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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ReviewsLost In France @ O2 ABC, 21 Feb
In 2015 a group of scene-defining Scottish musicians escaped from the present to travel almost two decades back to their past. With the space and distance to... Read more »| 24 Feb 2017 -
Things To Do
Live music in Liverpool this week: 22-28 Feb
Another hectic week of shows sees grime's rising star Lady Leshurr and Manchester DIY heroes Hot Shorts come to Liverpool... plus a fuckload of jazz Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
ReviewsMenace Beach @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 14 Feb
It's not often that a band will acknowledge that they've been upstaged by their support act, but Menace Beach are a humble bunch. Midway through their set th... Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
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Pet Shop Boys @ Manchester Arena, 19 Feb
Not being superstitious, last year the Pet Shop Boys named their 13th studio album Super. After more than three decades making electro-pop hits, its title de... Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
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Scottish Gigs of the Week: 21-27 Feb
Live Music in Edinburgh 47 Soul @ Studio 24, Fri 24 Feb 47SOUL is an electro Arabic dabke band who formed in Amman, Jordan in 2013. They’ve created t... Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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Nadia Reid @ Broadcast, 12 Feb
The Sunday night dreads seeped into the Broadcast basement tonight. Nadia Reid greets the undeservedly sparse audience with an acapella rendition, before lau... Read more »| 20 Feb 2017
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Shield Patterns @ The Castle, Manchester, 9 Feb
Forget what you know about Shield Patterns: this time round, it doesn’t apply. All that industrial hiss, that processed disorienting fug, that cinemati... Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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Tegan and Sara @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 17 Feb
There are two things to pay attention to at a Tegan and Sara gig. One is the band themselves, the other is the audience you’ve surrounded you... Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
ReviewsModern Baseball @ SWG3, Glasgow, 16 Feb
American emo crew Modern Baseball know how to play a crowd. Guitarist Jake Ewald assures us within minutes of their set starting that Glasgow is “alway... Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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Sacred Paws @ Summerhall, 10 Feb
“Sorry for being such a downer on a Friday evening..." remarks The Doozer halfway through his performance. We have to be honest and say he is a bit of ... Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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Kid Canaveral's Lumber Party II @ Stereo, 11 Feb
A troupe of nuns adorned with eye patches and smears of lipstick, a raffle, electro and indie-pop, drink-fueled dancing, and a SAY Award winner at a tiny pia... Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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Carla dal Forno @ Paradise Palms, Edinburgh, 8 Feb
We arrive in good time for Carla dal Forno’s free gig at Paradise Palms tonight – and just as well, really. It's already heaving – in some ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
PreviewsLive music in Manchester this week: 15-21 Feb
Brooklyn noisemakers Sleigh Bells, local trio Cassia, Northern Soul icon Betty Harris and even wannabe moonlight fighter LeAnn Rimes all feature on Manchester's stages this week. It's an eclectic week, kids Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Cabbage @ Gorilla, Manchester, 11 Feb
As Mossley outfit Cabbage tear through a solid 50 minutes of immersive post-punk motifs and unashamedly abrasive left-wing politics, you get t... Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Live music in Liverpool this week: 15-21 Feb
Hotly-tipped R'n'B stars, country singers on the rise and a whole load of pop-punk: the best gigs in Liverpool over the next seven days Read more »| 15 Feb 2017