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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MusicThis Will Destroy You @ Ivory Blacks, 28 June
It’s all too easy to be down on East Kilbride’s The Clock, such is their out-of-tune opening instrumental and later dalliance with screamo clich&... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
TheatreKnives in Hens
David Harrower’s debut play, Knives in Hens returns to the Traverse after 16 years with Lies Pauwels’ vibrant new production, which delves into t... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: July Horoscopes
ARIES As the Universe expands the temperature will cool to absolute zero, the void will slow to an entropic husk and nothing will exist to even observe how ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Music
Diva – The Glitter End
When Beth Consentino left Pocahaunted to start Best Coast, she revealed she’d never really liked the music made with the former, and was starting afres... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Music
Langston Hughes – Harlem in Vogue: The Poetry and Jazz of Langston Hughes
As with many innovators, Langston Hughes’ legacy has largely gone neglected, overshadowed by the political heavyweights of the civil rights movement, b... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Theatre
Tell Me On a Sunday @ The King's Theatre
“Girl” (yes, that’s her name in the script) is a homely English twenty-something who has moved from Liverpool (updated from Muswell Hill to... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011
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Theatre
10 years of Bard in the Botanics Venue of the Month
Bard in the Botanics will celebrate its 10th year in style this summer Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – Dananananaykroyd Takeover
David Roy and John Baillie Jr popped round ours to play Bad Cop/Worse Cop with the July singles. What will it take to tease out their sensitive side? Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Theatre
Jekyll and Hyde @ The King's Theatre
Admittedly one meets any production peddling a nostalgic celebrity heart-throb as the lead with an exaggerated degree of scepticism, but let’s say ther... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Music
Hero Worship: Adam Ant
Long-standing new music champion Vic Galloway worships at the altar of Adam Ant Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
MusicLive Music Highlights – July 2011
Taking place on the weekend of the 2nd/3rd of July and marketing itself as a ‘boutique festival’, the Kelburn Garden Party provides a tantalising... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Music
The Metal Column – July 2011
Roots, Bloody Roots... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Music
Richard Youngs – Amplifying Host
Over twenty years and a ton of releases (with scores of self-released CDRs supplementing every widely-released full-length), Richard Youngs has built a solid... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Nicolas Jaar (live) @ The Arches, 29 July
If space is only noise that you can see, then prepare to wander into a parallel world of electronic sounds when Nicolas Jaar plays at The Arches on 29 July. ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Music
Tom Vek: "I’m not going to suggest that it really takes that long to produce 45 minutes worth of music..."
Incommunicado for five years, Tom Vek has a pretty good go at explaining why he's kept us waiting - it's complicated Read more »| 29 Jun 2011