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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MusicThe Twilight Sad announce remix LP
Liars, Horrors, Com Truise and Optimo for No One Can Ever Know – The Remixes Read more »| 14 Aug 2012 -
ComedyPaco Erhard: 5-step guide to being German 2.0
Paco Erhard can sure pack out a room. Almost ten minutes after he was due to start and people were still piling in, jostling for floor space when the seating... Read more »| 14 Aug 2012 -
ArtThe Skinny Fringe Radio Hour
This month The Skinny is taking to the world of radio, with a weekly show on Fresh Air presenting guests from across the Edinburgh Festivals as well as revie... Read more »| 13 Aug 2012 -
Comedy
Lady Melville and Rosie Rebel: Dirty Thirties
Dirty Thirties are a double act inasmuch as there’s two of them. Long-term friends and first time Fringers, Lady Melville and Rosie Rebel take turns up... Read more »| 13 Aug 2012 -
Theatre
The Brothers’ Keeper @ Oran Mor
Happy Summertime, everyone! Read more »| 10 Aug 2012 -
FilmMarley
"What do Jamaicans love more than a man who's just survived a gunfight?" asks Bob Marley's elegant, dreadlocked lawyer as she recalls the aftermath of the at... Read more »| 10 Aug 2012
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Theatre
We Think Not: Karl Jay-Lewin & Anushiye Yarnell
This is the kind of Zen koan that came to mind watching We Think Not. These are two different works of great interiority. I felt like... Read more »| 09 Aug 2012 -
Theatre
Death Boogie @ Assembly Roxy
Death Boogie is a fun way to kick off an evening of shows: if you aren't a fan of rap/beatbox/hiphop (I'm not) don't go, though saying that,... Read more »| 09 Aug 2012 -
Theatre
Pygmalion @ Oran Mor
Transposing the famed Bernard Shaw play to Edinburgh is problematic, and sadly, a risk that more often than not doesn’t pay off. Despite a few nic... Read more »| 09 Aug 2012 -
Music
Chilly Gonzales – Solo Piano II
From prankster rapper to electro-funk maestro, the artist formerly known as Jason Beck has long demonstrated a playfully flexible attitude towards genre. I... Read more »| 09 Aug 2012 -
Film360
Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde is a play with a perfect cyclical structure, and it has already inspired one film masterpiece with Max Ophüls' seductively ... Read more »| 09 Aug 2012 -
Comedy
Madeleine Culp: Fark
As far as intros go, this is a good one. Weird, funny, mish-mashy, and theatre-like, the scene is set for Madeleine Culp’s ditz into the clouds. Her ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2012 -
Music
The Darkness – Hot Cakes
Smut’s always been a core ingredient of The Darkness’s overstretched shtick, but I could swear it used to come with more wit. The glam riff and... Read more »| 08 Aug 2012 -
Music
Bailter Space – Strobosphere
Strobosphere sees New Zealand indie-noise pioneers Bailter Space return, after a 13-year hiatus, to a markedly different musical landscape, in which neo-sh... Read more »| 08 Aug 2012 -
Comedy
Lewis Schaffer: No YOU Shut Up
Some people are just born comedians, and Lewis Schaffer is one of them. He is supremely confident, shaking hands with every member of the audience at the d... Read more »| 08 Aug 2012