Tenement Trail, Glasgow, 3 October

Like a rather grown up, booze-assisted urban scavenger hunt, the team from Tenement TV's one-day mini festival leads punters on a merry dance through six of Glasgow’s much-loved and conveniently located music venues, dishing out sample-size sets of some of the best emerging music Scotland has to offer, with some particular highlights to be found along the way.

A standout performer early doors are Highlands-bred four piece Bloodlines, whose gloomy alt rock, illuminated by melodic bass lines and resounding ride cymbal, has the day’s proceedings off to a solid start. The group’s brief but efficient set explores choppy staccato riffs and arty pedal effects, with songs Cathedral and Polar Bear doing experimental things verse-wise, though the choruses err more on the shouty side. Though Bloodlines eschew concrete hooks in favour of spiky, angular rock chaos, it’s a pleasant and promising embarkation.

In similar subterranean fashion next door, Team Player belie the lazy mid-afternoon hour with a tight show headed by Brian Henderson (formerly of The Dykeenies fame) in Sleazy’s bunker-like surrounds. The five piece surely take the award for enthusiasm, with Henderson retaining a charismatic approach despite his on-stage chat being flatly received by an unusually reticent Glasgow crowd. The front man’s impressive delivery is bolstered by echoing vocal effects, wiggly bass lines and shimmering guitar, and when the group launch into the indie synth pop track Godzilla, a quick survey of the room sees toes collectively tapping.

The nod to best dressed outfit, meanwhile, is split between two contenders. The buttoned-up, black clad Phantoms are looking steely and sharp in contrast to Flat 0/1’s shabby chic surrounds. The group craft an imposing wall of echoed, sawing guitar, with jaunty drumming and neat riffs the backbone to their barricade of atmospheric, though at times slightly muddy, indie rock.

On the other side of the colour palette, crowd favourites and Art School stage headliners WHITE put on an extremely slick display of their unique 80s new wave, dance and rock & roll mash up, underpinned by Kirstin Lynn’s formidable percussive talents. Like the lovechild of Brian Ferry and Steve Buscemi in The Wedding Singer, the floppy haired and white-leather clad Leo Condie prances and croons through a tongue-in-cheek affair that hits on a clever compromise between sincerity and showmanship, and has the room primed to party.

As for the best revivalist act, the gong goes to the hirsute Pinact on O2 ABC's minor stage. Peering out from behind curtains of pendent locks, the duo (trio this evening, with the addition of bass guitar) wear their 90s grunge influences on their sleeve, with firm nods to Sebadoh and Melvins in their cacophonous drumming and fuzzy, power chord driven indie rock.

In similar retro fashion, though with slightly less ferocity, Neon Waltz go down a predictable treat at the Art School. Consummate beyond their years, the six piece from Scotland’s way-out-where wildnerness are a gentle, unassuming presence, but there’s a spellbinding nature to their organ driven, dreamy soundscapes.When baby-faced front man Jordan Shearer, beatnick clad in black poloneck, offers up the destined-to-be classic Bare Wood Aisles, it recalls the likes of Doves’ best moments of shadowy indie rock, and we can almost see the group’s already sizeable fanbase multiplying before our eyes.

It’s getting late and if Glasgow’s nippy Saturday eve has Tenement Trailers clutching coats tight about them as they scamper from venue to venue, Atom Tree deserve thanks for what is perhaps the most transportive set of the day. With their lush, fluid soundscapes washing over the tightly packed King Tut’s audience, you’d be forgiven for wishfully thinking you’d been whisked away to some tropical wonderland. Instead we’ve got languid synth bubbling away beneath Julie Knox’s weighty and equally warming vocals, lending an ambient Euro electronica vibe to an outfit who formerly performed as an instrumental-only affair.

There can only be one best in show, however, and this year that Tenement Trail accolade goes to the delightful breath of fresh air that is Be Charlotte. Whether the pastel haired, bespectacled Dundee teenager is carving out soulful moments with her acoustic guitar, or beatboxing and bopping around the Art School stage in time to buoyant keys, the singer never wavers in her momentum, delivering an infectiously upbeat set.

With its well-rounded vowels, her range floats up and down effortlessly and the she can rap with the best of them. Her spoken word delivery is a sublime match for the bubbly, double bass drum percussion provided by her backing band, and they end with the jaunty, tribal dance track Discover, much to the enjoyment of the adoring audience. Proving that she’s good fun to boot (she crops up again past midnight for a cameo vocal slot during Crash Club’s raucous closing set at Flat 0/1), the young Charlotte Brimner is proof, along with the host of talent along the trail today, that Scotland’s diverse music scene continues to blossom into unique new directions.