Music Rock&Pop
Dundee ■ The Pride of Ireland Caird Hall, City Square, 01382 434940. 7.30pm. £17.50 (£15). Including Dominic Kirwan, The Three Irish Tenors, Sandy Kelly, Frankie McBride, The Polka Dots, Elaine Boyle and more. Stirling ■ Magic: A Kind of Queen Albert Halls, Dumbarton Road, 01786 473544. 7.30pm. £14 (£12.50). Popular Queen tribute act and light show.
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Glasgow ■ The Circus, Chapter One, Da Capo and The Blinding The Ferry, Anderston Quay, Broomielaw, 01698 360085. 7pm. £5. Local band showcase. ■ The Paddingtons O2 ABC2, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £6. A Hull five-piece with a hunger for no-frills fuzzy rock’n’roll.
5 REASONS TO GO SEE
AIRBOURNE 1: They supply the ultimate party soundtrack ‘Hard hitting, sweat soaked, fist-thumping rock’n’roll,’ explains guitarist David Roads, ‘just very loud and very hard, foot-stomping kind of music for a good time.’ 2: They sound a bit like AC/DC ‘It is a great honour to be compared to one of the greatest rock bands out there.’
3: They honed their skills in Aussie biker bars ‘Warnambool’s a real hard drinking town, like a lot of Aussie towns. We had the local pub, The Criterion Hotel, and biker gangs would stop for a few beers. That was a pretty rough pub to play, if you were shit you got bottles thrown at you, if you were good you didn’t get bottles thrown at you.’
4: They wrote their new album No Guts No Glory in the pub ‘There’s a lot of sweat and rock’n’roll blood in the carpet of that pub [the aforementioned Criterion Hotel] but it was definitely a good atmosphere to write in. It’s closed down now but we put a keg in so we could relive the dream of having a beer at the bar, then we headed to Chicago to record it.’ 5: And slept in the studio while they recorded it ‘We didn’t want to drive to the studio every day because we thought it would be crap – as it’s the wrong side of the road in America – so we just camped in the studio. I slept in the amp room – you’re always in the zone.’ (Henry Northmore) ■ Airbourne, HMV Picture House, Edinburgh, Mon 5 Apr; O2 Academy, Glasgow, Tue 6 Apr.
68 THE LIST 1–15 Apr 2010
■ Tigers on Vaseline Oran Mor, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £10. Tribute to David Bowie. ✽✽ The Twilight Sad O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £10. Joy Division/My Bloody Valentine- influenced outfit catching ears with their current album Forget the Night Ahead. See preview, page 62. ■ Chris Rea SECC: Clyde Auditorium, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. 7.30pm. £28.50. See Thu 1. ■ Charger and Huey Broon & the Bullets Rockers, 14 Midland Street, 221 0726. 8pm. £tbc. Classic rock. ■ Craig Hughes, John Alexander and Roscoe The State Bar, 148 Holland Street, 332 2159. 8pm. £4 (£3 with flyer). Acoustic alt.blues, country and more under the banner That Devil Music. ■ Dam Mantle and Fox Gut Daata Glasgow Social Centre, 66–68 Osborne Street, 8pm. £tbc. Organic electronics as Glasgow-based Dam Mantle launches his debut EP Grey. See preview, page 63. ■ Tom Hingley, Phil Campbell & band, Mocker and Satellite Underground Maggie May’s, 60 Albion Street, Merchant City, 548 1350. 8pm. £6. Ex-frontman of baggy Mancunian space-rockers The Inspiral Carpets plies his solo wares. ■ The Miss’s and Pauline Russell 13th Note Café, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8.30pm. £2. Four-part harmony girl group play at this Aerials night. FREE OHL Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. Live music. ■ Walter Schreifels, Nic Dawson Kelly and Michael MacLennan King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £7. Quicksand/Rival Schools frontman has just released his debut solo album An Open Letter to the Scene. FREE Norse Code The Wise Monkey, 508 Great Western Road, 334 5125. 9pm. Pirate-themed metal band. Aaaarrrrhhhh!!!. Edinburgh ■ Rossco Galloway The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Donation. The singer-songwriter-guitarist is regularly joined by a selection of special guests.
Debutant and Wounded Knee ✽✽ Conquering Animal Sound, Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place, 629 0039. 7pm. £5. Loops and beats from CAS and leftfield singer-songwriter action and dreamy pop from Debutant at this Gerry Loves Records launch night. ■ Fireside Aliens, Plain Breed and Hosemox Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. 7pm. £5 (£4). Alt.rock. ■ Imperial Racing Club, Midnight Wonderhouse, The Koves and The Lost Weekend Cabaret Voltaire, 36–38 Blair Street, 220 6176. 7pm. £5. Blistering power pop from Scottish indie types IRC at this six band line-up in aid of St Columbus Hospice, completed by The Sereph’s Revolt and These Desires Consume. ■ Laurent Garnier The HMV Picture House, 31 Lothian Road, 0844 847 1740. 7pm. £18.50. Full live show as the French electronic pioneer performs techno classics and tracks from his new album, Tales of a Kleptomaniac, with a full band (DJ support, with Garnier on stage approx 10pm). ■ My Tiny Robots Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £tbc. Idiosyncratic lilting indie pop and odd ball covers. ■ Shakedown Battle of the Bands Studio 24, 24–26 Calton Road, 558 3758. 7pm. £7. Bands competition from Mean Eye Productions. ■ TV Smith Citrus Club, 40–42 Grindlay Street, 622 7086. 7.30pm. £10 (£7 in advance). Rare Edinburgh gig from punk survivor TV Smith (The Adverts). ■ Assert, Refuse/All, Issues of Morality, Happy Spastics and Daddy No Bannerman’s, Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £tbc. Night of hardcore punk headed by English mob Assert. FREE Open Mic McEwans Ale House, 18–22 Clerk Street, 668 4786. 9pm. Various singer-songwriter action and covers (call 07792 716013 to book a slot).
Bathgate ■ DEC Haitian Appeal Punkfest Harley’s Bar, 4 Mid Street, 8pm. £5. Punk action from The Frauds, The Media
Whores, The Snipes, Ceasefire UK, Mallfunction and The Mad Frogs, with all proceeds going to the Haiti appeal. Tickets available on the door only. Dundee FREE Hello Pirates, The New Times, Balaclava Models and Mum Wants a Mixtape Chambers Bar, 59–61 Gellatly Street, 01382 225616. 8pm. Local four-piece with influences from Regina Spektor to Blink 182. ■ Under the Influence Ska Night featuring Root System The Doghouse, 15 Ward Street, 01382 206812. 8pm. £6. Punky ska with a touch of techno from Fife’s Root System. ■ James Grant Dundee Rep, Tay Square, 01382 223530. 8.30pm. £14 (£12). The ex-Love and Money frontman plays tracks from his current album Strange Flowers, influenced by the likes of Scott Walker and John Martyn.
Saturday 3 Glasgow ■ Music Makes the Memories with Christian Pavilion Theatre, 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. 2pm & 7.30pm. £12–£15 (£10–£13). Pop, Motown and chart hits from Chris McClure. ■ Full Metal Racket and Kurbgrinder Rockers, 14 Midland Street, 221 0726. 4pm. £tbc. Classic rock and metal. FREE The MeatMen Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, Merchant City, 548 1350. 5pm. Rockabilly, bluegrass and skiffle from Glasgow trio The MeatMen. ■ Hinterland Various venues, 6pm–3am. £15. The music festival returns to venues across the city with Mystery Jets, British Sea Power, Jeffrey Lewis, Friendly Fires (DJ set), Joe Goddard Hot Chip (DJ set), Hot Club de Paris, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Fenech Soler, Johnny Foreigner, French Wives, Ambulances, Kitty the Lion, Midnight Lion, Make Sparks, Silver Columns (DJ set), LuckyMe and more across Various venues (including The Arches, Sub Club, MacSorleys, The Admiral, Pivo Pivo and Rockers). Check
Part of the Dialogues festival of electronic music, Humcrush make a much-anticipated return to Edinburgh after their last visit to the Bongo Club in 2006. The Norwegian duo – made up of Humcrush percussionist Thomas Strønen (Food) and keyboard player Ståle Storløkken (Supersilent) – will perform their trademark mix of free jazz, electronica and improv, while London trio Leverton Fox add more variation to the night with live trumpets and drums. ■ Mon 12 Apr, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh.