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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MusicThe Unwinding Hours Music Playlist: Guest Selector
Taking a break from supplying The Unwinding Hours' haunted melodies, frontman Craig B reclines in a deckchair and talks us through his desert island discs Read more »| 05 Aug 2010 -
MusicS. Carey – All We Grow
You’d have to add a montage before it hits cinemas, but Sean Carey’s allegiance to Bon Iver has inspirational triumph written all over it. A moro... Read more »| 05 Aug 2010 -
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Wu-Tang Clan @ O2 Academy, 1 Aug
Let’s get the negatives out of the way. First, reuniting the entire Wu-Tang Clan ‘In Full Force’ as billed was never going to be easy; toni... Read more »| 04 Aug 2010 -
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Sky Larkin: The Lark Ascending
Katie Harkin and Nestor Matthews explain why hanging around an old church crypt inspired a tune about Morticia Addams for Sky Larkin's second album Read more »| 04 Aug 2010 -
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Themselves @ Electric Circus, 24 Jul
In the face of adversity – a venue bustling with hen parties, an atrocious sound system and delayed, lackadaisical support – it’s beautiful... Read more »| 04 Aug 2010 -
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New Blood: Moon Unit
Explosive and hypnotic sounds abound with Glasgow's lunar psych rock trio Moon Unit Read more »| 03 Aug 2010
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MusicSian Alice Group - Troubled, Shaken Etc
Love That Moves The Sun begins with enticing piano, the drum shuffle undulating throughout. Airlock provides lush, minimalist layering, before traditional in... Read more »| 03 Aug 2010 -
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Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong
I’ve never been invited to a dinner party, as anyone who’s read one of my reviews might not be surprised to hear. So I don’t know what sort... Read more »| 03 Aug 2010 -
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Feindrehstar – Vulgarian Knights
Garlanded with praise in their native Germany but relatively unknown here, Feindrehstar should appeal to those who miss Kruder and Dorfmeister and used to ge... Read more »| 03 Aug 2010 -
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Brandon Flowers – Crossfire
Having already penned the best part of their fourth album, only to be told that the rest of the band were taking a much needed sabbatical, The Killers frontm... Read more »| 03 Aug 2010 -
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Shearwater @ Stereo, 28 Jul
Stripped back to just founder member Jonathan Knight, My Cousin I Bid You Farewell's music arguably benefits from the increased intimacy of its current forma... Read more »| 02 Aug 2010 -
TheatreTwo Women At War
An author explains why the story of two women at war is a natural fit for the Fringe Read more »| 02 Aug 2010 -
Theatre
The Mandrake
The Mandrake is an English adaptation of Machiavelli's great satirical play La Mandragola. Nothing unusual about that for the Fringe Festival, you'd think: e... Read more »| 02 Aug 2010 -
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Matthew Dear – Black City
Matthew Dear isn’t the kind of guy who revels in the daytime. Steeped in nocturnal atmospherics, the Texan-born producer cum avant-garde electro maveri... Read more »| 02 Aug 2010 -
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Millimetre – 13 Homes
While summing up Millimetre’s sound isn't easy, The Blue Nile with laptops (or The XX remixed by Hot Chip, to put contemporary references to work) evok... Read more »| 02 Aug 2010