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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PreviewsO2 Love Music Column – December 2013
December wastes no time in getting up and moving; the first day of the month takes us back to 1988 when the Happy Mondays released second album&nbs... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
ReviewsJulia Holter / Ela Orleans, CCA, 20 November
A support slot from Ela Orleans is an astute choice for Julia Holter: this Glasgow-based Polish solo artist explores a similarly dreamlike world, driven by a... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
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Queens of the Stone Age @ The SSE Hydro, 16 November
Since making their modest Scottish debut at The Cathouse in 2000, through several memorable nights at the Barras and an enduring habit of returning to T in t... Read more »| 24 Nov 2013 -
FestivalsLes Trans Musicales de Rennes Festival 2013
Since 1979, Trans Musicales has maintained a position as one of the truly most unique, startling, baffling and often downright bonkers music festivals on the calendar. We take a look at what curator Jean-Luis Brossard holds up his sleeve this December... Read more »| 22 Nov 2013 -
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Julia Holter @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 13 November
In her recent interview with The Skinny, Julia Holter was disarmingly honest about her expressionist, observational narratives. Laudably self-deprecating, sh... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
ReviewsThe Reflektors @ Barrowlands, 16 November
The cat is well and truly out the bag long before Arcade Fire, sorry, The Reflektors, arrive in Glasgow for a duo of Barrowland dates. The pseudonym couldn&r... Read more »| 19 Nov 2013
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Mount Kimbie / oOoOO @ SWG3, 8 November
Californian producer oOoOO took some bold risks on his debut album Without Your Love, contributing vocals to his own tracks for the first time, alongside col... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
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MONEY @ The Dancehouse, Manchester, 9 November
The last time this reviewer saw MONEY play it was in an unusual venue – the centuries-old, borderline dilapidated Platt Chapel in Fallowfield &nda... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
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Thom Yorke, Four Tet + Daphni @ The Warehouse Project, Manchester, 2 November
A combination of Victoria Warehouse's 5000 capacity, the necessary stepping up of security with the venue move from beneath Piccadilly railway station i... Read more »| 07 Nov 2013 -
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Future Of The Left @ Broadcast, 2 November
Visibly startled by the sweltering, heaving, meat-patty of bodies, unceremoniously crammed into tonight's capacity show at Broadcast, Future Of The Left join... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
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Bill Orcutt / With Lumps @ The Glad Cafe, 1 November
Bill Orcutt’s following may not be large, but it makes up for that in sheer reverence and awe. The former guitarist in Miami noise legends Harry Pussy ... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
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Parquet Courts / Eagulls @ Mono, 31 October
Despite heavy reverb obscuring much of George Mitchell’s between-song speech, body language and delivery indicate the vocalist is not in the best of mo... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
ReviewsHoneyblood / Laura St Jude / Bite @ Broadcast, 29 October
Broadcast tonight hosts three bands who differ in sound though are united in their potential to make a noise in places much further afield than the rough end... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
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CHVRCHES @ The Ritz, Manchester, 14 October
Get ur freak (and geek) on. CHVRCHES, for all their winning artfulness, for all that savvy remodelling of 80s synth-pop into something far-reaching and vital... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
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Suede / Teleman @ Barrowlands, 27 October
Between the present tour slot and the Bernard Butler-produced debut album due next year, Teleman have been enjoying Suede-related patronage for a while now. ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013