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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Clyde 1 Unsigned Showcase @ Oran Mor
It's easy to imagine a real community spirit developing here Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Holloways @ The Garage
By deftly shifting genres, they keep the mood amiable and buoyant Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Little John Rocket @ Nice 'N' Sleazy
They stamp Basement with a stark Glaswegian energy and are appropriating the sound of New Wave for their own nefarious fury Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Acoustic Ladyland @ Cabaret Voltaire
How much fun it is to shun expectations and traditions? Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Boredoms @ The Arches
Dance AND brutality? not me, I just NOISE and GO Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Hell Is For Heroes, Westport Bar, Dundee, 26 Oct
Playing to their strengths when on a sticky stage Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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The Coral, ABC, Glasgow, 20 Oct
We're lucky to still have these Scouse scallywags around at all Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Decemberists @ Carling Academy
Granted, they're a bit nuts on record, which translates to 'should I alert a care home?' onstage, but Christ, they're entertaining. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Stephen Fretwell @ Classic Grand
A voice that can be 20-a-day gritty or triple-distilled angelic depending on the song Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Make Model, Fat Sams, Dundee, 29 Oct
It would be easy to picture a Make Model gig resurrecting memories in even the most grumblesome indie purist of how unashamedly, unpretentiously fun music can be Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Teenagers @ Cabaret Voltaire
This derivative rag-tag collective will have to improve dramatically to avoid a quick and humiliating demotion Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Sounds @ Liquid Room
Not bothered about utilising the odd cliché or twelve Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Shins @ Corn Exchange
A distinctly lackluster occasion Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Razorlight @ Meadowbank Stadium
Maybe Tom should take a leaf out of Johnny Borrell's book Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Mice Parade @ King Tut's
Winsome melodies building to well-orchestrated climaxes and ecstatic flamenco-influenced wailing Read more »| 08 Oct 2007