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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FestivalsIn Pictures: T in the Park 2012
In Pictures: T in the Park 2012 Rolling reportage of the action coming live from our photographers at T in the Park. Photography by Eoin Carey... Read more »| 09 Jul 2012 -
FestivalsT in the Park 2012: The Magnificent Seven
For those making the pilgrimage to T in the Park this month, our Music team humbly presents seven bands you'd be a dipshit to miss Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Festivals
Flow Festival, Helsinki
The former Suvilahti power plant will soon be buzzing again. From 8-12 August the ninth Flow Festival will take place on the historic site close to the cente... Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Previews
Live Music Highlights – July 2012
From Wu-Tang's 'Legends' tour to the live return of The Unwinding Hours, we shave the cream off July's gig calendar Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Reviews
Nas @ HMV Picture House, 26 June
“Where all my Bravehearts at?” Nas tasks this sleepy school night crowd from the get-go, arriving with a full band (simply known as ‘Z&rsqu... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Reviews
Adam Stafford / Rick Redbeard @ The Captain's Rest, 22 June
The small basement stage at The Captain’s Rest makes a perfect setting for solo performers; tonight we have three of them. Each has no problem in cap... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012
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Previews
The Metal Column – July 2012
The highlights of July's upcoming metal gigs revealed! Featuring Unsane, Baroness, Sufferinfuck and many, many more Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
ReviewsOFF! / Trash Talk @ King Tut's, 21 June
Trash Talk open up a night of quickfire hardcore with the menacing dissonance of Hash Wednesday – a sludgy, doom-laden number far removed from the res... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Reviews
Suzanne Vega / Mike Doughty @ Òran Mór, 18 June
Since disbanding Soul Coughing in 2000, Mike Doughty has continued along a similar path: writing songs by turns wry and impassioned, and firmly rooted in a... Read more »| 21 Jun 2012 -
ReviewsChris Cornell @ O2 Academy, 15 June
“I’m only here for the Timbaland era,” barks a man in the Academy's gents room. A dozen patrons lining the urinal shoot the perpetrator a... Read more »| 20 Jun 2012 -
Photos
In Pictures: EPMD @ The Arches, 10 June
Seminal rap duo Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith AKA EPMD make a rare Scottish appearance at The Arches, supported by Bigg Taj and Hector Bizerk on 10 June,... Read more »| 19 Jun 2012 -
Reviews
Com Truise @ The Captain's Rest, Glasgow, 12 Jun
Whichever Gods oversee electronics and connector cables are not smiling kindly on support act Cru Servers tonight, although hints of squelchy acid bass and s... Read more »| 18 Jun 2012 -
Reviews
The Field / Konx-om-Pax @ Glasgow Art School Union, 9 June
In theory, Glasgow’s Konx-om-Pax is a fitting opener for The Field’s hypnotic, loop-based minimal electronica; Tom Scholefield’s mixture... Read more »| 12 Jun 2012 -
Reviews
100% Silk Showcase @ Nice N' Sleazy, 7 June
Los Angeles label 100% Silk are key players in the new wave of synth music currently sweeping the hipsterverse, and tonight's showcase gig sets out to demon... Read more »| 12 Jun 2012 -
Reviews
Papa M @ King Tut's, 28 May
As a key member of both Slint and Tortoise, David Pajo can claim to be perhaps the single most influential figure in the post-rock world; and the myriad... Read more »| 06 Jun 2012