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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FilmKaboom
Kaboom opens with a naked Smith (Thomas Dekker) floating down a brightly lit corridor, looking a bit confused. So he should be. He is the centre of the colle... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
TheatreA Conversation with Carmel
Barrowland Ballet’s A Conversation with Carmel explores the value of the older person in our lives. Inspired by conversations with her grandmother, Nat... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
MusicThe Mojo Fins – Shake the Darkness
Quite why the worlds of post-rock and sensitive singer-songwriter balladry don’t meet more often is an enigma, as The Mojo Fins’ documentation of... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
FilmDonor Unknown
Donor Unknown: Adventures in the sperm trade. A young woman born through artificial insemination tracks down her donor dad, and along the way discovers dozen of siblings Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Colours presents Laidback Luke
The excitement around electro house has been slowly diminishing since the days of Ed Banger-influenced electro. The newer sounds have for the most part emerg... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Skanky (Bullet Train/Templar Sound) June Chart
London producer Skanky has been making heavy movements in the underground bass music scene in the past 6 months. Having dropped his fantastic 13 EP on B... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011
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MusicDas Contras – Das Contras
Sounding like the soundtrack to a bandito showdown at a seventies lounge party, opening ditty Reckless Phase may try to be the life and soul of the party but... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
Cults – Cults
The air of mystery surrounding New Yorker’s Cults has had the internet’s blogger brigade in somewhat of a frenzy, but just who are these fuzzy po... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
Elan Tamara - Organ EP
Elan Tamara is a Brit School graduate, but try not to hold it against her. Seems despite the institution’s strong track record for cultivating chart mo... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
The Proposition: The Unbearable Shiteness of Being (...Signed)
Despite being the most coveted and enduring adolescent fantasy since Jessica Rabbit, in reality recording contracts are a minefield. In a contemporary musica... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
BURNINGBeeS – goodseedbadsoil
Drifting and mingling in the nomadic manner, the musical projects of Neil Grant and Stuart Hobbs have been abundant, if short-lived. The former dabbled with ... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Theatre
After the End @ Dundee Rep
After Sweeney Todd, a musical of operatic complexity, and a taut update of the classic Dolls House, Emma Faulkner directs the company in a terse two hander t... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Theatre
Month of the Venues
When the National Theatre of Scotland defined itself as a company “without walls”, they echoed the discovery of many cash-strapped dramat... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
Juffage – Semicircle
Juffage, the solo project of Leeds’ Jeff T Smith, fits neatly into that category of dreamy indie-pop that Sparklehorse perfected years ago, but rather ... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
Wiley – 100% Publishing
Wiley’s second album for Big Dada sees the rapper hedging his musical bets. A combination of the hardest, sickest underground grime rhythms and more co... Read more »| 04 Jun 2011