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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ComedyAbsolute Best of Absolute Beginners
These guys are really up against it. In a Fringe dominated by international acts and TV celebrities, it can be difficult for local talent to shine through. A... Read more »| 14 Aug 2010 -
ComedySteve Pretty on the Origin of the Pieces
A professional jazz musician, Steve Pretty found himself largely shielded from the sticky and sweet world of pop until, at the age of 29, he set out to liste... Read more »| 13 Aug 2010 -
Comedy
Norman Lovett @ Gilded Balloon Teviot
A festival as manic as the Fringe needs someone like Norman Lovett. Younger comedians equate noisiness with hilarity; Lovett shuffles around the stage and sp... Read more »| 13 Aug 2010 -
MusicChaz Jankel – The Submarine Has Surfaced
The Blockheads (Ian Dury's old band) have always been a bit of an anomaly on the UK music scene, taking their cues just as much from soul and jazz as... Read more »| 12 Aug 2010 -
Comedy
The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek
When I hear the words 'sketch show', I can’t help but feel mildly disinterested. It's a brilliant concept, but so often done badly that I can’t h... Read more »| 12 Aug 2010 -
Music
Tweak Bird – Tweak Bird
Were you to slam a handful of Big Business and two cups of Death From Above into a hefty, sticky dough of Black Sabbath, the cake that eventually emerges wil... Read more »| 11 Aug 2010
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ArtMartin Creed: Ballet Work No. 1020 @ Traverse Theatre
Calling this work a ballet is misleading. There are some ballet dancers who do a few ballet moves but otherwise the piece transgresses the form’s other... Read more »| 11 Aug 2010 -
Art
Julie Roberts @ Talbot Rice
On the surface, the exhibition title – Child – seems solely to describe Julie Robert’s subject matter: kitsch and almost fashiona... Read more »| 11 Aug 2010 -
Music
Newt @ The Lot, 7 Aug
Aberdonian guitarist Graham Stephen kicks off the evening in reflective mode, but soon enough he's heating up an already temperate room; he's got clean abstr... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
Art
Nefertiti: New Works by John Squire
Working out of a converted barn seven days a week, John Squire made a point not to listen to music while painting. Quite ironic considering that he is arguab... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
Music
Haftor Medbøe Group @ Voodoo Rooms, 6 Aug
With a line-up featuring saxaphone, trombone, drums and bass, one might expect a piano, but the chorded instrument here is Haftor Medbøe's guitar, whi... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
Art
Annual General Karaoke
You’ve doubtless heard of organisations holding an AGM or Annual General Meeting. In September, the Yuck ‘n Yum collective will be holding the first ever AGK where the K stands for karaoke, and this is your last chance to submit Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
Music
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. feat Shy FX - Collapsing Cities
Since stepping out from his bedroom in 2006, Get Cape… (aka Sam Duckworth) has never quite fitted the singer/songwriter mould, and the intricate rhyth... Read more »| 09 Aug 2010 -
Music
Calvin Johnson @ Hyndland Community Hall, 3 Aug
If a poll was ever commissioned to determine a social order of indie-cred in modern music then Calvin Johnson would surely be a heavy contender for the thron... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Clubs
Soma Night @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20 Aug
Ah, Soma, a welcome hedonistic distraction in this brave new world. Glasgow’s independent electronica label has been around since 1991, home to the eve... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010