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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MusicMeursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry
Meursault’s brilliant debut Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues surprised us all by striding into the spotlight in 2008. Inevitably, follow-up L... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Art
Air Iomlaid
Air Iomlaid, or ‘On Exchange’, is a collaborative project involving primary school pupils from both Edinburgh and Skye who underwent intensive ar... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Music
Swimmer One - Dead Orchestras
Shirking expectations multiple times, Swimmer One are as difficult to pin down as a greased-up eel with a mysterious past. What starts in a vaguely disco-Edi... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Art
Call yourself a filmmaker?
The fifth edition of the Leith Short Film Festival will this year take place from 10-13 June at Duncan Place and Iso-Lounge in Leith. As in previous years, t... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
MusicGayngs - Relayted
Gayngs’ roots lie in, of all places, 10cc. Producer Ryan Olson started the project – which features members of Megafaun, Bon Iver, Doomtree, and ... Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
Theatre
A Heart of Glass
In the context of the credit crunch, The Glass Menagerie is more than just nostalgia Read more »| 03 May 2010
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Theatre
The Goat
It seems straightforward. Successful man has sex with goat, calls it love, reveals secret to a best friend: cue meltdown of happy marriage Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
MusicSilver Columns - Yes And Dance
You'll read many reviews of this record emphasising the 2+2=5 surprise of The Pictish Trail and Adem teaming up to produce sleek disco music. In actual fact,... Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
Music
Stanley Odd - Oddio
The jury's still out on Scottish hip-hop. It's either a vibrant subculture that doesn't get the attention it deserves, or it's an oddity in itself, a geograp... Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
Theatre
Turbo Bear
Short lunchtime plays offer the chance to experiment: and in these two pieces, the chance to consider Scottish identity Read more »| 01 May 2010 -
Music
The Golden Hour
The Golden Hour is an event that takes place monthly at the Forest Café, combining literature readings, bad jokes, music, funny jokes, dancing and vis... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Music
Foals - Total Life Forever
Rightly or wrongly, 2008's debut Foals LP Antidotes – while well-received – was oft-described as a sort of cerebral nu-rave (as if a 'smarter Kla... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Sexy Circus Sideshow
As part of the London Burlesque Week, The Sexy Circus Sideshow concentrated on those exotic acts that connect the burlesque revival with the dark arts of the freak show Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Art
Radius & Atypical Root: A Skinny Guide
Radius and Atypical Root are two twinned but separate projects united by a desire to provide unusual perspectives on Glasgow and its art in April 2010, alongside Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. The Skinny worked with them to create a guide to distribute around the city of Glasgow during the festival Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Music
Errors vs Faust
In an artist-on-artist interview, Errors' Steev Livingstone grills Faust's own 'Art Errorist' Jean-Hervé Peron as the iconoclastic daddies of Krautrock prepare for a rare Scottish date at The Arches Read more »| 30 Apr 2010