The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Arcari heads to Beat G for long-awaited return
Renegade blues rocker Dave Arcari resurfaces after a lengthy absence with a show at Beat Generator on Wednesday.
The Glasgow-raised troubadour first started making waves during a five-year spell with Perthbased alt-blues trio Radiotones before going solo in 2003.
DEVIL MAY CARE
Following a string of prepandemic EPS, Arcari’s sixth studio album, Devil May Care – his first fulllength collection of new material since 2013’s Whisky In My Blood – is out today.
Backed by the Help Musicians set-up, the LP also features drummer Chris Mcmullan from garage firebrands The Bonnevilles, Arcari’s exradiotones bandmate Jim Harcus on blues harp and violinist Jamie Wilson.
The special guest opener at next week’s Dundee show – and at four other Scottish dates on Arcari’s UK tour – will be Jonzip, frontman with reformed 1970s Glasgow punk outfit The Zips.
Also coming up at Beat G are Clydeside pop rockers Cloud House, who will be at North Lindsay Street on Thursday as part of a short tour in support of their latest single, Bring You Home, which landed today.
DOOM AND THRASH
Meanwhile, hefty doom, thrash and black stoner metal is on the bill at Conroy’s Basement tonight, with sets in store from Codespeaker, Tyrannus and Kurnel Fist.
The Meadowside venue is also staging an evening of incendiary Dundee hip hop, trap, folk and soul tomorrow, courtesy of breaking acts Xand3r, James Liandu and Badmanb£n.
Conroy’s has an international flavour on Thursday – specifically Spanish – with insurrectionary Basque anarcho post-punk exponents Pre-byaf and Barcelona noiseniks Algara the big draws ahead of the return of the venue’s annual Book Yer Ane Fest, which kicks off the following night.
The Hunter S Thompson has the fast-rising Plasmas playing on home turf in the city tonight, with support from Fife favourites Sunstinger and promising Dundee alt-rockers Red Vanilla. The same venue is also hosting Glasgow imprint 7 West Music signings The Roly Mo next Friday.
People Need Love, the latest in a string of albums that the Aberdeen fourpiece have released over the past decade, landed at the end of September.
They will be joined at the HST on November 26 by Dundee-based experimentalists Peal, Glasgow alt-pop trio Teose and Kirriemuir songsmith Katie Nicoll.
POLES APART
Elsewhere in Dundee, there’s a chance for fans of long-running Polish blues rockers Dzem to catch Aberdeen-based tribute outfit Barber Q at Church tomorrow.
Down in Kinross, there’s still a few tickets left via mundellmusic.com for tonight’s visit from Genesis tribute Mama to the Green Hotel, but the band’s second show tomorrow is sold out.
As mentioned last week, it’s R’N’B soulsters Lights Out By Nine at Kinross on Sunday, with heartland rock duo Sarah Borges and Eric Ambel lined up for Wednesday.
London-based classic rockers Bad Day Blues Band – whose studio debut, Table By The Wall, was listed in the Grammys’ first round this year – play the Green Hotel on Thursday, with seven-piece Eagles homage Hotel California at the venue’s Backstage gig room next Friday.
Separately, Perth Concert Hall has a much-delayed appearance from Andy Irvine and Paul Brady tomorrow – the only date outside their native Ireland for the veteran former Planxty folksters.
The pair will be teaming up with Bothy Band duo Donal Lunny and Kevin Burke to celebrate their 1976 selftitled debut album.
Another rescheduled Fair City show is imminent, with acclaimed Scottish indie-soulster Horse on the way to Perth Theatre next Saturday, November 26.
The Lanarkshire-raised chanteuse will be bringing the curtain down on her stop-start celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of her classic 1990 debut album, The Same Sky, which included her hit singles You Could Be Forgiven and Careful.