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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ClubsClubbing Highlights – July 2012
This month’s best club event will not be happening inside any walls but instead under the protection of the massive blue expanse that is the Slam Tent ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2012 -
ClubsDJ Top Ten: HARA
HARA are the combined talents and names of Glasgow based DJs and producers HaHaHa (Frazer Graham) and Raksha (Ragnar Rahuoja) who have separately been making... Read more »| 30 Jun 2012 -
Clubs
Hyperdub Showcase with Kode9, LV and Scratcha DVA
Sub Club is not a venue which often strays from the familiar grounds of house-and-techno-land on a Friday night but as part of their quarter-century celebrat... Read more »| 30 Jun 2012 -
ClubsBigfoot's Riverside with Ambivalent
The first of Bigfoot’s summer parties graces us with its presence with M_nus mainstay Ambivalent lined up to send the place into orbit. And that place ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2012 -
Clubs
Kapital 5th Birthday with Stephan Bodzin
You only need to look at the sheer pedigree of recent headliners such as Michael Mayer and Mathew Johnson to get some idea of what Kapital is about, and so t... Read more »| 30 Jun 2012 -
Clubs
Numbers is 9 with Jackmaster, Oneman and Ben UFO
With the candle-count reaching nine, West Coast-via-London outfit Numbers are once again bringing out the paper hats, plastic cutlery and er...garage, for th... Read more »| 30 Jun 2012
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ClubsO2 Love Music Column – July 2012
Wu Legends Tour feat. Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, GZA, Method Man O2 ABC, Mon 16 July, 7pm, £25, These days it just takes two mem... Read more »| 30 Jun 2012 -
Music
Nas @ HMV Picture House, 26 June
“Where all my Bravehearts at?” Nas tasks this sleepy school night crowd from the get-go, arriving with a full band (simply known as ‘Z&rsqu... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Music
Adam Stafford / Rick Redbeard @ The Captain's Rest, 22 June
The small basement stage at The Captain’s Rest makes a perfect setting for solo performers; tonight we have three of them. Each has no problem in cap... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Music
Under the Influence: Shirley Manson
Garbage's ever-outspoken frontwoman presents a personal guide to ten essential albums by her favourite female vocalists Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Film
Your Sister's Sister
Mumblecore king Mark Duplass (think of a smug, male Greta Gerwig) plays Jack, a 30-something slacker who’s struggling to get over the death of his brot... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Music
The Metal Column – July 2012
The highlights of July's upcoming metal gigs revealed! Featuring Unsane, Baroness, Sufferinfuck and many, many more Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Art
Own Art: David Faithfull
This summer Traquair House and Edinburgh Printmakers bring seven contemporary artists to the Borders to display new work exploring Scottish history. David Faithfull explains the Art of Concealment Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Comedy
Stewart Lee in interview: "Annoying, confusing, weird, satirical and clever"
Next week, The Stand Edinburgh will be taken over by the kind of lineup that will make comedy purists tremble at the knees. Josie Long, Robin Ince, David O&r... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Music
Meursault – Something for the Weakened
Meursault’s third album exhibits much of what has made the band so appealing thus far: a broad range of beautifully arranged instrumentation; Neil Pe... Read more »| 28 Jun 2012