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.
-
FestivalsThe Wickerman Festival 2011 - Saturday
Read more »| 26 Jul 2011 -
FestivalsThe Wickerman Festival 2011 - Friday
Read more »| 25 Jul 2011 -
FestivalsInsider Festival, Aviemore, 17-19 Jun
And so to Inshriach House, a beguiling bastion of all that is charming Highland eccentricity, and The Insider Festival. A Festival of Pimms and Penny Farthin... Read more »| 21 Jul 2011 -
Reviews
Judas Priest @ SECC, 19 July
Half an hour of Queensrÿche’s lumpen prog-metal is enough to dampen the spirits of the most lagered-up rocker, and the atmosphere in the SECC isn&... Read more »| 20 Jul 2011 -
Reviews
T in the Park 2011
We’ve seen the minds of a generation destroyed by tonic wine and overstimulation, hysterical and half-naked, dragging themselves through lagoons cravin... Read more »| 14 Jul 2011 -
Reviews
WSP vs Croc @ Audio Lounge, 9 July
A recording studio nestled in deepest, darkest Maryhill might not be the ideal setting for the gig of the year, but the party of the year? Well, that’s... Read more »| 12 Jul 2011
-
Reviews
Lydia Lunch @ Stereo, 7 July
Given the subtlety and playfulness of their music, Glasgow's Muscles of Joy are in some ways an incongruous opening act for Lydia Lunch; yet the art-rock sev... Read more »| 11 Jul 2011 -
Festivals
T in the Park 2011 - Sunday
Our intrepid photographers capture the latest action from Balado. Photography from Pete Dunlop and Sam Brill Read more »| 08 Jul 2011 -
Festivals
T in the Park 2011 - Saturday
Our intrepid photographers capture the latest action from Balado. Photography from Pete Dunlop and Sam Brill Read more »| 08 Jul 2011 -
FestivalsT in the Park 2011 - Friday
Our intrepid photographers capture the latest action from Balado. Photography from Pete Dunlop and Sam Brill Read more »| 08 Jul 2011 -
Reviews
Friendo @ 13th Note, 5 July
Neighbourhood Gout open tonight by thrashing and pounding and yelping and hollering all sorts of punk-tuned nonsense about tornados and the end of the univer... Read more »| 07 Jul 2011 -
Reviews
Neil Diamond @ Hampden Park, 2 July
Last time Neil Diamond visited Hampden, the crowd was forced to brave the elements for a taste of his glittering back catalogue. Not so on this occasion, as ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2011 -
Festivals
Glasgow Jazz Festival: Zu @ Platform, 1 July
If there’s one thing Glasgow does well, it’s throwing festival curveballs. Last month we had a screening of Night of the Living Dead as part of t... Read more »| 04 Jul 2011 -
Reviews
TV On The Radio @ O2 ABC, 28 June
When TV On The Radio last played at the ABC, they were cheered by a packed and passionate crowd still enthralled with Dear Science, the band’s hugely s... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Reviews
This Will Destroy You @ Ivory Blacks, 28 June
It’s all too easy to be down on East Kilbride’s The Clock, such is their out-of-tune opening instrumental and later dalliance with screamo clich&... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011