that I’ve ever been on a Parts and Labor record…I’m interested to see how people respond to it. Basically, it’s asong thinking about the excuses that we make to not

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change our lives for the better. I think it’s really easy to get caught in ruts and it takes a constant mind activity to be aware of when you’re in a bad, repetitive state. I know I’ve been in plenty, especially involving awful jobs.

#6 Wedding In A Wasteland This is one of the older songs on the record; Dan had that riff for a really long time. He wrote it two years - maybe even longer - ago. I think he basically intended this as the love song on the album in the midst of things feeling really apocalyptic and dire!

#7 Prefix Three This is another really old song, we had been rehearsing this for Mapmaker - our last record - and it never came together so we put it aside. I like it, especially for the electronic beats I programmed in at the beginning, stitched together via various samples. I like the dynamics of it, in the way that one minute it’s driving, and then it drops back down before this big anthemic chorus for the end.

#8 Solemn Show World Back when I was touring with a band called Shooting Fires last February, we were travelling around upstate New York and shit was going really badly. We had an amplifier catch fire, the fuel pump on the van died, the weather was really shitty and during that tour the guitarist – Matt Lynch – was responding to this flier he had seen hanging up in Brooklyn. The flier just said ‘What happened?’ and had a telephone number on it. So he was leaving messages on this number, just saying what happened and then later on we put out the call for audio submissions for the Parts and Labor record. One of the people who responded was this woman who sent us a link to her website, which is a collection of all the cell phone messages that she had collected via hanging up these fliers and we found a call Matt had made. The day he made that call is the day I wrote the lyrics for Solemn Show World. So his call was placed at the beginning of the song and everything wrapped around full circle in a really sweet way. Receivers is released on 3 Nov via Jagjaguwar. www.partsandlabor.net

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Albums Album of the month: Parts and Labor – Receivers 3 Nov, Jagjaguwar

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James Orr Complex

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid

24 Nov, Rock Action

3 Nov, Domino

Com Favo

NYC

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having a set-to with another over a piece of litter he dropped because “the world’s already a dirty place, we don’t need to make it any worse”, as he records a personal monologue from his cruising car during the 70s. Organs and miscellaneous ghostly sounds swell and drop in tandem with manic rhythms while eight soulful tunes are crafted by genius patchwork. Although their name makes no bones about their way of working, Parts & Labor’s dependency on recycled components has never become them more than in this epic moment. [Dave Kerr] www.myspace.com/partsandlabor

HMS Ginafore & King Creosote Love + Hate = Hate 17 Nov, Fence

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We may not compete with Brazil on the football pitch, but the Scottish-Brazilian musical alliance is one built on rather more equal terms, and as the TrocaBrahma concerts of recent years demonstrated, capable of fruitful collaboration. The somewhat tenuous link doesn’t end there though: we also have our own musical ex-pat, Christopher Mack aka James Orr Complex, living and recording in Sao Paulo, sending his music back to Glasgow to be packaged by Mogwai’s own Rock Action record label. Mack is simply a prodigy on acoustic guitar, and so the only other sounds to intervene on Com Favo are his unimposing voice and smatterings of Latin percussion. Far from being one-dimensional though, the impossibly intricate playing is otherworldly, beautiful and multilayered, while culture vultures will appreciate that Mack’s Brazilian experience infects his music, whether it’s the samba lullaby of Dear Green Blues or the thoroughly non-native chord shifts of Sharpie. [Nick Mitchell]

Already? The fourth collaboration between these two in just three years? If previous efforts seemed to be a case of Hebden subsuming his own instincts so as to appear in thrall to the genius that is Drummer Reid, here we are reminded that Four Tet still exists, and the whole world is still a musical instrument. According to the protagonists, this is an ode to a city where Reid was raised, and Hebden has visited in sporadic bursts. Reid, typically understated and relaxed in his surroundings with Hebden, as frenetic tourist, trying to cram as much in as possible. Opener Lyman Place is a case in point: a sample and distort laden gorefest, with Reid intuitively building the atmosphere as the mayhem ascends. Alas, despite the disparate approaches (including guitar samples) employed by Hebden are interesting as ever, the experience never quite manages to grip the soul. One for the sightseers. [Paul Mitchell]

Amazing how someone with a voice as stunning as HMS Ginafore could lack faith in their abilities. However, Ginafore - real name Jenny Gordon - is infamously reluctant to perform live despite collaborating with most of the Fence collective at some time or another. Better late than never though, as Ginafore has one of the loveliest female voices to come out of Scotland in recent years. Her songwriting also stands up well beside new tracks by Creosote, and musically it’s all held together by slick production that’s equal parts electro sheen and shimmering banjos and guitars - lending a sunny, dreamy vibe to what is pretty much the perfect partnership. But don’t expect any I Got You Babe moments - this is a joint offering of individual tracks from both artists rather than an all for one collaboration, despite the sexy shenanigans suggested by the 70s style cover art. [Milo McLaughlin]

www.myspace.com/thejamesorrcomplex

www.kieranhebdenandstevereid.com

www.fencerecords.com

Little Joy

Lords

Los Campesinos!

3 Nov, Rough Trade

3 Nov, Gringo

27 Oct, Wichita

Little Joy

Everyone Is People

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Surely nobody was thinking of That’s The Story Of My Life and After Hours when The Strokes and The Velvet Underground were being routinely compared back at the turn of the century. That’s pretty much what Strokes’ drummer Fabrizio Moretti’s new side-project Little Joy sounds like: cutely perky acoustic folk songs, with minimal arrangements and nursery school vocal melodies. Playing the Moe Tucker role here is Fab’s current beau Binki Shapiro, and her two tracks on lead include the standout Don’t Watch Me Dancing, which swells to a singalong climax with Fab and regular singer Rodrigo Amarante on backing. The vocal harmonies provide the best moments throughout - the chorus cooing over old school organ licks on No One’s Better Sake, the Western bar-room la-la-las on the elegiac With Strangers - but while Little Joy’s stories are more grown-up than I’m Sticking With You ever was, few are, in a manner of speaking, made out of glue. [Ally Brown]

Used unconventionally, guitars can make a lot of decidedly mental noises: squeals and drones invoking many a well-stroked chin and contemplative nod. Used conventionally however, guitars can make your head damnnear bob off your neck. Lords utilise this latter tactic as a way to our collective hearts. From somewhere in between Captian Beefheart and Queens of the Stone Age emanates this raucous but mature cacophany. Like Oxes, a lack of a bass guitar but no noticeable lack of boogie gives these guys a foot-up over the conventional. The axes sound like the late 60s without the music coming across as dated or irrelevant. Everyone is People is brilliantly paced, from the outright jam of Good Dog Bad Dog to the gutsy swing of Creatures and lethargic mood-setter The Boat Don’t Float. Nine very happening slices of blues-rock ingenuity it is then. Set your booty free. [Austin Tasseltine]

As the days shorten and thoughts turn to best of year lists, Los Campesinos! pose a problem by releasing We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed mere months after their wonderful debut. Comparisons are inevitable, and as an aesthetic refinement rather than a reinvention, album two is unlikely to challenge expectations - aside, perhaps, from future expectations of the acceptable work rate of less expedient bands. But for those already enamoured with the septet’s rapturous sound, it confirms a knack for melodies so loveable that you’ll want to cuddle your stereo, despite the bitter heartbreak of certain lyrics. Opener Ways to Make it Through the Wall is an adrenaline-charged rush of pop-hooks masking barbed wit (“I identify my star sign by asking which is least compatible with yours”), while the title track eases off the accelerator to reveal there’s so much more to the appeal of Los Campesinos! than enthused hyperactivity. [Chris Buckle]

www.myspace.com/littlejoymusic

Lords play Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, Glasgow on 25 Oct.

www.loscampesinos.com

Of Montreal

Optimo

3 Nov, Polyvinyl

3 Nov, Domino

Skeletal Lamping

Sleepwalk

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If you’re looking for a sonic documentation of schizophrenia (outside of Wesley Willis, RIP), you need look no further than Skeletal Lamping. In the middle of every electropop outburst could lurk an acoustic dirge, a completely different electropop outburst, or Kevin Barnes commenting on the esoteric nature of his lyrics. The core of the LP is a libidinous answer to 2007’s Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, where the troupe of misfits opt to throw the songwriting rulebook out the window, cutting up and interspersing snippets of sultry songs that engage listeners on cerebral, emotional and sexual levels. Opinions may be split over whether this approach borders on pretentious (possibly reinforced given the available formats of the album include CD, vinyl, badges and...lamp) but the band have created an artistic and ambitious pop record here – diffused yet cohesive and credible, and among the best of the year. [Jason Morton] To find out more about the ‘exceptional objects’ - which include a free digital download of the album - visit Of Montreal’s website or www.polyvinylrecords.com.

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November 08

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Don’t make the mistake of putting Optimo’s new mix CD on for a gym visit or before a night out - it’ll slow your treadmill to a halt or stunt the momentum of that party mood. Sleepwalk is much more suited to headphone listening, and its lush sound can be quite beautiful: from the opening sounds of a beachside tide; through obscure German ambient pioneers of the 70s; to a mesmerizing Arthur Russel cello and congo dream. The second half steps up a gear, reinforcing Optimo’s famed eclecticism by moving between Duke Ellington, Future Pilot AKA and Lee Hazelwood in just a few minutes. But while this multifarious approach is ever-impressive, it’s hard to pick out a thread for this second half other than: it’s mid-paced, mostly unfamiliar, and it doesn’t really go anywhere. Perhaps that’s why it’s called Sleepwalk - and the dreaming part, earlier, was more fun. [Ally Brown]

Occasionally, records come along that reflect perfectly the place from which they emerged. Adynamic duo Brightblack Morning Light are based in the New Mexican desert and appropriately, their music is mono-paced, self contained and unashamedly lethargic. It's as if they refuse to step up a gear for fear of burnout. Much like their eponymous debut album, though, Motion To Rejoin’s apathy to upping the tempo is what makes it so ultimately enjoyable; to get worked up about it would be missing the point. Instead, sit back, relax and let yourself become intoxicated by the languid blues, the bursts of gospel (Another Reclamation) and the warm, asphyxiating psychedelia (Hologram Buffalo) that converge on this utopian delta of Southern American sounds. None of these genres, though, emerge victorious from Motion To Rejoin : none can escape the hoover-like haze that consumes each one, fashioning a record of coagulated, comforting sonic valium. [Finbarr Bermingham]

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Essie Jain

Euros Childs

10 Nov, S.A.F Records

17 Nov, The Leaf Label

27 Oct, Wichita

Promises Promises

The Inbetween

Cheers Gone

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Testicle-hugging jeans? Check. Converse trainers? Check. Angular guitar riffs? Check. Punchy name? Check. Die! Die! Die! certainly know how to tick the appropriate boxes, but their sound is a little less punk in sound than in spirit. The Kiwi trio have more in common with Ian Mackaye than Mark E. Smith, and ultimately sound like snotty brats covering Fugazi but doing a damn fine job of it, even if their voices still haven't broken since their 2005 eponymous debut. If a band could collectively have 'little-man syndrome', then this lot would probably fit the bill, but such displaced anger is never a bad thing to channel when you're young, really angry, and want to shift a record or two. To that end they kick off a breakneck tour that sees opener Blinding seamlessly morph from Bleach-era Nirvana into latter day At The Drive-In, setting the tone for a powerful, bass-heavy album that punishes as much as it rewards. [Ewen Millar]

Originally from London (before she immersed herself in New York café-folk culture) Essie Jain garnered favourable comparisons with the likes of Joni Mitchell, Vashti Bunyen and Cat Power when her debut album We Made This Ourselves was released last spring. Although the comparisons aptly highlight the hushed quality of her more affecting moments, on the basis of second full-length The Inbetween they are also unduly flattering. Though blessed with a soulful voice capable of investing every sung syllable with sweet, fragile emotion, musically Jain too often seems content to settle for tired folk cliches rather than writing songs worthy of her vocal talents. The album title, Jain explains, refers to a metaphorical state of limbo “between two worlds - one behind, one in front” - an unfortunate summary of an album too in thrall to the tradition in which it is steeped to exhibit any strong identity of its own. [Chris Buckle]

Presumably sick of the comparisons of his previous band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci to the Super Furry Animals, Welsh crooner Euros Childs has quietly dropped the acoustic psychedelia that characterised his old outfit and instead opted for the sanctity and security of Nashville. With a band completely at home with both folksy bluegrass and steel guitar, Childs has recorded an album of rustic folk songs that conjure up images of small town Americana located in rural Wales - his own peculiar nasal singing style adding a touch of Ray Davies and Elvis Costello to some traditional country-style arrangements. Even the songs that hint at the darker underbelly of country music (Farm Hand Murder) are neutralised of any real malice by the warmth of the vocal delivery, and Childs' absolutely sparkles on the hymn-like Always Thinking of Her. Proving that folk is one of the most universal of genres, Euros Childs is doing his best to prove that Americans don't have a monopoly on twee. [Ewen Millar]

www.myspace.com/diediedienz

www.essiejain.com

www.myspace.com/euroschilds

Greg Weeks The Hive

3 Nov, Wichita

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Mirror Mirror

Tenebrous Liar

The Society For The Advancement Of Inflamatory Consciousness

Tenebrous Liar's Last Stand 27 Oct, TV Records

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Through his work with Philadelphia's Espers and various solo collaborations, Greg Weeks is often conveniently lumped in with Devendra Banhart and his raggle-taggle bunch of freak folk nomads. His third solo album, The Hive, certainly won't estrange him from that movement; however, Weeks' sauntering blend of baroque-tinged prog rock and cosmic folk suggests he draws just as heavily from the courts of King Crimson as he does from more conventional folksy types Pentangle and Fairport Convention. Weeks' songwriting spans the centuries: the hats of court minstrel and new-age hippy fit equally comfortably, united by a dominant array of keyed instruments and splashes of whistles and flutes. But it's his attempt at contemporariness that is the album's weakest point - a nauseating, slowed down take on Madonna's Borderline. Whilst not as captivating as his work with Espers, The Hive is an enjoyable album that shows the New Weird America front still has plenty to offer. [Finbarr Bermingham]

Eccentric stuff, this. Anyone remember Sparks? That sense of disbelief mixed with admiration they inspired? Wondering exactly what bizarre series of events and circumstances had hastened the creation of such people who had then birthed such sounds. Mirror Mirror also emerge from the crowd with similarly flamboyant aplomb. Slapping narrow genre labels on this kind of music is simply futile. There are huge splashes of 60s prog, including a sizeable dollop of Syd Barrett's influence. Likewise there are elements of cult behemoths Trans Am and even the faintest trace of Battles' flair for the absurd. It's a heady brew. Though not exactly blessed with stand-out singles, second track New Horizons is an adventurous bit of excellence. My Talisman is subdued but equally alluring, with one of the album's most memorable choruses. Ultimately there are more than enough moments of smirk-inducing bravery to keep this record interesting throughout. [Chris Cusack]

Alongside Everett True, Tenebrous Liar's lead singer Steve Gullick is widely acknowledged for his role in bringing underground American music to UK audiences in the early 1990s. We shouldn't be surprised, then, that his musical ventures are clandestine, grave and melancholic affairs. With his vocals deep in the mix of dystopian guitar hooks and solemn drumbeats, it's at times difficult to decipher what Gullick's singing about. But it's safe to say it's pretty, well, tenebrous. The band's second album, Last Stand, at times recalls the miserable post-punk of Joy Division and occasionally the lo-fi indie of Slint's brilliant Spiderland. Alongside the excellent instrumental jam Sour, Alight stands out as the album's highlight; the fuzzy undercurrent of a rising guitar eventually cedes to a coherent riff - one of the few moments of clarity on an album that seems to revel in confused and formless depression. One of the darkest albums of the year. [Finbar Bermingham]

www.gregweeks.net

www.myspace.com/mirror

www.tenebrous.tv

UpCdownC

Trost

Dead or American

10 Nov, Tap n' Tin

10 Nov, Bronzerat

3 Nov, Predestination

Embers

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Trust Me

Thaumaturgy

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Post-rock is becoming an increasingly difficult genre for bands - especially those with fundamentally traditional guitar/bass/drum line-ups – to carve out a niche for themselves within. This album sees UpCdownC carefully trying to avoid treading on the toes of a number of already established veterans. Though there is an inescapable sense of familiarity throughout, that is not an indictment of the quality. McDoomish in particular is a creeping, sinister beast that eventually erupts into the kind of riff-heavy thunder that Envy also do particularly well. Murmurs Parts 1 and 2 drift to the friendlier end of the spectrum, recalling The Appleseed Cast with blissful crescendos and carefully layered guitar lines creating ideal late autumn soundtracks. The accumulated frenzy of guitars at times crowds out the drums, which might have been captured slightly more powerfully in recording, but the considerable intelligence underlying the songwriting is always apparent. [Chris Cusack]

Annika Line Trost is half of German digi-punks Cobra Killer, going it alone for the second time with new album Trust Me. She is a strikingly beautiful Berliner, making the kind of music you might expect a strikingly beautiful Berliner to make, but her seductive electronica with a krautrock edge is far from welcoming. The cold glassiness of tracks like the Martini-ad jazzcool of Man on the Box or Cowboy’s whispered soul-meets-trip-hop vibe evoke the majesty of Portishead only fleetingly, more often resembling 90s lounge-bores Morcheeba faxed through passionless robotics. That said, in small doses the impassive tone manages to pass for detached nonchalance, The Scales and the Stone in particular resembling a lost 60s spy movie theme. But mostly it echoes the aimless dub-tronica of the Parisian DJ Colder - appropriately so, because while her aloof detachment probably works live, on record it’s the sound of reserved frostiness. [Chris Buckle]

www.myspace.com/upcdownc

www.myspace.com/trostcity

It's nothing more than a heinous coincidence that the introductory riff to Dead or American's second album should echo I Predict A Riot; they can't have taken much inspiration from anything recorded this side of 1994. And if you miss the cerebral punishment of incredible bands like Helmet (see Shibboleth) and the Jesus Lizard (I direct you to Ne Plus Ultra), you'll probably rejoice at the prospect. It's a given, then, that Thaumaturgy is no disposable collection of summertime lager lout anthems. Much like 2006's Ends, there's a haunting quality to the songs which is aesthetically complemented by the autumn months that the band choose to surface. Prone to wild mood swings, one minute A Border Crossing transports you to a still mountainside where a soft breeze blows in your face, the next you're mercilessly chased home through the woods by Potboiler's venom. This is their witching hour, and as they say themselves: "God forbid the seasons change." [Johnny Langlands] Dead or American play Captain's Rest, Glasgow on 1 Nov; Henry's Cellar Bar,

Y’all Is Fantasy Island No Ceremony

3 Nov, Wise Blood Industries

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AC/DC - Black Ice rrrr “Here it is!” says Adam Stafford on the wee postcard that arrived inside this DIY promo package, “two and a bit years in the making – No Ceremony.” He makes it sound as though Y’all Is Fantasy Island’s existence has been geared toward this very moment. But there's been little to zero thumb twiddling from day one, having released two other gorgeous records in as many years whilst garnering a respectable live reputation with numerous incarnations of his band. By now, YiFi’s potent mixture of Celtic Americana is sprawled out on the porch, moonshine in hand. No Ceremony finds considered rockers like Punk Rock Disco jostling with the punky urgency of Wreck on the Highway Boy and the folky, banjo-plucked majesty of Jack Montgomery for pride of place on an album schizophrenic in style but remarkably consistent in quality. I say that, jaw agape, because Stafford and co just scored the hat-trick. [Dave Kerr] Y'all is Fantasy Island play Captain's Rest, Glasgow on 3 Nov; This is Music at Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh on 14 Nov and Barfly, Glasgow on 27 Nov.

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Lit strikingly from beneath, a heavy-set man in a butcher's apron and pig mask lurches into the midst of the swaying audience and a sweaty path is cleaved through the mess of limbs. A mic cable traces his progress, intermittently vibrating like the accompanying bass-strings, drawn taut, knotted around another unsuspecting leg/wrist/throat. As your eyes follow this cable back to its origin a shape springs up from the stage floor amidst a crushing beatdown and throws itself, guitar first, at the front two rows of spectators. He collides with a man in a gas mask who only moments ago had the funnel of said apparatus pushed into the crotch of the still-screaming vocalist who now emerges like a rhino from trees and throws himself back onstage. The shapes cast on the wall resemble some titanic battle of Olympus, as captured on the side of a broken Greek artefact. DeSalvo take no prisoners. [Chris Cusack]

In person, Ladyhawk reflect many of the appealing idosyncracies of their sound on record. There's something faintly 60s and San Franciscan about the quartet, as well as a pervasive sense of unpretentious approachability. Performing to a disappointingly under-attended Sleazy's, they engage with the crowd via some playful jibes and goodnatured banter. Quite obviously a swell bunch of gents, the impression is one of humility and appreciation for those in attendance. Overcoming some early sound problems, the four Canadians treat Glasgow's lucky minority to some of the most well-crafted and unaffected rock music since Sebadoh's heyday. With only a modest amount of material lifted from recent masterpiece Shots, highlights include as-yet unreleased tracks Crows and Shots (ironically not on the aformentioned album). Both exemplify Ladyhawk's trademark sense of melody and rousing crescendos. Devoid of gimmicks, faux-attitude and an overt preoccupation with hair fashion, this is quite simply a very good gig of very good rock music. [Austin Tasseltine]

Mono, 28 Sep

Nice 'n' Sleazy, 26 Sep

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De Rosa

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Despite their gruff beards, burly physiques and trucker hats, Woodenbox (***) clearly know a good-time country pop tune when it rears its toothy face. A relatively meek looking saxophonist stage-left initially seems gimmicky but when forthcoming single Twisted Mile erupts into a double time hoedown, it seems Ali Downer and co know only too well what they’re doing.

Her diminutive form weaves awkwardly among her band like a newborn deer, but Jenny Lewis’s solo efforts away from Rilo Kiley have a bluesy, brassy solidity that bolster her on stage. Her doe-eyed innocence is undercut by her hard-edged lyrics, and the combination is irresistible; the audience at the Queen Margaret Union is enraptured. But the real star of this show is her voice: Lewis’s vocals are ethereally pragmatic. Her vibrato echoes effortlessly during the title track of her new album Acid Tongue, with her band standing in as back-up choir. She oscillates between stomping, Southern-style numbers like The Big Guns and heartwrenchingly gorgeous ballads, exemplified by a quiet duet of Love Hurts with band-mate and boyfriend Jonathan Rice. The crowd calls out encouragement which is always received with a demure smile and lowered eyes, and everything is done with such ‘who me?’ cuteness that Lewis could melt even the crustiest heart. [Marta Nelson]

John “Speedo” Reis' golden touch doesn't appear to have deserted him yet. Along with fellow ex-Hot Snakes Gar Wood and Jason Kournikos, he again sidesteps trends and looks to ascend the lofty peaks of cult esteem.

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www.myspace.com/thenightmarchers

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Kid Canaveral (***) prefer to dabble in some straight up indie pop-pomp and are all the better for it. Criminally bouncy bass riffs, coupled with some foreheadslapping, simple chant-fuelled choruses ensure they quickly leave there mark on tonight’s throng. Despite singer David MacGregor being at pains to ensure us that Teenage Fanclub Song is “not as derivative as it sounds,” the fey-pop of the Bellshill Boys looms large throughout. No bad thing and certainly nothing to get defensive about. For a band who take pride in being called “tortuously slow”, Eagleowl (****) stick out amongst such pop frivolities. In fact, a polite cough or a jangle of loose change at the bar could threaten to dislodge the hypnotic performance of the Edinburgh trio. Since we last caught up with them they’ve swapped the ukulele for an ornate accordian, but have traded in none of their appeal. Know By Now is a mesmerizing highlight among highlights but sadly there’s no Motherfucker for a rousing encore this time around.

QMU, 18 Oct

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Captain's Rest, 18 Oct

Night Marchers is more in keeping with the enthusiastic swagger of Speedo's RFTC days. The absence of long-term collaborator Rick Froberg means a little of the cynical edginess has gone: the hardcore elements replaced with occasional surf riffs and rockabilly twang more suited to Reis' genial manner. The raw energy and ear for a brilliant chord change remain however. The inescapably charming frontman whips the crowd up at every opportunity. Wood also grins throughout, clearly delighted to be back in the saddle. Playful audiencebating is well judged and, as sweat runs freely from Speedo's chin, one belting song after another helps this capacity audience forget that they are slowly baking to death.[Chris Cusack] john ‘speedo’ reis Andrew Greer

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A 12 o’clock start on a school night combined with many punters here only to see their mate’s band means a dwindling crowd for De Rosa (*****). It’s their loss then as the newly-expanded quintet give a fantastic performance, all the more surprising in that most of the material is new to these ears. Evelyn starts the ride with some familiarity and The Engineer also slips nicely into proceedings. However, it’s a new song about ‘feeling the jitters’, with a dirty big Spaghetti Western riff, that first makes De Rosa’s point: they’re not the same band they were. Later, a seemingly out of place disco stomper, possibly called Daylight judging from the chorus, hammers the message home completely. On this evidence De Rosa could teach Bloc Party a thing or two about getting indie kids to dance rather than pout. A complete lack of commercial success will probably ensure they never get the chance, but for those listening in, De Rosa could be worth a dozen of Glasvegas. [Darren Carle]

“We’re really interested in meeting some neds,” jest married front-couple David and Meredith Metcalf. “Yeah, we’ve watched them on youtube and stuff. We love them.” Oh, Bodies Of Water, if only you knew. Thankfully, our Los Angeles-grown visitors don’t have to find out, as the ned-free audience laughs along without harassing, slandering, or stabbing anyone. No, there’s enough excitement and extravagance to go around, and Bodies of Water are doing an excellent job of flooding the Captain's Rest with it. They're an entirely difficult breed to classify -somewhere above and beyond a gospel pop Danielson meets Arcade Fire, or The Mamas & Papas meshed with louder chants and darker undertones. It’s ambitious, whatever the hell it is, and it’s making everyone’s eyes in the room beam with wonder. Singer/organist Meredith Metcalf, sporting a tumbler’s black leotard, hops up and down, whirling and pelting her vocals above the cacophony of choirs. The set’s closer, These Are The Eyes, speeds up its chipper refrain and gets faster and faster - like a weird anxiety dream - until it ends, and everything goes back to normal. [Jorge Marticorena]

www.myspace.com/wearederosa

www.myspace.com/bodiesofwater

Punk poet John Cooper Clarke has the sniffles or man flu or is waiting on someone to pick up that chest of drawers he advertised in the yellow paper last week, so tonight there's an hour long gap between the support act that no-one watched and the latest perhaps heaviest - incarnation of The Fall to take the stage. Anticipation builds to fever pitch before Mark E. Smith reduces row after row of receding hairlines to a frenzy with his mere presence. The band are on terrifying form, particularly the rhythm section whose eyes are simultaneously locked on each other and their frontman, Smith, who cues changes with a drunken yelp or a song’s end with a cutting motion across his neck. He stumbles around the stage, lobs microphones into the bass drum, fiddles with knobs on amps and at one point shoves his wife out of the way so he can have an out of tune fumble on her keyboard during an extended version of Blindness. All the while he raves incoherently. 30 years on and not only are The Fall still unnervingly relevant, but one of the most exciting live propositions around. [Stephen Toman]

Captain's Rest, 3 Oct

Queen's Hall, 12 Oct

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Ballboy @ The Mill They seem to have been about forever, but November sees local indie favourites ballboy make their debut at The Mill with a much anticipated double header. Songwriter in chief Gordon McIntyre spoke to Finbarr Bermingham about recent developments in ballboy's world. Who are ballboy? As if you didn't know. Perennial indie favourites ballboy seem to have been about since The Skinny was in short shorts. Well, since 1999 anyway. We spoke to singer, songwriter and guitarist Gordon McIntyre upon the release of their new LP I Worked On The Ships and found him suitably pleased with himself. “I'm mostly over that initial rush of having written a set of songs that a number of people like. Mostly over, but not entirely!” The band's first album, A Guide For The Daylight Hours was released on SL Records in 2002. That the band find themselves putting out their latest effort on their own imprint, Pony Proof, is indicative of the DIY direction local Scottish music has taken of late. It's a move McIntyre and his band seem more than pleased with. “Pony Proof is the long term alternative. It's straightforward enough - if you want things done properly then do them yourself. It took us a while to learn that, but we did and we now we do.” Indie status secured! Perhaps key to their durability has been the relative fluidity of ballboy's line up. Says McIntyre: “The only change since we started putting out records has been Alexa (Morrison – keyboards) replacing Katie (Griffiths) and although any new band member means things change, I think Alexa has fitted in fairly seamlessly. She's a bit mouthier than Katie though and she's always trying to get us to save the world, but we cope with that okay.” Much of the band's earlier exposure can be attributed to a glowing endorsement from John Peel. “He was a huge help,” admits Gordon, “no John, no national exposure for us – no longevity. That's how I see it. And on top of it all - the fact that he liked our music on a personal level is something very precious to all of us.”

relatively seamless. “I'm becoming more of a hippie!” Gordon quips when quizzed on his musical influences. “I have become a lot more abstract in what influences the music over the last wee while. Environmental sounds, city sounds and the occasional thing that resonates with you. A word or the rhythm of a sentence are really feeding in to the things I am doing now and will do in the near future.” Home for ballboy is Edinburgh. (“Why would anyone live anywhere else?” begs Gordon, perhaps oblivious to the force nine winds now taking up residency in the capital.) However, he thinks ballboy have always fallen outside of any musical clique. “Glasgow has always had a much stronger musical community than Edinburgh - you can feel it when you are in the city. But fortunately for us our Glaswegian cousins have always been kind enough to allow us in despite us parading around and going commando in our fur coats.” Unsavoury imagery aside, McIntyre openly admires the likes of Zoey Van Goey and the Fence Collective. He would also like to assure us that he is “not just saying that because Johnny helped with the setting up of Pony Proof”.

What do they sound like and where do they fit in?

What are the band up to at the moment?

Their new album is, as mentioned in last month's Skinny, a ‘delicious long player’. The band's transition to Pony Proof has been

Now on album number five, this lot ain't too tricky to track down. I Worked On The Ships is now available on the aforementioned Pony

Proof imprint. Recorded in a cottage down in the Borders, it's their first independently released LP. The album is “quieter and a little more acoustic” than ballboy's previous work, but doesn't sacrifice the “full band sound”. In keeping with their new-found DIY ethic, McIntyre has taken complete ownership of the release, from recording and producing to distribution. By and large, he is pleased with the initial feedback, given the responsibility he assumed in undertaking the production. “I don't always like to explain the themes,” says McIntyre when pushed for some insight. He isn't being enigmatic, he assures us, more fearful that he may sound like he's “disappearing up his own arse!” The title of the album, though, is something he's more willing to discuss. “This gets a bit arty farty,” he warns us. “the album is supposed to sound (on some level) like a weathered old boat - musically, not lyrically. I had struggled to find a title to fit and one night during discussions about band things Nick (Reynolds - bass) said something like ‘we used to do that when I worked on the ships’ and it just connected with me and with the album. It was what I had been looking for and so I grabbed it with both hands.” As wily veterans, what would ballboy change about the Scottish music scene if they had a chance?

“I would wave a magic wand and have the same number and variety of good venues in Edinburgh as their are in Glasgow and I'd give every small town a dedicated 100-200 capacity gig space funded by the Arts Council.” Besides making music, which other interests do ballboy pursue? Gordon has co-written Midsummer [a play with songs] with the playwright David Greig. Midsummer opened in the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh last month. According to lastfm, Gordon likes listening to The Mountain Goats. The last great movie he saw was the new Batman (“even though Batman has a funny voice in it”) and the last great book he read was Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin. The last good contemporary one was We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Not only are the band content in making sweet music together, ballboy even enjoy each other's company! So much so, in fact, that Gordon's ideal dinner party guests are his three bandmates, Nick, Gary and Alexa. The band have just completed their “most enjoyable tour ever”, but they've still got enough gas left in the tank to play a double header at The Mill in November. I Worked On The Ships is out now via Pony Proof. www.ballboymusic.com

Sign up to The Mill’s website (www.themill-live.com) to enter for an opportunity to score tickets to their upcoming events. GLASGOW: 5 Nov: Ross Clarke & The Scarfs Go Missing/Gdansk

12 Nov: Das Contras/ Lou Hickey 19 Nov: Muddy Face/ballboy 26 Nov: Pooch/Swimmer One 3 Dec: Brother Louis Collective/Six People Away

EDINBURGH: 30 Oct: Ross Clarke & The Scarfs Go Missing/Callel 6 Nov: Smoked Glass/ Underbelly 13 Nov: Lou Hickey/Das Contras 20 Nov: ballboy/ Muddy Face 27 Nov: Swimmer One/ The Fire & I 4 Dec: Brother Louis Collective/Little Doses

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Highlights by Ted Maul

Controversy-courting, super-prolific lo-fi indie superstar Jay Reatard brings the ruckus to Glasgow ABC2 on 18 Nov

Live music Previews Ladytron TV on the Radio ABC, glasgow, 16 Nov

ABC, Glasgow, 26 Nov

If you could have levelled one accusation at TV on the Radio following their 2006 breakthrough record Return to Cookie Mountain it might have been a certain highbrow inaccessibility: every critic's favourite new band (us included), but dark diagnoses of a paranoia-addled society set to avant-garde jazz-rock does not a pop classic make. But will the five Skinny-rated follow-up Dear Science make them seem any less reactionary? Well, the angst inherent in Tunde Adebimpe’s unmistakable voice has evolved into aching euphoria, the squalling horns of the apocalypse have been replaced by muscular funk and handclaps, and the overall sense is of a band happy with their lot. So what better time to see these Brooklyn trailblazers than when they hit Glasgow this month? They may be winning new fans by the thousand, but they’re still the same artful, weird iconoclasts at heart (see the Golden Age video on YouTube for proof). [Nick Mitchell]

Ladytron’s last Scottish show saw the band battling not only the elements and a crowd subdued by drizzle at the Hydro Connect festival, but also a mid-afternoon slot that didn’t exactly play to the electro-pop quartet’s strengths. See, Ladytron are vampiric - sunlight doesn’t befit their moody beats and synths, it robs them of the seductive darkness that nestles in their four excellent albums of krautrock-echoing electronica. The weather’s unlikely to be any better when they return for shows in Glasgow and Aberdeen joined by the marvellously dreamy Asobi Seksu, but early winter sundown should suit their bewitching sound just fine. [Chris Buckle]

7pm, £13.50 www.tvontheradio.com

Okkervil River

Òran Mór, glasgow, 9 Nov Texan sextet Okkervil River get ready to fill up Glasgow’s Òran Mór in support of latest release The Stand Ins, the follow up to 2007‘s critically acclaimed The Stage Names. Frontman Will Sheff possesses a passion and perceptive gift for words which leaves one hard-pushed to find many indie rock lyricists to match him at this point in time. Known for thematic albums, intricate instrumentation and a lyrical depth and sincerity, it will be refreshing to finally experience the talent of this band as a whole. His many fans include Lou Reed, so prepare to hang onto Sheff’s every intelligent, poignant syllable. [Lauren Mayberry]

7pm, £13.50. Also playing Moshulu, Aberdeen on 28 Oct. www.ladytron.com

GZA / Genius

ABC, Glasgow, 12 Nov Glasgow - you'd best protect ya neck, because the Wu-Tang Clan's most potent lyrical swordsman - the GZA (aka The Genius) - is about to tear up the ABC with a dextrous assault of colourful wordplay. Over here for only a handful of dates, GZA will be placing his main focus on the legendary Liquid Swords album - to many, a benchmark in the varied canon of 90s hip-hop - but will most likely whip out almost every track affiliated with himself and the clan in some shape or form, including nuggets from the recently released Pro Tools. With the rest of the bill brimming with local and underground talent, from Underling to Skinnyman, this is a must for not only any fan of the Wu, but hip-hop in general. [Ryan Drever] 7pm, £18.50 www.myspace.com/gza

7pm, £11.50 www.myspace.com/okkervilriver

A Few of Jay Reatard's Favourite Things

Don Caballero

Stereo, glasgow, 12 Nov

Volcano [Andres Huertas]

Shellac set the bar high for November with a gig at Glasgow ABC on 2 Nov. What with Steve Albini seemingly on a mission to engineer at least one album by every single band in the world, Shellac only play live once in a blue moon, but when they do they don’t fucking mess about. Impossibly tight, impressively muscular and sporting a guitar sound that gives a whole new meaning to the word ‘lacerating’, you’d better hold on to your hats. The Voodoo Rooms will play host to infamous (if only for their superb moniker) psychedelic/noise/whatthefuck stalwarts Jackie-O Motherfucker on 4 Nov, with a subsequent gig going down in Glasgow at Captain’s Rest on 5 Nov. It would be absurd of me to try and describe the breadth of their sound here, but let it be said that this is a band who rarely make things easy for their audience. For those that make the effort there are great rewards to be found though, and with support from the superb Valet this promises to be a fascinating event. At first glance quirky pop princess Florence and the Machine would seem quite easy to dismiss: an overtly sexy image, a penchant for cover versions and a self-consciously ‘soulful’ voice do her no favours in this respect. Look past these baubles however and you’ll find something genuinely strange and interesting. For one thing, she has real charisma, and her songs are anything but run of the mill (see the Blue Velvet-tastic Kiss with a Fist for further evidence of this). A talented lass no doubt, and as far as female pop stars go, ruddy unorthodox to boot. Glasgow King Tut's 4 Nov, Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire 5 Nov. Energetic Chicago experimentalists Volcano! are tearing it up in Glasgow at The Arches (playroom) on 10 Nov and Aberdeen The Tunnels on 11 Nov. Mixing improvisation with soaring pop hooks and brutal

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percussion with delicate dreaminess, there is just no way you’d want to miss these gigs. Following on from the dazzling gorgeousness of 2006’s Beautiful Seizure album, 2008’s Paperwork is currently working its magic on the collective consciousness and this pair of gigs has the potential to knock Scotland for six. Once in a while a group appears that threatens to drag indie-rock kicking and screaming into strange and exciting new places. In 2008 Grammatics could well be that band. Unapologetically pretentious (their bio proudly proclaims they are ‘deluded with grandeur’), their compositions transcend genre boundaries to produce something magical and revelatory. King Tut's on 15 Nov sounds like a safe bet to us. Controversy-courting, super-prolific lo-fi indie superstar (and hyphen-magnet) Jay Reatard brings the ruckus to Glasgow ABC2 on 18 Nov. Every blogger this side of the Kingdom of Fife can’t seem to stop bleating about the dude. Something must be afoot - grab a piece of the crazy while it’s hot. So you checked out the man Reatard last night and you had your ass well and truly blasted, yeah? Nae bother, the Notwist are offering the perfect comedown trip at King Tut's on 19 Nov. Trippy, melancholy but strangely uplifting, this talented German posse mix guitars and electronics to sublime effect. Hey, these bruises seem to be healing already! Recently reformed instrumental collective Red Snapper round out another cracking month with gigs at Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire on 28 Nov and Glasgow Oran Mor on 29 Nov. Fusing psych, hip-hop, jazz and funk, these shows promise to provide an atmospheric setting for you to throw down slick moves to some deep grooves. Lush.

Despisers of the "math-rock" label Don Caballero return to Glasgow on 12 November, touring latest LP Punkgasm. Featuring vocals on five tracks (whoah - shock!), this record signals a potential new move for the everreconstituted band, with drummer Damon Che being the only original member still in place. If you were going to hang on to one component, though, you'd keep this guy. Known for a hard-hitting, flowing, extroverted style, Che produces rhythms that play an incredible lead instrumental role, not merely keeping time. A live performer renowned for erratic on-stage behaviour, panache and showmanship should be more than enough pull for this innovative Albini-recorded band. [Lauren Mayberry] 8pm, £8 www.myspace.com/doncaballeropgh

James Yorkston

Carmelite, Aberdeen, 27 Nov Since receiving a helping hand from John Peel back in 2001, James Yorkston has been busy crafting songs with the Athletes and lending his talents to the bands of U.N.P.O.C. and the Pictish Trail (the latter of whom will accompany Yorkston on the Glasgow date of this tour). The Fence Collective elder has become both ubiquitous in the Scottish folk scene and under-appreciated at once, his lyrical verve and gentle sound deserving attention from more than the diehard fanbase he has accrued over the years. And with new album When the Haar Rolls In earning high praise from all and sundry, now is an ideal time to envelop yourself in his subdued, whispered gospel. [Chris Buckle]

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We're not implying that there's any kind of clue in his name, just that prolific Tennessee garage punk Jay Reatard doesn't do complicated. Brevity is a rule he lives by not just for his songs, but for everything else it seems. We asked him to tell us which five things he can't be without on tour, and he responded thus. 1) Energy drinks - All flavours and sizes, at least 3 a day. The dumber the name the better! 2) Flying V's – ‘Cause nothing else is a real guitar. 3) White Converse All-Stars - I buy a new pair for every tour just to watch them turn black by the end. 4) A tiny pillow for the van - Steve does all the driving while I try and sleep the whole drive. 5) Baby wipes - Don't ask!

8pm, £10 Also playing Stereo, Glasgow on 29 Nov.

Jay Reatard plays ABC2, Glasgow on 18 Nov.

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Metal up your ass! by Austin Tasseltine

Potentially the gigging highlight of the month, and perhaps of the year, comes in the form of the astonishing Israeli trio Monotonix (10 Nov) at The Captain's Rest When you think about it, it’s really rather morbid that every November we all meet to cheer on a re-enactment of some dude being burned alive 400 years ago. The fact that we herd groups of children to this macabre spectacle is doubly confounding. Guy Fawkes, after all, echoed the sentiments of a number of our most prominent musicians: specifically, flipping the bird at “the system” and the importance of spectacle... oh, and let’s not forget his appreciation of the importance of pyrotechnics.

Dundee and Aberdeen. The flagging fortunes of The Balcony Bar in the former seems to have had a really detrimental effect on the well-being of the once great post-hardcore stronghold. One would have thought that the latter's proximity to Scandinavia might at least help keep their quota up, but maybe the choppy waters of the North Sea have claimed more Viking long-boats than usual.

Sadly, metal purists won't find much to get their teeth into this month, especially in Edinburgh where the only apparent signs of axe-wielding come in the form of the occasional tribute act. Volts AC/DC (14 Nov), Maiden Scotland (21 Nov) and Tobes of Hades (28 Nov) all appear at the Ark to pay tribute to their heroes. And yes, the latter IS a Rush cover act. Easy there, tiger!

Glasgow, on the other hand, is positively bathing in the bile of hard rock, kicking off with serial time signature abusers No Kilter, tearing it up at Barfly (1 Nov). Potentially the highlight of the month, and perhaps of the year, comes in the form of the astonishing Israeli trio Monotonix (10 Nov) at The Captain's Rest. As if this awesome threesome weren't enough, the line-up is completed by the brilliant and deranged DeSalvo and United Fruit. Attendance is almost obligatory. You can safely expect it to sell out fast, so arrive early.

Patronising indeed. Residents of Edinburgh might well consider writing a letter to someone in authority. What lies behind the recent drought? Same goes for

One week to the day later, These Arms Are Snakes make a welcome return, appearing at Stereo (17 Nov). These Botch offspring are supported by

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metallic post-rockers Russian Circles. Reputations precede them and expectations are high. If, however, you find yourself craving something a bit more righteous, Opeth can be spied on the same evening at the ABC. The Swedish quintet's collage of prog-metal, jazz and hard rock, not to mention long, curly hair and clenched fists, should quench those with a thirst for the grandiose. At the other end of the glamour spectrum, Greek grind-monsters Human Rejection smear abject misanthropy and hatred across the walls of the 13th Note (19 Nov). November ends with a quandary as French cult icons Papier Tigre thrash out their immense posthardcore riffage at The Captain's Rest (26 Nov), having recently conquered at All Tomorrow's Parties, whilst a newly reformed Far (those 90s pioneers of the “Emo” genre – before it became a by-word for whiny garbage) simultaneously hit the stage at King Tut's (26 Nov). It's a reunion many devotees of the late 90s Deftones/Will Haven/Far love-triangle will have been waiting quite some time for. Hopefully their material is ageing better than the genre they helped father.

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Clubs

The Re-invention of a Classic Venues are an often overlooked component of a city’s cultural life: Put simply, well-suited spaces tend to fill with the best stuff. For this reason we’re pleased to see the impressive Classic Grand continues its revival, albeit now under new management It has been over two years since Glasgow’s Classic Grand opened its doors to the public, hosting a week long series of free events to celebrate its arrival. After recently coming under new ownership the venue is looking to re-establish itself as a top location for gigs and club nights in the city. Classic Grand manger Luigi Aseni, booker Ally Gray and DJ Forbes Manson took ownership of the venue earlier this year. “We’ve always been blessed with good acts because the venue is in an excellent location,” says Luigi. “Previously we have had Adele, Grandmaster Flash, Hercules and Love Affair, Feeder, Goose and Hue and Cry. Quite a few aftershow parties are hosted here - one of the first events we had was the Babyshambles aftershow party and the New Order one followed that. The last ever Triptych chose us to host some of their events and Celtic Connections will be making an appearance in the venue next year.” Since its opening Classic Grand has been seen as an alternative to the Cathouse and the outof-town Soundhaus. Nights such as Decadence, Diversion and Hell mixed electro and rock in surroundings that proved popular. Barry Douglas is one of the venue’s main DJs after he left his residency at the Cathouse in September this year. Barry plays alongside Forbes most nights and the two have a long history together, dating back to a residency at Bamboo and the creation of the internet forum Alternative Nation. March this year saw the beginning of the splitlevel rock and punk hybrid that is Absolution and Damnation. Taking place on Fridays and Saturdays the nights specialise in all things punk, metal, industrial, hardcore and emo. “Our roots are very much in alternative rock, but we don’t want to be just a rock venue,” says Forbes.

“We’re constantly gearing the bands we book towards the nights we put on. We try and take the requests we get from regulars about the bands they want to see here and match them up with a local band to act as support. We have a lot of regulars and we’re trying to build a sense of community here. When people say what they do and don’t like about the club we listen, we’ve introduced birthday guest list and certain drinks based on the feedback we get.” As a venue we’re growing, definitely. On Tuesday nights we’ve introduced an open mic night and for our birthday celebrations we had a lot of guests performing - Shitdisco, Killer Kitsch and Shaun Ryder all DJed. Grandmaster Flash returned, which was a sell out night, and Dub Pistols made their debut here.” Ultimately, Classic Grand has its sights set on being one of the important music venues in Glasgow. “Ideally we want artists to consider us as a venue for their Glasgow dates in the same way that they think about King Tut’s just now. Currently I’d say we’re between The Garage and King Tut’s in terms of a live music venue.” Classic Grand certainly has diversity on its side. With future plans including Celtic Connections and a possible foray into the increasingly popular territory of burlesque (Classic Grand hosted the Club Noir New Year party in 2006), it certainly can’t be pigeonholed as simply a rock venue. “Classic Grand is making a name for itself, we’ve got the Presets appearing here later this year and we’re considering hosting some kind of art festival next year. We’ve got a passionate team working here and a unique venue. The whole place is very art-deco, it looks like something from the Titanic. It’s most impressive. I know we’re going to do very well.” [Chris Duncan] www.classicgrand.com

Euterke:

In Loving Memory An obituary for Euterke, the Canadian DJ and VJ who had links to the Scottish scene and was killed earlier this year

On 28 June, the Montreal community was rocked by the sudden death of Francois Dumouchel, known by the wider music community as Euterke. In the early hours of the morning, while waiting at a red light on his scooter, he was tragically hit by a local businessman in a speeding SUV, which continued driving, dragging his scooter 1km: the driver was later picked up in a bar where he was found drinking. Euterke was pronounced dead on arrival, and the driver is facing a relatively minimal jail sentence, despite horrific details revealed by shocked eyewitnesses of the hit and run. Euterke became another accident statistic, and press covering the sad event made little reference to the man known around the world for his contribution to music. Outpourings of affection soon appeared across internet communities, relaying their love and sorrow for a man that most had never met. He was well known, and still is, for his visual work, experimenting with abstracts and working closely with Epsilonlab, an audiovisual label dedicated to electronic music and digital art, and minimal and dub flavoured ambient tracks. His close friend and fellow electronic artist, Pheek, took the time to talk to The Skinny about Francois’ passing. Pheek first met Francois in 1998 at a mutual friend’s house: “At the time, I would do random live PAs in people’s living rooms to practice and get their feedback on what I was doing, and [Francois] had been invited to hear me. We shared the same passion and we

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discussed gear, music and other things. It was fun to hear this guy who had a lot of class, who was very friendly and kind, discuss music and production. “Euterke was certainly one of the busiest VJs in Montreal, so his passing has definitely left a hole in the community. François was really generous with his time and could play up to 10-12 hours at events” Euterke forged links with the UK through the Kompakt sub-label, Avionix Records in Edinburgh. Patrick Walker, label owner of Avionix Records, first encountered Francois on the internet through music related channels. Walker explains: “He posted some music online and I was instantly spellbound; I saw great potential in his work, as did others. I’d already heard some of his music inadvertently through one of Archipel’s [Pheek’s minimal techno label] sample packs. I ended up effectively remixing a lot of material which had been provided by Francois. This was before I had heard any of his actual music - only the raw elements. “He had a lot of creative energy and produced quality work in whatever media he took on. But with his music, I loved the way he could liven up what is often quite a serious sound and make it all seem fluid and interesting. His music certainly will be remembered, as will his amicable and lively nature.” [Liam Arnold] Read the full obituary online at www.theskinny.co.uk

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Club reviews Moon Unit Optimo, 5 Oct

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The always interesting Optimo tonight present Moon Unit, the musical offspring of Paul Mogg and former Terranova member Xaver Naudascher. Mogg and Naudascher are the minds behind the Supersoul label, which recently had a collection of their 12" singles released by DFA offshoot label Death From Abroad. Moon Unit’s records have been a staple at Optimo ever since they were pressed and the crowd reacts

with excitement as the trio perform. Lead singer Rosalind’s vocals are enchanting and for a group who are very much in their infancy, as far as working together is concerned, they put on a spectacular show. Low slung basslines stab into the walls of the Sub Club and the whole set sounds sublime sandwiched between the records selected by Twitch and Wilkes. Promising and wonderful stuff. [Chris Duncan] www.myspace.com/wearemoonunit

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The Buff Club opens its doors every Tuesday evening for a fresher-friendly outing, offering two levels of music that varies from modern electro to well known disco classics. Attended almost entirely by students who will fall into Wednesday morning lectures bleary eyed, and hipsters who have been out since Friday night, the club is always stuffed to the point of capacity. Resident DJs Euan and David spin electro upstairs whilst funk and soul is covered by Boom Monk Ben downstairs. Both know how to work their crowd and ensure that the festivities last until closing. Nothing ground breaking is on offer here in terms of music, but when the mid-week itch strikes this is almost always the best option. [Chris Duncan]

The Sub Club's new offering to Glasgow's Thursday night club scene has only been around for a month but is already generating a lot of excitement. Tight sticks to the rules of mid-week clubbing in terms of cheap entry and drink, but what sets it apart from other nights is the ever changing playlist. Anyone who has ever suffered from audio déjà vu after weeks of frequenting the same night will be pleased to know that Tight has five resident DJs, with a different duo commanding the booth each week. Tonight’s recorded delights come from founder Jay Sin and Pauly with a mix of disco, Baltimore bass, house and fidget. The freshest selection of tunes blasted through the city’s best soundsystem and the promise of big name guests in the new year should ensure this night huge success. Until then, only tell your closest friends. [Chris Duncan]

The Buff Club, 14 Oct

Killer Kitsch, The Buff Club, every Tuesday, 11pm - 3am, £4 (£3), www.killerkitsch.co.uk

Sub Club, 9 Oct

Tight, Sub Club, Glasgow, Thursdays, £3 (£2) www.myspace.com/clubtight

Club Previews November hip-hop preview

Well it’s all about Thursday nights if you’re a hip-hop head in Scotland. New weekly night Crash starts the month off with its mash up of hip-hop, drum and bass, indie and electro. Drinks are super cheap (seriously), as is entry (Luna, Edinburgh, Thurs 6th, 13th, 20th, 28th, £3/4). Glasgow is also stepping up its Thursdays with local promoter Boom Monk Ben putting on his Mixed Bizness sessions with a host of guests every single week (The Art School, Glasgow, Thurs 6th, 13th, 20th, 28th, £3/4). Stepback continues to go from strength to strength with its mix up of hip-hop and electronic beats - past guests have included some fine local talent and they promise a few tricks up their sleeves for future nights (Medina, Edinburgh, Thurs 6th & 20th, £4). Soul Biscuits returns with an array of 80s hip-hop and Baltimore disco, and if you don’t know what that is then I suggest you check it out (Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Fri 7th, £tbc). Mweslee and BFlecha touch down to visit Glasgow’s finest throwdown, The Ballers Social Club, bringing you their unique take on hip-hop with a heavy dose of electro and Italo disco thrown in for good measure. (The Art School, Glasgow, Fri 14th, £5/8). [Krishma Bachoo] www.myspace.com/ballerssocialclub http://www.mixedbizness.co.uk/

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Stereo, Glasgow, 22 Nov

German producer Efdemin makes his Scottish debut this month at one of the newer additions to Glasgow’s club scene, Men & Machines. Taking his artist name from a Romanian radio play, former Hamburg resident Phillip Sollmann followed singles. Ohn Und Brot and Acid Bells with his full-length debut on Dial Records last year, which received praise for its deep and subtle blend of techno and house. Aside from his own productions, Sollman has also produced remixes for the Dessous, Bpitch Control and Morris Audio labels and is a respected DJ who’s played out his detailed, melodic style at some of Europe’s more discerning club nights. A forthcoming mix CD featuring tracks from producers such as Scott Grooves, Brothers’ Vibe, Patrice Scott and Tobias will offer an example of his ability behind the decks, with Sollmann favouring a well thought-out collection of secret weapons and undiscovered beauties over several sure-fire hits. Ably supporting will be Solescience's Nick Yuill. [Colin Chapman] 11pm - 3am, £10 www.myspace.com/menmachines

Bass Syndicate

The Bongo Club/Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 7 and 22 Nov

Two big nights from the Bass Syndicate people this month. On 7 November they present the head of Lot 49 Records, Surrey-based music producer Meat Katie at the Bongo Club. Support comes from resident DJs Simon Jackson, Believe, G-Mac and Silver Storic. On 22 November London’s Plump DJs appear with four decks, a whole lot of bass and a guarantee to shake the foundations of the Liquid Room. The breakbeat veterans have received praise from both clubbers and DJs alike after their recent releases proved that they are anything but a one trick pony. Pacey drum rhythms weave their way around a collection of early outboard synths throughout their manic and distinctive sets. Likely to be one of the standout nights in November. [Chris Duncan] Bass Syndicate, Bongo Club £8 (£6), Liquid Rooms £12 (£10) www.myspace.com/clubbasssyndicate

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The Caves, Edinburgh, 14 Nov

Optimo 11th Birthday

Sub Club, Glasgow, 30 Nov The peerless Optimo celebrates its eleventh birthday by doing what it does best, ensuring everyone is out on a school night when really they should be at home laying out their freshly ironed shirt for Monday morning. For those of us who haven't chosen an early night and a cup o' tea it’s business as usual down the Sub Club: a playlist that is the definition of eclectic means you can probably expect to hear some of the better known tracks from the past eleven years tonight. No special guests have been announced but when you can work a crowd like Twitch and Wilkes they aren’t really necessary. Logic says that quality like this can’t last forever, and they considered making last year's birthday the final one. Enjoy this celebration because there's no telling when you’ll be reclaiming your Sunday nights and your employers their Monday morning workforce. [Chris Duncan] Optimo, Sub Club, Glasgow, £7 (£8), 11pm - 3am www.optimo.co.uk

Inner City Acid 4th Birthday

Soundhaus, Glasgow, 8 Nov Inner City Acid celebrates four years of acid-tinged madness this month by welcoming hip-house originator Fast Eddie to the decks. One of the first wave of Chicago house producers in the mid-eighties, Eddie was responsible for acid house classic Acid Thunder, but is probably best known for his breakthrough fusion of house tempo beats with old-skool hip hop percussion and rhyming, his track Hip House becoming the genre’s anthem.

11pm - 4am. Entry before 12 is £4.00, entry after that is £8, members and guests £10 www.myspace.com/ innercityacid www.myspace.com/fasteddieshouse www.soundhaus.co.uk

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Electric Fling (Ebony)

An early doors instrumental Curious Curious classic. Girls dance, boys want to know what it is. Listen out for it on the new Curious Curious compilation, out soon.

Who's Who Hypno Dance (OUT)

Eastern flavored hypnotic [of course] disco dancery from the dad of a Daft Punk. Better than their entire recorded output added together.

Assagai

Telephone Girl (Vertigo)

What's that? Funky Afro-Psych about phoning up for a prostitute? I'll take it!

Black Gold C'mon Stop (Prelude)

Classic sounds on a classic label circa 1983. Arlene Gold's heavy breathing makes me doubt her desire to stop somewhat. James Murphy tried to make off with my copy recently. Not surprising as it works up a sordid sweat on the floor.

James Holden, The Caves, Edinburgh, 14 Nov, £12 advance, 10.30pm - 3am

Liquid Liquid

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Hush Hush feat. Skream

Origin, Aberdeen, 29 Nov Dubstep is no longer another specialist niche carved out of the vast electronic mantel, but a fully operational, if somewhat deranged (for want of a better word), music form that has crossed-over and into the global dance music acceptance stakes. This is, to a large extent, thanks to high-profile artists such as Skream. Since the twenty-one year old's debut album in 2006 his productions have veered through jazz and house routes, with a melodic influence at their core. So while the listener’s natural intuition for track structure can still be rudely upset with lurking sub bass growls and double rhythms syncopated through a Connect 4 puzzle or two, there has been excellent work made in the house techno and hip-hop fields where more mainstream listeners can still enjoy the warped ride even a dubstep flavour provides. Skream’s Essential Mix was a rare treat, and it’s grand to know there’s young talent like this still loose on the streets. [Jaco Justice] Hush Hush, The Tunnels, 29 Nov, 10pm-3am, £10 www.mypace.com/skreamuk

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RAH Band

Kapital music present James Holden on 14 November, who will be playing an extended set within Edinburgh’s excellent venue The Caves. Deep under the foundations of the Old Town the DJ, producer and owner of the Border Community record label will no doubt annihilate the dancefloor with all manner of sublime techno wizardry. Holden appears alongside resident DJs Michael Ford and Barry O'Connell for a night that aims to provide forward thinking electronic music in a unique surrounding. Expect a blend of minimalist techno and electronica that ranges from moving and beautiful to the downright alien. After a recent successful night at Glasgow’s wonderful Huntley’s and Palmer’s Audio Club this comes highly recommended. [Chris Duncan]

Also joining the birthday celebrations will be Dan Monox - by day a vinyl buyer for the world renowned Rub-a-Dub records store, by night the promoter and resident of one of Glasgow’s most respected and best loved techno nights, Monox. Alongside this pair will be DJ/Producer Konx-om-Pax providing more downtempo acid rhythms, and John Hospital, one half of local electronic duo Dirty Hospital. There will also be sets from Les Diaboliques, Scott Problems and last but of course not least, ICA residents Monsieur DeLarge and Samba. [Colin Chapman]

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Revolution Francaise Translocomotion (Eurodisc)

Hiding on the flip of a dire disco remake of the French national anthem is this electronic bass, synth & drums killer. Always check the B-side!

Frank And Roby Level With Me (RS)

This is an Italian number from 1982, but it's in no way 'Italo'. A massive slice of 'Shack-Up' style action with some quite over-the-top guitar lines perfect for some wild air-axe abandon. An absolute stormer.

Ann-Margret

Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes (First American)

Optimo [Optimo remix] (Domino)

A modern remix of this percussive NYC classic? Local lads realise that if it isn't broken, don't attempt to fix it. Just make it twice as long for double the pleasure and twice the fun.

Ann-Margaret does her best Diana Ross impression, Paul Sabu does his best Chic. Cue this fantastic feelgood funk. Perfect for dubious late night dancefloor amorousness. Curious Curious accepts no responsibility for whose bed you end up in after the party.

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In the Basement

(Stoned Circus)

Raw rhythm & blues from a small lady with a massive voice - a perfect last tune for any night in our beloved underground bunker, Stereo. "Where can you party child all night long? In the Basement, Down in the Basement!". Indeed.

No Silver Bird

It's not all DiscoFunk in the Barbarossa household, or on the Curious Curious dancefloor. Coming on like a sugar coated Silver Apples (Silver Toffee Apples?) this super psych nugget may be a little too oddball for some, but the drums are tough enough to keep the broadminded dancer happy.

(Chess)

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Digitalism

Fierce

Here, lets play a little game. I mention a production duo, you think of a colour. Actually, you know what… it’s already too late – once you scanned over the title above the wee ‘going out’ goblins started riddling through your membrane whispering English translated German rhetoric that’s now got your inner slime boiling in deadly sin. “Am I not always be wanting this?” Yes please, Godammit. The Hamburg bred pairing of Jence and Isi make up a power-tribe - a little less android than Daft Punk, with a touch of Moroder-style synthesiser arranging at its darkest, and heavy on the Depeche Mode influence too, plus a frequently used seedy snare tone that jabs and jostles with the kick drum for dominance on every track. It must be noted that tonight is a DJ set not a live gig, but still expect to grapple heavily with the Digitalism ‘hummers’ that’ll get you home safe, like Apollo Gize from last year’s debut LP Idealism. [Jaco Justice]

Glasgow’s electro darlings Dolby-Anol have proven themselves to be Scotland’s most valuable asset when it comes to creating the greatest remixes. The duo have recently toured Europe and played a one off set in New York after becoming one of the most talked about dance acts this year.

Snafu, Aberdeen, 23 Nov

The Tunnel, Aberdeen, 2 Nov

The first Sunday of November sees the boys enter the second month of their new monthly residency at The Tunnel where they play a mix of electro, disco and their own original material. Whilst Dolby-Anol take care of the music, London’s most recognisable alternative icon, Jodie Harsh, will take care of everyone in attendance. Venturing up from London every month Jodie will greet guests and mingle with the crowd to ensure that this is a unique night in the city’s club calendar. [Chris Duncan]

Digitalism, Snafu, Aberdeen, 23 Nov, 9pm - 3am, £14 www.thedigitalism.com

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Tue 04 Nov

Elliot Minor, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £12 + souvaris, Dead or American *Album launch*, Captain’s

AEG present Solange, Classic

+ The Departures + This Familiar Smile, Barfly Presents: No Kilter, Barfly,

20:00–22:30, £3.00

Rest, 20:00–00:00, tba

20:00–23:00, tbc

Souvaris, Dead or American, Captain’s Rest, Post-punker’s album launch, 20:30–23:30, £tbc

Kochka, Codeen, The Covergirls, The Number, 13th Note,

Post punk, 21:00, TBC

Elliot Minor, ABC, Rock, 19:00, £ 12.00 The Departures, Barfly, Rock,

20:00, £ 6.00

Dead or American, Souvaris,

Captain’s Rest, Progressive metal, 20:00, TBC The Stranglers, Carling Academy, Punk rock legends, 19:00, £ 23.00 Skins Unders, Classic Grand, Party celebrating the hit TV show, 20:00, £ 7.00 The Parsonage Choir, Glasgow University Union, Choral tribute to Hank Williams, 14:30, £ 6.00

Southpaw, Lost For Words, D-Corum, The Emmas, Riot Scene, Ivory Blacks, Alternative rock,

TBC, TBC

Michelle Shocked, King Tut’s

Wah Wah Hut, Rock womanifestoes, TBC, £ 15.00 The Zonules of Zinn, Nice N Sleazy, Electronic inspired indie, 19:30, TBC Ron Sexsmith, Òran Mór, Folk rock, 19:30, £ 20.00

Grand, 19:00–22:00, £15.00

Cold War Kids, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £14 Trash Fashion, Classic Grand, Jaya the Cat, The Hostiles, The Murderburgers, 13th

£tbc

Langhorne Slim, Captain’s Rest,

20:00–00:00, tba

Barfly Presents: Caimbo,

Barfly, 20:00–23:00, £6 Shellac, ABC, Cutting minimalist rock, 19:00, £ 13.50 Rancid, Barrowland, Seminal bay-area punx, 19:00, Sold out, £tbc Tegan, Box, Indie Pop, 20:00, TBC Hot Chip, Carling Academy, Electropop pranksters, 19:00, Sold out, £ 16.50

Metalica UK, Attica Rage,

Classic Grand, Metal tribute, 19:00, £ 10.00

The Paddington’s, Black Arrows, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Garage Rock, TBC, £ 10.00

Tina C, Glasgay presents,

Òran Mór, Musical comedy, 19:00, £ 12.00 / £ 10.00

Trash Fashion, Any Colour Black, Classic Grand, Electrorock,

19:00, £ 6.00

Hanoi Rocks, Dear Superstar, Garage, 80s rock, 19:00, £ 13.00 Sabaton, Concept of Time plus support, Ivory Blacks, Metal,

TBC, TBC

Florence and the Machine, The Big Pink, Jack Butler, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, From their MySpace: ‘Disco Clown Party Fallover’, TBC, £ 6.00 The Kills, Òran Mór, Rock / Electro, 19:00, £ 11.00

Eclectiv feat. White Heath, Mr Sneaky, Ghosts of Progress and Tamika’s Treehouse, Pivo Pivo, Eclectic music

showcase, 20:00, Free Oasis, SECC, C’mon, you know who Oasis is, TBC, Sold out, £tbc

+ Valet + Inca Ore + Snakes, Jackie O Motherfucker, Sinister Flynn plus support,

13th Note, Funk rock, 21:00, TBC Alter Bridge, Carling Academy, Alternative metal, 19:00, £ 16.00 Anathema, Demains, Cathouse, Death metal, 19:00, £ 15.00 The Presets, Classic Grand, Psych rock, 19:30, £ 10.00

Viva Machine, Acrylic Iqon,

Dirty Sally, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Power pop/rock, TBC, £ 5.00 Ross Clark and the Scarfs Go Missing, Gdansk, The Mill, Òran Mór, Acoustic and post punk, 19:30, Free

Revelations feat. The Scalies, Jack in the Green, The Kayas, The Sky Mangle, Pivo

Pivo, Indie showcase, 20:00, Free Leonard Cohen, SECC, Classic, 20:00, Sold out, £tbc Damien Jurado, Stereo, Dark yet fragile tales, 20:00, TBC

Hercules Mandarin, Scott Keenan, Rell, The Rio Café, Pop rock,

Theatre, 19:30–22:30, £14

Acoustic Jam session, Nice ‘n’

Sleazy, 20:00–00:00, Free You Me At Six, ABC, Pop rock, 19:00, £ 9.00 Flogging Molly, Barrowland, American celt-punk, 19:00, £ 15.00

Y’all is Fantasy Island, Captain’s Rest, Alt folk, 20:00, TBC

Slayer, Trivium, Mastodon, Amon Amarth, Carling Academy, Heavy f-ing Metal!, 17:45, £ 29.50

August Burns Red, Yashin,

King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Metal onslaught, TBC, £ 7.00 Acoustic Jam, Nice N Sleazy, Acoustic Affair, 20:00, TBC

Acoustic Bazooka feat. Franny McKeown, Steve Adams, Andrea Marini, Billy Bates, Caragh Nugent, Pivo

Pivo, Acoustic open mic and guests, 18:00, Free Katie Melua, SECC, Pop, blues, jazz, 19:30, £ 28.50

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Twisted Wheel, Garage, psych, freakbeat, rock n roll., 22:00–03:00, £5 (£4)

DJ Cut Hands, Done Imagine, Rejectamenta, 13th Note, Experimental and electronic, 21:00, TBC

Soul II Soul Sound System, Martha High and DJs, Arches,

Grammy-winning soul and R&B, 20:00, £ 10.00 / £ 8.00

From Monument To Masses, Diamond Sea, Welcome To Spook Club, Barfly, Post-rock from San Fran and NY of C, 20:00, £ 5.00

The Harps, Vender Defender, Nineties Remake, The Number, the Hero of Canton, Barrowland, Rock Showcase,

19:00, £ 6.00

The Firesouls, Box, Rock and Punk,

20:00, TBC

Kamerakino, Divorce, Captain’s

Rest, Experimental rock, 20:00, TBC

GOGOBOT, Pablo Eskimo, Punch and the Apostles, Kris Jannsen, Carling Academy,

Genre hopping power pop, 19:00, £ 7.00 Attica Rage, Indica, Cathouse, Metal/rock, 19:00, £ 5.00

Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby,

Classic Grand, Pop rock, 19:30, £ 10.00 The Alarm, Chris Reed, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Melodic Welsh rock, TBC, £ 15.00

Ready2Fall, The Biatches, Watchtower, Halcyon, Mag-

gie Mays, Acoustic alternative, 20:00, £ 5.00 Pink Juice, Nice N Sleazy, 19:30, TBC Ida Maria, Òran Mór, Indie rock, 19:30, £ 8.00

Nell Bryden plus guests, The Acoustic Affair, Recital

Rooms at City Hall, Modern Dixie, 20:00, £ 10.00

The Moth and the Mirror, RM Hubbert, If you lived here you’d be home by now, Stereo, Alt rock, TBC, £ 5.00

Viva Stereo, Licker, Stereo, Indie/

eletronica, TBC, TBC

Mr D, Coconut University,

The State Bar, Folk/Americana, 20:00, £ 4.00

Fleet Foxes, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £12 1993eatdoublesidedtape, Nice

Laki Mera, PCL Presents: To Rococo Rot, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy,

00:00–00:00, TBA

Neon Neon, Òran Mór, 19:00–23:00,

plus support, Firestorm Presents: Not Advised, Barfly,

You me at six, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £9 Brendan Shine, The Pavilion

The Five Aces and guest DJ Reuben, Eyes Wide Open, The

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Jenni Alpert, Izzak and the Tinker, Colm McCarthy,

Mon 03 Nov

Barfly Presents: From Monument to Masses, Barfly,

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£10

Republic Beer Hof, Acoustic pop, 20:00, Free Micah P Hinson, Stereo, Whiskeythroated troubadour, 20:00, TBC

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20:00, Free

Rancid Pre-Party feat. Smash It Up, Maxwell’s Dead, Dipdap, Pivo Pivo, Punk rock, 15:00, £ 3.00

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Fri 07 Nov

20:00–23:00, £5

Captain’s Rest, 20:00–00:00, tba

Shellac, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £13.50 Live present metallica, attica rage, Classic Grand, 19:30–21:15,

Twisted Wheel, Rock/Pop, 19:00, £ 5.00

here, folks, 20:00, TBC Solange, Classic Grand, Hip hop, 19:00, £ 15.00

Open Mic Night with Kenny and Lewis, Box, Pretty self-explanatory

Buddy Holly - A Legend Reborn, SECC, The night the music was reborn

Sun 02 Nov

The Alexandria Quartet,

Classic Grand, 19:30–21:30, £10.00 Pink Juice, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 20:00–00:00, TBA

Wed 05 Nov

- at least 1/3 of it., 20:00, Sold out, £tbc The Walkmen, Stereo, American indie, 19:30, £ 11.50 Seth Lakeman, The Queen Margaret Union, Folky festival staple, 19:00, £ 16.00

TBC, TBC

Note, Reggae punk, TBC, £ 5.00 Cold War Kids, ABC, Everydude’s rock and soul, 19:00, £ 14.00

The Zombeegees (Heavy Mama), XMRV, She’s Hit and The Bucky Rage, Pivo Pivo, Spooky

music, 20:00, £ 6.00

The Last Corinthians, Burnout, Spiderhoof, Stereo, Indie rock,

Concrete Campfire, Brel, Acoustic night., 20:00–00:00, Free

20:00–23:00, £5

The Travelling Band, Inspector Tapehead, Cuddly Shark, 13th Note, Progressive indie,

Sun 09 Nov Marillion, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £20 Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds, ABC, 19:00–00:00,

£15

Pantone Pop, The Halt Bar, Art and

music event., 20:30–00:00, Free Marillion, ABC, Alternative rock, 19:00, £ 20.00

Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds, ABC, Punk filtered

Das Contras, Lou Hickey, The Mill, Òran Mór, Jazzy rock, 19:30,

Oh No! Oh My!, Captain’s Rest,

Annotations of an Autopsy, Ingested, 7 Y O T, I Sell the Dead, 1 Day Remains, Severant, Ivory Blacks, Metal, 19:00, £ 8.00 Sharon Shannon Big Band, Damien Dempsey, Mundy, Magners Irish Sessions, King

Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Irish music showcase, TBC, £ 12.50 Okkervil River, Òran Mór, Acoustic indie rock, 19:00, £ 11.50

Alternative rock, 20:00, Free

Mon 10 Nov Acoustic Jam session, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 20:00–00:00, Free

monotonix, Captain’s Rest,

20:00–00:00, tba

Barfly Presents: Data.Select.Party, Barfly, 20:00–23:00, £6 Volcano!, Punch & The Apostles, Super Adventure Club, How to Swim, Arches, Post-

rock noisiness, 20:00, £ 7.00

Data.Select.Party, Kurai Kotoro, I See Shapes, Barfly, Fresh

indie in the ‘Scouting for Girls’ vein, 20:00, £ 6.00 Monotonix, Captain’s Rest, Grooveladen rock, 20:00, £ 7.50

Motorhead, Saxon, Danko Jones, Carling Academy, Who would

win in a fight between Lemmy and God? … Trick question: Lemmy is God., 19:00, £ 25.00

The Boss Hoss, Bismarck,

Richard Mailey, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Dirty rock ‘n’ rollers, TBC, £ 7.50 Acoustic Jam, Nice N Sleazy, Acoustic Affair, 20:00, TBC Roddy Frame, Òran Mór, Folk Rock, 19:00, £ 17.50

Acoustic Bazooka feat. David Burns, Mike Smith, Darren McIlroy and Tommy Weir, Pivo Pivo, Acoustic open mic and

Synergy presents: The New Year, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 00:00–00:00, TBA + Rosie & The Goldug hosted by Hugh Cornwell, Art Brut, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £8 St Deluxe, 13th Note, Rock, 21:00, TBC Art Brut, Rosie and the Goldbug, ABC, Indie soaked in sarcasm,

Arches, Rock Showcase, 19:30, £ 7.00 Not Advised, Barfly, Shout-along poppunk, 20:00, £ 5.00 Tramps and Horses, Box, Electroacoustix, 21:00, TBC

Classic Grand, Acoustic pop, 20:00, £ 6.00 Soulmover, Ivory Blacks, Classic rock, TBC, TBC

Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Aussie dance pop, TBC, £ 10.00 The New Year, Nice N Sleazy, Alternative rock, 19:30, TBC

rock, 20:00, £ 4.00

King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, American Indie vets, TBC, £ 12.00

Sigur Ros, Carling Academy,

1993eatsdoublesidedtape,

Atmospheric rock from the great white north, TBC, Sold out, £ 23.50 Finley Quaye, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Innovative British songwriter, TBC, Rescheduled to March, £ 15.00

Nice N Sleazy, IDM, 19:30, TBC Roddy Frame, Òran Mór, Folk rock, 19:00, Sold out, £ 17.50

Nice N Sleazy, IDM, 19:30, TBC Neon Neon, Òran Mór, Electrorock, 19:30, £ 10.00

Pivo Pivo, No bollocks rock’, 20:00, £ 5.00

To Rococo Rot, Laki Mera,

Elektra feat. A-Lix, Baby Bones, Miss Enemy and Sacha Von Thulen, Pivo Pivo, Techno

rock, 21:00, £ 5.00

Information Libre feat. The Phaetons, The Dirty Suits, Dead Sea Souls and Trade, Stereo Birthday Party: Bands & Dancing, Stereo, Rock

and indie showcase, TBC, TBC

Emmy the Great, Ben TD,

Twisted Wheel, Full-band anti-folk set, 19:00, TBC

Pablo Eskimo, Safe2Say, Shimmer, Classic Grand, Pop punk,

Blacks, Metal, 19:15, £ 14.00

Sneaky Sound System, King

Local Acoustic Talent, Open Mic, Òran Mór, Open mic night, 20:00, Free

The Triptych Tour – Feat. Peggy Sue, Alessi’s Ark and Derek Meins, Pivo Pivo, Folky rhythms, 20:00, TBC

Wed 12 Nov featuring Skinnyman + Ninja Sound feat. Buggsy + Mr Bang On, Freakmenoovers, Bigg Taj, gza/ Genius, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £18.50

Triple Vision, Aloha TV, 13th Note, 21:00, TBC

00:00–00:00, TBA

with guests, The Mixups, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £6

atre, Country, 19:30–22:00, various 20:00–00:00, tba

Brazilian DJ Electrocet & Guests, Electicat Presents: Carnavals House Band, Barfly, 22:00–03:00, £10

20:00, Free

Rob St John, Woodenbox,

daddies, TBC, TBC

The Mixups, The Leads, Aye n Aye, ABC, Sixties style, nineties groove in the

Don Caballero, Stereo, Math rock Jym Ponter, Steven Clifford, Billy & Heather, The Rio

Fool for a Pretty Face, Ben Sturrock, Magicbox Mistress, Alex Hetherington (visual artist), Republic Beer Hof,

Enslaved, Stonegard, Krakow, Alba Gu Brath, Ivory

Built to Spill, Disco Doom,

Revelations feat. Medusas Curse, Halcyon, The Levings and Seneka, Pivo Pivo, Pop punk,

00:00–00:00, TBA

showcase, 20:00, Free

TBC, TBC

Thursday Moore feat. Ned Collette, Captain’s Rest, Alternative

Free

Café, Acoustic folk pop, 20:00, Free

Box, Blues-inflected rock ‘n’ roll, 20:00, TBC The Shakes, Box, Indie pop, 21:00, TBC Vagabonds, Carling Academy, New wave/pop, 19:00, £ 10.00

Echofela, Saint & Cynics,

Coming Dundee rockers, TBC, Sold out, £tbc

No Tribe. Feat Curly’s Heroes, The Whisky Works, Jaded Playboy and Doghouse, Pivo Pivo, Metal, rock and punk

19:00, £ 8.00

Standing Order, The Black Rats, Da Capo, The Shakes,

DE ROSA VS FOUND, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy,

Rest, Post punk, 20:00, £ 4.00

Spokes, Gdansk, We are Trapped in Kansas, Captain’s

Irish rebel music, 19:00, £ 15.00

21:00, TBC

The Switch Blade Masquerade, Griever, The Smoking Sundays, Modest World, Conspiracy 5, Station Sound, Future of Rock,

Sat 15 Nov

dizzee rascal, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £15 Sydney Devine, The Pavilion The-

Tue 11 Nov

The Wolfetones, Barrowland,

18:00, £ 14.00

extravaganza, TBC, £ 7.00 one day / £ 12.00 two days

The View, Holy Ghost Revival, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Up and

Classic Grand, 20:30–23:00, £tbc Fleet Foxes, ABC, Atmospheric Sub Pop phenoms, 19:00, Sold out, £ 12.00

£ 15.00

Parkway Drive, Unearth, Despised Icon, Architects, Protest the Hero, Whitechapel, Carnifix, The Altamont “Never Say Die Club Tour”, Arches, Rock Showcase,

First Year Thieves, Box, Melodic guitar rock, 20:00, TBC The Antix, Classic Grand, Indie rock, 19:00, £ 6.00

guests, 18:00, Free

Dan le Sac v. Scrubious Pip, Kissy Sell Out, Tom Middleton, Rob da Bank, Chester French, Bestival Reunion tour, Arches, DJs and live dance, 22:00,

Wu Tang lyricist, 19:00, £ 18.50

Punch and the Apostles, Super Adventure Club, Pifco, The Gummy Stumps, Bilge Pumps, Copy Haho, Honey Ride Me a Goat, Jer Reid plus DJs, 2 Days in Stereo, Stereo, Indie pop and rock

through traditional music, 19:00, £ 15.00 MGMT, Barrowland, 2008 Electro breakouts, 19:00, Sold out, £tbc Annie Stevenson, Box, Alternative rock, 21:00, TBC

‘n’ Sleazy, 20:00–00:00, TBA

Echofela, Saint and Cynics,

GZA (The Genius) feat. Skinnyman, Ninja Sound feat. Buggsy, Mr Bang On, Freakmenoovers, Bigg Taj, ABC, Gifted

13th Note, 21:00, TBC

naughty noughties, 19:00, £ 6.00 Dizzee Rascal, ABC, Raskit, the prince of grime, 19:00, Sold out, £ 15.00

Sergeant, Any Color Black plus DJs, Skins Live Party,

Thu 13 Nov The Antics, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy,

Arches, Live Bands, DJs, TV stars … what more could you ask for?, 22:00, £ 10.00

Sydney Devine, The Pavilion The-

Carnaval’s House Band with live Samba/Bossa Nova, Dancers & Capoeira Show , DJ Eletricat, Barfly, Latin fusion,

Fake Problems, Tragical History Tour, All or Nothing, Dave Hughes, 13th Note, Rock

Airbourne, Barrowland, Rock, 19:00,

atre, Country, 19:30–22:00, various Concrete Campfire, Brel, Acoustic night., 20:00–00:00, Free

showcase, 21:00, TBC

The Wombats, Carling Academy, Pop rock, 19:00, £ 15.00

Theatres Des Vampires, Maelstrom, Classic Grand, Gothic

22:00, £ 10.00

Sold out, £tbc

Punch and the Apostles, Redshift, Box, Experimental pranksters,

21:00, TBC

Oh No! Oh My!, Cake=Mix Tapes, Captain’s Rest, Indie rock, 20:00, TBC

metal, TBC, TBC

Extreme, Carling Academy, 80s metal

Wah Wah Hut, Thunderously sexy rock ‘n’ roll, TBC, Sold out, £tbc The Antics, Nice N Sleazy, Psychedelic, 19:30, TBC

Healthy Minds Collapse, Bronto Skylift, The Lost Generation, Classic Grand, Alterna-

Cage The Elephant, King Tut’s

Acoustic Night feat. Flatbackfour and guests tbc, Pivo Pivo, Acoustic loveliness, 20:00, TBC

Punch and the Apostles, Super Adventure Club, Pifco, The Gummy Stumps, Bilge Pumps, Copy Haho, Honey Ride Me a Goat, Jer Reid plus DJs, 2 Days in Stereo, Stereo, Indie pop and rock extravaganza, TBC, £ 7.00 one day / £ 12.00 two days

Fri 14 Nov My Cousin I Bid You Farewell, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 00:00–00:00, TBA My Morning Jacket, ABC,

19:00–00:00, £14

heavyweights, 19:00, £ 28.50

tive rock, 19:00, £ 6.00

Grammatics, Descartes, Sinking Cities, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Pop rock, TBC, £ 6.00

De Rosa V Found, Nice N Sleazy,

19:30, TBC

Endor, Oran Mor, Indie folk, until , TBC Rock’N’Rolla feat. The Merchants, Electrolite and The Decent Souls, Pivo Pivo,

Proper rock and roll, 20:00, Free

ACE Chorus Entertains, SECC, Choral music, 19:30, £ 16.00 / £ 12.50 / £ 10.00 Vic Godard and the Subway Sect, Stereo, Punk, 19:00, TBC The Hijacks, The Living Daylights, Twisted Wheel, Rock/Pop, 19:00, £ 4.00

Sydney Devine, The Pavilion The-

Sun 16 Nov

Daybreak, the black rats, punto the feef, Classic Grand,

£13.50

atre, Country, 19:30–22:00, various

20:00–22:30, £tba

The Trade, ABC, 19:00, £ 6.00 The Whip, Arches, Electro from Manchester, 19:00, £ 8.50

Universal You, Barfly, Myspace:

‘sounds like a band you want to be in’, TBC, TBC

Catcher, Pure Dead Brilliant, Neon Garden, The Deals, Void Pleasantries,

Barrowland, Rock Showcase, 19:00, £ 6.00

The Ideals, The Statler Project, Box, Pop rock, 20:00, TBC Strike the Colours, The Moth and the Mirror, Hindle Wakes, Captain’s Rest, Folk

rock, 20:00, TBC

The Feeling, Carling Academy, Indie rock, 19:00, £ 22.50

Army of Freshmen, Koopa, Track 9, Your Rescue Mission, Cathouse, Pop rock, 19:00, £ 7.50 Daybreak, The Black Rats, All About the Dots, Punto The Feef, Classic Grand, Punk, 20:00,

£ 6.00

The Alarm, Dave Sharp, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Melodic Welsh rock, TBC, £ 15.00 My Cousin I Bid You Farewell, Nice N Sleazy, Alternative rock, 19:30, TBC

Paul Weller, SECC, Alternative rock,

formerly of the Jam, 19:30, £ 30.00 David Cassidy, SECC, Pop singer and actor, 20:00, £ 43.00

tv on the radio, ABC, 19:00–00:00, T-Rextasy, The Pavilion Theatre, Marc

Bolan & T.Rex tribute band, 19:30–22:00, £14.50/ £13.50 concession kid british, Captain’s Rest, myspace. com/kidbritishmusic, 20:00–00:00, tba

Misty’s Big Adventure, MTT Presents: Flipron, Barfly,

20:00–23:00, £10

TV on the Radio, ABC, Heady and acclaimed NYC group, 19:00, £ 13.50 Ghostface Killah, Arches, Aka Pretty Toney, Aka Tony Starks … one of the Wu’s best, 19:30, £ 16.50 Flipron, Misty’s Big Adventure, Barfly, Experimental music, 20:00,

£ 10.00

Southern Remedy, Box, Charming indie rock, 20:00, TBC Kid British, Captain’s Rest, Dancy rock, 20:00, £ 5.00 Soilwork, Zimmer’s Hole, One Way Mirror, Cathouse, Death

metal, 19:00, TBC

Fucked Up, Sss, The Black

Rat Death Squad, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Acclaimed Melodic Hardcore, TBC, £ 7.50

No Tribe feat. The Fusiliers, Casino Brag, Type 23 and Void Pleasantries, Pivo Pivo, Post

punk with energy, 20:00, Free

Wullie Swales, Lin, Pookah,

Republic Beer Hof, Acoustic folk, 20:00, Free Kanye West, SECC, Sometimes maligned, sometimes revered hip hopper, 19:30, £ 32.50

November 08

THE SKINNY 55

Listings

Glasgow gigs

Glasgow gigs No Tribe feat. Final Silence, Serenity Within, Rosa and Boogi Loushou, Pivo Pivo, Thrashy

Papier Tigre, Super Adventure Club, Predestination Records, Captain’s Rest, ATP-conquer-

Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers, Magic Lantern Show, The Acoustic Affair, Recital Rooms at City Hall,

+ Super Adventure Club, Papier Tigre, Captain’s Rest,

and dark metal, 20:00, Free

Bluegrass of another kind…, 20:00, £ 10.00

The Colts, The Sweet Janes plus support, Republic Beer Hof,

Rock and blues, 20:00, Free

Mon 24 Nov Acoustic Jam session, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 20:00–00:00, Free

Barfly & LOTW Present: Fight Like Apes, Barfly, 20:00–23:00,

£5

Portico Quartet, Arches, Jazzy Mercury Prize 2008 Nominees, 19:30, £ 8.00

Fight Like Apes, Elmo, Levi’s Ones to Watch, Barfly, Intense and terse punky blasts, 22:00, £ 5.00

Zutons, The Redwalls, Carling

Mon 17 Nov

High Places, Nice N Sleazy, Surf/

opeth, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £17 Acoustic Jam session, Nice ‘n’

Hardcore, 19:30, TBC

TBC, The Mill, Òran Mór, Rock Showcase, 19:30, Free

Sleazy, 20:00–00:00, Free Opeth, ABC, Goth rock, 19:00, £ 17.00 Looks Can Be Deceiving, Box, Energetic rock and punk, 20:00, TBC Dengue Fever, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Cambodian rock!, TBC, £ 9.00 Acoustic Jam, Nice N Sleazy, Acoustic Affair, 20:00, TBC

Pivo Pivo, Heavy, alternative rock, 20:00, TBC My Vitriol, Stereo, Alternative rock, TBC, TBC

Òran Mór, Low tempo indie, 19:00, £ 16.00

Thu 20 Nov

Low - A Christmas Concert, Acoustic Bazooka feat. Mike Nisbet, Luigi Strauss, Ross McEwen and Drew Gardner, Pivo Pivo, Acoustic open mic

and guests, 20:00, Free

These Arms are Snakes, Russian Circles, Tropics, Ste-

reo, Risky heavy metal and rock, TBC, £ 8.50 Punk Show’, Twisted Wheel, Em, Punk?, 20:00, £ 4.00

Acoustic folk, 20:00, Free

Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 00:00–00:00, TBA jay reatard, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £8 Oliver!, The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:00, various Jay Reatard, ABC, Synth punk noise, 19:00, £ 8.00 Razorlight, Barrowland, The did that ‘Watching America’ song. …Yeah., 19:00, Sold out, £tbc

Hate Gallery, SNO, Dead City Riots, Cathouse, Metal and rock, 19:00,

£ 5.00

Peter Bruntell, Michael Weston King and Jeb Loy Nichols, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut,

Alternative rock, TBC, £ 12.00 Tim Exile, Nice N Sleazy, The Sound of Heart and Hearth, 19:30, TBC The Faint, Òran Mór, Fashionable electroclash, 19:30, £ 12.00

Eclectiv feat. Engine 7, Noise Cartel, Lanolin and Ramon, Pivo Pivo, Electro and techno grunge, 20:00, Free

Ray Harris and the Fusion Experience, Stereo, New Jazz, 20:00,

TBC

00:00–00:00, TBA Oliver!, The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:00, various

ft. Nash the Slash, Flag Promotions presents: Numania 2008, Barfly, 19:30–23:00, £10 Concrete Campfire, Brel, Acoustic night., 20:00–00:00, Free

Nash The Slash, YTDS, Deviant UK, George Carnival, Numania 2008, Barfly, Progressive rock,

19:30, £ 10.00

4Day Weekend, Seven Deadly Sins, Inspector Tapehead,

Captain’s Rest, Alt-rock with an emo twist, 20:00, £ 6.50 Scouting for Girls, Carling Academy, Precious indie redux, 19:00, £ 17.50 Napalm Death, Ivory Blacks, Godfathers of Grind, 19:15, £ 15.00

Youthmovies, :(, Adam Gnade, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Progressive rock, TBC, £ 7.00 obSCENE night, Nice N Sleazy, 19:30, TBC

Original Fires – guests tbc,

Pivo Pivo, Monthly music night that dares to be different., 20:00, £ 4.00 Paul Gilbert, Stereo, Former Mr Big member, 19:30, £ 12.50

Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 00:00–00:00, TBA less than jake, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £14 Oliver!, The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:00, various Jackson United, Captain’s Rest, Side project of Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shifflet. www.myspace.com/jacksonunited, 20:00–00:00, tba

Human Rejection, Amagortis, Cerebral Bore, 13th Note, Brutal Death Metal, TBC, TBC

Less Than Jake, ABC, Punk/Ska stalwarts, 19:00, £ 14.00

Clinic, These New Puritans, plus visuals by Clemens Habicht, Arches, Boisterous live indie Scouting for Girls, Carling Academy, Precious indie, 19:00, £ 17.50 The Notwist, Kenan Bell, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Ambient Indie, TBC, £ 11.00

showcase, 19:00, £ 7.00

My Vitriol, Stereo, 19:00–23:59, £tbc Oliver!, The Pavilion Theatre,

19:30–22:00, various

+ Eagleowl, My latest novel, Captain’s Rest, My Latest Novel

preview material from the forthcoming 2nd album “Death and Entrances” due for release in 2009. Expect a stripped back, intimate performance of the new tracks along with acoustic/alternate versions of tracks from the debut album ‘Wolves’., 20:00–00:00, tba

Barfly Presents: Fields, Barfly, 20:00–23:00, £6

Benny Gallagher, ABC, Acoustic

Affair, 19:00, £ 15.00

Martyn Joseph, Arches, Narrative

singer-songwriter, 19:30, £ 15.00

Fields, Intervals, Lean Tales,

Barfly, Alt-rock, 22:00, £ 6.00 The Script, Barrowland, Alternative rock, 19:00, Sold out, £tbc Injuns, Box, Indie pop and rock, 20:00, TBC Fish, Carling Academy, Progressive rock, 19:00, £ 17.50

The Fred Eaglesmith Show,

Stoner rock, 19:00, £ 10.00

Playtone with Hercules, Mandarin, Coholic, ABC, Indie pop

Brant Bjork and the Bros, Sons of Thunder, Ivory Blacks,

Arches, Electro and dance, 21:00, £ 12.50

Pete McLeod and Bonehead,

The Dunderheids, Box, Grungy hard

Rock Showcase, 19:00, £ 6.00

Sun 23 Nov

rock, 20:00, TBC

Skerryvore, The Wakes, The Bible Code Sundays, The Amadans, The Black Pats, THE BIG HOOLEY, Carling Academy,

Oliver!, The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:00, various New Found Glory, Barrowland, Cutesy pop punk from Florida, 19:00, £ 15.00 Bronto Skylift, Sooth, Box, Thrashy minimalist rock, 20:00, TBC

Irish music showcase, 19:00, £ 10.00 Alestorm, Cathouse, Folk / power metal, 19:00, £ 9.50 Marlow, Classic Grand, 19:00, £ 5.00

The Alarm, Henry Cluney,

King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Melodic Welsh rock, TBC, £ 15.00

REDWORD, Tamika’s Treehouse, Napoleon In Rags, Maggie Mays, Pop rock, 20:00, £ 5.00

November 08

Captain’s Rest, Indie rock, 20:00, TBC Far, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Reunited seminal emotional rockers, TBC, £ 13.50 Kono Michi, Nice N Sleazy, Alternative rock, 19:30, TBC TBC, The Mill, Òran Mór, Rock showcase, 19:30, Free

Hourglass Present – The Dead Class and more tbc,

Pivo Pivo, Punk, ska and other ill shit, 20:00, TBC Zucchero, SECC, Italian rock singer, 19:30, £ 20.00

Wullae.Wright & Special Guests, The Rio Café, Alternative acoustic,

20:00, Free

Thu 27 Nov Apologies, I Have None, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 00:00–00:00, TBA

Roisin Murphy, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £16.50

Lower than Atlantis/ Silent Ground, Barfly Presents: Dividing the Line, Barfly, 20:00–23:00, £6

Dalek, Sileni and Destructo, Swarmbots, Arches, Industrial-

noise hip hop, 19:30, £ 10.00 Lykke Li, Arches, Petite Swedish pop chanteuse, 20:00, £ 11.00

Dividing The Line, Lower Than Atlantis, Silent Ground, so she said, Barfly,

Screamo, 22:00, £ 6.00 Thunder, Carling Academy, Hard rock, 19:00, £ 21.00

Gorgoroth, Averse, Sefira, Zebediah’s Crow, Ivory Blacks, Metal, 19:00, £ 15.00

Anberlin, Furthest Drive Home, Data.Select.Party, King

Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Emotive rock, TBC, £ 9.50 Future of the Left, Nice N Sleazy, Alternative rock, 19:30, TBC

Eclectiv feat. Phiktion, Jackie Treehorn, Dub Chieftian and Spanish Boys Name,

Pivo Pivo, Beeps, blips and banjo, 20:00, Free McFly, SECC, Pop rock, 19:00, £ 26.00 / £ 16.00

Wed 26 Nov Kono Michi, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 00:00–00:00, TBA

Ladytron, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £13.50

Acoustic night., 20:00–00:00, Free

Captain’s Rest, 20:00–00:00, tba

Soul II Soul, Martha High, Ben Westbeech, Bulleit Originals, The Arches, Soul & funk., 20:00–02:00, £8 advance/ £10 on the door

King Hats/ Y’All Is Fantasy Island/ Skitten, Disco Storm Presents: Backhanded Compliments, Barfly, 20:00–23:00, £6 THE PEACOCKS, THE SCOURGE OF RIVER CITY, SHORT NOTICE, 13th Note, Psychobilly, 21:00, TBC Roison Murphy, ABC, Dance pop chanteuse, 19:00, £ 3.20

The Backhanded Compliments, The King Hats, Y`All Is Fantasy Island, Skitten, Barfly, Punk, 22:00, £ 6.00

Women, Chad VanGaalen,

Captain’s Rest, Indie rock, 20:00, £ 6.50 Simple Plan, Carling Academy, Pop rock, 19:00, £ 14.00

John Smith, Anna Meldrum, Classic Grand, Pop rock, 19:00, £ 8.00

Mimi Soya, Lost on Landing, Gap Year Riot, This July, Barfly,

Feisty pop-punk, TBC, TBC The View, Barrowland, Indie/punk, 19:00, Sold out, £tbc Castaway, The 4/5s, Box, Dark electro-tinged rock, 20:00, TBC Throw Me the Statue, Captain’s Rest, Melodic American indie garnering comparisons to the Shins, 20:00, TBC

To Catch A Thief, Up For The Let Down, Ship Of Fools, Buildings Amongst Tall Things, In City Light, Classic Grand, Rock Showcase, until , TBC

The Steeples, Ten Bears, The Ray Summers, Someone’s Sons, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Poppy punk and rock, TBC, £ 6.00

Some Boy, Nice N Sleazy, Local indie

showcase, 19:30, TBC

The Mighty Boosh, SECC, Comedy,

TBC, Sold out, £tbc

Sat 29 Nov The John Knox Sex Club, Dead Wolf Club, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 00:00–00:00, TBA

The Debuts, ABC, 19:00–00:00, £6 The Debuts, Modern Faces, Exit Tour Left, ABC, Mogwai does

Queen’? Really?, 19:00, £ 6.00 Subsource, Barfly, Killer live dance act, TBC, TBC The Saw Doctors, Barrowland, Folk rock, 19:00, £ 20.00

Time for China, Blank Canvas, Box, Melodic rock, 20:00, TBC Frightened Rabbit, The Airbourne Toxic Event, King

Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Much lauded Glaswegian indie, TBC, £ 9.00

Dead Wolf Club, The John Knox Sex Club, Nice N Sleazy, Post

punk, 19:30, TBC

Red Snapper, Òran Mór, Jazz / Trip

hop, 19:30, £ 15.00

Under The Paving Stones feat. Kaleidescope Eyes, I See Shapes and more tbc,

Pivo Pivo, Swampy walls of sound, 20:00, £ 5.00

The Nimmo Brothers, The

Acoustic Affair, Recital Rooms at City Hall, One-off acoustic set, 20:00, £ 10.00

Clubland Live 2 - The Night of your Life is Back, SECC, Relive your clubbing youth!, 19:30, Sold out, £tbc

James Yorkston, Pictish Trail, Rozi Plain Doors, Stereo, Scottish folk, modernised, 19:30, £ 10.00

Flamboyant Bella, Boycotts, The Dirty Demographic, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut,

Sun 30 Nov

Apologies, I Have None, Nice N

PCL Presents: a place to bury strangers, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy,

Disco-pop, TBC, £ 6.00

Sleazy, Punk, 19:30, TBC Jamie Sellars, Òran Mór, 18:30, £ 8.00 / £ 6.00

Blue Panda Present – The French Wives, The Senses and guests tbc, Pivo Pivo, Quirky

indie folk, 20:00, £ 5.00 The Stills, Stereo, Indie rock, 19:30, £ 8.00

Fri 28 Nov Some Boy, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 00:00–00:00,

TBA

00:00–00:00, TBA

+ sky larkin, those dancing days, Captain’s Rest, Sweet as apple-pie

pop, from Stockholm, These Dancing Days are five barely out of school, girls, led by a pounding Hammond organ. myspace.com/thosedancing days myspace.com/skylarkinskylarkin, 20:00–00:00, tba

Pooch, Bozilla plu support, End of the Month club, 13th Note, Indie pop and rock, TBC, TBC

The Pigeon Detectives, Barrowland, Thee Finest in Lad Rock, 19:00, £ 17.50

tribute, TBC, £ 7.00

and rock, 19:00, £ 5.00

Blue Rozes, The Digzys, Still, The City Screaming, Would Be Kings, Barrowland,

Papier Tigre and guests,

Captain’s Rest, http://www.myspace.com/ wehaveband, 20:00–00:00, tba

The Levee Breakers, White Ace, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Led Zep The State Broadcasters, Little Pebble, Evan Chrichton, Nice N Sleazy, Americana and folk,

Mr Scruff, Keep it Unreal,

instrumentalist, performance artist and singersongwriter, 19:30, £ 12.00

+ women, Chad Vangaalen,

The Arches, 19:30–23:00, £10

19:00–00:00, £15

13.50

Baby Dee, Paul Currell, Black Carrot, Arches, Multi-

Concrete Campfire, Brel,

PCL Presents: Future of the Left, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 00:00–00:00, TBA Dälek plus Sileni and Destructo Swarmbots, Dälek,

Little Pebble, Evan Chrichton, The State Broadcasters, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 00:00–00:00, TBA Benny Gallagher, ABC,

Ladytron, ABC, Electrorock, 19:00, £

20:00, TBC

White Denim, Stereo, Psychedelic,

Peter and the Wolf, Twisted Wheel, Rock/Pop, 19:00, £ 5.00 Andy Tucker, Woodend Tennis and Bowling Club, Country soul, 20:00, £ 10.00

Sat 22 Nov

20:00–00:00, tba

guests, 20:00, Free

Tue 25 Nov

TBC, TBC

Hercules, Mandarin & Caholic, Playtone, ABC, 19:00–00:00,

£5

Acoustic Bazooka feat. Kenny McMingal, Bradley, Ross Neilson and Amanda Cator, Pivo Pivo, Acoustic open mic and

Vacunaut, The Bucky Rage plus support, Stereo, Eclectic rock,

Classic Grand, Country and comedy, 19:30, £ 12.00

19:30–22:00, various

PCL presents: High Places,

Negura Bunget, Daemonolith, Alba Gu Brath, Ravenage, Soundhaus, Horror Records

Fri 21 Nov

Oliver!, The Pavilion Theatre,

Wed 19 Nov

Rooms at City Hall, One of America’s top emerging singer-songwriters, 20:00, £ 10.00

obScene Night, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy,

Bluegrass of another kind…, 19:30, £ 13.00

Synergy presents: Tim Exile,

56 THE SKINNY

Ewan Plater, Matthew Malone, Steve Adams, The Rio Café,

Chatham County Line, Arches,

Tue 18 Nov

rock, 19:30, £ 10.00

The Ellis Island Rejects, The Colony and guests tbc,

Anjte Duvekot plus guests, The Acoustic Affair, Recital

Academy, Rock and soul, 19:00, £ 20.00 Pete and the Pirates, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Spiky pop and punk, TBC, £ 7.00 Acoustic Jam, Nice N Sleazy, Acoustic Affair, 20:00, TBC

ing French post-hardcore, 20:00–23:30, £5

+ guests, we have band,

19:30, TBC

Pivo Pivo, Ex-Oasis on one-off acoustic tour, 20:00, £ 10.00

My American Heart, We are the Ocean, Just Surrencer, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Emo rock, TBC, £ 15.00

Gary Louris and Mark Olsen, Òran Mór, Folk rock, 19:00, £ 13.00 Fire - Scottish Ensemble with Pekka Kuusisto, Òran

Mór, Finnish violin virtuoso, 19:00, TBC

Listings

Sat 01 Nov Midnight Blues Band, Whis-

tlebinkies, 18:00–21:00, Free

bohemond + conflict diamonds + the shows + more tbc, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4 The Banjo Lounge Trio, The Counsellors, Delores Delight, Miss Lily White, Missy Malone, Vegas, Ocean Terminal,

21:00–03:00, £15

Size Queen tbc, Whistlebinkies,

21:00–00:00, Free

4FT FINGERS plus support,

Bannermans, Pop punk, 21:00, £4.00 Broken Records, Bongo Club, String-laden folk rock, 19:00, £ 8.00 / £ 7.00

Serious Sam Barrett, David Broad, Wounded Knee, The Wee Rogue, Canons Gait, Folk and

bluegrass line-up, 19:30, £4.00

The Strands, Lucille Le Seur, Boon, Henry’s Cellar Bar, Guitar hounds

and sound machines, 19:00, £4.00 Kult, Liquid Room, Polish rock rooted in punk, 19:00, £17.00 Shooglenifty, Queen’s Hall, Hypnofolkadelia?, 19:00, Concessions available, £14.00

Bohemond, Conflict Diamonds, The Shows, The Ark, Rock

Showcase, 19:30, £4.00

The Jam House musicians, The

POLE + Araya, The Voodoo

Rooms presents:, The Voodoo Rooms, 20:00–01:00, From 8pm. Advance tickets £10 stbf. Open Mic, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–03:00, Free OPEN MIC WITH MACE, Bannermans, Open Mic Night, 21:00, Free

Stu Goodall & The Whitlocks, Helen Currie and band, Rell, Rob Sproul-Cran, The Ark, folk, 19:30, £4.00

Tue 04 Nov Acoustic Edinburgh, Medina, Acoustic night., 20:00–00:00, Free

Jackie-O Motherf*cker, Valet, Inca Ore, The Voodoo Rooms presents:, The Voodoo

Rooms, 20:00–01:00, £9

Band Showcase, Whistlebinkies,

21:00–03:00, Free

Acoustic Edinburgh, Medina, Acoustic showcase, 20:00, Free

Mike Whellans, Leith Folk Club, The Village, One-man blues band,

House, The Edinburgh Eye Concert, 19:00–22:30, £21.50 the haze + universal you, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4 RUB-A-DUB STYLE, Dragonfly, 21:00–01:00, Free Softer Ride, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free

ANTONIA SIDGWICK, PASSIONATE WOLF plus support, Bannermans,

Acoustic, 21:00, TBC Pigulka, Cabaret Voltaire, Simple guitar tunes full of rhythm, 19:00, £3.00 Tangerine Dream, Picture House, Expect to hear the Germans’ classic tracks, 19:00, £21.50 The Haze, Universal You, The Ark, Indie rock, 19:30, £5.00

Northern Streams: Music, Songs and Stories from the Scottish Sagalands Concert, The Lot, International Storytelling Festival

Finale, 19:00, £ 12.00 / £ 10.00

Smoked Glass, Underbelly, The Mill, The Caves, Synth-infused and

heavy, epic rock, TBC, Free Skinny Molly, The Ferry, Think Lynyrd Skynyrd meets Molly Hatchet.’ Yes., TBC, Dinner offers available, £ 12.00 / £ 10.00

Guru’s Jazzmatazz feat. Superproducer Solar and the 7 Grand Players, Underling, Voodoo Rooms, Jazz and hip hop, 20:00, £18.00

The Pineapple Chunks plus support, Wee Red Bar, Indie rock, 19:00,

Scarecrows, Whistlebinkies,

Wed 05 Nov

Todd Rundgren, The Picture

Sat 08 Nov

Free

Support + The Simple Touch tbc, Whistlebinkies, 00:00–03:00, Free the griots + sabai + grant james + bosie + the star struck troubador, The Ark,

kings die kings + sans trauma + curators + more tbc, The Ark, 19:00–01:00, £4 ceilidh bands Hebrideans, HLI, Wild Geese & caller Ken Gourlay, Ceilidhs in Lauriston Hall, Lauriston Hall, 20:00–01:00,

£4.00

Paranoid Monkeys, Whistle

Binkies, Indie rock, 21:00, Free

Rock showcase, 21:00, Free

00:00–03:00, Free

19:30–01:00, £4

Annie Stevenson + Come in Tokyo, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free feat. Prophet George + Guests (Live), Reggae One Luv Party, Citrus Club, Roots, Reggae and

Dancehall, 22:00–03:00, Students 2 for 1/ £5 entry

RAMON, CELADOR plus support, Bannermans, Progressive rock, 21:00, £4.00

Florence and the Machine,

Cabaret Voltaire, Jaw dropping blues voice, 19:00, £6.50 Goldfrapp, Corn Exchange, Electropop, 19:00, £22.50 The Tri-Tones, Medina, 50s-60s sound live, 22:00, £3.00

The Griots, Sabai, Grant James, Bosie, The Star Struck Troubador, The Ark, Indie

rock, 19:30, £4.00 D Tox, The Jam House, Versatile cover band, 18:00, TBC

Support, The Simple Touch tbc, Whistle Binkies, Folk rock, 00:00, Free Annie Stevenson, Come in Tokyo, Whistle Binkies, Alternative rock,

Thu 06 Nov

stu goodall & The whitlocks + Helen currie and band + Rell + Rob SproulCran, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4

The Last Fix AWOL, Nobodys Heroes, Precious and Grace, Tuscan Raiders, Studio 24, Rock

interpretations of traditional folk, 20:00, £9.00

Softer Ride, Whistle Binkies, Blues

Mon 03 Nov

Union, Ska and funk-surf-jazz-rock, 21:00, Free

The Presets plus support,

Fri 07 Nov

21:00, Free

rock, 21:00, Free

Bombskare, Miyagi, Heriot-Watt

Mon 10 Nov

Obrigado tbc , The Late Report, Whistle Binkies, Alternative rock,

00:00, Free

and pop, 20:00, £ 10.00 / £ 8.00

Scarecrows, Whistle Binkies, Experimental, 00:00, Free Lee Patterson, Whistle Binkies, Acoustic rock, 18:00, Free Support, Beat Poets, Whistle Binkies, Rock/Post punk, 21:00, Free

20:00, £6.00

Band Showcase, Whistle Binkies,

Obrigado tbc + The Late Report, Whistlebinkies, 00:00–03:00, Free Tangerine Dream, The Picture

Wreckless Eric And Amy Rigby, Henry’s Cellar Bar, Acoustic rock

showcase, 19:00, TBC Blues night, The Ark, 19:30, £4.00

Whistle Binkies, Rock, 00:00, Free

Sun 02 Nov

£4.00

Pole, Araya, Voodoo Rooms, Layered, minimalist electronics, 20:00, £10.00 Open Mic, Whistle Binkies, Open Mic Night, 21:00, Free

Jackie-O Motherfucker, Valet, Inca Ore, Voodoo Rooms, Modern

Midnight Blues Band, Whistle Binkies, Blues, 18:00, Free Size Queen, Whistle Binkies, Rock, 21:00, Free

FAITHFULL NARRATOR plus support, Bannermans, Indie rock, 21:00,

Liquid Room, Sydney-based electronic duo, 19:00, £10.00

Jam House, Rock, pop and boogie, 18:00, Free before 8pm, £ 7.00 / £ 5.00

Dignan Dowell and White,

Paranoid Monkeys, Whis-

tlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free

Face Off - Metal, The Hive, Metal

band-off, 19:00, TBC

Listings

Edinburgh gigs

blues night, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4 Guru’s Jazzmatazz featuring Superproducer Solar and The 7 Grand Players, Underling, The Voodoo Rooms presents:, The Voodoo

Rooms, 20:00–01:00, £18

House, 19:00–22:30, £18.50

£10

Support + The Beat Poets, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free

Joystick Disco, The Oxygen Junkies, Flying with Penguins, Cabaret Voltaire, Electro originals

and favorites, 19:00, £4.00

Ceilidh with the Hebrideans,

Lauriston Hall, Kilt-core, TBC, £ 10.00 / £ 8.00 Todd Rundgren, Picture House, Classic pop and rock, 19:00, £18.50 Martin Kershaw, Queen’s Hall, Accomplished saxophonist, 20:00, £ 12.00 / £ 10.00

Kings Die Kings, Sans Trauma, Curators, The Ark, Goth tinged indie

rock, 19:30, £4.00

JAMANTA CREW, The Caves, Brazilian

music, 23:00, £ 8.00 / £ 6.00 The Dead Toys, The Espy, Alternative rock - acoustic, 21:30, Free Hells Bells, The Ferry, AC/DC covers, TBC, Dinner offers available, £ 12.00 / £ 10.00 The Jam House musicians, The Jam House, Rock, pop and boogie, 18:00, Free before 8pm, £ 7.00 / £ 5.00

The Dials, The Catch 22s, Blank Canvas, 32 Music, Three Sisters, Fiery rock and roll, 21:30, Free

Bubblegum Boogaloo with special guests, Doktor Combover, Voodoo Rooms, Raw and

Jojocoke, Whistlebinkies, 00:00–03:00,

Free

Main Street Blues, Whistlebinkies, 18:00–21:00, Free

OPEN MIC WITH MACE, Bannermans, Open Mic Night, 21:00, Free Stephen Fretwell, Cabaret Voltaire, Flavours of Dylan, Beatles, Cohen?, 19:00, £12.50

Experimental, 19:30, £4.00 Open Mic, Whistle Binkies, Open Mic Night, 21:00, Free

Bad Boogaloo, Whistlebinkies,

Tue 11 Nov

20:30–01:00, £8

21:00–00:00, Free

SOBER TONGUES, SUICIDE UNDERGROUND, BOOGI LOUSHOU,

Bannermans, Indie rock, 21:00, £4.00 Ida Maria, Cabaret Voltaire, Norwegian indie, 19:00, £8.00 Noasis plus support, Liquid Room, For those not quick enough to snap up Oasis tickets…, 19:00, £10.00

The Mars Patrol plus support, Studio 24, Pop/rock, 19:00, TBC Little Doses, Jacobs Pillow, The Fusiliers, Lazyhand, Missing Cat, The Ark, No frills rock,

19:30, £4.00

Mumford and Sons plus support, The Bowery Opening Party, The Bowery @ Roxy Art Centre, London folk-pop and free bubbly, 20:00, TBC

The Jam House musicians, The Jam House, Rock, pop and boogie, 18:00, Free before 8pm, £ 7.00 / £ 5.00

Greg Griffin, Christopher Stocks, Voodoo Rooms, Blues rock,

TBC, £8.00

Jojocoke, Whistle Binkies, Classic rock,

00:00, Free

Alternative rock, 19:00, Free

Binkies, Blues, 18:00, Free Bad Boogaloo, Whistle Binkies, Alternative, 21:00, Free

Main Street Blues, Whistle

Sun 09 Nov

Kosmos Kollectif, The Sky Mangle, Dead Boy Robotics, We Modern Cadets, The Ark,

Vic Goddard + Support, Citrus Club, The legendry Vic Godard returns to play two gigs with amended band and keyboards so expect some crooning as well as some punk!!, 19:30–03:00, £TBC

Georgie Nicholson, Jonny Berliner, Miss Wonton, The Voodoo Rooms presents:, The

Voodoo Rooms, 20:00–01:00, £6 Band Showcase, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–03:00, Free

Midlothian Schools Festival

of Music, Corn Exchange, Orchestras, Brass Bands, Choirs … Oh My!, TBC, £ 7.00 / £ 5.00 Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds plus support, Liquid Room, Punk era classics with added traditional elements, 19:00, £15.00

Michael Marra, Leith Folk Club, The Village, Musician, playwright, poet

and songwriter, 20:00, £8.00

Georgie Nicholson, Jonny Berliner, Miss Wonton,

Voodoo Rooms, Narrative driven acoustic folk, TBC, £6.00 Band Showcase, Whistle Binkies, Rock showcase, 21:00, Free

Dead Sexy Inc., Toxic Sonic,

Bongo Club, Electropunk from the continent, 23:00, £3.00

Burnout, Smoking Sundays,

Cabaret Voltaire, Energetic rock from Livingston, 19:00, £5.00 Bullet for My Valentine, Corn Exchange, Metal, TBC, £18.50

Artur Pizarro and the SCO Ensemble, Queen’s Hall, Debussy

Preludes Book 1, 14:30, Concessions available, £12.00

Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4

Whistlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free

feat. Prophet George + Guests (Live), Reggae One Luv Party, Citrus Club, Roots, Reggae and

Dancehall, 22:00–03:00, Students 2 for 1/ £5 entry

BILLY NO MATES plus support, Bannermans, Pop punk, 21:00, £4.00 The Wombats, Picture House, Indie pop, 19:00, £15.00

Sounds Like Silhouettes, The Energy Plan, Din Eidyn, The Ark, Acoustic pop, 19:30, £4.00

Crypt Acoustic Night feat. Nick Keir, Lindsay Sugden and the Storm, Crypt Acoustic Night, The Bowery @ Roxy Art

Centre, Bridging folk and singer-songwriter styles, 20:00, £3.00

Das Contras, Lou Hicky, The Mill, The Caves, Jazzy rock, TBC, Free Punch and the Apostles, Haight Ashbury, No Pasaran, Limbo, The Voodoo Rooms, Psych-pop

showcase, TBC, TBC

Laptop Lounge, Voodoo Rooms, Music from computers. They can do anything these days., 20:00, Free The Antix, Kings of the Delmar, Whistle Binkies, Indie rock, 00:00, Free Smashed in Sorrento tbc, Ram Bam Thank You Mam, Whistle Binkies, Rock, 21:00, Free

Bannockburn, Whistlebinkies, The Urban Poets, Whistlebinkies,

18:00–21:00, Free

Featuring Ryan Adams, Neal Casal, Chris Feinstein, Jon Graboff and Brad Pemberton, The Cardinals, The Picture

House, 19:00–22:30, £24.50 volts AC/DC, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4

Audrey Sings Nico, St Jude’s Infirmary, Eagleowl, The Voodoo Rooms presents:, The

Voodoo Rooms, 20:00–01:00, £5 (£4)

PRAIRE DUGS, ACID TONGUE, THE NEGATIVES, Bannermans, Punk,

Live/Wire, Liquid Room, AC/DC tribute,

19:30, £4.00

The Antix + Kings of the Delmar, Whistlebinkies, 00:00–03:00, Free Guillemots, The Picture House,

Whistle Binkies, Progressive rock, 21:00, Free

Scottish Chamber Orches-

tra - Paris in Music, Queen’s Hall, Classical orchestra music, 19:30, from £8.00 to £26.00

Chairman Wow, Bullet VI, James Apollo, The Ark, Indie rock,

Oatbeanie, Whistle Binkies, Rock, Alchemists of Sound tbc,

Watt Union, Guitar-driven rock and indie pop, 21:00, Free De La Soul plus support, Liquid Room, 3 Feet High and Rising. Classic. Hip hop., 19:00, £15.00 Beef, Sonny and Mista P, Medina, Live hip hop from residents, 23:00, £4.00 Guillemots, Picture House, Big beat pop, 19:00, £14.00

21:00, £4.00

Queen’s Hall, Four kiwis playing stringed instruments, rather well, one presumes, 19:45, £10.00

Sleepmode tbc, Red2Red tbc,

00:00, Free

21:00, £4.00

State of Affairs, KiDDO, Heriot-

New Zealand String Quartet,

The Joy Foundation, Monterey Soul, The Fabulous Corvettes, The Ark, Funk/soul,

19:30, £4.00

THOMAS DAVIS, FALLING RED, DISARM, Bannermans, Metal and rock,

00:00–03:00, Free

19:00–22:30, £15

Sleepmode tbc + Red2Red bc,

Whistlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free

Fri 14 Nov

the joy foundation + Monterey Soul, The Ark, Alchemists of Sound tbc,

Smashed in Sorrento tbc + Ram Bam Thank You Mam,

Plus Special Guests, The Wombats, The Picture House, chairman wow + bullet VI + james apollo + more tbc, The

19:30–01:00, £4

dance party, 20:00–01:00, £5/4 concs

Wed 12 Nov

Oatbeanie, Whistlebinkies, 00:00–03:00, Free

www.theskinny.co.uk

19:30–01:00, £4

Open Mic, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–03:00,

little doses + jacobs pillow + the fusiliers + lazyhand + missing cat, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4 Greg Griffin, Christopher Stocks, The Voodoo Rooms presents:, The Voodoo Rooms,

dirty instrumental sleaze, TBC, Free

Miles Mayhem, St Judes Infirmary plus support, Wee Red Bar,

kosmos kollective + the sky mangle + dead boy robotics + we modern cadets, The Ark,

sounds like silhouettes + the energy plan + din eidyn + more tbc, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4 Punch and the Apostles, Haight Ashbury, No Pasaran, Limbo, The Voodoo Rooms, A live music

Whistle Binkies, Alternative rock, 21:00, Free

Thu 13 Nov

19:00–22:30, £14

Death Cab For Cutie, Corn

Exchange, American indie vets, 19:00, £17.50

19:00, £10.00

The Cardinals feat Ryan Adams, Neal Casal, Chris Feinstein, Jon Graboff and Brad Pemberton, Picture House,

Rootsy rock from Adams and Co., 19:00, £24.50 Volts AC/DC, The Ark, AC/DC tribute, 19:30, £7.00 The Jam House musicians, The Jam House, Rock, pop and boogie, 18:00, Free before 8pm, £ 7.00 / £ 5.00

November 08

THE SKINNY 57

Edinburgh gigs aberdeen gigs Southpaw, Aaron Blake, The Village, Country and Americana, 20:00, £tbc

Kiddo, 32 Music, Three Sisters, Indie pop, 21:30, Free

Audrey Sings Nico, St Jude’s Infirmary, Eagleowl, Voodoo Rooms, Tribute to former Velvet Underground chanteuse, 20:00, £ 5.00 / £4.00

The Valkayrs plus support,

Wee Red Bar, Alternative rock, 19:00, £4.00 Bannockburn, Whistle Binkies, Rock, 00:00, Free The Urban Poets, Whistle Binkies, Blues rock, 18:00, Free

Sat 15 Nov Rosy Blue, Whistlebinkies, 18:00–21:00,

Free

Laki Mera & The Phantom Band, Keser, The Voodoo Rooms presents:, The Voodoo

Rooms, 19:30–01:01, £5

lewd conduct, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4

Eryka tbc + Support, Whis-

tlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free

BO DEADLY, MYSHKIN, WE ARE TRAPPED IN KANSAS plus support, Bannermans, Rock, 21:00, TBC Dance Lazarus Dance, Cannonballs DJs, Cabaret Voltaire, Electro-rock, 19:00, £7.00

The Complete Stone Roses plus guests, Corn Exchange, Stone

Roses tribute (No kidding?), 19:00, £12.50 Whole Lotta Led, Liquid Room, Led Zep tribute, 19:00, £10.00 Lewd Conduct, The Ark, Rock, 19:30, £4.00 The Jam House musicians, The Jam House, Rock, pop and boogie, 18:00, Free before 8pm, £ 7.00 / £ 5.00 Catriona MacDonald, The Lot, Traditional fiddle player from Shetland, TBC, TBC

Laki Mera, The Phantom Band, Keser, Voodoo Rooms, Intricate

feat. Prophet George + Guests (Live), Reggae One Luv Party, Citrus Club, Roots, Reggae and Sparrow and the Workshop,

Frankie Sumatra, Bugsy Seagull, Sam Jose, Dino Martini, plus Nikki Nevada and The Fabulous Scott Brothers, Vegas, Cabaret Vol-

Red 2 Red, Horse Breaker, The

THE STANDARD, 2 WAY TRAFFIC plus support, Bannermans, Indie

Dancehall, 22:00–03:00, Students 2 for 1/ £5 entry Cabaret Voltaire, Folk/surf, 19:00, TBC Ark, 19:30, £4.00

Maria Speight, The Jam House,

American jazz vocalist, 18:00, TBC

Sway, Kobi Onyame, Simba,

taire, 22:30–03:00, £10

rock, 21:00, £4.00

The One Day Speakers, City City Beat, Cabaret Voltaire, Indie four-

piece who’ve recently supported the Proclaimers, 19:00, £4.00

Voodoo Rooms, Hip hop from the LDN, 20:00, £10.00 Sonny Blue Eyes, Whistle Binkies, Acoustic female fronted four-piece, 21:30, Free

Scottish Chamber Orchestra - East Meets West, Queen’s

Thu 20 Nov

Alestrom plus support,

Zoey van Goey, Over The Wall, Callel, Limbo, The Voodoo

OXJAM Charity Showcase, The

Rooms, A live music dance party, 20:30–01:00, £5 (£4) The Zips, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free

PASSIONATE WOLF, PLASTIC STASI, OPPOSITE FRIENDS, Bannermans, Rock, 21:00, £4.00

Sans Trauma, North Atlantic Oscillation, Cabaret Voltaire,

Ex Ganger, Degrassi, X-Tigers, Arab Strap, 19:00, £5.00 The Dials, Skylab, Heriot-Watt Union, Fiery and groove-laden rock, 21:00, Free Mr Scruff plus support, Liquid Room, Electronic artist known for marathon DJ sets, 19:00, TBC

Antje Duvekot, David Heavenor, Queen’s Hall, One of America’s top emerging singer-songwriters, 20:30, £13.00

Crypt Acoustic Night, The

Bowery @ Roxy Art Centre, Bridging folk and singer-songwriter styles, 20:00, £3.00 The Stylistics, The Jam House, PhillySound Hitmakers, TBC, £20.00

Zoey Van Goey, Over the Wall, Callel, Limbo, The Voodoo

Hall, Classical orchestra music feat. Amjad Ali Khan, 19:30, from £8.00 to £26.00

Studio 24, Folk / power metal, 19:00, £9.50 Ark, Rock Showcase, 19:30, TBC

The Jam House musicians, The Jam House, Rock, pop and boogie, 18:00, £ 7.00 / £ 5.00

The Sourmash Blues Band,

The Lot, Six-piece blues, 20:30, TBC Alice Russell, Voodoo Rooms, A soulful voice with sass, 19:30, £15.00 Demons Eye, Whistle Binkies, Classic rock, 00:00, Free Safehouse, Whistle Binkies, Rock, 18:00, Free

New Town Kings, Dirty Revolution, Whistle Binkies, Ska/Reggae, 21:00, Free

Sun 23 Nov Oatbeanie, Whistlebinkies, 00:00–03:00, Free

James Morrison, The Picture House, 19:00–22:30, £17.50

leather and beer + more tbc, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4 Communicator + The Medicine, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free RELL plus support, Bannermans, Rock, 21:00, £4.00

trip-hop ambience, 19:30, £5.00 Rosy Blue, Whistle Binkies, Indie acoustic, 18:00, Free Eryka tbc, Support, Whistle Binkies, Indie rock, 21:00, Free

Rooms, TBC, TBC The Zips, Whistle Binkies, Pop punk, 21:00, Free

Fri 21 Nov

James Morrison, Picture House,

Sun 16 Nov

Lee Patterson, Whistlebinkies,

Leather and Beer plus support, The Ark, Genetically modified blues,

£6 underground heroes + tie for jack + the scalies, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4

The Five Corners Quintet, Gecko 3, The Voodoo Rooms presents:, The Voodoo Rooms, 20:00–01:00, £16

RUB-A-DUB STYLE, Dragonfly,

21:00–01:00, Free

Andi Neate and Friends, Caba-

ret Voltaire, Singer drawing from folk, rock and jazz, 19:00, £5.00 Razorlight, Corn Exchange, … Radio friendly balladry, 19:00, £25.00 The Black Keys, Queen’s Hall, Broken-down bluesmen, 19:00, £17.00

18:00–21:00, Free

maiden scotland + vantage point + size queen, The Ark,

19:30–01:00, £4

ceilidh bands Hebrideans, HLI, Wild Geese & caller Ken Gourlay, Ceilidhs in Lauriston Hall, Lauriston Hall, 20:00–01:00,

£10

FOETUS BOY, DENIED SONS OF IGLESIAS plus support, Banner-

mans, Alternative rock, 21:00, £4.00

Molara and Dubmerge, Bongo Club, Reggae, dub and jungle, 19:00, £10.00 / £ 8.00

Youth Movies, Adam Gnade,

Animals, Troggs, Spencer Davis, Liquid Room, Vintage rock ‘n’ roll,

19:00, £18.50

No, not ‘Jim’ Morrison … ‘JAMES’ Morrison, 19:00, Sold out, £17.50

19:30, £4.00

The Jive Aces, Voodoo Rooms,

Bringing together rock, swing and big band, 20:00, £10.00 Oatbeanie, Whistle Binkies, Rock, 00:00, Free

Communicator, The Medicine, Whistle Binkies, Rock, 21:00, Free

Mon 24 Nov Open Mic, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–03:00, Free

Attack! Attack!, cryoverbillionsaire, No Way Back, Cabaret

Voltaire, Post hardcore, 19:00, £6.00

Cabaret Voltaire, Progressive rock, 19:00, TBC Nadja, Atavist, Satori, Henry’s Cellar Bar, Doom Metal and Drone, 19:00, £ 6.00 / £ 8.00 Ceilidh with HLI, Lauriston Hall, Kilt-core, TBC, £ 10.00 / £ 8.00

Hive, Hip hop battles, 19:00, TBC Open Mic, Whistle Binkies, Open Mic Night, 21:00, Free

Queen’s Hall, Classical with accomplished violinist, 19:45, £ 14.50 / £ 12.00

21:00–03:00, Free

Open Mic, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–03:00,

Maiden tribute, 19:30, £5.00

Uproarious alt-rock, 19:00, £4.00 The Zutons, Corn Exchange, Rock and soul, TBC, £20.00

LIONS CHASE TIGERS, SUCIOPERRO plus support, Bannermans,

Jam House, Rock, pop and boogie, 18:00, £ 7.00 / £ 5.00

Underground Heroes, Tie for Jack, The Scalies, The Ark, Punk/ska, 19:30, £6.00

The Five Corners Quintet, Gecko 3, Voodoo Rooms, Postmodern jazz (whaddaya know?) quintet, 20:00, £16.00

Fire with Pekka Kuusisto,

Mon 17 Nov hold okass, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4 kid british, Sneaky Pete’s, 20:00–00:00,

tba

Free

Alternative rock, 21:00, £4.00 Open Mic, Whistle Binkies, Open Mic Night, 21:00, Free

Tue 18 Nov sonny blue eyes + more tbc, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4

Band Showcase, Whistlebinkies,

21:00–03:00, Free

Sonny Blue Eyes plus support, The Ark, Acoustic female fronted four-piece, 19:30, £4.00

John Goldie and Angus Lyon, Leith Folk Club, The Village, World

class acoustic guitarist, 20:00, £6.00 Finley Quaye, Voodoo Rooms, British singer-songwriter, 20:00, £15.00 Band Showcase, Whistle Binkies, Rock showcase, 21:00, Free

Wed 19 Nov My Vitriol, Stereo, 19:00–23:59, £tbc red 2 red + horse breaker + more tbc, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4 Sonny Blue Eyes + The Vaudeville Class, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free

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Maiden Scotland, Vantage Point, Size Queen, The Ark, Iron

The Jam House musicians, The Liane Carroll and Brian Kellock, The Lot, British jazz duo, 20:00, £ 14.00 / £ 12.00

Emily Scott, Maeve O’Boyle, Alan McKim, 32 Music, Three

Sisters, 21:30, Free

Bobby King and the Kingfishers, The Supper Club, Voodoo

Rooms, Dinner and lounge performances, 18:00, Includes three-course meal, £14.90 Lee Patterson, Whistle Binkies, Acoustic rock, 18:00, Free

Sat 22 Nov Demons Eye, Whistlebinkies, 00:00–03:00, Free

Safehouse, Whistlebinkies, 18:00–21:00, Free

Alice Russell, Trouble DJs, The Voodoo Rooms presents:, The Voodoo Rooms, 19:30–01:00,

£15

oxjam charity night, The Ark,

19:30–01:00, £4

New Town Kings + Dirty Revolution, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–00:00, Free

November 08

Face Off - Freestyle / MC, The

Tue 25 Nov Band Showcase, Whistlebinkies, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Endor, Dupec, Cabaret Voltaire,

Allie Robertson, Leith Folk

Club, The Village, At the forefront of Celtic harp players, 20:00, £6.00 Band Showcase, Whistle Binkies, Rock showcase, 21:00, Free

Wed 26 Nov Feeder, The Picture House, 19:00–22:30,

£22.50

the seven deadly sins + more tbc, The Ark, 19:30–01:00, £4 Montana, Whistlebinkies, 21:00–00:00,

Free

feat. Prophet George + Guests (Live), Reggae One Luv Party, Citrus Club, Roots, Reggae and

Dancehall, 22:00–03:00, Students 2 for 1/ £5 entry Dave Dobbyn, Cabaret Voltaire, New Zealand rock treasure, 19:00, £12.50

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,

Corn Exchange, Modern rock’s favourite creepy uncle, TBC, £32.50

Skinnyman plus support, Oxjam Presents, Liquid Room,

Hip hop. Fact: Once beat Eminem in a rap-battle, 19:00, £8.00 Feeder, Picture House, Alternative rock, 19:00, £22.50

The Seven Deadly Sins plus support, The Ark, Indie rock, 19:30, £4.00

Sat 01 Nov

Sat 08 Nov

Tue 18 Nov

danceLIVE! 08, The Lemon Tree, A

Karen Matheson, The Lemon Tree,

Less Than Jake, Moshulu, American

fascinating round-up of new dance works by regionally-based choreographers. www.dancelive. org.uk, 18:00–22:00, £tbc

Witte Wartena, Green Pony, Boy, Project Slogan, Opening night of 2 week exhibition of new illustrative work by Witte Wartena. Refreshments and music from Green Pony. http://www.myspace.com/greenpony, 19:00–22:00, free

MAJOR MATT MASON USA + FRANCIS MACDONALD + MATRICARIANS, Sound Festival + IMP, The Music Club, Major Matt Mason

USA has been making music since the late 80’s. , 20:00–23:30, £5 SaxAssault, The Lemon Tree, Jazz, pop and classical sax ninetet, 20:30–00:00, £10

DJ’s Calum Stuart and kidProquo, Everything Else Sucks, The Tunnels, Everything Else Sucks

Halloween Special will be a very dark and eerie evening., 23:00–03:00, £3

Tue 04 Nov Katie Melua, Aberdeen Exhibition

and Conference Centre, Katie Melua returns to the AECC on another world tour. She was performing from 500 metres below sea level not so long ago so hold your breath for a large ticket demand., 18:30–23:00, £28.50 + BF

Wed 05 Nov TO ROCOCO ROT + LAKI MERA + SARAH J TINGLE, Sound Festival + IMP, The Tunnels, IDM and

electronica from oldschool German experimenatlists. , 20:00–23:30, £6 adv + bf / £8 door

STEVE DOOLITTLE, Robot Rock, Moshulu, Indie, electro punk weekly

WITH DJ STEVE DOOLITTLE. Student Friendly, 22:30–02:00, free

Gaelic vocalist/ folk., 19:30–00:00, £15 + bf

Duncan Chisholm, Ivan Drever, Mike & Ali Vass, Fiddler’s Rally, Music Hall, Annual

celebration of the very best in fiddle music around sees Aberdeen Strathspey and Reel Society joined by two of the best duos on the traditional scene., 19:30–22:30, £13 + bf

Interesting Music Presents: (De-Fence Records...), The Blue

Lamp, A DIY outfit who write, record, produce and release electronic and experimental music by members and associates of the Fence Collective., 20:00–22:30, £8 advance tickets, £10 on the door Hell’s Bells, The Tunnels, Accomplished AC/DC tribute band., 20:00–20:00, £10 The Rifles, Moshulu, Indie rock from London band who can count Paul Weller as a collaborator. http://www.myspace.com/therifles, 20:00–22:30, £12

Tue 11 Nov

Tunnels, Massachusetts-based musician Pamela Wyn Shannon’s inventive and intricate guitar work has been described as “a tiny chamber orchestra working in unison at the end of her hands.”, 20:00–23:30, £5

WITH DJ STEVE DOOLITTLE. Student Friendly, 22:30–02:00, free

Thu 20 Nov The Raymond Scott Project, Jazz Aberdeen, The Blue Lamp, The Raymond Scott Project is one of the most exciting and accomplished attractions to arrive on the UK jazz scene this year. , 19:30–23:30, £10/8

Wed 12 Nov STEVE DOOLITTLE, Robot Rock, Moshulu, Indie, electro punk weekly

WITH DJ STEVE DOOLITTLE. Student Friendly, 22:30–02:00, free

Thu 13 Nov Paul Weller, Aberdeen Exhibition

and Conference Centre, The Modfather in town to mark the release of his 9th solo album 22 Dreams which includes collaborations with great ‘pals’ Noel and Damon., 18:30–23:00, £30 + bf

Scottish Opera, La Traviata,

PAMELA WYN SHANNON + KITCHEN CYNICS + CRAIG DAVIDSON, Sound Festival + IMP, The

STEVE DOOLITTLE, Robot Rock, Moshulu, Indie, electro punk weekly

Attack! Attack!, Moshulu, Ohio’s equivalent of McFly, but with bigger balls. http:// www.myspace.com/attackattack, 20:00–22:30, £6 Riton, Snafu, Giles Walker in assistance. http://www.myspace.com/ritontime, 22:00–03:00, £7 advance

The Transatlantic Collective, Jazz Aberdeen, The Blue

Aware winning soprano Irene Drummond presents a varied programme that will feature some of the most beautiful songs writen in the 20th and 21st centuries, 19:45–22:30, £8 / 5 concessions

BEARDYMAN, Snafu, Beatboxing at its most bizarre with a UK festival favourite who’s done the rounds with Groove Armada and Fat Boy Slim along the way. http://www.myspace.com/beardyman, 22:00–02:00, £3 (free before midnight)

Fri 21 Nov

band from Chicago who refuse to be pigeonholed., 20:00–23:30, £5

Thu 06 Nov

Irene Drummond & Alasdair Beatson, King’s College Chapel,

Wed 19 Nov

Volcano! + Spokes + Greater The Shadow, Sound Festival + IMP, The Tunnels, Experimental/ Indie/ Rock

David Patrick’s Bop School, Jazz Aberdeen, The Blue Lamp,

Lamp, Michael Janisch’s Transatlantic Collective has been wowing audiences with its high energy contemporary jazz and re-invigorated classics over the past four years., 19:30–23:30, £10/8

ska punk band from Gainesville, Florida. http:// www.myspace.com/lessthanjake, 20:00–22:30, £14

Residents Giles Walker, A La Fu + Kid Proquo, Mixtape,

Snafu, Dirty, twisted electronica showcasing the biggest global acts in dance music., 23:00–03:00, variable

Sun 23 Nov Gala Concert, Music Hall, Goose-pimplingly good stuff!, 19:30–23:00, £8 / 5 concession

Pianist David Patrick’s Bop School takes a fresh approach to a classic jazz style. , 19:30–23:30, £10/8

Mon 24 Nov

His Majesty’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30, from £10 The Feeling, The Music Hall, Brit-Award winning five-piece The Feeling. http://www.boxofficeaberdeen.com, 19:30–19:30, tbc

McFly, Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Deserves a right royal mention purely because the ‘Gary Barlow’ one in the band has finally seen sense and employed a stylist, sort of. ., 18:30–23:00, £16 + £26 + bf

Fri 14 Nov Scottish Opera, La Traviata,

His Majesty’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30, from £10 Cage the Elephant, Moshulu, Rock and funk from a Kentuckian band ruling the touring roost right now. http://www.myspace.com/ cagetheelephant, 19:30–22:30, £tbc

Residents Giles Walker, A La Fu + Kid Proquo, Mixtape,

Tue 25 Nov Feeder, The Music Hall, Unbelievable to think Feeder have been going for 16 years but it’s here in black an white so you better believe it. First gig in three years on Aberdeen soil., 19:30–23:30, £22.50 Baby Dee + Paul Curreri + Black Carrot, The Tunnels,

Snafu, Dirty, twisted electronica showcasing the biggest global acts in dance music., 23:00–03:00, variable

20:00–22:30, £TBA

Fri 07 Nov

Sat 15 Nov

Mugenkyo Drummers, The Mu-

Kim Cascone, Scott Wilson, Erdem Helvacioglu, Robert Scott Thompson and Darragh Morgan, Sound Festival, The Lemon Tree, A fight night of

com/fightlikeapesmusic Alternative rock + punk from Irish four-piece who cite Devo and Talking Heads as inspiration., 20:00–23:00, £5

sic Hall, Retaining the traditional spirit of Taiko, yet creating a thoroughly contemporary sounds are the Mugenkyo Drummers. www.boxofficeaberdeen. com, 19:30–19:30, £tbc

King Creosote with Pictish Trail, Woodend Barn, Head honcho

of Fife’s Fence collective brings his unique folk sound to lovely Banchory setting. Joined by label mate Pictish Trail. myspace.com/kingcreosote, 20:00–23:00, £12/10 (£5 under 16) Paul Woolford, Snafu, House + electro don from 2020 Vision stable returns to the newly refurbished Snafu. http://www.myspace. com/paulwoolford, 22:00–03:00, £8 advance

Residents Giles Walker, A La Fu + Kid Proquo, Mixtape,

electroacoustic music and sound art, with gigs on the hour, 18:00–00:00, £2-7

Scottish Opera, La Traviata,

His Majesty’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30, from £10 Finch, Moshulu, Californian metal + electro pop outfit with aptly named tracks such as Insomniatic Meat. http://www.myspace.com/finchmusic, 19:30–22:30, £10 Elgin Piano Trio, The Tolbooth, 20:00–22:30, £12/£10

Sun 16 Nov

Levi’s One to Watch: Fight Like Apes, Moshulu, http://www.myspace.

Thu 27 Nov the Christine Tobin Band, Jazz Aberdeen, The Blue Lamp, Christine Tobin is one of the UK jazz scene’s real jewels. , 19:30–19:30, £15/12 The View, The Lemon Tree, Dundonian super-brats of the indie fraternity bring their lively stage presence and loyal fans to the tree., 19:30–19:30, NA

Fri 28 Nov Ladytron, Moshulu, Electro-pop and new wave from the Liverpudlian and Glaswegian outfit that have a global cult following. http://www.

Snafu, Dirty, twisted electronica showcasing the biggest global acts in dance music., 23:00–03:00, variable

20:00–22:30, £TBA

Sat 01 Nov

Thu 13 Nov

Fri 21 Nov

Resident DJ’s, Saturday @ The Jute Bar, DCA - Jute Bar,

Resident DJ’s, Jute, DCA - Jute Bar, 20:00–00:00, £tbc

Resident DJ’s, Fridays @ Jute bar, DCA - Jute Bar, Eclectic

Men Diamler, The Music Club,

myspace.com/ladytron, 20:00–20:00, £16

Dundee gigs Saturday Night Mix-up, 20:00–00:00, free

Thu 06 Nov Resident DJ’s, Jute, DCA - Jute Bar, 20:00–00:00, £tbc

Fri 07 Nov Resident DJ’s, Fridays @ Jute bar, DCA - Jute Bar, Eclectic Friday night Tunes, 20:00–00:00, free

Sat 08 Nov Resident DJ’s, Saturday @ The Jute Bar, DCA - Jute Bar, Saturday Night Mix-up, 20:00–00:00, free

Fri 14 Nov Resident DJ’s, Fridays @ Jute bar, DCA - Jute Bar, Eclectic Friday night Tunes, 20:00–00:00, free

Friday night Tunes, 20:00–00:00, free

Pangea Clubnight, The Reading Rooms, 22:30–03:00, tbc

Sat 22 Nov

Sat 15 Nov

Resident DJ’s, Saturday @ The Jute Bar, DCA - Jute Bar,

Mr Scruff ‘Keep It Unreal’,

Saturday Night Mix-up, 20:00–00:00, free

Thu 20 Nov

Saturday Night Mix-up, 20:00–00:00, free OKUPA!, 22:00–03:00, £12 - BF

Fri 28 Nov

Resident DJ’s, Jute, DCA - Jute

Resident DJ’s, Fridays @ Jute bar, DCA - Jute Bar, Eclectic

Bar, 20:00–00:00, £tbc

Friday night Tunes, 20:00–00:00, free

Listings

Sat 01 Nov

Mon 03 Nov

Arne Weinberg, Nasterlie & Jason Brunton, Bleep By Day, The Courtyard, Techno, electro,

Marky Mark, Junk, The Buff

house, 15:00–23:00, Free

Robbie Rolex, The Hip Drop, Brel, Reggae, funk and tekfunk., 21:00–01:00, Free

Craig Wilson, Hanoi Rocks, Firewater, Indie, rock & britpop, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm

Club, Jazz & funk featuring live percussion by Duffy, 23:00–03:00, £3, free with matric

Mash, Normski and Zeus, Burn, The Buff Club, Glasgow institition

playing underground classics, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3), free for pub/club workers Fresh, The Polo Lounge, Popular gay venue with house & indie, 23:00–03:00, £5

Robbie Rolex & Nel, Hip

DJ Andy & DJ Dec, Poptimism/Rocktimism, The Garage,

Andy Wilson, Pins & Needles, QMU, Indie., 21:00–03:00, £3

Shawn Roberts, Passionality, Byblos, Commercial house,

Drop, Brel, Funk, soul, electro & disco, 21:00–01:00, Free (£2), free b4 10pm

Lil Rich, Glamorama, Boho, 90s house, 80s classics, RnB & chart, 21:30–03:00, £8

Stevie Sole Middleton, Domenic Martin & Scottie B, Homegrown, Bamboo, House

and smooth RnB, jazz & funk, 22:00–03:00, £7 (£5), free b4 10.30pm/12.30am students All Tore Up, Blackfriars Basement, 1950’s record hop, R&B, rockabilly and rock n roll., 22:00–03:00, £5

iamelectron, Andrew Ingram, Hobbes, Brian d”Souza, Slabs Of The Tabernacle, The Twisted Wheel, Techno,

Detroit, disco, basement party, 22:30–03:00, £5

Kev McFarlane, Stephen Lee & Woody, Karbon Saturdays, Karbon, House & hip hop

classics, 22:30–03:00, £tbc Nu-school, The Buff Club, Fresh northern soul, jazz & funk featuring live percussion, classics downstairs, 22:30–03:00, £6

DJ Barry and DJ Dec, Absolution, Classic Grand, A heavy

alternative concoction involving styles from metal to emo, punk to industrial. Drinks offers all night to keep you absolved., 22:30–03:00, £5/£4 Spirit Catcher, Bleep, Stereo, Live techno, 23:00–03:00, £10

Loose Joints & Stevie Elements, Bad Robot, Glasgow

School of Art, Rock to techno & breakbeats, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£5), £2 GSA, free after 12am

Mr. Divine & Hushpuppy, Divine!, The Vic Bar, Northern soul, funk,

ska & mod tunes, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£5)

STEVE KOTEY (Chicken Lips / Bear Entertainment) & JD TWITCH, Melting Pot, The Admiral, Cosmic, disco, house, 23:00–03:00, £10

Ian Thomson & Paul Rea, Sabado Saturdays, Byblos,

House, 23:00–03:00, £8 (£6) ABC Saturdays, ABC 1, Soul, punk, rock & indie dance, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5), free b4 11.30pm with matric

Billy Nasty, Crystal Distortion, Wee DJs, Scrabble Vs. Cortex, Soundhaus, Techno, electro, bass., 23:00–04:00, £12 (£10)

Toolroom Records, Colours presents..., The

Arches, Big room dance music., 23:00–03:00, £14 Subculture, Sub Club, TRIPTYCH special, 23:00–03:00, £10, £5 b4 12am

Sun 02 Nov Paul Crawford, Soul Sundays, Firewater, Indie, punk & rock,

16:00–03:00, Free

Dominic Martin, Kash & Max, Disco Badger, Bamboo,

Classic house music all night long with other boogie next door, 20:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 11pm/12pm with matric

Jumblesale Sounds, It Sure Beats Waitin’, The Fly-

ing Duck, Bass, percussion & scratching, 21:00–03:00, Free b4 11pm

Pop & rock, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP

23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)

Tue 04 Nov Folk It!, The Mixing Rooms, Up & coming folk musician session, 20:00–01:00, Free DJ Muppet, Revolution, QMU, Rock & punk, 21:00–02:00, £3 (£2), free b4 10pm Kaleidoscope Live, ABC 2, Old school rock & roll, soul, funk, from the 1960’s1980’s, 22:00–03:00, £3, free with matric. After 12am Shazza Halliwell, Audioculture, Byblos, Chart, cheese, rnb,

house, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)

Andy Wilson & DJ Kash, All Star, Bamboo, Funk & hip pop,

23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 11pm/12am with matric

Wed 05 Nov Residents, Octopussy, The

Arches, Student night, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5)

Harvey Kartel & DJ Pumpio, Easy, The Buff Club, Pick & mix of every-

thing, 23:00–03:00, £3

DJs Madame S & CeeNiven, Unherd! & Afraid of the Dark, Classic Grand, Electro,

dirty-house, disco-sleaze, punk-treats & technobeats., 23:00–03:00, £3, free b4 12am

Gerry Lyons, After Hours, The Buff Club, Pick & mix of everything, 23:00–03:00, £3

Thu 06 Nov Dub & Grub, The 78, Dub, 19:00–00:00,

Free

Boom Monk Ben, Mixed Bizness, Glasgow School of Art,

23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

Clatty Pats, Òran Mór, Eclectic, 23:00–03:00, £4 (Free for NHS workers) Psyklopz, Stereo, Eclectic, 23:00–03:00, £2

Hi-Fi Sean & Hushpuppy, Record Playerz, The Vic Bar,

Disco electro, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3) Rubbermensch, ABC 2, A night for indie lovers, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with matric DJ Billy, Skint, The Cathouse, Metal, hip hop & rock, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with PIYP

DJ Toast, Up The Racket,

Firewater, Indie, soul, britpop, rock, punk, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3), free b4 10.30pm

DJ Normski, Zero Thursdays, Boho, Funk, electro & house,

23:00–03:00, £3

Audiophile, Maggie May’s, Eclectic.,

23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

DJ Barry & Harvey Kartel, AltNation Club, Bamboo, Rock, indie., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

DJ Fiona J, Michelle Marsh and Suzie McGuire, Hang The DJ, Byblos, Student anthems.,

SCOTT BROWN & GAMMER, Twisted & Brainfire, Ivory Blacks, Hardcore., 21:00–03:00, £12

Jim Da Best, Flirtini Fridays,

Boho, Party tunes & floor fillers, 21:30–03:00, £6

Nicola Walker, Route 666,

The Catwalk Rock Lounge, Classic & cult rock, 21:30–03:00, £tbc

Gordie & Jack, Old School,

The Buff Club, Old school tunes, 22:30–03:00, £6 Damnation, Classic Grand, DJ Barry and guests present a night of alternative alternatives, with dancefloors specialising in rock, metal, industrial, punk, hardcore and emo. The grand setting of the Classic doesn’t even come at a price, as drinks deals run all night and entry is no more than a fiver. An institution in the making., 22:30–03:00, £5/£4

Jodie Harsh, Fierce, The Tun-

nel, Brand new gay friendly club night taking place at The Tunnel with hostess Jodie Harsh greeting visitors at the door. Resident DJs DolbyAnol provide the beats with their own brand of remixed electro that has made them a favourite with Annie Mac and Mixmag., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

JD Twitch & JG Wilkes, Optimo, Sub Club, Diverse music policy.,

23:00–03:00, £9 (£8)

Craig Loosejoints & Mark Robb, Sunday Service, Òran Mór, Soul, jazz, latin, funk., 23:00–03:00, £4

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DJ Hushpuppy (Art School) & Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian), Sound Museum, Brel, Retro soul, 21:00–01:00, Free

DJ Toast, Cheesy Pop,

Jon Mancini & Kris Keegan, Tricky Disco, Karbon, House, JD Twitch & JG Wilkes, Optimo, Sub Club, Diverse music policy., Craig Loosejoints & Mark Robb, Sunday Service, Òran

Stereo, Yesterday’s sound of tomorrow, today., 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 12am

Mon 10 Nov

Sub Club, Eclectic electronic., 23:00–03:00, £10, £5 b4 12am, girls go free

Marky Mark, Junk, The Buff Club, Jazz & funk featuring live percussion by Duffy, 23:00–03:00, £3, free with matric

JOKER, DEXPLICIT, Numbers, Gavin Dunbar, Back Tae Mine, The Flying Duck, Eclectic,

23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 12am

VIVA STEREO, with support from LICKER, Pinup Nights, Stereo, Indie, punk, soul & electropop., 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4)

Sat 08 Nov Marco Bernardi, Cinephile, Satellite Dub, Antimatter, G12, Trip-hop, electronica, acoustic, ambient., 19:00–03:00, £6 (£5)

Robbie Rolex, The Hip Drop, Brel, Reggae, funk and tekfunk., 21:00–01:00, Free

Craig Wilson, Hanoi Rocks, Firewater, Indie, rock & britpop, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm

Robbie Rolex & Nel, Hip Drop, Brel, Funk, soul, electro & disco,

21:00–01:00, Free

Andy Wilson, Pins & Needles, QMU, Indie., 21:00–03:00, £3 (£2), free b4 10pm

Lil Rich, Glamorama, Boho, 90s house, 80s classics, RnB & chart, 21:30–03:00, £8

Stevie Sole Middleton, Domenic Martin & Scottie B, Homegrown, Bamboo, House

and smooth RnB, jazz & funk, 22:00–03:00, £7 (£5), free b4 10.30pm/12.30am students

Friday Street presents Afterglow, The Twisted Wheel,

Mod, northern soul, 22:00–03:00, £4

Kev McFarlane, Stephen Lee & Woody, Karbon Saturdays, Karbon, House & hip hop

classics, 22:30–03:00, £tbc Nu-school, The Buff Club, Fresh northern soul, jazz & funk featuring live percussion, classics downstairs, 22:30–03:00, £6

DJ Barry and DJ Dec, Absolution, Classic Grand, A heavy

alternative concoction involving styles from metal to emo, punk to industrial. Drinks offers all night to keep you absolved., 22:30–03:00, £5/£4 Subculture, Sub Club, TRIPTYCH special, 23:00–03:00, £10, £5 b4 12am

Loose Joints & Stevie Elements, Bad Robot, Glasgow

School of Art, Rock to techno & breakbeats, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£5), £2 GSA, free after 12am

Mr. Divine & Hushpuppy, Divine!, The Vic Bar, Northern soul, funk, Ian Thomson & Paul Rea, Sabado Saturdays, Byblos,

Legowelt, Tokyo Knife Attack, Location Unknown,

The Courtyard, Live techno/electro & DJs., 23:00–03:00, £7

Firewater, Indie, rock, punk, electro, soul, britpop, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm

Fast Eddie, Inner City Acid, Soundhaus, Electro, techno, bass,

ment, Electronic., 21:00–03:00, £7 (£5)

Òran Mór, Funk, soul, 23:00–03:00, £5

Mór, Soul, jazz, latin, funk., 23:00–03:00, £4

elliot castro, foliage define, One More Tune, Blackfri-

SABREPULSE, ENGINE 7, I AM BLIP, GRAVIOUS, EDGE OF THE MAP, Tronic, Blackfriars Base-

Residents, Sound Service,

Andrew Divine & David Barbarossa, Curious Curious,

ABC 1, Genre mash-up, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm with matric

QMU, Chart Classics & Student Anthems., 21:00–03:00, £3, free b4 10pm

Craig McGee, Horrorshow,

DJ Richard Levinson, Club Priory: Retox Rooms, Blanket,

RnB, 22:30–03:00, £5 (£3)

23:00–03:00, £9 (£8)

Fri 07 Nov

Jon Mancini & Kris Keegan, Tricky Disco, Karbon, House,

21:30–03:00, £3

Euan Nielson, ABC Fridays,

House, 23:00–03:00, £8 (£6) ABC Saturdays, ABC 1, Soul, punk, rock & indie dance, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5), free b4 11.30pm with matric

23:00–03:00, £5

Jim Da Best, We Love Sundays, Boho, Party tunes & floor fillers,

23:00–03:00, £5

Soundhaus, Techno, electro & house., 22:30–04:00, £5 b4 11.30pm

ska & mod tunes, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£5)

Òran Mór, Funk, soul, 23:00–03:00, £5

Jumblesale Sounds, It

JD Twitch, The Basement,

classic indie rock, electro., 23:00–03:00, £4, free b4 12am Alex & John, 45 Kicks, The Buff Club, New York & underground school inspired beats, 23:00–03:00, £3

Residents, Sound Service,

Dominic Martin, Kash & Max, Disco Badger, Bamboo,

Sure Beats Waitin’, The Flying Duck, Bass, percussion & scratching, 21:00–03:00, Free b4 11pm

Café Rio, Jazz, funk & soul, 22:00–03:00, Free Electroball, Karbon, 80’s, nuwave, rock & punk, 22:30–03:00, £tbc

DJ Richard Levinson, Club Priory: Retox Rooms, Blanket,

RnB, 22:30–03:00, £5 (£3)

16:00–03:00, Free

Mark Robb, Sparkies 45s,

Jim Da Best, We Love Sundays, Boho, Party tunes & floor fillers,

21:30–03:00, £3

Paul Crawford, Soul Sundays, Firewater, Indie, punk & rock,

Classic house music all night long with other boogie next door, 20:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 11pm/12pm with matric

23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)

Ross Whitten, Destroy the Decades, Classic Grand, Current &

Sun 09 Nov

ars Basement, Techno, 23:00–03:00, £5

Mash, Normski and Zeus, Burn, The Buff Club, Glasgow institition

playing underground classics, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3), free for pub/club workers Fresh, The Polo Lounge, Popular gay venue with house & indie, 23:00–03:00, £5

DJ Andy & DJ Dec, Poptimism/Rocktimism, The Garage, Pop & rock, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP

Shawn Roberts, Passionality, Byblos, Commercial house, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)

Tue 11 Nov Folk It!, The Mixing Rooms, Up & com-

ing folk musician session, 20:00–01:00, Free DJ Muppet, Revolution, QMU, Rock & punk, 21:00–02:00, £3 (£2), free b4 10pm Kaleidoscope Live, ABC 2, Old school rock & roll, soul, funk, from the 1960’s1980’s, 22:00–03:00, £3, free with matric. After 12am

Shazza Halliwell, Audio-

culture, Byblos, Chart, cheese, rnb, house, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2) Andy Wilson & DJ Kash, All Star, Bamboo, Funk & hip pop,

23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 11pm/12am with matric

Wed 12 Nov Residents, Octopussy, The

Loose Joints & Stevie Elements, Bad Robot, Glasgow

DJ Fiona J, Michelle Marsh and Suzie McGuire, Hang The DJ, Byblos, Student anthems.,

Mr. Divine & Hushpuppy, Divine!, The Vic Bar, Northern soul, funk,

indie., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)

Ross Whitten, Destroy the Decades, Classic Grand, Current &

classic indie rock, electro., 23:00–03:00, £4, free b4 12am Alex & John, 45 Kicks, The Buff Club, New York & underground school inspired beats, 23:00–03:00, £3

Fri 14 Nov JD Pleks, Fred Lemon, Good Boy, Techno Prisoners, The

Halt Bar, House, techno, electro., 20:00–00:00, Free

DJ Hushpuppy (Art School) & Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian), Sound Museum, Brel, Retro soul, 21:00–01:00, Free

DJ Toast, Cheesy Pop,

QMU, Chart Classics & Student Anthems., 21:00–03:00, £3, free b4 10pm

Craig McGee, Horrorshow, Firewater, Indie, rock, punk, electro, soul, britpop, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm

The Buff Club, Pick & mix of everything, 23:00–03:00, £3

Thu 13 Nov Dub & Grub, The 78, Dub, 19:00–00:00,

Free

Boom Monk Ben, Mixed Bizness, Glasgow School of Art,

23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

Clatty Pats, Òran Mór, Eclectic,

23:00–03:00, £4 (Free for NHS workers) Audiophile, Maggie May’s, Eclectic., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3) Psyklopz, Stereo, Eclectic, 23:00–03:00, £2

Hi-Fi Sean & Hushpuppy, Record Playerz, The Vic Bar,

DJ Toast, Up The Racket,

Firewater, Indie, soul, britpop, rock, punk, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3), free b4 10.30pm

electronica., 23:30–03:00, £3

23:00–03:00, £3

DJ Normski, Zero Thursdays, Boho, Funk, electro & house,

The Advent, Aux 88, Monox,

Soundhaus, Techno & electro., 23:00–05:00, £12 (£10) Optik, The Club (69), House & techno., 23:00–03:00, £6, £5 b4 12am

DJ Kaos (Eskimo / For Disco Only / Rong), Dominique Leone (Feedelity), David Barbarossa (Curious Curious), After Dark, Stereo, Disco,

rock n roll., 23:00–04:00, £8 (£7) Spit Fire, Blackfriars Basement, Motown, indie punk & funk., 23:00–03:00, £4

eyes wide open DJs holly and sarah, Shout Bamalama, Blackfriars Basement, DJs and live

bands, country, soul, rock n roll., 23:00–03:00, £5

Vitascope, Sound The

Sun 16 Nov

Café Rio, Jazz, funk & soul, 22:00–03:00, Free

Paul Crawford, Soul Sundays, Firewater, Indie, punk & rock,

Mark Robb, Sparkies 45s, Darkstar, Mweslee and BFlecha, Ballers Social Club, Glasgow School of Art,

Techno, electronica, hip hop., 22:00–03:00, £8

Slam, Joris Voorn (live),

Return to Mono, Sub Club, Slam rock the Subbie with the aid of a rotating support of high-calibre techno and house names. Live sets a frequent highlight., 22:30–03:00, £10/£8 Electroball, Karbon, 80’s, nuwave, rock & punk, 22:30–03:00, £tbc Gordie & Jack, Old School,

Esquire (Technical Resistance), D-Fade, Yellow Benzene, Calaco Jack, Alcane, Scrabble DJ’s, Dom D’Sylva, Decknition, Disgo and Kiddy, Symbiosis, Soundhaus, Drum & bass., 22:30–04:00, £7, £5 b4 11.30pm

16:00–03:00, Free

Dominic Martin, Kash &

Max, Disco Badger, Bamboo, Classic house music all night long with other boogie next door, 20:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 11pm/12pm with matric Jumblesale Sounds, It Sure Beats Waitin’, The Fly-

ing Duck, Bass, percussion & scratching, 21:00–03:00, Free b4 11pm

Jim Da Best, We Love Sun-

days, Boho, Party tunes & floor fillers, 21:30–03:00, £3

DJ Richard Levinson, Club Priory: Retox Rooms, Blanket,

RnB, 22:30–03:00, £5 (£3)

Residents, Sound Service, Òran Mór, Funk, soul, 23:00–03:00, £5

Jon Mancini & Kris Keegan, Tricky Disco, Karbon, House,

23:00–03:00, £5

JD Twitch & JG Wilkes,

Optimo, Sub Club, Diverse music policy., 23:00–03:00, £9 (£8) Craig Loosejoints & Mark Robb, Sunday Service, Òran Mór, Soul, jazz, latin, funk., 23:00–03:00, £4

Euan Nielson, ABC Fridays,

Mon 17 Nov

Andrew Divine & David Barbarossa, Curious Curious,

Marky Mark, Junk, The Buff Club, Jazz & funk featuring live percussion by Duffy, 23:00–03:00, £3, free with matric

ABC 1, Genre mash-up, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm with matric

Mine, The Flying Duck, Eclectic, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 12am

Gerry Lyons, After Hours,

Ian Thomson & Paul Rea,

Sabado Saturdays, Byblos, House, 23:00–03:00, £8 (£6) ABC Saturdays, ABC 1, Soul, punk, rock & indie dance, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5), free b4 11.30pm with matric

The Catwalk Rock Lounge, Classic & cult rock, 21:30–03:00, £tbc

Nicola Walker, Route 666,

thing, 23:00–03:00, £3

dirty-house, disco-sleaze, punk-treats & technobeats., 23:00–03:00, £3, free b4 12am

ska & mod tunes, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£5)

Alarm, The Twisted Wheel, Techno party, 23:00–03:00, £5

Stereo, Yesterday’s sound of tomorrow, today., 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 12am

DJs Madame S & CeeNiven, Unherd! & Afraid of the Dark, Classic Grand, Electro,

School of Art, Rock to techno & breakbeats, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£5), £2 GSA, free after 12am

Boho, Party tunes & floor fillers, 21:30–03:00, £6

Jim Da Best, Flirtini Fridays,

Arches, Student night, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5)

Harvey Kartel & DJ Pumpio, Easy, The Buff Club, Pick & mix of every-

23:00–04:00, £tbc

LEISURE SUIT LARRY, Wrong Island, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, Techno, beats,

DJ Barry & Harvey Kartel, AltNation Club, Bamboo, Rock,

Gavin Dunbar, Back Tae

Mash, Normski and Zeus,

Burn, The Buff Club, Glasgow institition playing underground classics, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3), free for pub/club workers Fresh, The Polo Lounge, Popular gay venue with house & indie, 23:00–03:00, £5 DJ Andy & DJ Dec, Poptimism/Rocktimism, The Garage,

Sat 15 Nov Robbie Rolex, The Hip Drop, Brel, Reggae, funk and tekfunk., 21:00–01:00, Free

Pop & rock, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP

Craig Wilson, Hanoi Rocks,

Shawn Roberts, Passionality, Byblos, Commercial house,

Robbie Rolex & Nel, Hip Drop, Brel, Funk, soul, electro & disco,

Tue 18 Nov

Firewater, Indie, rock & britpop, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm

21:00–01:00, Free

Andy Wilson, Pins & Needles, QMU, Indie., 21:00–03:00, £3 (£2), free b4 10pm

Lil Rich, Glamorama, Boho, 90s house, 80s classics, RnB & chart, 21:30–03:00, £8

Stevie Sole Middleton, Domenic Martin & Scottie B, Homegrown, Bamboo, House

and smooth RnB, jazz & funk, 22:00–03:00, £7 (£5), free b4 10.30pm/12.30am students

Kev McFarlane, Stephen Lee & Woody, Karbon Saturdays, Karbon, House & hip hop

classics, 22:30–03:00, £tbc Nu-school, The Buff Club, Fresh northern soul, jazz & funk featuring live percussion, classics downstairs, 22:30–03:00, £6

DJ Barry and DJ Dec, Absolution, Classic Grand, A heavy

23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)

Folk It!, The Mixing Rooms, Up & coming folk musician session, 20:00–01:00, Free DJ Muppet, Revolution, QMU, Rock & punk, 21:00–02:00, £3 (£2), free b4 10pm Kaleidoscope Live, ABC 2, Old school rock & roll, soul, funk, from the 1960’s1980’s, 22:00–03:00, £3, free with matric. After 12am Shazza Halliwell, Audioculture, Byblos, Chart, cheese, rnb,

house, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)

Mahjongg Ben Butler & Mousepad, David Barbarossa & H+P b2b, After Dark, Stereo, Disco, rock n roll., 23:00–03:00, £6

Andy Wilson & DJ Kash,

All Star, Bamboo, Funk & hip pop, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 11pm/12am with matric

Wed 19 Nov Residents, Octopussy, The

Arches, Student night, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5)

November 08

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Listings

Glasgow Clubs

Glasgow Clubs Harvey Kartel & DJ Pumpio, Easy, The Buff Club, Pick & mix of everything, 23:00–03:00, £3

DJs Madame S & CeeNiven, Unherd! & Afraid of the Dark, Classic Grand, Electro, dirty-

Bump, Blackfriars Basement, Monthly house night., 23:00–03:00, £5 Wee Numbers, The Twisted Wheel, 23:00–03:00, £tbc

Dynamix and The Moody Boyz, Fortified, The Vic Bar,

house, disco-sleaze, punk-treats & technobeats., 23:00–03:00, £3, free b4 12am

Dubstep, electronic, bass., 23:00–03:00, £tbc

The Buff Club, Pick & mix of everything, 23:00–03:00, £3

23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 12am

Gerry Lyons, After Hours,

Sat 22 Nov

Thu 20 Nov

Robbie Rolex, The Hip Drop, Brel, Reggae, funk and tekfunk.,

Dub & Grub, The 78, Dub,

19:00–00:00, Free

Boom Monk Ben, Mixed Bizness, Glasgow School of Art,

23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

Clatty Pats, Òran Mór, Eclectic,

23:00–03:00, £4 (Free for NHS workers) Audiophile, Maggie May’s, Eclectic., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

DJ Barry & Harvey Kartel, AltNation Club, Bamboo, Rock, indie., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3) Psyklopz, Stereo, Eclectic, 23:00–03:00, £2

Disco electro, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

Rubbermensch, ABC 2, A night

for indie lovers, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3), free b4 11.30pm with matric DJ Billy, Skint, The Cathouse, Metal, hip hop & rock, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£2), free b4 12.30am with PIYP

DJ Toast, Up The Racket,

Firewater, Indie, soul, britpop, rock, punk, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3), free b4 10.30pm

DJ Normski, Zero Thursdays, Boho, Funk, electro & house,

23:00–03:00, £3

DJ Fiona J, Michelle Marsh and Suzie McGuire, Hang The DJ, Byblos, Student anthems.,

23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)

Ross Whitten, Destroy the Decades, Classic Grand, Current & classic indie rock, electro., 23:00–03:00, £4, free b4 12am

Alex & John, 45 Kicks, The Buff Club, New York & underground school inspired beats, 23:00–03:00, £3

Fri 21 Nov DJ Hushpuppy (Art School) & Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian), Sound Museum, Brel, Retro soul,

21:00–01:00, Free

DJ Toast, Cheesy Pop,

QMU, Chart Classics & Student Anthems., 21:00–03:00, £3, free b4 10pm

Craig McGee, Horrorshow, Firewater, Indie, rock, punk,

electro, soul, britpop, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm

Jim Da Best, Flirtini Fridays, Boho, Party tunes & floor fillers,

21:30–03:00, £6

Nicola Walker, Route 666,

The Catwalk Rock Lounge, Classic & cult rock, 21:30–03:00, £tbc

Mark Robb, Sparkies 45s,

Café Rio, Jazz, funk & soul, 22:00–03:00, Free Electroball, Karbon, 80’s, nuwave, rock & punk, 22:30–03:00, £tbc

Gordie & Jack, Old School, The Buff Club, Old school

tunes, 22:30–03:00, £6 Damnation, Classic Grand, DJ Barry and guests present a night of alternative alternatives, with dancefloors specialising in rock, metal, industrial, punk, hardcore and emo. The grand setting of the Classic doesn’t even come at a price, as drinks deals run all night and entry is no more than a fiver. An institution in the making., 22:30–03:00, £5/£4

Room 1 - Vinyl Groover (Riot! in Ibiza Tour), David Forbes, Stephen Kirkwood & residents Marc Doc and Colin Bell. Room 2 - The Tomz Projekt, Zero3 (house set), Nicky Low, Iain Kerr & residents David Kearney and Grant Clayton, Rectify, Soundhaus,

House & techno., 22:30–04:00, £10 (£8)

Euan Nielson, ABC Fridays, ABC 1, Genre mash-up, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm with matric

Andrew Divine & David Barbarossa, Curious Curious, Stereo, Yesterday’s sound

of tomorrow, today., 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 12am

Blake Baxter, Cotton Cake, Sub Club, Techno, house, dub,

Onur Ozer, Hell, Byblos, House & techno., 23:00–03:00, £8 (£6)

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21:00–01:00, Free

Craig Wilson, Hanoi Rocks, Firewater, Indie, rock & britpop, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 10.30pm

Marky Mark, Junk, The Buff

Club, Jazz & funk featuring live percussion by Duffy, 23:00–03:00, £3, free with matric

Mash, Normski and Zeus, Burn, The Buff Club, Glasgow institition

playing underground classics, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3), free for pub/club workers Fresh, The Polo Lounge, Popular gay venue with house & indie, 23:00–03:00, £5

DJ Andy & DJ Dec, Poptimism/Rocktimism, The Garage, Pop & rock, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3), free +1 b4 12am with PIYP

Shawn Roberts, Passionality, Byblos, Commercial house, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)

Robbie Rolex & Nel, Hip Drop, Brel, Funk, soul, electro & disco,

Tue 25 Nov

Andy Wilson, Pins & Needles, QMU, Indie., 21:00–03:00, £3

Folk It!, The Mixing Rooms, Up & coming folk musician session, 20:00–01:00, Free

21:00–01:00, Free

(£2), free b4 10pm

Lil Rich, Glamorama, Boho, 90s house, 80s classics, RnB & chart, 21:30–03:00, £8

Hi-Fi Sean & Hushpuppy, Record Playerz, The Vic Bar,

23:00–03:00, £10

Gavin Dunbar, Back Tae Mine, The Flying Duck, Eclectic,

Mon 24 Nov

Stevie Sole Middleton, Domenic Martin & Scottie B, Homegrown, Bamboo, House

and smooth RnB, jazz & funk, 22:00–03:00, £7 (£5), free b4 10.30pm/12.30am students

DAYMAR, SANDY WAREZ, THE DJ PRODUCER, Impact, Sound-

haus, Hardcore, gabba, techno, drum & bass, 22:00–04:00, £10

Kev McFarlane, Stephen Lee & Woody, Karbon Saturdays, Karbon, House & hip

hop classics, 22:30–03:00, £tbc Nu-school, The Buff Club, Fresh northern soul, jazz & funk featuring live percussion, classics downstairs, 22:30–03:00, £6

DJ Barry and DJ Dec, Absolution, Classic Grand, A heavy

Loose Joints & Stevie Elements, Bad Robot,

Glasgow School of Art, Rock to techno & breakbeats, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£5), £2 GSA, free after 12am

Mr. Divine & Hushpuppy, Divine!, The Vic Bar, Northern soul, funk,

ska & mod tunes, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£5) ABC Saturdays, ABC 1, Soul, punk, rock & indie dance, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5), free b4 11.30pm with matric

Iain Thomson, Stuart McCorrisken, Paul Rea, Sabado Saturdays, Byblos,

House, 23:00–03:00, £8 (£6)

Dave Angel, Seasons, The Club (69), Techno., 23:00–03:00, £tbc Minimize, Blackfriars Basement, Minimal, techno, Detroit techno., 23:00–03:00, £5 DIGITALISM (Germany) DJ set, Franz ‘n’ Shape (Italy) live, The Golden Filter (NYC) live, Dissident Records Room with Andy Blake, Nadia Ksaiba and Den Haan live, Tramp DJs, Death Disco residents, Death Disco, The Arches, Electro, disco, 23:00–04:00, £12 D.I.Y. Disco, The Twisted Wheel, 23:00–03:00, £tbc

Sun 23 Nov Paul Crawford, Soul Sundays, Firewater, Indie, punk &

rock, 16:00–03:00, Free

Dominic Martin, Kash & Max, Disco Badger, Bamboo,

Classic house music all night long with other boogie next door, 20:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 11pm/12pm with matric

Jumblesale Sounds, It Sure Beats Waitin’, The Fly-

ing Duck, Bass, percussion & scratching, 21:00–03:00, Free b4 11pm

Jim Da Best, We Love Sun-

days, Boho, Party tunes & floor fillers, 21:30–03:00, £3

DJ Richard Levinson, Club Priory: Retox Rooms, Blanket, RnB, 22:30–03:00, £5 (£3)

Residents, Sound Service, Òran Mór, Funk, soul, 23:00–03:00, £5

Jon Mancini & Kris Keegan, Tricky Disco, Karbon, House,

23:00–03:00, £5

JD Twitch & JG Wilkes, Optimo, Sub Club, Diverse music policy.,

23:00–03:00, £9 (£8)

Craig Loosejoints & Mark Robb, Sunday Service, Òran Mór, Soul, jazz, latin, funk., 23:00–03:00, £4

November 08

DJ Muppet, Revolution,

QMU, Rock & punk, 21:00–02:00, £3 (£2), free b4 10pm Kaleidoscope Live, ABC 2, Old school rock & roll, soul, funk, from the 1960’s1980’s, 22:00–03:00, £3, free with matric. After 12am

Shazza Halliwell, Audioculture, Byblos, Chart, cheese, rnb,

house, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)

Andy Wilson & DJ Kash, All Star, Bamboo, Funk & hip pop,

23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), free b4 11pm/12am with matric

Wed 26 Nov

Edinburgh Cl Damnation, Classic Grand, DJ Barry and guests present a night of alternative alternatives, with dancefloors specialising in rock, metal, industrial, punk, hardcore and emo. The grand setting of the Classic doesn’t even come at a price, as drinks deals run all night and entry is no more than a fiver. An institution in the making., 22:30–03:00, £5/£4 Euan Nielson, ABC Fridays, ABC 1, Genre mash-up, 23:00–03:00, £6 (£4), free b4 11.30pm with matric

Andrew Divine & David Barbarossa, Curious Curious, Stereo, Yesterday’s sound of tomorrow, today., 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 12am

Friday Street, Blackfriars Basement, 23:00–03:00, £5 Dirty Summer & Plaaydoh, Winning Sperm Party, The Twisted Wheel, 23:00–03:00, £tbc

Gavin Dunbar, Back Tae Mine, The Flying Duck, Eclectic, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 12am

Sat 29 Nov Gaslamp Killer, Subeena, Samoyed live, David Barbarossa and LuckyMe, Ballers Social Club, The Ivy Bar, Techno, electronica, hip hop., 20:00–00:00, £7

Robbie Rolex & Nel, Hip Drop, Brel, Funk, soul, electro & disco, 21:00–01:00, Free

Robbie Rolex, The Hip Drop, Brel, Reggae, funk and tekfunk.,

Octopussy, The Arches, Student night, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5)

21:00–01:00, Free

of everything, 23:00–03:00, £3

Andy Wilson, Pins & Needles, QMU, Indie., 21:00–03:00, £3

Harvey Kartel & DJ Pumpio, Easy, The Buff Club, Pick & mix DJs Madame S & CeeNiven, Unherd! & Afraid of the Dark, Classic Grand, Electro, dirty-

house, disco-sleaze, punk-treats & technobeats., 23:00–03:00, £3, free b4 12am

Gerry Lyons, After Hours, The Buff Club, Pick & mix of everything, 23:00–03:00, £3

Thu 27 Nov Boom Monk Ben, Mixed Bizness, Glasgow School of Art,

23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

(£2), free b4 10pm

DJ Fiona J, Michelle Marsh and Suzie McGuire, Hang The DJ, Byblos, Student anthems.,

23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)

Ross Whitten, Destroy the Decades, Classic Grand, Current & classic indie rock, electro., 23:00–03:00, £4, free b4 12am Psyklopz, Stereo, Eclectic, 23:00–03:00, £2

Alex & John, 45 Kicks, The Buff Club, New York & underground school inspired beats, 23:00–03:00, £3 DJ Normski, Zero Thursdays, Boho, Funk, electro & house,

alternative concoction involving styles from metal to emo, punk to industrial. Drinks offers all night to keep you absolved., 22:30–03:00, £5/£4

Subculture, Sub Club, TRIPTYCH ABC Saturdays, ABC 1, Soul, punk, Iain Thomson, Stuart McCorrisken, Paul Rea, Sabado Saturdays, Byblos, House, 23:00–03:00, £8 (£6)

SambaYaBamba versus Brighton’s Carnival Collective, SambaYaBamba V Carnival Collective, Stereo, Drum and bass., 23:00–03:00, £7

Teknika, Blackfriars Basement, Minimal techno., 23:00–03:00, £8

Shift, Soundhaus, Deep, minimal, house & techno., 23:00–04:00, £tbc

Andy Piacentini, Derek Smith, Dance! Dance! Dance!, The Twisted Wheel, Disco, eclectic, 23:00–03:00, £5

JD Twitch & JG Wilkes, Optimo, Sub Club, Diverse music policy.,

DJs Rasef & Lobo, Pop Fosters, The Despondents, Eruption, The Halt Bar,

23:00–03:00, £9 (£8)

DJ Toast, Cheesy Pop,

QMU, Chart Classics & Student Anthems., 21:00–03:00, £3, free b4 10pm

DJ’s Quzzy (Coexist) and Scott (Achren), Sin, Sound-

haus, Metal., 21:00–03:00, £6 Pinup Nights, The Flying Duck, Indie, punk, soul & electropop., 21:00–03:00, £tbc

Saturday at Lulu, Lulu, Classic and modern club hits., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm Nasty P & Cunnie, Much More, Medina, Hip-hop & funk cuts,

Headspin Residents, Headspin, The Bongo Club, Funk, hip hop,

house, disco, 4 deck mix, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5) Les Bof!, The Go-Go, Studio 24, Garage, pop, mod, ska, beat, psychedelia, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4), £3 b4 12am Chris & Paul, The Egg, Wee Red Bar, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4)

DJs Fisher & Price The Visitor [AKA Jon Pleased Wimmin] and Kaupuss, Fever, Luna, Gay friendly Saturday house club., 23:00–03:00, £10 (£5)

prins thomas, Ultragroove, Cabaret Voltaire, Deep

house & techno, 23:00–03:00, £10 (£8)

Ray Harris & The Fusion Experience, Saturday Night Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar,

TRIPTYCH special, hip hop, 23:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11.30pm Grand Theft Auto, The Speakeasy @ Cabaret Voltaire, Hip hop and funk., 23:00–03:00, £tbc

Mark B & guests, Liquid Soul, Po Na Na, Chirpy music,

John Hutchison and Gareth Sommerville, Rise, Opal Lounge, Electrohouse and cherished club classics., 22:00–03:00, £4

Craig Loosejoints & Mark Robb, Sunday Service, Òran Mór, Soul, jazz, latin, funk., 23:00–03:00, £4

Mon 01 Dec Vom, Nalle, Bridget Hayden, Plaque Terror, The Radiation Line Vs. Mills and Boon, w’owfi fest, the BaNG!bAnG! crew, and Radio Six’s John Cavanagh, The Vault of Horror, The Flying Duck, Horror film screenings, visuals and things going bump in the night., 20:00–03:00, £6

Tue 04 Nov Nick A.K.A. & The Dalek,

Indie Mix, Pivo Caffé, Indie, alt, Mashup & bootlegs, 21:00–03:00, free

Residents, Spitfires Social Club, Red, Indie social club, 21:00–03:00,

free

Fryer & Gino, Motherfunk,

Opal Lounge, Original soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 22:00–03:00, Free

Mr. Jinx, The Diamond Dice,

Massa, Hip hop, RnB & grime, 22:00–03:00, £5

Rock Star Culture DJ,

Little Rock, Lulu, Electro & funky house., 22:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11pm

DJ Stuart Johnston, Frunt,

The Liquid Room, House music all night long, 22:30–03:00, free Split, Cabaret Voltaire, Blend of electro, techno, drum & bass, breakbeat, healthy midweek rave, 23:00–03:00, Free Residents, Antics, The Hive, Rock, emo, punk & metal, 23:00–03:00, free

James Longwarth, Vibe, Luna, Sexy house., 23:00–03:00, £4

DJ Aki, Late, Live n’ Funky, The Jazz Bar, 2 drummer funk band, 23:30–03:00, free

Wed 05 Nov JungleDub, The Bongo Club,

00:00–00:00, Free

Pacman, Joy, Bass Invasion,

Secret Arcade, Drum & bass, breakbeat, 21:00–01:00, Free DJ Jez Hill, Chambles, Opal Lounge, Funk & chart, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4)

Breadmark & Johnny Cashback, The Good Groove, Pivo Caffé, Funk, afrobeat, latin

breaks & house, 21:00–03:00, Free Robotales, The GRV, Eclectic set, 21:00–03:00, Free

Calverto, Harry Ainsworth, Chairman Meow, Shanghai, Eclectic, chart, dance, indie, 22:00–03:00, £4 (£1)

The TRi-Tones live 50’s-60’s band, Fresh Air FM presents..., Medina, 22:00–03:00, £3 Jon Pleased Woman, Buju,

Lulu, 22:00–03:00, £5 Indi-Go, The Liquid Room, Indie & alternative, 22:30–03:00, £2, £1 students

Black Spring DJs, Black Spring Rocks, The Jazz Bar, Music

to make girls dance, 23:00–03:00, £3 The Pit, The Hive, Rock & metal, 23:00–03:00, Free Wacky Wednesdays, Luna, Student night., 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)

Miss Kriss, Kaupuss, More,

POPOF, We Are Electric,

The Sunday Social, The Sunday Social, The Hive, Metal,

Thu 06 Nov

Cabaret Voltaire, Funky vocal house, electro and club classics., 23:00–03:00, Free

rock, punk, industrial, ebm, 80’s, 23:00–03:00, free

John Hutchinson, Shake, Shanghai, House, soulful & funky, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£2)

Trendy Wendy, Playgirl Mansions, Lulu, Chart pop & glam, 23:00–03:00, £4

The Wheel, The Jazz Bar, A mixture of

rock ‘n roll classics with original music of the rock n’ roll & gospel variety., 23:00–03:00, Free Hobo, The Bongo Club, New & old sounds, live bands, DJs., 23:00–03:00, £3

Sam Jose, Tall Paul, Easy Sunday DJ Set, The Jazz Bar, Lounge, 23:30–03:00, free

Mon 03 Nov Astroboy & Breadmark, Sounds Good, Pivo Caffé, Soul,

jazz & funk, 19:00–03:00, free

Fri 28 Nov

21:00–01:00, Free

dance, 21:00–03:00, £10 (£5)

Curious? Sunday Joint, The Bongo Club, Diverse selection of music, free internet & games, 16:00–03:00, £3, free b4 11pm

Sun 30 Nov

DJ Hushpuppy (Art School) & Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian), Sound Museum, Brel, Retro soul,

Calverto, Scott Grainer, Musicology, Shanghai, Funk, chart,

DJ Barry and DJ Dec, Absolution, Classic Grand, A heavy

23:00–03:00, £3

A night of punk, garage, blues, soul, ska, R&B., 19:00–00:00, Free

house, accessible electro, past and present club classics with a hint of R&B., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm

Sun 02 Nov

rock & indie dance, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5), free b4 11.30pm with matric

Disco electro, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

Dave Shedan, Saturday’s at Opal, Opal Lounge, Glamorous vocal

23:30–03:00, £7, £4 b4 11pm

DJ Barry & Harvey Kartel, AltNation Club, Bamboo, Rock,

Hi-Fi Sean & Hushpuppy, Record Playerz, The Vic Bar,

club, 18:00–21:00, £7 (£5)

and smooth RnB, jazz & funk, 22:00–03:00, £7 (£5), free b4 10.30pm/12.30am students

special, 23:00–03:00, £10, £5 b4 12am

indie., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3) Audiophile, Maggie May’s, Eclectic., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

Sanctuary, Studio 24, Underage goth

Stevie Sole Middleton, Domenic Martin & Scottie B, Homegrown, Bamboo, House

Clatty Pats, Òran Mór, Eclectic, 23:00–03:00, £4 (Free for NHS workers)

Sat 01 Nov

Tales From The Crypt, Jekyll and Hyde, Double bill of all manner of trashy cinema and B-Movies, with emphasise on the horror., 19:00–00:00, Free Forbidden, Shanghai, RnB, hip hop, urban electro, chart, 22:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

Cabaret Voltaire, House, electro, techno., 23:00–03:00, Free before 11:30pm. £3 after.

Jacek Zamojski & guests, Polyphonic Social Club,

Pivo Caffé, Electric mash up dance grooves, 19:00–03:00, Free

Gareth Sommerville, Coco Island, Opal Lounge, Party beats.,

22:00–03:00, £5

Kinky Indie, Citrus Club, 22:00–03:00, £2 students/ £5 others

Benetti & Cassavettes, italoBLACK, Sneaky Pete’s, Italo disco, space disco., 22:00–03:00, Free

Jez Hill, Stiletto, Lulu, Electro-

pop, classics & disco, 22:00–03:00, £5 Residents, Bump, The Liquid Room, Chart, 22:30–03:00, £2 (£1)

The Freaky Family, 100% Organic Hip Hop Live Session, The Jazz Bar, Hip hop & funky beats, 22:30–03:00, Free

Clash!, Spies in the Wires DJs & guests, Sick Note,

Residents, The Late, Great Jam Session, The Jazz Bar, Players

Cabaret Voltaire, From indie and new wave to fidget house, Baltimore booty bass to nu-rave., 23:00–03:00, Free Kieron, Cheated Hearts, The Hive, Indie, 23:00–03:00, £2 Crash, Luna, Electro, indie, hip-hop, drum and bass & dubstep., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

James Combe, The Latin

Fri 07 Nov

DJ Andrew Taylor, Dirty Stop Out, Opal Lounge, Funk, R&B,

Nuklearpuppy, Luna, Hard dance, house, trance., 00:00–00:00, £8, £6 b4 11.30pm

Jules Moretti, HED (House Electro Disco), Lulu, House,

Opal Lounge, Mix of electro-pop, classic beats and disco., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm DJ Fiona, Maestoso, Shanghai, Classics, chart, anthems, 21:00–03:00, £8 (£4) Salsa Caribe!, The Lot, Salsa DJs on the special wooden dancefloor, 21:00–01:30, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm Bubblegum Boogaloo, The Voodoo Rooms, French 60’s pop, psyche, retro., 21:00–01:00, Free

join the house trio, 22:00–03:00, free after 23.15

Quarter, Medina, Salsa, funk & latin house, 22:00–03:00, free classics., 22:00–03:00, £5, £4 b4 11pm

electro & disco., 22:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11pm

Residents, Happy Mondays, Po Na Na, Night for students & Industry folk, indie, rock & funk, 22:30–03:00, free

DJ Beefy & Wolfjazz, Trade Union, Cabaret Voltaire, Night for

deserving bar & club staff, 23:00–03:00, £2, (£1), free b4 12am

Bootek Showcase,

Jez Hill, Friday’s at Opal,

Listings

Friday at Lulu, Lulu, Mainstream club and RnB hits., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm

The Sunday Social, The Sunday Social, The Hive, Metal,

Thu 13 Nov

Medina, Hip hop to house, 22:00–03:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm Sweet Potato, Hudson Club, Classics featuring Motown, Funk, Disco, Classic R&B/Hip-Hop, 80’s, 90’s and 60’s Pop Rock., 22:00–03:00, £7, £5 b4 12pm Residents, Evol, The Liquid Room, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats & rock, 22:30–03:00, £5 Planet Earth, Citrus Club, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s hits, 22:30–03:00, Free entry before 10:30pm. £5 after.

John Hutchinson, Shake,

Pivo Caffé, Electric mash up dance grooves, 19:00–03:00, Free Laptop Lounge, The Voodoo Rooms, Event dedicated to the laptop artist., 20:00–01:00, Free

Isla Blidge, Get Funk’d,

MUNGO’s Hi-Fi, Big Toe’s Hi-Fi, Wee Red Bar, Reggae, dub, dancehall, dubstep, 22:30–03:00, £5

Tony K, Liam G, Our House, The Speakeasy @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23:00–03:00, £7, £6 b4 12am

JAMANTA CREW, Telefunken, The Caves, House.,

23:00–03:00, £8 (£6 NUS) Misfits, The Hive, Indie, electro, punk, rock, retro & a tequila girl, 23:00–03:00, £3, free b4 12am

michael forshaw, Dan Monox, stephen brown and wolfjazz, Creative Industries, The GRV, Techno.,

23:00–03:00, £10

Meat Katie, Bass Syndicate, The Bongo Club, Drum & bass, breakbeat, 23:00–03:00, £8 (£6) Nasty P, Soul Biscuits, Cabaret Voltaire, Hip hop, funk, 23:00–03:00, £5 SkunkFunk, The Jazz Bar, 5-piece funk band, 23:30–03:00, £5 (£3)

Sat 08 Nov Sanctuary, Studio 24, Underage goth club, 18:00–21:00, £7 (£5)

Dave Shedan, Saturday’s at Opal, Opal Lounge, Glamorous vocal house, accessible electro, past and present club classics with a hint of R&B., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm

Calverto, Scott Grainer, Musicology, Shanghai, Funk, chart,

dance, 21:00–03:00, £10 (£5)

Fryer & Jason Stirland, Soul Spectrum, The Voodoo

Rooms, Norwegian soulboy special, 21:00–01:00, Free

Alex Ellenger, Diskokitten, Berlin, House, electrohouse and

bootlegs., 21:00–03:00, £8, £6 b4 11.30pm Saturday at Lulu, Lulu, Classic and modern club hits., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm

Nasty P & Cunnie, Much More, Medina, Hip-hop & funk cuts,

22:00–03:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm

Darren Emerson, Musika,

The Liquid Room, We Love Space Ibiza party., 22:30–03:00, £15

Kev Wright (Sublime), Christer (Phunkdup), Laurie Neil, (Phunkdup/Cream/ Flux), Mike Loop, Hooked,

Luna, House, prog, tech-house., 22:30–03:00, £6 (£4) Tease Age, Citrus Club, All things rock, motown, alternative & soul, 22:30–03:00, Free before 11pm. £6 after.

Jam the Box residents, Struan & Rosco, Jam The Box, The GRV, Hip hop, jazz, new wave, dub

techno., 22:30–03:00, £3 Retribution, Studio 24, Rock, alternative, 23:00–03:00, £5, £3 students Bastard!, The Hive, Indie, electro, rock, metal, punk, 23:00–03:00, £4, free b4 11.30pm Chris & Paul, The Egg, Wee Red Bar, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4) Grand Theft Auto, The Speakeasy @ Cabaret Voltaire, Hip hop and funk., 23:00–03:00, £tbc

Monkey See Monkey Do, Saturday Night Fish Fry,

The Jazz Bar, TRIPTYCH special, hip hop, 23:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11.30pm

Andrew Weatherall,

Karnival, Cabaret Voltaire, House & techno., 23:00–03:00, £10 Mark B & guests, Liquid Soul, Po Na Na, Chirpy music,

23:30–03:00, £7, £4 b4 11pm

Sun 09 Nov Curious? Sunday Joint, The

Bongo Club, Diverse selection of music, free internet & games, 16:00–03:00, £3, free b4 11pm

John Hutchison and Gareth Sommerville, Rise, Opal Lounge, Electrohouse and cherished club classics., 22:00–03:00, £4

Miss Kriss, Kaupuss, More, Cabaret Voltaire, Funky vocal house, electro and club classics., 23:00–03:00, Free

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rock, punk, industrial, ebm, 80’s, 23:00–03:00, free

Shanghai, House, soulful & funky, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£2)

Trendy Wendy, Playgirl Mansions, Lulu, Chart pop & glam, 23:00–03:00, £4

The Wheel, The Jazz Bar, A mixture of

rock ‘n roll classics with original music of the rock n’ roll & gospel variety., 23:00–03:00, Free Hobo, The Bongo Club, New & old sounds, live bands, DJs., 23:00–03:00, £3

Sam Jose, Tall Paul, Easy Sunday DJ Set, The Jazz Bar, Lounge, 23:30–03:00, free

Mon 10 Nov

Jacek Zamojski & guests, Polyphonic Social Club,

Gareth Sommerville, Coco

Island, Opal Lounge, Party beats., 22:00–03:00, £5 Kinky Indie, Citrus Club, 22:00–03:00, £2 students/ £5 others

Benetti & Cassavettes, italoBLACK, Sneaky Pete’s, Italo disco, space disco., 22:00–03:00, Free

Jez Hill, Stiletto, Lulu, Electro-

pop, classics & disco, 22:00–03:00, £5 Residents, Bump, The Liquid Room, Chart, 22:30–03:00, £2 (£1)

Astroboy & Breadmark, Sounds Good, Pivo Caffé, Soul,

The Freaky Family, 100% Organic Hip Hop Live Session, The Jazz Bar, Hip hop & funky beats,

Clash!, Spies in the Wires DJs & guests, Sick Note,

jazz & funk, 19:00–03:00, free

Residents, The Late, Great Jam Session, The Jazz Bar, Players

join the house trio, 22:00–03:00, free after 23.15

22:30–03:00, Free

Cabaret Voltaire, From indie and new wave to fidget house, Baltimore booty bass to nu-rave., 23:00–03:00, Free

Beef, Sonny & Mista P, Pass The Vibes, Medina, Live hip-hop.,

23:00–03:00, £4

Stop Out, Opal Lounge, Funk, R&B, classics., 22:00–03:00, £5, £4 b4 11pm

Kieron, Cheated Hearts, The Hive, Indie, 23:00–03:00, £2 Crash, Luna, Electro, indie, hip-hop, drum and bass & dubstep., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3) Peanut Butter Jam, Wee Red Bar, Electro, dubstep, rave, baille funk, Bmore., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

Electro Disco), Lulu, House, electro & disco., 22:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11pm

Fri 14 Nov

Po Na Na, Night for students & Industry folk, indie, rock & funk, 22:30–03:00, free

Opal Lounge, Mix of electro-pop, classic beats and disco., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm DJ Fiona, Maestoso, Shanghai, Classics, chart, anthems, 21:00–03:00, £8 (£4) Salsa Caribe!, The Lot, Salsa DJs on the special wooden dancefloor, 21:00–01:30, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm Friday at Lulu, Lulu, Mainstream club and RnB hits., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm Voodoo Lounge, The Voodoo Rooms, The resident DJs raid their record collections and unearth musical gems., 21:30–01:00, Free

James Combe, The Latin Quarter, Medina, Salsa, funk & latin

house, 22:00–03:00, free

DJ Andrew Taylor, Dirty

Jules Moretti, HED (House Residents, Happy Mondays, DJ Beefy & Wolfjazz, Trade Union, Cabaret Voltaire, Night for

deserving bar & club staff, 23:00–03:00, £2, (£1), free b4 12am

Tue 11 Nov Nick A.K.A. & The Dalek,

Indie Mix, Pivo Caffé, Indie, alt, Mashup & bootlegs, 21:00–03:00, free

Residents, Spitfires Social Club, Red, Indie social club, 21:00–03:00,

free

Fryer & Gino, Motherfunk,

Opal Lounge, Original soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 22:00–03:00, Free

Mr. Jinx, The Diamond Dice,

Massa, Hip hop, RnB & grime, 22:00–03:00, £5

Rock Star Culture DJ, Little Rock, Lulu, Electro & funky

house., 22:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11pm

DJ Stuart Johnston, Frunt,

James Longwarth, Vibe, Luna, Sexy house., 23:00–03:00, £4

DJ Aki, Late, Live n’ Funky, The

Jazz Bar, 2 drummer funk band, 23:30–03:00, free

Wed 12 Nov JungleDub, The Bongo Club,

00:00–00:00, Free

Pacman, Joy, Bass Invasion, Secret Arcade, Drum & bass, breakbeat, 21:00–01:00, Free

Breadmark & Johnny Cashback, The Good Groove, Pivo Caffé, Funk, afrobeat, latin

breaks & house, 21:00–03:00, Free Robotales, The GRV, Eclectic set, 21:00–03:00, Free DJ Jez Hill, Chambles, Opal Lounge, Funk & chart, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4)

Calverto, Harry Ainsworth, Chairman Meow, Shanghai, Eclectic, chart, dance, indie, 22:00–03:00, £4 (£1)

Jon Pleased Woman, Buju,

Lulu, 22:00–03:00, £5 Indi-Go, The Liquid Room, Indie & alternative, 22:30–03:00, £2, £1 students

Gary Mac & friends, We Are Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, House,

electro, techno., 23:00–03:00, £2, free b4 12am/members

Black Spring DJs, Black Spring Rocks, The Jazz Bar, Music

to make girls dance, 23:00–03:00, £3 The Pit, The Hive, Rock & metal, 23:00–03:00, Free Wacky Wednesdays, Luna, Student night., 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)

Listings

lubs

Jez Hill, Friday’s at Opal,

Ingen (Live), The Set Up (Live), Dirt, The GRV, Techno, electro, breaks,

electronic., 22:00–03:00, £3, free b4 12am

SCOTT BOND, IndepenDANCE, Studio 24, Trance., 22:00–03:00, £8, £6 b4 12am

Isla Blidge, Get Funk’d,

Medina, Hip hop to house, 22:00–03:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm Sweet Potato, Hudson Club, Classics featuring Motown, Funk, Disco, Classic R&B/Hip-Hop, 80’s, 90’s and 60’s Pop Rock., 22:00–03:00, £7, £5 b4 12pm james holden, Kapital, The Caves, Techno, house., 22:00–03:00, £12 Residents, Evol, The Liquid Room, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats & rock, 22:30–03:00, £5

JASON CORTEZ, Bassix,

Luna, House, electro & proggresive trance., 22:30–03:00, £5 (£4) Planet Earth, Citrus Club, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s hits, 22:30–03:00, Free entry before 10:30pm. £5 after.

Funki Diva, Dejaybird, Boy

Toy, Debi T, Furburger, GHQ, Furburger is for girls who like girls who like music., 23:00–03:00, £tbc

OXIA, Phil Kieran, Compakt,

Cabaret Voltaire, Deep house, minimal, tech house and rolling European techno., 23:00–03:00, £tbc Misfits, The Hive, Indie, electro, punk, rock, retro & a tequila girl, 23:00–03:00, £3, free b4 12am

Beeds & Sugar Skull, $5 Dollar Shake, Wee Red Bar,

Electro, dubstep, rave., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3) SkunkFunk, The Jazz Bar, 5-piece funk band, 23:30–03:00, £5 (£3)

Sat 15 Nov Sanctuary, Studio 24, Underage goth club, 18:00–21:00, £7 (£5)

Dave Shedan, Saturday’s at Opal, Opal Lounge, Glamorous vocal house, accessible electro, past and present club classics with a hint of R&B., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm

Calverto, Scott Grainer,

Musicology, Shanghai, Funk, chart, dance, 21:00–03:00, £10 (£5) Sam Jose, Pretty Ugly DJs, Fanteaseya, Luna, Burlesque Club., 21:00–03:00, £10 (£8)

Saturday at Lulu, Lulu, Classic

and modern club hits., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm

November 08

THE SKINNY 61

Edinburgh Clubs Voodoo Lounge, The Voodoo Rooms, The resident DJs raid their record collections and unearth musical gems., 21:30–01:00, Free

Nasty P & Cunnie, Much More, Medina, Hip-hop & funk cuts,

22:00–03:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm Tease Age, Citrus Club, All things rock, motown, alternative & soul, 22:30–03:00, Free before 11pm. £6 after. Retribution, Studio 24, Rock, alternative, 23:00–03:00, £5, £3 students Grand Theft Auto, The Speakeasy @ Cabaret Voltaire, Hip hop and funk., 23:00–03:00, £tbc Bastard!, The Hive, Indie, electro, rock, metal, punk, 23:00–03:00, £4, free b4 11.30pm Chris & Paul, The Egg, Wee Red Bar, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4)

GARETH SOMMERVILLE, ADAM FAMOS, BACK ROOM HOSTED BY LUCKYME, DOM SUM & FINE ART AKA THE BLESSINGS, Ultragroove,

Tue 18 Nov

Fri 21 Nov

Nick A.K.A. & The Dalek, Indie Mix, Pivo Caffé, Indie, alt, Mashup &

Jez Hill, Friday’s at Opal,

bootlegs, 21:00–03:00, free

Residents, Spitfires Social Club, Red, Indie social club, 21:00–03:00, free

Fryer & Gino, Motherfunk, Opal Lounge, Original soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 22:00–03:00, Free

Mr. Jinx, The Diamond Dice, Massa, Hip hop, RnB & grime, 22:00–03:00, £5

Rock Star Culture DJ, Little Rock, Lulu, Electro & funky

house., 22:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11pm

DJ Stuart Johnston, Frunt, The Liquid Room, House music all night long, 22:30–03:00, free

Split, Cabaret Voltaire, Blend of electro, techno, drum & bass, breakbeat, healthy mid-week rave, 23:00–03:00, Free Residents, Antics, The Hive, Rock, emo, punk & metal, 23:00–03:00, free

Cabaret Voltaire, Deep house & techno, 23:00–03:00, £8 (£6)

James Longwarth, Vibe,

The Bongo Club, Funk, soul, electro & house., 23:00–03:00, £7 (£6), £5 b4 12am

The Jazz Bar, 2 drummer funk band, 23:30–03:00, free

Residents, Mumbo Jumbo, Das Contras, Saturday Night Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar,

TRIPTYCH special, hip hop, 23:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11.30pm Elevation, Luna, Edinburgh’s Ibiza influenced night., 23:00–03:00, £6 (£4)

Mark B & guests, Liquid Soul, Po Na Na, Chirpy music,

23:30–03:00, £7, £4 b4 11pm

Sun 16 Nov Curious? Sunday Joint, The Bongo Club, Diverse selection of music, free internet & games, 16:00–03:00, £3, free b4 11pm

John Hutchison and Gareth Sommerville, Rise, Opal Lounge, Electrohouse and cherished club classics., 22:00–03:00, £4

Luna, Sexy house., 23:00–03:00, £4

DJ Aki, Late, Live n’ Funky,

Wed 19 Nov JungleDub, The Bongo Club,

00:00–00:00, Free

Pacman, Joy, Bass Invasion, Secret Arcade, Drum & bass, breakbeat, 21:00–01:00, Free

Breadmark & Johnny Cashback, The Good Groove, Pivo Caffé, Funk, afrobeat,

latin breaks & house, 21:00–03:00, Free Robotales, The GRV, Eclectic set, 21:00–03:00, Free DJ Jez Hill, Chambles, Opal Lounge, Funk & chart, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4)

Calverto, Harry Ainsworth, Chairman Meow,

Miss Kriss, Kaupuss, More,

Shanghai, Eclectic, chart, dance, indie, 22:00–03:00, £4 (£1)

The Sunday Social, The Sunday Social, The Hive, Metal,

Lulu, 22:00–03:00, £5 Indi-Go, The Liquid Room, Indie & alternative, 22:30–03:00, £2, £1 students

Cabaret Voltaire, Funky vocal house, electro and club classics., 23:00–03:00, Free

rock, punk, industrial, ebm, 80’s, 23:00–03:00, free

John Hutchinson, Shake, Shanghai, House, soulful & funky, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£2)

Trendy Wendy, Playgirl Mansions, Lulu, Chart pop & glam, 23:00–03:00, £4

The Wheel, The Jazz Bar, A mixture of rock ‘n roll classics with original music of the rock n’ roll & gospel variety., 23:00–03:00, Free Hobo, The Bongo Club, New & old sounds, live bands, DJs., 23:00–03:00, £3 Sam Jose, Tall Paul, Easy Sunday DJ Set, The Jazz Bar, Lounge, 23:30–03:00, free

Jon Pleased Woman, Buju,

Gary Mac & friends, We Are Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, House, electro, techno., 23:00–03:00, £2, free b4 12am/members

Black Spring DJs, Black

Spring Rocks, The Jazz Bar, Music to make girls dance, 23:00–03:00, £3 The Pit, The Hive, Rock & metal, 23:00–03:00, Free Wacky Wednesdays, Luna, Student night., 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)

Thu 20 Nov Jacek Zamojski & guests, Polyphonic Social Club,

Pivo Caffé, Electric mash up dance grooves, 19:00–03:00, Free

Mon 17 Nov Astroboy & Breadmark, Sounds Good, Pivo Caffé, Soul,

jazz & funk, 19:00–03:00, free

Tales From The Crypt, Jekyll

and Hyde, Double bill of all manner of trashy cinema and B-Movies, with emphasise on the horror., 19:00–00:00, Free Forbidden, Shanghai, RnB, hip hop, urban electro, chart, 22:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

Residents, The Late, Great Jam Session, The Jazz Bar, Players

join the house trio, 22:00–03:00, free after 23.15

James Combe, The Latin Quarter, Medina, Salsa, funk & latin

house, 22:00–03:00, free

DJ Andrew Taylor, Dirty Stop Out, Opal Lounge, Funk, R&B,

Gareth Sommerville, Coco Island, Opal Lounge, Party

beats., 22:00–03:00, £5 Kinky Indie, Citrus Club, 22:00–03:00, £2 students/ £5 others

Benetti & Cassavettes, italoBLACK, Sneaky Pete’s, Italo

disco, space disco., 22:00–03:00, Free Jez Hill, Stiletto, Lulu, Electropop, classics & disco, 22:00–03:00, £5 Residents, Bump, The Liquid Room, Chart, 22:30–03:00, £2 (£1)

The Freaky Family, 100% Organic Hip Hop Live Session, The Jazz Bar, Hip hop & funky beats, 22:30–03:00, Free

classics., 22:00–03:00, £5, £4 b4 11pm

GHISLAIN POIRIER, Big Toe’s Hi-Fi, Wee Red Bar, Reggae, dub, dance-

electro & disco., 22:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11pm

Clash!, Spies in the Wires DJs & guests, Sick Note,

Jules Moretti, HED (House Electro Disco), Lulu, House, Residents, Happy Mondays, Po Na Na, Night for students &

Industry folk, indie, rock & funk, 22:30–03:00, free

DJ Beefy & Wolfjazz, Trade Union, Cabaret Vol-

taire, Night for deserving bar & club staff, 23:00–03:00, £2, (£1), free b4 12am

62 THE SKINNY

hall, dubstep, 22:30–03:00, £5

Cabaret Voltaire, From indie and new wave to fidget house, Baltimore booty bass to nu-rave., 23:00–03:00, Free

Kieron, Cheated Hearts,

The Hive, Indie, 23:00–03:00, £2 Crash, Luna, Electro, indie, hip-hop, drum and bass & dubstep., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

November 08

Opal Lounge, Mix of electro-pop, classic beats and disco., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm DJ Fiona, Maestoso, Shanghai, Classics, chart, anthems, 21:00–03:00, £8 (£4) Salsa Caribe!, The Lot, Salsa DJs on the special wooden dancefloor, 21:00–01:30, £5, £4 b4 9.30pm Friday at Lulu, Lulu, Mainstream club and RnB hits., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm

The 1st birthday with Bobby King & The Kingfishers, Voodoo Lounge, The

Voodoo Rooms, The resident DJs raid their record collections and unearth musical gems., 21:30–01:00, Free

Isla Blidge, Get Funk’d,

Far Too Loud (Funkatech Recordings), Al Majik, Re:Tox, Siren, Az-Tech, The

Caves, Breaks and beats., 22:30–03:00, £7 (£6)

Benetti & Cassavettes, italoBLACK, Wee Red Bar, Italo

Brian Dempster & Brett

King, Satisfied, Luna, House, prog, trance, anthems., 23:00–03:00, £6 Mark B & guests, Liquid Soul, Po Na Na, Chirpy music,

23:30–03:00, £7, £4 b4 11pm

Sun 23 Nov Curious? Sunday Joint, The

Bongo Club, Diverse selection of music, free internet & games, 16:00–03:00, £3, free b4 11pm

John Hutchison and Gareth Sommerville, Rise, Opal Lounge, Electrohouse and cherished club classics., 22:00–03:00, £4

Miss Kriss, Kaupuss, More, Cabaret Voltaire, Funky vocal house, electro and club classics., 23:00–03:00, Free

The Sunday Social, The Sunday Social, The Hive, Metal,

rock, punk, industrial, ebm, 80’s, 23:00–03:00, free

John Hutchinson, Shake, Shanghai, House, soulful & funky, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£2)

Trendy Wendy, Playgirl Mansions, Lulu, Chart pop & glam, 23:00–03:00, £4

The Wheel, The Jazz Bar, A mixture

of rock ‘n roll classics with original music of the rock n’ roll & gospel variety., 23:00–03:00, Free Hobo, The Bongo Club, New & old sounds, live bands, DJs., 23:00–03:00, £3

Sam Jose, Tall Paul, Easy Sunday DJ Set, The Jazz Bar, Lounge, 23:30–03:00, free

disco, space disco., 23:00–03:00, £5

Mon 24 Nov

rock, retro & a tequila girl, 23:00–03:00, £3, free b4 12am

jazz & funk, 19:00–03:00, free

Misfits, The Hive, Indie, electro, punk,

TERMITE (VOLUME!), C-BISCUIT (BIG TOES HIFI), Riddim Tuffa Sound, The GRV, Reggae,

jungle, dub, ragga, dubstep, 23:00–03:00, £tbc Tokyoblu, Cabaret Voltaire, House night with skilled house house band, 23:00–03:00, £10 (£6)

Astroboy & Breadmark, Sounds Good, Pivo Caffé, Soul,

SKINNYMAN LIVE With Jee4ce, Smolone & The Freaky Family, Pass The Vibes, The Liquid Room, Live hip-hop.,

CAMERA OBSCURA, Modern Lovers, The GRV, 60’s pop, 70’s rock.,

DJ Jez Hill, Chambles, Opal Lounge, Funk & chart, 21:00–03:00, £5 (£4)

Cabaret Voltaire, Breaks, beats, bootlegs., 23:00–03:00, £10

19:00–22:00, £11

Pacman, Joy, Bass Invasion, Secret Arcade, Drum & bass, breakbeat, 21:00–01:00, Free

Calverto, Harry Ainsworth, Chairman Meow, Shanghai, Eclectic, chart, dance, indie, 22:00–03:00, £4 (£1)

Jon Pleased Woman, Buju,

Lulu, 22:00–03:00, £5 Indi-Go, The Liquid Room, Indie & alternative, 22:30–03:00, £2, £1 students Wacky Wednesdays, Luna, Student night., 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3) We Are Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, House, electro, techno., 23:00–03:00, varies The Pit, The Hive, Rock & metal, 23:00–03:00, Free

Thu 27 Nov GALAXY SCOTLAND RADIO LAUNCH NIGHT, Cabaret

Voltaire, Galaxy Scotland 105-106 FM is about to take to the air. To mark its birth, the station is hosting a marathon 8-hour party at Cabaret Voltaire,featuring live music and DJs., 19:00–03:00, £tbc

Gareth Sommerville, Coco Island, Opal Lounge, Party

beats., 22:00–03:00, £5 Kinky Indie, Citrus Club, 22:00–03:00, £2 students/ £5 others

Benetti & Cassavettes, italoBLACK, Sneaky Pete’s, Italo

disco, space disco., 22:00–03:00, Free Jez Hill, Stiletto, Lulu, Electropop, classics & disco, 22:00–03:00, £5

The Freaky Family, 100% Organic Hip Hop Live Session, The Jazz Bar, Hip hop & funky beats, 22:30–03:00, Free

23:00–03:00, £6, £4 b4 12am

DJ Yoda, Sugarbeat,

Sat 29 Nov Sanctuary, Studio 24, Underage goth club, 18:00–21:00, £7 (£5)

Broken Records, De Rosa, Steve Mason (DJ Set) Wake the President, eagleowl, Jesus H Foxx, ballboy, Withered Hand, FOUND (DJ Set), Little Pebble, The European Union, Gimmee Shelter 4, The Caves, Live music., 19:30–03:00, £8 (£6)

Dave Shedan, Saturday’s at Opal, Opal Lounge, Glamorous vocal house, accessible electro, past and present club classics with a hint of R&B., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm

Saturday at Lulu, Lulu, Classic and modern club hits., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm Voodoo Lounge, The Voodoo Rooms, The resident DJs raid their record collections and unearth musical gems., 21:30–01:00, Free

STEPHAN BODZIN LIVE, STU HIRST, Paul Morrice and Flav, Mono, Luna, Techno, tech-house and minimal., 22:00–03:00, £tbc

Tease Age, Citrus Club, All things rock, motown, alternative & soul, 22:30–03:00, Free before 11pm. £6 after. Retribution, Studio 24, Rock, alternative, 23:00–03:00, £5, £3 students REBEL WALTZ TOUR, We Are Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, House,

Residents, The Late, Great Jam Session, The Jazz Bar, Players

Kieron, Cheated Hearts,

electro, techno., 23:00–03:00, Free before 11:30pm. £3 after.

The Glimmers, Headspin,

James Combe, The Latin Quarter, Medina, Salsa, funk & latin

Clash!, Spies in the Wires DJs & guests, Sick Note,

house, 22:00–03:00, free

Cabaret Voltaire, From indie and new wave to fidget house, Baltimore booty bass to nu-rave., 23:00–03:00, Free

Sanctuary, Studio 24, Underage

classics., 22:00–03:00, £5, £4 b4 11pm

£4

Dave Shedan, Saturday’s at Opal, Opal Lounge, Glamorous vo-

electro & disco., 22:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11pm

Chris Brown, Touch,

Luna, Electrohouse, tech-house, breaks., 23:00–03:00, £6 SkunkFunk, The Jazz Bar, 5-piece funk band, 23:30–03:00, £5 (£3)

Sat 22 Nov goth club, 18:00–21:00, £7 (£5)

cal house, accessible electro, past and present club classics with a hint of R&B., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm

Calverto, Scott Grainer, Musicology, Shanghai, Funk, chart,

dance, 21:00–03:00, £10 (£5)

Fryer & Jason Stirland, Soul Spectrum, The Voodoo

Rooms, Norwegian soulboy special, 21:00–01:00, Free Saturday at Lulu, Lulu, Classic and modern club hits., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm

Nasty P & Cunnie, Much More, Medina, Hip-hop & funk cuts,

22:00–03:00, £4, £3 b4 11pm Tease Age, Citrus Club, All things rock, motown, alternative & soul, 22:30–03:00, Free before 11pm. £6 after.

Nick Wilson, Jono Fyda, Alan Gray (Telefunken) and Vaala (Percussion), Halcyon, The Caves, House, disco,

techno., 22:30–03:00, £8/£7 Retribution, Studio 24, Rock, alternative, 23:00–03:00, £5, £3 students Bastard!, The Hive, Indie, electro, rock, metal, punk, 23:00–03:00, £4, free b4 11.30pm Chris & Paul, The Egg, Wee Red Bar, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4)

The Plump DJs, Bass Syndi-

cate, The Liquid Room, Drum & bass, breakbeat, 23:00–03:00, £12 (£10) Substance, Henry’s Cellar Bar, Techno & electro., 23:00–03:00, £tbc Digital Jones, Saturday Night Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar,

TRIPTYCH special, hip hop, 23:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11.30pm Grand Theft Auto, The Speakeasy @ Cabaret Voltaire, Hip hop and funk., 23:00–03:00, £tbc

join the house trio, 22:00–03:00, free after 23.15

The Hive, Indie, 23:00–03:00, £2

The Bongo Club, Funk, hip hop, house, disco, 4 deck mix, 23:00–03:00, £10

The Dialektiks, Pass The Vibes, Medina, Live hip-hop., 23:00–03:00,

Chris & Paul, The Egg, Wee Red Bar, Indie, garage, punk, ska & more at the Art College’s long running institution, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£4)

Jules Moretti, HED (House Electro Disco), Lulu, House,

Crash, Luna, Electro, indie, hip-hop, drum and bass & dubstep., 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)

Gareth Somerville, Nick Yuill, Shoot The Pump, The

Residents, Happy Mondays, Po Na Na, Night for students &

GRV, House, disco, 23:00–03:00, £5

Fri 28 Nov

Erik D’Viking, Saturday Night Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar,

DJ Andrew Taylor, Dirty Stop Out, Opal Lounge, Funk, R&B,

Industry folk, indie, rock & funk, 22:30–03:00, free

DJ Beefy & Wolfjazz, Trade Union, Cabaret Vol-

taire, Night for deserving bar & club staff, 23:00–03:00, £2, (£1), free b4 12am

Tue 25 Nov Nick A.K.A. & The Dalek, Indie Mix, Pivo Caffé, Indie, alt, Mashup & bootlegs, 21:00–03:00, free

Residents, Spitfires Social Club, Red, Indie social club, 21:00–03:00, free

Fryer & Gino, Motherfunk, Opal Lounge, Original soul, funk, disco, latin & hip hop, 22:00–03:00, Free

Mr. Jinx, The Diamond Dice, Massa, Hip hop, RnB & grime, 22:00–03:00, £5

Rock Star Culture DJ, Little Rock, Lulu, Electro & funky

house., 22:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11pm

DJ Stuart Johnston, Frunt, The Liquid Room, House music

all night long, 22:30–03:00, free Split, Cabaret Voltaire, Blend of electro, techno, drum & bass, breakbeat, healthy mid-week rave, 23:00–03:00, Free Residents, Antics, The Hive, Rock, emo, punk & metal, 23:00–03:00, free

James Longwarth, Vibe, Luna, Sexy house., 23:00–03:00, £4

DJ Aki, Late, Live n’ Funky, The Jazz Bar, 2 drummer funk band, 23:30–03:00, free

Wed 26 Nov JungleDub, The Bongo Club,

00:00–00:00, Free

Jez Hill, Friday’s at Opal,

Opal Lounge, Mix of electro-pop, classic beats and disco., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm Friday at Lulu, Lulu, Mainstream club and RnB hits., 21:00–03:00, £8, £4 b4 11pm Voodoo Lounge, The Voodoo Rooms, The resident DJs raid their record collections and unearth musical gems., 21:30–01:00, Free Sweet Potato, Hudson Club, Classics featuring Motown, Funk, Disco, Classic R&B/Hip-Hop, 80’s, 90’s and 60’s Pop Rock., 22:00–03:00, £7, £5 b4 12pm

SAMBA YA BAMBA (LIVE), CHIEF & DOG (DJ SET), MR ZIMBABWE & JIMINEZ (DJ SET), Departure Lounge Vs. Bebado Tropical Soundclash, The Caves, World beats.,

22:00–03:00, £8 (£7)

Chris Brown(Touch), Ryan Ellis (Stereotype/Karnival), Ed D (Freqbeat), Mike McGarity(Freqbeat), David Amos (Majestica) and Bruno FK (Split/Compakt), Jigsaw, Luna, Breaks, techno & tech-

house., 22:00–03:00, £6 Evol, The Liquid Room, Indie, hip hop, alternative beats & rock, 22:30–03:00, £5 Planet Earth, Citrus Club, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s hits, 22:30–03:00, Free entry before 10:30pm. £5 after. Misfits, The Hive, Indie, electro, punk, rock, retro & a tequila girl, 23:00–03:00, £3, free b4 12am SkunkFunk, The Jazz Bar, 5-piece funk band, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3) Club for Heroes, Wee Red Bar, House, techno, disco, 23:00–03:00, £5

TRIPTYCH special, hip hop, 23:00–03:00, £5, £3 b4 11.30pm

Grand Theft Auto, The Speakeasy @ Cabaret Voltaire, Hip hop and funk., 23:00–03:00, £tbc Twitch and Wilkes, Optimo, Cabaret Voltaire, Diverse music policy., 23:00–03:00, £10

Bastard!, The Hive, Indie, electro, rock, metal, punk, 23:00–03:00, £4, free b4 11.30pm

Sun 30 Nov John Hutchison and Gareth Sommerville, Rise, Opal Lounge, Electrohouse and cherished club classics., 22:00–03:00, £4

Trendy Wendy, Playgirl Mansions, Lulu, Chart pop & glam, 22:00–03:00, £4

Miss Kriss, Kaupuss, More, Cabaret Voltaire, Funky vocal house, electro and club classics., 23:00–03:00, Free

The Wheel, The Jazz Bar, A mixture of rock ‘n roll classics with original music of the rock n’ roll & gospel variety., 23:00–03:00, Free Hobo, The Bongo Club, New & old sounds, live bands, DJs., 23:00–03:00, £3 DJs Fisher & Price and Marco Smith, Taste, The Liquid Room, Dance music, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£6)

The Dark Assassin, aka Hobbes, The Hollywood Touch, aka Mr Meaks, New Idols, The Speakeasy @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)

Listings

Glasgow Art

Sat 01 Nov

Wed 05 Nov

Sat 15 Nov

Sat 22 Nov

CCA

Recoat Gallery

Funky Transport, The Deep End, Snafu, Weekly house fix with resident

Martin Jay, Zombie Disco,

Funky Transport, The Deep End, Snafu, Weekly house fix with resident

DANANANANAYKROYD @ AISTEREO, Moshulu, Double-drumming and

Open field, Painting, projection, perfor-

The Holiday Special, A newly commissioned, affordable collection of work by 30 artists. Fri 14 Nov–Sun 30 Nov, 12:00–18:00, Free

Funky Transport (classic/2020vision) hosting a number of local + international guests., 22:00–03:00, £6/5

Tue 04 Nov Wee Man, KUNG FU COMEDY, Snafu, Mild mannered tosser Neil Bratchpiece drinks radioactive Irn Bru and transforms into The Wee Man - angry scum crusader and purveyor of top quality dick jokes. His rap ‘Here You (That’ll be right)’ became a hit on YouTube, thanks to backing from rave outfit N.E.D.S. Kru, and has racked up 1.5million downloads and counting. Chris Forbes in chuckle support., 20:30–23:00, £5

Snafu, Newly branded midweek capers with super diverse selection of underground/ overground gems.. no sell outs folks. Martin Jay knows his shizzle in pizzle! Student friendly., 22:00–02:00, Free

Sat 08 Nov Funky Transport, The Deep End, Snafu, Weekly house fix with resident Funky Transport (classic/2020vision) hosting a number of local + international guests., 22:00–03:00, £6/5

Wed 12 Nov Martin Jay, Zombie Disco,

Snafu, Newly branded midweek capers with super diverse selection of underground/ overground gems.. no sell outs folks. Martin Jay knows his shizzle in pizzle! Student friendly., 22:00–02:00, Free

Funky Transport (classic/2020vision) hosting a number of local + international guests., 22:00–03:00, £6/5 with Kazey, Hush Hush, Origin, 23:00–03:00, £6

Wed 19 Nov Martin Jay, Zombie Disco,

Snafu, Newly branded midweek capers with super diverse selection of underground/ overground gems.. no sell outs folks. Martin Jay knows his shizzle in pizzle! Student friendly., 22:00–02:00, Free

Fri 21 Nov with Nil Munny + Stuart Smith, Jungle Boogie, Origin,

23:00–03:00, £5

fight rock at its finest from Glasgow band who like to take their music into the audience, literally. http://www.myspace.com/dananananaykroyd, 20:00–23:00, £6

Sat 08 Nov

DJ Ricky Harrison, FAT SAM’S, Fat Sams Level 1, The best current

chart, Hip Hop and R&B anthems mixed with the usual Saturday night favourites with our resident DJ Ricky Harrison., 22:30–02:30, £tbc

DJ Robert Walker, Back

to Reality, Fat Sams Level 2, Funky House and club classics with Resident DJ Robert Walker in the biggest dance night in the city for the past 5 years., 22:30–02:30, £tbc The Karma Lounge, Fat Sam’s, All your favourite classics from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Flares and leg warmers are optional!, 22:30–02:30, £tbc DLove + Desperate Dan, Plastic Soul, The Reading Rooms,

22:30–03:00, £5

Sun 02 Nov DJ Ricky Harrison, FAT SAMS, Fat Sams Level 1, The best current

chart, Hip Hop and R&B anthems mixed with the usual favourites with our resident DJ Ricky Harrison., 22:30–02:30, £tbc The Karma Lounge, Fat Sam’s, Brings you all your favourite songs from the 1970s and 80s with a twist, as requested by you!, 22:30–02:30, £tbc

Fri 07 Nov Ralph Lawson, Headway, The

Reading Rooms, House., 22:00–02:30, £10 The Karma Lounge, Fat Sam’s, All your favourite classics from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Flares and leg warmers are optional!, 22:30–02:30, £tbc

chart, Hip Hop and R&B anthems mixed with the usual Saturday night favourites with our resident DJ Ricky Harrison., 22:30–02:30, £tbc

DJ Robert Walker, Back

to Reality, Fat Sams Level 2, Funky House and club classics with Resident DJ Robert Walker in the biggest dance night in the city for the past 5 years., 22:30–02:30, £tbc The Karma Lounge, Fat Sam’s, All your favourite classics from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Flares and leg warmers are optional!, 22:30–02:30, £tbc feat Blackboard Jungle Sound System + The Rootical Warrior Sound (Paris), Sunweed Dub Explosion 3, The Reading Rooms, 22:30–03:00, tbc

Sun 09 Nov DJ Ricky Harrison, FAT SAMS, Fat Sams Level 1, The best current

Jim Hutchinson (Hum & Haw) + Hyrule Residents, Alex Smoke (Soma), The Reading Rooms, 22:30–03:00, tbc

Sat 15 Nov Jazzie B, Norman Jay, OKUPA!, 22:00–03:00, £14 - BF

DJ Ricky Harrison, FAT SAM’S, Fat Sams Level 1, The best current chart, Hip Hop and R&B anthems mixed with the usual Saturday night favourites with our resident DJ Ricky Harrison., 22:30–02:30, £tbc

DJ Robert Walker, Back to Reality, Fat Sams Level 2, Funky House and club classics with Resident DJ Robert Walker in the biggest dance night in the city for the past 5 years., 22:30–02:30, £tbc

The Karma Lounge, Fat Sam’s, All your favourite classics from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Flares and leg warmers are optional!, 22:30–02:30, £tbc Optimo Escapio, The Reading Rooms, 22:30–03:00, tbc

Sun 16 Nov DJ Ricky Harrison, FAT SAMS, Fat Sams Level 1, The best current

Fri 14 Nov

chart, Hip Hop and R&B anthems mixed with the usual favourites with our resident DJ Ricky Harrison., 22:30–02:30, £tbc

The Karma Lounge, Fat Sam’s, All your favourite classics from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Flares and leg warmers are optional!, 22:30–02:30, £tbc

The Karma Lounge, Fat Sam’s, Brings you all your favourite songs from the 1970s and 80s with a twist, as requested by you!, 22:30–02:30, £tbc

Chris Dyson & Steve Murray,

Intermedia, Thu 06 Nov–Sat 15 Nov, 12:00–18:00, Closed 9-12 Nov inclusive, Free

Funky Transport, The Deep End, Snafu, Weekly house fix with resident

Collins Gallery

Funky Transport (classic/2020vision) hosting a number of local + international guests., 22:00–03:00, £6/5

the Eye of the Storm Sat 04 Oct–Sat 22 Nov, 12:00–17:00, Mon-Sat, Free

Thu 27 Nov

Gallery of Modern Art

with Skinnyman, Infrasonic, Origin, 23:00–03:00, £7

Sat 29 Nov with Skream, Hush Hush, Origin, 23:00–03:00, tbc

Dundee Clubs Sat 01 Nov

mance and haircutting Sat 22 Nov–Thu 17 Jan, 11:00–18:00, Tue-Sat, Free

In the Eye of the Storm, In

Jo Spence, Self Protraits, An

Sat 22 Nov DJ Ricky Harrison, FAT SAM’S, Fat Sams Level 1, The best current

chart, Hip Hop and R&B anthems mixed with the usual Saturday night favourites with our resident DJ Ricky Harrison., 22:30–02:30, £tbc

DJ Robert Walker, Back to Reality, Fat Sams Level 2, Funky

House and club classics with Resident DJ Robert Walker in the biggest dance night in the city for the past 5 years., 22:30–02:30, £tbc The Karma Lounge, Fat Sam’s, All your favourite classics from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Flares and leg warmers are optional!, 22:30–02:30, £tbc

Sorcha Dallas Alex Frost, Compassion fatigue, Sat 11 Oct–Sat 15 Nov, 11:00–17:00, Tue-Sat, Free

School of Art

Mike Hunter, Victoria Baker, Martin Scott Powell and Katrina Johnk, Future proof, ‘Futureproof’ is an exhibition profiling

Matthew Smith, Sat 11 Oct–Sat 08 Nov, 12:00–17:00, Thurs-Sat, Free Aleana Egan, Sat 15 Nov–Sat 20 Dec, 12:00–17:00, Thurs-Sat, Free

Modern Institute Monika Sosnowska, Sat 11 Oct–

Sat 08 Nov, 10:00 (12:00)–18:00 (17:00), Mon-Fri (Sat/Sun), Free

Recoat The front row, a fashion based exhibition curated by Hanne Wyllie Fri 10 Oct–Sun 09 Nov, 12:00–18:00, Tue-Sun, Free The Holiday Special, Last year the Recoat Gallery ran a “Bargain Basement” exhibition... Fri 14 Nov–Sun 21 Dec, 12:00–18:00, Tue-Sun, Free

the enigmatic work of 4 emerging image-makers Sat 01 Nov–Sat 20 Dec, 12:00–17:00, Wed-Sat, Free

Artists’ talks, Hunter, Powell and Baker will talk about their work from Sat 06 Dec, 15:00, Sat, Free

The Common Guild Spencer Finch, Exhibition of works on paper in association with the American artist’s DCA solo show Tue 25 Nov–Sat 29 Nov, 12:00–19:00, Thurs-Sun, Free

Tramway Unreliable Witness, A group exhibition that looks at how artists explore the gaps between truth and fiction and the responsibilities and mechanisms inherent in telling stories. Fri 31 Oct–Sun 07 Dec, 10:00(12:00)–17:00, Tue-Fri(Sat & Sun), Free

Edinburgh Art

feat. Percy X (Soma), Undersound, The Reading Rooms,

Collective Gallery

National Galleries

Fri 28 Nov

Alex Dordoy, New Work Scotland, Sat 08 Nov–Sat 06 Dec,

Impressionism and Scotland, Sat 19 Jul–Sun 12 Oct, 10:00–17:00,

22:30–03:00, £5

PAUL WOOLFORD and TOM MIDDLETON, Headway, OKUPA!,

House., 22:00–03:00, £tbc

feat. Pete Herbert, Autodisco, The Reading Rooms, 22:30–03:00, tbc

Sat 29 Nov Concrete Jungle, The Reading

Rooms, 22:30–03:00, tbc

12:00–17:00, Tues-Sat, Free

Daily, £8 (£6)

Corn Exchange Gallery

Portrait Gallery

Chatonsky, Zansky and Rees, Fri 31 Oct–Thu 18 Dec, 11:00–16:30,

Mon 12 May–Fri 19 Dec, 10:00–17:00, Daily,

Heroes, 19th century self-help role models

Tues-Sat, Free

£6 (£4)

Doggerfisher

RSA

Franziska Furter, Spark erosion, Thu 13 Nov–Sat 24 Jan, 10:00–18:00, Tue-Fri, Free

Edinburgh Printmakers

Gerhard Richter, First major retrospective of Richter’s paintings to be held in Britain since 1991 Sat 08 Nov–Sun 04 Jan, 10:00(12:00)–17:00, Mon-Sat (Sun), £6 (£4) Free to under-22s

Winter exhibition, Annual members’ show Sat 08 Nov–Tue 23 Dec, 10:00–18:00, Tues-Sat, Free

Fruitmarket Gallery Curators’ Talk: Dawn Ades and Simon Baker, Guest curators in conversation with The Fruitmarket Gallery Director Fiona Bradley. Fri 07 Nov–Fri 07 Nov, 18:30–20:00, Free

Close-up, Collaborative art combining image, sound, video and music Fri 24 Oct–Sun 11 Jan, 11:00–18:00, Daily, Free

National Gallery of Modern Art Tracy Emin, 20 Years, Retrospective of the YBA narcisist Sat 02 Aug–Sun 09 Nov, 10:00–18:00, Daily, £6 (£4)

Stills Nicky Bird, Martha Rosler Library, Open reference library from artis’s personal library Fri 01 Aug–Sun 09 Nov,

GRV

11:00–18:00, Mon-Sun, Free

After School Club, After School Club is a night of talks by young illustrators and designers, who will be discussing their work and practise following graduation. from Sat 08 Nov, 18:30–21:00, Free

Studio 24 BLACK CAT, BALKANARAMA, Balkan, gypsy, klezmer and East European

Ingleby Gallery

music. Fri 28 Nov–Sat 29 Nov, 21:00–03:00, £8,

Richard Forster, Sat 04 Oct–Sat

Talbot Rice Gallery

£6 b4 11pm

22 Nov, 10:00–18:00 (19:00/17:00), Mon-Fri (Thurs/Sat), Free

Ruth Claxton, Sat 04 Oct–Wed 19 Nov, 10:00–18:00 (19:00/17:00), Mon-Fri (Thurs/Sat), Free

Langlands + Bell, Sat 25 Oct–Sat 13 Dec, 10:00(14:00)–17:00, Mon-Sat (Sun), Free

The Bongo Club

Modern Art Galleries Exhibiting Surrealism, Sat 13 Sep–Mon 01 Dec, 10:00–17:00, Mon-Sun, £6 (£4)

www.theskinny.co.uk

10:30(12:00)–17:00, Mon-Fri(Sat), Free

Streetlevel Photoworks

Mary Mary

The Karma Lounge, Fat Sam’s, All your favourite classics from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Flares and leg warmers are optional!, 22:30–02:30, £tbc

Sarah Kwan, Reflections like Echoes, Fri 31 Oct–Sat 22 Nov,

exhibition of images by the British photographer Jo Spence (1934–92) held in Glasgow Museums’ collections. Fri 06 Jun–Sun 16 Nov, 10:00–17:00(friwed)/20:00(thur), Mon-Sun, Free

The Mobile Archive, A traveling exhibition from the Israeli Centre for Digital Art Sat 15 Nov–Fri 12 Dec, 10:30–16:30, Mon-Fris, Free

Fri 21 Nov

Ricefield Arts and Cultural Centre

Commanderson and General B-Battenburg, Freak Screen, Films on roots, ska & funk. Mon 03, 10, 17, 24 Nov, 20:00–01:00, Free

November 08

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Listings

Aberdeen Clubs

Edinburgh Theatre Glasgow Theatre Sat 01 Nov Nottingham Playhouse, All Quiet on the Western Front, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30, from £14.50

Tron Theatre Company, Suddenly Last Summer, The Tron, 19:30–21:30, £10

Scottish Opera, The merry Widow, Brunton Theatre, Much loved

operetta, 19:30–21:30, £13 Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM

Traverse Theatre Company, Nasty Brutish and Short, Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Mon 10 Nov Bill Kenwright presents, An Ideal Husband, King’s Theatre, Peter

Hall’s production, 19:30–21:30, £14.50 Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Traverse Theatre Company, Nasty Brutish and Short,

Sat 15 Nov

Sat 01 Nov

Theatre Workshop, Marat/ Sade, Assembly Rooms (George Street),

SomethignWicked This Way Comes, Tramway, Catherine Wheels adapts

Marat-Sade is a theatrical mediation of history, a comment on the dramatically changing world of the 1960s, 14:30–17:30, £10

Bill Kenwright presents, An Ideal Husband, King’s Theatre, Peter

Hall’s production, 19:30–21:30, £14.50

Slava. And some snow., Slava’s Snow Show, King’s The-

atre, 19:30–21:30, from £10 Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musical, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Mon 03 Nov

Tue 11 Nov

Traverse Theatre Company, Nasty Brutish and Short,

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Play-

Bill Kenwright presents, An Ideal Husband, King’s Theatre, Peter

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

Traverse Theatre Company,

house, 19:30–22:30, various

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

Hall’s production, 19:30–21:30, £14.50

Tue 04 Nov

atre, 19:30–21:30, from £10 Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Tron Theatre Company, Suddenly Last Summer, The Tron,

Slava. And some snow., Slava’s Snow Show, King’s The-

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Stella Quines, Lifting the Lid, The Tron, three evenings of readings and informal debate with playwrights, directors and actors from our home and international collaborations., 20:00–21:00, £6

Mon 17 Nov

19:30–21:30, £10

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM Traverse Theatre Company, Nasty Brutish and Short,

house, 19:30–22:30, various

£14.50

Birmingham Rep, Wuthering Heights, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30, Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Tron Theatre Company, Suddenly Last Summer, The Tron, 19:30–21:30, £10

Fish and Game, Otter Pie,

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Thu 06 Nov 19:30–21:30, £10

Janis Claxton Dance, Failing Light, Brunton Theatre, Triple Bill,

19:30–21:30, £10.50

Birmingham Rep, Wuthering Heights, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

£14.50

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Bill Kenwright presents, An Ideal Husband, King’s Theatre, Peter

Wed 19 Nov

Slava. And some snow., Slava’s Snow Show, King’s The-

atre, 19:30–21:30, from £10 Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Thu 13 Nov Bill Kenwright presents, An Ideal Husband, King’s Theatre, Peter Slava. And some snow., Slava’s Snow Show, King’s The-

atre, 19:30–21:30, from £10 Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Theatre Workshop, Marat/ Sade, Assembly Rooms (George Street),

Marat-Sade is a theatrical mediation of history, a comment on the dramatically changing world of the 1960s, 19:30–22:30, £10

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

Traverse Theatre Company, Nasty Brutish and Short,

from £12

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Play-

house, 19:30–22:30, various

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM

The Pantheon Club, Boogie Nights, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

Wed 12 Nov

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Play-

Royal, 19:30–21:30, from £9

For the Love of Mrs Brown, The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various

Tron Theatre Company, LikeThe Rain, Tron Theatre, 21:30–23:00, £8

Sun 02 Nov For the Love of Mrs Brown, The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various

Mon 03 Nov Written by Gary Robson, Raspberry, Òran Mór, Partof Oran

petry, 13:30–15:00, £7

Hall’s production, 19:30–21:30, £14.50

Tron Theatre Company, Suddenly Last Summer, The Tron,

Rhymes with Purple, Man in a Bath, Q! Gallery, 19:30–21:00, £8 RSC, Romeo and Juliet, Theatre

Tue 18 Nov

£14.50

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM

Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:34, from £10

Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Traverse Theatre Company, Nasty Brutish and Short,

house, 19:30–22:30, various

Glasgay, And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens,

Mor’s popular lunchtime session, 12:30–14:00, £10

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Play-

Glasgay, The Parade, Citizens

Theatre, 19:30–21:30, from £10

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Play-

Brunton Theatre, 19:30–21:30, £10.50

Birmingham Rep, Wuthering Heights, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

from £10

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

Hall’s production, 19:30–21:30, £14.50

Wed 05 Nov

the Bradbury classic, 19:30–22:00, contact venue

Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

house, 19:30–22:30, various

The Pantheon Club, Boogie Nights, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

from £12

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Thu 20 Nov The Pantheon Club, Boogie Nights, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

from £12

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Traverse Theatre Company with NTS, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Fri 21 Nov

Thumunmajig, A November Day, Citizens Theatre, First World War pup-

For the Love of Mrs Brown,

The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various All the Fun of the Fair, Kings Theatre, 19:30–22:00, various

Tue 04 Nov Written by Gary Robson, Raspberry, Òran Mór, Partof Oran

Mor’s popular lunchtime session, 12:30–14:00, £10

Thumunmajig, A November Day, Citizens Theatre, First World War pup-

petry, 13:30–15:00, £7

Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

from £10

For the Love of Mrs Brown,

The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various All the Fun of the Fair, Kings Theatre, 19:30–22:00, various

Tron Theatre Company, LikeThe Rain, Tron Theatre,

Sat 22 Nov The Pantheon Club, Boogie Nights, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

from £12

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

from £10

For the Love of Mrs Brown,

The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various All the Fun of the Fair, Kings Theatre, 19:30–22:00, various

Lone Twin, Daniel Hit by a Train, The Arches, 19:45–21:00, £8 Tron Theatre Company, LikeThe Rain, Tron Theatre, 21:30–23:00, £8

Fri 14 Nov

Birmingham Rep, Wuthering Heights, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

Traverse Theatre Company with NTS, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, Traverse, 20:00–21:30,

Hall’s production, 19:30–21:30, £14.50

19:30–21:30, £10

£14.50

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

Traverse Theatre Company, Nasty Brutish and Short, Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Bill Kenwright presents, An Ideal Husband, King’s Theatre, Peter Slava. And some snow., Slava’s Snow Show, King’s The-

atre, 19:30–21:30, from £10 Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Theatre Workshop, Marat/ Sade, Assembly Rooms (George Street),

Marat-Sade is a theatrical mediation of history, a comment on the dramatically changing world of the 1960s, 19:30–22:30, £10

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

Sat 08 Nov Tron Theatre Company, Suddenly Last Summer, The Tron, 19:30–21:30, £10

Traverse Theatre Company, Nasty Brutish and Short, Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

Birmingham Rep, Wuthering Heights, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Directed by Tony Cownie, Mary Rose, Royal Lyceum Theatre, JM

The Tron, three evenings of readings and informal debate with playwrights, directors and actors from our home and international collaborations., 20:00–21:00, £6

£14.50

Barrie explores a darker path, 19:45–22:00, from £12

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Stella Quines, Lifting the Lid,

November 08

house, 19:30–22:30, various

from £8

Tue 25 Nov Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Traverse Theatre Company with NTS, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Wed 26 Nov Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Fish and Game, Otter Pie,

Traverse, Satire and performance art style in an accessible experimental show, 20:00–22:00, from £8

Traverse Theatre Company with NTS, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

Thu 27 Nov Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Playhouse, 19:30–22:30, various

Tron Theatre Company, LikeThe Rain, Tron Theatre, 21:30–23:00, £8

Sat 08 Nov Written by Gary Robson,

Raspberry, Òran Mór, Partof Oran Mor’s popular lunchtime session, 12:30–14:00, £10 Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

from £10

Tramway, Sarah Kane rattles the form and content., 20:00–21:00, £10

Sat 15 Nov Written by Laura Neil,

Washed Up, Òran Mór, Part of a Play, A Pie and A Pint Season, 12:30–14:00, £10

Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

from £10

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

Sweetscar, 4.48 Psychosis, Tramway, Sarah Kane rattles the form and content., 20:00–21:00, £10

Mon 17 Nov Written by Ali Muriel, Under My Skin, Òran Mór, A Play, A Pie and a

Phoenix Dance Theatre,

Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

For the Love of Mrs Brown,

Tue 18 Nov

The Alexander Brothers, Dean Park, Alastair McDonald, John Carmichael and his band, The Magic of Scotland, The Pavilion Theatre, Traditional

Written by Ali Muriel, Under My Skin, Òran Mór, A Play, A Pie and a

Theatre Royal, 19:30–21:29, various

The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various

Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre

Zero, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–22:00, Full

Scottish variety show, 19:30–22:00, various

Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

price £12/ concessions available

Wed 19 Nov

All the Fun of the Fair, Kings

Theatre, 19:30–22:00, various

Written by Ali Muriel, Under My Skin, Òran Mór, A Play, A Pie and a

Lone Twin, Daniel Hit by a Train, The Arches, 19:45–21:00, £8 Sweetscar, 4.48 Psychosis, Tramway, Sarah Kane rattles the form and content., 20:00–21:00, £10

Tron Theatre Company, LikeThe Rain, Tron Theatre,

Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

Thu 20 Nov Written by Ali Muriel, Under My Skin, Òran Mór, A Play, A Pie and a

Written by Ali Muriel, Under My Skin, Òran Mór, A Play, A Pie and a

Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

Tron Theatre Company, Suddenly Last Summer, The Tron,

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh Play-

Tramway, Sarah Kane rattles the form and content., 20:00–21:00, £10

Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

Sweetscar, 4.48 Psychosis,

Mon 10 Nov

Thumunmajig, A November

Fri 07 Nov

from £8

Lone Twin, Daniel Hit by a Train, The Arches, 19:45–21:00, £8 Sweetscar, 4.48 Psychosis,

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre

Fri 21 Nov

Mor’s popular lunchtime session, 12:30–14:00, £10

Stella Quines, Lifting the Lid,

The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various Zero, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–22:00, Full price £12/ concessions available All the Fun of the Fair, Kings Theatre, 19:30–22:00, various

from £10

Psychic Medium Derek Ogilvie, The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:00,

Mon 24 Nov

cal, 20:00–21:30, from £8

For the Love of Mrs Brown,

Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre

The Tron, three evenings of readings and informal debate with playwrights, directors and actors from our home and international collaborations., 20:00–21:00, £6

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

Theatre Royal, 19:30–21:30, various

Pie and A Pint Season, 12:30–14:00, £10

For the Love of Mrs Brown,

Thu 06 Nov

Traverse, 20:00–21:30, from £8

12 Stars, We’re the Believers, The Arches, 19:30–20:00, tbc Phoenix Dance Theatre,

Written by Gary Robson, Raspberry, Òran Mór, Partof Oran

Traverse Theatre Company with NTS, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, Traverse, 20:00–21:30,

Traverse Theatre Company, Midsummer, Traverse, Greig gets musi-

from £10

Sun 09 Nov

Day, Citizens Theatre, First World War puppetry, 13:30–15:00, £7

from £8

Written by Laura Neil, Washed Up, Òran Mór, Part of a Play, A

Fri 14 Nov

Wed 05 Nov

Mary Poppins, Edinburgh PlayTraverse Theatre Company with NTS, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, Traverse, 20:00–21:30,

Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

Scottish variety show, 14:00–16:00, various

Tramway, Sarah Kane rattles the form and content., 20:00–21:00, £10

21:30–23:00, £8

Mor’s popular lunchtime session, 12:30–14:00, £10

house, 19:30–22:30, various

Sweetscar, 4.48 Psychosis,

21:30–23:00, £8

The Pantheon Club, Boogie Nights, King’s Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

from £12

The Alexander Brothers, Dean Park, Alastair McDonald, John Carmichael and his band, The Magic of Scotland, The Pavilion Theatre, Traditional

Written by Gary Robson, Raspberry, Òran Mór, Partof Oran

The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various

various

Written by Laura Neil, Washed Up, Òran Mór, Part of a Play, A

Pie and A Pint Season, 12:30–14:00, £10

Lone Twin, Daniel Hit by a Train, The Arches, 19:45–21:00, £8 Sweetscar, 4.48 Psychosis, Tramway, Sarah Kane rattles the form and content., 20:00–21:00, £10

Tron Theatre Company, LikeThe Rain, Tron Theatre, 21:30–23:00, £8

Fri 07 Nov Written by Gary Robson, Raspberry, Òran Mór, Partof Oran

Mor’s popular lunchtime session, 12:30–14:00, £10

Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

Written by Ali Muriel, Under My Skin, Òran Mór, A Play, A Pie and a

Written by Laura Neil,

Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

Washed Up, Òran Mór, Part of a Play, A Pie and A Pint Season, 12:30–14:00, £10 from £10

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre

Mon 24 Nov Written by Colin MacDonald, The Bones Boys, Òran Mór,

Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

A Play, A Pie and a Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various

Tue 25 Nov

Tramway, Sarah Kane rattles the form and content., 20:00–21:00, £10

Written by Colin MacDonald, The Bones Boys, Òran Mór,

Wed 12 Nov

The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various Zero, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–22:00, Full price £12/ concessions available All the Fun of the Fair, Kings Theatre, 19:30–22:00, various

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre

Tue 11 Nov

Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30, 12 Stars, We’re the Believers, The Arches, 19:30–20:00, tbc For the Love of Mrs Brown,

Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

Sat 22 Nov

The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, various

For the Love of Mrs Brown,

from £10

Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

For the Love of Mrs Brown,

The Alexander Brothers, Dean Park, Alastair McDonald, John Carmichael and his band, The Magic of Scotland, The Pavilion Theatre, Traditional Scottish variety show, 19:30–22:00, various

Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

Sweetscar, 4.48 Psychosis,

Written by Laura Neil, Washed Up, Òran Mór, Part of a Play, A

A Play, A Pie and a Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

Pie and A Pint Season, 12:30–14:00, £10

Wed 26 Nov

from £10

Written by Colin MacDonald, The Bones Boys, Òran Mór,

Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30, 50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre

A Play, A Pie and a Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

Sweetscar, 4.48 Psychosis,

Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre

Tramway, Sarah Kane rattles the form and content., 20:00–21:00, £10

Thu 27 Nov

Thu 13 Nov

Written by Colin MacDonald, The Bones Boys, Òran Mór,

Written by Laura Neil, Washed Up, Òran Mór, Part of a Play, A

A Play, A Pie and a Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

Citizens Comapny, The Caretaker, Citizens Theatre, 19:30–21:30,

Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

Pie and A Pint Season, 12:30–14:00, £10

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre

from £10

Fri 28 Nov

Royal, 19:30–22:00, various

ald, The Bones Boys, Òran Mór, A Play, A Pie and a Pint, 12:30–14:00, £10

50th Anniversary Production, West Side Story, Theatre

Written by Colin MacDon-

Listings

Sat 01 Nov Jongleurs, Jongleurs, Hot food

available. Ideal for hen, stag and office parties, 19:00–23:30, from £15 Comedy@The State, The State Bar, Mixed bill comedy show with regular compere, 21:00–23:59, £5

Ian Coppinger, Mark Bratchpiece, Keir McAllister and Gar Murran. Hosted by Susan Calman, The Stand, The Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £12

Sun 02 Nov Tina C., Òran Mór, Part of Glasgay!, 19:00–21:21, £12/£10

With Simon O’Keeffe, Dee Custance and Michael Manley, Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service, The

Stand, 20:30–23:00, £5/£4 (£1 members) The Ivory, Ivory Bar & Restaurant, New acts, new material, 20:30–00:00, Free

Mon 03 Nov Simon Day, What a Fool Believes, The Stand, The Fast Show’s Simon Day on his first solo standup tour., 20:30–23:00, £10

Tue 04 Nov Dylan Moran: What It Is, The Pavilion Theatre, 19:30–22:30, £19/ £17 concession

Gerry McDade and Sean Grant, Red Raw, The Stand, New

acts, new material from old acts; a classic pick and mix of comedy, costing mere pennies., 20:30–00:00, £2/£1

Wed 05 Nov Ava Vidal, AL Kennedy and Viv Gee. Hosted by Susan Calman., Wicked Wenches, The Stand, That time of the month when the acts are all funny girls., 20:30–23:00, £6/£5/£3

Agenda Comedy Club,

Agenda, Des McLean, Des Clarke and Barry McDonald, 20:30–22:30, £5 /£4

Thu 06 Nov Sean Collins, Mark Nelson, Gerry McDade and Ailsa Johnston. Hosted by Raymond Mearns, The Thursday Show, The Stand, Ease yourself into the weekend with top laughs and delicious food., 21:00–23:00, £7/£6/£3

Fri 07 Nov D.A.M. Fine Comedy, Gramofon,

21:00–23:00, £3

Sean Collins, Mark Nelson, Gerry McDade and Ailsa Johnston. Hosted by Raymond Mearns, The Stand, The Stand, Top acts. Hot food.

An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £9/£8/£5

Sat 08 Nov Jongleurs, Jongleurs, Hot food available. Ideal for hen, stag and office parties, 19:00–23:30, from £15 Stu Who & Kevin Hayes, Moyra Jane’s, Moyra Jane’s,

20:00–18:56, tbc

Comedy@The State, The State

Bar, Mixed bill comedy show with regular compere, 21:00–23:59, £5

Paul Pirie and Patrick

Rolink, Red Raw, The Stand, New acts, new material from old acts; a classic pick and mix of comedy, costing mere pennies., 20:30–00:00, £2/£1

Wed 12 Nov

Sat 22 Nov

Sat 01 Nov

Tue 11 Nov

Fri 21 Nov

Jongleurs, Jongleurs, Hot food

Benefit in aid of The Sound Education, The Stand, The Sound

Ron Vaudrey, Jason Cook, Jim Park and Ed Patrick. Hosted by Susan Calman, The Stand, The Stand, Top acts.

available. Ideal for hen, stag and office parties, 19:00–23:30, from £15

Slava’s Snowshow, Kings

Comedy@The State, The State Bar, Mixed bill comedy show with regular compere, 21:00–23:59, £5

Sandy Nelson and Des Clarke., Midweek Comedy Cabaret, The Stand, Prop up the

Trevor Crook, Andy Sir, Isma Almas and The Wee Man. Hosted by Vladimir McTavish, The Stand, The

Theatre, Clowns and dry ice., 19:30–22:00, various

middle of your week with the cream of the Red Raw crop, and seasoned hosts., 20:30–00:00, £4 Trader Joe’s, Trader Joe’s, Scott Agnew, Susan Calman and Alan Anderson take turns introducing some fine new comedy talent, 20:30–00:00, Free

Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £12

Sun 23 Nov

Thu 13 Nov

With Raymond Mearns and Viv Gee., Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service, The

Slava’s Snowshow, Kings

Stand, 20:30–23:00, £5/£4 (£1 members)

Theatre, Clowns and dry ice., 19:30–22:00, various

Ron Vaudrey, Henning Wehn and Antony Murray. Hosted by Sandy Nelson, The Thursday Show, The

Stand, Ease yourself into the weekend with top laughs and delicious food., 21:00–23:00, £7/£6/£3

Fri 14 Nov Slava’s Snowshow, Kings

Theatre, Clowns and dry ice., 19:30–22:00, various D.A.M. Fine Comedy, Gramofon, 21:00–23:00, £3

Ron Vaudrey, Henning Wehn and Antony Murray. Hosted by Sandy Nelson, The Stand, The Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £9/£8/£5

Sat 15 Nov Jongleurs, Jongleurs, Hot food available. Ideal for hen, stag and office parties, 19:00–23:30, from £15 Slava’s Snowshow, Kings Theatre, Clowns and dry ice., 19:30–22:00, various OMG, Offshore, Genuine confessional comedy. See www.bebo.com/omg-glasgow, 20:00–19:25, Free Comedy@The State, The State Bar, Mixed bill comedy show with regular compere, 21:00–23:59, £5

Ron Vaudrey, Henning Wehn and Antony Murray. Hosted by Sandy Nelson, The Stand, The Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £12

The Ivory, Ivory Bar & Restaurant, New acts, new material, 20:30–00:00, Free

Mon 24 Nov Raymond Mearns, Paul Pirie, Allen Chalmers, Dance Monkey Boy Dance, The Stand, Monthly show featuring a mix of topical stand-up, filmed sketches and improvised games and songs., 20:30–00:00, £4

Tue 25 Nov Phil Differ and Billy Kirkwood, Red Raw, The Stand, New acts, new material from old acts; a classic pick and mix of comedy, costing mere pennies., 20:30–00:00, £2/£1

Wed 26 Nov Michael Smiley, Bernard O’Shea, Kevin Loughlin and Elaine Malcolmson. With host Michael Redmond, Best of Irish, The Stand, Doors open 7:30, 20:30–13:13, £7/£6/£4

Thu 27 Nov Tir Chonaill Comedy, Tir Chonaill, 20:30–19:01, tbc

Robin Ince, Bernard O’Shea and Saj. Hosted by Joe Heenan, The Thursday Show, The Stand, Ease yourself into the weekend with top laughs and delicious food., 21:00–23:00, £7/£6/£3

Sun 16 Nov

Fri 28 Nov

With Sandy Nelson, Jeff O’Boyle and Daniel Webster, Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service, The Stand,

Auditorium, 19:00–00:00, £25

20:30–23:00, £5/£4 (£1 members) The Ivory, Ivory Bar & Restaurant, New acts, new material, 20:30–00:00, Free

Mon 17 Nov Raymond Mearns, Paul Pirie, Allen Chalmers, Dance Monkey Boy Dance,

The Mighty Boosh, Clyde Keir MacAllister, and m.c Scott Agnew, HaHa Comedy Maggie Mays, Maggie May’s, Christmas part show. Dining package available, opens 7pm See www.hahacomedy. co.uk, 20:30–00:00, tbc

D.A.M. Fine Comedy, Gramofon, 21:00–23:00, £3

The Stand, Monthly show featuring a mix of topical stand-up, filmed sketches and improvised games and songs., 20:30–00:00, £4

Robin Ince, Bernard O’Shea and Saj. Hosted by Joe Heenan, The Stand, The

Tue 18 Nov

Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £9/£8/£5

Sean Collins, Mark Nelson, Gerry McDade and Ailsa Johnston. Hosted by Susan Morrison, The Stand, The Stand, Top acts. Hot food.

Antony Murray and Lazyhand, Red Raw, The Stand, New

Sun 09 Nov

Benefit in aid of Amnesty International, The Stand,

Auditorium, 19:00–00:00, £25

Thu 20 Nov

Bar, Mixed bill comedy show with regular compere, 21:00–23:59, £5

Trevor Crook, Andy Sir, Isma Almas and The Wee Man. Hosted by Vladimir McTavish, The Thursday Show, The Stand, Ease yourself into the

Robin Ince, Bernard O’Shea and Saj. Hosted by Joe Heenan, The Stand, The

An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £12

With David Kay, Derek Johnston and Paul Goodbrand., Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service, The

Stand, 20:30–23:00, £5/£4 (£1 members) The Ivory, Ivory Bar & Restaurant, New acts, new material, 20:30–00:00, Free

Mon 10 Nov Raymond Mearns, Paul Pirie,Allen Chalmers, Dance Monkey Boy Dance, The Stand, Monthly show featuring a mix of topical stand-up, filmed sketches and improvised games and songs., 20:30–00:00, £4

Tue 11 Nov Slava’s Snowshow, Kings

Theatre, Clowns and dry ice., 19:30–22:00, various

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acts, new material from old acts; a classic pick and mix of comedy, costing mere pennies., 20:30–00:00, £2/£1

Wed 19 Nov 20:30–13:03, £7/£5

weekend with top laughs and delicious food., 21:00–23:00, £7/£6/£3

Fri 21 Nov D.A.M. Fine Comedy, Gramofon,

21:00–23:00, £3

Trevor Crook, Andy Sir, Isma Almas and The Wee Man. Hosted by Vladimir McTavish, The Stand, The

Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £9/£8/£5

Sat 29 Nov Jongleurs, Jongleurs, Hot food available. Ideal for hen, stag and office parties, 19:00–23:30, from £15 The Mighty Boosh, Clyde Comedy@The State, The State

Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £12

Sun 30 Nov Bruce Morton, Gus Tawse, Saj and Michael Manley. With host Joe Heenan., St Andrew’s Day Special, The Stand, 20:30–13:16, £7/£5/£1

The Ivory, Ivory Bar & Restaurant, New acts, new material, 20:30–00:00, Free

available. Ideal for hen, stag and office parties, 19:00–23:30, from £14

Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £12

Education aims to extend the therapeutic and creative opportunities available to young people in psychiatric day care as part of the rehabilitation process. Help them out by watching some great comedy from the likes of Susan Morrison, Keir McAllister and Vladimir McTavish. Doors open 7:30, 20:30–00:00, £5

Sun 02 Nov

Wed 12 Nov

Whose Lunch Is It Anyway?, The Stand, Improvised comedy

Melting Pot, The Stand, Watch a series of short comedy sketches, presented by top actors and comedians. Vote for your favourite, and see a longer version next month., 20:30–23:00, £5/£4/£2.50

Simon Day, What a Fool Believes, The Stand, The Fast Show’s

Thu 13 Nov

Paul Tonkinson, Teddy, Simon O’Keeffe and Daniel Sloss. Hosted by Vladimir McTavish, The Stand, The

led by by audience suggestions, with Stu and Garry. Hot coffee, delicious food...the nation’s top hangover cure, 12:30–15:00, Free!

Simon Day on his first solo standup tour., 20:30–23:00, £10

Mon 03 Nov Red Raw, The Stand, New acts, new

material from old acts; a classic pick and mix of comedy, costing mere pennies., 20:30–23:30, £2/£1

Headliner Keir McAllister and host Keara Murphy, Absolute Beginners, The

Mercat, Showcase of new comedy talent with a top headliner to round off your night, 21:00–23:00, £3/£2

Tue 04 Nov Ava Vidal, AL Kennedy and Siân Bevan. Hosted by Susan Calman., Wicked Wenches, The Stand, That time of the month when the acts are all funny girls., 20:30–23:00, £tbc

Wed 05 Nov The Stand Improv, The Stand, An evening of improvised comedy with Stu & Garry., 20:30–23:00, £5/£2.50

Thu 06 Nov Ian Coppinger, Ava Vidal, Martin McAllister and John Whale. Hosted by Joe Heenan., The Thursday Show, The Stand, Ease yourself into the

weekend with top laughs and delicious food., 21:00–23:30, £7/£6/£3

MC Rick Molland, Heresy, Jekyll and Hyde, Night of dark and depraved comedy, 21:00–00:00, £3

Fri 07 Nov Ian Coppinger, Ava Vidal, Martin McAllister and John Whale. Hosted by Joe Heenan., The Stand, The

Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £9/£8/£5

Sat 08 Nov Jongleurs, Jongleurs, Hot food available. Ideal for hen, stag and office parties, 19:00–23:30, from £14

Ian Coppinger, Ava Vidal, Martin McAllister and John Whale. Hosted by Joe Heenan., The Stand, The

Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £12

Sun 09 Nov Whose Lunch Is It Anyway?, The Stand, Improvised comedy

led by by audience suggestions, with Stu and Garry. Hot coffee, delicious food...the nation’s top hangover cure, 12:30–15:00, Free!

Paul Sinha, Anthony J Brown and Niall Browne . Hosted by Bruce Devlin, The Thursday Show, The

Stand, Ease yourself into the weekend with top laughs and delicious food., 21:00–23:30, £7/£6/£3

MC Rick Molland, Heresy, Jekyll and Hyde, Night of dark and depraved comedy, 21:00–00:00, £3

Fri 14 Nov

Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £9/£8/£5

Sat 15 Nov Jongleurs, Jongleurs, Hot food available. Ideal for hen, stag and office parties, 19:00–23:30, from £14

Ron Vaudrey, Jason Cook, Jim Park and Ed Patrick. Hosted by Susan Calman., The Stand, The Stand, Top acts. Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £12

Sun 23 Nov Whose Lunch Is It Anyway?, The Stand, Improvised comedy

led by by audience suggestions, with Stu and Garry. Hot coffee, delicious food...the nation’s top hangover cure, 12:30–15:00, Free!

Ron Vaudrey, Isma Almas, Gordon Alexander and Ailsa Johnston. Hosted by Jason Cook., The Sunday Night Laugh-In, The Stand,

Mon 24 Nov Red Raw, The Stand, New acts, new material from old acts; a classic pick and mix of comedy, costing mere pennies., 20:30–23:30, £2/£1 Headliner Sean Wilkinson and host Keara Murphy, Absolute Beginners, The

Mercat, Showcase of new comedy talent with a top headliner to round off your night, 21:00–23:00, £3/£2

Tue 25 Nov

Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £12

The Stand, Prop up the middle of your week with the cream of the Red Raw crop, and seasoned hosts., 20:30–13:06, £4

Sun 16 Nov

Wed 26 Nov

Whose Lunch Is It Anyway?, The Stand, Improvised comedy

John Scott, Andy Sir and Scott Agnew. Hosted by Raymond Mearns., Best of Scottish, The Stand, 20:30–13:09,

led by by audience suggestions, with Stu and Garry. Hot coffee, delicious food...the nation’s top hangover cure, 12:30–15:00, Free!

Lemon Custard Comedy Club, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh’s only

indie-kid comedy club. Hosted by Dee Custance and Siân Bevan, doing various childish things., 19:00–22:00, £3

Anthony J Brown. Hosted by Bruce Devlin, The Sunday Night Laugh-In, The Stand,

20:30–00:00, £5/£4/£1

Mon 17 Nov Red Raw, The Stand, New acts, new

material from old acts; a classic pick and mix of comedy, costing mere pennies., 20:30–23:30, £2/£1

Headliner Alan Anderson and host Keara Murphy, Absolute Beginners, The

Mercat, Showcase of new comedy talent with a top headliner to round off your night, 21:00–23:00, £3/£2

Tue 18 Nov Jason Cook, Joy, The Stand,

Jason Cook returns to Edinburgh with his 5 star sell out Fringe show, 20:30–12:37, £8/£7

Wed 19 Nov

Thu 20 Nov

Red Raw, The Stand, New acts, new

Ron Vaudrey, Jason Cook, Jim Park and Ed Patrick. Hosted by Susan Calman, The Thursday Show, The

chance to do a charitable deed by having a fabulous time. Line-up includes Jason Cook. Doors open 7:30, 20:30–12:17, £7/£5

Stand, Ease yourself into the weekend with top laughs and delicious food., 21:00–23:30, £7/£6/£3

MC Rick Molland, Heresy, Jekyll and Hyde, Night of dark and depraved comedy, 21:00–00:00, £3

Midweek Comedy Cabaret,

£6/£5/£3

Thu 27 Nov Michael Smiley, John Scott, Ricky Callan and Kevin Loughlin. Hosted by Scott Agnew, The Thursday Show, The Stand, Ease yourself

into the weekend with top laughs and delicious food., 21:00–12:29, £7/£6/£3

MC Rick Molland, Heresy,

Mon 10 Nov

Mercat, Showcase of new comedy talent with a top headliner to round off your night, 21:00–23:00, £3/£2

Jongleurs, Jongleurs, Hot food available. Ideal for hen, stag and office parties, 19:00–23:30, from £14

Ron Vaudrey, Henning Wehn and Antony Murray. Hosted by Sandy Nelson., The Stand, The Stand, Top acts.

Benefit in aid of The Dystonia Society, The Stand, Another

Headliner Austin Low and host Billy Kirkwood, Absolute Beginners, The

Sat 22 Nov

20:30–00:00, £5/£4/£1

Paul Sinha, Anthony J Brown, Niall Browne and Gordon Alexander. Hosted by Bruce Devlin, The Stand, The Stand, Top acts.

Ricky Callan, Garry Dobson and Jill Baxter. Hosted by Jill Peacock., The Sunday Night LaughIn, The Stand, 20:30–00:00, £5/£4/£1

material from old acts; a classic pick and mix of comedy, costing mere pennies., 20:30–23:30, £2/£1

Hot food. An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £9/£8/£5

Jekyll and Hyde, Night of dark and depraved comedy, 21:00–00:00, £3

Fri 28 Nov Michael Smiley, John Scott, Ricky Callan and Kevin Loughlin. Hosted by Susan Morrison, The Stand, The Stand, Top acts. Hot food.

An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £9/£8/£5

Sat 29 Nov Jongleurs, Jongleurs, Hot food available. Ideal for hen, stag and office parties, 19:00–23:30, from £14 Michael Smiley, John Scott, Ricky Callan and Kevin Loughlin. Hosted by Susan Morrison, The Stand, The Stand, Top acts. Hot food.

An altogether great night out, 21:00–23:30, £12

Sun 30 Nov Whose Lunch Is It Anyway?, The Stand, Improvised comedy

led by by audience suggestions, with Stu and Garry. Hot coffee, delicious food...the nation’s top hangover cure, 12:30–15:00, Free!

John Scott, Steven Dick, Martin McAllister and Daniel Sloss. Hosted by Susan Morrison, St Andrew’s Day Special, The Stand, 20:30–12:34, £7/£5/£1

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