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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MusicIsobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan @ O2 ABC, 8 Sep
There has always been something mildly perverse when it comes to the sight of the innocently framed Isobel Campbell sitting side by side with the vag... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
MusicJoanna Newsom @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 20 Sep
Having tempered her pixy-toned tendencies for this year’s epically ambitious, masterfully executed third album, Have One on Me, Joanna Newsom has remov... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
Music
Zola Jesus – Stridulum II
These are dark days we live in right enough – what with cuts, crashes, crises and the return of Skunk Anansie – but do we really have to add a Zo... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
Books
At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew Greig
Norman MacCaig’s request to Andrew Greig at their last meeting was a simple one: catch a fish for him at his favourite spot; the Loch of the Gr... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
MusicThe New Pornographers @ Òran Mór, 7 Sep
The other Canadian supergroup – which is in no way to say inferior, just less omnipresent – The New Pornographers’s fifth album Tog... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
Music
Miyagi – Electrosaurus
Christening your second album Electrosaurus and adorning the cover with axe-wielding thunder-lizards and a drumming diplodocus is undoubtedly awesome... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010
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Music
The Zephyrs – Fool of Regrets
By the time most bands make it to five albums they’ve usually gone one of two ways: either they’re tackling their evolving musical tastes with il... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
Music
Cancel the Astronauts – Funny For A Girl EP
Despite being one of Edinburgh’s most underrated bands, Cancel the Astronauts like to sound mighty triumphant. EP number two, Funny For A Girl, finds t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
MusicWilco @ Barrowlands, 16 Sep
Last Year saw Wilco (the band) release Wilco (the album) to typically effusive acclaim. I wonder if even Jeff Tweedy gets tired of being so good some... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
Music
Fang Island @ Captain's Rest, 5 Sep
Fang Island describe their sound as "everybody high-five-ing each other", a feeling which pretty much covers the stadium-sized guitar-shredding, clat... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
Music
Bear in Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth: Remixed
Following on from its UK release this May, the Brooklyn disco hipsters latest album Beast Rest Forth Mouth became the party album of the summer, albe... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
Clubs
CloakXDagger presents Scratcha DVA, The Blessings, The Hidden Orchestra, Profisee/Simba @ The Caves, 17 Sep
For those who’ve been sleeping, CloakXDagger are rapper Profisee, and singer / producer Ema J. They’ve been mainstays of the Edinburgh hip-hop an... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
Theatre
Kunt and The Gang
Potty-mouthed Playground Poetry Read more »| 17 Aug 2010 -
Music
Baths – Cerulean
In a year where Flying Lotus has delivered one of the most talked-about releases with his sprawling, electronic opus Cosmogramma, it seems a new generation o... Read more »| 16 Aug 2010 -
Books
Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation by Stuart Kelly
If you grow up in Edinburgh, it’s hard not to do so in the shadow of Sir Walter Scott, or at least the massive ‘steam-punk version of Thunderbird... Read more »| 16 Aug 2010