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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ArtMystics or Rationalists? @ Ingleby Gallery
“Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.” Number one in Sol LeWitt’s fam... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
MusicAlias – Fever Dream
Once synonymous with experimental hip-hop, Anticon has mostly evolved into a reliable fountain of summery approximations of sublime and ethereal electronica ... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
Theatre
Immaculate by Oliver Lansley @ The Arches
The trouble with Immaculate Conception Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
Theatre
Theatre Venue of the Month: Leith
First Stop of the Edinburgh Festival Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
Books
The Incomplete Tim Key, by Tim Key
Tim Key’s quirky, humorous, poems were very enjoyable. In fact, I had to share them. I shared them with my cat, Charlie. Charlie bloody loved them! He ... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
ComedyCarl, Chris and Paul
New boys Paul McCaffrey and Chris Martin are making their Fringe debut this year. Their mate, the multi-award winning Carl Donnelly gives them some advice on surviving Edinburgh. Read more »| 01 Aug 2011
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MusicAstrid Williamson – Pulse
Judging from the level of input he's credited with, Pulse may be more equitably attributed to ‘Leo Abraham and Astrid Williamson’; the former&rsq... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights - August
Liver spotted totem of sleaze Rupert Murdoch may have done his company's share price a mischief by turning a not-so-blind eye to the maelstrom of villainy cl... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Art
Big Fun At The Edinburgh Art Festival
There's a lot to choose from in the EAF programme – here are Art editor Andrew Cattanach's tips of what's unmissable Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Music
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Mirror Traffic
Stephen Malkmus’ solo career began promisingly, with 2001’s tune-packed eponymous LP, but recent efforts have lacked the exuberance and imaginati... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Music
Butcher Boy – Helping Hands
Without straying far from their indie-pop template, Helping Hands is nevertheless Butcher Boy's most diverse offering to date. Through a careful layering of ... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Warpaint @ Queen’s Hall, 23 Aug
If rock shows embody the idea of paying to see other people be free (to paraphrase Kim Gordon), then there are few things more dispiriting than watching a ba... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Music
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lenses Alien
Unlike virtually all adventurous New York acts around these days, Cymbals Eat Guitars are based not in Brooklyn, but on the considerably less hip Staten Isla... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Film
The Lost Bladesman
They don't make films like they used to. Except in China. The Lost Bladesman is a historical epic of the old school with a cast of thousands filling out mass... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Theatre
Pitmen Painters - Working Class Aesthetics
Live Theatre Newcastle and The National Theatre production of Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall features many of the original 2007 cast. The play centres around Th... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011