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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MusicCeltic Connections @ Various Venues (Glasgow), 13-30 Jan
The biggest celebration of Scottish music and talent gets even bigger in January, with an eclectic selection of acts to please even the fussiest of palates. ... Read more »| 16 Dec 2010 -
MusicLaeto – III
In case you haven't heard of them – and if that's true, you're Scottish and consider yourself a fan of quality rock music, shame on you – this Du... Read more »| 16 Dec 2010 -
MusicAdmiral Byrd – Goodbye Cruel Worldview
Do we need any more epic, dreamy, shoegaze rock at this point in music history? Probably not, but Admiral Byrd – a four-piece based in Copenhagen, Denm... Read more »| 16 Dec 2010 -
MusicBen Butler & Mousepad – Infinite Capacity EP
BB&MP is one Joe Howe, previously known for his work with electronic terrorists Gay Against You and Germlin, but whereas those acts were renowned just as... Read more »| 15 Dec 2010 -
Music
Texture – Synaesthesia
“Scottish hip-hop is a non-sequitur,” rhymes Edinburgh based emcee Texture (of The Chemical Poets) on the track by the same name, before going on... Read more »| 15 Dec 2010 -
Music
Krapp's Second Tape: Fordell Research Unit – Heavy Petting
Released as part of the cassette-only Krapp Tape series from Wounded Knee (whose sonic experiments are effortlessly accessible by comparison) Fordell Researc... Read more »| 15 Dec 2010
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Art
Tacita Dean @ The Common Guild
The Tacita Dean exhibition in The Common Guild is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Scotland in over a decade and it’s worth making the trip ... Read more »| 15 Dec 2010 -
MusicArcade Fire @ SECC, 12 Dec
In a venue known to take no prisoners, Arcade Fire’s flop-haired frontman Win Butler sensibly asks tonight’s bulging SECC crowd to meet the band ... Read more »| 14 Dec 2010 -
Books
Stramash by Daniel Gray
Somewhat unusually, Daniel Gray has followed up Homage To Caledonia, his book about the Scots who fought in the Spanish Civil War, with a book about lower di... Read more »| 14 Dec 2010 -
Music
Fickle Public – Greatest Hits EP
Fans of this much missed Elgin-via-Glasgow quartet’s debut Bucko can finally breathe a sigh of relief with the release of the cheekily titled Greatest ... Read more »| 14 Dec 2010 -
Film
Deadly Crossing
Steven Seagal is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, cloaked in XXXL martial arts pyjamas. He has spun a career in the movies for more than two... Read more »| 14 Dec 2010 -
Music
Jacques Greene – The Look EP
Jacques Greene has made a huge impact in a remarkably short time, having already released material on Night Slugs, the French Canadian producer is now finall... Read more »| 14 Dec 2010 -
Books
Drive! by Andrew McCallum Crawford
A debut novel with a lot of good things in it, Drive! is not only the name of the book, but the name of a band that main character, Terry, joins. Well, joins... Read more »| 13 Dec 2010 -
Music
Eaters – Shouting At The Wind
“We had a first class delivery, like the Royal Mail,” spits Eaters' emcee Laughing Gear on Burn, a track which details the Edinburgh hip-hop coll... Read more »| 13 Dec 2010 -
Art
Jonathan Horowitz @ DCA
For the screening of Jonathan Horowitz’s 20-minute film Apocalypto Now, the audience is seated in a chamber that’s declared entirely carbon-neutr... Read more »| 13 Dec 2010