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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FilmPoseidon
A surprisingly brutal affair which maintains suspense well and has characters to root for Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
Hot Chip/Grosvenor, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, May 24
they excel when they combine the huge club beats and electro revelry of Daft Punk with simple, memorable melodies and vocal mantras. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Echo & The Bunnymen - Scissors in the Sand
A formula which has spawned a thousand inferior schmindie facsimiles Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Shooting at Unarmed Men - Girls Music
A straight-up Pixies soundalike Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Barrowlands
The YYY's put on a show to make their contemporaries insane with jealously Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
The Bad Plus @ Queens Hall
what they did to popular songs prompted the question of why they even bothered to write anything original Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Music
Josh Rouse/Strays Don't Sleep @ Queen's Hall
It's the summertime! (at least in the Queen's Hall...) Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Hell Is For Heroes @ The Venue
Their music had a quality and intensity that set them apart Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Theatre
The Above
they would do better to not underestimate the audience and leave a few gaps for the imagination. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
Green Velvet @ UFreak, The Venue, May 20
Jones sets his Green Velvet material on a bed of dark, persistent, dirty beats Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
My Robot Friend - Dial 0
Combining a sense of novelty and disposability Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Buy Tickets Now - Indian Summer
the line-up is truly worth salivating over Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Jandek @ Mono
His music is deeply personal, yet his personality completely absent from the picture Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
Glenfiddich Indepent Mix
Unabombers, Peter Parker, Penpushers, Reptiles, Trouble DJs
Glenfiddich Independent Mix, Cabaret Voltaire, 1st June
Coming in July - The Herbaliser Soundsystem
Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Art
SPECIAL WEE PREVIEW BOX
Don't Forget June's must-see events - The Graduating students of both Edinburgh College of Art and Glasgow School of Art present their final degree shows fro... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006