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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MusicThe Black Dog – Liber Dogma
While The Black Dog’s early-90s IDM peers tend to have pursued either bewilderingly expansive realms in their later releases (Autechre, Aphex Twin), or... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
MusicJoker – The Vision
Joker's foray into longplayer territory mirrors that of fellow dubstep pioneers Skream, Benga and Artwork's Rubicon-crossing debut of last year, Magnetic Man... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
MusicClean George IV – God Save The Clean
Enigmatic Edinburgh citizen Clean George has busied himself with a classical music degree, a lawsuit from Kraftwerk and myriad projects since we last heard f... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
ClubsDerrick Carter & Luke Solomon Classic Records Tour
Back in the mid 90s, Chicago house stalwart Derrick Carter and his English compatriot Luke Solomon, acknowledging that supply and demand were ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Atlas Sound – Parallax
Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox retains the mid-tempo groove of his band's more recent output on this third officially released LP as Atlas Sound. A s... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
Billed as “an electronic song cycle based around lo-fi audio procured from television advertisement compilations,” Replica plays out like an... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011
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Music
Ringo Deathstarr – Shadow EP
It's been said before, but the point remains valid: Ringo Deathstarr, whilst undeniably good, are so overwhelmingly derivative that it surely calls into ques... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time
Created with the help of engineer Dean Hurley (Inland Empire), Crazy Clown Time is a Lynchian vision of experimental 'modern blues' that only partially manag... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Theatre
Miranda @ Cottiers
After the physical theatre nightmare of The Red Shoes, a fringe entry which translated the classic film into the daily experience of a ballet dancer’s ... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
Russian Circles – Empros
Post-rock has been painting itself into corners for too long now, as some acts persevere in rehashing the same delay-heavy prog instrumentalism that worked o... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
Rob St. John – Weald
As part of the Edinburgh folk scene, Rob St. John has been quietly scratching out a name for himself for some years now with makeshift gigs, live recordings ... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
20 Years of Sleaze
Raising a glass to the health of a Scottish institution, this month we join a few famous patrons in celebrating two colourful decades of Nice'n'Sleazy Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Comedy
Ben Verth: Local Boy Makes Good
Edinburgh-based Ben Verth is a rising star on the local comedy scene. He tells us about the city’s comedy history and the places that inspire him Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Theatre
All the Fun of the Fair @ The Playhouse
Levi Lee owns a travelling fun fair. He’s middle-aged, a recent widower and, to add to his distress, he’s in a perpetual fight with his teenager ... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Film
Jack Goes Boating
Philip Seymour Hoffman makes a solid debut behind the camera with this adaptation of Robert Glaudini’s play, a suitably thespian-friendly piece for one... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011