Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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MusicGrinderman – Grinderman 2
As The Bad Seeds fast approach their 30th year, their music has become naturally more bombastic and grandiose. The Grinderman offshoot was, in some r... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
TheatreKafka and Son
He had a Bad Dad Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
ClubsRedinho & Actress @ Numbers, 3 Sep
Glasgow's most influential club night and record label of the past few years must be feeling a little nostalgic after celebrating their seventh birthday back... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
Music
We Were Promised Jetpacks @ The Liquid Room, 21 Aug
To the uninitiated, We Were Promised Jetpack’s set tonight will likely come across as a bit ‘samey’. To those accustomed to last year&rsquo... Read more »| 25 Aug 2010 -
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Amelia Curran – Hunter Hunter
Recently winning a prestigious Juno Award for Best Roots and Traditional Album Of The Year in her native Canada, Amelia Curran's fifth album finally gets its... Read more »| 25 Aug 2010 -
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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk
As unlikely a pairing as they are, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan are onto their third outing together; if it doesn’t add up on paper it sure as hell... Read more »| 25 Aug 2010
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ClubsJack in the BumBumBox
Street parties with bikers, Marxist club culture and freaky sort-of techno: The Skinny meets Matias Aguayo Read more »| 25 Aug 2010 -
Theatre
La Cheetah Burlesque August Show
With the Edinburgh Fringe Festival taking centre stage for the international theatre, cabaret and burlesque scenes, it’s always nice to see events cont... Read more »| 25 Aug 2010 -
Art
Down Over Up @ The Fruitmarket Gallery
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re missing something? Like the punch line of a joke you just don’t understand, and you’re the only one... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
MusicFat Freddy's Drop – Live at Roundhouse
As someone who visited Aotearoa this year, I can tell you that the Kiwis go mental for FFD: the reggae/roots scene is huge down there, perhaps as it seems to... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
Music
Steve Mason @ The Liquid Room 18 Aug
A newly reopened Liquid Room tonight plays host to one of its favourite sons, and as reunions go, this would take some beating for emotional resonance. Scene... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
Music
Beirut @ HMV Picture House, 22 Aug
“I fuckin’ love you Zach!” shouts one punter near the end of Beirut’s stunning performance tonight. “Ah luv yi too!” resp... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
Music
Freelance Whales – Weathervanes
On first listen, this debut album from recently formed Queens quintent Freelance Whales sounds a lot like a toned-down version of Sufjan Stevens' Illinois, w... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
Art
Staged @ City Observatory
The title of Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth’s new Edinburgh Festival commission might suggest a work that is rather spectacular. ‘Staged’ ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
Music
The Besnard Lakes @ Sneaky Pete's, 17 Aug
It’s been three years since Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. Ample time for a trio of young lads known as Heart Beats (****) to graduate from Th... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010