Music
The Skinny magazine music guide. We bring you the latest music highlights, gig reviews and previews, music videos, album reviews and features. Find exclusive interviews with local bands and international stars, bespoke playlists and video premieres.
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Live MusicNightmare Before Christmas 2008 @ Butlins, Minehead, 5-7 Dec
To some people, the idea of an event curated by Mike Patton and The Melvins is enough to keep them up at night, excitedly memorising Mr Bungle lyrics and try... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
InterviewsAlways Read the Label: One Little Indian
Spawned in the depression of Thatcherism, One Little Indian has become one of the UK’s finest Indies. Twenty-four years on from the label’s conception, Billy Hamilton finds Digital Manager Tony McColl talking up its continued evolution... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
InterviewsTen Kens For Ten Tracks
Compared with a multitude of indie luminaries, Ten Kens' debut LP was one of 2008's forgotten gems. So, in the middle of a recent UK tour, Billy Hamilton cornered vocalist Dan Workman to find out who this Toronto ensemble really are Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
ReviewsMetallica – All Nightmare Long
The fifth offering from the mighty ‘Tallica’s Death Magnetic not only sees a true return to form but probably one of the best tracks to be record... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
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In the Pit: Coldplay @ SECC, 9 Dec
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Ralfe Band - Attics/Stumble
Ralfe Band run a line in stomping feet and energetic grooves. Rich, considered melodic changes reveal themselves like the blue sky through clouds, uncovering... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008
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Live MusicThe KC Review: Simple Minds in Concert
The band is Glasgow's own Simple Minds. The album they're playing live tonight is the seminal New Gold Dream. The King is Creosote, and he's in the crowd. Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Reviews
Dumb Instrument - Dear Santa
Dumb Instrument know how to pull the rug out from under you. What starts out as a saccharine-sweet Scottish take on the Christmas Single -replete with horns,... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Interviews
Lanegan and Campbell Hold The Porch Down
After recording their debut album together whilst hardly seeing each other, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan finally stepped out together in the truer sense with their latest player, Sunday at Devil Dirt. Jamie Scott finds out how their partnership is developing Read more »| 12 Dec 2008 -
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Pink Eyes: "I Made the D-List!"
As he basks in the glory of having shimmied his way further up the food chain in 2008, guest columnist Pink Eyes from Toronto punkers Fucked Up finds himself dissecting the cult of celebrity. Read more »| 12 Dec 2008 -
Live Music
Vivian Girls @ Captain's Rest, 6 Dec
The Vivian Girls are psychic. No, really. They demonstrate their powers tonight by asking a crowd member to whisper the name of a well-known celebrity in the... Read more »| 12 Dec 2008 -
Interviews
Always Read the Label: Wichita Recordings
If ever there was as an ethical record label, Wichita Recordings is surely its embodiment. Finbarr Bermingham talks measured A&R tactics with Mark Bowen. Read more »| 11 Dec 2008 -
Live Music
The Futureheads @ ABC2, 2 Dec
Sunderland stalwarts The Futureheads demonstrate that they still pack a formidable live punch on the first of two nights at ABC2. Taking to a stage much smal... Read more »| 11 Dec 2008 -
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The Prodigy @ Carling Academy, 8 Dec
Keith Flint and Maxim Reality take the stage in character, faces sneering and painted as composer and sound wizard Liam Howlett unleashes the first broken be... Read more »| 10 Dec 2008 -
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Pumajaw @ Limbo, Voodoo Rooms, 4 Dec
When Sparrow And The Workshop‘s (****) vocalist Jill sings “I’d like to be impossibly obscure” in The Gun, she’s obviously not ... Read more »| 10 Dec 2008