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MUSIC NEWS Scotland <strong>GIGguide</strong> page 19: glasgow :: fife + central + perthshire + tayside :: aberdeen + north east 16 NOVEMBER BE CHARLOTTE :: At King Tuts, Glasgow. Multi instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter Be Charlotte, has set the bar high in 2020. 23 year old Scottish songstress is blessed with an instantly recognisable vocal and an ear for impeccable melodies. She has given her fans an undeniable pop anthem in ‘Lights Off’, released May 1st. The track immediately entered the German AirPlay Chart, receiving huge support across GSA. www.facebook.com/kingtutswahwahhut 19 NOVEMBER STAY FOR TOMORROW supporting THE DECADENT MOVEMENT :: At The Garage Attic, Glasgow. Formed in 2018, Stay For Tomorrow are an energetic four piece alternative rock band from Dunfermline. Inspired by the likes of Twin Atlantic, Biffy Clyro and Foo Fighters, they burst onto the Fife scene in 2019 with their debut single Kings and Queens , swiftly followed by second single Rumours. www.facebook.com/stayfortomorrowofficial 3 DECEMBER MADNESS :: At SSE Hydro, Glasgow. Madness have today announced their sure-to-be triumphant return to the road with ‘The Ladykillers Tour’. After 18 months cooped up considering their career options (punctuated by excursions out for critically acclaimed docu-series ‘Before We Was We’ and last night’s magnificent ‘The Get Up!’ more on which later) the Nutty Boys finally get back to doing what they do best - uniting the people for a right raucous live bash. And with a live set teeming with hits from their unrivalled back catalogue, what-a-tour this promises to be. Joining Madness on The Ladykillers arena tour will be very fragrant guests Squeeze. Squeeze first formed in 1973, shortly after Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook had begun their songwriting partnership. By 1977 they had made their recording debut and enjoyed a string of hits, establishing the band as not just a passing footnote in new-wave history, but as an important and vital part of quintessential British music. Following solo careers, the Ivor Novello Awardwinning duo reunited in 2007 to relaunch Squeeze and have been touring, writing and recording together ever since, returning to the UK album charts and airwaves with 2015’s Cradle To The Grave and 2017’s The Knowledge. Tickets on sale from Ticketmaster. www.facebook.com/madnessofficial 11 DECEMBER CHUBBY AND THE GANG :: At King Tuts, Glasgow. Fast rising London punk 5-piece Chubby and the Gang have announced a bumper 40-date tour of the UK and Ireland through November and December of this year offering a chance for many to finally see just why they've become one of the most exciting and talkedabout punk bands in the world over the past year. Fronted by Manning (a former cabbie who now also works as an electrician), Chubby and the Gang have been leading a pack of bands coming out of a new wave of British Hardcore. Speed Kills was one of the critical surprises of the year thanks to its unrelentingly fun concoction of hardcore, pub rock, doo wop, and blues. The album was produced by Jonah Falco of F**ked Up, and boasts songs of deep substance and political conscience with a precise sense of time and place. It received an 8.0 Pitchfork review, Stereogum praised its “massive barroom gang choruses, power chords at breakneck tempos, rock spelled R-A-W-K and visceral gratification,” while The Guardian declared them "UK punk's most vital new band" and NME called them "the scene's clear frontrunners" and Speed Kills "a thrilling white-knuckle ride through multiple flavours of hardcore punk". www.facebook.com/Chubbyandthegang 16 DECEMBER LUKE LA VOLPE :: [SOLD OUT] At St Luke’s, Glasgow. Scottish Music Awards 2020 Breakthrough Artist, 24-year-old Bathgate singer Luke La Volpe has a uniquely deep and sonorous voice, heartfelt songs and a growing live following. After landmark supports with the likes of Tom Grennan, Lewis Capaldi, The Snuts and Tom Walker and a sold out Scottish Tour in February, Luke sold a King Tut’s headline gig in 12 hours www.facebook.com/lukelavolpe 20<strong>22</strong> 12 FEBRUARY KING KING plus special guests THE DAMN TRUTH :: At O2 Academy, Glasgow. The Damn Truth have extensively toured Europe and the USA, opened tours for Z.Z. Top (and partied with Billy Gibbons in his pyjamas), the Sheepdogs, Styx, and Rival Sons. They sold out the legendary Whisky a Go-Go in Los Angeles, sold out the Corona Theatre in their hometown of Montreal, and even had one of their videos featured on the official Janis Joplin Facebook page. It's a culmination of a lot of blood, sweat and tears that’s come fruition with “Now or Nowhere”. “Now or Nowhere” chronicles the band as they navigate life, love, and everything else in a world gone seemingly upside down and sideways during the past year they were unable to finish the album with Bob because of COVID-19 restrictions, the band recorded the remaining three songs with help from Juno Award-winning producer Jean Massicotte (Patrick Watson, The Damn Truth) who mixed “Everything Fades”; and the rest of the mixing was done by Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton), Nick DiDia (Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against The Machine), and Mike Plotnikoff (Van Halen, Cranberries, Three Days Grace). Tickets available @ www.kingking.co.uk www.facebook.com/thedamntruth 18 MARCH TROY REDFERN on tour with 'WILLE & THE BANDITS' :: At Hug & Pint, Glasgow. Slide guitarist and singer-songwriter, Troy Redfern, dubbed by the British press as “the king of slide guitar,". Troy cut his teeth and refined his style over the last few years, playing festival main stages and blazing a trail across Europe, Scandinavia, and Russia. He’s also become a well-known draw on the UK Blues Rock festival circuit, playing alongside rock luminaries including Robert Plant. “Troy is a passionate, intense, free-spirited musician whose ferocious slide guitar style twists and turns timeless themes and ideas to his own ends. He’s a musical visionary unafraid to trample on the boundaries of restricting labels,” said Blues Matters Magazine. The forthcoming studio album is a culmination everything Troy has learnt so far on his musical journey, and, more importantly, brings into sharp focus a much tighter song-writing and more visceral, muscular production style. Tickets @ www.willeandthebandits.com 27 MAY DJANGO DJANGO :: At Stereo, Glasgow. Back in the old world at the start of 2020, our psychedelic punk heroes The Lovely Eggs were primed to release their new album ‘I Am Moron’ – their greatest work yet, over-flowing with political venom and fresh ideas, set to a gloriously independent noise. Then, of course, the pandemic happened. The Lovely Eggs pushed ahead, and the album came out to critical-acclaim and indie chart-topping status, but their plans to tour it far and wide were obviously scuppered. At first, their UK tour was rescheduled to just two months later, thinking there’s no way the pandemic could last more than a few weeks…. Fast forward a year, their UK tour has been rebooked independently by the band at least five times and The Lovely Eggs are still yet to play the new album live, but new tour dtaes are now on sale for 20<strong>22</strong>. www.facebook.com/thelovelyeggs FIFE / CENTRAL / PERTHSHIRE / TAYSIDE Send us all your gig dates for Tayside, Perthshire, Fife and Central areas www.ticketsglasgow.com www.bethnielsenshapman.com www.fallenangelsclub.com facebook @ www.facebook.com/The-Fallen-Angels-Club-149553931728736 twitter @ www.twitter.com/KevoMorris Email your gig dates to robert.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com