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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FestivalsdBass @ Stereo, 27 June
Opening act The Forgotten Works are folk - one glance at guitarist James Chapman's beard assures you of that, and the way he and double bassist Martin Beer h... Read more »| 06 Jul 2010 -
ReviewsThe Gaslight Anthem @ O2 Academy Glasgow, 23 Jun
It's a balmy night in south Glasgow, the kind that conjures up thoughts of dive bars and rock joints - so, the setting for The Gaslight Anthem is damn near p... Read more »| 06 Jul 2010 -
ReviewsMose Allison @ Fruitmarket, 25 Jun
Ole man Mose has been at the heart of American songcraft for about 55 years now. The Who covered him Live at Leeds and Jools Holland practically owes his car... Read more »| 06 Jul 2010 -
FestivalsDr Lonnie Smith @ The Fruitmarket, 25 Jun
I've just invented a new genre. It's called Acid Mod, and it sounds like the Motown house band easing off after hours, playing what they want to after turnin... Read more »| 06 Jul 2010 -
PreviewsCrosby, Stills and Nash @ SECC, 6 July
Following their triumphant show at Edinburgh Castle last year, David Crosby, Steven Stills and Graham Nash return to Scottish soil this month for a night by ... Read more »| 05 Jul 2010 -
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Tim Kliphuis @ Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 20 Jun
Dutch violinist Kliphuis describes the music he's currently playing as fusion, and going by tonight's gig the raw material being fused is bebop, Brazil, Afro... Read more »| 05 Jul 2010
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The Necks @ Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 22 Jun
Although piano trios are ten a penny in jazz, these guys are special. But don't come expecting something your milkman can whistle; the Necks don't play tunes... Read more »| 05 Jul 2010 -
Festivals
Sonar 2010: Like Night & Day
Barcelona’s 17th electronic music and multimedia shindig bore all the hallmarks of a typical Sonar experience. Of course, a ‘typical Sonar experi... Read more »| 01 Jul 2010 -
Reviews
Milk @ Captain's Rest, 27 Jun
Masked and taped, The Organs of Love resemble porno superheroes, all sighs and doped-up electro. Despite echoes of Smoke City’s Underwater Love (mermai... Read more »| 01 Jul 2010 -
Previews
Live Music Highlights – July 2010
Having made the leap from fascinating bedroom project to full-on psych-pop ensemble with excellent recent album Pigeons, Luke Temple and Here We Go Magic loo... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
Previews
The Metal Column – July 2010
In an attempt to cover everything metal in Scotland, we do our best to unearth all the upcoming gigs that take place across the entire country. But it’... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
Reviews
TrioVD @ Stereo, 23 Jun
Writing about jazz, it's not often you get to deploy words like 'punk', 'pure evil' and 'Christ my ears are bleeding', but tonight's TrioVD gig is an occasio... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010 -
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Polar Bear @ The Arches, 21 Jun
A passing Duke Ellington fan may not recognise it as such, but in the case for jazz being about embracing creative freedom and pushing at accepted forms, Pol... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010 -
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Cypress Hill @ O2 Academy, 16 Jun
A week shy of a decade since they last rolled (and blazed) through Glasgow; the Cypress Hill we see tonight is shorn of the rock band experience that made th... Read more »| 23 Jun 2010