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Shoeshine Showcase featuring Attic Lights, Norman Blake and The BMX Bandits
Saturday 17th January 2009, 7.30pm
ABC
Teenage Fanclub drummer Francis MacDonald has had his fingers in an inordinate number of Glasgow’s musical pies over the last 20-odd years. Two of his more recent ventures are the successful boutique label Shoeshine Records, and the producer’s credit on Friday Night Lights, the much-fêted 2008 debut from tonight’s closing act, Attic Lights, hailed by The Guardian as purveyors of “rapturous melodic joy” – and of “blasphemous trash” by the Free Church of Scotland.
The rest of the bill includes a characteristically diverse and distinctive selection of Shoeshine talent, including the original Bellshill anti-heroes of the now-legendary C86 scene, the BMX Bandits, and MacDonald’s Fanclub bandmate Norman Blake, in his new collaboration with ex-Gorky’s Zygotic Minci vocalist Euros Childs, with other acts to be announced.
Over 14s only, under 16s with an adult.
Tickets: £15
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Attic Lights
BMX Bandits
Norman Blake
Euros Childs
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