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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T on the Fringe: The Sunshine Underground @ Cabaret Voltaire
will undoubtedly be shaking the walls of your local indie club in the near future Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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T on the Fringe: Mark Ronson @ The Liquid Room
Pop songs get a funky makeover in uber-cool NY producer's live action Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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T on the Fringe: Lambchop @ The Liquid Room
A bit like somebody hammering a nail on the head Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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T on the Fringe: Iain Archer @ Cabaret Voltaire
the smugness emanating from his contemporaries is notably absent here... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Soweto Gospel Choir (SkinnyFest)
Surely this is what the Festival's all about? Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Rain Pryor (SkinnyFest2)
Rain Pryor - Jazz singer. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Martha Wainwright @ George Square Theatre
Martha Wainwright's music mixes light humour and dark emotion without pretension or dilution Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Howard Jones - The Acoustic Nights (SkinnyFest2)
The hits, received with enthusiastic applause, are the best parts of the performance: that he has not written anything as concise as Like to Get to Know you Well suggests stagnation. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Grafitti Classics (SkinnyFest2)
Their musicianship is precise and impressive- the violinists astonish on the Romanian melody 'The Lark'- and the gags move things at a rapid pace. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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The Des Moines Riot & Graeme Mearns Band @ Henry's Cellar Bar
Sorry, pseudo-rockers, but Hell's lounge has its bandstand reserved. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Mazaika (SkinnyFest2)
Mazaika? A few glimpses of gold among a fair whack of unrefined ore. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Luminescent Orchestrii (SkinnyFest2)
never before have metallers, hippies and divas enjoyed the same gig so equally Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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The Bandish Experiment (skinnyfest 2)
the beats and sounds of the Bandish Projekt Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Beatablockers (skinnyfest 1)
the beats and sounds of the Bandish Projekt Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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James Carter Organ Trio @ Queen's Hall
It was all very nice…all very groovy, and save for the Smoking Ban, all very Jazz Club Read more »| 14 Aug 2006