World On The Beat - September

Get yourself over to Dundee for the second incarnation of the Sunweed Dub Explosion, featuring Messenger Sound System and Ras Echo, venturing to dub you up the right way (Reading Rooms, Dundee, 26 Sept, 10.30pm-3am, £tbc). Monday may not be the brightest of days, so the following uplifting music will be of extreme importance: The Groanbox Boys’ curious country blues will get your feet tapping (Leith Folk Club, Edinburgh, 8 Sept, 8pm-late, £tbc), and Ronny Spector and The Ronettes will take you back to yuletide 1969, where you can rock around the Christmas tree (The Arches, Glasgow, 29 Sept, 7.30pm, £20), whilst the Platinum Pied Pipers will take you to the future of live soul music, with horns, harmonies, and edgy beats (The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 15 Sept, 8pm-late, £tbc). But what can be better than to boogie in a worldly way for a weekend in the mud, the rain, the sun, the green glen, with the good company of DJ Aphrodite, MC Junior Red and Kangaroo Moon? The Hairth (Knockengorroch Festival) will be music to the hills, and ears! (Dumfriesshire, 19-21 Sept, £29-£70)