Radar recommends: 19 - 25 April

[Meursault: playing support at Sneaky Pete's on Wednesday]

Compared to last week's meagre pickings, we've got a banquet of quality giggage coming up over the next seven days. But with great choice comes great indecision, so which delectable aural treat are you going to tuck into? Go on, be gluttonous, you know you want to...

Haight Ashbury, Suplex the Kid, The Works and Chris Crosbie
Sun 19 Apr, Maggie May's, Glasgow. Doors 8pm, £5
Haight Ashbury don't just wear their influences on their sleeves; they have them painted on their faces (that's still a metaphor by the way), plundering as they do the music and vibe of late '60s West Coast hippy-dom before it turned sour. Expect psychedelic guitars and possibly even some unashamed sitar usage. [NM]

Das Filth and Bronto Skylift
Mon 20 Apr, Captain's Rest, Glasgow. Doors 8pm, FREE
Das Filth are appropriately named, because their music is a grubby, snarling rabble of guttural riffs, incessant synths and spat-out lyrics. Get down and dirty at this their single launch, where they're supported by the equally in-yer-face duo, Bronto Skylift. Rawk! [NM]

**UtR's gig of the week**
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Concern, Meursault
Wed 22 Apr, Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh. Doors 7pm, £7
Yet another triumph for the folk at Sneaky Pete's this week. Casiotone For the Painfully Alone's lo-fi scuffling and morbid tale-telling is sure to appeal to any beard stroking afficionado worth his oversized specs. With support coming from mercurial Edinburgh crowers Meursault (you know, the band EVERYONE's talking about right now?), this night's sure to be a sell out. Best get your running shoes on, then. [BH]

Duty Free presents Popup, Alan Bissett (spoken word), Futuristic Retro Champs, Kirstin Inness (spoken word)
Thu 23 Apr, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh. Doors 7pm, FREE
Narrated by a brogue so dense it makes James Graham seem refined, Popup's fleet-footed ditties remain a sadly unexplored trove on Scotland's rich musical landscape. But, with any luck, this Duty Free showing alongside the retro-tastic Futuristic Retro Champs (aided by an interlude or two from a duo of fine local wordsmiths) will encourage local lugs to finally succumb to the Glasgow quintet's ravishing indie-pop clattering. [BH]

Zarif, Dead Boy Robotics, Popolo, Keser
Thu 23 Apr, Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh. Doors 7pm, £5
Hotly tipped as a bright eyed chart-topper of the future, part-Scot/part-Londonite starlet Zarif brings her sassy brand of feel good pop to Edinburgh's dankly-lit Cowgate. Already a firm favourite of daytime radio playlists across the land, the Groove Armada/The Rakes collaborator will need to be at her peak to outgun the primary coloured electro-screeching from supporting trio Dead Boy Robotics, Popolo and Keser. [BH]

The Hand & Ichi and Jo Foster
Thur 23 Apr, Tchai Ovna, Glasgow. Doors 8pm, £2
Female singer-songwriters don't come more delicate than Fence Collective member Jo Foster. But what she lacks in gusto she more than makes up for in lyrical and vocal guile. Fresh from her Homegame appearance, here she plays support to Bristol folkie duo The Hand & Ichi. [NM]

Stripped Back for Malawi: The Vaselines, Malcolm Middleton, Aidan John Moffat and Bridget Storm
Fri 24 Apr, Oran Mor, Glasgow. Doors 7pm, £10
OK, a line-up of such established greats normally wouldn't fall 'under the radar', but since this gig is in aid of the Zomba Orphan Project in Malawi, and since the bill includes three of the greatest Scottish acts of recent history, we couldn't resist giving it an honorary mention. [NM]

- Billy Hamilton / Nick Mitchell

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