The Phantom Band @ Electric Circus, 19 Aug

Perhaps fittingly, Glaswegian motorik-prog rock bastards The Phantom Band are tonight playing a venue mere feet away from some of the world's most haunted back alleys. Notorious for keeping their identity obscured in the press and on stage, right here they need no such gimmickry. Led by the bearded Rick Anthony, the sextet blast into choice cuts from dazzling debut Checkmate Savage, sounding like satan's disciples if they'd swapped death metal and sacrificial virgins for woolly jumpers and endless nights listening to Neu!, with only a 12 year old malt whisky for company. Over the course of the next half hour they break instruments, strings and - during the gorgeous highland chanting of Island - the room's collective heart. “Oh Spectre, say my name” sings Anthony in his deep Scottish drawl on Left Hand Wave, and on tonight’s evidence it'll be more than those who haunt the underbelly of Edinburgh with The Phantom Band on their lips.