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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MusicNouvelle Vague @ The Liquid Room, 8 Aug
Oozing Gallic charm as they work their way through their second night of sexy Bossa Nova'd 1980s hits Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Clubs
How's Your Party? @ Sub Club, 29 Aug
The How’s Your Party crew throw their second bi-monthly Friday-nighter, welcoming the return of A-Trak and Sinden. The youngest ever DMC world champio... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
MusicEarlimart - Hymn and Her
Returning with their sixth album, Earlimart continue to craft Death Cab-lite songs heavy on oh-so-sincere soporific sensitivity but light on anything with th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Music
Drive-By Truckers @ The Liquid Room, 6 Aug
The Truckers play up to their slack-jawed stereotype, but there's much more to this lot than the typecast Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
MusicBowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
Winds its way through a faintly Slavic wilderness, trailing alluring poetry behind Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Music
Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
‘Soundtrack’, it seems, is the operative word for this second album from antipodean electro-garage rockers Pivot. Opening duo In The Blood and th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008
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TheatreThe Factory @ Southside Zoo, 3-25 Sep
Bristol-based physical theatre gets political and aggressive. Another hit from the Southside Zoo. Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Music
Shout Out Louds @ Cabaret Voltaire, 7 Aug
The sort of harmless, sugary indie-pop that American film and TV studios dribble over Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Music
The Icarus Line @ King Tut's, 6 Aug
The Icarus Line look as though they could still take on the world, the question is whether they really want to Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Music
Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea
Whitney's shrill squealing does the otherwise fine instrumentation on this debut album from Jaguar Love absolutely no favours Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Art
MAGAZINE 08 - Positive critical imagination
The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents its annual show this August, ‘Magazine 08’, curated for the first time by two of Spain’s most pro... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
MusicPaul Haig @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4 Aug
An enjoyable hometown gig for Haig, even if nearly all the city stayed at home Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Music
Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers
The world needs activists like Franti Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Music
Local H - Twelve Angry Months
A year of post-break-up recriminations and misery via the medium of some fairly MOR rock music Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Music
Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
After seeing this band perform, I came into this review with a bit of bias: The band takes the stage in matching vintage-store garb (think the look of Sufjan... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008