“And in a packed programme this week…” it may seem a little odd for some that Barbara Dickson isn’t introduced by Ronnie Corbett at Perth’s Inchyra Arts Club on Wednesday…
In Edinburgh on the same night, nu-jazz (possibly) front-runners, Swampfog, at the Jazz Bar…
And sorry, but gig of the night… week… millennium, may well be erudite Canucks The Burning Hell, not, somewhat bafflingly, at Glasgow’s Hydro or maybe Hampden, but somewhere called O Street, presumably being built specially to accommodate a colossal audience who have just cottoned on to their genius.
*Edit: O Street is a design agency, which IIRC the band mentioned having played at previous to their last Glasgow show. Guessing it could be a busy one(!), even if not invite only.

On Friday in Edinburgh’s Summerhall (where else?), alt.folk sounds from Six Organs of Admittance, while in Glasgow, Tijuana Bibles play King Tut’s

On Saturday a bit of a double-whammy – The Filthy Tongues are at the O2 ABC, while Calacas (with members drawn from Urusei Yatsura, Rags and Feathers, Wojtek The Bear and Q Without U) play the 13th Note along with a short solo set from Jan Burnett out of Spare Snare.
Make that a triple whammy actually – Factory Records heroes The Railway Children are also in town, at Audio.

On Saturday, highly-relarded songer-songwriter Callum Beattie is un Dumfermline, at P.J. Molloy’s, Static Union plug new single ‘Turn Out The Lights’ at Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh and also in Edinburgh, they’ll be dancing in… La Belle Angele, to the sounds of Martha Reeves And The Vandellas.

The capital welcomes another musical legend the following night – Sunday 18th sees Jackson Browne grace the stage of the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.

And through in Glasgow the West End Festival‘s all-dayer is at Oran Mor, with Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire, Mull Historical Society, PAWS, Rick Redbeard, A New International, Bloodlines, Spinning Coin, The Little Kicks and Indigo Velvet.