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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MusicPort-Royal – 2000-2010: The Golden Age of Consumerism
Genoa's Port-Royal have been mining a vein lying somewhere between symphonic, free-floating post-rock and melodic electronica for over ten years now; The Gol... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
MusicCome On Gang! – Strike A Match
The foreword to Come On Gang!’s story was penned in a tiny music room at Edinburgh College of Art, where the band met in 2007; from there they have bee... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
MusicFOUND – Factorycraft
With their recent win of Creative Scotland's Vital Spark award and third album Factorycraft being given a leg-up by the ever daring Chemikal Underground, Edi... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Books
The Celestial Cafe by Stuart Murdoch
The Celestial Café is the first book by Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch. Written in diary-form it gives the reader an insight into the min... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
FilmEasy A
When Olive (Emma Stone) tells her best friend a white lie about losing her virginity (her “V-card”) she finds that her “terminological inex... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Music
Penguins Kill Polar Bears – Vessels & Veins EP
Vessels & Veins is the second EP from plucky Linlithgow outfit Penguins Kill Polar Bears, whose sound marries dense rock riffs à la Pelican or Jes... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011
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Art
Kate V Robertson: Weird Science
As Kate V Robertson embarks on a residency Lab at Glasgow's CCA The Skinny drops by to discuss what she's been up to Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Film
GFF 2011: Y'all get scared now, y'hear?
The Glasgow Film Festival has gremlins in its midst as legendary prog-rockers Goblin come to town Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Film
GFF 2011: Quite(ly) Interesting
For comic book fans, he needs no introduction, but for everyone else, we profile acclaimed Glaswegian graphic novelist Frank Quitely prior to his special workshop at GFF. Words: Thom Atkinson Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Film
GFF 2011: Creation of a Legend
The Brit pop scene owes a lot to Creation Records and its eccentric founder Alan McGee. Danny O'Connor's documentary reminds us of the company's importance. Words: Chris Buckle Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Film
GFF 2011: Deconstructing Dad
Documentaries can become personal in the making for any filmmaker, but the achievement of Stan Warnow in Deconstructing Dad is particular... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Music
The Phoenix Foundation – Buffalo
Buffalo starts uncharacteristically with the drifting psychedelia-lite of Eventually, its laid-back vibe redolent of a long musical lineage stretching back d... Read more »| 22 Feb 2011 -
Books
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
The whistle stop nature of this simple adventure story is a bit deceiving. Jaf's account of growing up in London, mid-nineteenth century, combines br... Read more »| 22 Feb 2011 -
Books
Twenty-One Locks
There are 21 locks in a canal running through a standard-issue north Lancashire town, the nondescript anonymity of the village perfectly befitting Je... Read more »| 22 Feb 2011 -
Music
Marianne Faithfull – Horses and High Heels
47 years is a hell of a career for anyone, but Marianne Faithfull’s 24th album is as strong as anything she has ever written. To say written isn’... Read more »| 22 Feb 2011