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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MusicLive Music Highlights – July 2011
Taking place on the weekend of the 2nd/3rd of July and marketing itself as a ‘boutique festival’, the Kelburn Garden Party provides a tantalising... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
MusicThe Metal Column – July 2011
Roots, Bloody Roots... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Music
Richard Youngs – Amplifying Host
Over twenty years and a ton of releases (with scores of self-released CDRs supplementing every widely-released full-length), Richard Youngs has built a solid... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Nicolas Jaar (live) @ The Arches, 29 July
If space is only noise that you can see, then prepare to wander into a parallel world of electronic sounds when Nicolas Jaar plays at The Arches on 29 July. ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
MusicTom Vek: "I’m not going to suggest that it really takes that long to produce 45 minutes worth of music..."
Incommunicado for five years, Tom Vek has a pretty good go at explaining why he's kept us waiting - it's complicated Read more »| 29 Jun 2011 -
MusicSix Degrees of Julia Thirteen
Who knew that so much of Glasgow's rich modern musical lineage could be traced back to the constituent parts of just one band? Read more »| 29 Jun 2011
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Clubs
Clubbing Highlights – July
Fed up of the long hours and vitamin D deficiency inherent in its proselytising ways, the Clubbing Highlights column has made a devastating concession to 'fu... Read more »| 29 Jun 2011 -
Music
A Midsummer Day's Dream @ The Tramway, 25 June
Once again, the Tramway (and Optimo) step up to the plate and boldly go in directions that seldom few have the balls to with A Midsummer Day’s Dream, a... Read more »| 29 Jun 2011 -
Music
Washed Out – Within and Without
Ernest Greene, alias Washed Out, released his debut EP Life of Leisure in 2009, the Georgia-based talent promptly finding favour with blogging hipsters all o... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Books
Top Gear Drivers' Handbook by Richard Porter
Following on from Haynes, the Car Manual publisher who branched out into novelty books – The Star Trek based U.S.S Enterprise Manual, Dad Manua... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Witness presents: Sinden @ Sneaky Pete's, 13 July
It would seem that the Witness crew can't get enough of Grizzly artists, having booked Brenmar last month for a sweaty packed out show, this month sees head ... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
T in the Park 2011 – The Dancing
The time is approaching when thousands across Scotland will dust down their bucket hats, string up their acoustic guitars and try to track down that tent the... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Music
Crystal Antlers – Two Way Mirror
After a favourably received debut album and EP it was uncertain as to whether these Californian acid-revivalists could ever best it. But, in attempting to do... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Barrowland, 22 July
The downside of a band achieving greatness is most usually to be found in the legions of mediocre imitators that spring up in their wake. Yet despite the so-... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Film
July Film Highlights
On 25 July the Filmhouse in Edinburgh is offering a rare chance to see notorious 1932 film Freaks. The director Tod Browning (Dracula), inspired by his own c... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011