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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ReviewsCar Seat Headrest @ Broadcast, 23 June
James Hindle of The Pooches has left his bandmates at home for his opening set tonight. The songwriter has just an acoustic guitar for company, but fills the... Read more »| 29 Jun 2016 -
ReviewsTy Segall & The Muggers @ The Art School, 22 June
The trauma begins with the delinquent racket of Ausmuteants. The four-piece rip through a short, sharp support set heavy on primitive rhymes, synth blasts an... Read more »| 28 Jun 2016 -
Things To Do
Live music in Manchester this week: 29 Jun - 6 Jul
While the week's undisputed highlight – Beck at the Albert Hall – sold out long ago, there’s still plenty to sink those music-loving teeth ... Read more »| 28 Jun 2016 -
ReviewsWild Nothing @ CCA Glasgow, 15 June
Pop music is a tricky beast; a delicate dance between panache and authenticity. Fear Of Men take both qualities by the horns, delivering up an impassioned pe... Read more »| 27 Jun 2016 -
Reviews
Mbongwana Star @ Band On The Wall, 23 June
Occasionally, events don’t unfold in the way you expect them to. Mbongwana Star’s From Kinshasa is an eerie, innovative, moody, nocturnal LP, dra... Read more »| 27 Jun 2016 -
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Tour de Force: Vukovi at Download Festival
Fearless Kilwinning quartet Vukovi take us behind the scenes on their recent pilgrimage to Donington Park for Download Festival Read more »| 24 Jun 2016
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PreviewsLive music in Manchester this week (22-29 Jun)
There are plenty of great gigs in Manchester over the next seven days, from the raw rock of Ty Segall to the Congolese rhythms of Mbongwana Star, via cosmic duo Happy Meals, the tear-stained pop of M83 and a great local all-dayer. Read more »| 22 Jun 2016 -
Previews
Live music in Liverpool this week (22-29 Jun)
There's plenty to check out across the city over the next seven days, from psychedelic oddballs to avant-experimentalist collaborations; reunited 60s legends to pop-punksters with nary a fuck given for the gender binary Read more »| 22 Jun 2016 -
Reviews
Parquet Courts @ La Belle Angele, 16 June
A near sell-out La Belle Angele crowd is struggling to make up its mind about Housewives. The London group are flexing their muscles and dealing out some ind... Read more »| 21 Jun 2016 -
Festivals
Parklife 2016: The Review
Manchester's flagship celebration of dance, electro, pop and rock returns to Heaton Park for a fourth year in fine form Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
Reviews
Ben Folds and yMusic @ Usher Hall, 14 June
“Every year, I make up 12 or 13 new songs,” Ben Folds explains dryly. “That means we’ve got... 11 more to go.” We’re two ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
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Royal Headache / The #1s @ Broadcast, 14 June
Two different shades of punk rock come to Broadcast. Dublin's #1s (or 'Number Ones' if you prefer; they're not fussy) are up first, and they're the ones who ... Read more »| 16 Jun 2016 -
Festivals
Field Day 2016: The Review
Field Day rings in 10 years with celebratory headline turns from James Blake, PJ Harvey and some almighty storm clouds. Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Festivals
Primavera Sound 2016: The Review
For British music festival veterans wearily accustomed to watching live music from under the hood of a dripping anorak, Barcelona’s Primavera Sound – a festival effectively located on a Mediterranean beach – is something of a sunny novelty Read more »| 13 Jun 2016 -
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Kate Jackson & The Wrong Moves @ The Hug and Pint, 4 June
Whoever released Kaspar Hauser from their box is certain to be looking sheepish. Loud, unctuous, and wielding darkwave hooks straight out of some 1983 nether... Read more »| 09 Jun 2016