MUSIC LIST
— HIGHLY srnuuo GUITARIST
Ralph Towner has given new lite to the 12 string guitar using the instrument's unique qualities in conjunction with Garbarelt’s sax, Jarrett's piano, Gary Burton's vibes and even with Weather Report. A strong classical background and amazingly lluid imagination are also used to great etiect when he plays, as on Friday 12th in Edinburgh, in partnership with John Abercrombie. Abercrombie is another guitarist who has tound his way through 70s jazz rock and played with many oi the big names in the American lusion scene, notably Billy Cobham and Michael and Randy Brecker. A must ior all lovers of guitar music.
0 Smith/Lyall quartet De Quincey‘s. Union Street. 333 0633. Alternate weeks. Check for details.
0 Sandy Taylor/Alex Moore Duo 5. Friends Glasgow Society of Musicians. Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 8.30pm.
0 Louisiana Ragtime Band Basin Street, Haymarket Terrace. Dixieland Music.
0 Charlie Mcllalr's band Preservation
3 Hall, Victoria Street. 226 3816. Big
noise. big bar.
THURSDAY
THU RSDAY 28 Glasgow
0 Smith/Lyell Quartet Halt Bar, Woodlands Road.
0 Burton/Nicholson Dulntet Blackfriars, Albion Street.
Edinburgh
28
Trio The Kilderkin. Constitution Street, Leith. Bass. clarinet, guitar and vocals. Delicately understated. 0 Brian Kellock Trio Royal British
Hotel, Princes Street. Piano trio.
22 The List IS—ES biovember —_
0 Melanie D'Rellly with Francis Cowan
Glasgow
0 The Cult Barrowland Ballroom. Gallowgate. Neo-punk goth version of Led Zeppelin. bless their little cotton socks!
0 GlasgowThe Venue. Sauchiehall Street. Heavy rock to be taken with just a pinch ofsalt.
0 Project GK Strutz. Gallowgate.
O The Home Service George Square. From 10.30am. Progressive rock band.
Edinburgh
0 Dancing BearsJailhouse. Calton Road. 10.30pm. Free.
0 Friday Night Sam Shore Bar. Leith. 8.30pm. Free. Folk/Rock.
8pm. Free.
0 Makossa Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 9.30pm. Reggae. Free.
i 0 Anne Pigalle Assembly Rooms.
: George Street. £3. (See panel).
0 Terry and Gerry Hoochie Coochie
Club. West Tollcross. 10.30pm. Play
an energetic skiffle sound like they've been plugged into the mains. See the photo and reach into your pockets.
0 We Free Kings Wee Red Bar. Lauriston Place. Describe themselves as neither jazz nor blues. Still have no idea what they actually (10 sound like.
0 Friday Night Sam Shore Bar. Leith. 8.30pm. Free. Folk/Rock.
Galashiels
0 Deal Heights Cajun Aces College of Textiles. Scotland‘s best and only cajun band. Great night out.
ROCK
FRIDAY 15
0 Heart Industry Clowns. High Street.
SATURDAY
16
Glasgow
0 The Faith Brothers Strathclyde University. John Street. The boys from Fulham back on the road again. 0 Green on Red at Glasgow Gollege ofTechnology. Cowcaddens Road. 0 La Paz The Heathery. Wishaw.
0 Comedy oi Errors Shadows. Bath Street. Free.
Edinburgh
0 The Charge and Avalon Jailhouse. Calton Road. Free. The former around lunchtime and the latter. a folk-rock group. around 9.30pm. 0 Beat Heights Cajun Aces Edinburgh University Students' Union. (‘hambers Street. (See Fri 15).
0 Lisa Scott Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.
0 Sean and Paddy Clowns. High Street. 8pm. Free. Elvis and other rock ‘n‘ roll covers.
Rosyth
0 New York Pigtunkers Metro (to be confirmed). Gut—wrenching bass. percussion barrage and some odd things going on over the top. Funk with a twist.
Cumbernauld
o The Government Tax Office. Energetic blues-rock. mixed with brassy ballads. Excellent brass section.
SUNDAY
17
Glasgow
0 Hawkwind Barrowland Ballroom. Gallowgatc. It should be a moral to us all that a band as nonsensical as Hawkwind are still going after all these years.
Edinburgh
0 The Everly Brothers Playhouse Theatre. Greenside Place. £10.50.
FIFTIES SKIFFLE
g r Remember the 50s revival? Flat-topped kids busking round the streets with the skimpiest ol line-ups? Belore long the burgeoning movement was swamped by the comparatively
: novel ‘New Romantics’, butthe
rockabilly style lives on in trendy shops
like Flip, and the vintage Eddie
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i This was all an American phenomenon,
but here come Terry and Gerry-the same 50s ethnic and basic instrumentation, but the look, sound and style of home-grown pre-rock British skiitle stars. The spirit of Lonnie Donnegan lives on in their music
which, judging by a recent Whistle Test
' Cochrane churning out or street-corner . appearance, $0000?» 38 it they"!!! been ghetto-blasters.
: plugged into the mains. (Mab)
£8.50. 6.30pm and 9pm. The men who put Appalachian harmonics in rock ‘n' roll. no less! The temptation of hearing all those classics played
the rather hefty entrance fee.
0 The Faith Brothers Hoochie Coochie Club. West Tollcross. 10.30pm. Earnest chaps from Fulham. wearing their Jam and Springsteen influences prominently on their sleeves. Try to be too Stax for their own good perhaps.
0 The Mirrors Jailhouse. Calton Road. 9pm. Free.
MONDAY Edinburgh
0 Hawkwind Playhouse. Greenside Place. 7.30pm. £5. £4. By my reckoning we‘ve missed the end of the mushroom season so. unless some sneaky punters have been hoarding. you won‘t see this show to its full advantage. For such a cult
band they‘re surprisingly boring.
I 0 Heart Industry Top 0‘ The Walk. St i James Centre. 8pm. Free.
0 The Heaters Preservation Hall.
3 Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.
! 0 The Viceroys Jailhouse. Calton
1 Road. 10.30pm. Free.
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TUESDAY 19
j Glasgow
0 Texaco Swing The Fixx Bar. Miller Street. Free.
i
I Edinburgh
0 The Government Jailhouse. Calton
road. 10.30pm. Free. (See Sat 16).
0 Great Shakes Preservation Hall.
_ Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.
0 Clitt Richard Playhouse Theatre. Greenside Place. 7.30pm. £7.50. £6.50. £5.50. (See panel).
0 Plague of Fools, Volunteer Slavery,
Baby’s Got a Gun 23 Lothian Road. 10pm. £1.50.
WEDNESDAY
Glasgow 0 Vance And The Main Thing The Fixx
20
Bar. Miller Street. Free. Another set
ofyoung Glaswegian hopefuls trying out in The Fixx. and that, in a sense. is what it‘s there for. And why not?
Edinburgh
0 Cliit Richard Playhouse Theatre (sold out).
0 2 Canoes Jailhouse. Calton Road. 10.30pm. Free.
THURSDAY 21 Glasgow
0 Facade Midas, St Vincent Street. Edinburgh
0 Bluelinger Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 9.30pm. Free.
0 Breklast Boys Jailhouse. Calton Road. 10.30pm. Free.
0 Al Brown Clowns. High Street. 8pm. Free.
0 Clitt Richard Playhouse Theatre
Duntermline
0 Deal Heights Cajun Aces Warehouse (to be confirmed).
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