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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BooksGold Digger by Francis Fyfield
An answer to the quiz question ‘crime novels with the same title as Kanye West songs,' but otherwise this is a solid but not very memorable story. Curi... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
BooksBlood of Crows by Caro Ramsay
This is now the fourth of Caro Ramsay’s series following DI Colin Anderson and his colleagues, most prominently DS Costello, whose first name isn&rsquo... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
BooksTop Gear: The Cool 500 by Matt Master
Subtitled ‘The Coolest Cars Ever Made’, this is a large format book about cars through history, glossy photos and all. Some people love Top Gear,... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Books
Fremont by Elizabeth Reeder
Fremont is the debut book from Kohl Publishing that they’ve been publicising gradually for a while now. It was maybe a risk to do that, but this book p... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Music
Christ. @ Pivo Pivo, 25 November
On record, one of the most engaging things about Christ. is his masterful keyboard playing. His extended, hypnotic improvised synth lines and spiralling, int... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Music
The Metal Column – December 2012
It's no lie: December's a tough one. Record releases begin to slow down, and a lot of touring bands tend to slip into hibernation. You're going to need som... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012
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MusicDam Mantle – Brothers Fowl
Following a slew of well-received EPs for labels like Get Me and his own Growing label, Glasgow-based Dam Mantle returns with an eight-track mini-album tha... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Film
Brief Encounters: The Joy of Six
How do you solve a problem like a short film? New British Cinema Quarterly has a solution. The Skinny speaks to Dan Sully and Will Jewell, two directors taking part in NBCQ's initiative to bring the best of British short film to the whole of the UK Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
Film
Light and Shade: The Films of 2012
It's that time of year again, where we filter the past twelve months of cinema into an undiluted list of brilliance. Whatever your movie tastes, be it martial arts smackdowns or hallucinatory art-house mind-benders, the best films of 2012 had you covered Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – December 2012
Having emerged as an avant-garde synth group in the late seventies, and morphing into the chart-straddling, eighties pop behemoths we know today, The Human L... Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
Art
Own Art @ Christmas
The high street is mobbed; queues are hell; you’re overspending and still buying crap – it’s nearly Christmas! Sound about right? Apparentl... Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
FilmFilm Event Highlights – December 2012
It's December, and that means some familiar films popping up in cinemas across the country. It's a Wonderful Life, a Christmas staple, is showing throughout ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
Music
Loops Haunt – Zenith EP
Ostensibly starting out as a dubstep label, with releases by the likes of DZ, Marlow and Scotland's magnificent Akira Kiteshi, Black Acre have evolved into a... Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
Film
Code Name: Geronimo - The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden
Airing in the US just days before last month’s election, SEAL Team 6 (as it was then titled) caused a minor outrage, attracting accusations that distri... Read more »| 01 Dec 2012 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Bollywood Disco with Teamy (Wrong Island)
This month's DJ Chart comes from Wrong Island resident and legendary Glasgow scenester Teamy, who brings us a specialist selection of Bollywood Disco classics! Read more »| 01 Dec 2012