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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ComedyAndy Zaltzman: Touring Armchair Revolutionary
Attention Buglers! Andy Zaltzman stops to talk to us before his return to Scotland Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
FilmEverything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007
Everything or Nothing is a breezy document of the James Bond franchise (books, television and movies) that’s as well-put-together as its iconic title c... Read more »| 10 Oct 2012 -
FilmThe Perks of Being a Wallflower
There’s a great tragedy at the heart of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but it isn’t the crippling loneliness felt by its protagonist Charlie (L... Read more »| 10 Oct 2012 -
Art
Edinburgh Printmakers – Own Art
Edinburgh Printmakers is a quiet, welcoming wee place to visit, despite its proximity to the hustle and bustle of the capital’s centre. You would never... Read more »| 10 Oct 2012 -
Music
Alice Cooper: Keepin' Halloween Alive
Alice Cooper casts his predictions for costume choices at his Halloween Night of Fear (Iron Man, anyone?) and muses on the season’s ever-escalating appeal Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
MusicThis Many Boyfriends – This Many Boyfriends
This Many Boyfriends’ scrappy-go-lucky debut wears its DNA like so many button badges. It’s in their name, a nod to Beat Happening. It’s i... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012
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Clubs
Tiger & Woods and Tensnake @ Naive, Chambre69, 23 October
Recent years have seen the release of countless disco re-edits. Many of these are merely extended loops, edited in a simple manner, often lacking imagination... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Art
DashnDem & Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen @ DCA
DashnDem’s Imagine Being a World Leader adorns Gallery 1 of the DCA with all the artifice of the political Summit; a red carpet, the backdrop of a stat... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
ClubsDJ MikeQ @ Killer Kitsch, Buff Club, 16-17 October
The re-emergence of musical sub-genres usually requires a willing ambassador at the helm, taking the sound beyond its original parameters and geographical bo... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Music
PAWS / North American War @ CCA, 4 October
Tonight begins with a major disappointment: the promised rum and coke floats are unavailable. The CCA weren’t keen on the potential mess, explains a ba... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Music
Omar Rodríguez-López Group @ Stereo, 30 September
The Omar Rodríguez-López Group is a chimera, not a band – a catch-all name to encompass an ever-changing line-up expounding Omar’s... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Art
Sonica 2012: Adventures in Sound
From the team behind Cryptic Nights, Sonica offers a programme dedicated to presenting sonic art for the visually minded in venues across the city of Glasgow Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
Tig Notaro – Live!
Comedy has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. Aggresive, misogynistic, tolerant of rape and, worst of all, a bit pointless. That final char... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: October 2012 Horoscopes
ARIES Your intestinal parasite has gotten rather large lately, and this month things cross a very special barrier when you finally become the parasite trappe... Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
Music
The Lost and Damned: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead return with a fury
As they set about releasing their blistering eighth album, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead’s multi-instrumentalist Jason Reece talks Texan prog, German punk and Scottish niceties Read more »| 05 Oct 2012