Ian McNabb

A concert by Ian McNabb, the British pop-rock singer and former member of the Icicle Works, at Cottiers Theatre in Glasgow. The night draws on a songwriter whose career began in the new wave era.

Ian McNabb is a British pop-rock singer who first came to wider attention as a member of the Icicle Works, a group associated with the new wave style of the early 1980s. Born in Mossley Hill in 1960, McNabb has been active since 1980. The Icicle Works'best-known single, Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream), was released in 1983, and the band's sound links guitar-led pop with the angular energy of new wave.

Ian McNabb has since developed a solo career as a singer and songwriter, and the concert draws on that body of work and on the songs that shaped the earlier period. The rock and indie audience that follows the Icicle Works and new wave-influenced pop will find the material familiar in its lineage.

Cottiers Theatre is a concert and performance venue on Hyndland Street in Glasgow's west end, and this date places Ian McNabb on its stage for a live evening of songs.