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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ReviewsPete 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 -
ReviewsGary 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 -
ReviewsThree 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
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ReviewsHowling Bells / Cold Specks @ Òran Mór, 19 September
Canada's Cold Specks (****) is something of a pleasant surprise; 23-year-old singer Al Spx has one of those powerful old (but young) soul voices that can st... Read more »| 21 Sep 2011 -
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Electric Frog Weekender @ SWG3, 10-11 September
Saturday’s instalment of Electric Frog is very much about house and techno, with the day’s programme perhaps lacking the multiplicity of styles o... Read more »| 15 Sep 2011 -
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Glassjaw @ O2 ABC2, 25 August
Two Scottish gigs in 18 months is swift work by the measure of Glassjaw's previous form. The New York quartet came close to kicking the plug out completely w... Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
Festivals
The Electric Frog Sunday 11 Sep 2011
Electric Frog at SWG3 2011. Some images from the weekend. Photography from Euan Robertson Read more »| 13 Sep 2011 -
Festivals
The Electric Frog Saturday 10 Sep 2011
Electric Frog at SWG3 2011. Some images from the weekend. Photography from Euan Robertson Read more »| 13 Sep 2011 -
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King Creosote & Jon Hopkins @ Grand Ole Opry, 7 September
It's the evening after the night before; you’d never guess by looking at them that Fife’s favourite troubadour King Creosote, or his ivory-twinkl... Read more »| 09 Sep 2011 -
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Public Enemy at O2 ABC, 6 Sep
Some images from the Public Enemy gig at the O2 ABC on Tuesday 6th September 2011. Photography from Euan Robertson Read more »| 08 Sep 2011 -
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Public Enemy @ O2 ABC, 6 September
Billed as a run-through of the classic Fear of a Black Planet album, tonight's show clings loosely to the promised narrative whilst delving into a rag-bag ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2011 -
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PJ Harvey @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 4 September
Given the conceptual character of PJ Harvey’s latest LP Let England Shake, and her decision to play the Royal Concert Hall, it could be expected that t... Read more »| 06 Sep 2011