What are you doing in April? There’s a shower of good gigs taking place in Edinburgh that you might want to book sharpish. Check out what’s coming up in our quick round-up.

Black Country, New Road, The Liquid Rooms, 9th April.

Black Country, New Road (BCNR, to the layman) will showcase their sprawling, frenetic, post punk, beautiful noise at The Liquid Rooms as the year begins to Spring forward. Hailing from London, the seven-piece are riding the wave after the release of their acclaimed debut album, For the First Time, in February 2021, which made it to number four in the UK album chart. BCNR are not the next best thing in contemporary rock: they are the thing, and you owe it to yourself not to be left in their dust. Tickets and Info.

2. Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart, Voodoo Rooms, 15th April.

Legendary bassist Jah Wobble leads a new tour that comes to Edinburgh at the Voodoo Rooms. Working with the great and the good of late-20th century acts, Wobble is sure to fill the room with the reggae, punk and fusion sounds he has mixed and matched from around the globe. The classy venue in the heart of New Town is the ideal spot to bask in the freneticism of Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart or, as no one calls them, JWATIOFTH. Tickets and Info.

3. Foals, Usher Hall, 20th and 21st April.

Your back of maths, high school crush’s favourite band are set to deck out Usher Hall with their rhythmic hipster rock. Award-winners for their live work, they have topped the charts with Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2, the October 2019 follow-up to the Part 1 released the previous March. Watch out for frontman Yannis Philippakis crowd surfing (in a fully socially distanced manner, I’m sure). Tickets and Info.

4. Low, Queens Hall, 25th April.

This September saw the release of Low’s 13th full-length release in 27 years. Hey What was a critical darling, a distillation of the melancholy, distorted hymns will surely form a transportive, emotional evening at the old church on Clerk Street, a perfect venue. Minimalist indie rock, slowed right down, with evocative harmonies, all the way from Duluth, Minnesota? You betcha’! Tickets and Info.

An April Shower of Good Gigs