Music: Endor, Jakil, The Shakedown Project
July 15, 2010
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 Endor are a Glaswegian four-piece who’ve just released a self-titled debut album full of folk/pop-tinged tunes which build and swirl away quite the thing. There are definite hints of Frightened Rabbit in there (a good thing), not least in the vocals which will doubtlessly be described by some as having a ‘charming Celtic lilt’ to them. In real words that people actually use, that means they sound Scottish. Another good thing. Support comes from Edinburgh outfit Jakil and local band The Shakedown Project.
Endor
Music: Polar Bear Club: Skibunny
June 30, 2010
Friday 2 July | The Tunnels | 11pm | £3/£2 before 12
Promoters, DJs, remixers and a band, Belfast’s Skibunny seem to have things pretty well-covered to say the least. It’s the band version we get at The Tunnels, the final date of a scoot round the UK to celebrate the release of their new EP. Nice, catchy, shimmery electro-pop is what they do, and very well they do it too…
As you’ll have gathered, this is a Polar Bear Club night, so you get local DJs Ross Calder and JJ Bull as well (another promoter and someone who’s in a band respectively, heh).
Music: Dada Live Arts: Fiona Soe Paing & More
June 17, 2010
Sunday 20 June | Cafe Drummonds | 8pm | £3
Aberdeen-based Fiona Soe Paing’s beautiful electronica, beats, visuals and vocals have been registering ever-louder on radars across the country of late, so this chance to catch her in her hometown is very welcome indeed. Listen to her single ‘Deep Song’ here and see why the buzz is entirely justified. We’ll be featuring more from Fiona ahead of the release of her upcoming DVD/EP on the site soon. Stay tuned…
That’s not all however, as the show also features Katie Thomas, The Brothers Reid, James JK Hughes and Tessacalls. Looks like a good way to wind down the weekend, only three quid in too…
Fiona Soe Paing
Music: KT Tunstall Free Show
June 10, 2010
Monday 14 June | Cafe Drummonds | 7pm | Free
As it says, the Fife singer-songwriter will play a free show in Drummonds on Monday. First come-first served. It’s part of her Rub-A-Dub tour of Scotland.
Music: The Unwinding Hours, Katerwaul
May 19, 2010
Friday 21 May | The Tunnels | 8pm |£8/ £6adv Tickets
A lot of people have been looking forward to this one for quite a while now, maybe you’re one of them. If not, that ‘looking forward to it’ air which they’ve been affecting of late can easily be achieved by deciding you’re going and, erm, looking forward to it too.
What an awful opening paragraph.
So, The Unwinding Hours then; aka Craig B and Iain Cook of the much-missed Aerogramme. Their self-titled debut album on Chemikal Underground had the critics all-of-a-flutter and with good reason; it’s an epic, delicate, quiet, loud, heart-on-the-sleeve affair which to quote Craig himself is about ‘relationships: some ending, some starting, some going well and some going very, very badly.’ Expect to see it on many a best-of-the-year list come Christmas.
Support comes from the superb Katerwaul, a local band whose atmospheric and sometimes frenetic soundscapes will fit this show like a glove. Recommended.
Music: Crëvecoeur, Jeremy Wheatley, Stanley
May 5, 2010
Sunday 9 May | The Tunnels | 8pm | £6
We are total suckers for this kind of thing, well, this part of the ‘we’ is anyway: French multi-instrumentalist trio Crëvecoeur serve up unlikely spaghetti western-esque soundscapes with a side of Mariachi Mexicano, I’d expect that the 8mm film projections (which accompany every show) will, as if you were in any doubt, hammer home the cinematic aspect of their sound. Sold. Support comes from country-tinged US indie-folkster Jeremy Wheatley and excellent quirky local outfit Stanley.
Music: Kill Em All
April 21, 2010
Thursday 22 April | Snafu | 10pm | £6/£5adv
The Filthy Dukes bring their famed Kill Em All night North from its home at London’s Fabric for the first of a new bi-monthly residency at The Dirty Hearts Club. They’ll be joined by KEA co-promoter and one of the DJs/producers du jour Stopmakingme whose eclectic mix of electro, techno, house, post-punk, pop and anything in between pretty much sums up the ethos of the night. Which sounds fine by us. Check out some mixes here, they sound fine by us too…
Music/Competition: Tuff Wax Records Launch Night
April 10, 2010
Friday 16 April | Cafe Drummonds | 8pm | £4/£5 (includes 7″ single)
It’s great to see new Scottish labels starting up and releasing vinyl (last week was Gerry Loves Records‘ turn), and even better when they’re based in Aberdeen. Enter Tuff Wax Records who hold their launch night at Drummonds on Friday and we’ve got free entry and records aplenty to give away. Find out how to get your mitts on them after their bonny logo…
Music: Stornoway, The Deportees, Rachel Sermanni
April 9, 2010
Sunday 11 April | Snafu | 7.30pm | £7/£6adv
Oxford folk-pop outfit Stornoway have been all over the press and radio of late, which is all well and good considering they are, erm, well, good, well good even. Up this way, some of the coverage has been about the fact they’re not actually from Stornoway however, and in an entirely predictable twist of fate they play the Lewis town before this show, a fact that’s not been lost on the BBC who published a story on their website today snappily-titled Oxford band Stornoway to play first gig in Stornoway, an excellent headline which is almost longer than the piece itself. Good work.
Geographic confusion aside, another reason to check out this show is local folk/pop/country/indie/rock/whatever band The Deportees. This (by my reckoning, correct me if I’m wrong) will only be their fourth gig and they’ve already created a bit of a stir round town. Featuring former members of Edgar Prais and Eddison, this lot know what they’re doing and it shows; amazing harmonies and not afraid to rock out when needed…add in Lanarkshire singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni and you’re looking at a decent Sunday night out…
Music: The Little Kicks, In Atlanta
April 8, 2010
Thursday 8 April | Snafu | 10pm | £3
Tonight! Which is a night that appears to be lacking in gigs somewhat , so we suggest you go to Snafu where The Little Kicks will be playing some new songs and you can find out all about newcomers In Atlanta who’ve been getting some attention round town of late. Expect the usual Dirty Hearts Club DJs/dancing shenanigans too…
