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■ Napier Music Course Guitar Quartet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). Guitar music with influences from rock, jazz and pop. FREE Out of the Bedroom The Tron, 9 Hunter Square, High Street, 226 0931. 8pm. See Thu 15. ■ The Freaky Family The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £2 (£1). See Thu 15.
Friday 23 Glasgow ■ Alphabeat and Pearl & the Puppets O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £12. See Thu 22. ■ Chew Lips and Mopp O2 ABC2, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £9. South London-based dance pop trio tipped for 2010. ■ Joshua Radin and Lissie Oran Mor, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. SOLD OUT. Singer/songwriter from Ohio whose music has been featured on Scrubs and Grey’s Anatomy. Supported by new major label hopeful. ■ Semper Fi, The Relevants, Epitaph, Fear of Silence, Nemecyst and 3 Musicians & a Bass Barrowland 2, 244 Gallowgate, 552 4601. 7pm. £6. Over-14s show. Local metal line-up. ■ Street Lights, Red Light District and Dawns Club O2 Academy 2, 121 Eglinton Street, 0844 477 2000. 7pm. £6. Local bands. ✽✽ Bear in Heaven and Nevada Base Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £6. Brooklyn-based electro rock band influenced by Krautrock and psychedelia. FREE Bullet VI, Escort Knights, The Laymanites, Presumed Dead and Forever Broken Box, 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431. 8pm. Indie rock with a reggae lilt from Bullet VI. ■ House of Rock and Outsider Maggie May’s, 60 Albion Street, Merchant City, 548 1350. 8pm. £5. Local live music. ■ Mackenzie Tchai Ovna, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. £3. Hip-hop with jazz flavours. ■ Maggie Bell, Dave Kelly & The British Blues Quartet The Ferry, Anderston Quay, Broomielaw, 01698 360085. 8pm. £17. See Thu 22. ■ Stated Quo Rockers, 14 Midland Street, 221 0726. 8pm. £tbc. Tribute to the Quo.
FREE The Strangers Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. Live rock. ■ Sweet Sweet Lies and The Viragoes King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5. Folk, bluegrass and post- punk influences filter into the SSL sound. ■ The King Hats 13th Note Café, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 9pm. £tbc. Post-punk and alt.rock. FREE The Tennessee Hot Shots The Wise Monkey, 508 Great Western Road, 334 5125. 9pm. Rockabilly. ■ Take a Worm for a Walk Week Stereo, 22–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. £tbc. Fast, chaotic and intense techcore onslaught from TAWFAWW, described as Dillinger Escape Plan meets The Locust. Edinburgh ■ Rossco Galloway The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Donation. See Fri 16. ■ Candi Staton and Lorna Brookes The HMV Picture House, 31 Lothian Road, 0844 847 1740. 7pm. £17.50. Soul and disco diva shows all those karaoke queens how ‘Young Hearts Run Free’ should be sung. ■ Cathode Ray, Thank you So Nice and The Scottish Enlightenment Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. 7pm. £5. New guitar band featuring ex-Josef K singer Paul Haig. ■ Efterklang and Slaraffenland Cabaret Voltaire, 36–38 Blair Street, 220 6176. 7pm. £10. New Age, classical and post-rock influences from this Danish ensemble. ■ John Smith Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £10. Unashamed romanticism and warm lyricism on the acoustic guitar. ■ We Luv Musik The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7pm. £7. New monthly live music night. ✽✽ Steffen Basho-Junghans, C. Joynes, Ben Reynolds and Hanna Tuulikki Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place, 629 0039. 7.30pm. £6. Experimental folk at this one-off Scottish date for the German six and twelve- string acoustic guitarist. FREE Open Mic McEwans Ale House, 18–22 Clerk Street, 668 4786. 9pm. See Fri 16. ■ This is Music Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 11pm–3am. £3 (members free). See Fri 16.
Steffen Basho-Junghans, with C.Joynes and guests A night of virtuoso steel-string guitarists, presented by the highly trustworthy Braw Gigs. There’s an introspective, subtle intensity to Basho-Junghans’ (pictured) fingerwork – generally leaving his crowds standing in pindrop silence. Cambridge-based C.Joynes is also jaw- slackingly good; blending classical, jazz and world styles in a soothing swirl of acoustic instrumentals. Ben Reynolds (ex Trembling Bells) and Hanna Tuulikki provide support. ■ The Roxy Art House, Edinburgh, Fri 23 Apr.
Then I saw her face. Now I’m a believer.
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