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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MusicLive @ Loch Lomond, 2-3 Aug
When Live At Loch Lomond burst on to the Scottish festival circuit last year, it boasted an impressive line-up for a brand new day out, with big outdoor gig ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
ClubsDrum & Breaks Curriculum
With all the attention on the capital at this time of year, it’s sometimes easy to forget about Scotland’s other cities. If you find Edinburgh sl... Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
Music
Heather Greene - Five Dollar Dress
She sounds very like Norah Jones but updates her lounge-jazz style with quirkier touches Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
Clubs
Mofomatronix @ Baller$ Social Club, The Ivy, 8 Aug
Baller$ 5ocial Club switch gears this month to bring you Canada's turbo crunksters, Mofomatronix. Prepare to be wowed when duo Philippe Aubin-Dionne and Seba... Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
ClubsRejected (Live) @ Sensu, Sub Club, 15 Aug
Sensu returns with another Scottish exclusive: the first live performance of Joris Voorn and Edwin Oosterwal’s Rejected project. The Dutchmen first me... Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
Clubs
Dubstep and Booty with Care
In a bid to raise funds for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre and Myeloma UK, Volume goes up against Obscene for a night that's so awesome it hurts Read more »| 28 Jul 2008
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FilmThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly
It seems every other review I'm writing these days is loaded with “best such-and-such ever”, but in the case of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, e... Read more »| 25 Jul 2008 -
Music
El Padre: What's In A Name?
With the musical pseudonym falling foul of today’s more typically po-faced standard, Billy Hamilton catches up with El Padre’s Bobby Steve Jacksonson to find out just what’s in a name Read more »| 25 Jul 2008 -
Music
Converge @ Ivory Blacks, 15 Jul
The triumph of Converge's performance is indisputable Read more »| 25 Jul 2008 -
Music
The Famous Spiegeltent @ George Square, Edinburgh, 25 Jul - 31 Aug
The Spiegeltent in George Square provides an incomparably eclectic entertainment schedule Read more »| 25 Jul 2008 -
Music
XX Teens - Welcome To Goon Island
XX Teens are something of a rock chameleon Read more »| 25 Jul 2008 -
Music
Plej - Home Is Where Your Heart Was
Aah, Sweden, the home of many fantastic exports, including meatballs, little red houses and, of course, IKEA. The Swedes have given the world similarly ambiv... Read more »| 25 Jul 2008 -
Film
Death Note
A notebook falls from the sky into the path of too-cool-for-school law student Light (Fujiwara). Its opening page explains that if someone's name is written ... Read more »| 24 Jul 2008 -
Music
Nouvelle Vague @ The Liquid Room, 7 Aug
Nouvelle Vague's Bossa Nova, calypso and reggae covers of 1980s New Wave tunes have been featured in several adverts and films Read more »| 24 Jul 2008 -
Clubs
Bank Holiday BBQ Special Pt. 3 @ The Ivy, 3 Aug
Sunday August 3rd sees The Ivy host another of its bank holiday BBQ specials, inviting along a number of special guests to join in the games. First up, Black... Read more »| 24 Jul 2008