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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ArtMAGAZINE 08 - Positive critical imagination
The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents its annual show this August, ‘Magazine 08’, curated for the first time by two of Spain’s most pro... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
MusicPaul Haig @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4 Aug
An enjoyable hometown gig for Haig, even if nearly all the city stayed at home Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
MusicMichael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers
The world needs activists like Franti Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
MusicLocal H - Twelve Angry Months
A year of post-break-up recriminations and misery via the medium of some fairly MOR rock music Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Music
Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
After seeing this band perform, I came into this review with a bit of bias: The band takes the stage in matching vintage-store garb (think the look of Sufjan... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Clubs
The Bug @ Dubpressure, Cabaret Voltaire, 24 Aug
Dubstep has been infecting the UK and beyond at an alarming rate, and if you don’t have the virus yet, one foot into Dubpressure's monster festival showdown, with headliner The Bug (Ninja Tune) will ensnare you for good Read more »| 11 Aug 2008
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Books
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
He can take you to a library of unicorn skulls and it'll seem like the most natural thing in the world. Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Music
Paul Kelly @ The Spiegeltent, 5 Aug
The mid-section of Kelly's A-Z assault on his back catalogue sends everyone home happy Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Clubs
Linden @ Symbiosis, The Soundhaus, Glasgow, 22 Aug
Symbiosis continue to present great drum and bass nights, with guests who probably got the bus down Read more »| 08 Aug 2008 -
Film
You Don't Mess With the Zohan
'Hairdresser assassin' sounds like it could be the perfect cut. Zohan (Sandler) is Israel’s finest undercover agent, who men want to be and woman want ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2008 -
Film
The Rocker
Original, inspired, staggeringly unpredictable – The Rocker is none of these things and less. Feeling like a Saturday Night Live skit stretched until i... Read more »| 08 Aug 2008 -
Music
Vessels - White Fields and Open Devices
Opener Altered Beast is exhausting, winding its way from math to post influences whilst covering a range of emotional ground Read more »| 08 Aug 2008 -
Theatre
Enclosure 44
Dancers become exhibits become performers become an experiment. Gareth K Vile heads to the Zoo... Read more »| 08 Aug 2008 -
Music
Pumajaw - Jacky Daw
For many, the term 'folk' will always evoke scenes of cardigan-clad hippies, perhaps explaining the propensity for critics to regularly weld on a prefix and ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2008 -
Music
One Day As A Lion - One Day As A Lion EP
"In exile for a while, now with raw friction,” spits Rage Against the Machine’s firebrand in limbo - Zack de la Rocha - breaking a four year sile... Read more »| 07 Aug 2008