It’s one of the best double-headers to hit Glasgow in absolutely ages.

And White reckon their co-headline show with Baby Strange this Friday at the O2 ABC will be an early Christmas cracker, especially as both bands will be trying to outdo the other.

The groups are two of the city’s most exciting, with Baby Strange delivering black-hearted rock n’ roll and White unleashing sharp, dancefloor-friendly tunes.

“Whoever goes on last will have to follow a big live act, so it’ll be exciting, and both bands will want to make sure they’re hard to follow,” laughs White singer Leo Condie.

“We’re conscious of making sure each band has a different feel, so that should be exciting for punters as well, because you’re getting two very different types of music from some very good pals.

“Hamish (Fingland, White guitarist) was involved with Baby Strange right when they were setting up, and they rehearse in the same lane as us, so we’re quite good pals. It’s the same with the Ninth Wave and the Cut, who are supporting on the night, so the gig is all centred around a South side scene! It feels a very Glasgow based gig.”

Although it’s a co-headline show, Friday marks one of White’s biggest gigs to date. Having risen from the ashes of various other Glasgow bands like Kassidy and the Low Miffs, the five piece’s arrival last year created quite a stir, and they’ve kept the momentum going with a clutch of catchy singles which channel the likes of Talking Heads and 1980s era David Bowie.

The latest step for the group was the release of an EP, Cuts That Don’t Bleed, and they’re hoping to release an album in the spring or summer of 2017. Although their most recent release still had plenty to pack a dancefloor, it also showcased another side to the band.

Recreational TV was more indebted to industrial and post-punk than anything they’d released before, while Step Up featured Leo whispering and screaming rather than singing.

“When I heard the backing track, I just thought it needed that edge to it,” says the singer.

“The day we did it was near the start of 2016, and I was feeling like trying to capture a sense of futility and going around in circles, and it felt very zeitgesty by the time we released it, which was around the time of Brexit.

“Not that it’s a profound piece of political rhetoric or anything like that, but it captured the mood in my head, and I’ve had a few people say the same, which is always nice to hear. We never started the band to chat about the feelings of the times, but it’s all encompassing at the moment. It felt like escapism in the early days of the band, like an austerity Roxy Music, but in terms of the music we’re excited about exploring where to go next.”

The past 12 months have also featured some strange experiences for the group, from photoshoots throwing watermelons at each other to finding themselves in demand in the Netherlands.

“We’ve got an album deal there, which is great and we got invited onto the Dutch version of the Daily Show,” adds Leo.

“We were in Amsterdam on this politics and culture show, and they get you to do a 90 second version of one of your songs at the end. That was really strange but exciting and surreal. It was like ‘that was a 20 minute discussion on Turkish politics, now here’s White!’”

Leo’s an old hand at TV appearances though. His past includes an appearance on Blue Peter as a teenager to chat about his love for Doctor Who, but although getting from the sci-fi show to pop fame might seem like a leap, there’s a few connections which have carried into the band’s own ethos today.

“I dropped all interest in it as a teenager when I got into David Bowie, but there’s not actually that big a difference,” he says.

“What I was doing was finding outsiders saying that it’s OK to be strange. It’s all about making weirdos feel alright. I’ve never tried to hide that side of myself, and as the frontman there’s going to be an element of that in the band.

“Hopefully people see us, and how we talk on things like social media, and think, yeah, it’s OK to be weird.”

White and Baby Strange, O2 ABC, Friday, £12.50, 7pm

JONATHAN GEDDES