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Okkervil River - our life is not a movie
Whilst it's undeniable that revelations write headlines, it's also incontestable that sometimes such revelations can be uncomfortable. It will come as no sur... Read more »| Updated over 17 years ago -
Clubs
Swingingman: Their Feet Don't Touch The Ground
FBC are one of Edinburgh's best-loved hip-hop crews. With several satellite members, they memorably appeared at T in the Park in 2004, but it was core MCs So... Read more »| Updated over 18 years ago -
Clubs
Amon Tobin: Ever Falling
Having caught everything from the skewed sounds of a running motor bike to the brittle steps of an ant strutting around inside an aluminium container, it's a... Read more »| Updated about 18 years ago -
Music
Be Charlotte: Dundee's new pop revolutionary
It's a long way from Dundee to Austin, Texas, but that's just one career milestone that Charlotte Brimner has already taken in her stride. We talk to the inn... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Music
Live Music Highlights - May, 2009
Lush, grand, but undeniably pop, A Camp get the month off to a classy start with a gig at Glasgow ABC2 on 2 May. Ostensibly the side project of The Cardigans... Read more »| Updated about 16 years ago -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 19 July
FESTIVAL WATCH: WE REVIEW T IN THE PARK & KELBURN GARDEN PARTY, AND TAKE A LOOK AT WICKERMAN & DOUNE THE RABBIT HOLEAs the summer festival season rol... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - November, 2008
And November’s single of the month goes to... Razorlight. Sorry, wrong envelope. I meant to pick up the one for 'Most nauseous, mock-sincere rock balla... Read more »| Updated over 16 years ago -
Festivals
Electric Fields 2017: The Review
Electric Fields squeeze a lot of good music into two days and a handful of stages; as you drive over the stone bridge at Drumlanrig Castle, it’s easy t... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Festivals
Eurosonic Noorderslag 2013: Day 2
The daylight hours of Eurosonic seem to be all about the networking aspect of the festival where business cards are exchanged, deals are done and lots of cof... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Festivals
Festival Season 2013: The Flock of the New
The music festival has become such an integral part of the summer season in Scotland that it can be hard to recall what made these events so damn popular in ... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Things To Do
Top Ten Events 21-28 Mar: Lapalux, Edinburgh Science Festival + Reel Iraq
Top Ten Events 21-28 Mar: Lapalux, Edinburgh Science Festival + Reel Iraq THE WEEK AHE... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
Things To Do
Top Ten Events 1-8 Nov: Spaced in the City, Matthew Herbert + Galápagos
The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 1-8 Nov: Spaced in the City, Matthew Herbert + Galápagos &n... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Music
Bwani Junction: “Everyone wants to think that their music is so fucking original...”
Serendipity lays a claim to The Skinny’s meeting of Bwani Junction at a boozer next door to their Edinburgh rehearsal space on a miserably wet Monday n... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Music
Glasvegas: Out of Exile
Late in 2009, Dalmarnock’s most famous musical export were on top of the world. Having seen their profile change from that of a speakeasy, cult-band wi... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
Music
Mitchell Museum: National Treasures
If you grew up on shiny pop bands with expensive haircuts, beaming from the glossy pages of the teeny pop Bibles of the time, chances are you became a little... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Music
NETVERK – January 2013
Welcome back to NETVERK for 2013! Netverk provides a monthly guide to free, self-released and independent music, unsigned and untroubled by commercialism, ma... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 27 Aug - 3 Sep: Fringe Previews
What with all the posters, scaffolding and that unique combo of anticipation and premature exasperation, Fringe-mas eve is a complicated seaso... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Music
Franz Ferdinand: The Heather's On Fire
What were you doing five years ago? Revising for the next round of exams, breaking up with the last girlfriend but one, recovering from the mother of all han... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 12-18 Oct
We dive into the listings to bring you the essential guide to gigs in Liverpool this week – plus the latest news on festivals, tour announcements ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
T in the Park 2012: Saturday
And then the rain came. What began as a deceptively dry weekend turned to soup overnight, and the hoards retreated for cover. Fortuitously, The Skinny ha... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Things To Do
Top Ten Events 2-9 Aug: Edinburgh Festivals, Independent Record Fair + more!
The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 2-9 Aug: Edinburgh Festivals | Independent Record Fair | + more! &nb... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Music
Track-By-Track: Errors' Have Some Faith In Magic
TuskI'd just bought a new harmony guitar pedal the same day I started writing this, which gives everything this sparkly quality. I've been getting int... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Music
Live Music Highlights – October 2011
Taking place over the weekend of 30 Sep/1 Oct, the Eastern Promise two-day festival returns to Glasgow's Platform this year. Arty electronic two-piece Tarwat... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Festivals
T in the Park 2016: Friday, 8 July
It seems 2016 will be remembered as the year T in the Park finally made itself at home in Strathallan. The teething problems of last year's event feel ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Music
Disco Inferno: Belle & Sebastian revisit 'Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance'
Belle and Sebastian, by their own once prolific standards, have had what you could reasonably term a fallow decade. This is a band who put out their first tw... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Festivals
What's On at Jura Unbound 2015
Sun 16 AugustTrading StoriesJura Unbound 2015 takes flight with a night of seductive international short stories. Join us on our journey with Denmark’s... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Things To Do
Top Events Scotland 30 Apr-6 May: #UntitledOne - Open House - Sub Club SoundSystem
1. BOOKS | Neu! Reekie!: #UntitledOne, The Launch La Belle Angele, Edinburgh. Fri 1 May, 6pm, £5... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Festivals
On Tour: Owls, The War On Drugs, First Aid Kit, plus the latest festival news
Chicago experimental rockers Owls are on tour throughout the UK in September, playing Glasgow's Audio on 16 September, Manchestser's The Deaf Institute on 17... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Books
Poetry News – Scotland, August 2016
The thing I love most about festival season as a whole is the welcome it gives to fresh faces as much as seasoned ones. Edinburgh International Book Festival... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
Wickerman 2010: Friday
“Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man” So said Lord Summerisle in the original 1973 film and I, like many others made th... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago