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
Sounds Preview
Most pleasant vibes to be found in Sounds this month, we're sure you will agree Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
Red Star Rebels @ Liquid Room
resembling five trashed out models-turned-jailbirds with enough attitude and boots to match any of their competitors Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Red Cross Benefit: Colin McIntyre @ Burton & Keith
Pick of the new bunch and most apt for the evening was Be My Saviour, bringing to mind the life line that the Red Cross provides to so many in need throughout the world Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
iLiKETRAiNS @ Barfly @ Glasgow
Railcards will take on a whole new level of desire Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Previews
Live Music Roundup for May
Gut-punchingly brutal Rhode Island noise-geeks Lightning Bolt will play until you puke at Grand Ole Opry on May 14 Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
Flaming Lips @ Usher Hall
there is always some warmongering dipshit who will rain on your ""wanna be enlightened"" parade Read more »| 16 May 2006
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Reviews
Afrirampo @ Mono
not just from the the far east, but from a colourful world of their own, and it's a fun and exhilarating place to visit Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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We Are Scientists @ Barrowlands
maybe I'm being churlish, but I saw them first and loved them damn you! Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Placebo @ Carling Academy
they deserve to have a hat or two tipped their way Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Imogen Heap - The Arches, Glasgow - April 2
Heap's voice has the ability to shatter glass or lull you to sleep Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Candi Staton @ The Ferry
No new tricks but she's a treasure nonetheless. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Mogwai @ Usher Hall
For all the distortion, there still remained many clear moments of well-calculated pathos Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Festivals
Hi Fi Festival (Web Only)
Well, it's just about that time of year. A time when the sun stays out long enough to remind us that we we're not permanently living under a solar eclipse, i... Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
Giant Drag @ Barfly, 12 Apr
A dark, twisted and uninviting place but with a surface of fascinating candour Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Previews
The Glasgow School
Sad news this month is the demise of ShitDisco's shitty party den Read more »| 16 May 2006