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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PhotosIn Pictures: Presidents of the USA / Straight Lines @ O2 ABC, 11 March
Seattle nerdcore trio Presidents of the USA rolled into Glasgow to play their self-titled 1995 debut in full, supported by Welsh power-pop brethren Straight ... Read more »| 13 Mar 2012 -
ReviewsHaight-Ashbury @ Captain's Rest, 8 March
Soho Dandy are a four-piece from Erskine centred around the songwriting talent of Blain McEwan. Their muscular blues rock owes a large debt to BRMC and The B... Read more »| 13 Mar 2012 -
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Mark Lanegan Band @ O2ABC, 9 March
Loping into town on the back of the excellent reviews bequeathed to latest long player Blues Funeral, Mark Lanegan and his grizzled band are in no mood to di... Read more »| 13 Mar 2012 -
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Earth / Mount Eerie @ The Caves, 8 March
The Caves' tall arches provide stellar acoustics for an Earth gig, and Mount Eerie do a solid job of demonstrating the venue's sound enhancing properties. Ph... Read more »| 13 Mar 2012 -
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Future Islands @ Captain's Rest, 7 March
Sacred Paws start proceedings with an exuberant, pulse-raising set of afrobeat-influenced lo-fi pop; consisting of Eilidh of Golden Grrls on drums and Rachel... Read more »| 13 Mar 2012 -
ReviewsWe Can Still Picnic Presents: Mao Disney @ CCA, 3 March
Nearly eighteen months into its existence, arts collective We Can Still Picnic remains difficult to pin down, with club nights, radio shows and pamphleteerin... Read more »| 12 Mar 2012
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Django Django @ Stereo, 29 February
As a slow-burning proposition over the last few years, Django Django's reputation as a 'next big thing' band is well-deserved; they've reportedly sold out th... Read more »| 12 Mar 2012 -
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Cry Parrot Presents: Umberto @ SWG3, 25 Feb
We ascend SWG3’s stairs to the strains of Badalamenti, and find a Black Lodge stage mock-up (red curtains et al) at the summit. It’s a serendipit... Read more »| 07 Mar 2012 -
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Arika 12, Episode 2 @ Tramway, 24–26 Feb
After a weekend of intellectual argument about the intrinsic horror of the universe – it's hostile, it's too big, and the individual self is either a d... Read more »| 05 Mar 2012 -
PreviewsThe Metal Column – March 2012
Mainstream music has taken a couple of major blows in the past month. Whitney Houston – our favourite guilty pleasure – has become the latest vic... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Previews
Do Not Miss: Mark Lanegan Band @ O2 ABC, 9 March
Having cut a record with everyone but your mother (actually, better check that), modern bluesman Mark Lanegan returns – band in tow – to show off... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Previews
Live Music Highlights – March 2012
The drone daddy himself, Dylan Carlson brings the second half of his Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light opus to the capital as Earth take to The Caves on 8 ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
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GZA/Hector Bizerk @ The Arches, 13 February
The Arches is already near capacity, with a crowd in boisterous mood when Hector Bizerk take to the stage. It's the kind of environment where many support ac... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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Justice @ O2 Academy, 12 February
A brightly lit cross, two French guys whose haircuts bob like violent metronomes, and faux-Marshall amps that double as strobes piercing an otherwise Spartan... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February
In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February This sold out leg of HMV's 'Next Big Thing' showcase brought... Read more »| 15 Feb 2012