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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MusicThee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra @ Glasgow School of Art, 19 March
With his left hand flowing over the fretboard while the right rattles his acoustic's wooden body and glances over strings, RM Hubbert is one hell of a guitar... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
ArtEuan Taylor @ ROXY Art House
Last year The Skinny selected our favourite artist from the New Contemporaries exhibition and gave him a prize. It was a tough selection in a strong field, b... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
MusicWe Were Promised Jetpacks - The Last Place You'll Look EP
The Last Place You'll Look reprises two standout tracks from We Were Promised Jetpacks' underrated debut LP These Four Walls – Short Bursts and This Is... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
MusicSuper Adventure Club's Avoid Zombies: Track-by-Track, By the Band
Hip Hop Hot Pot Pot Noodle Tales, circumstances and quips from three people living on Bread Street in Edinburgh for three months in a tiny two bedroom flat &... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Music
Various Artists - Shank OST
The producers of the dystopian Brit-flick Shank obviously buy into the argument of grime as a handy expression of urban decay, as its official soundtrack bra... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Books
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
The Pregnant Widow, Martin Amis's best book since his memoir Experience (2000), presents itself as a disquisition on the victories and defeats of the... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010
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Music
Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers - Home and the Wildhunt
It seems lazy to automatically align any act with prominent brass and a Celtic swing with Dexy’s Midnight Runners, but sometimes knee-jerk comp... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Music
Jónsi - Go
It's difficult to distinguish Jónsi's debut solo album from anything he could possibly have produced in conjunction with his Sigur Rós bandmate... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Music
Victoria & Jacob – With No Certainty
Do you like Ellie Goulding and Owl City? Me neither, but enough do to make them two of 2010’s breakthrough acts. Those same people will likely ... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Music
Rufus Wainwright @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 15 April
This time last year, a production called Sonette by avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson and the Berliner Ensemble was premiered, based on twenty four of... Read more »| 22 Mar 2010 -
ArtDrinks Reception @ Quartermile
Is contemporary art depressed? Is it feeling disheartened, unfulfilled and forlorn? Is something missing? If the latest exhibition by ECA’s sculpture ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2010 -
Music
Benni Hemm Hemm - Retaliate
Having stitched himself into Scotland’s alt-folk fabric (working with Withered Hand, Eagleowl and Alasdair Roberts amongst others), Retaliate is an ina... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
Music
To Rococo Rot - Forwardness Fridays EP
The EP is an awkward conception, defined by what it's not: too long to be a single, too short to be an album. Even within this limited bracket, thoug... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
Film
The Scouting Book for Boys
Thomas Turgoose will be a familiar name to Shane Meadows fans; the young actor starred in both This is England and Somers Town as a cocky youth with the gift... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
Music
Burnt Island - Music and Maths EP
To Music and Maths, add a double period of English, for Burnt Island’s debut is a decidedly literary affair. Led by author Rodge Glass and partly inspi... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010