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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FestivalsKaleidoscope Festival, 30 September - 2 October 2011
Braving the elements, just outside St Andrews, the crowd at Kaleidoscope festival enjoy a weekend of music and performance. Photography by Erika Stevenson Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
FestivalsEastern Promise @ Platform, Saturday 1 October
Easterhouse's Platform host Eastern Promise - an eclectic two day music festival with both local talent and artists from further afield. Photography f... Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
ReviewsSalò / Hunt/Gather / What the Blood Revealed @ Captain's Rest, 3 October
Irvine's What the Blood Revealed open up a ferocious evening of post-hardcore with their moody take on instrumental rock. Borrowing the well-tested loud/quie... Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
FestivalsEastern Promise @ Platform, Friday 30 September
Easterhouse's Platform host Eastern Promise - an eclectic two day music festival with both local talent and artists from further afield. Photography f... Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Previews
Live Music Highlights – October 2011
Taking place over the weekend of 30 Sep/1 Oct, the Eastern Promise two-day festival returns to Glasgow's Platform this year. Arty electronic two-piece Tarwat... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
PreviewsThe Metal Column – October 2011
Metal's most impressive asset has always been the vast range of styles, talents and personalities that lie under that simple catch-all term. It caters for al... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011
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Previews
Hot Ticket of the Month: The Horrors @ The Liquid Room, 19 Oct
Right now, they're a band you can't afford to miss Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
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Ut / Divorce / North American War @ Stereo, 28 September
It seems fitting that Ut’s first gig in 21 years sees support from two local acts influenced, in different ways, by the No Wave scene from which the Ne... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
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Echo and the Bunnymen @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 28 September
Despite the balmy Indian summer heat, Ian McCulloch sticks with tradition tonight, taking to the stage wrapped in his trademark winter coat. A circular fan p... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
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Pete and the Pirates @ Captain's Rest, 26 September
With seasoned ex-members of Morning Runner at the helm, Glass’s polish garners at least one breathless endorsement tonight (“They blew my mind!&n... Read more »| 29 Sep 2011 -
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Gary Numan @ O2 ABC, 20 September
This stop on the Dead Son Rising tour, with its imposing architecture and mesmeric machinery, displays an artist forging new identities and re-invigorating h... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
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Ghostpoet @ Captain's Rest, 24 September
After a rousing set of homegrown hip-hop from Hector Bizerk, an emcee / drummer combo from Glasgow whose impressively tight lyrics and heavy, complex beats r... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
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Metronomy @ Òran Mór, 23 September
It’s a risky strategy to have Edinburgh’s Discopolis opening the show tonight: the trio’s high-energy synthscapes threaten to raise the pit... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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Three Trapped Tigers @ Captain's Rest, 21 September
There’s a reason Three Trapped Tigers’ ‘IDM played live’ sound is a rarity: it looks bloody difficult. All three members possess ston... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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Slow Club @ Cabaret Voltaire, 19 September
As Slow Club herald the arrival of their tasty new album, Paradise, with a show packed full of messy energy, articulate banter and exquisitely stripped-down ... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011