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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Clubs
Hexstatic - Arigato Mr Roboto
Robin Brunson and Stuart Hill are the VJ / DJ legends behind the Zen TV Tours and 2000's classic Rewind LP, but can even Hexstatic save us When Robots Go Bad?
Pull Quote: ""We weren't too concerned about what hardcore Ninja fans were going to think about it."" Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Plus One, Gettoblast, The Bongo Club, 5 Jul
Some jaw-dropping scratching and beat-matching rounded out a set that covered electro, hip-hop, grime and rock. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Krafty Kuts, Sugarbeat in the Gardens, Edinburgh, 13 Jul
After midnight Krafty Kuts appears, with a set displaying both his talents and failings Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Daniel Bell, Freq, Sub Club, Glasgow, 22 June
It's kudos in itself to snare the legendary Daniel Bell for a gig, but Freq accomplish the feat, enticing the fans who remember his valued contribution/invention of minimal techno and house in the early 90s, and those who want a lesson in streamlined funk and beats Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
ClubsSamon Kawamura - Translations
A smooth, slick trawl through the kind of sonic territory that will be familiar to fans of J Dilla and Madlib Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
ClubsHexstatic - When Robots Go Bad
The cut and paste elements are backgrounded in favour of a direct, breakbeat-led attack on the dancefloor Read more »| 09 Aug 2007
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Clubs
Gwylo & Micoland - Reinfections
Veering constantly from the Detroit-feeling simplicity of early Warp and Rephlex recordings to the sparse but epically heavy dubstep territory of Digital Mystikz works surprisingly well Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
ClubsDizzee Rascal - Maths & English
Maths & English is packed with uncompromising tracks like Pussyole and Sirens that take the template of hip-hop and make it heavier, dirtier, louder Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Ozmatli @ The Arches
They hit the Latino sound so hard that it splits Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Art
Edinburgh Art Festival preview
things will get crazy this August as venues the length and breadth of Auld Reekie pull out the big guns to impress the festival crowds Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Fran Rodgers - I Fell To You Under Winter Sun
Taking a look at the kind of chest-beating, Clash-aping, faux-hemian shite we often see zipping around the airwaves these days, this particular temporal wave is somehow strangely welcome Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Art
Beyond Appearances
at least we have outstanding individual works with which to console ourselves Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Comedy
A History of Laugh Episodes by Field Study
Early man laughed at quite basic things such as a friend falling over a rock or someone being savagely torn apart by wild dogs. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do
An unnerving chasm of morbid self-gratification riddled with uncertainty Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
The Dead 60s, King Tuts, Glasgow, 4 Aug
Could have someone's eye out Read more »| 09 Aug 2007