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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Art
Edinburgh Art Festival preview
things will get crazy this August as venues the length and breadth of Auld Reekie pull out the big guns to impress the festival crowds Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Fran Rodgers - I Fell To You Under Winter Sun
Taking a look at the kind of chest-beating, Clash-aping, faux-hemian shite we often see zipping around the airwaves these days, this particular temporal wave is somehow strangely welcome Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Art
Beyond Appearances
at least we have outstanding individual works with which to console ourselves Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Comedy
A History of Laugh Episodes by Field Study
Early man laughed at quite basic things such as a friend falling over a rock or someone being savagely torn apart by wild dogs. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do
An unnerving chasm of morbid self-gratification riddled with uncertainty Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
The Dead 60s, King Tuts, Glasgow, 4 Aug
Could have someone's eye out Read more »| 09 Aug 2007
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Music
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Berlin
Getting back to where they belong Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Jana Hunter - There's No Home
Weird folk doesn't need to be quantum leaps away from a gentle three chord refrain and a nice melody Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
Let's claim this as Scottish even if it is, y'know, American Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
The Strange Death of Liberal England @ Cabaret Voltaire
A compelling trip down a dark psyche lane Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Suzanne Vega @ Queens Hall
Redemption comes tonight with the excellent Pornographer's Dream Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Nine Black Alps @ Cabaret Voltaire
Prove that they can still rock the Cab's foundations despite this new communication with their feminine side Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Cajun Dance Party @ Cabaret Voltaire
Cajun Dance Party are neither hopelessly naïve, or smart beyond their years Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
The Tacticians - Some Kind Of Urban Fulfilment
A contradictory, seductive mix of Kinks-y 60s Pop and countrified soul backing gloomy lyrical observations on life, love and living in London Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
The Heights - Toys and Kings
Interchangeable, state of the art guitar jaunts: great on the dance floor Read more »| 09 Aug 2007