King Tut's Turns Twenty

Roundly hailed as one of Britain’s premiere music venues by bands and press alike, this February finds Glasgow’s revered King Tut’s celebrating 20 years of making music history. From Alan McGee’s famous discovery of Oasis, which arguably changed the face of British music in the mid-90's, to its nurturing of local talent and under-the-radar overseas acts, Tut’s has proven pivotal to Glaswegian, Scottish and British music culture for the last 20 years.

It's no surprise then that they should celebrate such an auspicious occasion by inviting back some of the heavyweights who honed their careers there, in the form of born-again folk troubadour Paolo Nutini (17 Feb), stadia-rockers Manic Street Preachers (18 Feb), and king of introspection, Tom McRae (25 Feb), who still features regularly on Tut’s stage. Add to that the appearance of new kids with fresh promise like swedish folk-pop duo First Aid Kit (20 Feb) plus fierce agit-punk combo Japandroids (26 Feb) as well as reformed and abridged punk legends The Undertones (27 Feb) and you have scant reason to leave the vicinity of St. Vincent Street for the rest of the month.