!NUMBERS @ Chambre 69, Glasgow,tomorrow: He’s been criss-crossing the

globe for months but tonight Jackmaster,pictured, is back on home turf for a veryspecial one-off party.As one of the founder members of theNumbers crew, he’s seen his reputationskyrocket recently thanks to a sterlingeffort for London superclub Fabric’s mixCD series and a regular radio show onLondon station Rinse FM.He’s playing back to back all night longwith fellow underground hero Joy Orbison— who’s equally in demand rightnow for his super-fresh beats.Expect everything fromDetroit techno to Chicagohouse via the best of Lon-don bass music.

$SUBSTANCE @ Bongo Club,Edinburgh, tonight:

Rephlex Records — the bril-liantly eclectic label foundedby electronic maverickAphex Twin — takeover the Bongowith some oftheir finest art-ists in tow.Aleksi Per-ala and Mon-lith play livesets while

Detroit’s DJ Stingray — a mysterious affili-ate of the revered Drexciya crew — takesto the decks.

%WHITE NOISE @ La Cheetah, Glasgow,tonight: A new techno night joins the

ranks at the venue of the moment, withItalian outfit Waveform jetting in to kickthings off.Fife duo The Sublime — aka Neil Fernieand Alex Wilson — also hit the turntablesalong with DJs Lindsay Green and KendalBaird.

&SUITE SOUL @ Foxbar Hotel, Kilmarnock,

tomorrow: Another ace party hostedby Scotland’s original soul manBob Jeffries. There’s live vocalsfrom Pete Simpson, whileLondon stalwart Terry Jonesreturns to the decks and Shef-field’s Dave Needham makeshis debut dropping soulfulgrooves old and new.

(BACK TO LIFE @ Fury Murrays,Ayr, tonight: A night of club

classics and vintage housegrooves from globetrottingunderground hero MurrayRichardson, Rob Mason fromthe Let’s Go Back crew, and ADeeper Groove’s Joc andSteph.Q Email your news and listings totom.churchill@the-sun.co.uk

SNOW PATROL know T In ThePark will be their biggest gig of the

year. And rocking 85,000 punters atBalado — where they first played as com-

plete unknowns — will be so special they’reworking on something spectacular.Paul said: “I can’t say too much yet. We were all

sitting down talking about it the other day,we’re going to do something really special.“Although that might make people think

it’s all these proper top-secret meetings.“But it’s really just us in a pub, talking

s***e at 12 o’clock in the afternoon —someone slurring something about get-ting our stage looking like Stonehenge.“But it will be cool whatever we decide.”

EVERY man, woman and child is in for a cracker ofa Friday night at T In The Park in July — becauseSnow Patrol are firing on all cylinders.Even after jamming their big stage step up into

Montreal’s downtown venue Metropolis, theywere sublime.It was a proper Scottish take-over as Snow Patrol told their sound guy toblast out Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out toget the 2,300-strong crowd going.Then they charged out and kicked off

with Hands Open. That started 90 minutes

of non-stop action of a greatest hits set includingRun, Take Back The City and Just Say Yes.Singer Gary Lightbody made a hash of anthem

Chasing Cars by LOSING his timing and ended updoubled over with laughter, banging hishead, as the rest of the boys carried on.But the rest of the night — including

support act Ed Sheeran joining them onstage for next single New York — went much

smoother.Roll on Balado!

NEWMUSIC

QUICKBEAMWHO: Monika Gromek (har-monium/vocals), Drew Thom-son (guitar/vocals), NicholaKerr (viola/vocals), LiamChapman (drums/piano),Magdalena Sekowska (cello),Cameron Maxwell (doublebass/trombone)WHERE: GlasgowFOR FANS OF: Belle AndSebastian, Low, Sigur RósJIM SAYS: It baffles me whyanyone would go to a gigand talk through the show.Not a problem if it’s a rock

’n’ roll event, but Quickbeammake delicate, atmospheric,folk-tinged soundscapes.Motorhead they are NOT.The Glasgow outfit debuted

their stunning new singleSeven Hundred Birds lastFriday with a performance onGlasgow’s Tall Ship whichdoubled as a launch for thecity’s newest record labelComets & Cartwheels.I stoked up the courage

midway through the set toask for some quiet.Guitarist Drew Thomson

told me: “I think a few barrelsof rum were discovered onthat ship! Our music on thewhole is pretty quiet.“The audiences we have

tended to play to are gener-ally very attentive. We’ve hadsilent audiences at KingTut’s, Brel and a few othervenues. But we’ve also hadsome where people are justenjoying a night out.“It’s a difficult one for us.

We have to choose our

venues wisely. Our style ofmusic is always going tobe exposed.“We are really interested in

seeking out locations that areunexpected and will add tothe audience’s experience,and complement the music.”I wasn’t totally sold on

Quickbeam when I was firstheard them. But the beauty ofSeven Hundred Birds eventu-ally sucked me in.Drew added: “Monika and I

met a few years ago.“We had really similar

tastes and we seemed toclick musically pretty quickly.“Nichola joined us playing

viola and her voice fitted inwell with ours.“We played as a three-

piece for a while developingour sound. We then recordedthree tracks with producerChris Gordon, one of whichwas Seven Hundred Birds.“After the recording we

were fortunate to have Liam,Magdalena and Cameronjoin us. They have added somuch to the band and we’vebeen able to realise our stu-dio sound in a live situation.”Seven Hundred Birds is the

first release on Comets &Cartwheels. Drew admitted:“It was exciting to be the firstrelease on a new label.“They have been so good

to us. It really feels like aclose-knit project.”MORE: quickbeammusic.comQ Jim’ll be playing Quick-beam on In:Demand Uncut— Sunday 7-10pm on Clyde1, Forth One, Northsound 1,Radio Borders, Tay FM,West FM & West Sound FM.

ByCHRIS

SWEENEY

PREPARE for impact . . .because Lonsdale BoysClub is planning to hityou with everythingthey’ve got.The London lads fuse allsorts of sounds together.Debut single Light MeUp is a perfect exampleand it’s going down astorm ahead of its releaseon May 7.Frontman Charlie Weaversaid: “We’ve got manydifferent avenues.“Some songs are banging,some are rockier or more

dance — I want people toget the whole experience.“We’re like a jigsawpuzzle that needs puttingtogether to understand theLBC experience.“We play a lot of guitarson stage, even though we’renot a guitar band.“I’m not an MC, but Ising and do a bit of rap.“It’s not what peopleexpect. We come from abackground of festival-going and nightclubs withbanging music.“In the very initial stagesan eclectic style like ourscould hinder a new band

but we did it because itwas true to us.“If people just hear onesong then another thatwas really different, theymight not get the picture.“But when they come seeus live and hear the bodyof work, it’ll make sense.”

PocketsThe perfect chance tosolve that puzzle is on theirfirst UK headline tour —which stops at King Tut’sin Glasgow on April 30.They’re ready to step upto the plate after serving

an apprenticeship. Charlie,22, explained: “We’ve donea lot of supports with peo-ple like Olly Murs, TheKooks, The Ting Tings andOne Night Only.“We’ve always been trueto ourselves at those gigsbut you’re mindful of theaudience, and we cateredour show to them.“So this is the first timepeople will get the full LBCexperience, I really wantthem to come down so theycan see what we’re about.“We have small pockets of

diehard fans and we want toexpand that with this tour.”

And any fan automaticallybecomes either a Hooliganor a Hulagirl — that’s theofficial names for LBC’ssupporters and the title oftheir second single.It’ll be on their albumwhich is due to hit shopsin late summer.Charlie said: “The namescome from a lyric butwhen we were writing thesong we had no fans what-soever so it was moreabout what we would wantthem to be like.”X Factor judge Gary Bar-low is already an officialHooligan after signing theboys — Charlie, TopherRichwhite and Loz Curran— to his record label.

CalibreCharlie added: “In thewriting and recording proc-ess, Gary was hands-offwith us. He let us do ourthing but was moreinvolved once we had thesongs we were happy with.“Then he gets to seethem and pass judgment.“It’s amazing to havesomeone of that calibrelistening to your stuff, letalone working with him.“I think he has a lot ofbelief in us and that reallybolsters us.“We just want to followthrough and make it allhappen in a big way.”Q Get tour tickets at lonsdaleboysclub.com

REAL TREAT. . . SFTW’s Christalks to Paul,

left, before theboys rockMontreal

OH BOY . . . lads areon verge of hittingthe big time

IN MONTREAL

By JIMGELLANTLY

CLUBBING

ByTOM

CHURCHILL

WELSH dragonsLostprophets are backon the road.The rockers are

heading off on a bigtour armed with latestalbum Weapons.They will be at

Aberdeen’s Music Hallon Tuesday beforeheading south to theO2 Academy inGlasgow the followingnight.Get all the info at

their website,lostprophets.com

By CHRIS SWEENEY

SNOW PATROL are on top oftheir game. They tour theglobe, sell bucketloads ofalbums, headline star-studdedfestivals and make a fortune.But the Scots/Irish band —who formed at university inDundee — haven’t succumbedto Big Star Syndrome.They still prefer rattling roundthe world in a minibus like agang of students.Speaking exclusively in Mon-treal on their North Americantour, the lads confessed theyaren’t interested in issuing lavishriders or having a team of flunkiesfussing about backstage.Bass player Paul Wilson says:“We don’t go in for all that. Somebands do it to keep up appear-ances but we’d rather be in ourminibus having a laugh together.We don’t need all that other s***e.“We’re not really that kind ofband and it would be weird tochange now after ten years of notbeing into all that image stuff.

Charted“We don’t really get free stuff —other bands must ask, I guess, butwe never get anything and don’treally care.”The boys — Paul, frontman GaryLightbody, guitarist NathanConnolly, keys player Tom Simp-son, drummer Jonny Quinn andbacking singer Johnny McDaid —are across the Atlantic touringtheir seventh album, FallenEmpires, and it sees them at thepeak of their powers.It’s been kept quiet but it hasbeen their MOST successful,backing up Gary’s claim it wastheir best ever work.Paul, 34, explains: “This albumhas been received the best of anyof our albums.“What happens these days inmusic is things don’t last as long,it’s the way it is. Even six yearsago, when Chasing Cars came out,songs like that used to graduallybuild up and go for ages.“But now it’s this huge spike.This album has had better reviewsand it’s charted higher globallythan we’ve ever had, not just inAmerica.”While back on home soil, SnowPatrol are sometimes easy targetsfor not being ‘cool’.But Stateside, they’re viewed asbeing a proper rock band.Paul says: “Chasing Cars and Runare the two biggest songs every-where, but we release differentsingles depending on the country.“Over here the more rockier

tunes get played on the radio andthe quieter songs are really hardto get played.“We changed the set aroundfrom the UK leg of the tour —the set here has more singles andmore of our rockier stuff.“Sometimes we even change itduring the show. If people holdup signs we tend to play the song— which does not always go well.“We’re all thinking we’ll remem-ber any of our old songs, but youstart playing and then sometimeswe realise maybe not.”There’s been a flood of Ameri-can and Canadian teenagers attheir gigs.Paul explains: “We’ve got Ed

Sheeran supporting us and hiscrowd are really, really young.“I’ve noticed a lot more youngkids who are probably thinkingthey like Ed Sheeran and nowSnow Patrol, too. It’s really coolto get more of that crowd.“We met him in Switzerlandand hung out. We realised he hadthe time off so we asked him.“Before that we’d found itreally hard to get anyone as it’squite expensive to do a tour likethis, plus we wanted someonequite big and it’s ideal as he’sjust starting to break in America.”Snow Patrol are mega-busyuntil the autumn.After wrapping up their North

American tour, it’s straight intofestival season and they will beall over Europe doing them, aswell as headlining both T In ThePark and V.The boys will then continuework on their NEXT album. Paulreveals: “We kind of recorded twoalbums doing the last one, so alot of the next one is there.“God knows when we’ll havetime to do it. But whatever wedo, we’ll still be and sound likeSnow Patrol.”

ONESTOWATCH

SCOTS RnB boy DavidJohn shares amanager with 50 Centand Mariah Carey.Now he is looking

to share some of theirsuccess too.New York-based

David brings out hisdebut single MrFantastic on May 14and it’s worth a listen.Globetrotting David

shot a swanky videoat a ski resort inSwitzerland — and it’sonline now.Check it out at

davidjohn.com

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