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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ClubsDJ Krush: A Short History
The Skinny looks towards the East and to DJ Krush, one of the finest Japanese turntablists and an instrumental player in the scratching scene Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: DJ Fly-T Top Ten (Capitol 1212)
DJ Fly-T and Professa Fresh make up Edinburgh hip-hop outfit, Capitol 1212. Their Raw and Disorder EP is out on Kool Kat Records next month, along with their 45 on reggae label Big Toes Hi-Fi. Below are the top ten tracks that DJ Fly-T is listening to and playing out this month! Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Ljudbilden and Piloten - One Hundred Fifty Five
Produced with an incredible ear for detail. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Be Your Own Pet! - Get Awkward
The Nashville band are still in the terrible twos stage of pop-punk development Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
ComedyLemoncustard Comedy Club
Lemoncustard is a demented child's miscellany of comedy fun Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
The Heresy Project
Rick Molland and Sully O'Sullivan really know how to rile the crowd into fervent disbelief. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008
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ComedyDes Clark: Final Destiny
Always a crowd pleaser. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
ComedyAndy Parsons @ The Garage, 7 Mar
Brilliantly observational and giggle, groan, and guffaw-worthy Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
MGMT @ The Beat Club
Neither oracular nor spectacular, but on their Scottish bow, certainly a job well done Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
The Unquotables!
Why not take a different perspective on these lords and ladies of laugh town? Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
Braw or Naw
Canadian comic, Stewart Francis casts a critical eye over what's braw and what's naw braw in the general scheme of life. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
The Rascals @ Cabaret Voltaire
The Liverpudlian trio manage to pull off the 'it's not at all because of Alex Turner that we're here' look with impressive ease Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
The Cave Singers @ ABC
The sound from tonight's cave proves to be decidedly hollow for a group demanding of intimacy Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Nada Surf @ The Garage
Never really escalates beyond 'nice' Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Call to Mind @ Nice 'N' Sleazy
Their sound smoulders with the narcotic burn of a classic age Read more »| 01 Apr 2008