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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Ada - Fizzman
Allegedly based around the adventures of a fictional poodle Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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The Lo Fidelity Allstars, King Tut's, Glasgow, 2 Dec
The Tiger Picks' playground electro style with its new wave leanings doesn't quite seem to fit with the overall Allstars tone Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Mutiny, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 28 Nov
A thoroughly unruly first night for Mutiny Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Basics, Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, 17 Nov
The sharpness of quality cannot be shaken, even through all the grooves, booze and boogie Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Mutiny, Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 31 Jan
If you were fool enough to miss the last, get your sorry ass down there Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Benga: Exploding into 2008
SF: As part of our predictions for 2008, we turn our focus to Benga, the Croydon-based dubstep producer.
PQ: ""I've always done what I liked, always been creative, and creativity makes me happy."" Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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Hip-hip hop-hop Highlights - January 08
Not cheesy, bouffant, spandex-wearing 80s but so-good-it-hurts choice hip-hop Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Headspin 10th Birthday, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 26 Jan
Headspin has managed to hold its own at the Bongo Club, month after month, successful New Year after New Year Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Theatre
CHAPTER AND TRAVERSE
SF:
Scotland's new writing theatre has a new artistic director. Although it's too soon for Dominic Hill to have made an impact, the first full season under his charge will be the most keenly watched in more than a decade. Traverse Associate Producer Laura Collier lays out the full Traverse Spring Season 2008 exclusively for The Skinny
PQ:
if there's one thing that binds this very diverse programme together into a cohesive whole, it's these little connections that make up a sort of extended Traverse family Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Theatre
SHADOWPLAY
This month's puppetry festival Manipulate at Dundee Rep relocates the marionettes art into an adult, more shadowy realm of exitential terror and nightmarish otherness. Gareth K. Vile meets the man pulling the strings. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Theatre
It's A Wonderful Life
As much as The Skinny really wants to unequivocally like this show, there are things that just don't work. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Books
The Golden Hour Book, by the Forest Cafe Writers.
Fine writing, fine CD attached. What more d'you want? Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Art
Smith/Stewart- Enter Love and Enter Death
SF: Art doesn't have to be packed with signification to provoke a reaction, as Rosamund West discovers at an installation in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens
PQ: It is refreshing, in an art world of assemblages and installations overloaded with iconography and signifiers, to witness the potentially overwhelming effect of work seemingly so simplified Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Freq Residents DJ Chart
The Freq residents Brian and Murray kick off the first of twelve new DJ charts for the year with their top five favourite tracks of 2007. Freq looks set to return to the Sub Club in Feb 2008 so contain your excitement and hunger for house and techno until then! Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Ripping Up Fabric - Caspa & Rusko
SF: Think you know dubstep? Not until you've heard the in-your-face drops and mutant subs of Caspa & Rusko...
PQ: ""In Edinburgh they were HAVIN' IT! There was some moshing, someone got headbutted outside, there was beer all over the decks..."" Read more »| 06 Jan 2008