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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ArtNefertiti: New Works by John Squire
Working out of a converted barn seven days a week, John Squire made a point not to listen to music while painting. Quite ironic considering that he is arguab... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
MusicHaftor Medbøe Group @ Voodoo Rooms, 6 Aug
With a line-up featuring saxaphone, trombone, drums and bass, one might expect a piano, but the chorded instrument here is Haftor Medbøe's guitar, whi... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
ArtAnnual General Karaoke
You’ve doubtless heard of organisations holding an AGM or Annual General Meeting. In September, the Yuck ‘n Yum collective will be holding the first ever AGK where the K stands for karaoke, and this is your last chance to submit Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
MusicGet Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. feat Shy FX - Collapsing Cities
Since stepping out from his bedroom in 2006, Get Cape… (aka Sam Duckworth) has never quite fitted the singer/songwriter mould, and the intricate rhyth... Read more »| 09 Aug 2010 -
MusicCalvin Johnson @ Hyndland Community Hall, 3 Aug
If a poll was ever commissioned to determine a social order of indie-cred in modern music then Calvin Johnson would surely be a heavy contender for the thron... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Clubs
Soma Night @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20 Aug
Ah, Soma, a welcome hedonistic distraction in this brave new world. Glasgow’s independent electronica label has been around since 1991, home to the eve... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010
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Music
Lizzard Lounge @ HMV Picture House, 30 Jul
The Picture House is a bigger venue than the Lizzard Lounge is used to (being a much loved, now passed Edinburgh club night), but the transition works well a... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Music
Samuel Hällkvist Center @ Voodoo Rooms, 31 Jul
Joe Zawinul once said of his band Weather Report, "We never solo, and we always solo", and this gnomic remark could be usefully applied to Hällkvist's S... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Music
Jon Cleary @ Assembly, Princes Street Gardens, 31 Jul
Jon Cleary's piano trio bring some authentic New Orleans gumbo to a sunny Edinburgh afternoon; close your eyes and you could be on Beale Street hearing the s... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Music
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Fronted by feline-enthusiast and former child actress Bethany Cosentino, these Californian pop slackers deliver their sun sozzled debut. There’s a lot ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Music
The Low Anthem @ The Queen's Hall, 30 Aug
A rose-tinted view of history would suggest that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution changed the world overnight. But like most paradigm shifts, it to... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Music
The Edge 2010: We Were Promised Jetpacks
We Were Promised Jetpacks bassist Sean Smith lifts the lid on zealous fans, transatlantic love and the Auld Reekie quartet's second album Read more »| 05 Aug 2010 -
Music
Eels: The End of a Trilogy
"It's a weird way to live your life, the way I do" - E Read more »| 05 Aug 2010 -
Music
The Unwinding Hours Music Playlist: Guest Selector
Taking a break from supplying The Unwinding Hours' haunted melodies, frontman Craig B reclines in a deckchair and talks us through his desert island discs Read more »| 05 Aug 2010 -
Music
S. Carey – All We Grow
You’d have to add a montage before it hits cinemas, but Sean Carey’s allegiance to Bon Iver has inspirational triumph written all over it. A moro... Read more »| 05 Aug 2010