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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Film
Confessions of a Dog
Filmed back in 2005, director Gen Takahashi struggled to get Confessions of a Dog screened domestically, its depiction of police corruption apparently cuttin... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
MusicGanglians – Still Living
While pleasant, there was a perceptible cooling in attitudes towards Fleet Foxes when Helplessness Blues appeared earlier this year: the traits that first br... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
MusicWarpaint: "Sex should be in the music of the song, more than the costume or the act"
Warpaint's Jenny Lee Lindberg weighs in on Gaga, dances with Slash and dresses like Oor Wullie Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Music
Tom Morello: Rebel Without A Pause
With protests on the streets of America and uprising in the Middle East, what better time for Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello to kick his politicising alter-ego The Nightwatchman up a gear? Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
MusicThe Horrors: “This whole thing has been a learning process”
From the rooftop of their London studio, The Horrors explain a strange ascent Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Music
Beirut – The Rip Tide
Beirut have undoubtedly found an audience their music can speak to directly already, yet The Rip Tide finds singer Zach Condon attempting to shrug off his mo... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011
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Art
Stephen Sutcliffe: Internal Monologue
Looking ahead to this year's Edinburgh Art Festival, we speak to Stephen Sutcliffe, an artist for whom every episode of Magnum P.I is never knowingly unrecorded Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
ClubsA Guy Called Gerber
Israeli techno DJ Guy Gerber explains how he is exposing his underground sounds to the mainstream with a little help from Puff Daddy Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Comic vs comic: John & Martin
John Scott tells Martin Mor about chippy sauce and his Ma's stovies Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Art
Mystics or Rationalists? @ Ingleby Gallery
“Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.” Number one in Sol LeWitt’s fam... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
Music
Alias – Fever Dream
Once synonymous with experimental hip-hop, Anticon has mostly evolved into a reliable fountain of summery approximations of sublime and ethereal electronica ... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
TheatreImmaculate by Oliver Lansley @ The Arches
The trouble with Immaculate Conception Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
Theatre
Theatre Venue of the Month: Leith
First Stop of the Edinburgh Festival Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
Books
The Incomplete Tim Key, by Tim Key
Tim Key’s quirky, humorous, poems were very enjoyable. In fact, I had to share them. I shared them with my cat, Charlie. Charlie bloody loved them! He ... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Carl, Chris and Paul
New boys Paul McCaffrey and Chris Martin are making their Fringe debut this year. Their mate, the multi-award winning Carl Donnelly gives them some advice on surviving Edinburgh. Read more »| 01 Aug 2011