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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PreviewsIsobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan @ O2 ABC, 8 Sep
There has always been something mildly perverse when it comes to the sight of the innocently framed Isobel Campbell sitting side by side with the vag... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
PhotosLocal Takeover
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PreviewsThe New Pornographers @ Òran Mór, 7 Sep
The other Canadian supergroup – which is in no way to say inferior, just less omnipresent – The New Pornographers’s fifth album Tog... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
PreviewsWilco @ Barrowlands, 16 Sep
Last Year saw Wilco (the band) release Wilco (the album) to typically effusive acclaim. I wonder if even Jeff Tweedy gets tired of being so good some... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Fang Island @ Captain's Rest, 5 Sep
Fang Island describe their sound as "everybody high-five-ing each other", a feeling which pretty much covers the stadium-sized guitar-shredding, clat... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Newt @ The Lot, 7 Aug
Aberdonian guitarist Graham Stephen kicks off the evening in reflective mode, but soon enough he's heating up an already temperate room; he's got clean abstr... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010
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Haftor Medbøe Group @ Voodoo Rooms, 6 Aug
With a line-up featuring saxaphone, trombone, drums and bass, one might expect a piano, but the chorded instrument here is Haftor Medbøe's guitar, whi... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
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Calvin Johnson @ Hyndland Community Hall, 3 Aug
If a poll was ever commissioned to determine a social order of indie-cred in modern music then Calvin Johnson would surely be a heavy contender for the thron... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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Lizzard Lounge @ HMV Picture House, 30 Jul
The Picture House is a bigger venue than the Lizzard Lounge is used to (being a much loved, now passed Edinburgh club night), but the transition works well a... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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Samuel Hällkvist Center @ Voodoo Rooms, 31 Jul
Joe Zawinul once said of his band Weather Report, "We never solo, and we always solo", and this gnomic remark could be usefully applied to Hällkvist's S... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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Jon Cleary @ Assembly, Princes Street Gardens, 31 Jul
Jon Cleary's piano trio bring some authentic New Orleans gumbo to a sunny Edinburgh afternoon; close your eyes and you could be on Beale Street hearing the s... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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The Low Anthem @ The Queen's Hall, 30 Aug
A rose-tinted view of history would suggest that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution changed the world overnight. But like most paradigm shifts, it to... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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Wu-Tang Clan @ O2 Academy, 1 Aug
Let’s get the negatives out of the way. First, reuniting the entire Wu-Tang Clan ‘In Full Force’ as billed was never going to be easy; toni... Read more »| 04 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsThemselves @ Electric Circus, 24 Jul
In the face of adversity – a venue bustling with hen parties, an atrocious sound system and delayed, lackadaisical support – it’s beautiful... Read more »| 04 Aug 2010 -
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Shearwater @ Stereo, 28 Jul
Stripped back to just founder member Jonathan Knight, My Cousin I Bid You Farewell's music arguably benefits from the increased intimacy of its current forma... Read more »| 02 Aug 2010