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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ReviewsErrors / Mermaids / Mother Ganga @ The Arches, 11 May
Though he’s appeared on many a bill in one guise or another, tonight is Lewis Cook’s first ‘proper’ Mother Ganga show. He’s off... Read more »| 17 May 2012 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: The Great Escape, Brighton 2012
The Great Escape, Brighton 2012 A few of the highlights from The Great Escape music festival, which ran in Brighton from 10-12 May, including Admiral Fallow... Read more »| 16 May 2012 -
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Perfume Genius / Cate Le Bon @ Captain's Rest, 8 May
Cate Le Bon has a clarification to make: contrary to received Twitter wisdom, she is neither German, nor a Viking. We don’t know the context to these m... Read more »| 14 May 2012 -
ReviewsGrimes @ The Berkeley Suite, 7 May
Grimes combines experimental electronica with staggeringly infectious pop in a way which is completely unique Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
ReviewsHoly Mountain / Happy Particles / Body Parts @ Mono, 5 May
From the divine to the ridiculously heavy, as Holy Mountain kick out jams straddling the vintage and the envelope-pushing. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
FestivalsNoise of Summer: UK Festivals 2012
From north to south, we present a guide to the festival season’s first, second, third (and umpteenth) big weekends Read more »| 03 May 2012
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Previews
Divorce Album Fundraiser @ The Old Hairdressers, 11 May
Recording music does not come cheaply, kids. Aye, so Lou Barlow got away with making albums on a shoestring with his four track in the eighties, but times (a... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Festivals
Stag & Dagger 2012
Some say there's a dearth of good gigs at home as festival season approaches, Stag & Dagger thinks differently Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
Previews
The Metal Column – May 2012
As festival season gets underway, we find that many of our favourite bands are preoccupied in distant lands, leaving us here in the dirt, so to speak, and wi... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Festivals
Clubbing at the Festivals: Playing The Field
If Scottish summer festivals leave you cold (and wet, and windy), then an escape to greener pastures might be your ticket Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
Graham Coxon @ The Garage, 17 April
Betatone Distraction look rather pleased with themselves tonight, as well they might: for each stop of his tour, Mr Coxon has sought nominations for support ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
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Meshuggah @ The Garage, 15 April
Devout fans of tonight's headliners give We Are Knuckle Dragger a hard time for their rawer, relatively less technical sound, but they sure as hell get the ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
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Monoganon @ CCA, 13 April
Perfectly coupled with the vérité style film clips of botanic gardens and Scandinavian skylines projected above the band, Monoganon, the brai... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
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Orbital @ O2 Academy, 7 April
As suggested in their recent interview with The Skinny, Orbital are keen not to lean on their old hits in the live settings, but also to not disappoint the ... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
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Butcher Boy @ Cottiers, 6 April
Reverieme open tonight depleted and in mild disarray; guitarist Andrew Lindsay is caught in traffic, and no one knows how to work the tuner on his pedal. Fur... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012