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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PreviewsLive Music Highlights – January 2012
Combining electro, pop and house may be about as revolutionary as beans on toast but Edinburgh's Discopolis have arrived at a uniquely energising and euphori... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
PreviewsThe Metal Column – January 2012
Aye, aye – so a new year means new beginnings, the kicking of old habits and the setting of goals, but let's just put the unrealistic stuff aside for t... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
Previews
Hot Ticket of the Month: Celtic Connections
Beginning on 19 Jan, Glasgow's annual folk, roots and world music festival isn't just about forcing school kids into concert halls and bigging-up fiddle musi... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
FestivalsWee Dub Festival @ Various Edinburgh Venues, 3-5 Feb
The Wee Dub Festival is back: this time it's a whole lot bigger and it has a Mad Professor at the controls Read more »| 31 Dec 2011 -
PhotosIn Pictures: Vic Galloway presents... @ Electric circus, 15 December
Photos from Vic Galloway presents at the Electric circus with Scott Hutchison, James Yorkston and more. Photography by Sol Nicol Read more »| 21 Dec 2011 -
PhotosIn Pictures: Phantomime @ Stereo, 16 December
All the action from first night of The Phantom Band's Phantomime, which featured sets by Holy Mountain, Muscles of Joy, as well as the hosts themselves. Pho... Read more »| 21 Dec 2011
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Reviews
Malcolm Middleton / Human Don’t Be Angry @ Òran Mór, 15 December
Providing some self support, Malcolm Middleton sets this evening’s gathering in motion under his Human Don’t Be Angry guise, with a collection of... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
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Galoshins / Mr Peppermint / The Cosmic Dead / Battery Face @ 13th Note, 18 December
Thank goodness for The 13th Note. In the last decade this ragged, unpretentious little bar has been an enduring champion of the Scottish underground as other... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
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In Pictures: Phantomime @ Stereo, 17 December
All the action from second night of The Phantom Band's Phantomime, which featured sets by Take A Worm For A Walk Week and Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate L... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
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Plastikman @ Barrowland, 3 December
There is, inevitably, plenty of hype preceding Plastikman’s appearance at the Barrowlands tonight: one of only three UK dates, it represents a rare opp... Read more »| 12 Dec 2011 -
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The Lemonheads @ Òran Mór, 5 December
There’s always been something appealingly incongruous about Evan Dando’s approach: simultaneously an angst-ridden college rock icon, and the lova... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
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Group Inerane & Flower/Corsano Duo @ Kinning Park Complex, 2 December
The Kinning Park Complex, a recently-established community/arts centre in a former late-Victorian school, tonight boasts one of the more eagerly-anticipated ... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
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Lanterns On The Lake @ Electric Circus, 30 November
Newcastle duo Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell offer up some sparse yet evocative odes to fickle relationships as tonight’s opening act. From the plainti... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
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Thurston Moore @ The Arches, 28 November
A flustered arrival onto The Arches stage after being disoriented by the Glasgow streets brings Thurston Moore to a discerning, and disconcertingly polite, s... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
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Muscles of Joy @ Òran Mór, 27 November
Having separated from Divorce, it seems Palms have full custody of singer Sinead, and anyone only familiar with the caterwauling dervish schtick she deployed... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011