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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FestivalsIn Pictures: Eastern Promise Festival 2012 @ Platform, Friday, 5 October
Eastern Promise Festival 2012 Returning for a third year, the first night of Platform's 2012 edition of the eclectic Eastern Promise Festival offered sets b... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsPalma Violets / Childhood @ Electric Circus, 8 October
There’s a certain look that some bands have, a look of easy confidence from the moment they stride onto the stage. Childhood have that look... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsPAWS / North American War @ CCA, 4 October
Tonight begins with a major disappointment: the promised rum and coke floats are unavailable. The CCA weren’t keen on the potential mess, explains a ba... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsOmar Rodríguez-López Group @ Stereo, 30 September
The Omar Rodríguez-López Group is a chimera, not a band – a catch-all name to encompass an ever-changing line-up expounding Omar’s... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Reviews
Azealia Banks @ O2 ABC, 29 September
This virulent hip-hop double-bill opens with New York rapper Zebra Katz, accompanied on stage by whip-fierce Njena Reddd Foxxx, churning the 8pm crowd into ... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsFrightened Rabbit @ Victoria Hall, Selkirk, 25 September
Small town music communities can be precious and fanatical about their local bands. Yet when the band in question is Frightened Rabbit and tonight’s ... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012
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Previews
The Metal Column – October 2012
A look at the upcoming metal highlights in Edinburgh and Glasgow for October, featuring Alice Cooper, Gallows, Soulfly, Young Guns, As I Lay Dying, Wolf and many more... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
Previews
Live Music Highlights – October 2012
With the likes of Alexander Tucker, John Cale, Liars and WHY? swinging through town this month, it seems that as the nights draw in, the freaks come out to play Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
Previews
O2 Love Music Column – October 2012
Fans of art school chanteuse Natasha Khan, better known as Bat For Lashes, will be in for a treat this month. Third album The Haunted Man&nbs... Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
El-P / Despot / Bigg Taj & Spee 69 @ Stereo, 18 September
With Stereo's basement superheated to a temperature somewhere beyond that of a tropical rainforest, the night kicks off with a set from UK rapper Spee 69 a... Read more »| 20 Sep 2012 -
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Torche / The Cosmic Dead @ O2 ABC2, 15 September
Our very own psych-kraut wizards The Cosmic Dead open with a free-form improvisational set. They're only three members strong tonight, but the combination ... Read more »| 19 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
Beirut / Daughter @ O2 ABC, 11 September
Built around Elena Tonra’s candid songwriting – a litany of break-ups and breakdowns in a doleful key – Daughter’s fragile sound cou... Read more »| 19 Sep 2012 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Music Language Festival 2012
Music Language Festival 2012 A glimpse of the action from the Music Language Festival 2012 in Glasgow, 1 & 2 September. Photography by Neil Jarvie Read more »| 07 Sep 2012 -
Festivals
Festival Column: Trans Musicales
Les Rencontres Trans Musicales – 'meeting through music', nicely literal) is the winter festival which has garnered the useful reputation for being the... Read more »| 06 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
Grandaddy @ O2 ABC, 30 August
Six years ago, Grandaddy were collapsed and futureless. By the time final album Just Like the Fambly Cat appeared, the members had already parted company, l... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012