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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FestivalsNo Bounds Festival 2018: Review
The second edition of Sheffield’s No Bounds resists all perceived festival norms to produce a triumphant weekender of critical club beats, challenging experimentation and crucial panel debate Read more »| 30 Oct 2018 -
ReviewsThe KVB @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 24 Oct
The KVB’s lush audio/visual union creates a palpable sensation of vicarious memories as they pulsate and shoegaze their way through tonight’s set at The Hug & Pint Read more »| 30 Oct 2018 -
FestivalsClub to Club 2018: Festival Preview
As Club to Club Festival returns to Turin this weekend, we take a closer look at the seven acts included in The Italian New Wave strand of this year's line-up Read more »| 29 Oct 2018 -
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ The Caves, Edinburgh, 22 Oct
Sound issues and premature exits aside, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah deliver a throwback set that gives their audience at The Caves an excuse to jump around on a work night Read more »| 26 Oct 2018 -
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Beach House @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 19 Oct
Delving deep into their back catalogue, Beach House's set at the Albert Hall is an atmospheric delight Read more »| 26 Oct 2018 -
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Jon Hopkins @ SWG3 Galvanizers, Glasgow, 19 Oct
Jon Hopkins is met with a hero's welcome tonight at SWG3 as we help him celebrate his latest opus, Singularity, and all before bedtime Read more »| 25 Oct 2018
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ReviewsSnail Mail @ SWG3, Warehouse Studio, Glasgow, 23 Oct
Despite a number of teething problems tonight, there are enough lovely moments to make Snail Mail one to watch for the future Read more »| 25 Oct 2018 -
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Glasvegas @ Gorilla, Manchester, 22 Oct
The Manchester stop on the Glaswegians' tenth anniversary tour does justice to James Allan's powerful piece of social commentary Read more »| 25 Oct 2018 -
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David Byrne @ SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 22 Oct
There are very few, if any, artists that are bringing this level of innovation and joy to the stage and David Byrne's American Utopia tour is his most ambitious since Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense Read more »| 25 Oct 2018 -
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IDLES @ QMU, Glasgow, 20 Oct
Bristol's IDLES tackle Brexit, mental health, anti-immigrant sentiments, toxic masculinity and the state of the NHS in a rip-roaringly fun set tonight at QMU Read more »| 24 Oct 2018 -
Previews
Gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 24-29 Oct
First Aid Kit, Teenage Fanclub, RM Hubbert and Aidan Moffat, Sam Amidon, Goat Girl, Lucy Dacus and Eleanor Friedberger head up this week's central belt gigs Read more »| 24 Oct 2018 -
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alt-J @ SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, 21 Oct
A good three years since they last played Glasgow, alt-J give plenty of lip service to the hits that made their name as well as cuts from RELAXER and its recent reworking, REDUXER Read more »| 23 Oct 2018 -
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Will Varley @ Stereo, Glasgow, 19 Oct
Will Varley's lyrics resonate with the Stereo audience tonight as they raise their glasses to the performer, singing along to every word Read more »| 23 Oct 2018 -
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 17 Oct
The Brian Jonestown Massacre dish out the Kool-Aid at the Barrowlands tonight, and we all follow them hand-in-hand into sonic oblivion Read more »| 23 Oct 2018 -
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Jack White @ Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 21 Oct
Jack White and his band play an epic two-and-a-half hour spectacle at the Usher Hall tonight, full of White Stripes hits galore and other surprises Read more »| 22 Oct 2018