Live Music Roundup for September

Edinburgh

Currently riding a major wave of interest built upon lots of international touring and a great debut album, The Twilight Sad will play Cabaret Voltaire on 4 Sep. With a progressive, layered and deeply emotional sound, these boys have tons of substance and if their hugely successful US tour is anything to go by, this gig should be unmissable. They're going to be big, so catch them in a club while you still can.

Also from Glasgow, The Hussy's are operating at the other end of the spectrum from TTS, delivering relentlessly upbeat and catchy pop tunes that will put a smile on your face and a shimmy in your hips. Delightfully quirky, The Hussy's manage to pull off the trick of being hugely endearing without ever venturing into the forbidden forest of twee. There's something of a 60s' swagger about this lot which will go down well at Cabaret Voltaire on 7 Sep.

Former Million Dead man Frank Turner is carving out a bit of a cult following for himself at the moment; touring relentlessly with his acoustic guitar and charming crowds with his witty, touching and unique folk-influenced songs. The Skinny caught him in Dublin last year and he played a stormer - clearly this dude was born to play live. Check it out at Cabaret Voltaire, 12 Sep.

Before their reinvention as the Last Great Wilderness, The Skinny shed a tear at Annie Christian's farewell gig all those years ago - but now they're back! One of the most promising bands to have come out of Scotland, they never made it as big as they deserved, but they made some astonishing music along the way. Get down to Cabaret Voltaire on 13 Sep to remind yourself what made them so brilliant.

Glasgow

Sheffield: it's got a lot to answer for. Aiming to redress the balance away from exaggerated regional accents, Tiny Dancers have chosen to create swirling, epic pop music that cocoons the listener in a web of lilting melody and surging emotion. They can rock too, damnit, but that's not why we love them so much. We love them because they play from the heart and make us feel all fuzzy inside. King Tut's, 9 Sep.

Caribou, led by psychedelic visionary Dan Snaith, are real one-offs - a band that mutates and changes before your very eyes, surprising you in new and beautiful ways when you least expect it. The Skinny digs the trippy visuals that usually accompany their shows too, so hopefully Snaith will bring his projector when he rocks up to the Arches on 9 Sep. Their new album is wonderful, too.

All right-thinking people must worship at the altar of Mclusky - which made it doubly disappointing that Jon Chapple's Shooting at Unarmed Men project turned out to be such a damp squib. Thankfully, Future of the Left seem to have a lot more fight in them: this is weird, fierce stuff - just the way we like it. Watch them tear shit up at Barfly, 17 Sep.

Look the fuck out, (Hed) PE are in town, and they will be combusting at the Barfly on 18 Sep. Led by the none-more-batshit-insane Jahred, they've made some incredible noise over the years, as well as some dross - but they've always played by their own rules. They put on some of THE most intense shows back in the day, so we recommend this on the off-chance that the touch paper ignites once more and it all goes off.