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
Echo & The Bunnymen - Scissors in the Sand
A formula which has spawned a thousand inferior schmindie facsimiles Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Shooting at Unarmed Men - Girls Music
A straight-up Pixies soundalike Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Barrowlands
The YYY's put on a show to make their contemporaries insane with jealously Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
The Bad Plus @ Queens Hall
what they did to popular songs prompted the question of why they even bothered to write anything original Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Josh Rouse/Strays Don't Sleep @ Queen's Hall
It's the summertime! (at least in the Queen's Hall...) Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Hell Is For Heroes @ The Venue
Their music had a quality and intensity that set them apart Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Theatre
The Above
they would do better to not underestimate the audience and leave a few gaps for the imagination. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
Green Velvet @ UFreak, The Venue, May 20
Jones sets his Green Velvet material on a bed of dark, persistent, dirty beats Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
My Robot Friend - Dial 0
Combining a sense of novelty and disposability Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Buy Tickets Now - Indian Summer
the line-up is truly worth salivating over Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Jandek @ Mono
His music is deeply personal, yet his personality completely absent from the picture Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
Glenfiddich Indepent Mix
Unabombers, Peter Parker, Penpushers, Reptiles, Trouble DJs
Glenfiddich Independent Mix, Cabaret Voltaire, 1st June
Coming in July - The Herbaliser Soundsystem
Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Art
SPECIAL WEE PREVIEW BOX
Don't Forget June's must-see events - The Graduating students of both Edinburgh College of Art and Glasgow School of Art present their final degree shows fro... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Theatre
Theatre June PREVIEW
Glasgow takes the reigns in theatre this month, as we realise that Shakespeare is far from dead in the city. Eduard Bersudsky's celebrated sculptures come un... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
The Final Fling
As the Venue closes its doors for the last time on Calton Road (and perhaps, forever) they have lined up opportunities for you to say your tearful farewells several times over, if you haven't already done so, at May's extravaganzas. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006