|
|
|
|
THE WEEK AHEAD...
Excitement abounded this week as Frightened Rabbit play a 'just-announced' midnight set at Cab Vol's regular clubber's delight, Sick Note. Elsewhere we sup Irn-Bru cocktails and dine out on haggis calzone (all in the name of Robert Burns, you understand), while Celtic Connections appeals to our folkie side, and artist sister duo Jane and Louise Wilson have us in awe. This newsletter is also dedicated all y'all who didn't manage to get tickets for M83. So enjoy: a selection of ten events that are definitely NOT SOLD OUT.
PICKS O' THE WEEK
Thu 19 Jan, 11pm, £5 (on the door)
Cabaret Voltaire's flagship indie and electro favourite, Sick Note, takes a new turn, drafting in a selection of very special live guests over the next few months. It all kicks off with favourited Scottish-brogued indie-rockers, Frightened Rabbit, playing a midnight set. Quelle surprise, the pre-sale tickets sold out in about half a minute, but those good folks at Cab Vol have kept back a batch of 200 that'll be available on the door. There'll also be tiny collectible business card flyers, adapted from Scott Hutchison's original album artwork. Plus, get yourself signed up to the F'Rabbit mailing list here for a free EP of all-new tracks.
Wed 25 Jan, 9pm, Free
That jolly lot over at LAID brighten our week with a Burns special of their rather fine gig-in-a-club night, this time headered by Ayr indie-rock quartet Trapped In Kansas (pictured), alongside Poor Things, and a guest speech from Scottish hip-hop artist Loki, performing his own version of the Toast to the Lassies. More themed Rabbie fun comes in the form of what sounds a rather deadly/immense idea: Irn-Bru whisky cocktails! Plus, Bloc are doing a 2-for-1 pre-club haggis calzone supper with Irn-Bru ice-cream floats for dessert. See Trapped in Kansas live in session with us here.
Excitable young pups Tubelord never fail to delight with their exuberant, kitchen sink-style approach to music-making: spastic riffing, pop hooks a-plenty, disorienting time sig changes, and lyrics that move from put-the-world-to-right serious to utterly nonsensical as they merrily go. In other words, they're an energetic bundle of sheer bloody joy in a live setting, who you can also catch doing their thing in Aberdeen (23 Jan) and Edinburgh (24 Jan) through the week. Support comes from young Aberdonian trio, Duke.
Various venues, Glasgow
Thu 19 Jan-Sun 5 Feb, Tickets here
Our January issue hot ticket of the month (well, more like tickets) was quite rightly Celtic Connections, who kick off another stellar schedule of folk, roots, and world music this Thursday. On our gigs-not-to-be-missed list for this week are the Mercury Prize-nominees responsible for one of our favourite albums of 2011: King Creosote and Jon Hopkins (pictured), as well as one half of seminal post-rockers Stereolab, Laetitia Sadier, playing a set handpicked from her mesmerising solo debut, and a duo of Chemikal Underground showcase nights.
Mon 23 Jan, 7pm, £18 here
Texas four-piece Explosions In The Sky are just about as ethereal as post-rock bloody gets, all intricate instrumental melodies, fluttering and intertwining in the most blusteringly beautiful of patterns, paint splattered with Chris Hrasky's controlled drums, showed to maximum effect on last year's Take Care, Take Care, Take Care LP (reviewed here). We'll be found playing eight-minute gem of a song Human Qualities on repeat in the run up. Get yourself acquainted: here.
THE SKINNY SHOWCASE SHOP IS OPEN!
Advertisement
The Skinny Showcase Shop is open now on Culturelabel.com (see: www.theskinny.co.uk/shop). Bringing together seven artists who've previously featured in the magazine, the first collection offers up a series of beautiful limited edition prints which can be bought through the Own Art scheme, splitting the cost of buying over ten interest free monthly installments. Glasgow-born, Edinburgh-based painter Rabiya Choudhry has created three bespoke works, intricate red drawings on the theme of money. Her paintings are iconographically complex yet deceptively simple, drawing together word and image, blending influences from art history, music and pop culture to explore ideas of love, loss and cultural identity.
BROWSE THE ARTWORKS ON SALE HERE
Sat 21 Jan-Sun 25 Mar, 11am-6pm Tues-Sat (noon-6pm Sun), Free
Intriguing sister duo Jane and Louise Wilson take over the DCA's main gallery space, bringing together two separate bodies of recent work that take in a variety of photography and film pieces. Included is a large-scale selection of photographic prints where they cast a crisp telescopic eye over a series of hurriedly-abandoned ghost scenes in Pripyat (a town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant), alongside a two-part film inspired by the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in 2010, taking in real CCTV footage. Thought-provoking stuff.
Fri 20 Jan, 11pm, £10 here
One half of I AM's Beta & Kappa duo (er, that'd be Beta; keep up, eh?) joins forces with DJ Noface for the launch of Bad News. Their main aim for the night is to up the soundsystem culture in Glasgow, for which they've got their mitts on the Electrikal Sound System's 26KW wall of sound, as well as a trio of guests in the form of Girl Unit (pictured) and his sonic mishmash of dubstep, Zed Bias, and Loefah. Oh, and yer man Conzo drops by for some graffiti action.
Sat 21 Jan-Sun 9 Apr, 11am-6pm daily, Free
Bringing together a selection of works from the last ten years, Fruitmarket Gallery give over the gallery space to London-based artist Anna Barriball, known for moving between the parallel languages of drawing and sculpture, where penciled sheets of paper become heavily material objects, and items such as windbreaks, found photographs, and a fireplace are redrawn as delicate artworks. She'll also display a duo of major new commissions, in the form of a large windbreak and a giant wall drawing. We're also diary-ing in her artist talk on 14 March (6.30pm), in conversation with Fruitmarket Director Fiona Bradley.
Fri 20 Jan, 8pm, £5 (on the door)
Now in their fifth year of being, the Limbo crew return with their first outing of 2012, for which they've amassed a trio of acts all of whom we'd quite happily allow to take care of our ears for the evening. Edinburgh trio Dead Boy Robotics headline proceedings, incorporating laptops, guitars, vocal yelps and tribal drumming in their rather epic brand of new wave, with support from Homework, and The Lotus Project. And all at the discount January price of a fiver. Amen.
Wed 25 Jan, 11pm, £5 here
We end with a bit of a family affair. as Sir David Rodigan (yes, as in the legendary selector and reggae ambassador) returns to Edinburgh as part of West London label Headlock's rather fine club night of the same name, for which the renowned music fanatic will be handpicking a set mixing early roots and dub, with modern dancehall and dubstep. Then his son, Oliver Rodigan, also pops up through the week, taking to the decks at the Wee Red's Robigan's Reggae night.
ADDITIONAL
Reader Offers:
Dinner at Bar 50: Win yersel' a meal for four people, plus a round of drinks, at Edinburgh's Cowgate retreat, Bar 50.
Wee Dub Festival tickets: One lucky reader can get their grubby mitts on a pair of tickets for Wee Dub Festival, taking in legendary dub scientist Mad Professor et al (3-5 Feb). More info here.
Skinny On Tour: Guess where one of our readers is casually browsing the December issue of The Skinny and you will win a lovely prize of the booze-y type, courtesy of our lovely chums at Vino Wines.
Southern Comfort Juke Joint: We've got tickets for you and three pals to attend Southern Comfort's Juke Joint bash at the ever-cool SWG3, headlined by electro DJ mastermind Kissy Sell Out. Closes 25 Jan.
Kaiser Chiefs tickets: The gangly Leeds indie-pop scamps return following a three year hiatus, back on the road with new album The Future Is Medieval. And we've got tickets!
Free Stand ticket: All y'all Edinburgh folks can get a free ticket for The Stand comedy club, simply by clicking here. Can't say fairer.
Free Delivery at Real Foods: Ethical shopper's delight Real Foods are offering free delivery on all orders over £15 on their online shopping site here.
Slouch's January Sale: One of our favourite Glasgow bars brighten our January with their New Year's blow out, where all-through the month their biggest-selling drinks brands are £2 a pop, and cocktails are a cool £3.50.
|
|
|
