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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This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb @ Subway Cowgate
Culminates in a human pyramid which repeatedly collapses like a soufflé Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
I did not clap my hands. I did not say yeah. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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White Heat @ Cabaret Voltaire @ Edinburgh
a wide array of catchy mod-pop that kept the dance floor and the bar busy all night Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Regina Spektor - Live at Cabaret Voltaire (revised)
New songs, vivid as tangerines Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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NME Awards Tour - Corn Exchange @ Edinburgh
The Arctic Monkeys leave believers and nay-sayers alike astonished in the fug of their irresistible slipstream Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Isle of Me, Joe Acheson Quartet, OBE - Bannerman's, Edinburgh, Feb 15
perfect for fans of the Happy Mondays and the like Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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ReviewsPaper Cut Out, Avast!, Lords of Bastard and Spatial Entrepreneurs - Subway Cowgate, Edinburgh, Feb 17
It might look a bit like the gym hall from hell, all high ceilings and black brick, but the Subway can lift the spirits too, without doubt. This Friday night... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsKanYe West @ SECC, 17 Feb
Mind the GAP? How KanYe possibly forget? Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Research @ Cabaret Voltaire
The Research faced the task of filling the void of a half-empty Cab Vol on nothing less than a St Valentine's evening Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Sparks @ Carling Academy, 12 Feb
a masterful study in fun and frolics Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Glasgow School
As the nights get longer, the sun occasionally pops its hat on and bands emerge from the gloom of winter, spring promises to be a great time for music. Event... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsFoxFace - Optimo - 12th February 2006
Performing their most powerful gig to date, FoxFace led yet another packed night at this infamous Glasgow hot spot with punters revving their engines in anti... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Jose Gonzalez @ The Liquid Room
A beautiful symbiosis between a man and his guitar. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Straight Outta Pomp-town (Edinburgh Live Music column)
Straight Outta Pomp-townWe tireless tubes at The Skinny unflinchingly embrace the challenge to cover a huge slice of the broad spectrum of music that both Ed... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Mother and The Addicts @ Cabaret Voltaire 20th January
the fans will have been nursing their collective broken feet to match their pounding cranium Read more »| 15 Feb 2006