December isn’t typically a month for a deluge of decent tours, but with gigs snowballing (pun very, VERY much intended) into the social scene – many Christmas based shindiggery will involving rocking around the microphone.

The Wedding Present scoop things up at the QMU on December 2nd, performing classic sopohmore LP ‘Bizarro’ from start to finish – sandwiched between tracks old and new – to celebrate it’s 21st birthday.

After similar efforts in Edinburgh (Edinburgh PopFest and Sneaky Fest) Scotland’s biggest smoke will see it’s own Glasgow PopFest across the first weekend of the month, a measley £22 for three days – for over 22 bands!

Friday night will see five bands squeeze in for a fiver at SWG3 and DJ’ing thereafter. Saturday will see a full day fair which will kick off at 2pm, from Fairholme’s finest Nick Garrie to London’g indie-pop upstarts Betty and the Werewolves, rolling on for a good twelve hours. Sunday moves to cosier surroundings of Stereo and will conclude with local indie heroes The Orchids and The Hardy Boys. Certainly a special weekend for anyone Twee inclined.

However, if you require a bit more urgency to your Saturday night You Say Party! play Captains Rest on the 4th for a rescheduled date after sudden death of drummer Devon Clifford on stage in April. After years of Visa wrangling to finally tour third LP, XXXX, in America the band dropped the ‘We Say Die!’ half of their name and kicked back into action. The band have picked up the torch where Pretty Girls Make Graves tossed it and seem to have no intention on looking back.

Tickets £8 | Support from Young Prisms

This time last year the Glasgow Barrowlands had 10,000 Facebookers pledging to save it’s rumour demise. Across 2010 the most famous venue Scotland has to offer invited a deluge of international acts, from the resurgence of Pavement to final fling of LCD Soundsystem to the dancefloor.

However the ballroom will see two opposing ends of Scotland’s long running indie scene’s finest close out the year. Friday the 3rd and Monday the 6th will see Frightened Rabbit pull to a halt the rollercoaster tour in support of 2010’s ‘Winter Of Mixed Drinks’. Support on Friday will come from delectable Sky Larkin and on Monday the John Knox Sex Club. However BOTH nights will involve The Wee Review’s Scottish tip for explosion in 2011, Admiral Fallow. Get the Buckie roon ye’ by 1900 kids!

Tickets £13 | Support from Admiral Fallow & Sky Larkin (Friday) / John Knox Sex Club (Monday)

At the other end of the month a treble of dates from arguably Scotland’s most consistently exportable outfit, Belle and Sebastian, will barely have begun punting their first LP for almost five years, ‘Write About Love’.

Only tickets for Sunday 19th are remaining – with support from ‘Celtic Grunge’ mob Remember Remember. Middle date Monday 21st will see the adventurous indie upstarts, 6 Day Riot, well flexed from a stretch of their own wee UK tour in the preceding months. Tuesday 22nd. the original date, has the most accomplished openers in Glasgow twee stalwarts Butcher Boy. With the wealth of material it’s hard to see the band not treating anyone with a ticketed triforce of all dates with something unique each night, we would hope!

Tickets £22.50. Support from Remember Remember (Sun), 6 Day Riot (Mon), Butcher Boy (Tue)

For Hogmanay one of the greatest advertisers for the Barrowland’s return, albeit at The ABC. And obviously, without deceased singer Stuart Adamson. Big Country have fully reformed however, following a brief 25th Anniversary tour without a frontman in 2007. Mike Peters of The Alarm taking the mic and guitarist Stuart Watson’s teenage son Jamie deputising on guitar.

Nevertheless a rousing standout gig to spark the evening early (especially with doors at 1830!) before diving into the Sauchiehall taxi stream.

Tickets £20.00