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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ReviewsBadly Drawn Boy @ Old Fruitmarket, 20 Oct
“Not exactly playing the hits am I?” notes Badly Drawn Boy after airing tracks from 1997’s EP1. That’s not quite accurate – in ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
PreviewsThe National @ O2 Academy, 26 Nov
Returning to the status of critical darlings without ever quite returning to the same well, The National have built a reputation of being one of the most sol... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
ReviewsDOOM @ The Arches, 20 Oct
DOOM has released some of the most fascinating hip-hop albums of the new millennium and created a lexicon that transcends the standard of most contemporary e... Read more »| 20 Oct 2010 -
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Killing Joke @ HMV Picture House, 15 Oct
Revered for their role in rearranging rock’s ever-changing template at least twice – from post-punk frontrunners to proto-industrial metal pionee... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
ReviewsKRS-One @ The Liquid Room, 7 Oct
“Waste no time,” KRS-One pleads of his DJ in-between classics. Aware that this boom-bap battle mass falls at the mercy of The Liquid Room's infam... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
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The Twilight Sad / Errors @ The Liquid Room, 12 Oct
The final date of a joint tour between Scotland’s foremost post so-and-so combos was always going to be catnip for a certain clientele. In fact, one ra... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010
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ReviewsNo Age / Male Bonding @ Stereo, 9 Oct
For Glasgow fans of Sub Pop Records, tonight was a brutally hard choice. With Mudhoney also playing down the road at The Arches, a crucial decision needed to... Read more »| 13 Oct 2010 -
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Grass Widow / Trash Kit @ 13th Note, 7 Oct
Since the last time Trash Kit came to Scotland, they've gained a good amount of positive press recognition, released their debut album on the esteemed label ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
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Mudhoney @ The Arches, 9 Oct
I’m not saying girls don’t like Mudhoney (***) – that would be a ridiculous and sexist generalisation. But judging by tonight, it’s f... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
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Eastern Promise @ Platform, 1 Oct
Wounded Knee and his age of austerity orchestra as he calls it, or rather nifty vocal loop pedal as I do, is a hypnotising act. Making no effort to reassure ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
Festivals
Eastern Promise Photo Gallery One
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Festivals
Music Like A Vitamin 2010
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The Fruit Tree Foundation presents Music Like A Vitamin @ HMV Picture House, 1 Oct
Idlewild’s Rod Jones and former Delgado Emma Pollock have been ploughing the admirable Music Like A Vitamin furrow for a few years now, gathering toget... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Festivals
Eastern Promise Photo Gallery Two
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Festivals
Fence Records Presents...The Away Game!
Read more »| 04 Oct 2010