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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Music
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash @ Cabaret Voltaire
The banality of an inner-city barn dance mimicking a spaghetti-western. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Art
RSA Annual Exhibition
this show contains both work you can take home and put on your wall and work that will make you think Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Art
Nicola Murray / Jim Pattison
Despite Murray's best efforts to feign naturalism, these pictures do have a sense of the mechanical or the alien about them Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Art
A Paper Menagerie: Animals in Art
It's an eccentric wee show, and some of the choices are quite odd, but it serves as an enjoyable distraction nonetheless Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Art
Simon Faithfull - Ice Blink
These images stimulate our imaginations all the more on account of their charming clumsiness Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
MusicMuso's Top 10: G.Love & Special Sauce
G.Love & Special Sauce let The Skinny in to take a peak at what's on their very own easy gramophone... Read more »| 16 May 2006
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Clubs
Imperial Vipers, Studio 24, Edinburgh, April 11
If only one percent of the city's scene-whores could realise this, next time we'll be listening to the sound of bones breaking Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Music
Bonnie Prince Billy @ Queens Hall,12 April
Oldham demonstrated just why he remains one of America's most important songwriters Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Comedy
Comedy Rant - Happiness
I got so excited, I accidentally shat on his Nan Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Comedy
A Comedian's Rant - Happiness
I got so excited, I accidentally shat on his Nan Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Comedy
April Comedy Preview
With March over so is the Glasgow Comedy Festival and from all reports it's been another leap forward as this year has again set records for the number of sh... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Theatre
Gorgeous Avatar
Gorgeous Avatar defines 'Scottish culture' as something modern and dynamic. Playwright Jules Horne talks about stylistic innovation in the Borders. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Theatre
Enemy lines
While some may believe that changing a play's geographical and cultural location doesn't always preserve its meaning, the success of Tara Arts since the 1970s has done nothing but prove otherwise. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
Live Music Roundup for April
Peculiar, indefinable, and utterly wonderful; American six-piece The Spinto Band play the Barfly on April 22 Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Books
Vampire Nation - Arlene Russo
If your imagination is captured by the insert to 'Vampire Nation', with its promise to reveal the history and secrets of the UK's thriving vampire scene, don... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006