MNS GIGguide (Mar24-31)

MNS GIGguide - a MUSIC NEWS Scotland supplement
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concert to remain forever in the heart and minds
of music-lovers around the world. Available On
Demand from 22 April, plus further screenings to
be announced.
www.conic.film/films/runrig
12 APRIL
GUN - ‘Hombres’ - Record Store Tour :: At
Assai, Glasgow. 6pm. In celebration of their
upcoming album ‘Hombres’ - GUN - have
announced a series of intimate in-store gigs the
week of its release. With their new album out on
12 April, the Scottish rock legends will be
embarking on a whistle-stop tour of record shops
in Scotland and the North of England, performing
a stripped-back live set and signing records.
www.facebook.com/gunOfficialUK
STARLESS :: At Glasgow University Debating
Chamber, Glasgow. Starless release highly
anticipated third album Returning Home on this
Friday 15th March. Starless is the ambitious
collaborative project led by Paul McGeechan
(Friends Again, Love & Money) with guest
vocalists bringing his compositions to life.
Returning Home features contributions from
Grahame Skinner, Chris Thomson, Jerry Burns &
more. To celebrate the release of ‘Returning
Home’ Paul will play alongside a host of his
musical collaborators and special guests. The
event is part of the LNFG Weekender, which
includes sets from BMX Bandits, wojtek the bear
and Billy Reeves.
www.twitter.com/Starless_music
18 APRIL
The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... FINDLAY
NAPIER “Outsider” Album Launch :: At The
Glad Café, Glasgow. 8pm. £16. Findlay Napier sets
off on tour in April in support of his new album
Outsider. Widely regarded as one of the finest
performers on the UK music scene, he’s as
comfortable on the Main Stage of Cambridge Folk
Festival with folk rock supergroup The Magpie Arc
as he is in an intimate acoustic show in the back
room of a pub. This fact was further highlighted
when Napier was the first solo act ever to be
nominated for Live Act of the Year at the Scot’s
Trad Music awards in 2018.
www.fallenangelsclub.com
27 APRIL
The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... EMMA
JANE (New Album Premiere Show) :: At The Rum
Shack, Glasgow. 8pm. Glasgow based Americana
singer/songwriter Emma Jane has been writing
songs since the age of seven and performing since
late 2005.
She has been described as having one of the most
distinctive, rich, bluesy voices you'll hear this side
of Nashville.
A songwriter with the capability to move the
hardest of souls.
www.fallenangelsclub.com
28 APRIL
EDDI READER :: At Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow.
One of Scotland's all-time greatest female voices
and performers, with a unique ability to connect
with live audiences on a deeply emotional level,
the Glasgow-born singer promises an
unforgettable experience for fans old and new in
Dumfries, Inverness, Aberdeen, Perth, Lanark,
Edinburgh, Stirling and Glasgow throughout April.
www.eddireader.co.uk/gigs/
2 MAY
The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... JOHN
DOUGLAS (Trashcan Sinatras) :: At The Glad
Café, Glasgow. 8pm. £15. At long last, fans and
newcomers alike are treated to an intimate
snapshot of the talent, charisma and depth of this
celebrated Scottish indie songsmith. With this
release comes the start of a new chapter in John
Douglas’ creative life as he simultaneously looks
back at a lifetime of musical adventures and
accolades and moves forwards.
www.fallenangelsclub.com
JIM BOB :: At Saint Lukes, 17 Bain Street,
Glasgow, G40 2JZ. 7.30pm, £25adv. Jim Bob is
one oil painting exhibition short of being Britain’s
greatest living renaissance man. You might know
him best as the singer with Carter The
Unstoppable Sex Machine. He had fourteen top
40 singles and four top ten albums (including a
number one) with them. Carter toured the world
and headlined Glastonbury before breaking up in
1997.
www.facebook.com/jimbobfromcarter
21 APRIL
3 MAY
SKERRYVORE :: At CentreStage, Kilmarnock.
From their traditional Tiree roots Skerryvore have
developed both in size and sound to create a
unique fusion of their traditional music and songs
with the urban sounds of rock, pop and funk. The
band’s ability to fuse traditional Scottish music
and rhythms with a range of other genres is a
trademark of their distinctive, high-energy sound.
www.skerryvore.com/tour/
25 APRIL
The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... MARY
GAUTHIER featuring special guest JAIMEE
HARRIS :: At St Lukes & The Winged Ox,
Glasgow. 8pm. As she has so eloquently
accomplished over the past 25 years, acclaimed
singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier has used her art
once again to traverse the uncharted waters of the
past few years. “I’m the kind of songwriter who
writes what I see in the world right now,” she
affirms. Thankfully, amid dark storms of pandemic
loss, she found and followed the beacon of new
love: Her gift to us, the powerful Dark Enough to
See the Stars, collects ten sparkling jewels of
Gauthier songcraft reflecting both love and loss.
Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and
emigrant, crossing thresholds, that informs his
illumination of the human experience through
narrative song. Shindell has inhabited a Zen
Buddhist monastery, busked in the streets of
Paris, opened for Joan Baez (who covered several
of his songs), and collaborated with Grammywinner
Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm,
Elvis Costello). Originally from New York, now
living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a
writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories,
juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters,
vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and
expanding our sense of just what it is a song may
be.
www.fallenangelsclub.com
EDDI READER :: At Lanark Memorial Hall,
Lanark. One of Scotland's all-time greatest female
voices and performers, with a unique ability to
connect with live audiences on a deeply emotional
level, the Glasgow-born singer promises an
unforgettable experience for fans old and new in
Dumfries, Inverness, Aberdeen, Perth, Lanark,
Edinburgh, Stirling and Glasgow throughout April.
www.eddireader.co.uk/gigs/
ORBITAL :: At The Barrowland Ballroom,
Glasgow. Orbital are to reissue their seminal selftitled
1991 debut album, known to fans as ‘The
Green Album’, on 19th April via London Records.
Formats include a 4LP Box Set, 4CD Box Set,
Black and Coloured 2LP, 2CD, and Cassette. All
tracks have been fully remastered by Phil and Paul
Hartnoll for the very first time. The news arrives
as the duo confirm details for ‘The Green + Brown
Album Tour’ this Spring, in which they will revisit
not only ‘The Green Album’ but also its legendary
successor ‘The Brown Album’ at their upcoming
UK + Ireland dates.
www.orbitalofficial.com/live/
4 MAY
SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA &
RSNO - Rhapsody In Blue :: At Glasgow Royal
Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY.
7.30pm. Big cities, big tunes – and you’d better
believe it’s going to swing! The Scottish National
Jazz Orchestra (SNJO) is considered by many to
be one of Europe’s foremost contemporary big
bands. Founder/Director Tommy Smith
established the SNJO in 1995 as a not-for-profit
organisation with a crystal clear artistic vision and
core values of versatility, discipline and
expression. The SNJO is dedicated to promoting
jazz as a pre-eminent art form through
performances, original compositions, recordings,
and educational outreach programmes. This
commitment extends to the task of developing
promising young jazz musicians through the ranks
of The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra.
www.facebook.com/theSNJO
5 MAY
ALICE HOWE & FREEBO with support from
MARIGOLD :: At Doublet Bar, 74 Park Road
Glasgow, G4 9JF. £15. Alice Howe and Freebo
present a unique study in contrasts, bringing
together a rising voice in Americana music and a
venerable rock, folk, and blues icon. They have
worked as creative collaborators in the studio and
on stage since 2017. Freebo, best known for his
decade of touring and recording with Bonnie Raitt,
weaves his unique fretless bass stylings into
Alice’s superb vocals for a presentation with
undeniable chemistry.
www.facebook.com/alicehowemusic
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