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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MusicYo La Tengo @ ABC, 6 Nov
The return of Yo La Tengo to Scottish shores carries an air of expectation. ABC1 draws a huddle of early comers for ex-Gorky's frontman Euros Childs' (***) c... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
MusicBlueflint - High Bright Morning
With First Aid Kit spearheading the current 'traditional' revival within mainstream folk, the time seems ripe for talented Edinburgh duo Blueflint to cross o... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
Music
Playing The Field
Following on from his critically successful debut, The Field returns to move our hearts and feet at Optimo this month. The Skinny reflects on his organic techno and has a word with the man himself. Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
MusicViolet Violet - The City is Full of Beasts
At its heart, punk ditched glam spectacle for raw emotion, rejecting bourgeois musical virtuosity because it had nothing to say to the disaffected yo... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
Theatre
Insane in the Brain
It may seem an unlikely pairing - a seminal 60's novel on madness and a contemporary dance form from the ghetto - Bounce's "street dance version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" is a slamdunk success. Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
Music
Damien Jurado @ Stereo, 5 Nov
As a genre, rickety indie-pop carries certain advantages. It allows, for example, Zoey Van Goey to try a new set-up tonight, disclaim “we’re flyi... Read more »| 09 Nov 2009
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Music
The Kabeedies - Rumpus
The Kabeedies are not a band, they're a collection of new wave robots -seemingly powered by sherbert dip and cherry coke- who bang out pop with such single m... Read more »| 09 Nov 2009 -
Books
Heads on Pillows by Joan Campbell
Given their significant role in Scotland’s hospitality sector – they were ‘traditional’ well before anyone realised just how ... Read more »| 08 Nov 2009 -
Theatre
Cabaret Time
Why not take time in November for yourself, enjoy some decadent selfishness and treat yourself to some opulent Cabaret evenings? Read more »| 06 Nov 2009 -
Music
Shred Yr Face III: Woods
Barely a year old, this autumn's third Shred Yr Face tour segues on from the successes of previous DIY dream teams which featured Los Campesinos!, No Age and Times New Viking (SYF1), not to mention February's zero BS punk rawk combo of The Bronx, Fucked Up and Rolo Tomassi. The Skinny profiles two of the three bands comprising this leg's 'psych-folk' contingent before they roll into Scotland. Enter the Woods... Read more »| 06 Nov 2009 -
MusicGrizzly Bear @ ABC, 2 Nov
From the moment Annie Clark – A.K.A St. Vincent – steps onstage, her moniker makes poetic sense. Her presence hushes the crowd, as though she wer... Read more »| 06 Nov 2009 -
Music
Shred Yr Face III: Espers
Barely a year old, this autumn's third Shred Yr Face tour segues on from the successes of previous DIY dream teams which featured Los Campesinos!, No Age and Times New Viking, not to mention February's zero BS punk rock combo of The Bronx, Fucked Up and Rolo Tomassi. The Skinny profiles two of the three bands comprising this leg's 'psych-folk' contingent before they roll into Scotland. Here come Espers... Read more »| 06 Nov 2009 -
Music
Bowerbirds @ Sneaky Pete's, 30 Oct
In a bustling and typically cramped Friday night at Sneaky Pete's, alternative folk music - especially as subtle and nuanced as the gentle, harmonic undulati... Read more »| 04 Nov 2009 -
Theatre
Dr Sketchy
Hands up who loves birthdays? Dr Sketchy invites you to his party. Read more »| 04 Nov 2009 -
Theatre
Pole Dancing Championship
The future of alternative dance? Read more »| 04 Nov 2009