Music
The Skinny magazine music guide. We bring you the latest music highlights, gig reviews and previews, music videos, album reviews and features. Find exclusive interviews with local bands and international stars, bespoke playlists and video premieres.
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Live Music
Ben Kweller @ King Tut's, 5 Dec
As the grinning - albeit slightly portly - Texan takes to the stage, this sold out Tut's crowd cheer and clap like it was a home coming party and from this p... Read more »| 18 Dec 2008 -
Reviews
VA - The Glasgow School Of Art Goes Pop
From Orange Juice to Belle and Sebastian, Glasgow’s pop pedigree is widely celebrated, but the city won't go resting on its laurels. Leeds label Art Go... Read more »| 17 Dec 2008 -
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Debbie Leggo - Car Crash Crowd
London quartet Debbie Leggo release their first single, Car Crash Crowd, an ambitious concept single in which "street poet" Gerry Mitchell plays an artist's ... Read more »| 17 Dec 2008 -
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Norman Lamont - Roadblock
Norman Lamont (don’t, he’s probably sick of it) is a well-known singer / songwriter on the Edinburgh acoustic scene, and Roadblock is his third a... Read more »| 17 Dec 2008 -
Live Music
The Vaselines @ ABC, 12 Dec
"The last time we played in Glasgow we were paid £12.50 and two tabs of acid." This is the Vaselines' first official gig in their home city for two dec... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
Live Music
Slipknot @ SECC, 8 Dec
Much more mayhem than anyone could hope for on a Monday night by the Clyde Read more »| 16 Dec 2008
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Reviews
WhiskyCats - WhiskyCats
WhiskyCats play a sort of world-influenced knees-up skiffle, a sound that places them on the dangerously fine line between quirky and annoying. It’s a ... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
Live Music
Nightmare Before Christmas 2008 @ Butlins, Minehead, 5-7 Dec
To some people, the idea of an event curated by Mike Patton and The Melvins is enough to keep them up at night, excitedly memorising Mr Bungle lyrics and try... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Interviews
Always Read the Label: One Little Indian
Spawned in the depression of Thatcherism, One Little Indian has become one of the UK’s finest Indies. Twenty-four years on from the label’s conception, Billy Hamilton finds Digital Manager Tony McColl talking up its continued evolution... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Interviews
Ten Kens For Ten Tracks
Compared with a multitude of indie luminaries, Ten Kens' debut LP was one of 2008's forgotten gems. So, in the middle of a recent UK tour, Billy Hamilton cornered vocalist Dan Workman to find out who this Toronto ensemble really are Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Reviews
Metallica – All Nightmare Long
The fifth offering from the mighty ‘Tallica’s Death Magnetic not only sees a true return to form but probably one of the best tracks to be record... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Live Music
In the Pit: Coldplay @ SECC, 9 Dec
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Ralfe Band - Attics/Stumble
Ralfe Band run a line in stomping feet and energetic grooves. Rich, considered melodic changes reveal themselves like the blue sky through clouds, uncovering... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Live Music
The KC Review: Simple Minds in Concert
The band is Glasgow's own Simple Minds. The album they're playing live tonight is the seminal New Gold Dream. The King is Creosote, and he's in the crowd. Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Reviews
Dumb Instrument - Dear Santa
Dumb Instrument know how to pull the rug out from under you. What starts out as a saccharine-sweet Scottish take on the Christmas Single -replete with horns,... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008