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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ReviewsTorche @ Stereo, 24 Nov
Torche are a conundrum. Like: Are they even metal? Coming into Glasgow's Stereo, the band's got a low end that could rattle fillings loose and a massive soun... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
PreviewsThe Metal Column – December 2010
It's December. The nights have not so much been drawing in as they have been choking us of all life, the weather's miserable and worse yet – it's nearl... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
PreviewsLive Music Highlights – December 2010
When afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti died in 1997 he left a legacy of musical innovation and political dissent that is quite unique. His son Femi Kuti has since p... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
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Atari Teenage Riot @ The Arches, 24 Nov
Alec Empire could hardly have timed the return of Atari Teenage Riot more astutely. Inactive since 2000, the Berliners’ hyper-politicised take on disto... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
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Fear Factory @ QMU, 16 Dec
Pop had John and Paul; folk had Simon and Garfunkel; and industrial metal had Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares. Rightly or wrongly, if you were a Kerrang!-rea... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
ReviewsThe Phantom Band @ Òran Mór, 21 Nov
It was a no-brainer really. With nary a bad song in their repertoire and playing the superb Òran Mór to an eager, almost ecstatic, homecoming c... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010
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Hog The Stage
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Caribou, Four Tet, James Holden @ O2 ABC, 21 Nov
With a line-up of James Holden, Rocketnumbernine, Nathan Fake, Holden again and Four Tet before Caribou, Sunday evening’s ABC lineup has a mini-festiva... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
ReviewsBeach House @ Òran Mór, 20 Nov
Dream pop duo Beach House are a band whose live reputation is always going to be closely tethered to that of their albums; they’re perfectionists in th... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Trash Talk @ Captain's Rest, 19 Nov
With so many under-agers being turfed out, tonight's show isn't quite as mental as it could have been. Still, we're not complaining, and Brooklyn hardcore cr... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Randolph's Leap @ Captain's Rest, 18 Nov
To paraphrase one of their own songs, Randolph’s Leap very nearly had to cut crisps out of debut EP Battleships and Kettle Chips after a scary email fr... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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The Coral @ O2 ABC, 19 Nov
First up tonight is Neville Skelly, cousin to James and Ian of The Coral, presenting his brand of gentle, country-inflected acoustic rock to an appreciative ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Jimmy Eat World @ Barrowland, 19 Nov
Tonight’s topped with two cuts from Bleed American and tailed with three more: you certainly can’t accuse Jimmy Eat World of misreading their fan... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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A Night to Remember... Remember
The Twilight Sad's James Graham elbows his way down the front to see Remember Remember blow the roof off Stereo Read more »| 19 Nov 2010 -
Previews
Torche @ Stereo, 24 Nov
Perhaps one of the only bands in history to attempt to bridge pop and metal – doom metal, for that matter – and not completely fuck it up, Torche... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010