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
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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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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Reviews
Candi Staton @ The Ferry
No new tricks but she's a treasure nonetheless. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
ReviewsMogwai @ 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 -
ReviewsGiant 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 -
Reviews
The Presets @ King Tut's, 6 Apr
This evening, King Tuts is sparsely populated with an assortment of waifs and strays awaiting the electro disco sleaze of The Presets, though with two EPs an... Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
ReviewsDrive By Truckers @ The Arches, 4 Apr
Within the tunnels of The Arches, Alabama's Drive-By Truckers return to Glasgow to teach their bourbon-tainted lessons of love and life. From the beginning, ... Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Reviews
Junkbox @ Cabaret Voltaire
armed with a vicious artillery of stompy, efficient blues-punk, complete with spiky axe-attacks and slide-guitar massacres Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Archie Bronson Outfit @ Cabaret Voltaire
The band don't lack in terms of adrenaline Read more »| 16 May 2006