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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PreviewsThe Dälek of Enlightenment
Many players, labels, fads and facets have come and gone since Dälek came to play with rugged beats and dystopian rhymes ten years ago. Will Brooks tells Dave Kerr why they’ve survived. Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Previews
Guru's Jazzmatazz @ The Voodoo Rooms, 6 Nov
Bugsy Malone meets Louis Armstrong in a hip-hop odyssey for classy cats Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Previewsballboy @ The Mill
They seem to have been about forever, but November sees local indie favourites ballboy make their debut at The Mill with a much anticipated double header. Songwriter in chief Gordon McIntyre spoke to Finbarr Bermingham about recent developments in ballboy's world. Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
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Goldfrapp @ The Corn Exchange, 5 Nov
Following her early days singing on Orbital and Tricky records, Alison Goldfrapp hit the big time with 2006’s Supernature, its glammy electro perfectly captu... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
PreviewsMy Vitriol @ Stereo, 19 Nov
High on the “whatever happened to…?” list of the past five years is My Vitriol, now showing up at Stereo in Glasgow. After a highly succe... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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Metal Up Your Ass - November, 2008
Potentially the gigging highlight of the month, and perhaps of the year, comes in the form of the astonishing Israeli trio Monotonix (10 Nov) at The Captain's Rest Read more »| 29 Oct 2008
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The Black Keys @ Queen's Hall, 16 Nov
Bringing to a close a year that saw them release a white-hot collaboration with hip-hop hit-maker Danger Mouse, The Black Keys will bring their oil-stained g... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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Don Caballero @ Stereo, 12 Nov
Influential Pennsylvanian math-rockers hit Glasgow Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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Mogwai @ Corn Exchange, 21 Oct
"A pick’n’mix approach for sure, but there’s no doubting the quality sweeties on offer" Photography - Kat Gollock Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Shred Yr Face @ Glasgow School of Art, 18 Oct
"Even the art school kids can let loose tonight." Photography - John Lewis Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
PreviewsMogwai @ Corn Exchange, 21 Oct
Due to an electrical glitch, a subsequent lack of a proper soundcheck and a tight schedule, Errors (****) are practically playing before most punters have be... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
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The Cardinals @ The Picture House, 14 Nov
More sober than he's been in years, expect Ryan Adams' erratic live show to be a more polished affair this time out Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
PreviewsLive Music Highlights - November, 2008
Controversy-courting, super-prolific lo-fi indie superstar Jay Reatard brings the ruckus to Glasgow ABC2 on 18 Nov Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
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Holy Ghost Revival @ Captain's Rest, 20 Oct
Fed up with waiting forever for Chinese Democracy? Holy Ghost Revival are here to help, with singer Conor St. Kiley (even their names sound as though they we... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
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Shred Yr Face @ Glasgow School of Art, 18 Oct
Even the art school kids can let loose tonight. Times New Viking inaugurate both the shredding of yr face and the mutualisation of yr Tennent's with a handfu... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008