hecklerspray Gig Guide - 21-27/11/2005

Once upon a time, Billy Joel said, "I think music in itself is healing." That why Billy Joel was the rubbishest doctor you were ever likely to meet.

Here’s this week’s hecklerspray gig guide - the finest collection of bands on tour around the country condensed into a pellet of information or your money back. You didn’t pay any money, did you?

This week’s gig guide features Antony And The Johnsons, Arab Strap, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Coral, Kristin Hersh, Jem,
Mystery Jets, Roots Manuva, Status Quo, Teenage Fanclub and Paul Weller.

Antony And The Johnsons - Mercury Music Prize-winning sad fat man in
a dress sings songs so sad that you won’t even have the energy to leave
the venue when the concert finishes. Buy tickets
Tues 22 Nov 19:00, Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Wed 23 Nov 19:00, Grand Opera House, York

Arab Strap - Well how about that? The only band in the world more depressing than Antony And The Johnsons. Buy tickets
Sun 27 Nov 20:30, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Remember when this lot were called the future of music? Seems like such a long time ago. Buy tickets
Tues 22 Nov 17:00, London Astoria

The Coral - Scouse pirates singing the word "morning" over and over
again, if that advert for their last CD was anything to go by. Buy tickets
Wed 23 Nov 19:00, Carling Academy, Birmingham
Thurs 24 Nov 19:30, Sheffield Octagon
Fri 25 Nov 19:30, Liverpool Academy
Sat 26 Nov 19:30, Liverpool Academy

Kristin Hersh - Intense rock/folk/rock/folk songs sung with one of the most memorable voices you’ll hear. Buy tickets
Mon 21 Nov 19:00, Scala, London (performing Throwing Muses songs)
Tues 22 Nov 19:00, Scala, London (performing songs from Hips And Makers onwards)

Jem - How to annoy Jem: keep shouting "Sing the one off Celebrity Love Island!" at her all the way through her concert. Buy tickets
Fri 25 Nov 19:00, Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
Sat 26 Nov 19:00, Shepherds Bush Empire, London

Mystery Jets - Giant-haired space-progsters with universe-stretching guitar solos. Buy tickets
Tues 21 Nov 19:30, Barfly, Birmingham

Roots Manuva - The best British rapper of all time. Not counting that bloke out of The Shamen. Buy tickets
Wed 23 Nov 19:00, The Forum, London
Sat 26 Nov 19:00, ABC, Glasgow

Status Quo - Billion year old denim-clad Coronation Street-punching
rockers play all their songs. Or the same one over and over again. We
can’t tell. Buy tickets
Mon 21 Nov 19:30, Fairfield Hall, Croyden
Tues 22 Nov 19:30, Fairfield hall, Croyden
Thurs 24 Nov 19:00, Blackpool Opera House
Fri 25 Nov 19:30, King Georges Hall, Blackburn
Sun 27 Nov 19:30, Southport Theatre and Southport Hall Complex

Teenage Fanclub - Brilliant jingly jangly harmony Beach Boys-y veterans from the past. Buy tickets
Tues 22 Nov 19:30, KOKO, Camden
Friday 25 Nov 19:00, ABC, Glasgow

Paul Weller - Poor Paul Weller: his last six albums have been called
comebacks. That’s code for ‘not very good’, even though thousands of
thirty-something men in Ben Sherman shirts are bound to disagree. Buy tickets
Tues 22 Nov 19:30, The Brighton Centre
Thurs 24 Nov 19:30, M.E.N Arena, Manchester
Sat 26 Nov 19:30, Cardiff International Centre
Sun 27 Nov 19:00, New Theatre, Oxford