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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ArtWitches and Wicked Bodies @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
The summer show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art looks set to be an intriguing and thought-provoking examination of a well-known and often cont... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
MusicThe Lucid Dream – Songs of Lies and Deceit
The debut from this Carlisle psych-rock quartet makes no attempt to hide its influences, but in its drawing of links across some impressively disparate terri... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
MusicCrocodiles – Crimes of Passion
Since the lo-fi guitar fuzz of early albums Summer of Hate and Sleep Forever, San Diego's Crocodiles have cleaned up their sound immensely. Their shoegaze le... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
TheatreAn Actor's Lament @ Assembly Hall
An Actor's Lament by Steven Berkoff comes to the Fringe to reveal the mystical world behind the curtain, the action behind the action. Drawing on over... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Theatre
Motherland @ Summerhall
At the Fringe for the first time since 1993, Vincent Dance Theatre plan to take the Summerhall dissection room by storm this August. Directed and choreograph... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
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Theatre Uncut @ Paterson's Land
With the Scottish independence referendum looming, political theatre seems to be spreading. Theatre Uncut are just one of many companies at the Fringe trying... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013
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Clubs
Rave It Up and Start Again: Simon Reynolds Revises Energy Flash
A new edition of Simon Reynolds' 1998 book Energy Flash, expanded with fresh material, taps into the recent co-option of rave by America's brash, commercial EDM movement – but he refuses to be too down on the kids Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
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Magic Mirror @ GFT
Sarah Pucill’s film Magic Mirror hovers somewhere between a love letter to its subject, French Surrealist Claude Cahun, and a critical self-examination... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
Film
From Up on Poppy Hill
It’s 1963, and high school student Umi wakes each morning to raise signal flags to the drifting tugboats of postcard-pretty Yokohama. When local boy Sh... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
MusicThe Whigs – Enjoy the Company
Garage rock revival vets The Whigs turn down the fuzz that was so prominent on 2010's In The Dark with the opening statement to their fourth album:... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 26 July
In this week's Bulletin: All the Superman vs Batman, Avengers and X-Men news from San Diego Comic-Con; the latest Festival news; new music from Franz Ferdinand, Washed Out, PINS and others; plus: design a poster for Irvine Welsh movie adaptation Filth Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
Film
Dressed to Kill
Brian De Palma’s skill as a director is matched by his glorious bad taste. Several filmmakers have had the gall to mine laughs out of serial killer mat... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
Music
Acid Washed – House of Melancholy
On paper, Acid Washed sound like a fairly generic Parisian revivalist disco/house duo; yet the second LP from Andrew Claristidge and Richard D’Alpert e... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
Music
Fat Freddy's Drop – Blackbird
The third album proper from super-tight New Zealand outfit Fat Freddy's Drop achieves what it sets out to in spades. From the title track onwards, its blend ... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
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Grant Hart – The Argument
It opens with a squealing loop, tribal percussion and spoken word dramatics. A fat twenty tracks later it exits with an extended coda fashioned from little m... Read more »| 25 Jul 2013