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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MusicNegative Pegasus – Looming
If one has ever been introduced to Negative Pegasus by way of a festival flyer or an egotist blog, allow the following to function as an official disclaime... Read more »| 24 Sep 2012 -
MusicHidden Orchestra – Archipelago
Hidden Orchestra's sophomore album sees the Edinburgh outfit once more trading in lushly-orchestrated, cinematic compositions with strings, flute, horn and b... Read more »| 21 Sep 2012 -
FilmKilling Them Softly
In adapting George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, writer/director Andrew Dominik updates the action to 2008 and lays on the political alle... Read more »| 21 Sep 2012 -
Music
Homeboy Sandman – First of a Living Breed
Homeboy Sandman's liquid flow and intelligent lyrics make him a perfect fit for Stones Throw, and tracks like the soul-inflected Whatchu Want From Me? and th... Read more »| 21 Sep 2012 -
MusicEl-P / Despot / Bigg Taj & Spee 69 @ Stereo, 18 September
With Stereo's basement superheated to a temperature somewhere beyond that of a tropical rainforest, the night kicks off with a set from UK rapper Spee 69 a... Read more »| 20 Sep 2012 -
Music
Rangda – Formerly Extinct
The second LP from this absurdly talented US psych-rock supergroup – comprising two of the most thrilling guitarists around, in Sir Richard Bishop an... Read more »| 20 Sep 2012
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Music
Two Fingers – Stunt Rhythms
Over a sixteen-year career, Brazil’s Amon Tobin has demonstrated an unerring creative instinct which, combined with his painstaking attention to det... Read more »| 20 Sep 2012 -
Music
Torche / The Cosmic Dead @ O2 ABC2, 15 September
Our very own psych-kraut wizards The Cosmic Dead open with a free-form improvisational set. They're only three members strong tonight, but the combination ... Read more »| 19 Sep 2012 -
Music
Beirut / Daughter @ O2 ABC, 11 September
Built around Elena Tonra’s candid songwriting – a litany of break-ups and breakdowns in a doleful key – Daughter’s fragile sound cou... Read more »| 19 Sep 2012 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: September 2012 Horoscopes
ARIES When the star M38b unexpectedly goes supernova in September an entire section of your personality suddenly disappears. It is the astrological equivalen... Read more »| 19 Sep 2012 -
Theatre
Autumn Theatrics – New Season Highlights
A look at the theatre highlights for September in Edinburgh and Glasgow, focusing on the Big Five - The Lyceum, The Traverse, The Tron, The Citizens Theatre and The Dundee Rep Read more »| 18 Sep 2012 -
Art
Glasgow Print Studio: Four Decades
Glasgow Print Studio has been around for pure ages. In fact, this year sees the old print emporium turn 40, which, despite being relatively young, makes it o... Read more »| 18 Sep 2012 -
Music
The Gaslamp Killer: Neo-Beatnik Shaman
The Gaslamp Killer wants to “lead the youth” to enlightenment. He explains how his epic, psychedelic debut album Breakthrough heralds the dawn of a new Beatnik era Read more »| 17 Sep 2012 -
Music
Satellite Dub – Velikovsky Said EP
With a title that references a Russian psychiatrist and writer about comparative mythology, whose theories posited that the Earth had experienced several cat... Read more »| 17 Sep 2012 -
Music
NETVERK – September 2012
In this month's NETVERK, we have a grumble about Soundcloud follow limits, and check out new music from the netlabel scene, featuring tracks from Tombz, Holobeams & Broken Machines, Mirrors, 80s Stallone and VS//YOUTHCLUB Read more »| 17 Sep 2012