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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MusicLittle Doses – Rock Riot Soul
It’s difficult to imagine how Snow Patrol could ever have served as the platform for creative quarrel (not if you dug Songs for Polarbears &ndas... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Books
This Is Life by Dan Rhodes
Misguided but enthusiastic heroine Aurelie Renard is struggling to come up with a project for Art College which will blow the socks off her lecherous profess... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
BooksFurnace by Wayne Price
In his debut collection of short stories, Price has done the paring down already. Not even a foreword makes it in. The stories are raw and precise, and ea... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
BooksSarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
Gosh, what a shame. Where The Secret River had a deserved debutante sparkle and The Lieutenant had an adventurous and poetic grace, Sarah Thornhill is an un... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Jack Hudson
Jack Hudson introduces himself. "I'm an Illustrator and Designer currently based in Salamanca, Spain. I studied Illustration in Bristol, UK for three ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Music
New Blood: Die Hard
Not the John McClane nuts you were expecting, Glasgow trio Die Hard are a talented band of mysterons who arrived overnight with a Technicolor debut. We sat down for an introductory blether... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012
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MusicUnder the Influence: School of Seven Bells
Benjamin Curtis, one half of New York dream pop duo School of Seven Bells and part-time guitarist for Michael Rother's Hallogallo, recommends a handful of his all-time favourite records Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Music
VCMG – SSSS
SSSS represents one of the most intriguing reunions in the history of electronica, bringing Vince Clarke and Martin Gore back together for the first time sin... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
MusicDo Not Miss: Mark Lanegan Band @ O2 ABC, 9 March
Having cut a record with everyone but your mother (actually, better check that), modern bluesman Mark Lanegan returns – band in tow – to show off... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Clubs
Capital Crisis: Save The Bongo!
The proposed closure of The Bongo Club could be the nail in the coffin for Edinburgh's alternative club culture Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Music
Lambchop: "I’m sure my doctors would prefer me to become a little more prudent"
As the world around him rushes from pillar to post, Lambchop's Kurt Wagner has always been happy to keep his own pace Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Music
Yeti Lane – The Echo Show
Despite the repugnant title, psych-pop’s been carving out a respectable comeback of late. Following the release of 2009’s acclaimed eponymous deb... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Music
Ceremony – Zoo
Hysteria, the lead single from Ceremony's Matador debut, hints towards an experience far removed from the grinding power-violence of the Californian quintet'... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Music
Cast – Troubled Times
Cast have never been critical darlings. Even when Britpop was at its peak they were being written off as mere trad revivalists. But this never affected their... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
Music
The Magnetic Fields – Love at the Bottom of the Sea
Following the profile-raising 69 Love Songs, Stephin Merritt largely ditched the synthesisers that had characterised great swathes of the Magnetic Fields&rsq... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012