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 MusicSuper Furry Animals @ Usher Hall, 12 Dec
Super Furry Animals are a band that operate on the kookier side of the rock spectrum; a band that prides itself on tackling abstract and zany subject matter,... Read more »| 15 Dec 2016 -
Live MusicHooton Tennis Club @ Invisible Wind Factory, 9 Dec
2016 may have been an absolute shithouse of a year for the majority of the planet’s population, but Wirral-based indie-rockers Hooton Tennis Club ... Read more »| 15 Dec 2016 -
Live MusicSlow Club @ The Caves, 13 Dec
“Are you ready for a string of miserable songs about my feelings?” Rebecca Taylor asks, early on in the show, really hammering home the transitio... Read more »| 15 Dec 2016 -
Live MusicKathryn Joseph @ Mono, 9 Dec
In the 18 months since Kathryn Joseph's debut album Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I've Spilled beat established industry names to win the 2015 Scottish ... Read more »| 15 Dec 2016 -
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Gengahr @ Deaf Institute, Manchester, 8 Dec
London’s Gengahr have chosen Manchester to end their latest UK tour, a string of dates that closes the door on debut album A Dream Outside and sta... Read more »| 15 Dec 2016 -
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The Temperance Movement @ Deaf Institute, 7 Dec
Maybe it’s just optical trickery – the Deaf Institute’s domed ceiling dilating the stage – but tonight blues-rock outfit The Tem... Read more »| 15 Dec 2016
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Things To Do
Live music in Manchester this week: 14-20 Dec
We dive into the listings to bring you this essential guide to gigs in Manchester this week plus the latest news on festivals, tour announcements and more. T... Read more »| 15 Dec 2016 -
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Live music in Liverpool this week: 14-20 Dec
There's a whole lotta Britpop going on: hometown veterans Cast and Space return, while Kula Shaker and Travis prove that the 90s are definitely back Read more »| 14 Dec 2016 -
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Against Me! @ Academy 2, Manchester, 7 Dec
Few bands could feasibly claim to provoke emotional investment quite as radically as Florida punks Against Me!. As frontwoman Laura Jane Grace leads her... Read more »| 14 Dec 2016 -
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Weyes Blood @ The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, 25 Nov
The evening begins, fashionably late, with Glaswegian crooner Alistair Ogilvy. He runs through a few plaintive ballads, peppering his set with offerings... Read more »| 13 Dec 2016 -
Interviews
Introducing MOTSA
Back in November, MOTSA released his Petricolour EP via own label imprint of the same name. We caught up with Valerio Dittrich to get to know him a bit ... Read more »| 13 Dec 2016 -
News
Home for the Holidays: A Christmas Songbook
A new 40-track charity compilation from some of Scotland's best bands launches this weekend; we find out more about the project from one of its ringleaders, Book Group's Michael Morrison Read more »| 13 Dec 2016 -
Live Music
Slowcoaches @ Maguire's, Liverpool, 7 Dec
Remember the old gag about bands playing to 'one man and his dog'? For the uninitiated, that's what musos used to snigger about when bands played to an ... Read more »| 12 Dec 2016 -
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The Julie Ruin @ Gorilla, Manchester, 4 Dec
From the far corner of the room – boys to the back – a rammed Gorilla prepares for The Julie Ruin’s first Manchester show. Expect... Read more »| 12 Dec 2016 -
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Pixies @ Apollo, Manchester, 4 Dec
Everyone loves The Pixies. Right? Everyone. They have a back catalogue to die for, and a humble story of producing amazing albums that didn’t make them... Read more »| 12 Dec 2016