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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ReviewsOneohtrix Point Never @ The CCA, Glasgow, 1 October
The music of Brooklyn-based producer Oneohtrix Point Never is a tricky beast from which to attempt to wrest meaning. The intersection of live visuals with hi... Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
ReviewsManic Street Preachers / Public Service Broadcasting @ Barrowland, Glasgow, 29 September
With prop televisions screening cut-and-paste newsreel and a sound that marries krautrock jams with clipped RP samples, Public Service Broadcasting’s h... Read more »| 03 Oct 2013 -
Festivals
Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia @ Camp and Furnace, 27-28 September
As one of the most anticipated dates in Liverpool’s gigging calendar, this year the onus on Psych Fest was to open the weekender to a bigger audience t... Read more »| 02 Oct 2013 -
Previews
Northwest Gig Highlights – October 2013
Ah, October. Trees are getting bare, nights are drawing in and strange children are preparing to turn up at your door with outrageous demands for free sweets. Not to worry, there’s plenty more on offer, like Bonobo! And Willis Earl Beal! And... M People Read more »| 01 Oct 2013 -
ReviewsJon Hopkins @ Gorilla, Manchester, 24 September
A screen lowers, and a single synth-drone reverberates around the room before buzzing into Abandon Window from Jon Hopkins' latest album, Immunity. The twice... Read more »| 01 Oct 2013 -
Previews
Down at the Mill: Islington Mill's autumn season
Reasons to visit Salford's premier home of the weird and wonderful this, er, fall. Yes, fall Read more »| 01 Oct 2013
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Previews
Scotland Gig Highlights – October 2013
October's gig highlights in Scotland, with the return of The Vaselines at Eastern Promise, Oneohtrix Point Never, King Krule, Rick Redbeard, Russian Circles, Warpaint, No Age, plus a very special (and strange) tribute to Nick Cave Read more »| 30 Sep 2013 -
PreviewsO2 Love Music Column – October 2013
Variety’s the order of the day, with jazz, soul, synthpop, and some good old fashioned gee-tar on the menu at Glasgow’s O2 ABC this October. ... Read more »| 30 Sep 2013 -
Reviews
Tim Hecker / Pete Swanson @ The Old Fruitmarket, 20 Sep
The Old Fruitmarket is a wonderful venue, and it is relatively rare to get to watch avant garde or experimental electronic music in such a cavernous and beau... Read more »| 27 Sep 2013 -
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Jaws @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 22 September
Duuun dun, duuun dun, dun dun dun dun… It’s clear that the hype gathering around tonight’s headliners, Jaws, in their native Birmingh... Read more »| 24 Sep 2013 -
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James Blake / FKA Twigs @ O2 ABC, 18 September
“Whatever they say about tiny venues, this is the best I’ve felt playing here,” comments James Blake towards the end of this show –&n... Read more »| 20 Sep 2013 -
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The Front Bottoms @ King Tut's, 16 September
Live with them long enough and even the worst band names start to seem reasonable. Still, it’s hard to imagine acclimatising to The Front Bottoms&rsquo... Read more »| 20 Sep 2013 -
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Soundgarden @ O2 Apollo, Manchester, 13 September
Like guitarist Kim Thayil’s porkpie hat and electroshock ponytail combo, it’s business up front with a party at the back as Soundgarden return to... Read more »| 20 Sep 2013 -
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Born Ruffians @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 18 September
During second song of the night Kurt Vonnegut, from Born Ruffians' first Warp Records release, Red, Yellow & Blue, it's evident – as knowing "woah-... Read more »| 20 Sep 2013 -
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Giant Drag @ The Deaf Institute, 13 September
A lot of the people here tonight have come alone. Shuffling around and glancing at phones before the set begins, you get the impression that this farewell gi... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013