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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PreviewsJenny Lewis @ QMU, 18 Oct
Sans Watson Twins, sans Rilo Kiley, ginger indie-pop dream Jenny Lewis breezes into Glesgie in October, hot on the heels of her new LP Acid Tongue, welcoming... Read more »| 25 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Fence Club @ The Caves, 17 Sep
Featuring James Yorkston & The Athletes, Malcolm Middleton, The Pictish Trail & Rozi Plain Read more »| 24 Sep 2008 -
ReviewsSomeone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin @ The Captain's Rest, 14 Sep
Tonight, We Are Trapped in Kansas (**) channel the spirit of the Mars Volta away from the excesses of jazz obscurantism and towards the relative safety of po... Read more »| 24 Sep 2008 -
ReviewsJames Murphy @ The Caves, 21 Sep
The innovative collaborative programme of the Tennent's Mutual kicked off with two headlining DJ sets by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy. Ally Brown reports on his Edinburgh Caves show, bolstered by the appearance of one of Scotland's best bands of the moment, Frightened Rabbit Read more »| 23 Sep 2008 -
PreviewsAidan John Moffat @ SWG3, 27 Sep
An evening of Chemikal melodies Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
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Dartz! @ The GRV, 17 Sep
Dartz! can take their myriad reference points and distill it into two minutes of down-tuned punk funk. We came looking for little more Read more »| 22 Sep 2008
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Festivals
Cupar Arts Festival @ Various Venues, 10-26 Oct
Fife's miniature answer to SXSW? Find out at the inaugural Cupar Arts Festival this October. Read more »| 19 Sep 2008 -
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Bon Iver @ The Queen's Hall, 17 Sep
If the wild acclamation of For Emma, Forever Ago has left you a little nonplussed, an explanation for the high praise perhaps lies in Bon Iver's live perform... Read more »| 19 Sep 2008 -
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Shearwater @ Captain's Rest, 15 Sep
Shearwater's most recent two albums, Palo Santo and Rook, both benefit from a production aesthetic that values each quiet second equally with each loud secon... Read more »| 19 Sep 2008 -
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PPP @ The Voodoo Rooms, 15 Sep
A trilogy of contrasting acts make a Monday night excursion worthwhile Read more »| 19 Sep 2008 -
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Calexico @ The Queen's Hall, 11 Sep
Calexico and friends signal a marvellous return to their Tex-Mex flavoured roots Read more »| 18 Sep 2008 -
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Wire @ The Arches, 11 Sep
It's "Pink Flag!" over here and "Pink Flag!" over there—all through the night. Nostalgia is a delicate thing at a rock show. There’s a certain un... Read more »| 17 Sep 2008 -
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Meshuggah at The Garage Preview
Nobody likes it when a band cancels, not even the band. So when Meshuggah vocalist Jens Kidman tells a packed Garage how happy the Swedish experi-metal quint... Read more »| 15 Sep 2008 -
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Die! Die! Die! @ Captain's Rest, 9 Sep
If I know anything about Kiwi band managers - and having watched an awful lot of Flight of the Conchords, I’d say I'm pretty clued up - it’s that... Read more »| 15 Sep 2008 -
Previews
Ladyhawk at Nice 'n' Sleazy, 26 Sep
"We're still lucky to get 15 people at most of our shows in the States, but those 15 people have gotten better looking" - Duffy Driediger Read more »| 12 Sep 2008