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SUMMER NIGHTS FESTIVAL & SUMMER SESSIONS Two outdoor festivals featuring Teenage Fanclub, The Killers and more
G lasgow won’t stop being the place to lounge about in the sunshine listening to music when the Commonwealth Games have packed up and left town, it seems. With the West End’s Kelvingrove Bandstand having been renovated as an outdoor live music amphitheatre (Belle & Sebastian play the opening concert on Wed 23 Jul – see preview, page 86 – and two weeks of music, comedy and talks follow), the middle of August will host Magners Summer Nights, a pair of long weekend bills featuring popular MOR artists Squeeze, Steve Earle, Capercaillie, Alison Moyet, The Bluebells and The Waterboys. We’re most excited, though, by the return of Teenage Fanclub (Fri 15 Aug, pictured) to their home city after much too long away.
This lot finishes just in time for a very different event, the second year of Glasgow Summer Sessions in Bellahouston Park, this year with David Guetta (supported by Steve Angello and Oliver Heldens, Sat 16 Aug) and The Killers (with The Courteeners and Miles Kane, Tue 19 Aug) taking the place of last year’s rent-a-fistpumping- anthem topliners Avicii and Kings of Leon. It worked, and so it’s back. Pray for sun. (David Pollock) Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, Thu 7–Sat 9 Aug and Thu 14–Sat 16 Aug; Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, Sat 16 & Tue 19 Aug. See glasgowconcerthalls. com and glasgowsummersessions.com for info.
HITLIST THE BEST ROCK, POP, JAZZ & FOLK
✽ T in the Park T’s moving to Strathallan Castle next year, but for its last hurrah
at Balado, Paolo, Calvin, Pharrell, Biffy, Haim (pictured, top), Pixies, Metronomy, Chvrches and hunners more will be helping the crowds to mosh in a field. Balado, Fri 11–Sun 13 Jul.
✽ Commonwealth Games music
events Matthew Herbert (pictured, right), Edwyn Collins and Hanna Tuulikki join steel bands and Caribbean dancers for a packed side-programme of music alongside the Commonwealth Games. Various dates, see feature, page 29, and preview, page 86.
✽ Method Man, Ghostface Killah, the Sugarhill Gang, Public Enemy
July’s a big month for fans of their 90s hip hop – Method Man & Redman, Wu Tang’s Ghostface Killah, the Sugarhill Gang and Public Enemy are all on their way. MM&RM, 02 ABC, Glasgow, Sat 12 Jul; GK, The Arches, Glasgow, Tue 15 Jul; SG, King Tut’s, Sat 19 Jul; PE, O2 ABC, Wed 30 Jul.
✽ And Blithely Spend The Gowden Day A new folk / poetry / song work by
Daniel Padden and Drew ‘Wounded Knee’ Wright, inspired by the Pentland Hills. Glad Cafe, Glasgow, Fri 25 Jul; Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, Tue 12–Thu 14 Aug.
✽ Awesome Tapes From Africa By name and nature, Brian Shimkovitz’s world music blog has been keeping things awesome since 2006. See interview in Clubs, page 66. CCA, Glasgow, Thu 31 Jul; Summerhall, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug.
✽ Earth Sublime sludgy slow rock, led by Dylan Carlson, and playing songs off September’s upcoming album Primitive and Deadly. CCA, Glasgow, Thu 14 Aug.
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