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Live Music Highlights – July 2011
Taking place on the weekend of the 2nd/3rd of July and marketing itself as a ‘boutique festival’, the Kelburn Garden Party provides a tantalising... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
Festivals
ArcTanGent 2017: Ten acts to see
ConvergeMetalcore has tendency to be quite tacky and formulaic (we’re looking at you Motionless in White), but Converge have never been in a band to pl... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Music
Live music in Manchester this week: 22-28 Mar
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 »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 28 Apr-5 May: Purple Rain
Each week The Skinny team hand pick a selection of events from the Scottish cultural calendar to provide you with this guide to the most exciting goings on i... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Clubs
Liza-Marie: A change of heart
“Sorry I’m late,” gushes Liza Marie as she arrives for the interview. She’s been travelling all day and rushing to keep time, but she... Read more »| Updated over 16 years ago -
Things To Do
Glasgow.Music.Now.
GLASGOW.MUSIC.NOW. The name says it all really. For the first time in history, the MOBO awards are moving to Glasgow and it's a pretty big deal. To celebrate... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
Music
Sun Goes Down: Five Festivals That Made Our Summer
Coachella Festival (Indio, California), 13-15 April It’s hard to sum up what makes Coachella such an amazing festival. There’s no single ele... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Things To Do
Top Ten Events Scotland 27 Feb-6 Mar: Beer Geek Brunch, Admiral Fallow + Goldfrapp
The Skinny | CyberZAP THE WEEK AHEAD It's a good week that start... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 13-20 Oct: Angel Olsen
Last month we sort of lost our shit over Angel Olsen's new album My Woman so it's only fair we continue the jubilation in anticipation of... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 25 May-1 Jun: Hidden Door
Not only are temperatures predicted to soar into certain taps aff territory this week (at the time of writing, at least), the Central Belt is also ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 22-29 Jun: EIFF
Edinburgh International Film Festival is off to a wicked start after launching yesterday with a movie our film section declared their "best opening film... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Festivals
Green Man Festival 2017: Ten acts to see
Ryan AdamsAn inarguable Mountain Stage headliner, the key with Adams, as ever, is to expect the unexpected. His stage-vaulting, limb-fracturing days may be b... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Videos
Ten Rapid: The best new music videos from EMA, Prince, Dum Dum Girls, The Faint and more
Welcome back to Ten Rapid, where we showcase a selection of the week's best new music videos, as curated by The Skinny's music team. This week's playlis... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Music
Live Music Highlights – January 2013
After the hedonistic madness of Hogmanay, we raise our bleary-eyed fizzogs and look towards the dawn of a new year, safe in the knowledge that the Mayans wer... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Theatre
NTS announce trans artists digital symposium
All around the world, trans and non-binary artists are using digital media to transform their practice and make a difference, and now The National Theatre of... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Music
Konx-Om-Pax on music, art, and new EP Refresher
Konx-Om-Pax roughly translates to ‘light from a single beam’, a fitting moniker for multifaceted artist Tom Scholefield. Based in Germany but hai... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Festivals
Wickerman 2012: A Little Solus
The Solus Tent looks like a familiar festival platform on paper – get new bands in, stick them on a stage – but the thinking behind it ... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Music
Live Music Highlights – September 2012
Don’t let the title of Perfume Genius’s second LP confuse you – Put Your Back N 2 It is no fragrant tribute to Ice Cube. Rather, it’s... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Clubs
Rødhåd: Layer by Layer
By now, given the interminable flow of electronic music from the city of Berlin, you could be forgiven for not always believing the hype on encountering anot... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Clubs
Xplicit: Drum & Bass From Coast to Coast
The drum & bass scene in Scotland takes no prisoners, and over the years it has witnessed its fare share of ups and downs, casualties and successes. Thankful... Read more »| Updated over 18 years ago -
Music
Live Music Highlights – June 2012
Signed to Sub Pop, lauded by broadsheets – THEESatisfaction are 2012’s leftfield rap-crossover of choice, and for good reason. Stasia Irons and C... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Clubs
Liquid Room - Ten Years at the Top!
Sharam Jey, Afterdark presents Kink, Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 19 MayWhen you think of Germany in clubbing terms, images of industrial techno and freaked out m... Read more »| Updated almost 18 years ago -
Music
Broken Records: Stretching the Imagination
Who are Broken Records? The short answer: a much-hyped seven piece indie-folk outfit based in Edinburgh. Helpfully, Ian is on hand to provide the background... Read more »| Updated about 16 years ago -
Music
Live Music Highlights – July 2012
Merrill Garbus blindsided us all with the sheer inventive strength of w h o k i l l in 2011; tUnE-yArDs' second album was a considerable step up from her lo-... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Festivals
Unbound 2014: What's On
Sun 10 AugEmpire Café Jura Unbound opens with a celebration of Glasgow's Empire Café project created by Louise Welsh and Jude Barber to explor... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Theatre
Eastern Promise: 2017 Preview
Returning to Platform for its seventh year, Glasgow’s Eastern Promise festival is branching out by adding theatre performances from some of Scotland's ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights - September 2012
The Ashton Weekender is like a Spotifyied version of a music festivals where the initial cost is extremely low (or in this case, free) and you are served up ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Festivals
Welcome to Unbound 2012
So what happens when you survive ‘second album syndrome’? Where do you go next – stadium tours, mid-table obscurity or fade into oblivion w... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Art
Artists and illustrators: The Fruit Tree Foundation needs you!
You may recall that last year the Fruit Tree Foundation brought together a stellar array of Scottish songwriting and recording talent to make an album and se... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 3 May
RIP JEFF HANNEMANJeff Hanneman, a founding member of Californian thrash titans Slayer, has passed away due to liver failure. It is not yet known whether his ... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago