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TO GO SEE . . . MATTHEW HERBERT’S ‘ONE PIG’ 1 Not many gigs document the birth, life and death of a pig ‘The whole show is about remembering this life that existed and then passed. All of us are playing pig samples. Our drummer’s playing a drum made from the skin of the pig. We’ve also got a chef on stage. It’s a multi-sensory experience.’
2 Two words: musical pigsty ‘It was built by Yann Seznec, a sound artist based in Scotland. Effectively, it’s a giant midi controller that we use to trigger samples, add reverb, make loops.’ 3 It’ll give you food for thought (about food) ‘I’ve had emails from people saying they’re going to stop eating meat, and from a vegetarian of 27 years saying, “I really enjoyed the show. I’ve started eating meat again.” The message isn’t “don’t eat meat”. The message is that we should listen to the world more.’
4 Herbert wants you for your body, not just your brain ‘I make functional dance music and try and sneak some ideas in there. I make challenging music and give the body a way to respond. It’s really hard to make a pig sound like a piano, so you end up gravitating towards rhythm.’
5 As director of the new BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Herbert will soundtrack your future ‘The original Radiophonic Workshop tried to imagine what the future sounded like. My contention is that we’re in the future now. There are some big questions to be answered before we even think about what we’re going to do. It has a very different remit now.’ (Matt Evans) ■ Tramway, Glasgow, Sat 3 Nov; Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Thu 8 Nov, for full Scottish tour info see list.co.uk. For info on the ‘Pork feast’ after the Queen’s Hall show, see Side Dishes, page 32.
94 THE LIST 18 Oct–15 Nov 2012
■ Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra and The Blueswater The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7.30pm. £7 (£4 in fancy dress; students £5). Double bill of up-beat Americana and blues. FREE Betty’s Bar Unplugged Betty’s Bar, 14–16 Grosvenor Street, 337 4315. 8pm. See Thu 18. ■ Bohemond, The Cosmonauts, Johanna-Crossley Zels, Kirsty Kennedy and Alex Foottit Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £4. Local rock, indie and acoustic sounds. FREE The GT’s The Granary, 32–34 The Shore, Leith, 554 9465. 8pm. Live music. ■ READ Fundraiser The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4. Live bands to raise funds at this Edin Uni Soc charity night. FREE Unplugged Acoustic Sessions The Ale House, 18–22 Clerk Street, 629 0275. 9.30pm. See Thu 18. ■ Future Heroes The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £3 (£2). See Thu 18.
Biggar ■ City Sinners Corn Exchange, 126a High Street. 8pm. £9. The City Sinners play the music of the late Gram Parsons, country rock pioneer from the early 1970s. Part of Biggar Little Festival.
Dundee ■ Marina & The Diamonds and Foe Fat Sam’s, 31 South Ward Road, 01382 228496. 7.30pm. £18.50. Welsh electro pop and piano songstress returns from supporting Coldplay with a mainstream pop sound.
Paisley FREE Julia & the Doogans and James Foley Spiegeltent, County Square. 5pm. Melodic indie sounds with delicate instrumentation. Part of the Spree. FREE A Film For the Future Paisley Arts Centre, New Street, 887 1010. 6pm. A discussion on music videos with Vic Galloway, Dougal Perman and Paul Fagin. Part of the Spree. ■ Chemikal Underground Records Spiegeltent, County Square. 7.30pm. £12 (£10). With Malcolm Middleton’s instrumental project Human Don’t Be Angry and electro pop act Miaoux Miaoux. Part of the Spree. Stirling ■ Talon Albert Halls, Dumbarton Road, 01786 473544. 7.30pm. £18.50 (£16.50). See Sat 20.
Friday 26
Glasgow ✽ David Byrne Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, 332 6535. 7pm. £tbc. The co-founder of Talking Heads talks about his new book How Music Works in conversation with Chemikal Underground founder Alun Woodward on tonight’s topic, ‘Stay Free – How to Survive As a Label and Artist’. See page 91 for how to win tickets. ■ Dead Swans, Departures, Grader, Cavalcades and Leagues Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 6.30pm. £8. Over-14s show. Hardcore punk band from Brighton headlines. ■ Joanne Shaw Taylor and Tristan Mackay O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £15. Bluesy singer-songwriter, described as the love child of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Dusty Springfield, airs her sultry voice and emotive guitar playing.
✽ The Killers and Tegan & Sara SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395
4000. 7pm. £tbc. Las Vegas rockers showcase their fourth studio album Battle Born. ■ Laurel Halo Stereo, 20–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. £7. Hyperdub artist mixing elements of Flying Lotus
and Tori Amos, with visuals by Konx- Om-Pax. ■ Michael Nesmith Òran Mór, 731– 735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £27.50. Hey, hey, it’s the former Monkee with the bobble hat and Tippex fortune performing his folky/country classics live in the UK for the first time in over 30 years. ■ Mindless Self Indulgence The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120. 7pm. £15. Over-14s show. Honestly- monikered New York band who cram industrial, punk, jungle, rock and techno strands into their polyphonic sound. ■ Randolph’s Leap and The Fence Collective The Glad Café, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. 7pm. Indie folk troupe launch the Hermit EP, their debut release on Fence Records with support from members of the collective. ■ Twin Atlantic, Charlie Simpson and Carnivores Barrowland, 244 Gallowgate, 552 4601. 7pm. £14.50. Biffy and Dinosaur Jr references from the Glasgow alt.rockers, perpetually on the rise. ■ Wolfsbane The Cathouse, 15 Union Street, 248 6606. 7pm. £12. Over-14s show. Eighties heavy metal band, whose former lead singer Blaze Bayley joined Iron Maiden in ’94, reunited and touring again with a new album Wolfsbane Saves the World. ■ Richard Street’s Temptations ’71–’93 in Concert Pavilion Theatre, 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. 7.30pm. £25 (£24). See Wed 24. ■ Algernon Doll, Roscoe Vacant & the Gantin’ Screichs and Tango Rhum The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. Mixed bill of alternative sounds. ■ Communion Glasgow The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. Featuring Washington Irving, Donald McDonald & the Islands, Joe Banfi and Robin Adams. ■ He Slept on 57, People, Places, Maps and The Clock Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 8pm. £5. Alt. rock. ■ The Hollywood Bees: The Music of the Hollies The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £12.50 in advance: £14 on door: £26.45 with early dinner at 6pm. See Sat 20. ■ The Mastersons and The State Broadcasters Woodend Tennis & Bowling Club, 10 Chamberlain Road, 959 1428. 8pm. Husband and wife team who form part of Steve Earle’s touring outfit. ■ United Fruit and We Are the Physics Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8pm. £5. Noisy alt.rock four-piece Unite Fruit and self-styled mutant science punk rockers WATP. ■ Everything Everything and Fiction King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £12.50. Genre-straddling unconventional pop from Manchester’s hotly-tipped Everything Everything. FREE The Strangers Samuel Dow’s, 67–71 Nithsdale Road, 423 0107. 8.30pm. Live rock. ■ Sway, Kof and Profisee King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £10. CANCELLED. FREE Hidden Agenda Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 9pm. Motown and soul covers in the bar. Edinburgh FREE Sher Watson The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. See Fri 19. ■ Bombskare, Taking Chase and Super Adventure Club The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604. 7pm. £7 in advance; £8 on the door. Skallowe’en fancy dress special. ■ Dog Is Dead Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £8.50. Mild-mannered indie pop from Nottingham band. ■ Neu! Reekie! Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. 7pm. £7 (£6). Avant-garde spoken word, film and music fusion night describing itself
as ‘playing host to the sinister and the sanguine’. A super-special top-secret line-up that won’t be revealed in advance. Just rest assured that with Liz Lochhead, Frightened Rabbit and Remember Remember among the list of Neu! Reekie!’s past conquests, when they say special, they probably do mean special. ■ Ste McCabe and Candy Panic Attack Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 228 9393. 7pm. £3. Pussy Whipped night headed by electro- punk/queer pop machine Ste McCabe (launching a new album) alongside London’s bubblegum punks CPA. FREE The Soul Foundation The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7.30pm. Night of Motown-style soul. ■ Braxton The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 8.30pm. £tbc. Big funk sounds with a heavy Motown influence launching new EP Golliwog Revolution. Paisley FREE Laura Carswell and Rebecca Wallace Spiegeltent, County Square. 5pm. Singer-songwriter. Part of the Spree. ■ Create Wars: Round 1, Part 2 The Wynd Centre, 6 School Wynd, 561 1171. 6pm. £2. Local battle of the bands, including a performance from last year’s winner Crown of Storms. Part of the Spree. ■ MacFloyd Paisley Town Hall, Abbey Close. 7.30pm. £14 (£12). Internationally acclaimed tribute combo to Pink Floyd, who recreate (on a slightly smaller scale) the stage effects for which the prog rockers were renowned.
Saturday 27 Glasgow FREE Cry Parrot vs Green Door Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 4pm. All-day festival with live music from GD Disco Band, Ela Orleans, Becoming Real, Konx-Om-Pax, Ballad of Mabel Wong, Gordon McDougal and more. FREE David Duffy MacSorley’s, 42 Jamaica Street, 248 8581. 6pm. See Sat 20. FREE The MeatMen Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 6pm. See Sat 20. ■ Fluorescent Fields, The Hazy Shades, The Lipstick Tearaways, The Moon Dogs and Kerri Watt Maggie May’s, 60 Trongate, 548 1350. 7pm. £6. Indie Rocks night. ■ Jay Brannan Òran Mór, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £11. New York-based singer-songwriter (who was in real sex film ‘Shortbus’). ■ Lewis Watson, Mahalia, Mike Dignam and Anna Shields Beanscene, 40–42 Woodlands Road, West End, 352 9800. 7pm. £5. Oxford teen songwriter in the Ed Sheeran mould. ■ No Fxd Abode, Until We’re Winning and Capture Colombus O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £8. Indie/punk in The Clash/ Libertines vein from No Fxd Abode. ■ Scouting for Girls O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £20. Over-14s show. London indie poppers who gave us ‘She’s So Lovely’. ■ Twin Atlantic, Charlie Simpson and United Fruit Barrowland, 244 Gallowgate, 552 4601. 7pm. £14.50. See Fri 26. ■ Bong, Drunk in Hell, Headless Kross, No Island and Skullwizard The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 7.30pm. £5. Giant doomy sludgy stoner metal and drone rock from this bill. ■ French Wives, Cancel the Astronauts and The Bad Books The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, 564 1450. 7.30–11pm. £6. Three Glasgow bloggers, Scottish Fiction, Aye Tunes and Peenko, host their first monthly gig with a triple bill of Scottish indie talent. ■ Lenzie Moss The Glad Café, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. 7.30pm. £5. Jangly indie pop.