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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ReviewsClutch @ Bar Bloc, 20 January
Clutch successfully grafts its big sound to the small stage of Bar Bloc. Chaos ensues... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
ReviewsUnited Fruit @ King Tut's, 16 January
After an acoustic warm-up session in the downstairs bar from Jonathan Snee (Flood of Red), Kings Tut's New Years Revolution series continues with a set from ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
ReviewsA Winged Victory for the Sullen @ Òran Mór, 15 January
“You can keep chatting – Dustin’s just having a meltdown,” explains A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s Adam Wiltzie as their exp... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
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M83 / Porcelain Raft @ The Arches, 19 January
Like post-Fromageau M83, Porcelain Raft is effectively one man’s nom de plume, but, also like M83, Mauro Remiddi is not performing alone, with live dru... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
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Cymbals Eat Guitars / Milagres @ ABC2, 8 January
Conjuring enthusiasm among a disappointingly thin crowd, on a Sunday night in early January, is a test for any band, and New York’s Milagres are too me... Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
Festivals
Awake On Foreign Shores: Trans Musicales 2011
In search of an alternative winter festival, our Music editor heads for Les Recontres Trans Musicales to find out how the French get down Read more »| 10 Jan 2012
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PreviewsLive Music Highlights – January 2012
Combining electro, pop and house may be about as revolutionary as beans on toast but Edinburgh's Discopolis have arrived at a uniquely energising and euphori... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
Previews
The Metal Column – January 2012
Aye, aye – so a new year means new beginnings, the kicking of old habits and the setting of goals, but let's just put the unrealistic stuff aside for t... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
PreviewsHot Ticket of the Month: Celtic Connections
Beginning on 19 Jan, Glasgow's annual folk, roots and world music festival isn't just about forcing school kids into concert halls and bigging-up fiddle musi... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Festivals
Wee Dub Festival @ Various Edinburgh Venues, 3-5 Feb
The Wee Dub Festival is back: this time it's a whole lot bigger and it has a Mad Professor at the controls Read more »| 31 Dec 2011 -
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In Pictures: Vic Galloway presents... @ Electric circus, 15 December
Photos from Vic Galloway presents at the Electric circus with Scott Hutchison, James Yorkston and more. Photography by Sol Nicol Read more »| 21 Dec 2011 -
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In Pictures: Phantomime @ Stereo, 16 December
All the action from first night of The Phantom Band's Phantomime, which featured sets by Holy Mountain, Muscles of Joy, as well as the hosts themselves. Pho... Read more »| 21 Dec 2011 -
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Malcolm Middleton / Human Don’t Be Angry @ Òran Mór, 15 December
Providing some self support, Malcolm Middleton sets this evening’s gathering in motion under his Human Don’t Be Angry guise, with a collection of... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
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Galoshins / Mr Peppermint / The Cosmic Dead / Battery Face @ 13th Note, 18 December
Thank goodness for The 13th Note. In the last decade this ragged, unpretentious little bar has been an enduring champion of the Scottish underground as other... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
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In Pictures: Phantomime @ Stereo, 17 December
All the action from second night of The Phantom Band's Phantomime, which featured sets by Take A Worm For A Walk Week and Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate L... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011