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MUSIC NEWS Scotland <strong>GIGguide</strong> page 15: glasgow + surrounding area they backed him up on his newest album. Jason Isbell called him one of the greatest triple threats, a great singer, songwriter and performer. Richmond Fontaine liked him so much they took him on support for their UK farewell tour in 2016. www.fallenangelsclub.com 16 SEPTEMBER TEENAGE FANCLUB :: At Barrowland, Glasgow. Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub have shared a preview of their highly-anticipated album with a new song and video. “In Our Dreams”, written by the band's Raymond McGinley, is the fifth single off Endless Arcade (now out). The song evokes an exploratory voyage inward and reflects the melancholic yet uplifting themes present throughout the rest of the record. The video was shot at Motherwell Concert Hall by long-time collaborator Donald Milne. McGinley had this to say about the new song: “To rephrase an aphorism most famously used by John Lennon, existence is what happens while the human race is busy making other plans. This song is kinda about that, but like all our songs, we write them intuitively and only think about what to say about them afterwards.” Even if we weren’t living through extraordinarily troubling times, there is nothing quite like a Teenage Fanclub album to assuage the mind, body and soul, and to reaffirm that all is not lost in this world. www.facebook.com/teenagefanclub.music 18 SEPTEMBER The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... THE HANDSOME FAMILY plus DANIEL KNOX :: At Community Central Halls (CCH), Marhill Road, Glasgow. The Handsome Family have written some of the most haunting and beautiful songs in American music. During a 30-year career, Brett and Rennie Sparks have created songs that transform the mundane landscape of modern life into a place of mysterious portent. www.fallenangelsclub.com 1 OCTOBER The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... DIANA JONES plus support :: At The Glad Cafe. Diana Jones has appeared on world-renowned TV and radio shows Later With Jools Holland, BBC4 Folk America, BBC4’s Songwriters Circle and BBC Radio 2 Country with Bob Harris. Diana’s progressive, yet historically rich, songs have been recorded by artists including Joan Baez and Gretchen Peters and have won her awards from Kerrville Folk Festival, New Song Festival and nominations from International Folk Alliance. Song To A Refuge (Proper Records, April <strong>24</strong> 2020), Diana’s 6th solo recording, gives voice to the stories of asylum seekers worldwide; a testament to Diana’s commitment to social justice through her gifts as a consummate songwriter and performer. www.fallenangelsclub.com 2 OCTOBER ECHO MACHINE :: At Broadcast, Glasgow. A loud Pop Group from Dundee, and they have gigs! "They will be a flippin' hoot!" Echo Machine played the King Tut's Summer Nights Festival in 2019. In addition to performing live, the band released a number of singles in their first year together, many of which arrived with accompanying videos. Debut single St Elmo was followed by Vibrations, Chameleon and Automatic Love, the latter being reviewed as a 'bruising, belter of a song'. In addition to these videos, Echo Machine collaborated with Thai singer Janine Alissa Wollmann on a cover of the Billie Eilish track Bad Guy, producing an accompanying music video. Their single 'Headlights' was also well-reviewed, being described as 'infectious discowave'. The success of the band in 2019 prompted BBC radio presenter, Vic Galloway, to name the band as one of his 25 Scottish Artists to Watch in 2020. In January 2020 the band announced that their debut album would be called Instant Transmissions. www.facebook.com/echomachinez Despite the global catastrophe that has been Covid-19, three music innovators emerged from the nocturnal shadows as CHECK MASSES in 2020 with their debut album Nightlife — an evocative trawl through psychedelic soul, hiphop, dub, electronica and rock’n’roll. The timing was disastrous thanks to the pandemic obviously, but absolutely everyone in music was hit hard… So what else was there to do, but get the remix crew in! On 23 July they release the Moroccan Skies EP. This 6-track EP takes a key track from Nightlife and twists it five spectacular directions, adding the original album version. Erik Tricity turns the song into a Prodigy versus Pendulum break-beat banger; Ex Makina transform it with melancholy, cinematic electronics; Man of Moon throb and pulse like the guvnor Andrew Weatherall; Great Ezcape up the hip-hop with a low-slung rap from Profisee; while legendary Killing Joke bassist and producer extraordinaire, Youth dubs it into infinity. The Moroccan Skies EP precedes an expansive alternative version of the original album - Nightlife Remixed, drawing on a wide range of talented friends and associates from the blossoming indie, electronica, post-punk and hip-hop scenes in the UK and across the globe. It’s a kaleidoscopic feast for the ears and breathes new life into an already magical set of songs, originally released into a terrified, distracted world in 2020. Nightlife Remixed will drop in September MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGspotlight CHECK MASSES :: Present Moroccan Skies remix EP and announce Nightlife Remixed LP GIGnotes :: (Subject to Covid-19 Restrictions) :: 7 August, King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow / 13 August, Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival, Stirlingshire / 20 October Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh / 14 November, Stag & Dagger Festival, Edinburgh 2021, with the EP and a set of waterfall single releases on streaming platforms. Separately, ‘Philly’ Angelo Collins, Saleem Andrew McGroarty and Vic Galloway of CHECK MASSES have helped shape the sound of their hometown of Edinburgh for years through underground gigs, club culture and broadcasting. They pull on their disparate influences, reflecting facets of this everevolving city - both the birthplace of Scottish Punk and the home of Young Fathers. Debut album, Nightlife flits between the shadows, smudging the lines between cinematic hip-hop collages, expansive dub, wiry electronics, psychedelia and Lynchian unease across 10 superb tracks. Nightlife is a collection of stories tossing and turning in a nocturnal fever dream, offset by moments of sublime escapism, and CHECK MASSES have created an album that’ll help you see in the dark. Nightlife Remixed takes you even further into their own shady but alluring world of psychedelic soul. www.checkmasses.com www.twitter.com/CheckMasses www.facebook.com/CHECKMASSES 11 OCTOBER DJANGO DJANGO :: At Saint Luke’s, Glasgow. Maxïmo Park have released a new EP, Live From The Coast, featuring songs from their new album Nature Always Wins, which hit #2 on the Official UK Email your gig dates to robert.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com