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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MusicLizzard Lounge @ HMV Picture House, 30 Jul
The Picture House is a bigger venue than the Lizzard Lounge is used to (being a much loved, now passed Edinburgh club night), but the transition works well a... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
MusicSamuel Hällkvist Center @ Voodoo Rooms, 31 Jul
Joe Zawinul once said of his band Weather Report, "We never solo, and we always solo", and this gnomic remark could be usefully applied to Hällkvist's S... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
MusicJon Cleary @ Assembly, Princes Street Gardens, 31 Jul
Jon Cleary's piano trio bring some authentic New Orleans gumbo to a sunny Edinburgh afternoon; close your eyes and you could be on Beale Street hearing the s... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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Best Coast – Crazy For You
Fronted by feline-enthusiast and former child actress Bethany Cosentino, these Californian pop slackers deliver their sun sozzled debut. There’s a lot ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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The Low Anthem @ The Queen's Hall, 30 Aug
A rose-tinted view of history would suggest that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution changed the world overnight. But like most paradigm shifts, it to... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
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The Edge 2010: We Were Promised Jetpacks
We Were Promised Jetpacks bassist Sean Smith lifts the lid on zealous fans, transatlantic love and the Auld Reekie quartet's second album Read more »| 05 Aug 2010
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MusicEels: The End of a Trilogy
"It's a weird way to live your life, the way I do" - E Read more »| 05 Aug 2010 -
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The Unwinding Hours Music Playlist: Guest Selector
Taking a break from supplying The Unwinding Hours' haunted melodies, frontman Craig B reclines in a deckchair and talks us through his desert island discs Read more »| 05 Aug 2010 -
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S. Carey – All We Grow
You’d have to add a montage before it hits cinemas, but Sean Carey’s allegiance to Bon Iver has inspirational triumph written all over it. A moro... Read more »| 05 Aug 2010 -
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Wu-Tang Clan @ O2 Academy, 1 Aug
Let’s get the negatives out of the way. First, reuniting the entire Wu-Tang Clan ‘In Full Force’ as billed was never going to be easy; toni... Read more »| 04 Aug 2010 -
MusicSky Larkin: The Lark Ascending
Katie Harkin and Nestor Matthews explain why hanging around an old church crypt inspired a tune about Morticia Addams for Sky Larkin's second album Read more »| 04 Aug 2010 -
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Themselves @ Electric Circus, 24 Jul
In the face of adversity – a venue bustling with hen parties, an atrocious sound system and delayed, lackadaisical support – it’s beautiful... Read more »| 04 Aug 2010 -
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New Blood: Moon Unit
Explosive and hypnotic sounds abound with Glasgow's lunar psych rock trio Moon Unit Read more »| 03 Aug 2010 -
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Sian Alice Group - Troubled, Shaken Etc
Love That Moves The Sun begins with enticing piano, the drum shuffle undulating throughout. Airlock provides lush, minimalist layering, before traditional in... Read more »| 03 Aug 2010 -
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Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong
I’ve never been invited to a dinner party, as anyone who’s read one of my reviews might not be surprised to hear. So I don’t know what sort... Read more »| 03 Aug 2010