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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MusicYim Yames - A Tribute To George Harrison
It may appeal most to devoted My Morning Jacket fans, but this six song requiem for George Harrison deserves a wider audience. Recorded solo and acousticall... Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
MusicKasms - Absent Without Leave/Murmur
London Quartet get dark with impressive double A-side. Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
Clubs
Claude VonStroke: Man or Machine?
Despite running several record labels and rigorous touring commitments, Claude VonStroke has still found time to release two great records so far this year. David McNamara discovers that the bird obsessed madman is not done yet Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Music
Pastels/Tenniscoats – Vivid Youth / About You
The pairing of Glasgow indie darlings The Pastels with Japanese avant-gardists Tenniscoats might seem like an oddly exotic match-up. But in actual fact Steph... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Music
Live Music Highlights - August, 2009
Art rock weirdos Victorian English Gentlemen's Club impressed the pants off us with their punchy, unpredictable 2006 debut but they never really got the atte... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Music
Lovvers - OCD Go Go Go Girls
The plot of Dan Brown’s forthcoming crime-against-literature/bestseller is top secret, but I reckon I’ve figured out the subject of investigation... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009
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Clubs
Suck My Deck
After leaving a trail of crumbling dancefloors and swooning females across the globe, Brodinski takes a brief break from touring to create and talk about his new mix for the Suck My Deck series Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Music
A Muso's Top 10: The Twilight Sad
Since the first record, some of the things we've been doing are: playing gajillions of gigs round UK, Europe, America and Canada, drinking too much, not slee... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
BooksDavid Simon: Journalism's Loss, Television's Gain
The Skinny is sponsoring The Wire creator David Simon's event at the Edinburgh international Book festival. Peter Geoghegan spoke to him about his books, his TV shows, and his views on drugs, politics, and America. He didn't disappoint. Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Film
Ursula Meier: Home Truths
Isabelle Huppert stars in Ursula Meier’s latest film, Home, a work which subtly explores a family’s relationship between the environment and society around them. Gail Tolley finds out more. Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Music
Mariachi El Bronx - Cell Mates
Unless The Jonas Brothers are anonymously working on a double album of folk-inspired death metal, this is undoubtedly the most unusual musical alter-ego of 2... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
Music
The Foundling Wheel: Spinning the Wheel of Fortune
Sonically nihilistic, The Foundling Wheel is Edinburgh’s premier one-man octave cranker. But, during a chat with the amiable Ted Koterwas, Billy Hamilton discovers appearances can be a lot more than just deceptive Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
Music
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
Despite spending his teens in lo-fi garage-punk bands, Jay Reatard’s solo work is unashamedly pop. There are no attempts to undermine the hooks running... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
Music
The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy
The word may carry all sorts of unsavoury connotations, but a makeover isn’t always such a bad thing. Once members of various underachieving Seat... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
Comedy
I like my comedy...to make me feel good: Stephen K Amos
Stephen K Amos can be found all over the place at this year’s Fringe. He talks to Edward Whelan about his solo show The Feelgood Factor, eighteenth ce... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009