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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ReviewsGogol Bordello @ Manchester Academy, 14 December
Writing soberly about a Gogol Bordello live show – one taking place at Christmas of all times – feels a bit like getting a cat to use interpretiv... Read more »| 16 Dec 2013 -
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Yo La Tengo @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 4 December
Oh, Yo La Tengo. So quiet, so fragile, so perfect. You make lines like “sometimes the bad guys come out on top” sound both world-weary and cheerf... Read more »| 13 Dec 2013 -
ReviewsBaths @ Islington Mill, Salford, 23 November
He wears thick-rimmed frames and shorts short enough to make a modest pensioner blush. His sweet demeanour is paralleled with his boy-lost voice but don&rsqu... Read more »| 11 Dec 2013 -
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Factory Floor @ Gorilla, Manchester, 7 December
Factory Floor shows should come with two label warnings: not for the epileptic or weak hearted. The live serving of the debut album by this London-based trio... Read more »| 11 Dec 2013 -
ReviewsRocket From The Crypt / The Computers @ Classic Grand, 3 December
With image, schtick and sound all displaying a clear debt to the night’s headliners, The Computers tackle their support duties like enthusiastic unders... Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
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The Dismemberment Plan / Great Cop @ Stereo, 28 November
With a Fugazi-referencing moniker and a Hüsker Dü cover centre of tonight’s set, Great Cop aren’t coy about their influences.... Read more »| 09 Dec 2013
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Casual Sex / Halfrican @ Nice N Sleazy, 22 November
The urgency of Halfrican’s surf-punk sound is in stark contrast to the laidback beachware they wear on stage, despite the Baltic-like conditions o... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
ReviewsArctic Monkeys @ The SSE Hydro, 21 November
You can take the boy out of High Green… and, given nearly a decade of writing guitar hits and amassing a crowd big enough to fill Glasgow’s 13,0... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
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Baths / Swallows Fly Low @ Sneaky Pete's, 25 November
A Krakow native now residing in Edinburgh, Swallows Fly Low graces the stage first of all tonight, quickly proving how suitable a support act he is. Oth... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
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Daughn Gibson @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 24 November
“Tonight seems like a good night for us to just fuck around; that’s alright with you guys, right?” asks Daughn Gibson with the rhetorical a... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Previews
Scottish Gig Highlights – December 2013
December's live highlights include retro rockers Rocket From The Crypt, industrial disco trio Factory Floor, the return of Pop Will Eat Itself, and a Hogmanay extravaganza with Pet Shop Boys, Django Django and CHVRCHES Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
PreviewsNorthwest Gig Highlights – December 2013
This month's gigs are front-loaded to make way for our annual shindig to celebrate the birth of Santa, but there are still plenty of must-go shows, from Yo La Tengo to Factory Floor via Everything Everything Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
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Dean Blunt @ Blade Factory, Liverpool, 30 November
For all the talk of ex-Hype Williams man Dean Blunt's fickle stage manner – there's a palpable air of trepidation in tonight's cold, minimally lit Blad... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
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The Pixies / The Jezabels @ Barrowlands, 22 November
In a Glaswegian musical weekend boasting The Pixies, Shellac and noise-rock throw-backs Metz, you could be forgiven for thinking that you had tumbled, ripped... Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
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Gold Panda @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 23 November
Following the release of his second album Half of Where You Live in June, Berlin-based, Essex-born producer Gold Panda takes to the stage in Liverpool for th... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013