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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MusicTrash Talk @ Captain's Rest, 19 Nov
With so many under-agers being turfed out, tonight's show isn't quite as mental as it could have been. Still, we're not complaining, and Brooklyn hardcore cr... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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The Foundling Wheel – May Day/10:24
May Day sees The Foundling Wheel (AKA Edinburgh-based Ted Koterwas) moving on from an abrasive 2008 debut with perhaps his most immediate offering to date. P... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
FilmEasier with Practice
Davy Mitchell (Geraghty) is an aspiring writer embarking, with sleazy brother Sean (O’Neill) in tow, on a self-financed “book tour”... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
BooksDelete This At Your Peril by Neil Forsyth
Delete This At Your Peril is a compilation of emails exchanged between fraudsters and a character Forsyth has created (or could he be real?) called B... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Randolph's Leap @ Captain's Rest, 18 Nov
To paraphrase one of their own songs, Randolph’s Leap very nearly had to cut crisps out of debut EP Battleships and Kettle Chips after a scary email fr... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Simian Mobile Disco – Delicacies
As ideas for concept records go, this is one of the more curious: tour the world throwing out 12” records, gritty beats and muscular bass-lines, and wh... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010
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The Coral @ O2 ABC, 19 Nov
First up tonight is Neville Skelly, cousin to James and Ian of The Coral, presenting his brand of gentle, country-inflected acoustic rock to an appreciative ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Idlewild – 100 Broken Windows: Special Edition
The release of second full-length album 100 Broken Windows caught Idlewild at the sweet spot of its career; in the scuzzy pop of Little Discourage, Roseabili... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
MusicJimmy Eat World @ Barrowland, 19 Nov
Tonight’s topped with two cuts from Bleed American and tailed with three more: you certainly can’t accuse Jimmy Eat World of misreading their fan... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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The Scottish Enlightenment – St. Thomas
The Scottish Enlightenment echo winter well, with skeletal guitar lines as brittle and bare as tree branches and a settled pace as quietly insidious as snow ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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The Arches Presents: Tiga
Tiga may have started his career promoting raves in the hollows of Montreal’s underground club scene in the early 90’s, but he’s co... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Seafieldroad – There Are No Maps For This Part of the City
Swimmer One’s appeal largely lies in their imaginative genre combinations and ever-varying aesthetic, with this year’s Dead Orchestras an... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Decimal – Lost in a Dark Place
Decimal has been doing his homework. Lost in a Dark Place is as typical a Soma album as you’re likely to hear, from it minimal, bumping start to the ob... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
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Dan Mangan – Nice, Nice, Very Nice
According to the NME, Dan Mangan “sings with the soul of Woody Guthrie – if Woody Guthrie had listened to Godspeed,” one of the sillier &ld... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
MusicThe Greenhornes – ****
Comprised partly of The Raconteurs’ rhythm section, The Greenhornes have been producing unashamedly feel good rock n’ roll since 1996. To say the... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010