Woodpigeon @ Captain's Rest, 22 Feb

There’s silence when The Miserable Rich (***) ask if anyone owns a hotel that could put them up after the show, but if anyone were to offer, they couldn’t ask for a more polite bunch of houseguests. Their music ain't bad either - though occasionally guilty of rote emoting, for the most part the band add to their natural charm with interesting string-led folk tales of dead-end jobs and boozing.

Woodpigeon (****) keep the love-in alive, promising to be VBF pen-pals with whoever fetches water, and then offering some to an audience member afflicted with hiccups that threaten to drown out their gentle symphonies. Leading the Calgary troupe with a voice like Sufjan Stevens, Canadian songwriter Mark Hamilton jokes of his time living in Edin-borrow, playing crap gigs in Middles-borrow, and being chased by crack addicts in the, er, Barrow-lands, while the string, piano and uke combination does various pretty things, culminating in a pre-encore rendition of ABBA’s Lay All Your Love On Me. Judging by the applause that follows, it sounds like Glasgow already has. [Chris Buckle]