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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ClubsSlam Tent 2009 - Sunday
Joe Wilson rejoices as the godfather of Glaswegian drug user slang, Jeff Mills, makes an appearance at T in the Park Read more »| 22 Jul 2009 -
ClubsSlam Tent 2009 - Saturday
Jaco Justice visits T in the Park for the first sunny year in recent memory. Yet he just can't leave the shadows of the Slam Tent Read more »| 22 Jul 2009 -
MusicJulian Plenti - Is Skyscraper
Definitely not Brandon Flowers Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
Music
Holy Mountain - Holy Mountain EP
For the uninitiated, this doom 'n' roll two-piece have been shaking loose light fixtures and teeth to fervent reactions for the last four months. Stories of ... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
Music
Electricity In Our Homes - We Agree Completely
You may not know Electricity In Our Homes yet, but their new EP is sure to grab your attention. It’s edgy art-rock of the Can and Captain Beefheart var... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
ArtRough Cut Nation @ Scottish National Portrait Gallery
In an art world constantly chasing the new and the unexpected, perhaps the biggest surprise of the EAF comes from that most unexpected of venues, the Scottis... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009
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Film
Adam
Relationships are hard. Everybody knows that. But when one half of the couple has Asperger's Syndrome, you enter unfamiliar territory. Adam struggles with al... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
Film
What's Up Doc? Political Documentaries in 2009.
Following on from the release of several critically acclaimed political documentaries in recent months, Gail Tolley explores the role of such films in what many regard as apathetic times. Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
Music
Cutaways - Earth and Earthly Things
Cardiff has Los Campesinos!, Glasgow has Dananananaykroyd, and now Belfast weighs in with their power-pop, equal-opportunity vocalled Cutaways. The two forme... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
Art
Eva Hesse @ Fruitmarket
Fruitmarket’s contribution to the EAF programme promises, as ever, to be one of the most subtly challenging of the festival. In conjunction with a majo... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
Art
Jane and Louise Wilson @ Talbot Rice
During the Edinburgh Art Festival, Talbot Rice Gallery will be showing the work of London based video artists Jane and Louise Wilson. The exhibition will dra... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Music
Doves Of Disorder - Doves of Disorder EP
Whether unwittingly or not, Doves of Disorder have thrust themselves into the space recently vacated by Sleater-Kinney, albeit in a less-affected and unfortu... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
TheatreHigh Quality Tease
Gareth K Vile sees an Edinburgh favourite triumph in Glasgow Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Music
Nneka - No Longer At Ease
Nneka is a one-woman melting pot, the product of a Nigerian upbringing and a German university education, but her music is where the real dizzying mix is fou... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Film
The Damned United
Cloughie might have been a more appropriate title for this “adaptation” of David Peace’s baleful take on the arrogant but charismatic Brian... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009