Alabama 3 @ ABC, 22 Sep

Alabama 3 does not consist of three people. Nor are they from Alabama. They're not exactly winning us over with their honesty, are they? If we can believe anything they say, it appears that the Brixton septet (for that is the heartbreaking, distinctly less glamorous truth) are seeking a greater challenge than counting their royalties from The Sopranos repeats and are out on the road again, with a new single and album due this month. Expecting anything radically different from forthcoming opus M.O.R. is perhaps foolish, but they inherit their sun-scorched wooze-rock niche so well that it's hard to care. Plus, anything remotely summery flooding into Glasgow is to be welcomed with open arms, and heading down to the Academy to let the gravelly vocals of The Very Reverend Dr. D. Wayne Love (unsurprisingly, not his birth name) take you miles away to the deserts of, erm, Central London, is about the closest you're going to get to an Indian Summer. [Heather Crumley]