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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MusicBurnsong 2009: Get Yer Entries In
Burnsong 2006 provided the catalyst that combined a stellar variety of musicians in one melting pot, united by the common goal to write and rehearse songs th... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
MusicWithered Hand - Good News
By the time Edinburgh's Withered Hand opens Good News's final track with "maybe the world would be better without me", you'll want to give him a slap and tel... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
Music
The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
The addition of iconic Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr brings discernible maturity to the structure of The Cribs' fourth album. While still guitar-heavy and fra... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
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
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Music
Frightened 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 -
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Sunset Rubdown @ Stereo, 10 Sep
Montreal band tour their brilliant new album, Dragonslayer Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
Music
Maps – 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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Hockey @ 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 -
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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 -
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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