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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MusicXiu Xiu + Eugene S. Robinson – Sal Mineo
The free-noise assaults of Oxbow and the discomforting balladry of Xiu Xiu merge, evolve and mutate beyond recognition in this collaborative work by the main... Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
ArtJames McLardy @ The Royal Standard, until 28 Apr
James McLardy: White Teeth in the Planetarium @ The Royal Standard, Liverpool Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
BooksAye Write! The Road to War, 20 Apr
History made its presence felt in the Mitchell Library’s grand hall as two historians discussed the road to 1914. Charles Emmerson and Christopher Clar... Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
MusicCollar Up – Ghosts
Initially, Edinburgh trio Collar Up’s second album seems impeded by its unwavering melancholia, the overall impression one of over-earnestness and hand... Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
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Jimpster – Porchlight and Rockingchairs
With over 20 years of production experience behind him, deep house supremo Jimpster's new album, his first for six years, is a polished affair. He attempts t... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
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Solar Bears – Supermigration
Combining starlit electro, ethereal dream-pop, and a fetish-like adoration for pioneering 1980s synth soundtracks, Solar Bears' stew of influences places the... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013
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BooksDead Water by Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope novels were dramatised for TV in 2011, and last year Detective Jimmy Perez, the patient, enigmatic investigator at the heart... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 22 April
Boards Of Canada drop surprise 12" on Record Store Day; The Scottish Album of the Year Award returns; meet Edinburgh International Festival's new director; American Psycho: The Musical; plus new music from Savages and Anton Newcombe remixes Tim Burgess Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
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Aye Write! Best Scottish Poems Launch
Annually the Scottish Poetry Library releases an online publication entitled Best Scottish Poems. Now in its ninth year, Best Scottish Poems 2012 offers... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
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Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
It has been said that there is not a single Scottish crime writer publishing today who does not owe William McIlvanney and his eponymous hero, Laidlaw, a sty... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
Music
Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament – Four Queens EP
More than ten years since Hefner’s demise, Darren Hayman continues to produce the kind of wry, winsome indie which invariably featured heavily in John ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
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Cough em if they can't take a choke @ Verge
What do you get when two Scotsmen, a Mexican and a Welsh woman spend three weeks together in a gallery space in Govan? Well, a pretty good show, actually. Th... Read more »| 19 Apr 2013 -
Books
Aye Write! Leveson Six Months On
The debate surrounding the Leveson report into media standards is more heated now than it was six months ago when the report was published. Leveson has made ... Read more »| 19 Apr 2013 -
Art
Nicolas Party @ The Modern Institute, until 8 May
In one of the still lifes alluded to in the misleadingly sober title of Nicolas Party’s solo show, Still Life oil paintings and Landscape watercolours,... Read more »| 19 Apr 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 19 April
Book Talk: Alan Moore and Jarvis Cocker; My Bloody Valentine for T in the Park; J. Dilla's Gary Numan cover unearthed; new music from Laurel Halo, James Holden, De La Soul, Black Sabbath, Alice in Chains and more; plus the latest film trailers Read more »| 19 Apr 2013