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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ReviewsEastern Promise @ Platform, 1 Oct
Wounded Knee and his age of austerity orchestra as he calls it, or rather nifty vocal loop pedal as I do, is a hypnotising act. Making no effort to reassure ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
FestivalsEastern Promise Photo Gallery One
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Festivals
Music Like A Vitamin 2010
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ReviewsThe Fruit Tree Foundation presents Music Like A Vitamin @ HMV Picture House, 1 Oct
Idlewild’s Rod Jones and former Delgado Emma Pollock have been ploughing the admirable Music Like A Vitamin furrow for a few years now, gathering toget... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Festivals
Eastern Promise Photo Gallery Two
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Festivals
Fence Records Presents...The Away Game!
Read more »| 04 Oct 2010
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Previews
The Metal Column - October 2010
The remainder of the year is about to serve up an uncivil barrage of ear-baiting terror, as if to coincide with the impending winter darkness. But rather tha... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
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Grinderman @ Barrowlands, 28 Sep
Grinderman have described their causa causans as an “excuse to make a fucking racket”; turns out that this is something they’re particularl... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
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Manic Street Preachers @ O2 Academy, 29 Sep
A boa wrapped around a mic stand, a white Gibson being tuned by a roadie, and an empty space to the left of the stage: the Manics don’t have to be perf... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
Previews
Live Music Highlights - October, 2010
Scottish three-piece Hey Enemy have spent a lot of time listening to Melvins, Shellac and The Jesus Lizard and have songs with names like Johnny Fucko and Pu... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
Previews
Dillinger Escape Plan @ The Garage, 29 Oct
Boasting one of the best-reviewed heavy metal albums of 2010 and a name synonymous with the mathcore subgenre, Dillinger Escape Plan will come packing a noto... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
Previews
The Psychedelic Furs @ O2 ABC, 29 Oct
Forever immortalised by the John Hughes film of the same name, Pretty in Pink became the best known (and to most the only known) release of The Psychedelic F... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
Previews
Against Me! @ QMU, 27 Oct
While cleaning up their act considerably since first bellowing out Pints of Guinness Make You Strong, Floridian folk-punks Against Me! have incidenta... Read more »| 23 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsMGMT @ Barrowlands, 20 Sep
Scrutinise reactions tonight and a pattern emerges. Electric Feel – recorded for posterity on a sea of mobile phones. Siberian Breaks – chatter. ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
Previews
Of Montreal @ QMU, 4 Oct
In recent years, the Of Montreal experience has cultivated its theatricality to bold new heights – supporting the extended space-sex jam of Skeletal La... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010