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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ReviewsInterpol @ Carling Academy
It's easy to feel like you're alone in the venue with just the band and the hairs on the back of your neck Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Qui @ King Tut's, 20 Nov
For a frontman who is more intrepid than most when he has a mic in his fist, David Yow cuts an unassuming figure as he shimmies around Tut's while Hey Enemy ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
ReviewsRoisin Murphy @ ABC, 1 Dec
A show of the visual kind, at times eclipsing the music itself Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Sons and Daughters @ Cabaret Voltaire, 2 Dec
Sons and Daughters certainly provide some colloquial laughs and bare-faced iconoclasm, matched by their mesmerising stage presence. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Swimmer One @ Voodoo Rooms, 22 Nov
Whilst the songs are flawlessly delivered, tonight the intensity that the record is so loaded with seems somehow lacking. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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The Twilight Sad @ Cabaret Voltaire
It's been a good year for Scottish music and tonight's bill at Cabaret Voltaire offers up three reasons why Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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ReviewsThis Is Music @ Henry's Cellar Bar, 29 Nov
A multi-vocal, multi-guitar onslaught of sound, tonight Action Group delivers Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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UNKLE @ ABC, 13 Nov
Let's not piss about here: UNKLE haven't been playing in quite the same ballpark since DJ Shadow left the fold not long after the appearance of their definin... Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Live Music Roundup - January
Kula Shaker are here to help you tap that retro vein with a fat bag of Tattva Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Previews
Metal Up Your Ass - January, 2008
It's a new year with new music reaching Scotland but alongside it come those welcome smatterings of the old and familiar Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Future Of The Left @ Barfly
Manic tension and playful hooks that beg to be yelped with glee Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Festivals
Winter's Love Mini Festival, SPK Polish Club, Falkirk, 14 Dec
The inaugural Winter's Love Mini-Festival could be your last chance to spend a few quid wisely in 2007. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Chris de Burgh @ Clyde Auditorium
A frustrating enigma. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Previews
Pelican @ Oran Mor
They may have traded stonewash for camouflage, lost the masturbatory solos and developed a more expansive sound, but when sneaker hits distortion pedal, it's still metal Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Rodrigo y Gabriela @ Barrowlands
One of the most inspiring and brilliant young bands anywhere in the world right now. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007