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Muscles of Joy: Room of Their Own
Glasgow’s Muscles of Joy, an all-female vocal-led septet, talk about building their own instruments and jamming away rather quietly
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On the Bog: The GZA
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Umberto: Night Stalking
We don't know what film Umberto will score at GMFF, but odds on it'll be some freaky shit. Errors...
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- 13Feb
GZA
The Arches, Glasgow19:00 – 22:00; £16The Wu-Tang Clan's most potent lyrical swordsman, GZA (aka The Genius), heads Arches way for the usual dexterous assault of colourful wordplay. Bow down.
- 13Feb
Pulled Apart By Horses (The Computers)
King Tut's, Glasgow20:00 – 23:00; £6Leeds-based band of lunatics running to a tight check list of torturous vocals, distortion, serious riffage, and hardcore clatter. All in the name of some pretty bloody awesome balls-to-the-wall rock, y'understand.
- 13Feb
Paul Vickers and The Leg
The Real Mary King's Close, Edinburgh20:00 – 21:30; £4 (limited to 35)The refreshingly raucous Edinburgh bunch play an intimate set with no amplification in the medieval catacombs of The Real Mary Kings Close, ahead of the release of their new album. Limited to 35 tickets.
- 16Feb
The Vintage Village Fete (Matt Norris and The Moon, Das Contras, Emelle)
Bristo Square, Edinburgh10:00 – 20:00; £3 (£1.50)Vintage festival housed in a unique vintage marquee in Bristo Square, including various stalls and artisan food, plus live music sessions in a red double-decker bus. Raising funds for a selection of charities.
- 16Feb
The Topp Twins
Bongo Club, Edinburgh19:00 – 22:00; £15Twin sisters from New Zealand doing their folk-singing musical comedy thing. Weirdly good, in a freaky identical twin kinda way.
- 16Feb
GFF: High Places
The Arches, Glasgow20:00 – 22:30; £8Brooklyn boy/girl duo of Robert Barber and Mary Pearson, making quirky electro-pop that they then backdrop with their own video projections. Part of Glasgow Film Festival 2012.
- 17Feb
Lydia Lunch and Big Sexy Noise (Louise McVey and Cracks In The Concrete)
Stereo, Glasgow19:00 – 22:00; £11Ultra-confrontational no wave icon Lydia Lunch returns to Stereo after her solo set in 2011, this time armed with her full live band the Big Sexy Noise.
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