Music, Previews, Issue 626

Dananananaykroyd

You’ll probably have been aware of the name Dananananykroyd being shouted from the rooftops of the Scottish music scene for a few years – it’s so joyfully unwieldy you could hardly have missed it. Yet, only now are the self-styled ‘fight-pop’ Glasgow…

Secret Wars

The first rule of Art Club is: you don’t talk about Art Club. Unless you’re writing a piece in a magazine. We’re not really sure what an event describing itself as ‘like Fight Club, with artists’ entails, but this live art battle has been running at…

Fangs

PREVIEW For a band who seem like they just sprang forth as a leather and lycra-wearing, Kohl-retouched embodiment of the NY punk scene circa ‘77 (with added electronics), Fangs have done a bit of evolving. Anyone who’s been around the Scottish scene…

Cabaret Baby

CABARET It’s a brave man who throws off the shackles of his classical traditions and embraces a bit of Dolly Parton. But Stephen Deazley is just the man for the job. Inspired by a suitably colourful youth basking in the joys of late 70s, early 80s…

Exposure: Unicorn Kid

At just 17, Leith-dwelling wonder-boy Oli Sabin, aka Unicorn Kid, has already had more than a million MySpace users tuning in to his manic brand of pop-eyed toy box techno. He played the London and Glasgow launch parties of teen TV drama Skins, and has…

Colin Steele & Dave Milligan

PREVIEW This is the final element in Assembly Direct’s current series featuring trumpeter Colin Steele, and should be a memorable occasion. Steele’s plangent, lyrical trumpet work and Milligan’s harmonically sophisticated pianism is already a…

5 Reasons to Go See - Beardyman

1. He’s got a world of music in his mouth Yes, it’s the wonderful world of beatboxing and Beardyman, aka Londoner Darren Foreman, is up there with the very best. It’s not just extraordinary beats the man can reproduce, but also copycat singing voices…

Big Picture - Bat for Lashes

The spooky, kooky charms of Natasha Khan come to Glasgow this fortnight, as she tours her new album Two Suns, the follow up to her Mercury nominated debut, Fur and Gold. Expect dark disco melodies, haunting vocals and mystical, celestial tales of…

Hundred Reasons

There’s been a dearth of good British heavy rock bands of late (after all we practically invented rock and metal with Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and Black Sabbath). Young bucks Hundred Reasons and their incendiary live shows almost put us on the…

Polly Scattergood

The eponymous debut album of this new songwriting is pretty breathtaking, equal parts disturbing and delightful. From cooing little girl-ism to raw declarations about suicide, here’s yet another Polly to be reckoned with. Captain’s Rest, Glasgow…

Pink

The diminutive pop pearl has excelled where others have floundered, in making contemporary pop that truly crosses over into the live arena but remain compelling, coherent and consistent. SECC, Glasgow, Sat 11 & Sun 12 Apr.