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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FilmBreathing
Non-professional actor Thomas Schubert excells as Roman Kogler, a sullen youth in a juvenile detention centre who must succeed in his new day-release job as ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
MusicMonoganon @ CCA, 13 April
Perfectly coupled with the vérité style film clips of botanic gardens and Scandinavian skylines projected above the band, Monoganon, the brai... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
Music
Forget Me Not ft. Neo – What Were You Gonna Say?
A new electronic label based in Edinburgh, Diamond & Raw have looked beyond the capital for their first release. Production talent is courtesy of Brist... Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
MusicAnathema – Weather Systems
Anathema's early contributions to doom metal are easy to disregard when they've been riding on the soft rock train with such grace for so long. If 2010's W... Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
FilmDirector Xavier Gens on The Divide
Xavier Gens speaks to The Skinny about his new film The Divide, a grisly post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror hybrid. Like his previous efforts Frontier(s) and Hitman, it's not one to go to with your granny Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
Music
Ufomammut – Oro: Opus Primum
Ufomammut have been significant players in a well-populated heavy metal sect for some time now. Honourable disciples of sludge, these Italians are ever-dev... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012
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MusicCancer Bats – Dead Set on Living
Some fans may be pleased to know that the slow-burning artiness of Cancer Bats' 2010 offering Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones is dropped for a slicker, mor... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
Film
The Divide
The title of Xavier Gens’ gristly post-apocalyptic survival movie is working on a myriad of levels. Firstly, it’s the heavy duty door that separa... Read more »| 16 Apr 2012 -
Music
Kassidy – One Man Army
It’s always easy to pick on a soft target. But, just why Kassidy seem to have provoked such vitriol in certain corners of the music community is perpl... Read more »| 13 Apr 2012 -
Comedy
Susan Morrison: 'Raise The Titanic!'
Susan Morrison talk about her new show based on her greatest obsession Read more »| 13 Apr 2012 -
Film
The Cabin in the Woods
Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s deliriously entertaining homage to horror cinema takes a format as old as the hills – teens run into trouble at a ... Read more »| 12 Apr 2012 -
Music
Scottish Album of the Year Award Longlist announced
Today the Scottish Music Industry announced its Longlist for the inaugural Scottish Album of the Year Award. Selected from a comprehensive list of 2011's hom... Read more »| 12 Apr 2012 -
Music
North Atlantic Oscillation – Fog Electric
It's fitting that North Atlantic Oscillation’s second album, Fog Electric, was produced by Tony Doogan, best known for his production work for Mogwai... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
Music
Orbital @ O2 Academy, 7 April
As suggested in their recent interview with The Skinny, Orbital are keen not to lean on their old hits in the live settings, but also to not disappoint the ... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012 -
Music
Butcher Boy @ Cottiers, 6 April
Reverieme open tonight depleted and in mild disarray; guitarist Andrew Lindsay is caught in traffic, and no one knows how to work the tuner on his pedal. Fur... Read more »| 11 Apr 2012