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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ReviewsClang Boom Steam @ MelloMello, Liverpool, 20 Jul
The launch of Liverpool-based Clang Boom Steam's self-titled debut album proves diverse and intense in equal measure, with the audience treated to an evening... Read more »| 23 Jul 2013 -
FestivalsSax and the City: Manchester Jazz Festival
Now in its 18th year, Manchester Jazz Festival returns to the city this month, with contemporary upstarts and crumhorns in tow Read more »| 23 Jul 2013 -
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Shangaan Electro @ The Kazimier Garden, Liverpool, 20 Jul
One! Eight! Seven! One! Eight! Eight! One! Eight... NINE! It's a sweltering day's dusk and Shangaan Electro's Nozinja is hyping a crowd decked... Read more »| 22 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
T in the Park 2013: Saturday, 13 July
Dundee band Seams have sensibly brought a large number of fans from their home town, who fill the front two rows of the T Break tent and make a lot... Read more »| 18 Jul 2013 -
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Youth Lagoon @ Gorilla, 16 July
Given that the past few years have seen Manchester's self-proclaimed 'promoters extraordinaire' Now Wave inch towards a monopoly over the city's most excitin... Read more »| 18 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsKelburn Garden Party, 6-7 Jul
With tickets sold out before the party begins, there is a sense that Kelburn Garden Party has come of age this year, cementing its position as one of the jew... Read more »| 17 Jul 2013
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ReviewsNazoranai / Jer Reid & Friends @ Stereo, 10 July
Following Keiji Haino’s rapturously-received solo performance at Tramway last year, his return to Glasgow as one-third of Nazoranai feels like a signif... Read more »| 16 Jul 2013 -
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Ultramagnetic MCs @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 10 July
Two of Glasgow's finest emcees kick things off, Gasp performing choice cuts from his grim and gritty new album A Series of Fortunate Misunderstandings, ... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
MONEY @ Pavilion Theatre, Festival Square, 12 Jul
Last issue's cover stars MONEY confirmed their love affair with Manchester by unveiling their debut album as part of the Manchester International Festival. I... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Sunday at T in the Park 2013
In Pictures: T in the Park 2013 Rolling reportage of the action coming live from our photographers at T in the Park. See here for Friday and Saturday. Phot... Read more »| 14 Jul 2013 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: Saturday at T in the Park 2013
In Pictures: T in the Park 2013 Rolling reportage of the action coming live from our photographers at T in the Park. See here for Friday and Sunday. Photog... Read more »| 13 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Friday at T in the Park 2013
In Pictures: T in the Park 2013 Rolling reportage of the action coming live from our photographers at T in the Park. See here for Saturday and Sunday. Phot... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
Reviews
Vatican Shadow @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 3 July
Detroit innovator Jeff Mills defines techno as a 'futurist statement.' It has meaning, or at least it should. GG Allah, whose recorded output of deafening, s... Read more »| 11 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
Festival Season 2013: The Flock of the New
This month's T in the Park and Wickerman festivals are two prime opportunities to catch the finest up-and-coming artists this country has to offer. These are just 12 burgeoning bands we recommend Read more »| 10 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
The xx @ secret space, Manchester International Festival, 6 Jul
She breathes; we breathe. The quick sting of her plectrum against steel – it reaches us before its amplified echo finds its way out of the speakers. Li... Read more »| 09 Jul 2013