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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MusicTrapped Mice – Waving and Pointing EP
After Portrait of the Great Father saw Edinburgh’s Trapped Mice set out a confident but fairly conventional indie-rock stall, Waving and Pointing sees ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
MusicBreaking the Day – Survived By None
Since the days of Black Sabbath, Britain has been renowned as the birthplace of heaviness but it’s been a while since anything has come close to that s... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Ramesses – Possessed by the Rise of Magick
There’s a stark, frost-ridden quality to opener Invisible Ritual that makes itself apparent within seconds, brought forth by buzzsaw guitars and vitrio... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
MusicPinky Suavo – Go for the Gills EP
When your name is taken from an episode of Pinky and the Brain, it’s an immediate sign of genius, an appraisal that’s backed up by the high stand... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
MusicBrontide – Sans Souci
Math-rock has lost its way somewhat in recent years, hamstrung by the need to develop an ever-more technically complex sound and compositional approach in or... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Gomez – Whatever's On Your Mind
Perhaps best known as the second-most preposterous winners of the Mercury Music Prize for their 1998 debut Bring it On (a list that M People will surely top ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011
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Bong – Beyond Ancient Space
The opening of none-doomier Bong’s latest is truly breathtaking, an omnipresent drone from the bowels of the earth that grows and swells over an aeon w... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Gorilla Rose
Bo Bo Boogaloo is nothing if not a promising start, a vibrant spectacle that shows off a vast knowledge of krautrock and prog-friendly tenets and glues them ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
Film
Countdown to Zero
There's a key scene in Countdown to Zero that shows members of the public being asked how many nuclear weapons currently exist in the world. A few make wild ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
Music
RockNess 2011 @ Dores, 10-12 June
There's a lot that's been written about the spectacular backdrop to the main stage at Rockness, but if anything the location has been underplayed. The tree ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
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Bridesmaids
Recent wedding comedies (Bride Wars, 27 Dresses) have been about as enjoyable as stepping on an upturned plug, but Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids emphatically... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
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Floodtide
David (Gordon Jackson) is the son of a farmer who dreams of building ships on the Clyde. Against his father's wishes he takes a job in the shipyards and begi... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
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Robinson In Ruins
Psychogeography, the form of intellectual rambling practised by writers like Iain Sinclair and Will Self, has had some prominence in recent years. At its bes... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
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The Great White Silence
When an earlier cut of Herbert G. Ponting’s remarkable record of the British Antarctic Expedition was screened for George VI in 1914, the king declared... Read more »| 17 Jun 2011 -
Music
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ The Arches, 11 Jun
Last time Wake the President supported Pains of Being Pure at Heart in Glasgow, the former’s debut was only a few months old; two years later, it&rsquo... Read more »| 16 Jun 2011