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GST Cardinals Box, 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431. 9pm. Alternative rock. FREE The Fortunate Sons 1901 Bar and Bistro, 1534 Pollockshaws Road, 9pm. Acoustic folk/rock/blues residency.
Edinburgh FREE Bruncheon! Featuring The Sound of Muesli Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 30–36 Dalmeny Street, Leith, 555 7100. 11.30am–3pm. Brunch and live music plus your choice of breakfast, traditional or continental. If you can have a dinner dance, why not a breakfast dance? ■ We Don’t Dance to Love Songs and Young States Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 3.30pm. £tbc. Fresh-faced pop-punk four-piece from Hull. ■ William Douglas The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6.30pm. Donation. Unplugged session with William Douglas and friends. ■ Boycotts Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £tbc. Angular indie- poppers with an energetic frontwoman in the shape of Stina Twee. ■ The Draymin, Rolled Up 20s, Maydays and Dead Generals Cabaret Voltaire, 36–38 Blair Street, 220 6176. 7pm. £6. Guitar rock with an electro edge from these Rosyth boys. ■ The Fabulous Go Go Boy Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place, 629 0039. 7pm. £5. Garage rock from Alabama. ✽✽ Fun Lovin’ Criminals and The House, 31 Lothian Road, 0844 847 1740. 7pm. £17.50. Like Ocean Colour Scene, Fun Lovin’ Criminals may be past their creative peak but always find an eager crowd in Scotland, keen to bellow along to the hits. FREE September Concert Festival Theatre, 13/29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.30pm. The September Concert began as a small event in 2002 in the US to commemorate 9/11 and spread a message of peace, and has since grown to include more than 200 free concerts the world over. This year Scotland hosts its first, directed by Andrew Russel and compered by Radio Forth’s Grant Stott. Performers include InChorus, the Lothian and Borders Police Choir, the Gospel Truth Choir, Fish and Big Country star Bruce Watson, who is joined by his son Jamie. FREE Live Music Captains Bar, 4 South College Street, 8.30pm. Acoustic sessions. FREE Live Music Nobles Bar, 44a Constitution Street, Leith, 629 7215. 9.30pm. Local bands. Chemists The HMV Picture
Motherwell ■ Jamie Keenan, Sean Murray, 4dayweekend and Seventeenth Century South Dalziel Studios, 240 Orbiston Street, 7.30pm. £20. Night of acoustica from Soundminds with this special gig organised to coincide with Suicide Prevention Week. St Andrews ■ MacFloyd Byre Theatre, Abbey Street, 01334 475000. 8pm. £16 (£14). See Fri 10.
Sunday 12 Glasgow FREE Live Music in the Bandstand Mugdock Country Park, Craigallian Road, Milngavie, 956 6100. 2–4pm. A variety of musical ensembles perform every Sunday this summer in the peaceful surroundings of the Victorian Walled Garden. Please phone for details of individual bands. FREE Acoustic Butterfly 1901 Bar and Bistro, 1534 Pollockshaws Road, 5pm. See Sat 11. FREE Duffy’s Blues Jam The Wise Monkey, 508 Great Western Road, 334 5125. 5pm. Blues session. ■ Mad Sin, The Termites and Gin Goblins Stereo, 22–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. £tbc. Punk bill.
5 REASONS TO GO SEE
DUM DUM GIRLS 1 They’re bringing badass back to rock ‘n’ roll. Just take a peep at these LA-based lasses. What else could they do apart from be in a brilliant band? With their poster-worthy girl gang image, icon- in-waiting names (Dee Dee, Jules, Bambi and Sandy Vu) and fizzing rhythmic pop songs, they make their peers look and sound a little, well, feeble in comparison.
2 Where Sub Pop point, we follow . . . The Seattle record label has given us Nirvana, The Shins and Mudhoney over the years, and more recently such awesomeness as Avi Buffalo, No Age, Beach House and, yes, our very own Dum Dum Girls. If there was one label we’d trust unfalteringly with our precious ears, it’s Sub Pop. 3 Ich liebe No other debut album this year has managed to harness such a compelling mix of romance and menace. Its eleven tracks tell tales of longing and rebellion all fuelled by urgent riffs, click-clack drums and even the odd bit of German. Fantastisch!
4 Dee Dee does fashionably scuzzy singalongs with a twist. We’re used to acts like Wavves, Best Coast and Surfer Blood peddling a similar grunge- inspired sound, but the Dum Dum Girls’ leader has made sure her ladies push it in more diverse directions – think The Ronettes, Iggy Pop and The Vaselines as main musical influences. 5 A Yeah Yeah Yeah says, umm, yeah! YYY guitarist Nick Zinner loves Dum Dum Girls. You’ll find him lending his fretboard magic to ‘Yours Alone’ and we like to imagine his bedecked-in-black spectre haunting these forthcoming Glasgow shows like some sort of gothy, ‘I know what I’m talking about cos I’m in an ace band’ authority. Boy knows his stuff. (Camilla Pia) ■ Dum Dum Girl support MGMT, Barrowlands, Glasgow, Mon 20 & Tue 21 Sep; and are supported by Come on Gang!, Electric Circus, Edinburgh, Wed 22 Sep.
■ Old Crow Medicine Show and Dave Rawlings Machine O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £15. Appalachian string band who have branched out to incorporate pre-war blues and jug band rags in their set and are joined on this tour by their old associates Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch.
Sunday 10th October LONNIE LISTON SMITH £15 + BF Over 18’s
Weekly Thursday Student Night Launching 16th September
Tommy Reilly Friday 17th September
Saturday 9th October with special guest
James Zabiela
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