Radar recommends: 25 - 31 Oct

[Camera Obscura: homecoming gig on Thursday]

If you attended some of the many Oxjam gigs over the weekend, then you probably just want a week of rest and recuperation. Yes, it took its boozy toll on us UtR writers too.

But if you missed out - or if you just have more youthful get-up-and-go than us - then here is our guide to this week's live music...


Aberdeen
Oxjam Aberdeen
Sunday @ various venues / from 1pm / £9 (£7)
The granite city gets its share of Oxjam festivities. See our preview below.

Edinburgh
White Noise: Be A Familiar, I See Shapes
Tuesday @ Electric Circus / 8.30pm / Free
Excellent indie-pop septet Be A Familiar roll into town along with Greenock band I See Shapes. As usual, the gig starts at 10pm after the quiz. Free entry for quiz players.

Bowerbirds, Eagleowl
Friday @ Sneaky Pete's / 7pm / £10
John Darnielle’s favourite Americana band have been touring with a drummer called Matt Damron in their native US. I thought it would make a funny anecdote until I realised I’d misread the name. Also playing Captain's Rest on Saturday with Olympic Swimmers.

Grouper, Debutant, Esperi
Saturday @ Wee Red Bar / 7pm / £5
All the way from Portland, Oregon comes sedate songstress Grouper, with two UtR-tipped acts in support.

Bombskare, Mystery Juice, Stanley Odd
Saturday @ Picture House / 7pm / £8
Sure, this is an oddly curated line-up (ska, rockabilly and rap?), but it's all for charity.

Our Ladies of Sorrow, The Leg, Art Fag
Saturday @ Sneaky Pete's / 7pm / £5
A night of weird-out sounds from these esoteric Edinburghers.

TV21
Satuday @ Bannerman's / 9pm / £5
Toast Halloween with one of Edinburgh's few 80s indie survivors.

Ten Tracks' Electric Café: Dead Civilised
Saturday @ The Roxy Arthouse / 7pm / £9
More ghoulish high jinks from the Ten Tracks crew, along with top drawer music from the likes of The Black Cat, Joe Acheson Quartet, Yahweh, The Gothenburg Address and Saint Jude's Infirmary.

Glasgow
Oxjam Glasgow Takeover
Tonight (Sunday) @ various venues (see our full preview below)
Bands still to perform as part of the multi-venue charity extravaganza include Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison, Tempercalm, Ming Ming and the Ching Chings, Be A Familiar and The French Wives.

Cassidy, Three Blind Wolves, Brother Louis Collective
Sunday @ King Tuts / 8pm / £6
Single launch for acoustic guitar wielding bearded men x 4. Support from Ross Clark’s newly named band and beautiful harmony projectors featured here last month.

Edwyn Collins
Sunday @ O2 ABC / 7pm / £18
Get your vitamin C fix of goodness from this Orange Juice famed solo artist.

Phoenix
Tonight (Sunday) @ The Arches / 7pm / £15
If you’re not Oxjamming tonight, you could catch this enigmatic French superstar blog band and their great shades.

Therapy, Ricky Warwick
Tuesday and Wednesday @ King Tut’s / 8pm / £14
A slice of 90s nostalgia from the hardest-working band in alternative metal.

The Young Republic, Don’t Move
Wednesday @ Nice n Sleazy / 7.30pm / £8
Folk-pop Tennessee six-piece touring in support of gorgeous new album, Balletesque. Support Don’t Move! play bluegrass-influenced rock.

Our Brother The Native
Tuesday @ Captain’s Rest / 8pm / £tbc
Neo-soul fusion from One Little Indian signings.

**UtR's gig of the week**
Camera Obscura, Emma Pollock, Magic Arm
Thursday @ Barrowlands / 7pm / £12.50
Support from a former Delgado at Glasgow’s greatest venue makes this a homecoming show not to be missed from the city’s finest indiepop heroes.

Futuristic Retro Champions, The Cinnamons
Thursday @ The Admiral / 8pm / £5
One from the East. One from the West. In the West.

17 Seconds Records: Chris Bradley, X-Lion Tamer, Dirty Cuts, Escape Act
Friday @ 13th Note / 9pm / £tbc
East coast up-and-coming label shows off its signings, including Aberfeldy’s Chris Bradley and X-Lion Tamer’s poppy electrics.

Pin Up Frights ft. RBRBR, The Plimptons, Louise Against The Elements, Louise McVey and Cracks in the Concrete
Friday @ Flying Duck
A dreadful pun but a stellar lineup from one of Glasgow’s finest club nights, promising dance-rock, comedy indie and delicious gothic horror.

Ghouls Aloud ft. Isa and the Filthy Tongues, XMRV, The Number, Galoshins
Saturday @ Pivo Pivo / 8pm / £tbc
With a name like that, it has to be another Halloween “spook”-tacular at Pivo Pivo. Respected local dark rockers Isa and the Filthy Tongues top the bill.

Los Campesinos!, Copy Haho, Sparky Deathcap
Saturday @ King Tut’s / 8.30pm / £8
Gloriously poptastic tweeness from Cardiff’s finest. The fabulous Copy Haho and Sparky Deathcap add more colour to the night.

Words: Lisa-Marie Ferla, Nick Mitchell

What have we missed? Tell us below, or add it to our gig guide by emailing utr.scotsman@gmail.com