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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MusicAtari Teenage Riot – Is This Hyperreal?
In the entire history of alternative music has there ever been anyone with as retarded a sense of irony as Alec Empire? It's a question you'll find yourself ... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
BooksStarter for 11: Frank Quitely
All-Star Superman artist Frank Quitely tests his own comic book geek credentials in the never-ending quest for our prized haggis supper Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
ComedyFunny's Funny - That's What She Said
Comedy takes back its women Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
ClubsElectrikal presents Dodge & Fuski
As the outdoor season begins to kick off for the Electrikal collective, it would appear that their taste for indoor events has not soured, booking du... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights - June
Some snakeoil salesmen types would have you believe that Scotland is an electronic music abyss this month: a George Romero dystopia of Hive flyers and swirli... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Books
Sheridan Simove: The Value of Nothing
“Nothing will come of nothing” said King Lear, although Shakespeare shows that plenty did. Plenty came of nothing for author Sheridan Simove too when he wrote a book with nothing in it… Read more »| 01 Jun 2011
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Music
Milk Maid – Yucca
Having broken away from band duties with latter day grungers Nine Black Alps, Yucca represents both bassist Martin Cohen’s new band Milk Maid’s d... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Music
Puzzle Muteson – En Garde
There are positive ways to be musically ground-breaking; by pushing things further than anyone previously dared, for example, or innovating something brand s... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Battles @ Glasgow Arches, 7 June
There's precious few bands whose live prowess has managed not only to knock us for six, but to expand our comprehension of what kind of sound a group of huma... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Music
My Morning Jacket – Circuital
On listening to My Morning Jacket’s sixth studio release, it becomes immediately apparent just how significant the shift has been from the country-infl... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Film
127 Hours
It is unlikely that anyone watching 127 Hours will be unfamiliar with the story of Aron Ralston, a hiker who became trapped in a canyon in Utah when ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: June Horoscopes
ARIES In June jam jar-spectacled physicists at the LHC discover the elusive graviton and its anti-particle. Don’t shell out for those Nike Airs. In 6 ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Art
LeithLate: Art on the Walk
On 16 June, for one night only, ten galleries, pubs and shops on Leith Walk will open late to host a series of free events, gigs and exhibitions ending with an afterparty. We've got the route map, and here LeithLate event organiser Morvern Cunningham introduces the programme Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Music
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
For a band prone to misinterpreting the spirit of rock and roll (examples abound online – being jerks isn’t the same as being rock stars, guys), ... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Music
The Coathangers – Larceny & Old Lace
Taking its scuzz from late 60s proto-punk and the snarl from early 90s riot grrrls, The Coathangers offer a record of near-hits and some legendary misses. Le... Read more »| 31 May 2011