ROCK & BLUES MUSID

I Skin It Back Granny's Attic. Bath Street. Portobello. 669 1780. 9pm. Free. Blues.

I Wonderland West End Oyster Bar. West Maitland Street. 225 3861. 10.30pm. Free. Two-piece. guitar and vocals.

I live music Tolbooth Tavern. Canongate. 556 5348. 8.30pm. Free.

I live music Brewsters. South Bridge. 558 3457. 10pm. Free.

Kirkcaldy

I Billy Rivers Ollerton Hotel. Victoria Road. 0592 264286. 8.30pm. Free. Blues.

SUNDAY 24 f

Glasgow

I Horse and Pooka Pavilion Theatre. Renfreld Street. 332 1846. 7.30pm. £8.50. £7.50. See Glasgay! preview for Horse. Support from acoustic duo Pooka. one of Nick Heyward’s current faves. fact fans! I lied House Painters and Heidi Berry Arches. Midland Street. 221 9736. 8pm. £6 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. Feted gloornsters from Stateside who play unbelievably slow but affecting tunes about loss. grievance. some negative stuff and more loss. If you can stand the pace. Heidi Berry‘s set is composed of delicate refinery rendered beautifully in her bell- like voice.

I Fun-Da-Mental, Trans-Global Underground and Rain King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6. See preview for Trans-Global Underground. Joining forces with them on this Global Sweatbox tour are Fun-Da- Mental. radical Asian rappers featuring ex-Southern Death Cult man Aki. trainspotter fans.

I The Searchers, Merseybeats and The Swinging Blue Jeans Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 7.30pm. £15. £12. £10. Tickets from the Ticket

| Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. See Sat 23.

I My Dying Bride Cathouse. Brown Street. 248 6606.8pm. £4.50 (advance). £5.50 (door). Tickets from The Cathouse. Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. and 23rd Precinct. Bath Street. 332 9740.

I Dr Pop Nice ‘n‘ Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm.

I Life With Hixon Club Mouth. The 13th Note. Glassford Street. 553 1638. 8pm. Free.

I Media Falls McCool‘s Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free.

I The Medicine Hat Band Boon’s Yard. Cathcan Road. 649 0184. 9.30pm. Free. I U83 Universe. Coatbridge. 0236 428628. 10.30pm. £6. Tickets from The Universe and Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. The Blue Note jazz standard bearers run through a set of their inventively assimilated samplarama. I Fireball Liquor Store. The Area. Bridge Street. Paisley. 848 5096. 9.30pm. Free. Influenced by sassy 70s rock.

I Random Harvest Core. Old Sneddon Street. Paisley. 842 1276. 8.30pm. £1.50. I The Hideaway Blues Band Stairway To Heaven. Sax Venue. Cumbemauld. 0236 733200. 9pm. Free. Big blues residency kings.

I Junkyard Dogs BJ's. Croft Street. Kilmamock. 0563 44722. 10pm. £1. Blues night.

Edinburgh

I Ege earn Yasi and State or Flux Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 10pm. £5. A two- coast Acid attack is forecast tonight. with Edinburgh's near-legendary Ege Bam Yasi and Glasgow‘s State of Flux. Heads will be throbbing afterwards. we suspect.

I Mary-Chapln Carpenter Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £12.50/£10/£7.50. Deservedly reigning as the almost-undisputed queen of country- pop crossover. Her last album. Come On. Come On received exuberant reviews.

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I Sornbre Reptiles Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free. Contemplative keyboard songs in Dave ‘Reptile Records‘ Reilly‘s fortnightly

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Ipofled L’Attache. Rutland Street. 229 3402. 10pm. Free.

I The Volunteers Ryries. Haymarket Terrace. 337 7582. 9pm. Free.

I R&B jam session Young's. Learnington Terrace. 3—5pm. Free.

I live music Cas Rock Cafe. West Port. 229 4341. 9pm.

MONDAY 25

Glasgow I BMX Bandits and 18 Wheeler

. Caledonian University Union. Cowcaddens Road. 332 0681. 9pm. £5

(advance). £5.50 (door). Students and guests. Hands up who didn’t buy ‘Kylie's

5 Got A Crush On Us'. a pop song so ; simple but so arresting. Out to the firing : squad. the lot of you. while the rest of us

revel in the top tunes and notable light

entertainment of their new creation LP

Life Goes On. Special guests 18 Wheeler

. have the killer tunes too. but their humour

is not quite so blatant. shall we say.

I ma, Fretblanltet and Anna King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £4.50. Tickets from King Tut's. and Just the Ticket. Union Street.

226 4679. See Sat 23. Similar-sounding support from Fretblanket. but Anna sound altogether more epic and dangerous.

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I World Party and Aimee Mann Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm.

£10/£8. Proving that pop music can still

be successfully handled by

thirtysomethings with quasi-spiritual - world views and not enough naively. Karl

Wallinger and Crowded House they‘re our torchbearers. Support from ex—‘Til Tuesday member Aimee Mann see preview.

; I My Dying Bride and DDFH Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 9pm. £5. Bit ofa

downer at the Venue. what with the headliners’ ‘orchestral‘ death metal. Their

t recent work on an MTV Headbangers’

Ball ensures they are respectably gloomy. If you don't know if you can plummet to their level in time. arrive early to be depressed by GGFH’s doom-laden techno. I Electric Starfish Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.

I RH Band L'Attache. Rutland Street. 229 3402. 10pm. Free.

TUESDAY 26

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I The lemonheads, Soul Asylum and Eugenius Barrowland. Gallowgate. 552 4601. 7pm. £9.30 plus booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. Perennial slacker. apparent hunk and writer of lazy songs - this pop star business is a piece of piss. Evan and cohorts effortlessly fill out the hall. supported by American rock-meets- grungers Soul Asylum who say (after ten years together) that they're not ready for success. Plus some local crowd who’ll probably blow them all away.

I World Party and Aimee Mann Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 7.30pm. £10. £8. Tickets from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. See Mon 25.

I The Fortune Cookies, The Poison Sisters, Me, Hubby and Tom and Uresel Yatsura Kazoo Club. The 13th Note. Glassford Street. 553 1638. 8.30pm. Free. Second week of bands celebrating the Kazoo Club's first birthday. Tonight‘s performances will be recorded for a future release.

I Glasgow Songwriters restoring John Hanna Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free. Canadian melodic

pop/rocker promoting his Desperate

'Iimes LP. Plus open platform.

I Choice or Spirits Harleys. Quarry Street. Hamilton. 0698 458174. 9pm. Free. '

I live Music McCool‘s Ruling Cowboy. Candleriggs. 552 7847. 9pm. Free.

Edinburgh

I BMX Bandits and 18 Wheeler Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 10pm. £5. See Mon 25. You should be in time for the headliners if you rush back from the Lemonheads gig in Glasgow. Surprise celebrity guests are promised.

I Gary Clark and Boo Hewerdine La Belle Angele. Hasties Close (behind The

E Pelican). Cowgate. 225 2774. 7.30pm. £7.50. Not quite as inspirational as World Party. Gary Clark and Boo Hewerdine are what happen when you know too much

i and possess an acoustic guitar.

1 I Workers in Song Gallery Bar. North Bank Street. The Mound. 9pm—lam. Free. Information: 440 4303. Weekly forum for Edinburgh-based singer-songwriters. with . around ten performers playing three or four songs each.

I Seapegrace and Charybdis Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 9pm. £2. A poppy. indie sort of evening from these two.

: I Elimar Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.

3 I Mustang Sally L'Attache. Rutland

j Street. 229 3402. 10pm. Free.

WEDNESDAY 27

a Glasgow

I Gary Clark, Boo Hewerdine and Walter Wray King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. St

; Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £7.

: Tickets from King Tut's and Just the

l Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679.

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I Haggle Taggle Gypsies Scotia.

. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. 9; See Sat 23.

l I Troy MacSorley‘s. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.

1 Edinburgh

l I Baby Stafford Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. POSTPONED.

I lmrersus and Scarred Subway. Cowgate. 225 6766. 9pm. £2. Death metal.

I live music L'Attache. Rutland Street. 229 3402. 10pm. Free.

I lied Hot And Blue Platform One. Rutland Street. 225 2433. 9.30pm. Free. I Storm Poets Negociants. Lothian Street. 225 6313. 10pm. Free.

THURSDAY 28

Glasgow

. I Spaced Gut Roundabout, Planet X and The Autumn Stone King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £3.50. A trio of bands who appeared on the recent Heavy Salad CD compilation. who push energy and guitars to the fore. Despite their name The Autumn Stone are more influenced by The Byrds than The Small Faces.

I The Honeychurch, Strange Crazy and The Homecoming Nice ’n’ Sleazy. Sauchiehall Street. 333 9637. 9pm.

I lite With Hlxon Holy Cow. The Arches. Midland Street. 221 9736. 10.30pm. £2. Playing at a new weekly Student- orientated club.

I larlt Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. 9.30pm. Free. Unflustered songs with hidden hooks.

I Mandrake Hoot MacSorley‘s. Jamaica Street. 221 8499. 9pm. Free.

I The Honeychurch Batcave. Bruce Hotel. Cornwall Street. East Kilbride. 03552 2977]. 10pm. £2.50. The Honeychurch's second gig of the night. with a Bowie/Lou Reed tribute disco.

I Seventh Heaven Twa Corbies. Kilbowie Road. Cumbemauld. 0236 727473. 9pm. Free. Soulful R&B.

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