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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FilmWake Wood
Recently resurrected British studio Hammer's latest film is a new addition to the folk horror genre, in which a couple move to rural (fictional) Irish town W... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
FilmGFF 2011: Dave Gibbons
Before his special appearance at GFF, acclaimed comic book artist and writer Dave Gibbons meets the CineSkinny to discuss his extensive career, the Watchmen adaptation, and Mark Millar. Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
FilmGFF 2011: Griff the Invisible
From an unfinished synopsis, it feels natural to compare Griff the Invisible to fellow self-styled superhero Kick-Ass (plus there's also a slither of&nb... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Music
Bloodlights – Simple Pleasures
Say what you will about Norway, but they know how to make exceedingly good rock’n’roll. Perhaps the reason for this is that they believe, deep in... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
MusicTrapped Mice – Portrait of a Great Father EP
Edinburgh’s Trapped Mice open their new EP quietly before stomping to a crescendo, a familiar but effective trick reminiscent of, amongst others, Okker... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Music
Wagon Christ – Toomorrow
Luke Vibert's Wagon Christ project has been ploughing a deceptively narrow furrow for well over a decade now. It's a breezy, upbeat sound: jazzy breaks, trip... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011
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MusicPort-Royal – 2000-2010: The Golden Age of Consumerism
Genoa's Port-Royal have been mining a vein lying somewhere between symphonic, free-floating post-rock and melodic electronica for over ten years now; The Gol... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Music
Come On Gang! – Strike A Match
The foreword to Come On Gang!’s story was penned in a tiny music room at Edinburgh College of Art, where the band met in 2007; from there they have bee... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Music
FOUND – Factorycraft
With their recent win of Creative Scotland's Vital Spark award and third album Factorycraft being given a leg-up by the ever daring Chemikal Underground, Edi... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Books
The Celestial Cafe by Stuart Murdoch
The Celestial Café is the first book by Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch. Written in diary-form it gives the reader an insight into the min... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Film
Easy A
When Olive (Emma Stone) tells her best friend a white lie about losing her virginity (her “V-card”) she finds that her “terminological inex... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Music
Penguins Kill Polar Bears – Vessels & Veins EP
Vessels & Veins is the second EP from plucky Linlithgow outfit Penguins Kill Polar Bears, whose sound marries dense rock riffs à la Pelican or Jes... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Art
Kate V Robertson: Weird Science
As Kate V Robertson embarks on a residency Lab at Glasgow's CCA The Skinny drops by to discuss what she's been up to Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Film
GFF 2011: Y'all get scared now, y'hear?
The Glasgow Film Festival has gremlins in its midst as legendary prog-rockers Goblin come to town Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Film
GFF 2011: Quite(ly) Interesting
For comic book fans, he needs no introduction, but for everyone else, we profile acclaimed Glaswegian graphic novelist Frank Quitely prior to his special workshop at GFF. Words: Thom Atkinson Read more »| 23 Feb 2011