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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ComedyMiles Jupp: Telling It Like It Might Be
A sold out audience fills the Teviot dining hall to see the upper class ramblings of Miles Jupp. He has an accent that comes straight from the playing fields... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
MusicVladislav Delay - Tummaa
Vladislav Delay, aka Sasu Ripatti, writes the type of music that causes parents to wail “but it's just random noise!”, while persevering connoiss... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
Music
Dolores O'Riordan - No Baggage
In a weird way, former Cranberries frontwoman Dorlores O'Riordan has something in common with Eddie Vedder, her crooning being as divisive as Vedder's grunge... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
MusicMumford & Sons @ Cabaret Voltaire, 8 Aug
Playing the second of two nights, Mumford and Sons are bristling with stubbly energy tonight. Awake My Soul opens as a real spinetingler; awash with pitch-pe... Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
Clubs
Ellen Allien @ Kapital, 31 July
BPitch Control's leading lady wishes Kapital a happy birthday. Read more »| 10 Aug 2009 -
Art
Kate Pollard @ Atticsalt
If you can navigate your way through the rather complex and slightly threatening entry system to the exhibition, you'll find yourself in a makeshift attic sp... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009
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Music
The ID Parade @ The Admiral, 31 July
When a band choose ukulele-strumming, chalk-faced Beckettian ghouls as their main support act, you know they’re aiming for something a little out of th... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
Music
Nile Rodgers & Chic @ The Picture House, 25 July
'See the guy in the hat? That's Pop Music.' And so it proved to be, as Chic, and Nile Rodgers in particular, take to the stage at the Picture House for one ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2009 -
MusicBroadway Calls - Good Views, Bad News
Finally the worldwide drought of pop-punk is over. God knows it's literally been hours since our last fix of pseudo-snot-spitting, major-chord-playing, long-... Read more »| 06 Aug 2009 -
Music
The Drug Models Love - Slow Hope Parade
Recording under the pseudonym of The Drug Models Love, New York based Kevin McGinnis certainly has his marketing down, with a name that promises bleak-chic c... Read more »| 06 Aug 2009 -
Music
Danny Don't Rapp
Daniel Johnston’s childlike singing voice and propensity for using amateurish recording methods and basic instrumentation puts many people off his musi... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Music
Hi, How Are You? A Conversation With Daniel Johnston
Kurt Cobain described him as "the best songwriter on earth." But there's much more to the story than that. Finbarr Bermingham spoke to Daniel Johnston to find out that he still has his demons, but that hope is keeping him going. Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Music
Lightning Dust - Infinite Light
Black Mountaineers fail to scale the lofty heights of the past, but occasionally impress Read more »| 04 Aug 2009 -
Music
Humanzi - Bass Balls
Given past musical associations, it's not massively surprising when Bass Balls comes thundering out of your speakers with all the hedonistic momentum of QOTS... Read more »| 04 Aug 2009 -
Theatre
Cabaret
Cabaret at the Fringe: will the lack of a Spiegeltent sink it? Read more »| 04 Aug 2009