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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PreviewsChurch of Noise – March 2013
Enter the Church of Noise, where only the most loud and abrasive get to hold the sermons. From doom-jazz to hardcore...whatever. Earplugs optional, but you probably won't last long without them Read more »| 04 Mar 2013 -
PreviewsScotland Gig Highlights – March 2013
From the return of shoegaze innovators to the healing sounds of one man and his guitar, March has something up its sleeve for everybody Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Previews
O2 Love Music Column – March 2013
It’s a preview of two halves this month as the old indie vanguard rubs shoulders with some spritely young RnB hopefuls Read more »| 28 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
The Bronx / Single Mothers, The Garage, 16 February
Ontario's Single Mothers have often been compared to The Hold Steady – mainly due to vocalist Andrew Thomson's vivid, half-spoken narratives ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
ReviewsDeftones @ Barrowland, 15 February
Since side-stepping the bad old days of nu-metal with their dignity intact (while former peers turned to Dr Drew and Skrillex for career advice), Deftones ha... Read more »| 21 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
Memory Drawings / Chris Tenz / Talvihorros @ The Banshee Labyrinth, 10 February
Talvihorros, the pen name of Edinburgh musician Ben Chatwin, is described as “a study of guitar and electronics,” on his website. As such, tonigh... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013
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Reviews
Desaparecidos / We Are The Physics @ The Arches, 9 February
With their vaudevillian flair as abundant as ever, We Are The Physics are on fine, frenetic form this evening. Wise-cracking and Orinoco Flow-ing t... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
The History of Apple Pie @ Glasgow Art School, 5 February
With debut Out of View doing brisk business (impressively nestled at number two in the midweek record stores chart), The History of Apple Pie shoul... Read more »| 11 Feb 2013 -
Festivals
Celtic Connections: Aimee Mann / Amelia Curran / Ted Leo @ O2 ABC, 30 January
Despite having been on the road with Aimee Mann for 3 months already, a solo Ted Leo finds himself short-changed tonight, relegated from chief tour support t... Read more »| 05 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
Dinosaur Jr. @ The Arches, 30 January
J. Mascis confesses that Dinosaur Jr. are still "shaking off the dust" having not played together for a while. This is the first night of a tour that will se... Read more »| 05 Feb 2013 -
ReviewsMETZ / Battery Face / Blades @ Broadcast, 29 January
Three, they say, is the magic number. Tonight, Broadcast has three bands, each of them a trio, which must count as a good omen for the sizable crowd who have... Read more »| 05 Feb 2013 -
Previews
O2 Love Music Column – February 2013
Having pioneered many of the DJ techniques we take for granted to this day, Joseph Saddler, or Grandmaster Flash if you will, has assured his place in the hi... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
Previews
The Metal Column – February 2013
Now you've beaten those stinking January blues, it's time to get back in the circle-pit and lose your mind, droogs. For a kick off, you could either hit up ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
David Bazan @ Broadcast, 28 January
Since 2006, Seattle’s David Bazan has been through a tortured renunciation of Christianity, disbanded Pedro the Lion and Headphones, released two s... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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The Pictish Trail / Rozi Plain @ The Glasgow Art Club, 24 January
Despite its air of exclusivity (playfully mocked multiple times by tonight’s headliner), the Glasgow Art Club proves to be a felicitously intimate se... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013