This Week's Gigs: 8th - 14th November

Before I get on with what is on this week a quick thank to everyone that came down to The Classic Grand on Friday for our gig and a huge thanks to I build Collapsible Mountains, Come on Gang! and The Seventeenth Century for playing. They were all, of course, excellent.

Now, on to this week.

Monday:

Wavves, Otherpeople, PAWS. The Arches (Tickets)

Not that keen on Wavves to be honest, but we like Otherpeople and PAWS loads. While I'm at it, you can grab a free download of Wooplash by Otherpeople over at Artrocker just now.

Aaron Wright and the Aprils. King Tut's. (Tickets)

Tuesday:

Miller Filtered Music Present: Ash, Aerials Up, Alan R Davison. Oran Mor (Tickets)

The second Miller Filtered Music gig sees Ash play a stripped back set, joined by local supports Aerials Up and Alan R. Davison.

Wild Nothing, Crayons, Kill The Waves. The Arches (Tickets)

Focus Left. The Arches

Focus Left is a new platform for short filmmakers who are interested in incorporating live elements into the screening of their work, whether it be live music, soundscape, performance or improvised narration. The line up for the night includes:

Forest of Black's short film from this year's Homegame Music Festival
Live audiovisual electronica performance of No Man's Land by Fiona Soe Paing
Retchy (aka Graeme Hawkins) performing The Lyre Of Orpheus
Fear Wasabi perform live over their music video for the Pixies' Debaser
Charmaine Gilbert and CP Lucas Kao screen A Lifetime, featuring live narration from actress Wendy Barrett
Me and the Machine's Clara García Fraile premieres her latest short
Electro-acoustic duo Blacktzar perform alongside a screening of their latest video How Does It Feel, animated by Barry Thomson
Another chance to see Sigma Film's I Love Luci (recently screened at the Fence Records' Hallowe'en party)

Wednesday:

Jjnx Lennon, The Girobabies, Robert Sarazin Blake, Roscoe Vacant. The 13th Note.

Muso: Mickey 9's, Codeen. The Buff Club.

Thursday:

Sonny Marvello, The Cinnamons, The Dirty Demographic, Galleries. Stereo.

Launch gig for Sonny Marvello's new EP, Pull Me Up.

Friday:

You Already Know, Deadotter, The Little Mill of Happiness, Circle of Tyrants. The 13th Note.

One of our favourite bands, You Already Know, play their first proper gig in ages. I am fully prepared to have my face melted, my ears pounded and to love every minute of it. Get yourself along.

Mocker, The Tenemants, The Fonetics. Ivory Blacks.

This is a fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis, so your money will be put to good use if you go.

British India, St Deluxe, Penguins Kill Polar Bears. Stereo. (Tickets)

The Scottish Enlightenment, Trapped Mice, Jesus H. Foxx. The Wee Red Bar, Edniburgh.

Edinburgh launch gig for The Scottish Enlightenments debut album. The album is pretty much brilliant and this gig should be too. The Glasgow launch is the following week, so Edinburgh people have a chance to pick up the album first and rub our West of Scotland faces in it.

Pablo Eskimo. The Vale

Saturday:

The Power Cut Choir, Freight Logistics. Gambetta.

Radar Present: Mitchell Museum, Bronto Skylift, Capitals. Electric Circus, Edinburgh. (Tickets)

Define Pop Festival 3. Stereo, The Admiral, Pivo Pivo. (Tickets)

Should be a proper preview of this up during the week, but until then here's the short version. Three venues, Seven quid, loads of bands. Announced so far are *deep breath* Tango In The Attic, Trapped In Kansas, Little Yellow Ukuleles, Cities and Skylines, I Build Collapsible Mountains, Suspire, Epic 26, The Machine Room, The Ghosties, Aspen Tide, So Many Animal Calls, Campfires In Winter, Kochka, The Hundred Metre Club, From Paris To Prison, Indigo Central, Little Fire and Juan Pablo, with more to come.

Sunday:

No Dancing: Withered Hand (Solo), Bronto Skylift, Ambulances, Galoshins. Stereo. (Tickets)

The Sexual Objects, Flesh, Wake The President. King Tut's. (Tickets)

One More Aye Tunes Vs Peenko Plug

There's just two more days to go until this, after which I'll shut up about it obviously.

On the offhand you hadn't noticed Peenko and I are putting on another gig on Friday.

It is in The Classic Grand, with an early kick off time of 7pm, so finish work, have your dinner and get along quick so you don't miss anything.

This will be the last of the Aye Tunes Vs Peenko gigs, at least for a while, so we'd love it if as many people as possible could join us for a few beers, and uncomfortable amount of us invading your personal space with hugs and of course some quality musical entertainment.

Joining Campfires in Winter, Mitchell Museum and Kid Canaveral, Little Yellow Ukuleles, Randolph's Leap and We're Only Afraid of NYC on the list of bands foolish enough to play for us we have:

I Build Collapsible Mountains

Luke Joyce's one man singer-songwriter show. It isn't just us that is very excited about I Build Collapsible Mountains, he was a runner up in the recent Radar Music Prize too.

Stream: I Build Collapsible Mountains - Rails

Come on Gang!

Edinburgh based three piece indie pop merchants help us show that we like both Edinburgh and women, honest. Dancing is encouraged. Come on Gang! have made the final shortlist for Hog The Stage too, so could well be stealing the limelight from Biffy Clyro at Edinburgh's Hogmanay.

Stream: Come on Gang! - Fortune Favours The Brave

The Seventeenth Century

The Seventeenth Century make a thrilling combination of pop, folk and rock music, with orchestral influences. The Seventeenth Century are a bad that no matter how often I listen to them, how often I see them, I keep finding something new in their songs. Plus, it isn't often you get to see a violin and cornet player throw the kind of shapes or exert the amount of energy that Mark Farmer and Mike Truscott do. I can't help but agree with John Robb, who said after seeing them that "Their sound is utterly original and the band is pure genius"

Stream: The Seventeenth Century - Mid October

Tickets are £6, available from Tickets Scotland, TicketWeb, direct from us in person (just send me an email and I'll come meet you to swap tickets for money) or online, or you can contact the bands for tickets. There will be tickets on the door, but get in quick before they all go.

For those into that kind of thing there's a Facebook event page here too.

So, that's The Classic Grand on Friday November 5th at 7pm. If you are worried about missing out on fireworks let me know and I'll buy you a sparkler.

Come along and we'll love you forever.