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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ReviewsKate 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 -
ReviewsZyna Hel @ The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, 3 June
Whisper it, but there’s something of the am-dram to tonight. Which sounds catty and mealy-mouthed when it isn’t designed to be; it’s just t... Read more »| 09 Jun 2016 -
Festivals
Brew At The Bog 2016: The Review
Sunshine is here – cue the annual slew of summer festivals vying for our holiday time (and a big slice of our bank accounts). With a multitude of event... Read more »| 08 Jun 2016 -
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Nadia Reid @ Portico Library, Manchester, 3 June
Tech gremlins threaten to unseat Nadia Reid just minutes into her Manchester debut but she’s entirely unfazed. While others examine leads and connectio... Read more »| 08 Jun 2016 -
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Down the Front: Bruce Springsteen returns to Hampden
Under a blistering sun, The Boss took the Hampden hordes on a characteristically epic nostalgia tour of his 1980 blue collar rock opus The River this pa... Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
FestivalsThe new talent at this year's Africa Oyé festival
The UK's biggest free festival of African music and culture, Africa Oyé, returns to Sefton Park this June. Artistic director Paul Duhaney tells us mor... Read more »| 01 Jun 2016
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PreviewsScottish Gig Highlights – June 2016
With stadium rock Gods swooping in from on high, plus Glasgow's West End Festival and Edinburgh's Hidden Door in full flow, neither coast should struggle for... Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
Previews
Northwest Gig Highlights – June 2016
The balmy summer evenings that we should, in theory, soon get will go perfectly with shimmering Scandi pop from Molly Nilsson, reggae festival Positive Vibration and upbeat genre-crossing sounds from the Max Graef Band. Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
ReviewsCate Le Bon @ Gorilla, Manchester, 23 May
Just minutes after this remarkable, head-spinning show, Cate Le Bon is left nonplussed by the strangest kind of half-compliment when one of her Twitter follo... Read more »| 27 May 2016 -
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Anna Meredith @ The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, 17 May
Pop arrives in many shapes and sizes – only sometimes it takes an outsider to point things out. Anna Meredith’s background may be in classical co... Read more »| 23 May 2016 -
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Restless Natives: Tim Hecker / Blanck Mass @ St Luke's
If there's one unanimous consensus that can be drawn from tonight's gig, the finale of the week-long Restless Natives festival, it's that earplugs are essent... Read more »| 18 May 2016 -
Live Music
Bat for Lashes @ Manchester Cathedral, 13 May
Natasha Khan doesn’t do concept albums by halves. Brighton’s most mystical singer-songwriter has always enjoyed conjuring tales, and after a few ... Read more »| 18 May 2016 -
Live Music
Tim Hecker @ Academy 3, Manchester, 16 May
Tim Hecker’s eighth album Love Streams encouraged widespread acclaim on its release back in March; the Canadian maestro's masterful ambient m... Read more »| 18 May 2016 -
Reviews
Emma Pollock @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 13 May
"I'll try not to talk too much tonight," says Emma Pollock before she's even played a note. "More time for, you know, the actual songs." Generous in performa... Read more »| 17 May 2016 -
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Restless Natives: Happy Meals @ Collective, 14 May
It's Saturday night and the Calton is bouncing. The bars in and around the Gallowgate are stowed out. An Easter Rising commemorative march has finished just ... Read more »| 17 May 2016