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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Art
GSA Degree Show 2009
Degree shows are the most emotionally rife affairs on the art calendar, ripe for extended metaphors all round. If you can get past the queasy feeling that yo... Read more »| 23 Jun 2009 -
Music
There Will Be Fireworks - There Will Be Fireworks
There Will Be Fireworks seem designed for Autumn, rather than the scorching heatwave into which they release their self-titled debut album. From their asser... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Music
United Fruit - Mistress, Reptile Mistress!
Mistress, Reptile Mistress! may already be familiar to some, having been previously sold as a CD-R exclusively at United Fruit's shows. However, this fully m... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Music
Throbbing Gristle @ Tramway, 17 Jun
It seems appropriate that Throbbing Gristle's first visit to Scotland is supported by Tramway: a post-industrial warehouse, it provides the perfect backdrop ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Music
Dolcim @ The Admiral Bar, 10 Jun
With so little of note being served up across Scotland in the shape of extreme punk and metal for much of this year, it was a pleasant discovery to learn of ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Art
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2009
It's with an unsettling sense of déjà vu that The Skinny skulks into ECA for its annual binge of art and design – two weeks of organised ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009
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Theatre
New World, New Writing
Agata Maslowska checks out the future as The Arches continues to stake its claim as the cutting-edge venue. Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Music
Dinosaur Jr: In Silence With J Mascis
The final part of our Dinosaur Jr interview series, marking the release of latest LP Farm on June 22, finds the trio’s visionary linchpin J Mascis on typically laconic but entertainingly frank form Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Music
Beck, MGMT and Devendra Banhart to rework classic albums
Beck has recruited friends to form the ‘Record Club’, an informal group which will re-record classic LPs in one-day sessions. The singer has anno... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Theatre
Company Chordelia
Mhairi Graham enjoys a trip to the dark side Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Music
Iain Shaw - Untitled EP
Judging by his MySpace page, it’s clear Iain Shaw is not blessed with deep reserves of bravura. Describing his style as like ‘someone trying to r... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Music
Dinosaur Jr - Farm
Two albums into their nothing-short-of-miraculous reunion, and proto-grunge pioneers Dinosaur Jr are, put simply, on a roll. The newfound restraint displayed... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Music
Dinosaur Jr: On The Couch With Lou Barlow
In the second of three interviews celebrating the release of proto-grungers Dinosaur Jr’s newest album Farm on June 22, prodigal bassist Lou Barlow analyses his return to the fold with typical honesty. Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Clubs
Battant @ Optimo, Sub Club, 28 Jun
French three-piece Battant are signed to long-time Optimo partners in crime KilltheDJ, the Parisian label that released Optimo's excellent How to Kill the DJ... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Theatre
X Factor: Query
X Factor get thoguhtful and gender-blending. Read more »| 18 Jun 2009