Wednesday 30 December | The Tunnels | 8pm | £12 (Tickets avail. from One Up)

Bang!  It’s like waiting for a bus with regard to competitions on The Kiosque at the moment.  Two in quick succession.  Unless the bus you’re waiting for is a First Bus bus of course.  Then it might be worth just cutting your losses and walking…

Anyway, details on how to win a pair of tickets for this show are after the spiel;

We’re really lucky to have something like One Up Records still trading in our city you know,  especially since so many other iconic independent record shops have fallen by the wayside of late.  I’m sure many of you frequent the place on a regular basis, so I won’t need to tell you what it’s like (in the unlikely event that anyone reading this hasn’t visited, they’re on Belmont Street in Aberdeen by the way).

To celebrate an incredible 30 years of being an integral, nay essential, part of the city’s music scene, this rather tasty-looking takeover of The Tunnels is on the cards.  Anyone who’s ever spent their Saturday mornings combing the record racks of the place owes themselves to get down to this one.  So, who’s playing then?

(drumroll)

King Creosote – Featured on this site (and the old one) many times before. Grand Fromage of Fence Records. ‘Nuff said.

Isa & The Filthy Tongues – Superb scuzzy Edinburgh post-punks featuring Goodbye Mr Mackenzie’s Martin Metcalfe.

Dave Dixon – Former Needles frontman, currently with Hidden Masters (he’s lining up something special for the night folks!)

Indian Red Lopez – (Pictured below) Fantastic stardom-bound-if-there’s-any-justice-in-this-world local band. A must see.

Matricarians – Weird and wonderful improvisational folk featuring Kitchen Cynics’ and all-round local legend Alan Davidson

Hashimoto Jones –  A Jazzy, poppy, funky, bluesy quartet fronted by ‘Holland’s Own’ Nina Eggens (sorry Nina!)

In addition, some fantastic DJs will be doing their thing including Finnie, Elizium, various One Up staff past & present and the Interesting Music Promotions crew (thanks to them again for the tickets!), there may well be some more names added to the bill too (we’ll keep you posted), alongside some surprises as well…

What a way to end the year.  This may well trump what you’ve got planned for Hogmanay…

For the chance to win a pair of tickets to the show, simply answer this question:

Prior to their current  Belmont Street home, where were One Up Records previously located?

…and email it marked ‘One Up Comp’ to interestingmusic@hotmail.co.uk before 5pm on Monday 28 December

The eventual winner will be picked at random, undoubtedly from one of Mark Interesting Music’s seemingly endless collection of wooly hats…

Good luck!