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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PreviewsUnicorn Kid @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Jun
Not many 17-year-olds from Edinburgh can say they’ve collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys...or played a live session on BBC Radio 1...or featured in NME... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Festivals
A Prelude to Primavera 2009
It feels like a revolution. Thousands of flag-bearing revellers roam the night streets. Fireworks blast, bins are overturned, scooters knocked on their sides... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
PreviewsLive Music Highlights - June, 2009
You'd have to take a lethal dose of sleeping pills to block out the noise that The Drones are making at the moment Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Previews
The Metal Section - June, 2009
As seasons go, summer really isn't the most conducive to sullen misery and angry, clenched-fist misanthropy. It must be hard to stay mad at one's parents whi... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
FestivalsStag & Dagger (Glasgow), 23 May
After a successful inaugural run-through in London’s East End in 2008, Stag and Dagger – a one-ticket, multi-venue music festival – decided... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Previews
Aqualung @ Reid Concert Hall, 22 Jun
Somewhere in the darkest depths of your mind, there may lurk the faint memory of Strange and Beautiful, Aqualung's dreamy piano-led lament that in 2002 was v... Read more »| 27 May 2009
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FestivalsStag and Dagger
After a successful inaugural run-through in London’s East End in 2008, Stag and Dagger – a one-ticket, multi-venue music festival – decided... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Previews
The Thermals @ Sneaky Pete's, 16 Jun
Kill Rock Stars’ Death Cab-bothering gems The Thermals bring their brand of “no-fi” indie to Auld Reekie in support of fourth full-length N... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
PreviewsFuture Cinema Presents All Tomorrow's Parties @ HMV Picture House, 24 June
Ever drunkenly pumped coins into a 2p machine to the sound of Deerhunter playing Butlins, or spotted Steve Albini fleecing fans at poker while watching Eurov... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Previews
The Aliens @ Cabaret Voltaire, 31 May
Rising from the psychological wreckage of the Beta Band, Gordon Anderson has successfully emancipated himself from his past, while retaining just enough of t... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Reviews
The Breeders @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 20 May
The concert equivalent of a cocktease is surely going to see The Breeders and not being able to catch a glimpse of the sisters Deal. Lucky, then, that this w... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Reviews
Kristin Hersh @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 18 May
Intensity is the watchword tonight at King Tut's. The tone is set by opening act Beerjacket (***), the nom de rock of self-effacing singer-songwriter Peter K... Read more »| 22 May 2009 -
Festivals
The Great Escape Festival @ Brighton, 14-16 May
They've said it's the UK's answer to SxSW, but is it any kop? We sent Finbarr Bermingham and Alexis Somerville to find out. Read more »| 21 May 2009 -
Reviews
Pit Er Pat @ Limbo, The Voodoo Rooms, 14 May
In the sometimes sumptuous setting of the Voodoo Rooms, Pit Er Pat just about reach their comfort zone. Their feet seem to drag as they take the stag... Read more »| 20 May 2009 -
Previews
Jack Peñate @ Bongo Club, 16 Jun
Jack Peñate kicks off his summer season with a pre-festival June tour, previewing his forthcoming second album, to include new single Tonight’s ... Read more »| 20 May 2009