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 Long Blondes @ Mono, 28 Apr
Perhaps not for the majority Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
ReviewsRichard Ashcroft @ Carling Academy, 8 May
Worshippers leave with the lyric ""I can't change my mould"" falling from their mouths. Do they wish he hadn't? Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Mystery Jets @ QMU, 3 May
lures the listener in like the proverbial cheese in a mouse trap Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
ReviewsLightning Bolt @ Grand Ole Opry
like sperm flocking to an egg Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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T-Break Heat 2 @ The Liquid Room, 8 May
Imagine you're getting married and every close relative is in a band, so you're obligated to let them all play, despite some resembling musicians and some un... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Belle & Sebastian and Friends @ The Tramway, 30 Apr
Two men entreating even the twee-est kids to catch the flow and let their hearts skip a beat Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Kool Keith @ The Bongo Club
Making the worn out and half-cut faithful feel something like the patients who hang around in vain on Dr Octagon's Waiting List, Kool Keith finally hauls his... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
ReviewsBattles @ The Venue, 28 Apr
It's a precious thing to witness such a performance, and even rarer to come away thinking that the band in question are capable of even greater things Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Found & How To Swim @ Cabaret Voltaire
Found occupy the growing space between electronic music and the folk rock tradition Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Silver Jews and Alasdair Roberts @ The Bongo Club
a poet who has learned the joy of a wall of amplifiers Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Buck 65 @ The Bongo Club
Few forays into his sizeable and diverse back catalogue Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Festivals
Knockengorroch Festival
The standard festival scene of people stomping around in mud up to their eyeballs was rainy Knockengorroch festival this year - though it wasn't a case of ra... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Shetland Folk Festival
It's early on a Saturday morning at the festival club, and I find my feet along with hundreds of others crammed around the tiny main stage, pounding the floo... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Jazz me up! Glasgow International Jazz Festival Comes to Town
Yup boys and girls, June is finally here. Those warm, summery nights are drawing in and that means only one thing for one of Scotland's most vibrant cities: ... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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952 Recordings featuring Redmond and Alan Cranney and The Sound @ Mixing Rooms
proof positive that 952, who packed the venue to its capacity, have the ability to attract a huge following in Glasgow Read more »| 16 May 2006