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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ReviewsLe Guess Who? – Day Two: Six of the Best
Difficult to believe from the array of delights on offer, but day one of Le Guess Who? presented a relatively gentle introduction to an incredible line-up. Read more »| 21 Nov 2015 -
ReviewsLe Guess Who? – Day One: Six of the Best
Le Guess Who? is an alternative music festival in Utrecht, a city on the rise in terms of both tourism and cultural cachet. With this year's festival featuri... Read more »| 20 Nov 2015 -
FestivalsTrans Musicales 2015 preview
The Trans Musicales festival, which has been running in the ornate city of Rennes since 1979, is an incomparably idiosyncratic and challenging festival. It&r... Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
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Ibeyi @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 10 November
There’s a strange, special warmth to the Ibeyi twins. It's in their spine-shivering harmonies, and in their sparse, precise percussion. More than anyth... Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
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Best Coast @ The Kazimier, Liverpool, 30 Oct
Coming of age can be a difficult task when you’ve created the perfect teenage soundtrack but that’s the tricky conundrum facing LA fuzz rockers B... Read more »| 16 Nov 2015 -
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Ex Hex @ Stereo, Glasgow, 6 Nov
On first listen, Ex Hex seem perfectly straightforward – a dash of Cheap Trick, a smidgen of The Nerves, a whole lotta Joan Jett. So winsome,... Read more »| 13 Nov 2015
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METZ / Protomartyr @ Stereo, Glasgow, 5 Nov
Sweat droplets are saturating the heavy air, eyes are rolling wildly, and limbs are snapping about like a rabid pair of jaws. That’s not tonight’... Read more »| 10 Nov 2015 -
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Killing Joke @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 3 Nov
Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke stands before us, his eyeliner seeping into the pores of his former years as he prances across the stage of the ABC. He haunts ou... Read more »| 09 Nov 2015 -
ReviewsEast India Youth / PIXX @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 28 Oct
Hannah Rodgers, recent 4AD signing operating as PIXX, opens our Wednesday escape with her dreamy, folksy psychedelia. Backed by a guitarist and another singe... Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
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Josh T Pearson @ Liverpool Music Week, 28 Oct
Four years on from his own second coming, Josh T Pearson is launching another resurrection in the unlikely but strangely apt surroundings of Liverpool’s Scandinavian Seamen’s Church. Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
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Joanna Newsom @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 31 Oct
At first glance, the Albert Hall’s stage is looking awfully bare tonight. The harp sitting dead centre is enough to remind us who’s in town, but there’s no backdrop – just the wood-paneled wall of the old chapel’s altar. Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
Previews
Northwest Gig Highlights – November 2015
Remember remember, er, all of November, because it's full of musical dynamite, from Jenny Hval to Ex Hex and the return of MONEY Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
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Scottish Gig Highlights – November 2015
Defy the dark days to take in the likes of Deerhunter, Slayer, Ibeyi, Zu and a double-whammy from Public Enemy and The Prodigy this November Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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HEALTH / Apostille @ Stereo, Glasgow, 26 Oct
It’s just gone quarter to eight in a half packed Stereo on a dreary Glasgow night, but looking at the hyperactive Michael Kasparis it might as well be ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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Liverpool Music Week Opening Party @ The Kazimier, 23 Oct
In comparison to the Autumn calendar's other big Liverpool music gathering, Psych Fest, Liverpool Music Week's curation policy eschews concept beyond simply booking the acts they like. Read more »| 29 Oct 2015