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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ReviewsStag & Dagger 2012: Glasgow
This year's Stag & Dagger Festival features stunning performances from the likes of Bear In Heaven, Conquering Animal Sound and Django Django. Three reporters, more than forty bands and DJs, over seven venues, in a little over twelve hours. Easy! Read more »| 24 May 2012 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: Brew at the Bog Festival 2012
Rolling reportage from Brew at the Bog 2012 at Bogbain Farm in Inverness. Photography by Emily Wylde Read more »| 18 May 2012 -
FestivalsStag & Dagger 2012, 19 May: Full line-up and stage times
The one-day, one-ticket festival returns to Glasgow for a fourth year, presenting an array of acts in an array of venues across the city. Here's a full line-up of what's on where and when Read more »| 17 May 2012 -
ReviewsErrors / Mermaids / Mother Ganga @ The Arches, 11 May
Though he’s appeared on many a bill in one guise or another, tonight is Lewis Cook’s first ‘proper’ Mother Ganga show. He’s off... Read more »| 17 May 2012 -
Festivals
In Pictures: The Great Escape, Brighton 2012
The Great Escape, Brighton 2012 A few of the highlights from The Great Escape music festival, which ran in Brighton from 10-12 May, including Admiral Fallow... Read more »| 16 May 2012 -
Reviews
Perfume Genius / Cate Le Bon @ Captain's Rest, 8 May
Cate Le Bon has a clarification to make: contrary to received Twitter wisdom, she is neither German, nor a Viking. We don’t know the context to these m... Read more »| 14 May 2012
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Reviews
Grimes @ The Berkeley Suite, 7 May
Grimes combines experimental electronica with staggeringly infectious pop in a way which is completely unique Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Reviews
Holy Mountain / Happy Particles / Body Parts @ Mono, 5 May
From the divine to the ridiculously heavy, as Holy Mountain kick out jams straddling the vintage and the envelope-pushing. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
Festivals
Noise of Summer: UK Festivals 2012
From north to south, we present a guide to the festival season’s first, second, third (and umpteenth) big weekends Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Previews
Divorce Album Fundraiser @ The Old Hairdressers, 11 May
Recording music does not come cheaply, kids. Aye, so Lou Barlow got away with making albums on a shoestring with his four track in the eighties, but times (a... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Festivals
Stag & Dagger 2012
Some say there's a dearth of good gigs at home as festival season approaches, Stag & Dagger thinks differently Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
Previews
The Metal Column – May 2012
As festival season gets underway, we find that many of our favourite bands are preoccupied in distant lands, leaving us here in the dirt, so to speak, and wi... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
FestivalsClubbing at the Festivals: Playing The Field
If Scottish summer festivals leave you cold (and wet, and windy), then an escape to greener pastures might be your ticket Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
Graham Coxon @ The Garage, 17 April
Betatone Distraction look rather pleased with themselves tonight, as well they might: for each stop of his tour, Mr Coxon has sought nominations for support ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
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Meshuggah @ The Garage, 15 April
Devout fans of tonight's headliners give We Are Knuckle Dragger a hard time for their rawer, relatively less technical sound, but they sure as hell get the ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012