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Thursday 21 Glasgow ■ Amy MacDonald O2 Academy, 121 Eglinton Street, 0844 477 2000. 7pm. £22.50. Down-to-earth young singer- songwriter from Glasgow. ■ Carl Barat, The Heartbreaks and Swimming Oran Mor, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. SOLD OUT. Ex-Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things star strikes out on his own with eponymous debut album in tow. ■ Hayseed Dixie Grand Ole Opry, 2–4 Govan Road, 429 5396. 7pm. £13.50 (£40 season ticket). Hillbilly hellraisers Hayseed Dixie present a four-night stand in one of their favourite cities, concentrating on a different aspect of their repertoire at each gig including drinkin’, cheatin’ and killin’. ■ Train O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £14.50. San Franciscan AOR trio best known for their song ‘Drops of Jupiter’. ■ Charlie Landsborough City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £16–£18. As entertaining on stage as he is melodic, Landsborough offers up a range of country material. ■ DOSH Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. £8–£9.50. Percussive multi- instrumentalist. ■ Lost City Lights Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7.30pm. £5. LCL describes themselves as ‘an explosion of sheer flavour’. ■ Marty Wilde’s Born to Rock’n’Roll Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £21.50–£23.50. Vintage rockers Marty Wilde, Eden Kane and Jet Harris with Roxy Wilde and the Wildcats join forces in a spectacular show that will show they were. . . you guessed it. ■ The Black Hand Gang Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £tbc. Raw urban blues and country rock. ■ Chantel McGregor The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 8pm. £10. New blues guitar whizz. ■ The Ex and DeSalvo Stereo, 22–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 8pm. £7. Veteran anarcho-punk band from the Netherlands, with hardcore entertainment from DeSalvo in support. FREE Jam Session Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8pm. Hosted by Independence. ■ Magic Lantern Show, Iona Marshall, Ben TD and Gerry Lyons Sloans, 62 Argyle Arcade, 108 Argyle Street, 221 8886. 8pm. £5. Retro-themed charity night for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. With tombola and cakes. ■ My Passion King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8pm. £8. Over-14s show. Self-styled ‘electronic-induced metallic punk’ from London. ■ SFD, The Massacre Cave, Gruesome Green Fever and Shanty Moses Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 8pm. £4. Live music. FREE This Silent Forest and Unhappy Mansion Brel, 39–43 Ashton Lane, 342 4966. 8pm. Weekly Socks Off night. ■ The Lonely Oatcake, Barn Owl and Go Lucky 13th Note Café, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 9pm. £tbc. Our new favourite band name. The sound is folk.
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TO GO SEE. . . FOALS AND TORO Y MOI For their lies, for their sweet little lies Foals (pictured) are not baby horses, we can tell you that. And Toro Y Moi is not a bull. The former is a Mercury-nominated art- rock quintet from Oxford. The latter is one Chazwick Bundick: a hazy, Carolinian synth-pop bard. Let us give thanks for their factual inadequacies. For the love of Yannis and Chaz Foals’ frontman Yannis Philippakis is partial to amp-surfing, especially over the math-pop judder of 2008’s indie-hit ‘Cassius’. Bundwick, meanwhile, is an onstage magician: he can conjure nostalgic bliss with little more than the flick of a switch.
Because it’ll be ‘like the dream of an eagle dying’ This is how Foals touted their second album, Total Life Forever, released earlier this year. Said reverie must therefore be soundtracked by exotic rock, cosmic electronica and neo-classical grandeur. Bundwick’s no stranger to such terrain either, although his is a lot more hallucinogenic.
For their totally tropical prog It is thanks to inventive acts like these that ‘prog’ is no longer a term of abuse. For their titular synchronicity Toro Y Moi’s 2010 debut album was entitled Causers of This. Foals’ 2008 calling card was called Antidotes. You do the math. (Nicola Meighan) ■ HMV Picture House, Edinburgh, Sun Oct 31; 02 Academy, Glasgow, Tue Nov 2.
FREE Your Loyal Subjects Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. Edinburgh rock duo. FREE The Fiction The Wise Monkey, 508 Great Western Road, 334 5125. 9.30pm. Live music. ■ Tracy Gang Pussy Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. £tbc. POSTPONED. Edinburgh FREE Henry Ibbs The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Electro-acoustic sounds from singer- songwriter Ibbs and friends. ■ Alvin Stardust Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 665 2240. 7.30pm. £15 (£13). Re-live 40 years of rock’n’roll excitement with 70s mega- star Alvin Stardust. ■ Demons, Sick Llama and Wraiths Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7.30pm. £6. Dark synth drone from Detroit’s Demons (featuring Wolf Eyes’ Nate Young).
Edinburgh HMV Picture House Sunday 31st October Glasgow 02 Academy Tuesday 2nd November The new album ‘Total Life Forever’ out now foals.co.uk + TORO Y MOI + PET MOON
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