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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TheatreVenue of the Month: Edinburgh Festival Theatre
With its contemporary glass façade, the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, which opened in 1994, looks very much the modern venue. However, behind this sleek exterior lies a colourful history that stretches back to the early nineteenth century. Read more »| 17 Dec 2009 -
MusicThe Slew: Decks, Drums and Rock & Roll
Kid Koala’s new project is a collaboration with DJ Dynomite D and Wolfmother's former rhythm section, fusing epically heavy classic rock and deft, original takes on scratch DJing. Here comes The Slew.+ Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
Music
Freeland - COPE ™ Remixed
Adam Freeland previously courted critical acclaim with COPE ™ (OK, so not in these pages - ed), managing to lure rock luminaries as disparate as Gerald... Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
Music
Sick Kids Sunday 2 @ The GRV, 31 Jan
All-day charity event at The GRV featuring Alasdair Roberts, Sparrow and the Workshop, Eagleowl and Meursault. Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
Music
The Hussy's - Japanese Graffiti
Never since Bush have a British band seemed so in thrall to the sounds of American rock. If you can forgive that vexatious inverted comma that pops u... Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
BooksFootnotes In Gaza by Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco’s graphic journalism manages to convey very, very complex situations with surprising ease. It isn’t simply the form, but the sh... Read more »| 16 Dec 2009
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Film
Avatar
Having declared himself "The king of the world", James Cameron has now become a creator of worlds. His astonishing epic Avatar takes place on Pandora... Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
MusicDepeche Mode @ SECC, 12 Dec
It's been a long time coming and – against all fads and health scares – a sold out Hall 4 marks a hero's return. Since last gracing the Playhouse... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
Art
Martin Boyce: No Reflections @ DCA
Following the success of his commission for the 2009 Venice Bienale, Martin Boyce’s lyrical installation No Reflections arrives in the comparatively pr... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
Music
Benjamin Shaw - I Got the Pox, the Pox is What I Got
In an age when digital technology has made pristine sound quality available to anyone with a decent laptop, going lo-fi has become a statement in itself: I'm... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
Film
A Hard Day's Night
Sam Taylor-Wood discusses why making a biopic of a young John Lennon was no easy feat. Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
Music
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
“True” black metal seems to exist in a vacuum, a self-referential singularity that praises tradition over novelty, sameness over innovation. On t... Read more »| 14 Dec 2009 -
Music
Malcolm Middleton @ Òran Mór, 10 Dec
The Òran Mór is laid out in seated rows like a Sunday service as tonight's preacher-in-residence, and one of Scotland's prime purveyors... Read more »| 14 Dec 2009 -
Music
Modest Mouse @ ABC, 10 Dec
Modest Mouse may enter to the sound of World War II air sirens whilst spotlights swoop the sold out ABC, but the precision deployment of their openin... Read more »| 14 Dec 2009 -
Music
The Mars Volta @ HMV Picture House, 9 Dec
Tonight’s two-hours of tantric prog makes their slot T in the Park this year seem like a desolatory cry-wank by comparison. Read more »| 11 Dec 2009