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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MusicScottish Albums of the Decade #12: Arab Strap - The Red Thread
Arab Strap’s previous effort, 1999’s Elephant Shoe, did not receive the critical success the band had enjoyed since its inception. Two years late... Read more »| 27 Nov 2009 -
MusicScottish Albums of the Decade #13: Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
Initially hampered by constant comparisons to Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura have picked up that baton and accelerated away. Established now as one of... Read more »| 27 Nov 2009 -
Film
Law Abiding Citizen
Since 9/11, Hollywood has been resistant to give us the kind of evil geniuses who dominated genre cinema throughout the nineties, no doubt because Am... Read more »| 27 Nov 2009 -
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #14: Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
The short but sweet Rock Action may have set a new course for Blur-botherers Mogwai, but Happy Songs For Happy People was where the journey really began. Ope... Read more »| 27 Nov 2009 -
MusicArctic Monkeys @ SECC, 24 Nov
Eagles of Death Metal’s sound could be drawn in broad strokes from image alone. Moustaches, aviators, flying-V posing and other iconography cribbed fro... Read more »| 27 Nov 2009 -
Music
A Modern Mixtape: Notes on Compiling The Bowery Bundle For Ten Tracks
This month brought the sad news that The Bowery, the atmospheric Edinburgh venue established by Ruth Moir and Jane Flett, will be closing (in its current form at least). Ten Tracks invited Ruth to compile a bundle of tracks as a swan song; here she reflects on the curatorial process. Read more »| 27 Nov 2009
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Music
Edinburgh's Hogmanay Music Guide
What are you doing for Hogmanay? Read more »| 27 Nov 2009 -
Music
The Metal Column - December 2009
Although the cold snaps of December typically signal a lull in all metallic operations, a broad range of both seasoned and unrefined heaviness rounds out the... Read more »| 26 Nov 2009 -
Music
Robot Koch - Death Star Droid
It seems 'wonky' is the default beat setting these days, as producers shun the 4/4 which has served electronic music so well in favour of time signatures bey... Read more »| 26 Nov 2009 -
Music
Public Image Ltd: John the Revelator
The Skinny speaks to the man once described as "the biggest threat to our youth since Hitler" to learn that despite mounting evidence, John Lydon has no intention of mellowing out just yet. Read more »| 26 Nov 2009 -
Music
Trans Am - What Day is it Tonight?
A limited edition in advance of a new studio album slated for next year, What Day...? serves as a neat overview of the Washington minimalists' 16-yea... Read more »| 26 Nov 2009 -
Music
Josephine Foster - Graphic As a Star
Isolation may not always be good for mental stability but its inspirational qualities cannot be doubted. Josephine Foster is the latest artist to have drunk... Read more »| 26 Nov 2009 -
Music
Wounded Knee: Pieces of a Paradox
Having achieved equal praise to criticism with his debut album, it seems Leith-based mouth music maker Wounded Knee has found a way to record Marmite. We ask him for the recipe. Read more »| 26 Nov 2009 -
MusicScottish Albums of the Decade #15: De Rosa - Prevention
The album which immediately comes to my mind as Scottish Album of the Decade is 2009's Prevention by De Rosa. I remember my first time watching them play in ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2009 -
Clubs
Duck Sauce, anyone?
Armand Van Helden and A-Trak have joined forces to create some delicious house music - just don’t expect to see them perform live anytime soon. As A-Trak explains, this is simply a casual pursuit between friends. Read more »| 26 Nov 2009