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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FestivalsIn Pictures: Liverpool Sound City 2014
Liverpool Sound City 2014 For three days over 1-3 May, Liverpool didn't get a wink of shuteye as the now mammoth Sound City festival brought an embarrassmen... Read more »| 12 May 2014 -
ReviewsLiverpool Sound City @ various venues, 1-3 May
Sound City, you’ve got a lot to answer for. As The Skinny emerges bleary-eyed from yet another instalment of Liverpool’s biggest ‘showcase ... Read more »| 09 May 2014 -
Reviews
Childhood / MayHeGo @ Sneaky Pete's, 24 April
It doesn’t take much to make Sneaky Pete’s feel busy. When Edinburgh trio MayHeGo kick their set into gear (yes, that’s a play on... Read more »| 07 May 2014 -
Festivals
Summer at the Festivals: A Field in Scotland (or England)
We take a look at the wealth of experiences on offer on the UK festival circuit, focusing on the thriving and growing number boutique outdoors festivals, and the big-top extravaganzas of T in the Park, Glastonbury, and Reading and Leeds Read more »| 07 May 2014 -
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In Pictures: The Skinny Northwest First Birthday Party
The Skinny 01 How time flies. It seems like only yesterday The Skinny team were crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s on the inaugural Northwest ... Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
Previews
Northwest Gig Highlights – May 2014
Festivals make up the bulk of this month's highlights, with Sound City and Fury Fest in Liverpool, Sounds from the Other City in Salford and Manchester Psych Fest all offering a host of gigging delights Read more »| 01 May 2014
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PreviewsScottish Gig Highlights – May 2014
This coming May, a visit from duelling techno behemoths Fuck Buttons, psychedelic visionaries Flaming Lips, industrial juggernauts Nine Inch Nails, and a look at the boundary-pushing Tectonics Festival, featuring Thurston Moore, Bill Wells and many more Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Previews
O2 Love Music Column – May 2014
Glasgow is bringing its mightiest of spring flings Stag & Dagger to the Bank Holiday on Sunday 4 May. Now in its sixth year, the concept is sim... Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
The Body / VOE @ Audio, Glasgow, 22 April
Dotted inbetween the bald-headed and bearded metal-heads who are tonight's main audience are a handful of nervous-looking hipster types (this reviewer among ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Threshold 2014
Threshold Festival 2014 The fourth year of Liverpool's grassroots festival of music and arts commandeered a clutch of venues in the Baltic Triangle over the... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Festivals
Northwest Festival Watch: Liverpool Sound City
Bird and Ex-Easter Island Head consider the scope of Liverpool Sound City on the run-up to the May bank holiday weekend event Read more »| 24 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Ex-Easter Island Head @ Kazimier, Liverpool, 20 Apr
Liverpool-based group Ex-Easter Island Head are in a celebratory mood, having released two highly acclaimed minimalist records in the past 12 months. The mos... Read more »| 23 Apr 2014 -
ReviewsGeorge Clinton @ The Ritz, Manchester, 17 April
George Clinton has spent the best part of the last 40 years orchestrating the freakiest gang of funkateers known to mankind. How freaky you ask? The answer l... Read more »| 21 Apr 2014 -
Previews
Record Store Day 2014 – Events Guide
We take a look at events happening near you on Record Store Day (19 April), featuring live performances from Sacred Paws, Stanley Odd, Ubre Blanca, Broken Records, LAW and a whole host of others Read more »| 15 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Therapy? The Garage, Glasgow, 7 April
While the same old talking heads romanticise Britpop’s worst b-sides and exhaustive Nirvana nostalgia draws to its ugly conclusion as pictures of Kurt ... Read more »| 10 Apr 2014