ROCKTALK GIG GUIDE

● Noughties veterans Turin Brakes are playing in rural Perthshire this weekend.

The South London fourpiece – founder members Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian and long-serving colleagues Rob Allum and Eddie Myer – are at Inchyra Arts Club on Sunday. Formed in 1999, the Cooking Vinyl stalwarts released their eighth studio album Invisible Storm in January, 17 years on from their Mercury-nominated debut The Optimist.

Support at Glencarse is Scots-Sudanese songsmith Eliza Shaddad, who’s collaborated with the likes of Clean Bandit and Tom Speight.

Tickets are £22.25 via skiddle.com.

● Frank Zappa tributeers The Muffin Men visit Kinross tonight.

Formed in 1990, the Liverpool five-piece performed regularly with original Mothers drummer Jimmy Carl Black up to his death in 2008 and have also collaborated with numerous other Zappa band members down the years.

Green Hotel, tickets £21.50 from www.ticketweb.uk.

● Riotous revelry’s in prospect at Conroy’s Basement’s cheekily-titled Gloomfest tomorrow.

Billed as “a sonic offering to the old gods of gloom as winter steadily approaches”, the annual Meadowside riffathon includes sets from four alternative outfits, plus unnamed special guests.

Definitely confirmed are Glasgow doom-bringers First Temple Of The Atom, heavyduty stoner rock exponents Isak, face-melting Dundee dance combo Vflambda and metal powerhouse Houdini Said No.

Tickets are £5 from vflambda.bigcartel.com or £7 on the door.

● Downbeat troubadours Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert are at Perth Theatre’s Joan Knight Studio next week.

The duo are being joined by rising Edinburgh indiefolkster Siobhan Wilson at their Monday Night Thing gig, where they’ll perform songs from their acclaimed co-album Here Lies The Body.

Tickets £17.50/£15.50 from horsecross.co.uk.

● There’s a highly-regarded Stereophonics homage at the Green Hotel tomorrow.

Stereosonics – spot the difference – started out in 2000 and have played all over the UK, including in the Welsh legends’ home town Cwmaman where they’ve been joined on stage by both late ‘Phonics drummer Stuart Cable and bassist Richard Jones. Tickets £21.50 via Ticketweb.

● Stylish young Glasgow noiseniks The Vanities are at Conroy’s tonight, supported by regulars Plasma and Novella. Tickets are £7 from skiddle.com.

● Scottish singing legend Maggie Bell’s at Kinross on Sunday with six-stringer Dave Kelly.

Regarded as a British equivalent to Janis Joplin, Maggie started out with Glasgow blues rockers Stone The Crows in the late-60s, before releasing her debut solo LP in 1974.

Led Zeppelin legend Jimmy Page played on her second album before she joined Midnight Flyer, with her 1981 duet with tartan troubadour BA Robertson, Hold Me, peaking at No 11. She later sang at Zeppelin’s one-off reunion at London’s O2 in 2007. Blues Band stalwart Dave Kelly is regarded by many as the UK’s finest blues slide guitarist. The duo’s Green Hotel show’s sold out.

● It’s Strummer/Jones/ Simenon/Headon tribute rebels The Clashed tonight at Beat Generator Live. Tickets £9.25 from Grouchos in Dundee or Tickets Scotland.

● Folk veterans Rod Clements and Rab Noakes play Kinross on Thursday.

Lindisfarne legend Rod and acclaimed Fife-born songsmith Rab both came through Tyneside’s acoustic circuit in the 60s, before the Geordie outfit recorded a version of Rab’s Together Forever on their 1971 album Fog On The Tyne. Armed with a bountiful supply of anecdotes, the pair are celebrating their shared roots by collaborating on career favourites plus a few influential classics.

Tickets £19.40 from Ticketweb.

● Aberdeen rude boys Aka Ska take the road to Beat Generator tomorrow. Tickets £9.25 from Grouchos or Tickets Scotland.

● There’s a four-band noise orgy at Conroy’s on Sunday.

Sheffield psych sludge exponents Kurokuma, Edinburgh fat riff merchants Somaesthesia and local metal rhythm kings Indica and Kurnel Fist will be turning it up to 11 at Meadowside. Admission’s £5.

● Glasgow-based classic pop four-piece Echo Park are at Perth’s Twa Tams tomorrow. It’s a 9pm start.

● Clarks On Lindsay Street has an acoustic set from ex-Kashmir Crows frontman Ian Black’s soul-tinged Languid Goat on Thursday. Tickets £5 from Grouchos, Assai Records and the venue.

● The Miss Fits – Chris Marra, Kenny Martin and Cara Sylvester – play Number 57 tonight, with Ringer tomorrow and Tivvy on Sunday.

● Pub draw Cherry Bombz play McDaniels tomorrow from 5.30pm and Forfar’s Old Masons on Sunday.

Turin Brakes skid into Glencarse this weekend.