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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ClubsCODE Presents Lucy
This month’s CODE has deep and dark techno on the menu with Stroboscopic Artefacts’ founder LUCY taking to the turntables. As well as runnin... Read more »| 31 Dec 2011 -
ClubsKarnival Presents Popof
Karnival celebrates six years of clubbing by introducing the Parisian rave scene escapee Alexander Paounov, otherwise known as Popof, to Edinburgh. The last ... Read more »| 31 Dec 2011 -
ClubsClubbing Highlights – January 2012
There are many deep, symbolic interpretations of T.S Elliot’s claim that April is 'the cruelest month,' most of which neglect to factor in that he was ... Read more »| 31 Dec 2011 -
Clubs
Matthew Herbert
Matthew Herbert is a DJ like no other, an endlessly creative whirlwind of musical energy who eats up the world he inhabits only to spit it out through unique... Read more »| 31 Dec 2011 -
ComedyBoak to the Future: Comedians prepare for Hogmanay
A crack team of comedians will oversee Hogmanay festivities in The Stand Edinburgh & Glasgow. We asked them about the year just gone and the year to come. Read more »| 29 Dec 2011 -
Music
In Pictures: Vic Galloway presents... @ Electric circus, 15 December
Photos from Vic Galloway presents at the Electric circus with Scott Hutchison, James Yorkston and more. Photography by Sol Nicol Read more »| 21 Dec 2011
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Music
In Pictures: Phantomime @ Stereo, 16 December
All the action from first night of The Phantom Band's Phantomime, which featured sets by Holy Mountain, Muscles of Joy, as well as the hosts themselves. Pho... Read more »| 21 Dec 2011 -
Comedy
Occupy Edinburgh: "People got more riled by the word 'fuck' than the politics of the situation"
The stars of the Scottish comedy scene decided to pitch in with Occupy Edinburgh last weekend, in the only way they know how: by cracking jokes and swearing at children. Read more »| 21 Dec 2011 -
Music
Vakunøht – Gagarin's Start
Former members of Senator and Bangtwister weave psychedelic tales of space travel, mysterious transcripts and alien parasites on this debut as, essentially a... Read more »| 20 Dec 2011 -
Music
Malcolm Middleton / Human Don’t Be Angry @ Òran Mór, 15 December
Providing some self support, Malcolm Middleton sets this evening’s gathering in motion under his Human Don’t Be Angry guise, with a collection of... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
MusicGaloshins / Mr Peppermint / The Cosmic Dead / Battery Face @ 13th Note, 18 December
Thank goodness for The 13th Note. In the last decade this ragged, unpretentious little bar has been an enduring champion of the Scottish underground as other... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
Music
In Pictures: Phantomime @ Stereo, 17 December
All the action from second night of The Phantom Band's Phantomime, which featured sets by Take A Worm For A Walk Week and Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate L... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
Film
Videodrome
In the paranoid Cold War coke comedown of the early 1980s David Cronenberg unleashed this unsettling masterwork, now on Blu-ray. James Wood is Max, a sleazy ... Read more »| 16 Dec 2011 -
Film
The Artist
It's hard to imagine more of a guaranteed crowdpleaser than The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius' stupendously entertaining homage to silent cinema, which is like... Read more »| 16 Dec 2011 -
Books
Poems of Youth and Turbulence by Peter G Mackie
This collection is one of poems written by Peter G Mackie between 1969 and 1984. He was a youth at the time – the collection spans his work between his... Read more »| 15 Dec 2011