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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ReviewsThe Body / VOE @ Audio, Glasgow, 22 April
Dotted inbetween the bald-headed and bearded metal-heads who are tonight's main audience are a handful of nervous-looking hipster types (this reviewer among ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: Threshold 2014
Threshold Festival 2014 The fourth year of Liverpool's grassroots festival of music and arts commandeered a clutch of venues in the Baltic Triangle over the... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
FestivalsNorthwest Festival Watch: Liverpool Sound City
Bird and Ex-Easter Island Head consider the scope of Liverpool Sound City on the run-up to the May bank holiday weekend event Read more »| 24 Apr 2014 -
ReviewsEx-Easter Island Head @ Kazimier, Liverpool, 20 Apr
Liverpool-based group Ex-Easter Island Head are in a celebratory mood, having released two highly acclaimed minimalist records in the past 12 months. The mos... Read more »| 23 Apr 2014 -
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George Clinton @ The Ritz, Manchester, 17 April
George Clinton has spent the best part of the last 40 years orchestrating the freakiest gang of funkateers known to mankind. How freaky you ask? The answer l... Read more »| 21 Apr 2014 -
PreviewsRecord Store Day 2014 – Events Guide
We take a look at events happening near you on Record Store Day (19 April), featuring live performances from Sacred Paws, Stanley Odd, Ubre Blanca, Broken Records, LAW and a whole host of others Read more »| 15 Apr 2014
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Reviews
Therapy? The Garage, Glasgow, 7 April
While the same old talking heads romanticise Britpop’s worst b-sides and exhaustive Nirvana nostalgia draws to its ugly conclusion as pictures of Kurt ... Read more »| 10 Apr 2014 -
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Manic Street Preachers / The Twilight Sad @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 4 April
In June, the Manics will bring their studio album tally up to an even dozen – impressive considering their one-time pledge to release a doubl... Read more »| 09 Apr 2014 -
Festivals
UK Festivals: Summer in the City
As the UK gears up for the kick-off of the festival season, we focus in on in-the-city, showcase and one-day events, and speak to Factory Floor, Daniel Avery, East India Youth and Slam about their highlights Read more »| 07 Apr 2014 -
Festivals
The SxSW Diaries: Casual Sex vs Texas
Co-starring Gus Fring, an irate Russian taxi driver and a couple of dutiful canines, Casual Sex drummer Chris McCrory underlines the band's South by Southwest debut with a full and frank account of their collective experience Read more »| 04 Apr 2014 -
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Tim Hecker / Julianna Barwick @ RNCM, Manchester, 1 April
For a festival concerned with all things digital, the organisers of FutureEverything couldn’t have put together a more innovative pair of musicians tha... Read more »| 03 Apr 2014 -
Previews
Scottish Gig Highlights – April 2014
This month, we take an advance look at Glasgow in-the-city festival Stag & Dagger, featuring Forest Swords, The Hold Steady and East India Youth, plus gigs from The Cosmic Dead, Randolph's Leap, Manic Street Preachers and Ghana's King Ayisoba Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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Northwest Gig Highlights – April 2014
While Christians are celebrating the resurrection of their messiah this month, we’re looking forward to the arrival of some peeps who can walk on water in our eyes, including Kiran Leonard, Timber Timbre and George Clinton Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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Evian Christ / Koreless / Lorenzo Senni / Visionist / TCF @ RNCM, Manchester, 29 March
Despite little being known about upcoming producer TCF, his lush acousmatic composition juxtaposed by gravelly digital decay has stunned audiences and got cr... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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O2 Love Music Column – April 2014
Aussie indie-dance remix aficionados Cut Copy have been touring since December 2013 off the back of fourth LP Free Your Mind, and the final European leg pull... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014