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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PreviewsJimmy Eat World @ Barrowland, 19 Nov
Having spent the bulk of last year celebrating the tenth anniversary of Clarity – arguably their finest and most influential album to date – Temp... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010 -
ReviewsInstal 2010 @ Tramway, 12-13 Nov
Since its inception in 2001, Instal has established itself as one of the most important events in the UK’s sound art/avant-garde music calendar. This y... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010 -
PreviewsNina Nastasia @ Electric Circus, 8 Dec
New York’s Nina Nastasia will be bringing her lilting, delicate brand of folk-rock to Edinburgh’s Electric Circus on 8 Dec. Her latest album Outl... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010 -
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Les Savy Fav @ Òran Mór, 14 Nov
Hats off to Wichita for finding supports capable of cordoning off their own patch of memory tonight. They might not share the headliner’s carnivalesque... Read more »| 16 Nov 2010 -
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Deftones @ O2 Academy, 12 Nov
While the past two years have seen an abundance of drama for Deftones, they've also seen the release of their strongest work since 2000’s futuristic me... Read more »| 16 Nov 2010 -
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Casiotone For the Painfully Alone @ Captain's Rest, 11 Nov
Owen Ashworth's introspective style naturally attracts devotion. But considering tonight’s significance (Ashworth shortly puts the Casiotone for the Pa... Read more »| 15 Nov 2010
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ReviewsAsh @ The Liquid Room, 11 Nov
Ash’s Tim Wheeler points out that it’s been six years since their last Edinburgh gig, and it’s been almost double that since The Skinny las... Read more »| 15 Nov 2010 -
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Big Boi @ O2 Academy, 3 Nov
As one half of the biggest selling hip-hop group of all time, by rights OutKast’s Antwan ‘Big Boi’ Patton should have sold out the Academy ... Read more »| 11 Nov 2010 -
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Foals @ HMV Picture House, 31 Oct
Smoke machines work overtime while eerie cuts from Ozzy, Maiden and Tool’s Lateralus – a lingering nod to that ‘math-rock’ lineage &n... Read more »| 11 Nov 2010 -
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Drive-By Truckers @ ABC, 10 November
Pack yer flask full of bourbon and head on down to O2 ABC for an Alabama Ass-Whuppin' courtesy of Southern Rock's great revivalist hope, Drive-By Tru... Read more »| 08 Nov 2010 -
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Fence Halloween
Glittery globes and cardboard cacti transform Stereo and its half-finished lane-neighbour The Old Hairdresser into appropriately galactic settings for a Spac... Read more »| 05 Nov 2010 -
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Swans @ The Arches, 25 October
Opening for Swans must be one of the most daunting tasks an artist can face but James Blackshaw takes it calmly; almost too calmly, in fact. His nonplussed a... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
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Live Music Highlights – November 2010
The outrageously talented Meursault take November by the scruff of the neck with a trio of dates at Dundee Dexters on 4 Nov, Aberdeen Beach Ballroom on 5 Nov... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
PreviewsThe Metal Column – November 2010
Kicking off what is perhaps Scotland’s single greatest metal month of the year, Finnish Cello quartet Apocalyptica, like off-cuts from Lucifer's Orches... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
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Badly Drawn Boy @ Old Fruitmarket, 20 Oct
“Not exactly playing the hits am I?” notes Badly Drawn Boy after airing tracks from 1997’s EP1. That’s not quite accurate – in ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010