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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MusicBeirut – The Rip Tide
Beirut have undoubtedly found an audience their music can speak to directly already, yet The Rip Tide finds singer Zach Condon attempting to shrug off his mo... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
ArtStephen Sutcliffe: Internal Monologue
Looking ahead to this year's Edinburgh Art Festival, we speak to Stephen Sutcliffe, an artist for whom every episode of Magnum P.I is never knowingly unrecorded Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Clubs
A Guy Called Gerber
Israeli techno DJ Guy Gerber explains how he is exposing his underground sounds to the mainstream with a little help from Puff Daddy Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Comic vs comic: John & Martin
John Scott tells Martin Mor about chippy sauce and his Ma's stovies Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Art
Mystics or Rationalists? @ Ingleby Gallery
“Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.” Number one in Sol LeWitt’s fam... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
MusicAlias – Fever Dream
Once synonymous with experimental hip-hop, Anticon has mostly evolved into a reliable fountain of summery approximations of sublime and ethereal electronica ... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011
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TheatreImmaculate by Oliver Lansley @ The Arches
The trouble with Immaculate Conception Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
TheatreTheatre Venue of the Month: Leith
First Stop of the Edinburgh Festival Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
Books
The Incomplete Tim Key, by Tim Key
Tim Key’s quirky, humorous, poems were very enjoyable. In fact, I had to share them. I shared them with my cat, Charlie. Charlie bloody loved them! He ... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Carl, Chris and Paul
New boys Paul McCaffrey and Chris Martin are making their Fringe debut this year. Their mate, the multi-award winning Carl Donnelly gives them some advice on surviving Edinburgh. Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Music
Astrid Williamson – Pulse
Judging from the level of input he's credited with, Pulse may be more equitably attributed to ‘Leo Abraham and Astrid Williamson’; the former&rsq... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights - August
Liver spotted totem of sleaze Rupert Murdoch may have done his company's share price a mischief by turning a not-so-blind eye to the maelstrom of villainy cl... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Art
Big Fun At The Edinburgh Art Festival
There's a lot to choose from in the EAF programme – here are Art editor Andrew Cattanach's tips of what's unmissable Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Music
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Mirror Traffic
Stephen Malkmus’ solo career began promisingly, with 2001’s tune-packed eponymous LP, but recent efforts have lacked the exuberance and imaginati... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Music
Butcher Boy – Helping Hands
Without straying far from their indie-pop template, Helping Hands is nevertheless Butcher Boy's most diverse offering to date. Through a careful layering of ... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011