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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MusicSteve Mason & Dennis Bovell – Ghosts Outside
For those baffled by seemingly endless bass culture sub-genres (hello UK post dub-step), Steve Mason’s collaboration with Dennis Bovell is refreshingly... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
ArtBritish Art Show 7: It’s Time
The British Art Show is sprawling across Glasgow with more art than you can shake a stick at. The Skinny finds it operates across time as well as space Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
MusicBenjamin Francis Leftwich – Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm
Two warmly-received EPs aside, Benjamin Francis Leftwich is best known for an appearance on Dermot O’Leary’s Saturday Sessions, the radio slot re... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
BooksThis is Not the End of the Book, by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere
There have been too many hand-wringing discussions on the future of the book. This is not one of them. Author and academic Umberto Eco and his friend... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
MusicWolf Gang – Suego Faults
Suego Faults, the debut from Max McElligott's Wolf Gang outfit, was produced by Dave Fridmann (he of Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips fame), and it sounds like i... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
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The Blood Arm – Turn and Face Me
As one would expect of Franz Ferdinand's favourite band, an endorsement which may or may not be decreasing in value with each passing year, Los Angeles quart... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011
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Music
Alex Skolnick Trio – Veritas
By their fourth album, most bands would already have the bottom of the barrel well and truly scraped, but for Alex Skolnick’s jazz trinity this is prob... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Music
Shonen Knife – Free Time
Despite multiple line-up changes, Shonen Knife’s set up and style has been unswerving across their thirty year existence: three girls, three chords, an... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Books
Beauty and The Inferno by Roberto Saviano
Gomorrah, journalist Roberto Saviano’s exposé of the Neapolitan Camorra crime organisation, quickly became an international bestsel... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Music
Brian Eno – Drums Between the Bells
Drums Between the Bells is the latest in Brian Eno’s long list of collaborative works, kick-started in 2003 with poet Rick Holland and featuring a revo... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Art
Rudimentary Perfection: Birth of a Movement
Mark Lyken says Rudimentary Perfection is the UK’s first ever Graffuturism exhibiton. But what is this Graffuturism? And what exactly is happening? Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Music
Chilly Gonzales – The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales
“It’s entertainment but if you listen the genius is in the arrangements,” our virtuoso pianist and aspiring rapper takes to critiquing hims... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Art
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2011
Perusing the offerings of tomorrow’s art stars is always overwhelming. We make our annual pilgrimage to the Central Belt degree shows, hoping to emerge with some senses intact Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Numbers is 8: Floating Points & Spencer
Manchester’s Floating Points, aka Sam Sheppard, has already made a huge mark on the electronic music scene in a shockingly short time. His numerous rel... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Music
Cats and Cats and Cats – Mother Whale
Much like label-mates Shield Your Eyes, there is an underlying core of almost classic songmanship to Cats and Cats and Cats, but it lies so deep beneath the ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011