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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Reviews...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead / Rival Schools @ The Garage, 17 April
Whilst not visible from inside the Garage, there’s a full moon out tonight which may explain why the crowd opt to pose along the bar rather than headin... Read more »| 19 Apr 2011 -
ReviewsThe Unthanks @ Queen's Hall, 15 Apr
It’s probably praising with faint damnation to suggest that Glasgow-based four-piece Trembling Bells definitely have more convincing live performances ... Read more »| 19 Apr 2011 -
PreviewsRecord Store Day 2011
With downloads and tax-dodging web-retailers gobbling up sales, the humble record store’s obituary had been penned many times by cultural forecasters a... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
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Kyuss Lives @ O2 ABC, 4 April
‘Legendary’ is an overused epithet in music journalism, but in the case of Californian stoner-rock pioneers Kyuss, it feels entirely warranted. S... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
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Earth @ Stereo, 5 April
In a sense, Sabbath Assembly are a headliner’s worst nightmare. Not only are they technically adept purveyors of a particularly hypnotic strain of 70s-... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
ReviewsCry Parrot presents: John Maus @ Mono, 29 March
The loop pedal artisan is becoming a busy genre in its own right, but Remember Remember’s Graeme Ronald, performing solo tonight, is comfortably ahead ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011
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Previews
Live Music Highlights – April 2011
Attention youths! Emotional guitar rock this way comes courtesy of Aberdeen (via Brighton) three-piece The X-certs. A solid rhythm section, battle-tested alt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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The Metal Column – April 2011
As we slink into April, rolling news coverage continues to resemble about a dozen simultaneous disaster movies. Whilst continuing to be pummelled unmercifull... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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Josh T. Pearson @ Stereo, 26 March
For a man who has just released one of the saddest records in recent memory, Last of the Country Gentlemen, Josh. T Pearson takes to the stage with remarkabl... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
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Deerhunter @ Òran Mór, 28 March
Deerhunter are riding the crest of a wave that hasn't let up since 2005's Cryptograms, both critically and in relative commercial terms. After a quiet start ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Previews
Hot Ticket of the Month: Mount Kimbie
Sometimes The Skinny likes to think back to simpler days; days when ‘dance’, ‘classical’, ‘pop' and 'rock’ were the only ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
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Primal Scream - Screamadelica Live
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ReviewsThe Twilight Singers @ The Arches, 19 March
Tonight’s support, the London-based Bookhouse Boys are something of a conundrum. The voice of Catherine Turner – at times tacit and tender, at ot... Read more »| 22 Mar 2011 -
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The Phantom Band @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17 Mar
For a group in some mild form of ascension, a chance to see The Phantom Band in some cosy confines on your doorstep is not something you’d want to miss... Read more »| 21 Mar 2011 -
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Iron & Wine @ HMV Picture House, 11 Mar
In an effort, no doubt, to recreate the continued expansion of his recorded sound, Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam is joined on stage tonight by an ensemble... Read more »| 15 Mar 2011