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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ReviewsOwen Pallett @ Band on the Wall, 12 Aug
“I might have to insist on this track being the walk-on music for all my future gigs, can you imagine?” Owen Pallett smirks, frantically motionin... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsScott & Charlene's Wedding @ The Shipping Forecast, 7 Aug
“Hope you know that I got no bitterness,” sings Craig Dermody during one of tonight’s rare tender moments. It’s difficult not to hear... Read more »| 08 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsWickerman 2013: Saturday, 27 July
With temperatures soaring, Book Group keep their cool to deliver an accomplished set in the GoNorth tent. The ringing guitars and witty – but ofte... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Reviews
Wickerman 2013: Friday, 26 July
The impact of the July heatwave can be seen everywhere. Behind the bar in one pub near Partick Cross there’s a chalkboard proclaiming that staff will n... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Previews
O2 Love Music Column – August 2013
For over thirty years now, The B-52's (O2 ABC, 12 Aug) have poised themselves as the ultimate intergalactic, surf-pop, party band. It’s a notion that h... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
Slottsfjell Festival, Tunsberg Norway – 18-20 July
Vic Galloway reports back from the front-lines of Norway's esteemed annual gathering Read more »| 30 Jul 2013
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Festivals
Beacons festival: Lighting the Way
Beacons festival's second outing amps it up in terms of both acts and art Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Previews
Northwest Gig Highlights – August 2013
If history teaches us anything, it’s that not many people have had a month named after them; props to Emperor Augustus for achieving this feat some two thousand years ago. Here's our pick of the hottest gigs this month – a selection to make Gus proud Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Previews
Gig Highlights – Scotland, August 2013
Song, By Toad's inaugural Pale Imitation Festival offers respite from flyer dodging, plus gigs from King Creosote, Swans, Patti Smith, Tame Impala and The Twilight Sad, and an unmissable live outing for David Byrne & St. Vincent Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
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Mogwai perform Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait @ Albert Hall, 19 July
It's impossible to question Manchester's heritage when it comes to either football or music, so it always seemed a sensible choice for Manchester Internation... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
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Stealing Sheep / All We Are / Prides @ East Village Arts Club, 17 July
It’s hot. Everyone in this sweltering Victorian loft knows it’s hot. Right now, a gig is a tiring proposition, but we soldier on because it&rsquo... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
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The New Mendicants @ International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 13 July
Supergroups are a risky business. For every Gutter Twins-style success, there’s a Broken Bells – a set of mouthwatering ingredients that just tas... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013 -
Previews
Church of Noise – August 2013
From the return of the much-missed John Knox Sex Club to a cheerio show from Texas Is the Reason, we take a whirlwind tour of the more esoteric sounds to be found on the circuit this August Read more »| 24 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Insider Festival 2013
Insider Festival 2013 Images from this years Insider Festival all the way up in Inshriach, Aviemore. Photography by Ingrid Mur Read more »| 24 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsClang Boom Steam @ MelloMello, Liverpool, 20 Jul
The launch of Liverpool-based Clang Boom Steam's self-titled debut album proves diverse and intense in equal measure, with the audience treated to an evening... Read more »| 23 Jul 2013