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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ReviewsPsych Sunday @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 27 September
Six bands, six hours, and all for a tenner. And whilst tonight’s international contingent are fresh from the more celebrated Liverpool Psych Fest, this... Read more »| 13 Oct 2015 -
PreviewsNorthwest Gig Highlights – October 2015
With Deerhunter, Holly Herndon and gazillions more, Liverpool Music Week threatens to dominate proceedings but Manchester more than shows its mettle with a trippy hat-trick of Battles, Acid Mothers Temple and The Space Lady Read more »| 12 Oct 2015 -
ReviewsTenement Trail, Glasgow, 3 October
Like a rather grown up, booze-assisted urban scavenger hunt, the team from Tenement TV's one-day mini festival leads punters on a merry dance through six of ... Read more »| 09 Oct 2015 -
Festivals
Sensoria Music & Film Festival 2015: The Review
Sheffield has long been at the vanguard of dynamic and radical music-making. The Skinny ventures to the city’s excellent, immersive Sensoria festival to witness firsthand the staggering effect a single city can have on its artistry Read more »| 09 Oct 2015 -
PhotosIn Pictures: Menace Beach, Fruit Bomb and more
Trof and The Skinny teamed up in September to host four great emerging northern bands: Fruit Bomb, False Advertising, Weirds and Menace Beach. Here's what our photographer caught of the night Read more »| 08 Oct 2015 -
Reviews
Blank Realm @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 28 Sep
“Thanks for coming out on a Monday night.” Singer/drummer Daniel Spencer smiles bashfully, staring at his fingers before counting the band in. Su... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015
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Reviews
Dutch Uncles @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, Glasgow, 26 Sep
A case of the curious support. It’s not that power pop five-piece Schnarff Schnarff or the robust, angst-rock flavours of United Fruit are unwelcome; t... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
Reviews
WOMPS @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 25 September
With its low ceilings and tight walls, tonight’s host seems tailor-made for such nights. The Hug & Pint might be new, but it carries off the late 8... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
Reviews
Wolf Alice @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 25 September
Ellie Rowsell, when she spoke to The Skinny back in March, was about to step on stage at the O2 Arena, but her greater concern was not that Alt-J support slo... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
Reviews
Joanna Gruesome @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 23 September
Definitely not a band for Daily Mail readers, The Spook School’s forthcoming opus Try To Be Hopeful is a treatise on the politics and practicalities of... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Previews
Scottish Gig Highlights – October 2015
While October may be the month for kissing any few remnant sunny days goodbye, burying heads in textbooks, and carving pumpkins in preparation for Halloween,... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
PhotosIn Pictures: Blanck Mass, RM Hubbert, BDY_PRTS and Outblinker at The Pleasance Sessions
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Reviews
Liverpool Psych Fest 2015: The Review
“Everywhere they played people would be asking them 'are you playing The Psych Fest this year?' It wasn't 'Liverpool' Psych Fest, it's almost like it g... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Gwenno / H Hawkline @ Soup Kitchen, 20 Sep
As September Sunday nights go, a co-headlining show from Heavenly Recordings’ Welsh label-mates Gwenno Saunders and H Hawkline, aka Huw Evans, sounds l... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
Music
Get to Know... Fruit Bomb
Wave hello to effervescent pop-rockers Fruit Bomb, who introduce themselves ahead of their gig at The Deaf Institute this Friday (25 September) Read more »| 23 Sep 2015