Radar recommends: Non-TitP gigs

[Sparrow & the Workshop: sneaking into Edinburgh tonight]

Sick of all this T in the Park talk? Well don't despair, it's not the only live music event this weekend. Here are our tips for those of you who are not off to Balado...

The place to be in Edinburgh tonight is Sneaky Pete's. Fresh from a refurbishment this week, the venue welcomes back monthly promoters This is Music with another great billing. Sparrow & the Workshop weave ambitious indie-pop dreamscapes, while Randan Discotheque's art-folk-tronica always hits the spot. As usual, it's £3 for the bands before 11pm, and free entry after for the DJs.

If you prefer hardcore riffage to 'dreamscapes', you'd be advised to make the descent to Henry's Cellar Bar from 7pm for a night of furious death metal throbbing with a quartet of gruesomely monikered local bands, featuring Threshold Sicks, Nerrus Kor, Cancerous Womb and Foetal Splatter. Nice.

Meanwhile Edinburgh-based American noise-monger Ted Koterwas, aka The Foundling Wheel, launches his new single at the Confusion is Sex night at the Bongo Club.

Tomorrow night the hipster hangout that is The Bowery plays host to ebullient polska-pop from experimentalists Foxgang and it's a mere fiver entry, from 7.30pm.

Fans of an older generation might also like to know that Crosby Stills & Nash (Saturday @ Edinburgh Castle) and Ry Cooder (Friday @ Festival Theatre) are both in the capital this weekend.

In Aberdeen, what appears to be a humble effort to upstage T takes place, with Bands in the Park at Duthie Park and Hazlehead Park. We've been reliably informed the bands in question are of the brass/pipe variety though, so it may not have a festival vibe!

I'm afraid nothing really takes our fancy elsewhere. We can only assume that all the best bands in Glasgow are either playing T in the Park or are at home watching it on TV. Feel free to prove us wrong in the comments below...