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
Hard-Fi @ Abc
The energy and the atmosphere provided by Hard-Fi's live set means that, for once, a Mercury nomination does not denote a black hole into oblivion Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Eagles of Death Metal @ The Liquid Room
As tunes go, this is, all told, uber-catchy Status Quo on crack, but as rock'n' roll shows go, this is nothing less than sweet perfection Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
ReviewsThe Twilight Sad @ Cabaret Voltaire
It's Tuesday night for God's sake! What the fuck are yis all doing here? Graham humbly asks of the crowd, blissfully unaware his band are about to take over the world Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
ReviewsAlabama 3 @ Carling Academy
Moments of sudden excitement are submerged into uninspired, rhythm-heavy workouts Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Previews
Metal Up Your Ass - October
Bursting at the seams with raucous gig action Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Previews
Broken Social Scene presents... Kevin Drew @ The Arches, 15 Oct
BSS are following the Wu-Tang path to world domination... Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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PreviewsBattles @ The Liquid Room
Creators of one of the most original and definitive albums of the year Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Previews
Oxjam Clothes Swap Party, The Buff Club, Glasgow, 30 Oct
For hot new threads and the latest trends Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Annie Christian @ Cabaret Voltaire
Some forward-thinking motherfuckers, as Julian Cope would say Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Previews
Live Music Roundup - October
Hadouken! sound like the Prodigy with an ASBO Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Willy Mason @ The Liquid Room
He outstays the welcome afforded by the Liquid Room's curfew, but he ensures
the crowd would have him back here again and again Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Tiger Lillies @ Usher Hall
There is something wonderfully entertaining about virtuosic musicians playing a piano with a dildo Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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This Is Music @ Henry's Cellar Bar, 30 Aug
He shuffles into the audience, irritates his bass guitarist, flings his arms out Shirley Bassey-style and generally acts the Shakespearean fool Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
ReviewsThe Happy Mondays @ Corn Exchange, 24 Aug
It's good to have them back, again Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
ReviewsDinosaur Jr. @ The Liquid Room, 27 Aug
Witness the three-headed, tinnitus-inducing behemoth that is Dinosaur Jr. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007