'Adventures Close to Home' is fast becoming a quality brand in the UK. Starting out at Camden's Barfly, the brand now plays out to an appreciative Aberdeen audience once a month. This month showcases the talents of two acts from nearby Glasgow, Errors and, firstly, 1990s.

With the clock still far off midnight and the crowd-swelling wave of post-pub revellers yet to depart, Jackie McKeown, Michael McGaughrin and new bassist Dino Bardot do not need to fight to make themselves heard over the light chatter of some fifty audience members. McKeown bedecked, as ever, in a chequed flannel shirt over…

Sun 17 Feb – Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Emmy the Great, X-Certs

Sandwiched between performances by two completely different acts (The X-Certs and Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly) Emmy The Great shuffles on stage bedecked in an outfit (a flimsy skirt, grey bobbled leggings, butterfly hair clasp) suited perfectly to her hushed folk repartee and flanked by a guitarist (Euan 'Young*Husband' Hinshelwood - a Culturedeluxe Records artist in his own right), a violinist (sporting a knitted farmyard jumper, the dictonary definition of twee) and a drummer (he's a drummer). Hitting things off with 'The Easter Parade', it takes a…

Tue 19 Feb – One Night Only

You'd expect that One Night Only did not expect to be recent top 10 visitors when they booked this tour. Why else would you book Cafe Drummond, a venue more suited to Shed Seven tribute acts and occasionally the surprisingly less popular Rick Witter himself, and submit a potentially huge crowd to its meagre standing space? Perhaps it's because they'd heard of the venue's excellent sound, a factor which has made some of the nation's less celebrated acts sound like world beaters in the past. One thing is for sure, with such a…