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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FilmLife of Pi
The meat of Ang Lee's visually sumptuous adaptation of Yann Martel's book club favourite is an Edward Lear-like story about a skinny vegetarian boy faring th... Read more »| 20 Dec 2012 -
MusicThe Twilight Sad / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Holy Mountain @ Barrowland, 15 December
Without any sort of warning or restraint, Glasgow's Holy Mountain unflinchingly whip out the anvil-heavy speed-riffs to a partially bewildered audience. De... Read more »| 19 Dec 2012 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 19 December
In today's Bulletin: new music from Alice In Chains, Mogwai, Damien Jurado, Sole and White Heath, the plight of Scotland's broke artists, Frank Ocean considers retirement, Sean Penn kicks some ass, plus! End-of-year playlists from The Skinny and 4AD Read more »| 19 Dec 2012 -
Clubs#HOGMANAY2012
Nobody parties like us Scots at Hogmanay. Nobody. We dance faster, drink longer and kiss more people than any other national or international group on New Year's Eve. Wondering where to go and what to do? Here's our guide! Read more »| 19 Dec 2012 -
MusicBurial – Truant / Rough Sleeper
After Kindred, it was clear that reclusive producer Burial was reaching for the next plateau. Like those tracks, Truant and Rough Sleeper both clock in ... Read more »| 19 Dec 2012 -
Film
Safety Not Guaranteed
It's a pleasure to see the talented Aubrey Plaza being given a long overdue starring role, but what a shame Safety Not Guaranteed is such a dud. She plays a ... Read more »| 19 Dec 2012
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Books
Scotland Writers FC 4-2 England Writers FC: Prose In Motion
A tale to brighten your New Year – Scottish writers have banded together to form a football team. The newly formed Scotland Writers FC played their first match on 1 December, against – who else? – England Writers FC Read more »| 18 Dec 2012 -
Books
The Seven Wonders of Scotland, edited by Gerry Hassan
The Seven Wonders of Scotland brings together seven authors’ imagined Scotlands of the future – examining fantastical worlds where Rannoch Moor h... Read more »| 18 Dec 2012 -
Music
Broadcast – Berberian Sound Studio
Broadcast's soundtrack for the critically-acclaimed film Berberian Sound Studio was created by James Cargill and Trish Keenan before the latter's untimely de... Read more »| 18 Dec 2012 -
Music
Haftor Medbøe & Anneke Kampman – Places & Spaces
Anneke Kampman is the songwriter behind Conquering Animal Sound, Haftor Medbøe is a celebrated jazz composer and player with his own band. This collab... Read more »| 17 Dec 2012 -
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Monika Sosnowska @ The Modern Institute
Here, as ever, Sosnowska’s inquiry into the psychology of architecture is writ large. Four architectonic structures dominate The Modern Institute&rsquo... Read more »| 17 Dec 2012 -
ArtThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 17 December
In today's Bulletin: Mini Maker Faire put the call-out for inventors, Killing Joke celebrate 35 years in the biz, Scotland's Equal Marriage Bill opens for consultation, plus new albums from The Knife, Steve Mason and Autechre Read more »| 17 Dec 2012 -
Music
Ela Orleans – Tumult In Clouds
Born in Poland, and having lived across the world, including some years spent in the New York underground / alternative music scene, singer-songwriter Ela Or... Read more »| 17 Dec 2012 -
Music
This Is Bat Country: Jehst and Kashmere on Kingdom of Fear
As evidenced by the likes of EL-P, Death Grips and Quakers, 2012 was a particularly strong year for hip-hop. One album we felt deserved another look was Kingdom of Fear, a Hunter S. Thompson-inspired road movie soundtrack conceived by Jehst and Kashmere Read more »| 14 Dec 2012 -
Film
Electric Man
Electric Man is a micro-budget feature shot in Edinburgh which follows Jason and Wolf, two hapless comic shop owners, on the trail of a rare and valuable com... Read more »| 14 Dec 2012