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Glasgow ■ Evita, Giants, Golden Tanks and Only in Abstract Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. Heavy and alternative sounds. ■ Pop Will Eat Itself The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120. 7pm. £16. The grebo gurus return for their 25th anniversary (now sans Clint Mansell) with more mashed up techno-rock-acid house-hip hop-industrial with new album Vile Evils. ■ The Black Light District, The Heretics, Without Aeroplanes and Amanda Williams Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. £tbc. Rock’n’roll from The Heretics. FREE Maple Leaves, Hardy Boys, Felt Tips and The Starlets Heavenly, 185 Hope Street, 353 0884. 7.30pm. Boy/girl folk pop group and indie compadres celebrate the opening of the new vegan café bar Heavenly. ■ Rave On: A Tribute to Buddy Holly Eastwood Park Theatre, Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. 7.30pm. £14.50 (£13.50). Marc Robinson pays tribute to one of the finest rock’n’rollers of all time with the likes of ‘Peggy Sue’, ‘Heartbeat’ and ‘Raining in my Heart’. He’s joined by Gavin Stanley who celebrates Billy Fury. ■ Andrea Heins Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. £2. Canadian singer-songwriter on guitar and auto-harp. ■ Big Hogg and Noma The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £3. Wild grooves, jazz chops and psych rock sensibilities. FREE Lunan Spotlight, Picnic Basket Nosedive, Born Accused, Revolution Reload and Aid N Disaster Box, 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431. 8pm. Local indie bands. ■ dd/mm/yyyy and Below Below Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £5. Indie five-piece from Toronto. ■ Song of Return, OtherPeople, The King Hats and Ace City Racers King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6. New band from Union of Knives members. Where We Lay Our Heads play in the bar. Part of King Tut’s Summer Nights. FREE Citizens, Shields Up and Broken Few Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. Free before 11pm. Hardcore punks from Scotland and Sunderland. Edinburgh FREE Henry Ibbs The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Electro-acoustic sounds from singer- songwriter Ibbs and friends. FREE Henry Ibbs Captains Bar, 4 South College Street, 668 2312. 9pm. See Thu 21. ■ The Computers, Bronto Skylift, PAWS and A Fight You Can’t Win Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £5. The headliners aim to splice rock’n’roll with hardcore punk in a Chuck Berry-meets-Minor Threat sort of way. ■ Sara Lowes and Easy Tigers Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £6. Lowes has collaborated with the likes of King Creosote, The Earlies and Jim Noir.
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RIVER OF SLIME
Hello, is that the Scottish Environment Protection Agency? We have a toxic aural sludge to report. It is known locally as River of Slime, as adulterated by one Kev Sim, the beat-seeking third of pop alchemists FOUND
That’s some heady slime alright. I phoned SEPA and alerted them to the noxious quantities of hip hop, industrial, techno and electro in your so-called river. Anything I overlooked? ‘I love all the genres of electronic music you’ve mentioned and I buy a lot of records – garage-rock, psych, reggae, soul. The sound is reliant upon the equipment I use too: it’s all about my sampler [MPC] really. That and electricity . . . and ectoplasm.’
Ah yes, ectoplasm. There is something of Ghostbusters II in your nom de plume, is there not? ‘Ghostbusters II is a great movie and that’s where the name comes from. I sampled a bunch of films for a Halloween thing years ago and the ones from Ghostbusters were the best. I used the samples again more recently and that’s when the River of Slime idea really began to flow.’
The River of Slime is a bountiful source of maniacal musical merriment, yes? ‘I suppose it is a fun idea – it’s fun for me. The performances have a pretty improvised structure, as do my recordings. I have hundreds of small prepared bits and beats and they sort of just ooze out. The aesthetic is as the name suggests. I get bored pretty quickly so the music sort of reflects that.’ (Nicola Meighan) ■ River of Slime performs at Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh (with Enfant Bastard) on Sat 23 Jul; and at Captain’s Rest, Glasgow (with Jonnie Common) on Sun Jul 31. River of Slime’s Volume One (Phuturelabs) is out now at phuturelabs.com. See review, page 70. An EP is also due on De-Fence in Sept. facebook.com/riverofslime
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