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ROCK&POP Music
■ Kirsty’s Metal Hands and Hot Jupiter Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. Glasgow- based alt.rock. ■ Filthy Little Secret, Death By Misadventure, Iain MacDonald and Brian Gatens The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £tbc. Sleazy southern rockers headline. ■ Frontier Ruckus Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £6. Folk rock quartet from Michigan. ■ The Lines, PartWindPartWolf and Sweet Relief King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £7. Wolverhampton indie rockers who have received the endorsement of Robert Plant. ■ Alburn, Alan Panther & the Energy Treadmill and Meanwhile City The Buff Club, 142 Bath Lane, 248 1777. 9pm. £4 including entry to the club night. Classic blues rock influences from Alan Panther at this Muso night. ■ Fox Gut Daata Glasgow School of Art Union, 168 Renfrew Street, 353 4410. 10.30pm. £3. Glitch-hop sounds at the weekly Knock Knock club night. Edinburgh ■ Maybeshewill and You Slut Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £5. Epic post-hardcore. ■ Secret CDs The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7.30pm. £3. A night set up to help sell CDs by Edinburgh-based musicians. Featuring Adam Holmes & The Dying Embers, The Beggar Girls, Lindsay & The Storm and Paul Gladwell. FREE Toby Mottershead Nobles Bar, 44a Constitution Street, Leith, 629 7215. 8.30pm. The Black Diamonds Express man presents ‘the Jack of Diamonds Scrimshaw shanties’. FREE The Ketterleys, Grandfather Birds and 3 Card Trick Whistlebinkies, 4–6 South Bridge, 557 5114. 9.30pm. Rock covers from 3 Card Trick. FREE Paul Daisley Blind Poet, 32c West Nicolson Street, 667 4268. 9.30pm. Singer-songwriter.
Thursday 5 Glasgow ■ Asking Alexandria The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall St, 332 1120. 7pm. £12. Metalcore with a hint of Eurotrance from this York quintet. ■ Cerebral Ballzy, Thrush Metal, DZ Deathrays and Horrors That
Turn to Crime
You’ve Seen O2 ABC2, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £7. Brooklyn punks gaining a name for their chaotic live shows. ■ Katy B and Jagga The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. 7pm. £12. Up- and-coming London dubstep/R&B/ house/garage singer whose debut album On a Mission recalls the deep house sounds of the early 90s. FREE Kurt Sawalies, Dougsy, Chris Gould, Danielle Hutchison and Who Needs a Diva Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7.30pm. Local singer/songwriters. ■ The Retrofrets Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. Rock’n’roll from The Retrofrets. ■ Dave Dominey Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. £2. Funkiness on laptop and bass. ■ Sonny & the Sunsets Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £6. San Franciscan beach pop from troubadour Sonny Smith and cohorts. ■ All the Young, The Barents Sea and The Regiment King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £5. Britpoppy indie sounds from this quartet. ■ Grandfather Birds and Where We Lay Our Heads Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. Free before 11pm. Geordie band influenced by the forward-thinking anthems of Radiohead. FREE Live! in the Saint The Saint on Bath Street, 190 Bath Street, 352 8800. 9pm. See Thu 28. ■ The Mixkings and The Being The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 9pm. £tbc. DJ collective mixing hip-hop, electro, dubstep, techno and more. ■ Dirty Distortion The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, 564 1450. 11pm–3am. £5 (£4). A club playing lo-fi, fuzz, distortion, feedback and noise – think Jesus and Mary Chain and The Raveonettes. Plus live performances from Holy Esque and Death By Misadventure. Edinburgh FREE Henry Ibbs The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. See Thu 28. ■ David Ford Cabaret Voltaire, 36–38 Blair Street, 220 6176. 7pm. £12. Ex- Easyworld member strikes out in solo mode. ■ Metamap and New Fiction Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. 7pm. £tbc. Electro-pop.
Turn to Crime is the new solo project from Derek Stanton (pictured), once a member of Brooklyn’s skateboard and burrito-loving trio, Awesome Color. Stanton’s solo stuff – lushly lo-fi, psych-pop – comes with support from scratchy garage-punk duo Float Riverer. ■ The 13th Note, Glasgow, Sun 8 May, with Fur Hood and Palms; the Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh, Mon 9 May, with That’s What The Old Man Said & He Never Came Back and Red Death. (Rock & Pop) 28 Apr–26 May 2011 THE LIST 81