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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ComedyDylan Moran @ The Usher Hall, 8 Aug
At his most dastardly, like Connolly of old, Dylan Moran commands the stage with a cool affability. As such, it's no wonder he so quickly transcended the Por... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
ComedyEd Byrne @ Pleasance Courtyard
Ed Byrne possesses some of the best qualities for success as a comedian. Funny, charming and Irish, he is separated from others on the circuit by his tangibl... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
Andrew Maxwell @ Pleasance Courtyard
Andrew Maxwell seems a likeable young scamp, with his mop of scruffy blonde hair and his impish Irish lilt. He'd probably be quite a nice chap to go shopping... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Needles - In Search Of The Needles
the moment you're pricked by the smouldering sound of The Needles you'll be hooked forever Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
Segun Afolabi
Afolabi is one of the freshest and most original voices in contemporary literature. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Coming Round for T: Week Two
sell-out performances, comeback tours, one-hit-wonders and one-man-bands Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Music
Bell X1
If we sling enough stuff about, some of it is bound to stick. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Lach plus Y'all Is Fantasy Island @ Edinburgh, 25 Jul
they create a sound that is as immediate as rock and as intimate as folk. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
Ellen Allien & Apparat @ Kinky Afro/Mind The Gap, Sub Club, June 30
They showed us how the material from their recent collaboration clearly sounds more powerful in a club environment Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Dead 60s: Love Scotland
Well there was nothing in Liverpool that influenced us. That's probably why we sound the way we do Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
FENCE-stival
We realised we could produce and release stuff that was worthwhile without the hassle of chasing record companies around Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Dresden Dolls @ The Exchange Edinburgh
They may be infamous for their theatrics, but tonight was also a musical masterclass Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
What is... Burlesque?
Glamour has come back into the club world of with a bang, through the medium of burlesque. Men and women are now able to cast of their bland clubbing uniform... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Raconteurs - Hands
This self-gratifying blues dirge woefully veers into a marketing department's wet dream àand it knows it Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Sleepy Jackson @ King Tut's, 14 Jul
The band proves to be a rockier prospect live. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006