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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ReviewsCalla - Collisions
the depth of sound and complexity of lyrics weave sultry pictures as much as they tell stories of disappointment and failed potential Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Live Music
El Dog plus support at the Swamp Bar @ Edinburgh
Glaswegians El Dog give an intensely emotional performance Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Live Music
Stinking Lizaveta @ Henry's Cellar Bar
Doom Jazz holds the rock'n'roll flag high. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Reviews
Mitford Girls - Eponymous EP
I long for a little more lunacy, for breaking of glasses and for synth-lines full to bursting to set the kitchen ablaze Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsHarvestman- Lashing the Rye
grinding and pulsating psychedelic instrumental creations of beauty and pain Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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East West Blast Test - Popular Songs for Unpopular People
unlike many records of this type, the relentless barrage of sounds and ideas never becomes grating Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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ReviewsThe Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
The perfect remedy to these dark winter days. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsThe Academy Is... - Almost Here
The concert might be okay àif you're smashed on cheap cider and abhor any creativity or depth in your music.
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Live Music
William Douglas - Nektar @ Edinburgh
an old man beside the fire quite wisely commented ""It's one thing to be able to write a song but it's another to be able to perform"" Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsThe Darkness - Is It Just Me?
as exciting as a flacid penis Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsBon Jovi - Welcome to Wherever You Are
This record might as well be called Shut Up and Consume You Bastards Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsSon of Dork - Eddie's Song
Give me twenty minutes and I could teach a monkey to write a song that would sound like Purple Haze next to this shit Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsThe Far Cries - Stepping/The Edge
Over-cooked and hollow Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
ReviewsThe Kooks - You Don't Love Me
The Kooks have been pre-ordained for big things, and this is sure to help them on their way.
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InterviewsNew Blood: Findo Gask
They are committed to dislocating themselves from the orthodoxies of the three piece, absorbing new instruments voraciously into their elaborate live set up, each one adding another sweetening dimension. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006