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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MusicRingo Deathstarr – Shadow EP
It's been said before, but the point remains valid: Ringo Deathstarr, whilst undeniably good, are so overwhelmingly derivative that it surely calls into ques... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
MusicDavid Lynch – Crazy Clown Time
Created with the help of engineer Dean Hurley (Inland Empire), Crazy Clown Time is a Lynchian vision of experimental 'modern blues' that only partially manag... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
TheatreMiranda @ Cottiers
After the physical theatre nightmare of The Red Shoes, a fringe entry which translated the classic film into the daily experience of a ballet dancer’s ... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
Russian Circles – Empros
Post-rock has been painting itself into corners for too long now, as some acts persevere in rehashing the same delay-heavy prog instrumentalism that worked o... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
Rob St. John – Weald
As part of the Edinburgh folk scene, Rob St. John has been quietly scratching out a name for himself for some years now with makeshift gigs, live recordings ... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
20 Years of Sleaze
Raising a glass to the health of a Scottish institution, this month we join a few famous patrons in celebrating two colourful decades of Nice'n'Sleazy Read more »| 01 Nov 2011
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Comedy
Ben Verth: Local Boy Makes Good
Edinburgh-based Ben Verth is a rising star on the local comedy scene. He tells us about the city’s comedy history and the places that inspire him Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Theatre
All the Fun of the Fair @ The Playhouse
Levi Lee owns a travelling fun fair. He’s middle-aged, a recent widower and, to add to his distress, he’s in a perpetual fight with his teenager ... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Film
Jack Goes Boating
Philip Seymour Hoffman makes a solid debut behind the camera with this adaptation of Robert Glaudini’s play, a suitably thespian-friendly piece for one... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – November 2011
With his debut album finally rearing its cosmic noggin this month, Clean George IV sizes up the competition with bandmate and Aberfeldy frontman Riley Briggs keeping him in check Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
Fruit Tree Foundation: A New Branch
After the success of last year's First Edition, Rod Jones is branching out with his Fruit Tree Foundation to give some young saplings a fighting chance in the murky musical undergrowth Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Film
November Film Highlights
The highlights from November's cinema calendar Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
Yann Tiersen @ O2 ABC, 23 October
Should anyone still be attending Yann Tiersen shows solely on the back of the Amelie soundtrack that broke his name outside France, the absence of an accordi... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
The Fall's Mark E. Smith: "It gets a bit weird at times, to be honest..."
Working in isolation from his band and rallying against 'laptop ignorance' on The Fall's 29th album, Mark E. Smith explains the idiosyncrasies that keep him sharp Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now – A Room Dim At Noon
Despite diligently working their way round Glasgow for the last few years, this is only the second full-length release from IYLHYBHBN (longest abbreviation e... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011