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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ReviewsKanYe West @ SECC, 17 Feb
Mind the GAP? How KanYe possibly forget? Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Research @ Cabaret Voltaire
The Research faced the task of filling the void of a half-empty Cab Vol on nothing less than a St Valentine's evening Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsSparks @ Carling Academy, 12 Feb
a masterful study in fun and frolics Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Previews
The Glasgow School
As the nights get longer, the sun occasionally pops its hat on and bands emerge from the gloom of winter, spring promises to be a great time for music. Event... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsFoxFace - Optimo - 12th February 2006
Performing their most powerful gig to date, FoxFace led yet another packed night at this infamous Glasgow hot spot with punters revving their engines in anti... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Jose Gonzalez @ The Liquid Room
A beautiful symbiosis between a man and his guitar. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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Straight Outta Pomp-town (Edinburgh Live Music column)
Straight Outta Pomp-townWe tireless tubes at The Skinny unflinchingly embrace the challenge to cover a huge slice of the broad spectrum of music that both Ed... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Mother and The Addicts @ Cabaret Voltaire 20th January
the fans will have been nursing their collective broken feet to match their pounding cranium Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Fall Out Boy - Barrowlands @ Glasgow
FoB's onstage presence is quite enough to make it all look so easy Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Previews
The Glasgow School (Live Music Column)
This is a new column designed to cover the best in music, upcoming events, gossips and releases from the hottest bands in Glasgow. It needs your help, so get... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Thee Comrades, Flying Matchstick Men, Good Shoes and Kubichek! @ I Fly Spitfires, Cabaret Voltaire, 22nd January
A game of two halves. Perhaps Spitfires is best as a showcase for the abundance of talent closer to home.
Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Lord Bishop Rocks!
the rock swagger and smirk, the hats, and the extreme gyrating together inspire you to lose your shit at times, then stand back in awe at others Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Live Music Roundup (NOW WITH ADDED PEATBOG FAERIES)
ADULT. are the soundtrack to your most beautiful, paranoid fantasies. Go and see them, they're really fucking good. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Belle and Sebastian - G2 @ Glasgow
Stuart Murdoch, a picture of airbrushed, smooth-skinned beauty, lulls the braying audience into rapt attention, Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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The Jurors - Barfly @ Glasgow
The Jurors are a band whose intensity is building like a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, soon to strike our shores. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006