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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FilmFloating Weeds
The rootless beings of the title are a performance troupe in post war Japan, moving perpetually through the country as happy wanderers. Returning to a rural ... Read more »| 30 Nov 2012 -
Film
Gate of Hell
This 1953 Japanese classic is a banquet of visual delights, a tapestry of vibrant colour, which regrettably becomes frayed at the edges. Morito is a mid-rank... Read more »| 30 Nov 2012 -
ArtA Bogan Abroad: Enjoy Now, Think Later
Hailing from Oz, Peter Drew charts his first encounters with the Scottish art scene. This month: Sonic art and horror entertainment Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
MusicPurity Ring / Doldrums @ Stereo, 27 Nov
The Canadians have cottoned on to something – if you're going to play electronic instruments, particularly MIDI devices, the possibilities for technica... Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
MusicDirty Three / Zun Zun Egui @ Òran Mór, 25 November
Upstairs at Òran Mór can be a difficult venue in terms of atmosphere: the cavernous spaces of the church tend to absorb energy and create awk... Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Music
Sinkane – MARS
Wiping the slate of less distinctive past releases, Sinkane (Sudanese New Yorker Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab) presents MARS as a re-boot debut – a fresh sta... Read more »| 29 Nov 2012
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BooksA Christmas Book Guide
No clever title here – this is your basic guide to various books you can buy various people. Nice and simple. Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Art
Sonica: Laser Show @ Glue Factory
Following a four-week on-site residency, audiovisual performance artist Robin Fox brings his candidly titled Laser Show to the Glue Factory’s tank room... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012 -
Music
The Douglas Firs – The Furious Sound
Albums about the superstitious persecution of woman are like buses, it seems. A month after Darren Hayman’s The Violence set the witch trials of 17th&n... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012 -
Music
St Deluxe – Born Into Flame
Welcome back St Deluxe, the well-connected Glasgow scuzz rockers with a penchant for pop hooks and heavy guitars. Their 2009 debut attracted some celebrity... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012 -
Music
Various Artists – Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Having cycled through theatre and film iterations, Cora Bissett, David Greig and Swimmer One’s multimedia Whatever Gets You through the Night project a... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
Music
Steve Adey – The Tower of Silence
It’s taken Edinburgh-based songwriter Steve Adey six years to follow up debut album All Things Real, for reasons ranging from tropical maladies to obs... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
Music
The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [Deluxe Edition]
As is fitting for one of the most ambitious and indulgent commercial rock records of the 1990s, this extravagant reissue takes Mellon Collie's greatness as ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
Music
Melanin 9 – Magna Carta
Magna Carta is the debut album from Melanin 9, although he has already gained a great deal of acclaim and recognition for his three mixtapes, Orion's Stencil... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
Music
Sunbutler – Sunbutler
Made using just five sounds from an old FM synthesiser, and worked on remotely by Joe Howe (aka Ben Butler & Mousepad / Germlin / Gay Against You) and ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012