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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Music
Futuro - Keep It Short and Keep It Simple (Self-Released) (Print)
the most fresh-faced, intelligent and addictive EP heard by these ears so far this year Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
MusicMystery Jets - Diamonds In The Dark
A triumphant and classic pop song. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
MusicArctic Monkeys - Leave Before The Lights Come On
It's just a song about awkward drunken shags Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Buy tickets Now: Let's Rock! Edinburgh
the only thing Ingliston will be trading on the 30th September is Rock n' Roll Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Plan B @ King Tuts
An artist determined to share the raw and brutal realities of his own existence Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
MusicSteve Turner and his Bad Ideas - New Wave Punk Asshole
The (slightly disappointing) return of a real rock monster Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Music
The Hot Puppies - Under The Crooked Moon
Shamelessly pilfering from an era of Shed 7 and Sleeper Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Seth Lakeman - Freedom Fields
awfully like a soundtrack to a Devon-based Hollywood amalgam of 'Braveheart' and Monty Python's 'The Holy Grail' Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
MusicSergeant Buzfuz - The Jewelled Carriageway
Amongst the neo-folk revolution, it's good to hear a group who have not lost sight of playing songs you can sing along to. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Art
Top Five Shows for August
1. Robert Mapplethorpe at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edi) until Nov 5.2. Armour Boys by Laura Ford at RSA (Edi) Aug 12 to Sep 10.3. The Day Wit... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
Strangers on a Train
While theatrical adaptations of novels are less common than cinematic ones, the fiction of Patricia Highsmith appears to possess a remarkably long stage life. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Dykeenies - New Ideas/Will It Happen Tonight?
Repeating ""I've got so many new ideas"" over essentially old ideas, doesn't really count as a 'new idea' - so where are they lads? Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Comets On Fire - Avatar
Iggy Stooge is riding this comet, crashing through London streets in search of lost madcap Syd Barret, rest in peace Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
The Presets (Live), Optimo, Sub Club, Glasgow, Aug 13
(Like) football hooligans playing Brazilian house music. - Julian, The Presets Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
Unlock the House, Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh, August 19
Three rooms, over 25 DJs, and over seven hours of music to party to Read more »| 14 Aug 2006