Franz Ferdinand @ The Picture House, 14 Jan

Here's a bona fide coup: the Picture House, still but a few months old, has secured one of only two UK dates in January by Scotland’s finest indie sophistos, Franz Ferdinand. The reincarnated venue will provide a suitably charismatic setting for the Glasgow band’s wry lyricism and jagged guitars — and now you can add funky basslines to that heady art-pop brew. Their full-bodied new album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand hits shops the following week, so expect singles like Ulysses and Lucid Dreams to move feet as much as Take Me Out. 1,500 eager fans have snapped up all the tickets, but this will still be an intimate affair for Kapranos & co. [Nick Mitchell]