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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MusicCommercial Alternative @ Mono, Glasgow, 4 July
The Mono bar and Monorail record store in Glasgow’s King’s Court has long been one of the hippest hangouts the city has to offer, selling reams o... Read more »| 18 Jun 2010 -
MusicKele – The Boxer
Bloc Party frontman struggles for consistency on debut solo set Read more »| 17 Jun 2010 -
Music
Symmetry & Ryan Lewis – Symmetry & Ryan Lewis
In a unique and experimental variation on the white rapper schtick, Symmetry and Ryan Lewis present a crossover album with ideas lifted from hip-hop,... Read more »| 17 Jun 2010 -
ArtPatchwork Cinema @ Collective Gallery
As Edinburgh International Film Festival looms over Auld Reekie, Torsten Lauschmann’s latest offering at Edinburgh’s Collective Gallery poses som... Read more »| 16 Jun 2010 -
Music
!!! Bring Strange Weather to The Arches
"We were last in Scotland, when? I can't quite remember," admits !!! (Chk Chk Chk) frontman Nic Offer. "But since then Shannon replaced John. We just worked ... Read more »| 16 Jun 2010 -
MusicFreebass @ King Tut's, 3 Jun
Excitement fills the air of a crammed King Tut's as the audience patiently waits for much hyped ‘super-group’ Freebass to take the stage. The b... Read more »| 15 Jun 2010
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Film
Ajami
A Bedouin thug demands money from a café, so the owner instinctively shoots him; in retaliation, the café is burnt down, and the owner shot. Fu... Read more »| 14 Jun 2010 -
Music
Herbaliser - Herbal Tonic
Herbal Tonic, without being too obvious about it, is a "best of" album, collecting some of the finest tracks legendary Londoners Jake Wherry and Olly Teeba A... Read more »| 14 Jun 2010 -
Music
The Sound of Silver
The Skinny meets Silver Columns – the folk troubadours who've gone and done a Dylan Read more »| 14 Jun 2010 -
Music
Bring the Noise
Leisurely taking tea in the light, airy space of Mono, you'd never guess Lea Cummings was one man mental Kylie Minoise by night Read more »| 14 Jun 2010 -
Film
Black Death
Black Death, from British director Christopher Smith (Triangle, Severance) is a bleak historical drama set during the 13th Century. As the bubonic pl... Read more »| 14 Jun 2010 -
Art
They Do Things Differently There @ Talbot Rice
Walk into any home and you will be sure to find ‘stuff’; pictures, furniture, one or two ill-advised china dolls. Each of these objects will have... Read more »| 14 Jun 2010 -
Music
Mitchell Museum @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 9 Jun
Tonight’s turnout at Sleazies for Glaswegian hopefuls Mitchell Museum is initially disappointing, particularly given the quality and potential appeal o... Read more »| 10 Jun 2010 -
Theatre
It's Magic
Edinburgh hosts a festival in advance of the Fringe Read more »| 10 Jun 2010 -
Art
The Gloaming @ Transmission Gallery
Rarely is an art exhibition so unsettling. A tree branch fastened to mechanical objects of indiscernible origin flails out at the darkness. Backed into a cor... Read more »| 09 Jun 2010