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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FilmMelancholia
It's not much of a spoiler to say that Melancholia is a film about the end of the world. The movie opens with a gorgeous series of oblique images, culminatin... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
MusicThe Dead Man's Waltz – The Dead Man's Waltz
Taking their cues from the more morbid side of life, The Dead Man’s Waltz don’t so much pen songs as craft twisted tales of betrayal, murder and ... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
FilmInterview: Ewen Bremner on Perfect Sense
Glasgow set sci-fi Perfect Sense makes its way to cinemas this month. We spoke to one of its stars, Ewen Bremner, back in June following the film's UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Books
Getting Wasted with Allan Wilson
Allan Wilson’s debut short story collection, Wasted in Love, tells stories that could be described as ‘scenes from Glasgow, 2011’. And quite frankly, it's a brilliant book, well crafted, authentic and necessary. And since it’s set in Glasgow, a number of the stories involve drink in one way or another, more by necessity than design... which gives us a tenuous but excellent excuse for an interview/pub game hybrid Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Euan Robertson
Euan Robertson is a photographer based in Glasgow, originally from Ayrshire. He is primarily a music photographer who also dabbles in other genres including ... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
MusicMeg Baird – Seasons On Earth
Meg Baird makes the kind of pretty, but sad, singer-songwriter Americana folk that soothes the soul, even if it is sometimes too languid to conjure any lasti... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011
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Music
Metronomy @ Òran Mór, 23 September
It’s a risky strategy to have Edinburgh’s Discopolis opening the show tonight: the trio’s high-energy synthscapes threaten to raise the pit... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Music
Three Trapped Tigers @ Captain's Rest, 21 September
There’s a reason Three Trapped Tigers’ ‘IDM played live’ sound is a rarity: it looks bloody difficult. All three members possess ston... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Music
Slow Club @ Cabaret Voltaire, 19 September
As Slow Club herald the arrival of their tasty new album, Paradise, with a show packed full of messy energy, articulate banter and exquisitely stripped-down ... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Music
Mastodon: “It's refreshing to be a little childish"
Having conquered the elements, Troy Sanders tells us what’s next for Mastodon Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Film
The Green Wave
Using a vivid collage of animations, interviews and source footage, The Green Wave explores the pro-Mousavi protests that followed Ahmadinejad’s &lsquo... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Music
DJ Shadow – The Less You Know, The Better
Abandoning the goodtime crunk and tombola-plucked guests of 2007’s die-hard riling The Outsider, Josh Davis returns with a jukebox album, bound to at l... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Art
Resident Easel
RESIDENT: 11 brings together ten of the artists who've taken part in residency schemes across Scotland in the last year for an exhibition in Edinburgh's RSA. We caught up with two of them, Cheryl Field and Erica Eyres, to hear about their new work Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Art
Patria O Muerte @ Such and Such
Patria O Muerte (Homeland or Death). The subtitle, A Photographic Exhibition of Cuba, explains the seemingly simple premise behind this solo exhibition by Du... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Music
Stephin Merritt – Obscurities
Stephin Merritt has described curating Obscurities an ‘agonising’ and ‘depressing’ experience, with most candidate tracks decreed obs... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011