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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Music
Laura Marling @ Bannerman's, 12 Aug
Alas! I cannot breathe... Laura Marling sweats it out on her Bannerman's debut Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Music
Calexico - Two Silver Trees
Hailing from Tuscon, Arizona, and naming themselves after a California border town, Calexico has long had a distinctive Southwestern style. Still evincing a... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Music
Popup - Love Triangle / Pull the Fuse
Popup’s thick regionalism and jabbing beats set them up as a seriously interesting prospect Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Clubs
Cursor Miner @ Substance, Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, 26 Sept
The madcap maestro of performance dressage, Cursor Miner (Lo Recordings / Noodles), is better known for sensational European electro, slicing in elements of ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Film
The Lion in Winter
Vicious, vitriolic, scheming, manipulative: The Lion in Winter paints a portrait of an utterly venomous royal family. King Henry II (O’Toole) lets his ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Music
Icarus - Monologues
In a funny twist of fate, this writer has been handed Monologues, the debut album from Edinburgh-outfit Icarus, for review, having just critiqued Daedelus&rs... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008
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Music
Capitol 1212 - Sampler
You don't really hear an awful lot about Scottish hip-hop these days, but if the output from Capitol 1212, the production duo consisting of Edinburgh-based D... Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
Music
Plush - Fed
If you stop to listen, there’s just a hint of that promised genius mumbled amidst his rant Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
Theatre
The Gymnast@ @ Pleasance Courtyard, 3-25 Aug
Serious politics and serious theatre - but do they add up? Read more »| 14 Aug 2008 -
Theatre
Dance Base Presents
Three more shows with three great companies: Dance Base delivers value and quality Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Music
Spiritualized in the next dimension
In time-worn tradition, Spiritualized frontman Jason Pierce finds that there's nothing quite like dying to propel the artist's work into the public consciousness. So he did it, twice! Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Books
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
Evans seems to have written this with a film treatment already in mind Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Music
Green Peppers - Adventures in the Slipstream
An album safe to cosy up to, if not to entirely enliven the spirits Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Music
Lykke Li - Breaking It Up
Breaking It Up is essentially an incredibly silly pop song done very well. At the core is a soft kick-drum embellished with handclaps and Lykke Li's velvet-... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Clubs
Robert Hood @ Monox, Soundhaus, 23 Aug
Monox should be extremely proud to bring one of the greatest legends of Detroit techno to the Soundhaus. As one of the founding members of the influential Un... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008