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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FilmLooking for Eric
Eric Bishop is a lost postman who has begun to feel that events around him are running out of control. For one, there are his unruly stepsons and on top of ... Read more »| 15 Jun 2009 -
MusicKissy Sell Out - Youth
These days it seems like anyone involved in a vaguely successful indie band can supplement their income by doing “DJ sets.” What’s more unu... Read more »| 15 Jun 2009 -
FilmKisses
Dylan (Shane Curry) is a boy grown cold in a loveless house. Cast out on Christmas Day, he encounters the determined Kylie (Kelly O’Neill). Together th... Read more »| 14 Jun 2009 -
Film
Too 'B', even for IMDB
You know the story: The effects are all about chicken blood, the plot's riddled with clichés and the dialogue’s been lifted off the back of a Space Raiders packet. But that doesn't mean a B-movie can't be downright bloody terrifying. Super Furry Animals frontman and notable fan of the aesthetic (see the video to Run-Away for most recent evidence) Gruff Rhys remembers his first encounter Read more »| 12 Jun 2009 -
Film
The End Of The Line
“The Europeans like our fish, but they don’t like the people”, laments academic Rashid Sumaila on the human cost of overfishing in West Afr... Read more »| 12 Jun 2009 -
Books
The Skinny’s Events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival: David Sedaris and David Simon.
Sedaris. Simon. Skinny. Read more »| 11 Jun 2009
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MusicMagnetic Morning - A.M.
The result of a creative mind-meld between Adam Franklin (Swervedriver) and Sam Fogarino (Interpol), Magnetic Morning’s debut arrives with a whisper wh... Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
Music
De La Soul @ The Picture House, 5 June
As the Picture House is warmed up with a safe set of perennial rap classics from the titans – EPMD, Wu-Tang, Nas, Tribe and NWA – it’s an a... Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
Film
Telstar
Telstar is the biopic of legendary 60s music producer Joe Meek, who from a tiny studio above a shop in London’s Holloway Road, produced the top-selling... Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
Music
I Hear a New World - June, 2009
Unusual and innovative music from Scotland and beyond Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
MusicMastodon @ ABC, 7 June
Tonight it's business up front, party at the back Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Clubs
Death Disco: New Heights
Yuksek: Remixer, DJ, studio hermit and unintentional hero of teenage stoners from Istanbul. Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Film
Electra Glide In Blue
Electra has that Lynchian effect of making you wonder exactly what drugs the director was on. Nothing about it makes much sense, but it looks good, in a CHi... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Music
Halt Bar Hijack @ The Halt Bar, 12-14 June
Three years in and the Halt Bar on the student Mecca that is Woodlands Road continues to gorge itself on some of Scotland's finest underground acts once year... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
Music
Goes Cube - Another Day Has Passed
This thunderous three-piece from NYC are keen to play up their lack of concern for image, industry parties and becoming players on the Big Apple scene. True ... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009