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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MusicBirds Of Avalon - Bazaar, Bazaar
This album is a brilliant example of how to bring classic rock influences into the 21st century. This is despite - or perhaps because of - Birds Of Avalon&rs... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
MusicBeehoover - Heavy Zooo
First off, this is quite some noise for a two-piece. Definitely at their best when summoning enormous riffs from the ether, Beehoover have managed to deliver... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
Music
Asva - What You Don't Know is Frontier
One of the more permissible travesties of modern music is the acceptance of ultra-grim necro black metal into the pretentious art types' embrace. It's not re... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
MusicAdem - Takes
Adem is no dying legend, ageing rockstar, nor crooning lounge lizard, yet he still survives the release of this covers album with his reputation not only int... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
House of Techno Event Preview, April 2008
The Ballers Social Club continue their winning streak in May with a lesson in bass monstrosity from two of dubstep's nastiest exponents, Milanese and Neil La... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
World on the Beat
The month of May happily welcomes the return of two events that made memories of musical joy and madness in April – Balkanarama is back, bolder and mor... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008
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Clubs
A State of Mind
Following on from its successful debut at Cabaret Voltaire, Lower returns, but with a twist. This time, it’ll be taking the form of a three hour, tri-p... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Swaparama
Now here's a novel spin on everyone's favourite cheesy night out - Swaparama. Come to The Garage wearing as many of your unwanted clothes as possible, swap t... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Pacou @ Noise Pollution, Blackfriars, 31 May
Noise pollution is still going strong thanks to resident Sean Matthews and presents a night of underground techno. Berlin born DJ Pacou (live) will top the b... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Theatre
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
One hundred and forty couples, 879 hours of dancing, a possible one thousand pound cash prize. Set at the end of a pier in 1930s America, the Citizens Theat... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Theatre
Romeo and Juliet, around Scotland, May-Jun 2008
As the Scottish Ballet prepares to tour its world premiere of Shakespeare’s classic, Susannah Radford speaks to choreographer Krzysztof Pastor about what audiences can expect Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Theatre
Nova Scotia, Traverse
The 1970s saw an incredible rise in the profile of Scottish theatre. The Edinburgh festival season continued to grow in size and importance, and Scottish st... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
MusicAtmosphere - Shoulda Known
Atmosphere have delivered a welcome shot in the arm to a genre (hip-hop) that was in dire need of a fresh approach, waxing lyrical about paranoia, egos and w... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
Art
Nature Study @ Inverleith House
Inverleith's parents are renewing their vows. Miss Art and Master Science's house-on-the-hill love affair will be celebrated with an exhibition of John Hutto... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
Art
Asking For It
There has become something of a standard in the exhibiting of art made outwith the European tradition whereby the work of a variety of artists of common orig... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008