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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Clubs
Festival Nightlife: The Highlights
With posters covering every available inch of space, and homicidal flyer-wielding lunatics assaulting you at every turn, choosing where to go on a night out is potentially more baffling at this time of year than at any other. Fear not! The Skinny is here with a quick guide to some of the best gigs, performances and club nights on offer. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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DJ CHART - Patrick Walker (Avionix, Hard_Scape, Mindnet) 08/06
Really hits the spot Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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A Separate Agenda: Percy X pesents The Separatists
Leader Line/ 'Akilak' brings detroit funk back to a minimal-obsessed scene
Pull Q/ ""Marco, John and I all believed that techno-soul should be our main inspiration."" - Percy X, The Separatists Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club - The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club
This English, Cardiff-based girl-girl-boy trio's eponymous debut album is a 35 minute study in eccentric, abrasive pop music. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Popup - Lucy What Are You Trying to Say?
A brief glimpse of sunshine in this slightly shoddy Scottish summer Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Helmet - Monochrome
an unrelenting punch in the guts Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Music
The Easy Gramophone - August
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Art
Opportunity Knocks - GALLERY 37
Approaching the Out Of The Blue Drill Hall on Dalmeny Street, it's likely you may have a sense of not quite fitting in. A group of male youths stand in the f... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Art
But is it art?
I know what response I don't want. I don't want people to think it's crap. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Albert Watson - Frozen
Watson's photographs introduce you to a dizzy riot of colour, images riddled with fantasy but rooted in realism. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Tracey Moffatt
Sexy sun kissed stereotypes adorne the walls of the Stills gallery as part of Australian artist Tracey Moffatt's kitsch, exotic environments that combine to ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Size Matters: Ron Mueck
Mueck's work can transport the viewer into Alice's Wonderland Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Rembrandt 400
A small dimly lit room downstairs and twenty-eight glorious etchings. 'Rembrandt four hundred: Masterprints from the National Gallery of Scotland' is utterly... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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MOYNA FLANNIGAN 'well, Well'
At this time of year, when a walk down the Royal Mile leaves you feeling like a well-chewed piece of gum, it can be difficult to distinguish the entertainers... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Girlpower & Boyhood
On entering the Talbot Rice Gallery, the introduction helpfully informs us that, "Many of the artist…are hotly tipped for greater recognition" and that th... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006