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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MusicDanger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
A collaborative album from Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse will raise few eyebrows, given both acts' prior prolificacy as musical magpies – with a pletho... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
Music
Spare Snare – Victor
Aesthetically gorgeous; initial copies of Victor are packaged in a lovely hand screen printed card sleeve by Spare Snare driving machine, Jan Burnett. Champi... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
ArtMelting Pot: GSA Degree Show
This year's GSA degree show offers an astonishing variety of young talent. The Skinny gets stuck in Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
ArtAntisocial Behaviour: ECA Degree Show
A smashing time is had by all at this year's ECA degree show Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
ArtMuscle Milk @ Project Rooms
Rachel McLean and Diane Edwards’ video uses the format of an informercial. It advertises a protein supplement designed for bodybuilders called Muscle M... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
Film
When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors
Alongside the kudos of Johnny Depp’s charismatic narration, When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors is a strong depiction of the much... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010
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Film
July Film Events: 2010
Bona fide legend of the silver screen, one of the Golden Boys of the Golden Age, Tony Curtis will be at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh on 2 July for An Affair wi... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
Music
Digitonal – Be Still My Bleeping Heart
London duo Digitonal once played at a base for NASA, which suits that starry glare in their eye down to the ground, or rather off into space. This co... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010 -
Music
TrioVD @ Stereo, 23 Jun
Writing about jazz, it's not often you get to deploy words like 'punk', 'pure evil' and 'Christ my ears are bleeding', but tonight's TrioVD gig is an occasio... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010 -
Music
Polar Bear @ The Arches, 21 Jun
A passing Duke Ellington fan may not recognise it as such, but in the case for jazz being about embracing creative freedom and pushing at accepted forms, Pol... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010 -
Clubs
Plastikman: Awakening the Giant
As Richie Hawtin awakens his dormant project Plastikman for a new world tour – including a performance at this year’s T in the Park – the people behind Glasgow tech-house night Bigfoot’s Tea Party speak to the Minus maestro Read more »| 25 Jun 2010 -
Music
Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
It's easy to hear why Janelle Monáe has taken four years since her breakthrough as a guest on OutKast's Idlewild to complete her own debut album: The ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2010 -
Music
Daniel Johnston and BEAM – Beam Me Up!!
Daniel Johnston’s most celebrated work was recorded single-handedly on a basic tape recorder, often in one take, using nothing more than a chea... Read more »| 24 Jun 2010 -
Music
Larsen B – Musketeer
Arriving on a wave of approval from a sea of taste-makers, Larsen B – named after an Antarctic ice shelf – dream of the stars but wake up in stai... Read more »| 24 Jun 2010 -
MusicSchool of Seven Bells – Disconnect From Desire
School of Seven Bells’ debut LP was a masterclass in pop mysticism. Glazed with complex harmonies and effects-sodden chords – courtesy of Secret ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2010