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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Theatre
Bussman's Holiday @ The Assembly Rooms
The comic relief adequately facilitates the communication of what would have, at least in part, been an otherwise harrowing tale Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
Doug Stanhope, Worst
Doug Stanhope is a prophet. While our pathetic minds are anaesthetised, allowing us to live in the world, he just can't switch his off! He sees things as the... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
ComedyDoug Stanhope @ George Square Theatre
The writer and free-thinker Aldous Huxley observed that "experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him". This a use... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
SkinnyFest 2 - Fat Wednesday, The Caves, Aug 16/23
A special partnership in new music promotion in Edinburgh, Trouble and Departure Lounge, bring you Fat Wednesday at the Baby Belly every week of the festival... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
David O'Doherty @ Assembly Rooms
There are few comedians less offensive than David O'Doherty. A gentle Irish lad in a baseball cap, always armed with his trusty Yamaha, he appears to offer a... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
Pins and Needles @ Red Vodka Club, August 18
Pins and Needles represent the new generation of promoters, trying out something different in smaller venues and with much success. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Comedy
Toulson and Harvey @ Pleasance Courtyard
obvious zeal, but struggling to take flight Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
ComedyDylan Moran @ The Usher Hall, 8 Aug
At his most dastardly, like Connolly of old, Dylan Moran commands the stage with a cool affability. As such, it's no wonder he so quickly transcended the Por... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
Ed Byrne @ Pleasance Courtyard
Ed Byrne possesses some of the best qualities for success as a comedian. Funny, charming and Irish, he is separated from others on the circuit by his tangibl... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
ComedyAndrew Maxwell @ Pleasance Courtyard
Andrew Maxwell seems a likeable young scamp, with his mop of scruffy blonde hair and his impish Irish lilt. He'd probably be quite a nice chap to go shopping... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Needles - In Search Of The Needles
the moment you're pricked by the smouldering sound of The Needles you'll be hooked forever Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
Segun Afolabi
Afolabi is one of the freshest and most original voices in contemporary literature. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Coming Round for T: Week Two
sell-out performances, comeback tours, one-hit-wonders and one-man-bands Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Bell X1
If we sling enough stuff about, some of it is bound to stick. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Lach plus Y'all Is Fantasy Island @ Edinburgh, 25 Jul
they create a sound that is as immediate as rock and as intimate as folk. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006