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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ArtA Post-Graduate Survival Guide Part II: Sorcha Dallas interview
As Sorcha Dallas prepares to take her wares to the Frieze Art Fair, Rosamund West caught up with her to talk artists’ representation, commercial galleries and the Glasgow School. Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
ArtKill Your Timid Notion @ DCA
Arika, the team behind Glasgow’s Instal festival, return to Dundee with another helping of Kill Your Timid Notion. For those who have missed the previo... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Neville Rae at Sierra Metro
2008 is starting to feel like a year of new beginnings in Edinburgh’s art world. First The Embassy were cruelly evicted from their gallery (to make way... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
MusicRolo Tomassi @ Barfly, 26 Sep
One polite 'thank you' later and tinnitus is all that remains of their strident brilliance Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
A marked, misanthropic lunge away from the the tone of their previous rapturous output Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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United Fruit - Shake
United Fruit's rapid realisation of their potential, especially live, has been nothing less than remarkable Read more »| 30 Sep 2008
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Hjaltalín - Sleepdrunk Seasons
Iceland’s Hjaltalín arrive with a healthy amount of homegrown success behind them, topping their domestic charts and being crowned ‘Bright... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
MusicThese Arms Are Snakes – Tail Swallower and Dove
Forged from parts set adrift after the disbandment of post-hardcore heroes Botch and Kill Sadie, These Arms Are Snakes suggest they’re still searching ... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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Found - You're Really Quite The Catch
It feels like rasping Found frontman Ziggy, the drinking man’s Paolo Nutini, scrawled this inappropriately acerbic anti-love ballad to an unsuitable gi... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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Dead or American - A Border Crossing
Moving from their old post-hardcore stomping ground to more melodic pastures, the second Dead or American single to be released from their forthcoming Thauma... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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Martha Wainwright @ The Picture House, 22 Oct
Sultry Canadian songstress set to stun new venue in the capital Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
MusicEl Guincho - Alegranza
Alegranza is just what Scotland needs when faced with autumn’s volatile clouds and persistent winds: Escapism. We need marimbas; we need warm Spanish v... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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Juana Molina - Un Dia
Mouthed beats combine with hand claps and whistles to make this a thoroughly warm, organic and most definitely human recording Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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Ten Tracks: To the Future
'At some point the music industry simply became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. But that's not bad news for music, and it's certainly not bad news for musicians. Indeed, with all the ways to reach an audience, there have never been more opportunities for artists.' – David Byrne, Dec 07 Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
Books
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Gargoyle is a contemporary gothic love story, made like a mosaic from pieces of fairytales and love stories from the ages. An epic debut by Andrew Davids... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008