Reviews

There's something of a coming-of-age about tonight's opening set from boxfresh Glasgow indie-poppers Veronica Falls (***). Roxanne Clifford and Patrick Doyle... Read more »

Okkervil River are good to their UK fans, making the trip to our shores at the drop of a hat these days. Tonight there’s no new record to promote and (... Read more »

Reputations are mysterious things. Rumours of past gigs had painted Tori Amos as a humourless virtuoso who’d sooner tell talkative fans to sling their ... Read more »

Following support from his brother Jack (sounding not a million miles away from Jonathan Richman) and Edinburgh's own Withered Hand, Jeffrey Lewis and band t... Read more »

Labelling Malcolm Middleton with the ‘miserable’ tag has long since been charged as lazy journalism. But tonight, with titles such as Loneliness ... Read more »

For their second annual mini-fest celebrating local talent, the promoters of Retreat! crammed as many of their favourite bands into a single day as possible. The Skinny turned to shift work to cover this year's event. Read more »

If you ever wanted to organise a middle-aged-men-who've-still-got-a-bit-of-an-edge holocaust (I don't know, David Cameron might - has anyone thought to ask h... Read more »

An expert in both violin and verbosity, Andrew Bird is cut from a peculiar musical cloth. His idiosyncratic stylings make him the perfect accompaniment to Ed... Read more »

By their own admission, Faith No More are old men in rock ‘n’ roll circles, and a fair portion of tonight’s audience are marching unquestio... Read more »