Radar recommends: 30 Aug - 5 Sep

[Aidan Moffat: playing the Bongo Club on Thursday]

Have you noticed how summer already seems like a memory? It's the end of August and when we should still be able to sit in beer gardens and outdoor cafés all night, we're buying up winter coats instead. Some brave promoters are still putting on the odd al fresco shindig, but most sensible gigs are back where they belong: in sweaty basement bars. Time to emigrate...

Aberdeen

Healthy Minds Collapse
Wednesday @ The Tunnels / 8pm / £5
Grungy alternative rock from T in the Park and Wickerman favourites Healthy Minds Collapse.

Fudge Present: Tragic City Thieves, The Black Lights, Rise, Which Way Now
Saturday @ The Moorings / 8pm / £3
Metal, glam and classic rock feature this week in The Moorings' regular rock night.

Edinburgh

The Shipping Forecast Garden Party
Sunday @ Pear Tree Courtyard /1pm / free
A sterling line-up made up of Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers, Zoey Van Goey, The Stormy Seas, Come In Tokyo, Ben TD and Ardent John. Let's just hope it doesn't rain.

Song, By Toad presents: Enfant Bastard, Ambulances, Art Fag
Sunday @ Sneaky Pete's / 8pm / £5
Expect plenty of gin-swigging and expletive-riddled tomfoolery from this rather fetching Song, By Toad shindig.

Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard, Withered Hand
Monday @ Cabaret Voltaire / 7pm / £9
The delectable Withered Hand prop up poetic anti-folk ambassador Jeffrey Lewis who, lets face it, is a bit drab.

White Noise featuring X Lion Tamer
Tuesday @ Electric Circus / 8pm / £4
Tony Taylor's electro-pop fare is causing a buzz that isn't derived solely from the sound of a plugged in laptop.

**UtR's gig of the week**
The Skinny Dip: Aidan Moffat & The Best Ofs, Over the Wall, Rick Redbeard
Thursday @ The Bongo Club / 7.30pm / £10
Intriguingly curated line-up that finds Aidan Moffat's sleaze-rock outfit headlining a bill that also contains two of Scotland's most sought after upstarts.

Vacuum Spasm Babies, Sinner's Ensemble
Thursday @ Henry's Cellar Bar / 8pm / £4
Experimental rock throbbing from the curiously entitled headliners. Spinners Ensemble's country-blue murmuring provides the perfect undercard foil.

The Chap, Paper Planes
Friday @ Sneaky Pete's / 7pm / £tbc
Abstract bleepery from London/Berlin outfit The Chap. Froth-rocking punk comes by way of UtR favourites Paper Planes

Frightened Rabbit
Saturday @ Electric Circus / 7pm /£6
Solo showing from Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison before he and his band jet off around the US of A.

Sebastian Dangerfield, Endor, Washington Irving
Saturday @ Maggie's Chamber / 7pm / £5
EP Launch from the wonderfully monikered local tunesmith with an ear for understated melody.


Glasgow

The Pastels and Tenniscoats
Wednesday @ Stereo / 8pm / £10
Glasgow's original indie stars in musical cahoots with Japanese kindred spirits Tenniscoats.

Bubblegum Records Launch Night
Thursday @ Stereo /7.30pm / £5

Head along to the Bubblegum Records Launch, where you can check out new bands Pink Kross, Lean Tales, The Just Joans, The Felt Tips and Miss Leggy Pee for a pop-indie evening.

The Lava Experiments
Friday @ Nice N Sleazy /7.30pm / £TBC

The electronica triplets celebrate their second EP in their scheduled trilogy of releases with their launch party.

Bronto Skylift
Friday @ Avalanche Records In Store / 4pm / Free

This punk grunge duo give a free in-store performance at Avalanche Records as a precursor to their EP release later in the week.

The Hardy Souls, The Rudiments, The Echo Session
Saturday @ 13th Note /4pm / £5

Back to traditional rock'n'roll with The Hardy Souls, supported by local band The Echo Session and American counterparts the Rudiments bringing a punk sound to the night.

Words: Billy Hamilton, Clare Sinclair, Jodi Mullen

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