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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ReviewsJames Chance & Les Contortions @ Stereo, Glasgow, 12 March
The wraithlike James Chance walks on stage slowly, looking every one of his 61 years with possibly a few more in reserve. Eternally dapper, a casual stride a... Read more »| 23 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
SXSW Music Diary: Viet Cong, Courtney Barnett, and The Twilight Sad's South By advice
Day three of our time at SXSW Music conference starts with a sobering reminder that there’s absolutely no bloody way we’re going to see half the ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2015 -
FestivalsSXSW Music Diary: Hudson Mohawke, United Fruit, and Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
With its Tech and Film strands already in full flow by the time our plane touched the tarmac, this past Tuesday marked the beginning of South By Southwest&rs... Read more »| 20 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Neon Waltz / The Tripps @ Nice'n'Sleazy, Glasgow, 4 March
We once talked about Mod revivals as if the scene occasionally vanished from view, only to return at a later date. But Glasgow has never lost its love of Fre... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
ReviewsFutureEverything: Alec Empire/Tristan Perich @ RNCM, Manchester, 27 February
As the RNCM’s concert hall is plunged into darkness, it would seem that Tristan Perich – presenting new work Noise Patterns – really w... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
ReviewsFutureEverything: Koreless @ Royal Northern College of Music, 25 February
Even for a producer who revels in fracturing recognisable electronic tropes into loosely connected flotsam, the addition of both Daedelus-collaborating visua... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015
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ReviewsFutureEverything: LoneLady @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 26 February
FutureEverything sure has a knack for picking the right venues. On the first night of this year’s edition of the city’s premier tech festival, th... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
International Music Festivals 2015: A Beginner's Guide
Still trying to make sense of the vast array of festivals on offer around the globe this year? From punk fests to electro havens, allow The Skinny to guide you through some of our more esoteric favourites Read more »| 05 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Festival Watch – March 2015
Behold, the return of our hand-selected guide to festivals both local and terrifyingly imminent Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Deerhoof @ Stereo, Glasgow, 24 February
It’s an odd choice for an opener. Mirror Monster, the phantasmic second track from Deerhoof’s most recent album La Isla Bonita, begins with an et... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
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Death from Above 1979 / Turbowolf @ The Ritz, Manchester, 24 February
“Did anybody see us a few months ago, across the road?” Therein lies part of the problem with tonight’s Death from Above 1979 show. Th... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
Previews
Scottish Gig Highlights – March 2015
Dear readers, spring is here! We know this is true because Tesco has started selling puny bunches of half-dead daffs. And with spring comes the start of pre-... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
Previews
Northwest Gig Highlights – March 2015
It's a disparate but discerning month, taking in some truly singular women (Tune-Yards, Tinashe); a clutch of comebacks (Sleater-Kinney, Idlewild), and festivals both old and new (Carefully Planned, LadyFest) Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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D'Angelo @ O2 Apollo, Manchester, 18 February
The more you think about it, the more D’Angelo’s decision to effectively opt out of the commercial success his 14-years-in-the-making third LP, B... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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Kate Tempest @ The Kazimier, Liverpool, 18 February
“It’s rammo in the main room,” Mike Skinner once said, which The Kazimier definitely is; he also said that he was backing Kate Tempest to w... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015