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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ReviewsSlowdive @ Arts Club, Liverpool, 28 Mar
These are heady times for the many ageing shoegazers who pack out the Arts Club – this is the first visit in over two decades from original scenes... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
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Fauves @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 24 Mar
Musical acts galore are descending on Glasgow for the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, and local outfit Fauves get the weekend off to an auspicious start. The Gla... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
ReviewsThe Jesus and Mary Chain @ Manchester Academy, 25 Mar
When the aliens inevitably arrive, some things will take more explaining than others. Aside from Brexit, unfrosted Pop Tarts, gender roles and the seemingly ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
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Live music in Liverpool this week: 29 Mar-4 Apr
Stormzy, Idles and The Drifting Classroom are among the week's gig highlights, plus Threshold Festival returns for another must-attend weekender Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
MusicGet Wide: Wide Days 2017 preview
What exactly makes Scotland's only music business convention so pioneering and vital to our music scene? We take a closer look at the showcase line-up and talk record shopping ahead of Record Store Day Read more »| 28 Mar 2017 -
ReviewsBearcubs @ The Garage, Glasgow, 23 Mar
Hiding in The Garage’s low-ceiling’d Attic Bar, four electronic outfits soundtrack this chilly Glasgow Thursday eve. It’s a mostly local af... Read more »| 28 Mar 2017
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Grandaddy @ Potterrow, Edinburgh, 23 Mar
Grandaddy overcome technical problems to deliver a finely chosen set of tunes spanning 20 years of exemplary music Read more »| 28 Mar 2017 -
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Thundercat @ Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool, 24 Mar
Stephen 'Thundercat' Bruner pretty much has everyone covered. If you like funk, soul, jazz or Daft Punk, he’s your man. This is no hyperbole, it shows:... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
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Scottish Gigs of the Week: 27 Mar – 3 Apr
This week's Edinburgh and Glasgow gig guide, featuring visits from Jens Lekman and Jessy Lanza and a pair of record launches from CHUMP and Stillhound Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
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Elvis Costello @ Festival Theatre, 18 Mar
After a couple of years on the road, Elvis Costello is bringing his run of Detour shows to a close. The show operates as a sort of intimate retrospective; Co... Read more »| 24 Mar 2017 -
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Drake @ SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 23 Mar
Drake has been a chart presence on both sides of the Atlantic for years now and, as such, he's able to draw from a deep catalogue of hits, only bolstered by ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2017 -
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Foxing @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 14 Mar
The St. Louis indie rockers are on incendiary form as they road test new material Read more »| 23 Mar 2017 -
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Rival Consoles @ Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds, 17 Mar
Sounds Like THIS, Leeds’ newest music festival, celebrates “bold new sounds” in electronic music, electroacoustic, opera and visual install... Read more »| 22 Mar 2017 -
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Live music in Liverpool this week: 22-28 Mar
Psych-jazz, contemporary classical and hometown heroes are all to be found in this week's gig guide, and we also take a look at Open Circuit Festival Read more »| 22 Mar 2017 -
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Steve Pilgrim @ Leaf, Liverpool, 16 Mar
Grace is a funny thing in music. It's overused as a lyric, but underused as a commodity. Scouse songwriter Steve Pilgrim has it in abundance and so d... Read more »| 22 Mar 2017