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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ClubsDeath Disco presents Hercules and Love Affair @ The Arches, 19 Mar
Bursting on to the scene in a shimmering cloud of disco techni-colour, Hercules & Love Affair were one of the most distinctive acts of the last decade, p... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
ClubsHeard It Through The Bassline Presents: Jacques Greene
Having already hosted one of the best nights of 2011 with Pariah and Koreless last month, Heard it Through the Bassline bring us another fantastic booking in... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Art
Jeff Koons @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Kitsch, vulgar, delightfully banal and knowingly so; look up a definition of post modernism and Jeff Koons ticks every box. Always bright, interesting and sa... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
BooksDoug Johnstone: Whisky Galore, And A Wee Bit More
Doug Johnstone's third novel, Smokeheads, is a thriller set on the island of Islay, whisky's spiritual home Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Film
Archipelago
Archipelago can’t help but stand out as a depiction of wealthy toffs. In a repeat of the central motif of director Joanna Hogg’s debut film Unrel... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
MusicKing Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
All the lucky people who managed to get hold of a Home Game ticket this year: here's something to get you in the mood for three days in Anstruther. Having sp... Read more »| 02 Mar 2011
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Music
Bibio – Mind Bokeh
Bibio's second album for Warp plays out very much as as a companion piece to 2009's impressively diverse Ambivalence Avenue, with evocative instrumental loop... Read more »| 02 Mar 2011 -
Music
The Kills – Blood Pressures
Brooding for so long in the shadowy realm, The Kills' latest record is the soil splattered coffin in which we can lay to rest the limp body of The White Stri... Read more »| 02 Mar 2011 -
Music
Various Artists – Late Night Tales: Midlake
The concept behind a Late Night Tales release is simple enough: a featured artist presents us with a mix of songs that sound good – you guessed it &nda... Read more »| 02 Mar 2011 -
Music
Conny Ochs – Raw Love Songs
From both the album title and the overtly pandering cover art, it would be all too easy to dismiss Raw Love Songs as cheeseball balladry with nary a second t... Read more »| 02 Mar 2011 -
Theatre
Into The New: Plunge into the Future
"Into The New is our graduating students' festival," explains Kate Stannard, teacher on the RSAMD's Contempory Performance Practice course. "It kicks off in ... Read more »| 02 Mar 2011 -
Theatre
New Territories 2011
Having retired the National Review of Live Art with last year's thirtieth anniversary special, New Territories has reformulated itself as it returns to Scotland to educate us about performance art Read more »| 02 Mar 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: March Horoscopes
ARIES Despite the energetic kneecap-breaking efforts of your secret police in early Spring, the rising prices of food drive the lumpen proletariat into furi... Read more »| 01 Mar 2011 -
Music
James Blake @ Nice n' Sleazy, 27 Feb
It’s difficult to believe that James Blake has only been touring his eponymous full-length debut for just a matter of weeks, so startlingly assured is ... Read more »| 01 Mar 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – Mogwai Takeover
Welcome to Mogwai’s take on The Dirty Dozen, where even the single of the month can get a bit of a drubbing. Step forward Stuart Braithwaite and Barry Burns... Read more »| 01 Mar 2011