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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PreviewsWire @ The Arches, 11 Sep
135 compulsory reasons to go and see Wire: (1) They are Wire (2) They are still playing music after 30 odd (odd being the operative word here) years (3) They... Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsSantogold @ The Liquid Room, 19 Aug
Is the former A&R rep anything more than a carefully marketed, cross-genre musical magpie? Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsIsosceles @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17 Aug
Angular guitar hits compliment the at-times carnivalesque organ pumping Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
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Punch and the Apostles @ King Tut's, 16 Aug
Almost certainly festival music in waiting Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsKristin Hersh: Paradoxical Undressing @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13 Aug
With strange tales of hanging out with rats, lounging with lizards, growing up in a hippy commune and wearing elephant shit sandals, Hersh’s monologues are consistently colourful and fluidly poetic Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
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Bonde do Rolê @ The Lemon Tree, 15 Aug
Carnival time halts for no man Read more »| 20 Aug 2008
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Festivals
Bestival 2008 @ Isle of Wight, 5-7 Sep
This year Isle of Wight's Bestival yields Mermaids. Ideal. Read more »| 19 Aug 2008 -
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Noah and the Whale @ Cabaret Voltaire, 15 Aug
The London septet spend much of the show colouring within the lines of their folk-pop debut Read more »| 19 Aug 2008 -
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The Twilight Sad / Frightened Rabbit @ The Liquid Room, 14 Aug
Beguiling and hilarious in equal measure Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Laura Marling @ Bannerman's, 12 Aug
Alas! I cannot breathe... Laura Marling sweats it out on her Bannerman's debut Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Festivals
5 Reasons to haul ass to Hydro Connect
Drink with an outstretched pinky at Connect and you could easily be mistaken for royalty, as Ally Brown reveals Read more »| 14 Aug 2008 -
Festivals
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2008
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, 8-10 Aug 2008 Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
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Nouvelle Vague @ The Liquid Room, 8 Aug
Oozing Gallic charm as they work their way through their second night of sexy Bossa Nova'd 1980s hits Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
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Drive-By Truckers @ The Liquid Room, 6 Aug
The Truckers play up to their slack-jawed stereotype, but there's much more to this lot than the typecast Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
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Shout Out Louds @ Cabaret Voltaire, 7 Aug
The sort of harmless, sugary indie-pop that American film and TV studios dribble over Read more »| 11 Aug 2008