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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MusicTom Waits – Bad As Me
Tom Waits' music does what all great art should, it creates worlds. His is a universe as vivid and colourful as any film despite the fact they’re birth... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
MusicFruit Tree Foundation Showcase @ Nobles, 20 October
Mentors Withered Hand, James Yorkston and Rod Jones performed with upcoming songwriters Marie Collins, Liz Cronin and Lucy Cathcart Frödén to sho... Read more »| 21 Oct 2011 -
FilmThe Yellow Sea
Here director Hong-jin Na looks beyond Hollywood’s horizon of expectation and makes the outsider cliché contemporary with a story initially livi... Read more »| 21 Oct 2011 -
Music
Herman Dune @ King Tut's, 16 October
In recent months, Jon Hamm, a blue yeti, and a Spanish lager endorsement have proffered two versions of the perfect Herman Dune show. The Hamm-and-furball-st... Read more »| 21 Oct 2011 -
MusicBill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Cruel Summer EP
To coincide with what Aidan Moffat calls his ‘first proper tour in five years’ the former Arab Strap raconteur and current collaborator Bill Well... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011 -
Comedy
Terra Nova – Sexy TV?
I like to rate the shows I watch on a scientifically acknowledged scale known as “IF THIS SHOW HAD TITS, HOW MUCH WOULD I WANT TO FUCK IT?’Steven... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011
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Music
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Noel Gallagher spoke recently of the follow up to his first solo album, promising an experimental collaboration with FSOL's psychedelic arm, Amorphous Androg... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011 -
Music
Tindersticks @ Usher Hall, 16 October
French film director Claire Denis formed a creative connection with Tindersticks in 1995. Tonight, the textures of her works (including 35 Rhums, Vendredi So... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011 -
Music
Justice – Audio, Video, Disco
The four years taken to produce a follow-up to 2007’s † inevitably raises suspicions that Justice have been experiencing Difficult Sec... Read more »| 18 Oct 2011 -
Art
Scotland+Venice Diaries: Welcome welcome, new team!
Buongiorno a tutti!Now that Alex, Clare, Emma and Fran have said their goodbyes and returned to home turf, you have a new set of Information Assistants to fo... Read more »| 18 Oct 2011 -
Film
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lynne Ramsay's return to cinema is an adaptation of – and an improvement upon – Lionel Shriver's best-selling novel; within the film's opening mo... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
Comedy
2 & A Half Quarts of Warlock Blood
The new series of 2 & a Half Men is upon us.The popular Charlie Sheen/John Cryer sitcom returns to our screens with all the usual wisecracks and cool one... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
MusicDamu – Unity
Unity is one of the more counter-intuitive off-shoots of UK bass music's amorphous, lexically-challenged evolution. Almost completely cleaved... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
Music
aCivilian – Invention
Given that Phil Critten’s persona seemingly hovers somewhere between Mother Theresa and a Norfolkian Jack Kerouac, it’s little wonder that his ... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
Music
Warp Films, ATP festival and Vincent Moon want your money
On Burning, director Vincent Moon worked with Mogwai; on A Skin, A Night, he worked with The National; for La Blogothèque’s Take-Away Shows, he ... Read more »| 13 Oct 2011