Radar recommends: 6 - 12 Sep

Versus: Thursday @ Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms,
[Photos by Nic Rue, Loraine Ross & David Forcier]

With the World Cup now only a team ranked 3rd in the world (that's a whole 27 places above Burley's bruisers) and a play off win away, this week could gravitate around celebration or, as is more likely come 9.30pm on Wednesday, drowning sorrows. Either way, there's a veritable feast of giggage about to cater for every emotional vagary...

Aberdeen

Willard Grant Conspiracy, Doghouse Roses
Tuesday @ The Tunnels / 8pm / £10/8
Bit Johnny Cash, bit John Cale. Americana, improvisation and top notch musicianship in Aberdeen this Tuesday comes courtesy of Robert Fisher’s Californian group. Support from Glasgow’s Doghouse Heroes.

Le Reno Amps
Thursday @ SNAFU / 9pm / £4
Ahead of their EP launch Glasgow indie types Le Reno Amps play Dirty Hearts Club. Support from The Marionettes.

Twin Atlantic, Avoid the Morning
Saturday @ Moshulu / 7.30pm / £7.50
Crowd-surfing weegie rockers juxtapose visceral guitars against pneumatic drums to make em a thrilling clatter. Also playing The Ironworks, Inverness on Friday.

Dundee
Finley Quaye
Wednesday @ Doghouse / 8pm / £12
Edinburgh born reggae rapscallion, best know for his much loved 1997 LP Maverik A Strike, fashions out more of the same beats and gibberish.

You Me At Six
Friday @ Fat Sam's / 7.30pm / £10
Kerrang! friendly punk-rock-schlock from this grammatically incorrect Weybridge outfit.

The Wildhouse, The Strangers Almanac, Gong Fei, One Inch Volcano
Saturday @ Drouthy’s / 8.30pm / Free
The Wildhouse have been described as one of Dundee’s best live bands and they’ll be headlining this Fresher’s week special.

Edinburgh
Dan Costello, Wounded Knee
Monday @ The Bowery / 7.30pm / £5
Dan Costello's anti-folk missives are supported by the mesmerising cyclical chants of Wounded Knee at this post-festival reopening of Edinburgh's indie epicentre.

White Noise featuring The Pineapple Chunks
Tuesday @ The Electric Circus / 8pm / £4
The screwball ensemble ply their madcap melodic trade at this outstanding gig/club night.

Twestival: Epic 26, Chutes
Thursday @ The Electric Circus / 7pm / £tbc
Two of Auld Reekie's perennial mainstay's turn out their rambunctious guitar fare for, eh, Twitter and charity, apparently. Whatever happened to MySpace?

The Void, Make Sparks
Thursday @ Cabaret Voltaire / 7pm / £3
EP launch for sprightly indie upstarts The Void - they sound a little like We Were Promised Jetpacks with more chutzpah.

**UTR's GIG OF THE WEEK **
VERSUS: Meursault vs The Foundling Wheel vs Dead Boy Robotics
Thursday @ The Voodoo Rooms / 8pm / £5
Not so much a gig, as a concept: Three bands, one stage and A LOT of noise. This is going to be one helluva show and, rumour has it, a number of local luminaries will be joining the BEAR Scotland triumvirate throughout the night.

Neko Case
Friday @ The Voodoo Rooms / £12.50 / £12.50
Anyone else love The New Pornographers but find Ms Case a little humdrum? No? Just me then...

Rock Chick Night: Scrap Brain, Storm in a D Cup, Sonorous Breaks, Dead on the Live Wire, Cherenkov Drive, The Number , Seafield Foxes
Friday @ Henry's Cellar Bar / 7pm / £4
Neko Case wouldn't last one second amidst this seven band smattering of hard rocking femme fatales.

This Is Music: Come On Gang, Dupec, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Friday @ Sneaky Pete's / 8pm / £5
A typically fine billing from the guys and gals at This is Music. Big dinosaurs to. Always nice.

Jesus H. Foxx, Some Young Pedro
Saturday @ The Bowery / 7.30pm / £5
EP launch for the Song, By Toad stabled Foxx outfit with support coming from the enthralling Some Young Pedro.


Glasgow
Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper
Tuesday @ O2 Academy / 7pm / Sold Out
Has the appeal of Fleet Foxes finally soured after last year's collective media fawning? Find out at this gig. Or don't, because it's sold out.

Bronto Skylift
Wednesday @ 13th Note / 9pm / £tbc
Awesomely abrasive noise combo. Hard to believe there are only two of 'em.

Okkervil River
Wednesday @ Oran Mor / 7.00pm / £12.50
Must be Autumn again. It's time for Texan folk-punk stars Okkervil River's annual Glasgow visit.

Dupec, Pose Victorious, White Heath
Thursday @ Pivo Pivo / 8pm / £3
Three of Edinburgh's brightest bands roll up in Glasgow. This one definitely has the UtR seal of approval.

Sunset Rubdown, Mitchell Museum, North Atlantic Oscillation
Thursday @ Stereo / tbc / £tbc
Hyped Canadian indie types, with two former UtR-featured bands in tow.

Glasgow Twestival
Thursday @ The Living Room / 7pm / £10
Status update: At Glasgow Twestival, watching Panda Su, Pooch and Any Color Black, and tapping away on my iPhone. Geeky fun but it's all for charity.

BMX Bandits, The Primary 5 and Randolph's Leap
Saturday @ Classic Grand / 7pm / £8
Indie veterans BMX Bandits, with support from recent UtR stars, the eccentric Randolph's Leap.


Words: Nick Mitchell, Billy Hamilton, Andrew Learmonth

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