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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Funeral For A Friend and Fightstar @ Corn Exchange
Fizzing but formulaic. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family @ Cabaret Voltaire
Frost's storyboard of childhood trauma and adolescent anguish is unveiled in all its glory. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Jim Noir @ The Venue
A glorious concoction of wind swept vocals and buttercup melodies Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Humanzi @ Cabaret Voltaire
the result never came across as schizoid but as a tight and volatile display of how you never need to write the same song twice Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Sleater-Kinney @ Oran Mor
A fantastic band who are still going strong entering into their second decade Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Echo & The Bunnymen @ Queens Hall
their relevance lies only with a pious and maturing crowd Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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Azymuth @ The Caves
A multi-rhythmic explosion of irresistible groove. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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New Found Sound Showcase at Subway Cowgate
With a little refining to its dynamic palate it will soon contain all the right ingredients to become an Edinburgh delicacy Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Blood Arm @ King Tut's, 5 Jun
The downside to this party is when The Blood Arm attempt straight as an arrow rock 'n' roll Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Deftones / Shutter / You Already Know @ Glasgow Academy, 8 June
The intense progressive leanings of home-grown quartet Shutter and the percussive Gang of Four-infused dynamics of Glaswegian rockers You Already Know perfec... Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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A Silver Mt. Zion @ ABC, 1 Jun
this ran the gamut of everything a gig can be Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Robin Guthrie @ Cameo Cinema, 3 Jun
fashions lasting impressions of an experience of heaven Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Fuck-Off Machete / De Rosa / Paul Research / Rieser @ Swamp Bar @ Edinburgh
F.O. Machete close the evening on top form, delivering a typically blistering half-hour of serrating, sandblasting belters. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Isobel Campbell @ The Liquid Room. 30 May
Not often can the countrified laments of Northwest America and the majestic balladry of central Scotland appear quite so compatible as they do here tonight Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Hi:Fi North 2006: A Retrospective (Big-assed web only thang)
Despite the averse winds brewing, the debut Hi:Fi North is a triumph... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006