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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Theatre
The Red Room
After a successful run at The Traverse during the Fringe, David Hughes is taking his Red Room on the road during September and October. A fiendish adaptation of Edgar Alan Poe’s Mask of the Red Death, it sees Hughes’ dance company team up with Al Seed, a Skinny favourite for his frightening version of clowning and a leading Live Art light. Gareth K Vile caught up with both Hughes and Seed, and asked them about the collaboration. Read more »| 18 Sep 2009 -
Music
Citizens - Try Smiling
Try Smiling, the debut EP from Glasgow trio Citizens -featuring Bronto Skylift's Iain Stewart on drums - is a manic mash-up of converging styles, veering bet... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Music
Mudhoney at HMV Picture House Preview
Way back when, Mudhoney were big, loud cornerstones of the Seattle grunge scene. While they’ve subsequently lost the limelight, they’ve maintaine... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Music
The xx @ Captain's Rest, 5 Oct
The xx are a music hack's wet dream, and, correspondingly, have been showered in praise (pardon the phrase) by the Guardian and Pitchfork among others. The L... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Music
Richard Hawley @ Queen's Hall, 13 Oct
Richard Hawley hails from a bygone era, crooning like Scott Walker before he turned avant-garde and penning luscious odes to courting couples and, er, his ho... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Music
Jesus H. Foxx @ The Bowery, 12 Sep
It’s hard to find a common musical thread amongst the showcase at The Bowery tonight. First up, New York import Golden Ghost (***) – a plugged in... Read more »| 17 Sep 2009
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Music
Various Artists - Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill - Extended Review
Inconsistency plagues a tribute album that really should have been something special. Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
Music
The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
The Twilight Sad have taken on a leaner, meaner look in time for the release of their hugely anticipated second album Forget The Night Ahead. Singer James Gr... Read more »| 16 Sep 2009 -
Art
North East Open Studios 2009
Aberdeen City and Shire Arts Community Pull Together to Promote Their Wares Read more »| 15 Sep 2009 -
Theatre
Big Gay Musical
Little Johhny: not just for gays Read more »| 15 Sep 2009 -
Music
Buy Tickets Now: Yo La Tengo @ ABC, 6 Nov
Like Sonic Youth if Kim'n'Thurston had fallen in love while chatting baseball instead of art, and if Lee Ranaldo was a Simpsons buff, Yo La Tengo have long b... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Music
Phil Campbell - Daddy's Table
Having spent years battling drink, drugs and enduring trouble with record labels, it isn’t surprising that Phil Campbell has a wealth of materi... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Theatre
Long Gone Lonesome
He came from a time before electricity, played at home and never toured. Meet a hero of country music: Thomas Fraser. Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Film
Fish Tank
Mia, played by the mesmerizing Katie Jarvis, is a typical teenager: caught in a state of acute rage and chronic vulnerability. She has dreams, realizable des... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Art
The Discovery of Spain @ National Galleries
The problem with this exhibition is its lack of cohesion. While there are some Goyas, Picassos, El Grecos and Velazquezes, they are few and far between. The ... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009