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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MusicWin a place on the Hogmanay stage!
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay have just launched a new scheme, inviting up and coming bands to do battle for a coveted spot upon the stage of the capital’... Read more »| 07 Oct 2010 -
ClubsOni Ayhun, Oneohtrix Point Never & Veronica Vasicka @ Huntleys and Palmers Audio Club, 30 Oct
Our first love returns to town and we discover that we never got over Huntleys and Palmers leaving us at the altar Read more »| 07 Oct 2010 -
TheatreChromotherapy
A word from Drew Taylor, poet and theatre maker presenting Chromotherapy as part of Glasgay! Read more »| 07 Oct 2010 -
Clubs
Smirnoff Nightlife Project
Pack Slam and a bottle of Buckfast into a crate, the folk in Argentina won't know what hit them Read more »| 07 Oct 2010 -
FilmLast Train Home
Each year China's 130 million migrant workers travel home to celebrate Chinese New Year with their families. These arduous journeys from smog-shrouded cities... Read more »| 06 Oct 2010 -
Film
Jackboots on Whitehall
A British film with an all-star voice cast, including Timothy Spall, Ewan McGregor and Richard E. Grant, Jackboots on Whitehall offers an alternative version... Read more »| 05 Oct 2010
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MusicKatzenjammer – Le Pop
Who are Katzenjammer? It’s a tougher question than you’d think: they’ve a German name, a French album title, a Balkan whirl of a lead singl... Read more »| 05 Oct 2010 -
Theatre
Lustre @ Ivory Blacks
Within the burlesque scene, there are more nights popping up than you can shake a stick at Read more »| 05 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Fruit Tree Foundation presents Music Like A Vitamin @ HMV Picture House, 1 Oct
Idlewild’s Rod Jones and former Delgado Emma Pollock have been ploughing the admirable Music Like A Vitamin furrow for a few years now, gathering toget... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Music
Detachments - Detachments
Anyone who watched the BBC's recent documentary Synth Britannia will know that around the early 1980s a group of unlikely heroes pioneered a minimalist, synt... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Film
Restrepo
Considering the controversy surrounding last year’s Associated Press photograph of a dying US marine (deemed appalling by the disgusted and insigh... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Film
The Losers
A crack commando unit are framed for a crime that they didn't commit and have to go on the run to clear their names. If you can find them … Cue brass ... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Film
Night of the Demons
Freddy vs Jason veteran Monica Keena does well in this low rent remake of the 80s sex 'n' splatter classic, but it's Edward Furlong as a strung out gatecrash... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Music
Father Murphy – No Room For The Weak EP
Italian trio Father Murphy follow their …And He Turned To The Sun album with three new songs and a cover of Leonard Cohen’s There Is A War. If y... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Theatre
Swan Lake @ The Theatre Royal
In a 21st century world, arts need to continually evolve and grow in order to remain relevant Read more »| 03 Oct 2010