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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Theatre
Gizmo Love
Attempting to reveal the difficulty and drama behind the scenes of creating a Hollywood hit with only four actors is tricky to say the least, but this story ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Beautiful Girls @ Cabaret Voltaire
The chilled out tunes they produce are lovely to listen to, washing over you like afternoon sunlight Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen (SkinnyFest3)
If ever there was a time for Austrailian polka loving comedy bands, then surely this is it. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Eric Bogle (SkinnyFest3)
this is easy listening folk, smoothed and tamed, dealing in generalisation and rarely evoking poignancy Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
SKINNYFEST 3: Sleazy Cheezy, Studio 24, Aug 11
Sleazy Cheezy is an experience that everyone should enjoy at least once Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
Digitalism, Karnival, Caberet Voltaire, Aug 31 (skinnyfest 3)
Hamburg's freshest electro outfit Digitalism descends on the Cab with a bucketload of hype and a relentless supply of filthy grooves. The DJ and Production d... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Music
T on the Fringe: Michael Franti & Spearhead @ Corn Exchange
If you didn't know one Michael Franti tune or had never even heard of him it wouldn't have mattered, this was a perfect gig Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
An interview with Henry Pettigrew
It seems fairly certain that Henry Pettigrew is going to be a movie star. We don't want it to go to his head though, so best not to let him read this. Of cou... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
Synthetic 1st birthday, Berlin, Aug 31 (skinnyfest 3)
August has been a month of firsts and birthdays, and this event is no exception. Synthetic are one year old, and to celebrate they're throwing a bash with tw... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Dresden Dolls (SkinnyFest3)
I don't think the audience needs to lose themselves.
I'd rather they found themselves. I'd rather, in fact, that they found
each other Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Spaghetti Western Orchestra (SkinnyFest3)
a tight show coupled with comic theatre and the ability to leave any audience in fits Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
T on the Fringe: Little Man Tate @ Cabaret Voltaire
more slapdash Molotov cocktail than destructive cruise missile acumen Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Havana Rumba! (SkinnyFest3)
fans of percussive rumba will enjoy the rhythms and the theatricality is stunning
Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
The Sperm Monologues
The premise for this piece of theatre is fantastic. Unfortunately, the play itself is not. The idea is simple: sperm donors are invited to leave a recorded m... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Theatre
MEL SMITH INTERVIEW SKINNYMAG 2 WEB CONTENT
It is Mel Smith's first day in Edinburgh and something is bothering him. "When I got off the plane last night, there was this big lit-up panel and it said 'W... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006