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www.westendermagazine.com | 17<br />
by Greg Kane<br />
August<br />
Mo Kenney<br />
Sunday 4th August 7pm<br />
Hug and Pint, thehugandpint.com<br />
Mo Kenney is a 29 year old Canadian<br />
singer/songwriter based in Dartmouth,<br />
Nova Scotia. Over the last seven years<br />
she has released three albums with<br />
the most recent, 'The Details' winning<br />
the coveted Nova Scotia Music Award<br />
in 2017.<br />
She has such an alluring voice, kept<br />
me listening to her for over an hour<br />
it did. She sites Elliot Smith as a<br />
big influence on her music and has<br />
also enjoyed the support of renowned<br />
songwriter Ron Sexsmith. That should<br />
give you a better idea on where she’s<br />
coming from.<br />
Classy, indie, folk, pop.<br />
Choice track: Mo Kenney 'Telephones'<br />
Michale Graves<br />
Thursday 8th August 7pm<br />
SWG3, swg3.tv<br />
Michale Graves is a 44 year old<br />
American singer/songwriter. He’s been<br />
the frontman for neurotic punk band<br />
The MisFits, fronted punk icon Marky<br />
Ramone’s band Blitzkrieg, served in<br />
the US Marines and is a much lauded<br />
and celebrated Horror Rock/US punk<br />
artist.<br />
But on his latest album 'Keys' he just<br />
croons his heartfelt, slightly EMO<br />
songs over a simple acoustic piano<br />
accompaniment. It really works,<br />
probably because he’s actually a very<br />
good singer.<br />
Kinda imagine if Joe Strummer had<br />
ever recorded a rock opera! That’s<br />
what he sounds like here. Whit? Yes I<br />
just wrote that. Sorry Clash fans.<br />
A night of balladeering punk.<br />
Choice Track: Michale Graves<br />
'Dig Up Her Bones'<br />
Edwyn Collins<br />
Wednesday 28th August 7pm<br />
QMU, qmunion.org.uk<br />
The Queen Margaret Union is one of<br />
two student unions at Glasgow Uni<br />
and is a historic live music venue in<br />
Glasgow’s West End. It is experiencing<br />
a bit of a renaissance right now due<br />
to the fact that the poor old 02 ABC<br />
on Sauchiehall Street was destroyed<br />
in the 2nd Art School fire in June last<br />
year and both venues hold roughly the<br />
same amount of people. It’s good to see<br />
it back at the forefront of Glasgow’s<br />
live music scene once again.<br />
Scottish music icon, Edwin Collins<br />
has had a bit of a rollercoaster ride<br />
over the past 20 years. He had the<br />
worldwide smash hit 'Girl Like You'<br />
in 1995, after which he setup the<br />
much loved West Heath Yard recording<br />
studio in London and then he found<br />
himself hospitalised following two<br />
cerebral haemorrhages in 2005. He<br />
has since moved back to Scotland<br />
and has made a remarkable recovery<br />
evidence of which can be seen in the<br />
very moving BBC documentary 'Edwyn<br />
Collins: Home Again'. He is out on tour<br />
promoting his new album 'Badbea'.<br />
Yes, it is good to have you home Edwyn.<br />
Choice track: Edwyn Collins<br />
'Girl Like You'
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