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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Johnny Cash Tribute Night - All Profits to Shelter (Various Artists)- Stereo, Feb 8
On a typically shitty Glasgow night, nine bands from various disciplines got together to celebrate the life and works of the great man in black. Choosing a c... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Francoiz Breut
Something of the Amelie effect came over the crowd at the Francoiz Breut show at ABC this month. Impossible to articulate, her sounds floated through the aud... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Broken Social Scene - School of Art @ Glasgow
Did their jubilance blow a fuse somewhere deep in the Art School? Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Bricolage - Stereo @ Glasgow
this Spring could be the last time you get to see them before they go stratospheric Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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ADULT. - ABC @ Glasgow
Music that, overheard, would cause your mother to wonder about your mental health is ordinarily impossible to listen to unless entering a 'Leaving Las Vegas'... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Cribs plus Giant Drag and Jeffrey Lewis - Queen's Hall @ Edinburgh
Great for a one-night stand, but hard to fall in love with Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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The Hedrons - The Swamp @ Edinburgh
Their sound is strong enough but sadly the song writing is distinctively lacking Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Sway @ The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
Sway proves he possesses the showmanship to match his entrepreneurial prowess, emerging to the British national anthem and punctuating his set with an impromptu rendition of Can't Touch This. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb @ Subway Cowgate
Culminates in a human pyramid which repeatedly collapses like a soufflé Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
I did not clap my hands. I did not say yeah. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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White Heat @ Cabaret Voltaire @ Edinburgh
a wide array of catchy mod-pop that kept the dance floor and the bar busy all night Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Regina Spektor - Live at Cabaret Voltaire (revised)
New songs, vivid as tangerines Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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NME Awards Tour - Corn Exchange @ Edinburgh
The Arctic Monkeys leave believers and nay-sayers alike astonished in the fug of their irresistible slipstream Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Isle of Me, Joe Acheson Quartet, OBE - Bannerman's, Edinburgh, Feb 15
perfect for fans of the Happy Mondays and the like Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsPaper Cut Out, Avast!, Lords of Bastard and Spatial Entrepreneurs - Subway Cowgate, Edinburgh, Feb 17
It might look a bit like the gym hall from hell, all high ceilings and black brick, but the Subway can lift the spirits too, without doubt. This Friday night... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006