Man, this is gonna be good,  it does present a challenge in previewing the show however;  attempting not to overuse the word “scuzzy.”

All three bands do channel the scuzz though, and all three have a seam of late 80s/early 90s US stuff running through them, the good stuff that is…

Glasgow-based PAWS are one of the best live bands I’ve seen recently;  noisy, distorted, scuz..(damn), exciting…I could go on.  With more than a nod to Dinosaur Jr/The Pixies, their split single on Gerry Loves Records with Lady North last year was/is majestic.  If you pay any attention to those Scottish music scene “tips for 2012″ lists, you’ll have noticed their name popping up on a lot of them.  Here they are:

Frighteningly young Stonehaven two-piece DOLFiNZ have also been gaining the attention of people who spraff on about music on the internet, and with good reason.  Lo-fi, scuz..(f**k), garagey pop is what they do, and a single on Aberdeen’s Tuff Wax label (see below) lets us hear how they do it.  In my mind, if it actually was the early 90s and PAWS were on Sub Pop, DOLFiNZ would be on K Records.  It’s not and they’re not though, so you’ll have to make do with a new cassette they’ll have available at the show.  Yes, a cassette.

Oh, and as if that’s not enough, both bands will feature on a forthcoming split 12″ on Edinburgh’s excellent Song, By Toad Records…

Finally, Aberdeen’s Min Diesel are one of the city’s underground gems;  raw, ramshackle, grungy, and yes, scuzzy (I gave up), they don’t get as much coverage as they deserve.  Let’s put a stop to that.  Here’s a new song:

Love Disease by Min Diesel

See you there then…

DOLFiNZ

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 queue.  Yes, it’s just been announced, which is why you haven’t heard about it before.  Yes, I think that’s the whole point.  No, I don’t have any further information.  Cheers.

Founder member and former bassist of punk legends Siouxsie and The Banshees Steven Severin has moved into the world of film scoring since the band’s final tour in 2002, and this Saturday he’ll be performing a new electronica-based soundtrack to accompany 1932 German film Vampyr  (I’m sure you can guess the subject matter) at Peacock Visual Arts.

Looking at the other dates on the tour, which are in much larger cinemas and galleries, this should be rather cool indeed given the intimate surroundings at Peacock.  It’ll also be about as far removed from the world of Twilight as is possible, which is a bonus…

Saturday 14 January | Peacock Visual Arts | 7.30pm | £11.10 (From One Up)
Steven Severin – Vampyr
Siouxsie & The Banshees’ founder member soundtracks a silent film. Info

Saturday 21 January | Cafe Drummonds | 8pm | £6  Tickets
The Xcerts, Flood of Red, Duke
“Xciled” (heh) Aberdonian indie band return home

Saturday 21 January | The Tunnels | 8pm | £12  Tickets 
The Black Daliah Murder, Skeletonwitch, Fleshgod Apocalypse
“Face-melting” death metal from Michigan 

Sunday 22 January | The Lemon Tree | 7.30pm | £15  Tickets
The Maccabees, Trailer Trash Tracys
London indie types tour their new album 

Monday 23 January | The Tunnels | 7.30pm | £5  Tickets
Tubelord, Olympians, Cameo Colours, You And What We Are
Synthy, poppy, mathy, rocky outfit from Kingston Upon Thames headline

Friday 27 January | Cafe Drummonds | 8pm | £4
Amy Sawers
Welcome headline show for local garage/country/rock/everything else-influenced singer & band

Saturday 28 January | The Tunnels | 9pm | £? (Tickets in One Up)
Skank
Nineties house night reunion with guest DJ/chef Michael Kilkie

Thursday 2 February | Cafe Drummonds | 8.30pm  | £5
Paws, DOLFiNZ, Min Diesel
Double header from two of Scotland’s most exciting new noisy indie bands

Friday 3 February | The Lemon Tree | 7.30pm | £8  Tickets
Rachel Sermanni
Hotly-tipped Scottish folkster/singer-songwriter (pictured below)

Thursday 9 February | The Tunnels | 7.30pm | £6  Tickets
Aerials Up, Stanley, Brown Bear & The Bandits, Margaret Finlayson
Melodic, string-laden Glasgow outfit & great support

Tuesday 14 February | The Tunnels | 8pm | £6  Tickets
Pulled Apart By Horses, The Computers
Raucous Leeds post-hardcore band headline

Tuesday 14 February | AECC | 7pm | £42.50 (!)  Tickets
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
That guy who used to be in that band tours his album 

Okay, okay, truth be told, this should have been up sooner, I’m blaming festive lethargy, anyway, it’s tonight…

APB took a rather incongruous journey from Ellon, via the John Peel show, to cult status in early 80s New York, they reunited for a 25th anniversary show a few years ago, and their brand of angular funk still sounds as fresh as ever.  This lot are proper legends in Aberdeen and far, far beyond.  Support comes from everyone’s favourite  Scott Walker-esque pop weirdos Stanley and recently-returned energetic indie types Marionettes.  An excellent excuse to wake up with a hangover on Hogmanay…

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 know the work Aberdeen Gig Promotions do in this town by now, and this is their Christmas show, so it’s only right you go along and say thanks for another year of good stuff.  Helping them celebrate are hook-laden Dundonian indie-rockers Make Sparks (cinematic-warehouse-violence-and-running-through-woods-video-below), fellow Taysiders The Barents Sea and a solo set from Ross Leighton of Fatherson (fresh from a headline show at The Arches in Glasgow).

As an aside, it’s worth noting that AGP are doing their access-all-shows pass again.  Just twenty quid gets you into their first six shows of 2012.  Bargain.  Get one here.

It’s about time I gave a nod to Aberdeen’s pop-punk/hardcore scene, which by all reports is one of the strongest in the country.  From what I can see, the likes of Daily Dischord consistently put on some of the best-attended gigs in the city, displaying a commendable DIY-ethic and level of online savviness which may fly under the radar of ageing indie snobs like me, but the fact they, and countless others, have quietly (OK, noisily) created a UK- wide network of like-minded souls which is pretty astonishing in its reach makes me want to take certain bands, venues and promoters aside and say: “See? That’s how you do it.”

One such band from round these here parts who are gaining attention on a national scale is Autumn In Disguise, they’ve already played festivals such as Download, Underage and T In The Park, toured the UK (and will do so again next year), and have a new mini-album out now (available here) ahead of a hometown show at The Tunnels on Saturday 17 December alongside Crashdown, Farewell Singapore & Fonik.  Stick that in yer indie-folk pipe and smoke it…

Like it or not, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and tradition dictates that Friday will see Union Street do its best Apocalypse Now impression as roaming office parties napalm the city centre with an alcohol-fuelled mix of testosterone, estrogen, casual violence and chips.  Great.  One way to avoid this annual nightmare is to hit Bedford Records‘ bash at The Lemon Tree however…

The line-up is a good ‘un, we’ve written about most of these bands before, and you should know these three by now at least;  IndianRedLopez use the show to celebrate the release of this, Stanley have been on form this year, putting out this and finally finishing off an album which we should (hopefully) see soon, and The Deportees are back gigging again after a few months off.

We’d also like to draw your attention to the other two bands on the bill however; Peterhead’s Velvet Audio have been turning heads of late with their brand of hard-to-pin-down, sometimes straight-out rocky, sometimes incredibly intricate stuff which bodes well for the future, and Bedford signings Maydays bring some poppiness from the far north (they formed all the way up in Caithness), check out a tune from them below.  See?  Told you it was a good line-up.

Maydays – By Appointment To… by Bedford Records 

We’ve got a pair of guestlist places to give away for this, read on…

Over the last three years Do It! have put on some great parties with great music and great visuals, unfortunately, this is their last-ever night.  Boo.  As you’d expect though, they’re going out with a bang…

There’s a live set from Parisian synth magician dÉbruit (Civil Music), now usually I’ll read a quote like “his music is a no holds-barred assault through dark Congolese sound systems, downtown L.A. block parties gone wrong, haze-filled Kingston recording studios and freaky Tunisian backstreet souks, all powered by a fat hip hop engine”  and think “aye, OK” , but on listening to the tune on the video below, there’s more than an element of truth in there.  He’s well-known for putting on a great live show too…

Also doing his live thing for the first time in the city is Auntie Flo, aka Glasgow DJ Brian d’Souza (who’ll be bringing along Sub Club resident ESA on percussion duties) and, as you’d expect, the usual Do It! residents will also be on hand.  There’s a warm-up session upstairs in The Athenaeum with the Tuff Wax-affiliated Aberdeen Truth crew too.

So, goodbye Do It! and thanks for the memories, although we’re reliably informed that co-founder Alexander Horne will be back in 2012 with a new record label venture…

OK, to stand a chance of winning a pair of guestlist places, simply answer this question (hint: click a link):

Name three previous Do It! guests

…and send it to info@thekiosque.com under the heading “Do It Comp” before noon on Friday 9 December.  We’ll be in touch with the winner as soon as we’ve picked one from our rather fetching electronic hat.

Good luck!