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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MusicKristin Hersh @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 18 May
Intensity is the watchword tonight at King Tut's. The tone is set by opening act Beerjacket (***), the nom de rock of self-effacing singer-songwriter Peter K... Read more »| 22 May 2009 -
MusicMaximo Park - Quicken The Heart
"What are we doing here if romance isn't dead?" So demanded Paul Smith, Maximo Park's frontman, on the Tyneside quintet's exhilarating debut single Graffiti.... Read more »| 22 May 2009 -
MusicDirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move
In four years between 2002 and 2006, Dirty Projectors went through 27 band members. That’s a turnover to put even your most harried of rock supergroups... Read more »| 21 May 2009 -
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Kelburn Garden Party: If You Go Down to the Woods Today...
Chris Duncan takes a look at one of the most exciting additions to this year's Scottish festival line up, The Garden Party. Read more »| 21 May 2009 -
ComedyPhil Kay and Freemoore
If you find the Fringe a bit too overwhelming, between the streets squeezed with tourists drunk on the myriad of acts, the cacophony of bagpipes and the impo... Read more »| 21 May 2009 -
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Pit Er Pat @ Limbo, The Voodoo Rooms, 14 May
In the sometimes sumptuous setting of the Voodoo Rooms, Pit Er Pat just about reach their comfort zone. Their feet seem to drag as they take the stag... Read more »| 20 May 2009
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Music
White Denim - Fits
Given the editorial constraints of the average Skinny review it'd be hard even to simply list the genres and bands whose influences shine through on the exce... Read more »| 20 May 2009 -
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The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes
An immersive journey into the heart of noise Read more »| 20 May 2009 -
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Jack Peñate @ Bongo Club, 16 Jun
Jack Peñate kicks off his summer season with a pre-festival June tour, previewing his forthcoming second album, to include new single Tonight’s ... Read more »| 20 May 2009 -
MusicMeat Puppets - Sewn Together
Despite Curt Kirkwood's assertions that “if I can get away with it, I'll make a record as cheap as I can and put as little work as I can into it,&rdquo... Read more »| 20 May 2009 -
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Teitur @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 7 Jun
Ultra-melancholy, ludicrously talented, doe-eyed singer-songwriter, blah blah blah… It’s easy to dismiss Faroe Islands native Teitur Lassen as t... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
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John Leckie: Producing the Goods
The music industry would be at a loss without British record producer John Leckie. Since he began his career in 1970 at Abbey Rd Studios as an in-house engin... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
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Crystal Antlers @ Sneaky Pete’s, 18 May
The unifying theme of this gig was always going to be volume – as in, lots of it. But Edinburgh band Dupec (****) refuse to be blown off the stage by t... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
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Fanfarlo - Reservoir
'The British Arcade Fire' is a label that Fanfarlo are likely becoming sick of, so often is it applied to their chamber pop magnificence. Yet for all the sim... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
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Ellen Mary McGee - The Crescent Sun
Debut from Nottingham-based songwriter, rich in dark mythological imagery. Read more »| 19 May 2009