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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ComedyAndrew Maxwell @ Pleasance Courtyard
Andrew Maxwell seems a likeable young scamp, with his mop of scruffy blonde hair and his impish Irish lilt. He'd probably be quite a nice chap to go shopping... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
MusicThe Needles - In Search Of The Needles
the moment you're pricked by the smouldering sound of The Needles you'll be hooked forever Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
Segun Afolabi
Afolabi is one of the freshest and most original voices in contemporary literature. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Coming Round for T: Week Two
sell-out performances, comeback tours, one-hit-wonders and one-man-bands Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Bell X1
If we sling enough stuff about, some of it is bound to stick. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Lach plus Y'all Is Fantasy Island @ Edinburgh, 25 Jul
they create a sound that is as immediate as rock and as intimate as folk. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Clubs
Ellen Allien & Apparat @ Kinky Afro/Mind The Gap, Sub Club, June 30
They showed us how the material from their recent collaboration clearly sounds more powerful in a club environment Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Dead 60s: Love Scotland
Well there was nothing in Liverpool that influenced us. That's probably why we sound the way we do Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
FENCE-stival
We realised we could produce and release stuff that was worthwhile without the hassle of chasing record companies around Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Dresden Dolls @ The Exchange Edinburgh
They may be infamous for their theatrics, but tonight was also a musical masterclass Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
What is... Burlesque?
Glamour has come back into the club world of with a bang, through the medium of burlesque. Men and women are now able to cast of their bland clubbing uniform... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Raconteurs - Hands
This self-gratifying blues dirge woefully veers into a marketing department's wet dream àand it knows it Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
MusicThe Sleepy Jackson @ King Tut's, 14 Jul
The band proves to be a rockier prospect live. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
The Jungle Book
This production lacks the knowing jokes for grown-ups abundant in so much children's theatre - rather refreshingly, this kids' play is actually for kids. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
Christopher Brookmyre's Blood and Hard Black Pencil - Skinnyfest)
You know, the psychos in your school? At the time you were just used to them being violent and unpredictable. Later you go back and ask what was going on in the background that nobody knew about? Read more »| 14 Aug 2006