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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Dark Little Poet @ Barfly
With a stage presence and a sharp dress sense, Dark Little Poet's anthemic indie rock soon gets the crowd dancing. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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All Tomorrow's Parties: The Nightmare Before Christmas @ Butlins
A fine weekend for fans of the nosier and ""free of form"" inclination Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Rock'n'Roll Wedding @ The Bongo Club
The Alvas veered into Kenny Rogers territory and ran out of gas, pushing an old clunker over state lines Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Festivals
Celtic Connections: Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan @ ABC, 21 Jan
It was a wee while in the pipeline, but tonight sees the combo which brought us one of the most famous folk-riddled saloon soundtracks of last year - Ballad ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Alamos @ Teviot Underground, 11 Jan
Vocalist Kris Keiller might be too bunged up to unleash the full weight of his vitriolic snarl, but that doesn't prevent the jagged sonic wailings of Alamos ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Previews
The Glasgow School
Live music feeds and expresses Glasgow's unique, earthy energy Read more »| 10 Feb 2007
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Previews
Metal Up Your Ass - February, 2007
Here's where to spend your hard-earned on the pursuit of metal in February.
Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Zero Degrees of Separation @ ABC
Not quite something for everyone, but quite possibly everything for someone.
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Birchville Cat Motel @ 13th Note
masterfully balances beauty and violence, shrieking through distortion over loops and electronics Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Riders on the Storm @ Clyde Auditorium, 29 Dec
At times the show rides close to the feel of a shamanic seance Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Epic26 / Boris Yeltsin Love XI @ Bannermans
A game of two musical halves... Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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(The) Melvins @ The Garage
it's like first being hit by a truck then dragged a mile down the road… on your eardrums Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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The Red Well @ Henry's Cellar Bar
indie version of 'Knees Up Mother Brown' awaited, suicide pill at the ready Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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Malcolm Ross @ Ego
more influential than timeless? Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
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The Horrors @ The Caves
Boomy bass, over-amplified drums, and barely audible vocals terrorise The
Horrors Read more »| 11 Jan 2007