Live Music
The Skinny's guide to live music in Scotland. Our highlights of the best live gigs, and reviews of shows at venues large and small across Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond, plus previews of the summer's best music festivals.
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Previews
Hockey @ King Tut's, 20 Sep
Not long out of their wrapper and Hockey’s party vibe is already proving as divisive as yeast spread. Their indie-rock shapes, tinged with electro-pop ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
Reviews
Broken Records @ Queen's Hall, 17 Aug
You only need one peek at tonight’s undercard to gauge the heights Broken Records have scaled. Twelve months ago a verbatim line-up would have seen My... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
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Gang of Four @ HMV Picture House, 18 Sep
The original 'Gang of Four' shaped Mao Zedong's political apparatus for a ten year spell; polemical post-punk outfit Gang of Four, on the other hand, are ent... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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The Phantom Band @ Electric Circus, 19 Aug
Perhaps fittingly, Glaswegian motorik-prog rock bastards The Phantom Band are tonight playing a venue mere feet away from some of the world's most haunted ba... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Camille O'Sullivan @ Assembly Halls, 9 Aug
Camille is known for her cabaret style renditions of Nick Cave and David Bowie, as well as traditional favourites. If the Dark Angel lacks her stunning versi... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
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Okkervil River @ Òran Mór, 9 Sep
Will Sheff takes his inimitable stage show to Glasgow Read more »| 19 Aug 2009
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Photos
Pearl Jam in Concert - Manchester, 17 August, 2009
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Reviews
Fest Review: Unicorn Kid / Young Fathers
Glasgow scenesters, prepare to flinch. The next sentence is going to cause you pain. Edinburgh has stolen your crown as Scotland's most exciting city for mus... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
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David Byrne @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 8 Aug
At first, the dance routines aren’t quirky, merely irritating, superfluous, technically average and maybe just a tad pretentious. Suddenly, perhaps dur... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
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Mumford & Sons @ Cabaret Voltaire, 8 Aug
Playing the second of two nights, Mumford and Sons are bristling with stubbly energy tonight. Awake My Soul opens as a real spinetingler; awash with pitch-pe... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
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The ID Parade @ The Admiral, 31 July
When a band choose ukulele-strumming, chalk-faced Beckettian ghouls as their main support act, you know they’re aiming for something a little out of th... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
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Nile Rodgers & Chic @ The Picture House, 25 July
'See the guy in the hat? That's Pop Music.' And so it proved to be, as Chic, and Nile Rodgers in particular, take to the stage at the Picture House for one ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
Festivals
Pitchfork Music Festival 2009
Jamie Scott heads Stateside to Chicago, the home of the internet generation's most notorious music critic for the Pitchfork Music Festival. Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
Previews
Going Local
With such top-notch acts as David Byrne and Jeffrey Lewis, this year’s Edge Festival in Edinburgh is not to be sniffed at. However, if you look beyond such high-profile events you’ll also find a whole host of unmissable local talent this August, finds Milo McLaughlin and Dave Kerr Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Festivals
Wickerman 2009
Strangely, but thankfully, the Wickerman Festival near Dumfries is a Friday-Saturday weekender, not a Saturday-Sunday affair. That's fortunate because when T... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009