Critic's choice - April 10

Adam Green
Thu, 7pm, Oran Mor, Byres Road, Glasgow, £9
0141 357 6200

As one half of filthy anti-folk heroes The Moldy Peaches - who recently received belated recognition through the Oscar-winning indie flick Juno - the last thing anyone expected was for Adam Green to transform himself into an upmarket crooner performing the sort of songs Sinatra would have swooned over. A rich baritone meandering over melodic backing that comes criminally close to lounge-act accompaniment, his playful, charming sense of humour saves him from stooping too much into Mike Flowers-esque irony. It doesn't hurt that Green's also a natural-born entertainer, as anyone who's seen his mischevious, drunken appearance on German TV via a viral YouTube video will attest.





(Preview appeared in The Herald on April 10, 2008)