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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BooksChocolate and Cuckoo Clocks by Alan Coren
Alan Coren was familiar to many from TV and radio panel shows up until his death in 2007. He was a very funny man in those, and he is a very funny man in thi... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
Music
6 Day Riot - 6 Day Riot Have A Plan
Glaswegian singer/songwriter Tamara Schlesinger suffered a setback last year when half her band split on the eve of a tour. Luckily for us, ambition won out ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
MusicEngineers - Three Fact Fader
It’s appropriate that the droning opening track to Three Fact Fader builds out of silence, as it reflects Engineers' emergence from uncertain times. Al... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
Music
Malcolm Middleton - Waxing Gibbous
Before I even listened to Malcolm Middleton’s fifth studio album, I decided I was going to write the whole review without using the words “misera... Read more »| 23 Jun 2009 -
Art
GSA Degree Show 2009
Degree shows are the most emotionally rife affairs on the art calendar, ripe for extended metaphors all round. If you can get past the queasy feeling that yo... Read more »| 23 Jun 2009 -
Music
There Will Be Fireworks - There Will Be Fireworks
There Will Be Fireworks seem designed for Autumn, rather than the scorching heatwave into which they release their self-titled debut album. From their asser... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009
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MusicUnited Fruit - Mistress, Reptile Mistress!
Mistress, Reptile Mistress! may already be familiar to some, having been previously sold as a CD-R exclusively at United Fruit's shows. However, this fully m... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Music
Throbbing Gristle @ Tramway, 17 Jun
It seems appropriate that Throbbing Gristle's first visit to Scotland is supported by Tramway: a post-industrial warehouse, it provides the perfect backdrop ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
MusicDolcim @ The Admiral Bar, 10 Jun
With so little of note being served up across Scotland in the shape of extreme punk and metal for much of this year, it was a pleasant discovery to learn of ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Art
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2009
It's with an unsettling sense of déjà vu that The Skinny skulks into ECA for its annual binge of art and design – two weeks of organised ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Theatre
New World, New Writing
Agata Maslowska checks out the future as The Arches continues to stake its claim as the cutting-edge venue. Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Music
Dinosaur Jr: In Silence With J Mascis
The final part of our Dinosaur Jr interview series, marking the release of latest LP Farm on June 22, finds the trio’s visionary linchpin J Mascis on typically laconic but entertainingly frank form Read more »| 22 Jun 2009 -
Music
Beck, MGMT and Devendra Banhart to rework classic albums
Beck has recruited friends to form the ‘Record Club’, an informal group which will re-record classic LPs in one-day sessions. The singer has anno... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Theatre
Company Chordelia
Mhairi Graham enjoys a trip to the dark side Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Music
Iain Shaw - Untitled EP
Judging by his MySpace page, it’s clear Iain Shaw is not blessed with deep reserves of bravura. Describing his style as like ‘someone trying to r... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009