This Week's Gigs: 10th - 16th January

So much for January traditionally being quiet for gigs.

Monday:

Young Aviators, Pareto, LightGuides, The Gap Year Riot, The Winter Tradition (in the bar). King Tut's. (Tickets)

New Year's Revolution continues at Tut's.

Tuesday:

The Seventeenth Century, Martin John Henry. The Captain's Rest.

Launch gig for The Seventeenth Century's EP, which I gushed about a little on Saturday.

Park Circus, Fiction Faction, Michael MacLennan, Dante, Yusuf Azak (in the bar). King Tut's. (Tickets)

Wednesday:

Penguins Kill Polar Bears, Carnivores, Flood of Red, .Scores. King Tut's (Tickets)

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Thursday:

Trapped Mice, The Ketterleys. Bannermans, Edinburgh.

Cities and Skylines, Vukovi, Fatherson (acoustic). Bloc, free entry.

Simon Doherty, Duck Hunt, Borthwicks. The 13th Note.

Washington Irving, Open Swimmer, Blue Sky Archives, White Heath, This Silent Forest (in the bar). King Tut's. (Tickets)

Oooh, very nice line-up there.

MakeThisRelate, Aspen Tide, Broken Indigo, Another Option. Classic Grand.

Jamie Cameron, John Condron. The Liquid Ship.

How To Swim, The Paraffins, The Sundancer, Mike Nesbit. Captain's Rest.

Very nice line-up there too. Damn you Thursday!

The Whisky Works, The Darien Venture, El Dog. Stereo.

With this gig Thursday establishes itself as the first "taking the piss" night of the year.

Friday:

PAWS, Johnny Reb, The Dirty Beggars, Donald McDonald and the Islands. Captain's Rest.

Saturday:

Supermarionation, Steel Rose, Fireproof Match, Deco Arcade, Augustalia. Maggie's Chambers, Edinburgh.

Moon Unit, Frams Torners, Small Scale Collisions. Nice N Sleazy.

edRock.net Acoustic: The Fourth Wall, Jonny Downie, Angie Clark (Scrap Brain), Garry Hall. The Forest Cafe, Edinburgh.

Sunday:

Noma, Guanoman, Messiah Complex, Imperium, Public Spaces. The Liquid Ship. Free Entry.

Not one for the faint hearted this. If you like your music off kilter, challenging and basically noisy this is worth checking out. I'm only familiar with Noma and Guanoman, but both of them do good stuff.