The Beats tour featuring The Streets, ABC, Glasgow, 28 Jul / Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 27 Jul

Mike Skinner and Mayhem's record label, Beats, is packing up its rhymes and aspiring artists and heading for a summer holiday to their neighbour in the north. The tour will be stopping for various Scottish dates, including Edinburgh where they play the Liquid rooms on 27 July and Glasgow's ABC on the 28th. Headlining, of course, is the Streets, Mike Skinner's grimy quirky take on drugs, pubs and all round urban living. As one of the high chiefs of the UK urban and Rap scene he has brought Roots Manuva style delivery to the mainstream, though of late he has taken a back seat and become more involved in the production of the artists on his Beats label. The Mitchell brothers will flank Skinner on the tour; a duo who take influence from rock, jazz noir, indie and rap, so expect them to lay down many a catchy hook with a set mixing favourites from their debut album, A Breath Of Fresh Attire, as well as some previews from their forthcoming follow up, Dressed For The Occasion. Professor Green, Skinner's tongue-in-cheek protégé and the man responsible for the remix of The Streets track, When You Wasn't Famous, has also joined the beats-wagon, bringing a fresh faced take on urban music and bloke next door lyrics with him. [Franck Martin]