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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ReviewsGZA/Hector Bizerk @ The Arches, 13 February
The Arches is already near capacity, with a crowd in boisterous mood when Hector Bizerk take to the stage. It's the kind of environment where many support ac... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
ReviewsJustice @ O2 Academy, 12 February
A brightly lit cross, two French guys whose haircuts bob like violent metronomes, and faux-Marshall amps that double as strobes piercing an otherwise Spartan... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
Photos
In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February
In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February This sold out leg of HMV's 'Next Big Thing' showcase brought... Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Mastodon/The Dillinger Escape Plan @ Barrowlands, 7 February
It's safe to say that The Dillinger Escape Plan have played a significant part in selling out tonight's show; a touch of anxiety lingers before the inevitabl... Read more »| 14 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February
The Grand Ole Opry makes an unlikely venue in which to see The Twilight Sad. With confederacy flags and neon lighting adorning each wall, a neutral observer ... Read more »| 13 Feb 2012 -
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In Pictures: The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February
The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February Kilsyth's Twilight Sad unleash new album No One Can Ever Know on Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry at the start of thei... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012
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Festivals
In Pictures: Wee Dub Festival 2012 @ The Bongo Club, 5 February
Wee Dub Festival 2012 @ The Bongo Club, 5 February The Wee Dub Festival continued on Sunday with Mad Professor's Dub Clinic - 'Roots of Dub' workshop. The ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Wee Dub Festival 2012 @ The Bongo Club / The Caves, 4 February
Wee Dub Festival 2012 @ The Bongo Club / The Caves, 4 February Saturday night at the Wee Dub Festival in Edinburgh, gigs at The Caves and The Bongo Club inc... Read more »| 09 Feb 2012 -
ReviewsMull Historical Society / Washington Irving @ O2ABC, 3 February
Tonight is Washington Irving’s second visit to ABC as part of Celtic Connections 2012. The first occupied the smaller ABC2, but the band seems undaunte... Read more »| 09 Feb 2012 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: Wee Dub Festival 2012 @ The Wee Red, 3 February
Wee Dub Festival 2012 @ The Wee Red, 3 February The Wee Dub Festival kicked off at the Wee Red Bar with appearances from Jammie J, Morphy, Ce... Read more »| 08 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Wild Flag / Peggy Sue @ Òran Mór, 30 January
Both of tonight’s acts, while ostensibly steeped in well-trodden approaches to rock, manage to infuse their music with bursts of startling vitality. ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Previews
Hot Ticket of the Month: Errors
It’s one thing to be a great band but it’s quite another to make a great record. Definitive statements can become something of an albatross aroun... Read more »| 03 Feb 2012 -
Previews
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster @ The 13th Note, 5 February
The works of Philip K. Dick interpreted as post-rock art metal: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster bring some heavy conceptual rock to Glasgow's 13th Note. Read more »| 01 Feb 2012 -
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Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 29 January
A raucous troupe of misfit musicians specialising in frenzied polkas, gypsy-punk, “vulgar jazz” and such like, playing to an all-seated venue sta... Read more »| 01 Feb 2012 -
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ SWG3, 28 January
Last year, Hysterical exploded the myth that Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s introductory hype was blogger folly. The myth was already shaky – Some Lo... Read more »| 01 Feb 2012