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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ReviewsThe Fruit Tree Foundation presents Music Like A Vitamin @ HMV Picture House, 1 Oct
Idlewild’s Rod Jones and former Delgado Emma Pollock have been ploughing the admirable Music Like A Vitamin furrow for a few years now, gathering toget... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
FestivalsEastern Promise Photo Gallery Two
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FestivalsFence Records Presents...The Away Game!
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PreviewsThe Metal Column - October 2010
The remainder of the year is about to serve up an uncivil barrage of ear-baiting terror, as if to coincide with the impending winter darkness. But rather tha... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
ReviewsGrinderman @ Barrowlands, 28 Sep
Grinderman have described their causa causans as an “excuse to make a fucking racket”; turns out that this is something they’re particularl... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
ReviewsManic Street Preachers @ O2 Academy, 29 Sep
A boa wrapped around a mic stand, a white Gibson being tuned by a roadie, and an empty space to the left of the stage: the Manics don’t have to be perf... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010
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PreviewsLive Music Highlights - October, 2010
Scottish three-piece Hey Enemy have spent a lot of time listening to Melvins, Shellac and The Jesus Lizard and have songs with names like Johnny Fucko and Pu... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsDillinger Escape Plan @ The Garage, 29 Oct
Boasting one of the best-reviewed heavy metal albums of 2010 and a name synonymous with the mathcore subgenre, Dillinger Escape Plan will come packing a noto... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsThe Psychedelic Furs @ O2 ABC, 29 Oct
Forever immortalised by the John Hughes film of the same name, Pretty in Pink became the best known (and to most the only known) release of The Psychedelic F... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsAgainst Me! @ QMU, 27 Oct
While cleaning up their act considerably since first bellowing out Pints of Guinness Make You Strong, Floridian folk-punks Against Me! have incidenta... Read more »| 23 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsMGMT @ Barrowlands, 20 Sep
Scrutinise reactions tonight and a pattern emerges. Electric Feel – recorded for posterity on a sea of mobile phones. Siberian Breaks – chatter. ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsOf Montreal @ QMU, 4 Oct
In recent years, the Of Montreal experience has cultivated its theatricality to bold new heights – supporting the extended space-sex jam of Skeletal La... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsThe Black Keys @ O2 Academy, 28 Oct
This Ohio duo, comprising guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, have been having a good year. With their latest release Brothers shooting to num... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsWilco @ Barrowland, 16 Sep
There are presumably few more comfortable bed-rocks from which to launch a solo project than having Radiohead listed as a current employer. To make things si... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsWolf Parade @ Cabaret Voltaire, 8 Sep
When Wolf Parade played Glasgow back in May, third album Expo 86 had yet to be released and they were just starting a new tour. Four months and many more sh... Read more »| 21 Sep 2010