Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
MusicScottish Albums of the Decade #3: Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
It's easy to cast the mind back to the dawning of the millennium and perhaps fondly recall a pre-9/11 sense of optimism and renewal – I mean, the bug d... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
MusicScottish Albums of the Decade #5: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
If 1998's Music has the Right to Children was the record that opened up modern electronic music to whole new vistas of possibility – both in terms of i... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
MusicScottish Albums of the Decade #4: Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
On the face of it, their product is hardly revolutionary. Yet, for the past year and a half, The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit has been the album... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
MusicVarious - A Sort of Homecoming: The Best of New Scottish Music
Billing itself as an alternative take on this year’s Homecoming celebrations, Fourtrak’s opportunistic collection of new Scottish talent is disap... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #6: King Creosote - KC Rules OK
Not even King Creosote's mother owns everything in his discography, as it's filled with dozens of rare Fence Collective releases and CD-Rs. But if this isn't... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
MusicScottish Albums of the Decade #7: Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint
“Enjoy it while you can, because it won’t last long…” So sings Malcolm Middleton over the characteristically resolute backdrop of Th... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009
-
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #9: Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Alright, I admit it, when The Campfire Headphase dropped in 2005 I was one of the fans who was up in arms about BoC's new sound. Where were the beats? What w... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #8: The Delgados - The Great Eastern
When I was thinking of a few good reasons why this was my pick for the Scottish album of the decade, I realised it had nothing to to do with it being 'The Be... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #10: Mogwai - Mr Beast
With the tag “post-rock” serving as a convenient journalistic denouement for fifteen years of innovative, rousing, often sinister, occasionally w... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #11: Aereogramme – Sleep and Release
Another forward-thinking head-scratcher from the vaults of Chemikal Underground, Sleep and Release elicited genre-bending sloganeering like ‘dream meta... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Theatre
Looking Sideways at Off Kilter
Off Kilter is a Hogmanay celebration of contemporary dance that takes an alternative look at Scottish identity. Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Music
El Susio Dozenza - December 2009
As the rain batters down on the streets of Glasgow, Ryan Drever seeks refuge in Mariachi El Bronx's tour bus as they trawl through December's singles to find the good, the bad and the next Kenny G. Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Film
Cracks
Jordan Scott’s directorial debut is a suggestive beast. The title of the film itself, adapted from a Sheila Kohler novel of the same name, is a coy all... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Film
The Merry Gentleman
If every good festive film requires a dollop of misery to counter the sparkles, The Merry Gentleman certainly fits the bill. When Kate (Kelly MacDonald), a y... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights - December 2009
Former footsoldiers of the drum 'n' bass movement Aquasky appear at Edinburgh's Fake night on 12 Dec, returning after a year locked down in the studio creati... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009