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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ArtArt Late!
Thursdays might be the official late-shopping days, but this week will be different. From 6pm onwards, art galleries throughout Edinburgh will welcome visito... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
ComedyWomen Stand Up
Female comics of the world stand up to be counted. Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
Improv Wars
Improv Wars joins regular feature Dance Monkey Boy Dance as your Monday night entertainment at the Glasgow Stand. Featuring well established local comics su... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
MusicFrightened Rabbit @ Queen's Hall, 18 Aug
Unlike their winged namesakes, the Moth and the Mirror initially find the bright lights of the Queens’s Hall less than attractive, not relaxing until t... Read more »| 22 Aug 2009 -
Music
Sunset Rubdown @ Stereo, 10 Sep
Montreal band tour their brilliant new album, Dragonslayer Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
MusicMaps – Turning the Mind
On Maps’ Mercury nominated debut album, bedroom recording prodigy James Chapman sounded like an especially blissed-out shoegazer (if such a paradox is ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009
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MusicHockey @ King Tut's, 20 Sep
Not long out of their wrapper and Hockey’s party vibe is already proving as divisive as yeast spread. Their indie-rock shapes, tinged with electro-pop ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
Music
Broken Records @ Queen's Hall, 17 Aug
You only need one peek at tonight’s undercard to gauge the heights Broken Records have scaled. Twelve months ago a verbatim line-up would have seen My... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
Isma Almas Bombs Review by Ariadne Cass-Maran
Isma Alma's show opens with her burkha-clad alter ego, Mrs. Hussein, who delivers some self deprecating jokes about Muslim ladies which, were they delivered ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Music
Gang of Four @ HMV Picture House, 18 Sep
The original 'Gang of Four' shaped Mao Zedong's political apparatus for a ten year spell; polemical post-punk outfit Gang of Four, on the other hand, are ent... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Film
Greek Pete
Male escort Pete has landed in London and aims to earn enough riches to retire, but juggling work with his new boyfriend (fellow hustler Kai) is proving diff... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
Gagarin Way Review by Ariadne Cass-Maran
Gagarin Way is bleak, claustrophobic, and savagely funny; and in this, it is very Scottish indeed. Gregory Burke's tale of ideology gone violently wrong in t... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Music
The Phantom Band @ Electric Circus, 19 Aug
Perhaps fittingly, Glaswegian motorik-prog rock bastards The Phantom Band are tonight playing a venue mere feet away from some of the world's most haunted ba... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Music
Camille O'Sullivan @ Assembly Halls, 9 Aug
Camille is known for her cabaret style renditions of Nick Cave and David Bowie, as well as traditional favourites. If the Dark Angel lacks her stunning versi... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
Carey Marx: The Doom Gloom Boom Comedy Review
Not as gloomy as you might think, given the title, Carey Marx takes childish and razor sharp joy in arguing with people's apathy, and the doomy gloom the wor... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009