IliSiC ROCK & BLUES
Edinburgh
I Wet Wet Wet Edinburgh Castle Esplanade. SOLD OUT.
I TTF Cubik Club, Music Box, Victoria Street, 225 2564. 10pm—3am. £7. This should be packed out, considering the following that TI'F have generated in Scotland since their debut ‘F uturama' EP and the Scottish chart-topper ‘Real Love‘. Ravers, but rather than follow the hardcore techno path, TI'F have a poppier ' edge. Self-confessed ‘Runrig of the rave scene‘.
I DL Doses Subway, Cowgate , 225 6766. 10pm.
I Blueiinger Platform One, Rutland Street, 225 2433. 9pm. Free. See Sat 29.
I Laughing Sarn's che Preservation Hall, Victoria Street. 226 3816. £1.50 after 9pm. I Love Decree Minus One Club, Carlton Highland Hotel, 556 7277. 10.30pm, 11.45pm and 1am. £5. See Thurs 3.
I The Switch Muirhouse Festival Association, Muirhouse Primary School, Muirhouse Place West, 315 2151. 7.30-11pm. A 60s night, with all profits ploughed back into the community somehow. The Switch cover Beatles, Troggs, Kinks etc, and lead guitarist Dave Suggitt once backed Johnny Kidd.
I Live music Negociants, Lothian Street, 225 6313. 10.30pm. Free.
SUNDAY 6 Glasgow
I Suburban Delay and Dream Frequency Technotrance. Barrowland, 552 4601. 6pm—2am. £15. Tickets from 23rd Precinct, Bath Street. 332 4806. Live performances including up-and-coming Scottish act Suburban Delay.
I Rock Against Radio Clyde Nice'n‘Sleazy, Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 8.30pm. £2. Featured tonight are Gigantic, Sessionhead, The Dream Disciples, Scumpussy and Dog.
I Roundabout. The Corleones and The Spirit Moves Dunny, The Bogle Stone, Glassford Street, 553 1638. 9.30pm. Free. Start of a series of triple-bills for local bands.
I Miss Meliss Cottier‘s, Hyndland Road, 357 5827. 8.30pm. Free.
I Doice Vita Legends, Thorn Brae, Johnstone.0505 35818. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Suburban Delay Music Box, Victoria Street, 225 2564. 10pm—3am. £8in advance, £10 on door. The Cubik and Fusion clubs co—present the band whose hardcore dance record ‘Energy Rush‘ has just been issued by Jive. DJ 5 Carl Cox and Tom Wilson keep things moving. Also, there‘s an under-18s show, with the same ingredients, from 4—9pm (£4 in advance, £5 on door).
I In Extremls, Demise, inversus and Tesseract Venue , Calton Road, 557 3073. 7.30pm. A quartet of death metal bands with wonderfully appropriate names. Don‘t have too much fun now.
I Over Jordan and Slip Subway, Cowgate, 225 6766. 10pm.
I Bo'Weevll Preservation Hall, Victoria Street. 226 3816. Blues, R&B and rock‘n‘roll.
I Solid Gone and Wasted Days Bertie‘s, Merchant Street, 225 2002. 11pm. Free. I The Hummingbirds Negociants, Lothian Street, 225 6313. 10.30pm. Free.
MONDAY 7 Glasgow
I The Four Di Us King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut, St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 9pm. £4. Irish band who sound like they just plugin and rock away just for the sake of making a youthful noise. Promoting their current Man Alive album.
Edinburgh
I There There Pat Bertie‘s, Merchant
Street, 225 2002. 11pm. Free.
I Billy Rivers Negociants, Lothian Street, 2256313. 10.30pm. Free. Blues.
I The Jackson Peacocks Smugglers, Cowgate, 557 3768. Free.
I Live music Subway, Cowgate , 225 6766.
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Glasgow
I Glasgow Songwriters iaaturlng Rlclr McManus Blackfriars, Bell Street, 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free. Plus open platform.
Edinburgh
I Kitchens Oi Distinction and The Darling Buds Venue, Calton Road, 557 3073. The Darling Buds have taken the wind out of Madonna’s sails by entitling their newie Erotica and shocked everyone else by revealing that there‘s actually life in the old cuties yet. The Kitchens, though, have never been away and have built up their following continuously while the Buds have been off the road. They‘re now one of the most interesting and evocative of independent bands, and have incorporated guitar effects into their sound in a more natural way than any band since The Police.
I Two Weeks In June Bertie‘s, Merchant Street, 225 2002. 11pm. Free. Undemanding pop band with reasonable following nonetheless.
I Billy Rivers Subway, Cowgate, 225 6766. 10pm. Blues.
I Big Eyed Beans Negociants, Lothian Street, 225 6313. 10.30pm. Free.
I Craig And Tim Smugglers, Cowgate, 557 3768. Free.
WEDNESDAY 9 Glasgow
I The Stunning King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut, St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 9pm. £4. Like The Saw Doctors (commercially, not musically) The Stunning shift truckloads of records in their native 1reland but are still pretty obscure here. A raw, brassy sound.
I Nyah Feartles Apollo, Renfrew Court, 332 6231. 9pm. £2. Not sure what ground Nyah Fearties are picking over these days, but it will probably be loud, fast and mad. I Billy Rivers Pythagoras, Sauchiehall Street, 332 3495. 9pm. Free. Blues.
Edinburgh
I Pendragon and Citizen Cane Venue, Calton Road, 557 3073. Progressive rock is alive and well —- not! But don’t trytelling Pendragon and local band Citizen Cane that.
I The Receiving End Negociants, Lothian Street, 225 6313. 10.30pm. Free. Kirkcaldy-ites whose sparkling independent guitar-pop CD EP, That's The Way I Operate! is easily reason enough for going to see them.
I The Dog Stars, Jet Set and Police Cat Subway, Cowgate, 225 6766. 10pm.
I The Dangerous Brothers Bertie‘s, Merchant Street, 225 2002. 11pm. Free. I The New Edinburgh Dolls Smugglers, Cow-gate, 557 3768. Free. Acoustic rock.
RSDAY 10 Glasgow
I Buddha Grass Harbour Halt Bar, Woodlands Road, 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free.
I Jennifer Fever Cathouse, Brown Street, 248 6606.
I The Basement Nice‘n‘Sleazy, Sauchiehall Street, 333 9637. 10pm. £1. See Sat 29.
I Glass Onion Apollo, Renfrew Court, 332 6231 . 9pm. £1 . Basking in their recent King Tut’s sell-out double header with The Thin Men.
I Innocents Abroad Pythagoras, Sauchiehall Street, 332 3495. 9pm. Free.
I Brazil Legends, Thorn Brae, Johnstone, 0505 35818. 9pm. Free.
I The Flat Stanleys Twa Corbies, Kiibowie Road, Cumbernauld, 0236 727473. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Gathering OiThe Clans Music Box, Victoria Street, 225 2564. The Crows, Dunderfunk, Adam 812 and Crisis join forces to celebrate the launch of Gathering Of The Clans, a CD of Scottish heavy rock bands intended to let the rest of the country know what it‘s missing.
I Blue On Shock Negociants, Lothian Street, 225 6313. 10.30pm. Free. Often diverting bunch from Kirkcaldy who seem to have understood what U2‘s baffling vision of rattling and humming might actually have meant. Now developing more of a dancey bent.
I ilowi Bertie’s. Merchant Street, 225
, 2009. 11pm. Free. ' I Dead Fly Subway, Cowgate, 225 6766.
I Love Decree Minus One Club, Carlton Highland Hotel, North Bridge, 5567277. 10.30pm, 11.45pm, 1am. £5. See Thurs3. I Live music Lord Darniey, West Port , 229 4341. 10pm. Free.
JAZZ
Dates listed below are ior one-oil shows: see separate section ior residencies. Gigs are listed by date, then by city.
SATURDAY 29 Glasgow
I John Murray Orchestra Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street,2216112. 2—5pm. £1 . Greenock-based mainstream big band.
I George Penman’s Jazzmen Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street.2216112. 8.30pm—midnight. £3. Glasgow‘s leading Traditional band.
SUNDAY 30 Glasgow
I Big Band Session Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street, 221 61 12. 2—5pm. £1 . The Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra
alternate with the Tim Barclla Big Band.
MONDAY 31 Glasgow
I Kit Carey’s Jazz Band Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 9pm-midnight. £2. Traditional.
WEDNESDAY 2 Glasgow
I Sandy Taylor and Henry Fullerton Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, 221 6112. 8.30pm. £1 . Mainstream piano and bass duo, plus guests.
SATURDAY 5 Glasgow
I John Murray Orchestra Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, 221 6112. 2—5pm. £1 . See Sat 29.
I George Penman‘s Jazzrnen Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, 221 61 12. 9pm—midnight. £3. See Sat 29.
SUNDAY 6 Glasgow
I Mundell Lowe Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, 221 6112. 8pm. £7 (members £4). A welcome return for a deft mainstream guitarist with a swinging, understated, and highly accomplished
style. Lowe had a long association with Benny Goodman which began in 1952 and continued off and on until 1984. as well as leading his own cool-inclined quartets. He will be accompanied on this occasion by the resident Sandy Taylor Trio.
I Big Band Session Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, 221 61 12. 2—5pm. £1 . See Sun 30.
MONDAY 7 Glasgow
I Kit Carey's Jazz Band Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, 221 61 12. 9pm—midnight. £2. Traditional.
WEDNESDAY 9 Glasgow
I Sandy Taylor and Henry Fullarton Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street , 22 6112. 8.30pm. £1 . See ch2.
FOLK & WORLD
Dates listed below are ior one-oil shows: see separate section ior residencies. Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Periormances will be listed, provided that details reach our oilices at least one week belore publication. Folk and World Listings compiled by Human Chalmers.
FRIDAY 28 Glasgow
I Scotland United Ceilidh People‘s Palace, Wintergardens, Glasgow Green. 7.30pm. Late Bar. £4 (£2). Do the Referendum Reel to iron Horse, Allan Tail, Eric Cuthbertson and Guests.
I Ferry Ceilidh Renfrew Ferry, Clyde Place. 9pm. Live dance bands.
I Rowantree Follr Club Rowantree lnn, Old Mill Road, Uddingston. 9pm. £2 concerts, other nights £1 . Singaround.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Kelvin Ceilidh Band.
SATURDAY 29 Glasgow
I McCluskey Brothers Tron Theatre. Trongate, Argyle Street. 552 4267. 8pm. £7 (£5). Favourite Colours is the rootsie Glasgow rockers‘ new album, released at this concert.
I Linda Jackson Band Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 3.30—5.30pm. Free.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £4. Loose Moose Ceilidh Band.
Edinburgh
I Piping Collogue Peebies Arts Festival. Day Festival of piping, concentrating on the Lowland and Border piping traditions. Music at the Border Plpes- Past, Present and Furutre County Hotel. 10am—5pm. £8 (£6). Peter Cook, Hugh Cheapo, Andy Hunter, Roderick Cannon, Lindsay Davidson and John Goodacre.
The Bagpipes ol the Border Tweedale Museum, Chambers Institution. Exhibition.
Peebies Pays the Piper Masonic Hall, Northgate. 7.45pm. Enquiries on 0721 22539; bookings on 0721 2132]. Concert with Rab Wallace. Lindsay Davidson and Andy Hunter.
I Peebies Arts Festival Neidpath Castle, 8pm, £3. Border’s Tapestry Legends.
7B The List 28 August - 10 September 1992