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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ClubsThe Skinny & Ten Tracks Birthday Party
We're turning four this October, so come out and stay up way past your bedtime Read more »| 10 Sep 2009 -
Theatre
Alternatives
Cabaret goes beyond the quick thrill of burlesque and shakes hands with new music Read more »| 10 Sep 2009 -
TheatreScottish Ballet
Something old, something borrowed, something new: Scottish Ballet creates a marriage that is sometimes in heaven. Read more »| 10 Sep 2009 -
MusicTori Amos @ Royal Concert Hall, 8 Sep
Reputations are mysterious things. Rumours of past gigs had painted Tori Amos as a humourless virtuoso who’d sooner tell talkative fans to sling their ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2009 -
MusicChrist. @ The GRV, 26 Sep
Deep in the darkest recesses of the Cowgate (well, Guthrie Street) you will find The GRV, a multi-media arts venue which will soon play host to the equally ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2009 -
Music
The Twilight Sad's Forget the Night Ahead: Track-By-Track, By the Band
Reflection of the Television We weren't really sure if this one was going to be on the album; we had the chords and vocal line, and thought we'd give it a go... Read more »| 08 Sep 2009
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MusicVersus: Meursault vs The Foundling Wheel vs Dead Boy Robotics @ The Voodoo Rooms, 10 Sep
This September stimulate your auditory senses with the return of VERSUS to Edinburgh’s award-winning Voodoo Rooms. The evening promises live music pack... Read more »| 08 Sep 2009 -
Music
The Gullivers - Legerdemain EP
A Wall Against The Noise kicks off this second offering from Oxford four-piece, The Gullivers, creeping in with a wash of keyboard ambience and skeletal, gui... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
Film
Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde’s gothic classic about the perils of yearning for everlasting youth, has been updated by director Oliver Parker (An Ideal Husband, St Trini... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
Music
Shannon Stephens - The Breadwinner
If you’re looking for musical credentials, Shannon Stephens has ‘em- former bandmate of Sufjan Stevens in Marzuki , songs covered on critically a... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
Theatre
A Faustian Diaspora
The International Festival provides great shows in form, but what about the content? Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
Music
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
From rapid-boil kettles to omnipresent wireless broadband, the 21st century has proven itself to be one of instant gratification - much to the detriment of u... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
Music
The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Like the original ‘shoegaze’ tag in the early 90s, ‘nu-gaze’ is not a genre bands seem that happy to be burdened with. The Big Pink a... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
Music
Noah and the Whale - The First Days Of Spring
Charlie Fink is miserable. Very miserable, actually. From the first tender notes of colossal opener The First Days of Spring there is a monumental whiff of d... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
Music
GusGus: - 24/7
This Icelandic electronic outfit have metamorphosed considerably since their formation in 1995 as a multi-faceted, eclectic group who aside from their musica... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009