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HITLIST THE BEST ROCK, POP, JAZZ & FOLK
✽ Com Truise Slow wave funk on synths and drums from
Seth Haley. Broadcast, Glasgow, Sun 14 Jul.
✽ T in the Park One of the best line- ups the Balado bash has seen in years,
featuring Kraftwerk, Azealia, Kendrick, Phoenix and Frank Ocean. Here we, here we . . . Balado, near Kinross, Fri 12–Sun 14 Jul.
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✽ Shangaan Electro The hyperactive, leg flailing dance craze from South Africa. See page 79 for our interview with Nozinja. SWG3, Glasgow, Wed 17 Jul.
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✽ Mogwai perform
live to Zidane Glasgow post-rock- ers Mogwai perform their soundtrack to
Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s film in Glasgow’s newest open air events space. See feature, page 21. Sun 21 Jul, 220 Broomielaw, Glasgow.
✽ Wickerman Primal Scream and Amy Macdonald headline, plus Nile Rodgers, KT Tunstall and Admiral Fallow, at the festival which famously finishes with the ritual burning of a big wicker man. East Kirkcarswell, near Dundrennan, Fri 26 and Sat 27 Jul.
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✽ Cold Cave Distorted ‘darkwave’;
the synth-pop project of Philadelphian Wesley Eisold. Broadcast, Glasgow, Sat 10 Aug.
✽ Patti Smith & Tony Shanahan See preview, left.
Oran Mor, Glasgow, Mon 12 Aug.
PATTI SMITH The evergreen activist and punk poet shows no signs of slowing
A t 66, Patti Smith is entering the twilight of her career with an energy and passion for the creative process that feels remarkably fresh and vital. Whether as poet, writer, photographer, activist or musician, she continues to produce a body of work that is insightful, raw and honest, charting in candid detail her unlikely journey from artist’s muse to grand dame of punk.
This was wonderfully evidenced in Smith’s memoir Just Kids, a chronicle of her unconventional relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe in the late 1960s and early 1970s and, more recently, by her well- received album Banga, which includes a touching tribute to Amy Winehouse. Death and loss continue to be powerful themes in
Smith’s work, whether reflecting on great artists cut down before their time – she recently performed a show at the Brontë sisters’ home in Yorkshire – or the tragic deaths of her husband and brother. Stripped down and laid bare, this intimate performance with bassist Tony Shanahan features a selection of songs from her back catalogue alongside spoken word readings. Smith is also appearing at the Edinburgh International Festival, with composer Philip Glass, in a tribute to the legendary Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. (Rachel Devine)
Patti Smith & Tony Shanahan: An Evening of Words and Music, Òran Mór, Glasgow, Mon 12 Aug; The Poet Speaks, Edinburgh Playhouse, Tue 13 Aug.
78 THE LIST 11 Jul–22 Aug 2013