Sunday 9 October | Kilau Coffee, Little Belmont Street | 8pm | Free Based on songs by his respected and prolific psych-folkster alter-ego Kitchen Cynics, this new exhibition will be the first showing of Alan Davidson’s artwork for 30 years. As if that’s not enough, there’ll be a live performance from Alan too, and some [...]
Read more →Thursday 22 September | The Lemon Tree | 8pm | £12.50 …at which the London-based indie-folkster will play songs from her well-received second LP Virtue, a break-up album if ever there was one (it’s well documented that a split from her fiancé inspired much of it). She’s been known to throw in the odd cover of the likes [...]
Read more →Thursday 25 November | Cellar 35 | 7.30pm | £5 Yusuf Azak’s recently released debut album ‘Turn on the Long Wire’ (on the excellent Song, By Toad Records) has been well received for good reason: The Glasgow-based Aberdonian’s brand of layered, looped folk-tinged, guitar-picking tunes is pretty special from what I’ve heard… Comparisons to Nick Drake [...]
Read more →Friday 5 November | Beach Ballroom | 8pm | £7.50 *If I had a local press hat, I’d put it on now and write this:* ‘Alongside the traditional Bonfire Night celebrations on Aberdeen’s seafront, fireworks of the musical kind will be on offer at the Beach Ballroom this Friday as some of Scotland’s top young [...]
Read more →Sunday 3 October | Snafu | 7.30pm | £8/£6adv Quick heads-up time: Glasgow-based Sparrow and the Workshop consist of a Welshman, a Scotsman and Chicago-raised vocalist Jill O’Sullivan. The sum of these parts is a trio who play some beautiful folk-tinged music with more than a little hint of darkness to it. Video below, check [...]
Read more →Thursday 23 September | Peacock Visual Arts | 8pm | £5 It’s always good to see Peacock getting used for gigs, it’s a great wee space and this line-up, courtesy of Village Sunsets, should fit it very nicely thank you very much.. New Yorker Diane Cluck came to light through a compilation put together by [...]
Read more →Friday 27 August | The Tunnels | 8pm | £10/£8adv (Tickets from One Up or Ticketweb) Last-minute much Mr Kiosque? Well yes, yes I do thank you very much Mr Disembodied Voice From Above, which is why I’m telling you you’ve only got until 10am on Friday to win a pair of tickets for this [...]
Read more →Friday 16 July | The Tunnels | 7.30pm | £5 Just noticed it’s been two weeks since we’ve done a gig preview on here, not because there haven’t been any gigs on or anything, it’s just one of those unexplainable phenomena. Yeah, it’s definitely one of those, not laziness or anything like that… Anyway, headliners [...]
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