Radar recommends: Define Pop 2

There is much to challenge our collective happiness in the final months of the year.

As ever, the nights are drawing in, the weather is worsening, shops are taunting us with premature displays of Yuletide faux-cosiness, while the once important Christmas number one will inevitably fall to 'Jedward' or one of the other semi-human droids in that inescapable Saturday night tele-oke.

So it's just as well Define Pop returns this weekend with another mini-fest of live music to raise our dampened spirits.

Once again the Define Pop crew have assembled a range of acts that cross the boundaries of underground Scottish music. If you're into indie-pop or post-folk, you'll probably head for the Living Room stage, where you'll find UtR favourites like Yahweh, The Second Hand Marching Band and Esperi.

But if you're more of an adrenaline junkie (not in the Top Gear sense), you'll be more at home at the Kitchen stage, where the likes of Dead Boy Robotics, Pooch and The Morgue Party Candidate will aim to raise the BPM.

It all happens at The Flying Duck in Glasgow on Saturday and Sunday, with doors opening at 4pm. Tickets are priced at £7 each day, available here.

And check back tomorrow for an interview with one of the bands on the bill.

The full line-up is as follows...

Saturday

Living Room Stage:
Kid Canaveral / Vendor Defender / Kochka / The Costapeens / Mickey 9's / Louise Against The Elements / Miniature Dinosaurs

Kitchen Stage:
Young Aviators / Gdansk / The Morgue Party Candidate / Pacific Theatre / Other People / The Blessed Order Of Fallen Stars / Make Sparks / Little Yellow Ukeleles

Sunday

Living Room Stage:
Yahweh / Second Hand Marching Band / The Lava Experiments / Diamond Sea / Julia and the Doogans / Esperi / Incrediboy and The Forget Me Nots / Lovers Turn To Monsters

Kitchen Stage Sunday:
Pooch / Nevada Base / Stereo Grand / Dead Boy Robotics / Lad Lazarus / Fridge Magnets / Marshall Chipped