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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BooksThe Skinny’s Events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival: David Sedaris and David Simon.
Sedaris. Simon. Skinny. Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
MusicMagnetic Morning - A.M.
The result of a creative mind-meld between Adam Franklin (Swervedriver) and Sam Fogarino (Interpol), Magnetic Morning’s debut arrives with a whisper wh... Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
Music
De La Soul @ The Picture House, 5 June
As the Picture House is warmed up with a safe set of perennial rap classics from the titans – EPMD, Wu-Tang, Nas, Tribe and NWA – it’s an a... Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
Film
Telstar
Telstar is the biopic of legendary 60s music producer Joe Meek, who from a tiny studio above a shop in London’s Holloway Road, produced the top-selling... Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
MusicI Hear a New World - June, 2009
Unusual and innovative music from Scotland and beyond Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Music
Mastodon @ ABC, 7 June
Tonight it's business up front, party at the back Read more »| 10 Jun 2009
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ClubsDeath Disco: New Heights
Yuksek: Remixer, DJ, studio hermit and unintentional hero of teenage stoners from Istanbul. Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Film
Electra Glide In Blue
Electra has that Lynchian effect of making you wonder exactly what drugs the director was on. Nothing about it makes much sense, but it looks good, in a CHi... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Music
Halt Bar Hijack @ The Halt Bar, 12-14 June
Three years in and the Halt Bar on the student Mecca that is Woodlands Road continues to gorge itself on some of Scotland's finest underground acts once year... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
Music
Goes Cube - Another Day Has Passed
This thunderous three-piece from NYC are keen to play up their lack of concern for image, industry parties and becoming players on the Big Apple scene. True ... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
Music
Laroca - Valley of the Bears
Laroca claim to make music like nothing you’ve heard before, which isn’t strictly true. A more accurate claim would be that they make music like ... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
Music
Divorce - Divorce EP
Glasgow label Optimo Music unleash ten inches of pure, inky-black, tightly-wound noise with the release of Divorce's self-titled debut EP. The five-piece inc... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
Film
Belle Toujours
Hollywood philistine William Goldman once said that all directors lose their touch at 60, but clearly he’d forgotten that Luis Buñuel was 67 whe... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
MusicLet's Tea Party - Hot Chip/Emmanuella
Double A-Side from 'pop bounce' Bristol trio. Read more »| 08 Jun 2009 -
Comedy
Virtually the best comedy gig in the world?
It started as a joke: why don’t you just do it online? But after gigging in front of a poor turnout, it got comedian Tiernan Douieb thinking. Why not d... Read more »| 08 Jun 2009