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 Secret Machines @ The Liquid Room, 28 Mar
Electrifying and energizing; I left the venue with the same post-gig tinnitus one experiences after any show worth its sand. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash @ Cabaret Voltaire
The banality of an inner-city barn dance mimicking a spaghetti-western. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Festivals
Big Big Country
Passionate about Americana and interested in exploring the past, present, and future of this music genre? Look no further than Glasgow then, and book your ti... Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
ReviewsBonnie Prince Billy @ Queens Hall,12 April
Oldham demonstrated just why he remains one of America's most important songwriters Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Previews
Live Music Roundup for April
Peculiar, indefinable, and utterly wonderful; American six-piece The Spinto Band play the Barfly on April 22 Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Go Team @ ABC
Go! Go! Go team! Read more »| 16 Apr 2006
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Wolfmother @ King Tut's
saved from pastiche by the sheer variety of checkpoints they acknowledge Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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White Rose Movement @ Barfly
choke the last breath from the eighties influenced, electro-clash scene yet smear their angsty grease all over the set Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Station Project @ Nice'n'Sleazys
thrillingly confident music batters off the cobwebs, leaving dumbfounded spectators in their wake Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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ShitDisco @ ABC2
Shitdisco's decadent disco inferno normally burns down any party they play at, but tonight manages to ignite in an unexpected setting Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Get A Room @ Brunswick Hotel
like a night that struggled to keep a grip of itself and then thought - fuck it, let's have it Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Gogol Bordello @ The Garage
I can't imagine I'd pop them on when I'm sizzling some bacon Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Gemma Hayes @ King Tut's
a never-ending episode of Dawson's Creek Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Bloc Party @ King Tut's
a truly amazing performance from a great band that hopefully won't, like Adonis, turn into pretty little narcissi if they perish prematurely Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Firebrand Super Rock and Vantage Point @ Bannermans
some satisfied grins amongst the long hair and Manowar t-shirts Read more »| 16 Apr 2006