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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ClubsNumbers is 9 with Jackmaster, Oneman and Ben UFO
With the candle-count reaching nine, West Coast-via-London outfit Numbers are once again bringing out the paper hats, plastic cutlery and er...garage, for th... Read more »| 30 Jun 2012 -
ClubsO2 Love Music Column – July 2012
Wu Legends Tour feat. Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, GZA, Method Man O2 ABC, Mon 16 July, 7pm, £25, These days it just takes two mem... Read more »| 30 Jun 2012 -
Music
Nas @ HMV Picture House, 26 June
“Where all my Bravehearts at?” Nas tasks this sleepy school night crowd from the get-go, arriving with a full band (simply known as ‘Z&rsqu... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Music
Adam Stafford / Rick Redbeard @ The Captain's Rest, 22 June
The small basement stage at The Captain’s Rest makes a perfect setting for solo performers; tonight we have three of them. Each has no problem in cap... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
MusicUnder the Influence: Shirley Manson
Garbage's ever-outspoken frontwoman presents a personal guide to ten essential albums by her favourite female vocalists Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
FilmYour Sister's Sister
Mumblecore king Mark Duplass (think of a smug, male Greta Gerwig) plays Jack, a 30-something slacker who’s struggling to get over the death of his brot... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012
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MusicThe Metal Column – July 2012
The highlights of July's upcoming metal gigs revealed! Featuring Unsane, Baroness, Sufferinfuck and many, many more Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Art
Own Art: David Faithfull
This summer Traquair House and Edinburgh Printmakers bring seven contemporary artists to the Borders to display new work exploring Scottish history. David Faithfull explains the Art of Concealment Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Comedy
Stewart Lee in interview: "Annoying, confusing, weird, satirical and clever"
Next week, The Stand Edinburgh will be taken over by the kind of lineup that will make comedy purists tremble at the knees. Josie Long, Robin Ince, David O&r... Read more »| 29 Jun 2012 -
Music
Meursault – Something for the Weakened
Meursault’s third album exhibits much of what has made the band so appealing thus far: a broad range of beautifully arranged instrumentation; Neil Pe... Read more »| 28 Jun 2012 -
Music
Mission of Burma – Unsound
Perhaps few would’ve predicted that Mission of Burma’s ‘one-off reunion show’ in 2002 would lead to anything beyond maybe a smatteri... Read more »| 28 Jun 2012 -
Film
The Battle of Algiers
Cinema so often instructs us what to think. Lighting, score, even camera angles push buttons in our minds, clearly identifying friend and foe. Then we have T... Read more »| 28 Jun 2012 -
Music
Mike Patton and the Ictus Ensemble – Laborintus II
Mike Patton’s public love affair with Italian music continues apace with a fine performance of this seminal avant garde work. Ostensibly written to cel... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Books
The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Dream of the Celt is a re-imagining of the life of Irish nationalist Roger Casement. As a young man Roger believed in the ideals of the British Empire ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Theatre
Zippo's Circus presents Gold
Roll up, roll up... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012