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
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 -
Music
Popup - Lucy What Are You Trying to Say?
A brief glimpse of sunshine in this slightly shoddy Scottish summer Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Helmet - Monochrome
an unrelenting punch in the guts Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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
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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 -
Art
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 -
Art
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 -
Art
Size Matters: Ron Mueck
Mueck's work can transport the viewer into Alice's Wonderland Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Art
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 -
Art
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 -
Art
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 -
Art
Being There: Harry Benson's fifty years of photojournalism
This, Harry Benson's first solo exhibition in the U.K., is long overdue. Not only are Benson's photos all fascinating in their own right, but these highligh... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
David Sedaris
An alternative Garrison Keillor, with waspishly queer observations and cheery tales of Dinah the Christmas Whore replacing good old down-home wisdom Read more »| 14 Aug 2006