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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MusicT in the Park 2010 – Saturday
The man responsible for placing Hacienda on the international scene as a home of forward-thinking music opens the Saturday of the Slam Tent in suitable style... Read more »| 20 Jul 2010 -
MusicRichard Youngs – Beyond The Valley of Ultrahits
With this bafflingly titled 'pop' LP, Richard Youngs makes efforts towards a folk/electronica hybrid as much akin to Richard Thompson as to Four Tet, but lan... Read more »| 20 Jul 2010 -
Art
Insert Tiara @ SWG3
Someone has thought it a good idea to show the work of Michael White and Lila de Magalhaes in an intimate two man show. Both these New Work Scotland veterans... Read more »| 20 Jul 2010 -
Music
Klaxons @ King Tut's, 13 Jul
Yes, there are glowsticks (well, two) and crowd-surfing is permitted (for a while at least) but primarily the Klaxons (opening with the hypnotically manic Fl... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
TheatreShimmy Once, Then Do It Again
The Skinny proudly announces the return of the Fringe's only dedicated dance magazine Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
MusicTunng @ Stereo, 22 July
Originally a studio collaboration between London-based songwriters Mike Lindsay and Sam Genders – who has since relinquished his creative duties &ndash... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010
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ArtShapes and Things @ Sierra Metro
Set in a disused testing facility in far off Granton, Edinburgh, Sierra Metro is a not-for-profit, committee-run gallery of growing renown. It offers its gen... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
Clubs
Toddla T: The Sky Is The Limit
Toddla T tells The Skinny about leaving drunk messages on Annie Mac's answer phone Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
Music
Eels @ O2 Academy, 24 Aug
Fresh from Pukkelpop and V festivals, Eels are dropping by to promote Tomorrow Morning, the record set to complete the much hyped album trilogy begun by Homb... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
Music
The Dwarves @ Ivory Blacks, 10 Aug
Dwarves' reputation for being loud and licentious troublemakers stretches all the way from their '80s hardcore roots up to their present role as Chicago's fi... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
Music
Cherry Ghost – Beneath This Burning Shoreline
As with his Ivor Novello award winning debut Thirst for Romance, Simon Aldred here continues his efforts to chronicle the misfortune of life’s losers. ... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
Music
The Roots – How I Got Over
To put it fairly simply, The Roots are as incredibly diverse and disgustingly talented a live act as you're ever likely to see. Thankfully, this shows on rec... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
Art
Staged @ the City Observatory
A terribly important writer once declared that “all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” I think it is fair to say th... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
Music
Professor Green – Alive Till I'm Dead
Who likes this? No really, it's a genuine enquiry. After several spins, it's really hard to know who's benefiting from listening to Professor Green's debut. ... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
Theatre
Dinosaurs, Giant Robots and East Anglia in Peril
What is missing from the classical musical? Mark Hibbett has a modest suggestion Read more »| 19 Jul 2010