Friday 20 January | 8pm | The Tunnels | £5 This just in from, erm, the internet: Frightened Rabbit will play The Tunnels on Friday. Ace. They’ll be supported by The Little Kicks. Double ace. No, there aren’t any advance tickets. Yes, that means they’re available on the door only. Yes, that means there’ll be a [...]
Read more →Wednesday 21 December | The Tunnels | 7.30pm | £5/£3.50adv Tickets Assuming you’re reading this today, this is tomorrow, unless you’re reading this tomorrow, which means this is today. Glad to have cleared that up for you, I know time seems to go a bit weird at this time of year… Anyway, you should all [...]
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Saturday 19 November | The Tunnels | 8pm | £6 Tickets The classic clichéd music critic diagnosis of ”difficult second album syndrome” doesn’t seem to have affected Aberdeen indie-popsters The Little Kicks too much, for my money (whatever that’s worth), this forthcoming eponymously-titled effort is better than their debut. While we’re on the subject of second albums and clichés by the [...]
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 →Friday 1 October | The Tunnels | 7pm | £5 There are a shedload of decent gigs a-coming over the next few days; Errors/Twilight Sad on Wed, Manic Street Preachers/British Sea Power on Thu, Kris Drever on Fri, Joy Formidable/Chapel Club on Sat. for starters, check the listings for more on top of that lot too… We’ll [...]
Read more →If you’ve been around the Aberdeen music scene at all (or even just hanging round its edges like a wee drunken wallflower) you’ll be aware of Steven Milne. Steven does a lot of stuff for this town. It’s common knowledge. We’ll not mention all that this time round though… He’s been working on his solo [...]
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