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 Hot Melts - The Hot Melts
The Hot Melts recently got nobody hot under the collar with their “ultra-controversial” video for single Red Lips. It features semi-naked, cavort... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Trashcan Sinatras - In The Music
Despite pre-dating contemporaries such as Teenage Fanclub and having more than their fair share of seminal moments tucked away in their unjustly niche back-c... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
ArtNine Trades of Dundee
It is a widely known yet little discussed fact that most art school graduates are going to end up working a job that has nothing to do with art. A new project in Dundee has taken this as a starting point, recruiting artists with other jobs to make work bringing the two sides of their lives together. One of those artists, Ben Robinson, describes the project. Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen - September, 2009
This month a rock star's nephew gets in on the act, a historically named new Scottish band emerges, and Nick Mitchell gets an education from Ian Brown Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
ClubsDJ Chart: Joe Kalamo
1. Hudson Mohawke - Fuse (Forthcoming Warp Records) Nightcrawlers, Timbaland and Quincy Jones ain't got shit on this one! 2. Tiago Andrade - Babel Fish (For... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Holy Trinity
Ahead of their debut performance in Glasgow this month, Moderat's Gernot Bronsert talks about the musical project that could just have easily been called Appelektor. Read more »| 27 Aug 2009
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Music
McIntosh Ross - The Great Lakes
Deacon Blue have been relatively quiet since 2001 - a gig here, a best-of there. It's tempting, therefore, to imagine Ricky Ross and co spending their downti... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Hockey - Mind Chaos
Showing some admirable self-awareness, Oregon's Hockey use the first song on their first album to pre-empt what they know is going to be a recurring criticis... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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The Hornblower Brothers - Adventures In The National Geographic EP
The Hornblower Brothers are cursed before they’ve even started: they come with the recommendation of patron saint of borecore Steve Lamacq. But as this... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Film
Andrea Arnold: Behind Glass
Andrea Arnold has emerged as a distinctive voice in British cinema. The Skinny talks to the director on the eve of the release of her latest film Fish Tank. Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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Illa J - Sounds Like Love
There’s plenty mileage in dearly departed rappers, evidenced amply by the Tupac/BIG commercial vehicles which have rumbled along for the last few years... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Film
September Film Events
Forget Dance Flick and instead head, on 27 September, to the Cameo in Edinburgh or the Belmont Picturehouse in Aberdeen for the ultimate morris dancing movie... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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Baddies - Do the Job
Do The Job is either an example of supreme bad luck or an exercise in supremely competent observation. Which is a politer way of saying either Baddies were u... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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We Insist! - The Babel Inside Was Terrible
The French have one hell of a knack for post-hardcore. We Insist! are into their 15th year of being but the oddly entitled The Babel Inside Was Terrible demo... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring
Cult longevity can often be as much a curse as it is a blessing. While the existence of an audience means an artist can continue to make his or her presence... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009