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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MusicNeil Diamond @ Hampden Park, 2 July
Last time Neil Diamond visited Hampden, the crowd was forced to brave the elements for a taste of his glittering back catalogue. Not so on this occasion, as ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2011 -
MusicThe Wrong Boyfriends: "Our acoustic sets were crap. Really, really crap"
Our first date with punk-blooded scoundrels The Wrong Boyfriends started as a guide to Belgian nightlife and ended as an HR crisis meeting Read more »| 05 Jul 2011 -
ComedyIn Profile: Isma Almas
In the list of things associated with the burkha, stand-up comedy must rate close to the bottom. Yet for parts of her 2009 Fringe show, Isma Almas wore one. ... Read more »| 05 Jul 2011 -
Film
The Tree of Life
Simultaneously the most ambitious and intimate work of Terrence Malick's career, The Tree of Life is a film unlike any other in recent American cinema. At th... Read more »| 04 Jul 2011 -
ArtNina Rhode: Friendly Fire / Cara Tolmie: Read Thou Art And Read Thou Shalt Remain @ DCA until 31 July
Dynamic, multi disciplinary installations unite the work of Glasgow born Cara Tolmie and Berlin based Nina Rhode in this intriguing pair of solo exhibitions ... Read more »| 04 Jul 2011 -
Music
TV On The Radio @ O2 ABC, 28 June
When TV On The Radio last played at the ABC, they were cheered by a packed and passionate crowd still enthralled with Dear Science, the band’s hugely s... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011
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Music
This Will Destroy You @ Ivory Blacks, 28 June
It’s all too easy to be down on East Kilbride’s The Clock, such is their out-of-tune opening instrumental and later dalliance with screamo clich&... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Theatre
Knives in Hens
David Harrower’s debut play, Knives in Hens returns to the Traverse after 16 years with Lies Pauwels’ vibrant new production, which delves into t... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: July Horoscopes
ARIES As the Universe expands the temperature will cool to absolute zero, the void will slow to an entropic husk and nothing will exist to even observe how ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Music
Diva – The Glitter End
When Beth Consentino left Pocahaunted to start Best Coast, she revealed she’d never really liked the music made with the former, and was starting afres... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Music
Langston Hughes – Harlem in Vogue: The Poetry and Jazz of Langston Hughes
As with many innovators, Langston Hughes’ legacy has largely gone neglected, overshadowed by the political heavyweights of the civil rights movement, b... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Theatre
Tell Me On a Sunday @ The King's Theatre
“Girl” (yes, that’s her name in the script) is a homely English twenty-something who has moved from Liverpool (updated from Muswell Hill to... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Theatre
10 years of Bard in the Botanics Venue of the Month
Bard in the Botanics will celebrate its 10th year in style this summer Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – Dananananaykroyd Takeover
David Roy and John Baillie Jr popped round ours to play Bad Cop/Worse Cop with the July singles. What will it take to tease out their sensitive side? Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Theatre
Jekyll and Hyde @ The King's Theatre
Admittedly one meets any production peddling a nostalgic celebrity heart-throb as the lead with an exaggerated degree of scepticism, but let’s say ther... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011