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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MusicMax Cooper - Amalgamations EP
These two extended tracks draw variously upon orchestral and electronic sounds as Max Cooper blends patterns and rhythms which exhibit his mathematical appro... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
MusicKorn – The Path of Totality
Jon Davis: “They (our fans) don’t really understand dubstep but then they relate to it because it’s heavy and dark but not techno. They&rsq... Read more »| 25 Nov 2011 -
MusicDimlite – Grimm Reality
If you'll forgive the transgression of a time-honoured proverb, the cover of Grimm Reality offers a useful shorthand to the maelstrom of ideas orbiting Dimli... Read more »| 25 Nov 2011 -
Film
Take Shelter
After years of phoning-in his tiresome wild-eyed loon shtick, Michael Shannon finally delivers a performance of genuine depth and power at the centre of Jeff... Read more »| 25 Nov 2011 -
Music
Red Horses of the Snow – Territories
A prevailing sense of nostalgia dominates Territories, the debut from artist/musician Chris Hawtin and producer Mark Burgess’ collaboration as Red Hors... Read more »| 24 Nov 2011 -
Music
Smackvan – Sound in Space
As Passkeepers in the early 1990s, and more recently as Smackvan, Michael Feeney, Owen McAulay and Gerry Elliot (along with various others, at different poin... Read more »| 24 Nov 2011
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Books
Bye Bye Babylon by Lamia Ziade
This is a book that starts with a contention that seems unusual to our ears: Beirut in the 1970s is a paradise. Author Lamia Ziade was 7 years old in 1975, a... Read more »| 23 Nov 2011 -
Books
Charley's War: Hitler's Youth by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun
Charley’s War was a seminal comic strip which followed Charley Bourne, a young soldier, throughout the whole of the First World War. This collected edi... Read more »| 23 Nov 2011 -
Books
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina grew up in Kenya, but his mother was Ugandan, and this makes a difference that most European readers wouldn’t assume at first. But ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2011 -
Art
The Turner Prize @ Baltic
The Turner Prize exhibition is in the Baltic this year and features Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw. Read more »| 23 Nov 2011 -
MusicThe Fnords – Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Fnords
This Edinburgh three-piece sound, at times, almost uncannily like Thee Headcoatees: snarling dual-female vocals are laid over super-trebly guitar, skulking b... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011 -
Film
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Billed as 'Werner Herzog presents...', Happy People is the German director's 90 minute cut, with his own commentary and new music, of a four hour Russian doc... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011 -
Art
Lost Lake, Chalk Burst @ Generator Projects
At once poetic and arbitrary, Lost Lake, Chalk Burst is named after two colours of Dulux paint. The title would seem to cutely explore the gap between art an... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011 -
Music
The Birthday Suit – The Eleventh Hour
Anyone who has listened to a Scottish indie record in the past decade will be able to join the dots between The Birthday Suit and their notable heritage. For... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011 -
Comedy
The Flyting: A 400-Year Old Slagging Match
Those familiar with Whose lunch Is It Anyway?, Stu & Garry’s long-running afternoon improv show, will know the delight that these two take in shred... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011