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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ReviewsSleater-Kinney @ Manchester Albert Hall, 24 March
This most potent of returns finally reaches the UK and manifests itself in a performance of extreme emotion: an experience that leaves both band and aud... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
PreviewsNorthwest Gig Highlights — April 2015
Overdraft, prepare to take another hit, ’cause there’s a shed load of essential gigs coming our way in April, from cover stars Errors to rising star Låpsley, via the thunderous Primitive Man and some swell Record Store Day gigs Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
Previews
Scottish Gig Highlights – April 2015
A cursory look at the month ahead confirms one universal truth: punk's not dead, it’s just got multiple synths and a top-knot these days. Get the sprin... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Warpaint @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 24 March
“It sounds like you’re shouting horrible things, but I’m hoping they’re nice? Is that just the Scottish way?” asks Warpaint&rsq... Read more »| 27 Mar 2015 -
ReviewsJane Weaver @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 21 March
To mark a celebratory evening at The Deaf Institute, Jane Weaver is dressed to impress. "Has anyone else got a Lorax onesie on tonight?" she jokes, showing o... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015 -
Reviewsworriedaboutsatan @ Gullivers, Manchester, 19 March
As worriedaboutsatan, Gavin Miller and Tom Ragsdale found their feet as one of the most productive and enduring partnerships in Manchester’s musical co... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015
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ReviewsDead Meadow / The Cosmic Dead @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 15 March
The Cosmic Dead are loud. Thick clumps of dense feedback fill the half-lit stage, with bass throbs so potent that it’s barely possible to hear much bey... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
In Pictures: South by Southwest Music 2015
In Pictures: SXSW Music, 2015 As the dust settles on the 2015 edition of South by Southwest's Music conference (which took place in Austin, Texas, from 17th... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
James Chance & Les Contortions @ Stereo, Glasgow, 12 March
The wraithlike James Chance walks on stage slowly, looking every one of his 61 years with possibly a few more in reserve. Eternally dapper, a casual stride a... Read more »| 23 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
SXSW Music Diary: Viet Cong, Courtney Barnett, and The Twilight Sad's South By advice
Day three of our time at SXSW Music conference starts with a sobering reminder that there’s absolutely no bloody way we’re going to see half the ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
SXSW Music Diary: Hudson Mohawke, United Fruit, and Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
With its Tech and Film strands already in full flow by the time our plane touched the tarmac, this past Tuesday marked the beginning of South By Southwest&rs... Read more »| 20 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Neon Waltz / The Tripps @ Nice'n'Sleazy, Glasgow, 4 March
We once talked about Mod revivals as if the scene occasionally vanished from view, only to return at a later date. But Glasgow has never lost its love of Fre... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
FutureEverything: Alec Empire/Tristan Perich @ RNCM, Manchester, 27 February
As the RNCM’s concert hall is plunged into darkness, it would seem that Tristan Perich – presenting new work Noise Patterns – really w... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
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FutureEverything: Koreless @ Royal Northern College of Music, 25 February
Even for a producer who revels in fracturing recognisable electronic tropes into loosely connected flotsam, the addition of both Daedelus-collaborating visua... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
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FutureEverything: LoneLady @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 26 February
FutureEverything sure has a knack for picking the right venues. On the first night of this year’s edition of the city’s premier tech festival, th... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015