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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MusicBroken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning - Something For All of Us
Ally Brown gets into the messy business of combining chat with critique in an effort to dissect Brendan Canning's debut solo LP to find that the BSS co-founder doesn't quite get by with a little help from his friends on this occasion Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
MusicThe Twilight Sad / Frightened Rabbit @ The Liquid Room, 14 Aug
Beguiling and hilarious in equal measure Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Art
Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller @ The Fruitmarket
Everybody likes a little emotional manipulation. We pay for drugs, roller coasters and horror movies because they make us feel something, whether it be good,... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Art
Alexander Heim @ Doggerfisher
Heim’s first solo exhibition in the UK questions the role of nature within the urban environment. The main wall of the gallery is interjected with ear... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
ArtAndrew Grassie @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Walking into Andrew Grassie’s first Scottish solo show feels a little like jumping head first into a masterclass for procrastinating postmodernist brai... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Music
Laura Marling @ Bannerman's, 12 Aug
Alas! I cannot breathe... Laura Marling sweats it out on her Bannerman's debut Read more »| 18 Aug 2008
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Music
Calexico - Two Silver Trees
Hailing from Tuscon, Arizona, and naming themselves after a California border town, Calexico has long had a distinctive Southwestern style. Still evincing a... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
MusicPopup - Love Triangle / Pull the Fuse
Popup’s thick regionalism and jabbing beats set them up as a seriously interesting prospect Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Clubs
Cursor Miner @ Substance, Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, 26 Sept
The madcap maestro of performance dressage, Cursor Miner (Lo Recordings / Noodles), is better known for sensational European electro, slicing in elements of ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Film
The Lion in Winter
Vicious, vitriolic, scheming, manipulative: The Lion in Winter paints a portrait of an utterly venomous royal family. King Henry II (O’Toole) lets his ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Music
Icarus - Monologues
In a funny twist of fate, this writer has been handed Monologues, the debut album from Edinburgh-outfit Icarus, for review, having just critiqued Daedelus&rs... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Music
Capitol 1212 - Sampler
You don't really hear an awful lot about Scottish hip-hop these days, but if the output from Capitol 1212, the production duo consisting of Edinburgh-based D... Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
Music
Plush - Fed
If you stop to listen, there’s just a hint of that promised genius mumbled amidst his rant Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
Theatre
The Gymnast@ @ Pleasance Courtyard, 3-25 Aug
Serious politics and serious theatre - but do they add up? Read more »| 14 Aug 2008 -
Theatre
Dance Base Presents
Three more shows with three great companies: Dance Base delivers value and quality Read more »| 13 Aug 2008