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 MusicShred Yr Face @ Glasgow School of Art, 18 Oct
Even the art school kids can let loose tonight. Times New Viking inaugurate both the shredding of yr face and the mutualisation of yr Tennent's with a handfu... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Live MusicDe Rosa versus Found @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 15 Nov
De Rosa versus Found, Chemikal Underground versus the Fence Collective, Glasgow versus Edinburgh, poignant and delicate melodic folk-pop versus eclectic expe... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
TV on the Radio @ ABC, 16 Nov
If you could have levelled one accusation at TV on the Radio following their 2006 breakthrough record Return to Cookie Mountain it might have been a certain ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Seasick Steve @ Barrowland, 21 Oct
“I took the train from Liverpool today,” drawls Seasick Steve, and the crowd inexplicably woop and cheer. It appears that, much like his music, t... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Live MusicFuneral For A Friend @ ABC, 18 Oct
Welsh emo stalwarts return with phoned-in crowd pleaser Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
The King Hats @ King Tut's, 20 Oct
Hyperactive local boys let rip with energetic punk racket Read more »| 27 Oct 2008
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Live Music
Bulleit Originals @ The Arches, 7 Nov
With his dubious experiments of 1907, Dr Duncan MacDougall “proved” that the human soul weighed 21 grams. If it’s true though, the upcoming... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
The Inspector Cluzo - The Inspector Cluzo EP
Somewhere in France, Laurent Lacroutts and Mathieu Jordan have been locked in their bedrooms since 1991 with albums by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Alice in C... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsSmith 6079 - Ghosts
Thematically released EP from Mancunian quintet Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
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Tom Jones - If He Should Ever Leave You
Tom Jones is back! And, unsurprisingly, it’s all a bit rubbish: anachronistically derivative of the leathery crooner’s ‘glory days’, ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Festivals
Oxjam Festival @ Ashton Lane, Glasgow, 26 Oct
Since its humble beginnings as a 19th century backstreet of stables, Ashton Lane has grown to be one of the coolest streets in Glasgow. This Sunday, there&rs... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
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Dead or American – Thaumaturgy
This is their witching hour Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Punch & the Apostles - I'm a Hobo/Can of Beans
'1930's influenced avant-garde ska-punk swing' is not a genre that one could say was in danger of over-saturating the market, a fact that certainly works in ... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
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Euros Childs - Cheer Gone
Presumably sick of the comparisons of his previous band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci to the Super Furry Animals, Welsh crooner Euros Childs has quietly dropped the ... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
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Die! Die! Die! - Promises Promises
Testicle-hugging jeans? Check. Converse trainers? Check. Angular guitar riffs? Check. Punchy name? Check. Die! Die! Die! certainly know how to tick the appro... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008