Published: 29 Jan 2019
Independent Venue Week is a seven-day celebration of small music venues around the country and a nod to the people that own, run and work in them, week in, week out.
The project, which is staged nationally and retains a strong local focus, will see venues from across the whole country hosting special shows throughout the week.
The event is now a firm fixture on the UK’s music calendar supporting the grass roots venues that are the backbone of our local communities and giving tens of thousands of fans and hundreds of artists their first taste of live music each year.
Alan Morrison, Head Of Music, Creative Scotland: "The buzz of seeing a fantastic live band at close quarters is something that every music fan will cherish for years to come. Creative Scotland is delighted to partner again with Independent Venue Week, extending the reach of this vibrant campaign further across the country. Our grassroots venues are at the heart of our music scene and there`s no better way of celebrating the work they do, week in week out, than to get down the front and join the action."
Here's everything that's happening in Scotland for 2019's installment.
Krakatoa
Friday 1 February – Altered Sky/Counterfall/Offline
Saturday 2 February – Sweaty Palms/Depeche Choad/Casper Heyzeus
Sneaky Pete’s
Monday 28 January – Makeness with Eye Of Others plus Zerrin
Tuesday 29 January – Brigid Mae Power + Burd Ellen [solo]
Wednesday 30 January – Mt Doubt, Mitchell Museum and Wojtek The Bear
Thursday 31 January – Rascalton + Strange Bones & Snash
Friday 1 February – Feral Family + The Roques + Third Party
Saturday 2 February – Heavy Rapids + Public Practice
Sunday 3 February – Allusinlove + Fabric Bear and Shredd
The Mash House
Thursday 31 Januar – The Van T`s/Apache Darling
Friday 1 February – Bloke Music/NOL/Dr VZX Moist
Sunday 3 February – Another Sky/L-space/milkd
Summerhall NEHH
Friday 1 February The Vaselines
Sunday February Gyoa Valtysdttir
Leith Depot
Monday 28 January – Sketchy Beats Takeover
Tuesday 29 January – The Farting Suffragettes + Loud South Ladies
Wednesday 30th January – The Party Slogan + Stellar
Thursday 31 January – Paper Rifles + Friends
Friday 1 February – Withered Hand [solo acoustic show]
Saturday 2 February – Holy Savage + Miss The Occuoier
Sunday 3 February – Callum Easter + Friends
Saturday 2 February – Rascalton/Strange Bones/Voodoos/Drainpipe/Plasmas/Shredd/Pleasure Heads/Bad Hombres/Neil Morrison Band/Waxwork Monologue
The Garage
Tuesday 29 January – Escape The Fate
Friday 1 February – Versatile Doors
The Attic Bar
Saturday 2 February – Drug Church
The Blue Arrow
Monday 28 January – Graeme Stephen/Aidan O`Rourke Quartet
Wednesday 30 January – James Lindsay Group
Thursday 31 January – Jarrod Dickenson
Friday 1 February – The Paralian Album Launch + Alasdair Reborts + Stephen Pastel [DJ set]
Saturday 2 February – Jerry Paper
Sunday 3 February – Alabaster DePlume + Faith Elliott
The Hug & Pint
Monday 28 January – Brigid Mae Power
Tuesday 29 January – Andy Jenkins
Wednesday 30 January – Black Midi
Thursday 1 February – Son Of Dave
Friday 2 February – Olive Grove Records presents Chrissy Barnacle/Pocket Knife/Jared Celosse/Moonsoup/Circle Meets Dot
Broadcast
Monday 28 January – Estrons
Tuesday 29 January – The Good Arms + The Patyrns + Book Klub
Wednesday 30 January – Delphi + The Astras + Who`s Olivia
Thursday 31 January - Free Cake For Every Creature + Come Outside + Cop Graveyard
Friday 1 February – Messthetics + The Uunit Ama
Friday 1 February – [Late Show] The Orange Conspiracy
Saturday 2 February – The Lucid Dream + The Valkarys LATE SHOW Rascalton + Strange Bones
Sunday 3 February – Holy Bouncer + Snack Villain + Nekkuru Hana
The Glad Cafe
Thu 31 January – Vital Idles/Order Of The Toad/2Ply
Friday 1 February – Alex Rex + Robert Sotelo
The Rum Shack
Friday 1 February – Steve Barker On The Wire with Sunun [Live] + Ribeka
Mac Arts
Friday 1 February – Bossy Love + Edwin Organ
Find out more about independent venue week at independentvenueweek.com.
