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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FilmKing of Devil's Island
This film sits alongside the Devil’s Island of Henri Charriere’s Papillon, forming an archipelago of punishment and retribution. The settin... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
Music
The 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 -
Art
The 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 -
ComedyLady 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
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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 -
TheatreWe 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 -
Film
360
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