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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MusicHow To Destroy Angels – An Omen EP
In contrast to the sublime industrial pop melodrama of HTDA's first EP, An Omen showcases a much more diverse and dynamic sound from the band, managing to ri... Read more »| 19 Nov 2012 -
MusicChrist. – Cathexis Motion Picture Soundtrack
It's extremely unfair that nearly every single mention of Scottish producer Christ. is prefaced with the fact that he is a former member of Boards of Canada.... Read more »| 19 Nov 2012 -
MusicCurt Crackarach – Lonely Holiday
The latest alias of lo-fi pioneer and veteran experimental producer Nattymari, the Curt Crackarach project sees Natty collaborating with a brace of vocalists... Read more »| 19 Nov 2012 -
MusicSoundgarden – King Animal
Back when heavy metal was hurtling towards new extremities in theatricality and brute force throughout the late 80s, Seattle quartet Soundgarden willing... Read more »| 18 Nov 2012 -
Art
Sonica: Enlightened Sound @ The Whisky Bond, 16 Nov
Entering the almost-bare warehouse room containing the installation by Steev Livingstone (Errors), called The Last Pigeons, the viewer is faced with two... Read more »| 17 Nov 2012 -
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Sonica: Ecstatic Arc @ Tramway
The premiere of Robbie Thomson’s new live performance work is a truly awesome mix of theatre, music and visual art. It's centerpiece is a Tesla coil mo... Read more »| 17 Nov 2012
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Art
Sonica: Sandglasses @ Tramway
A minimalist concept masks a complex combination of media in Juste Janulyte’s Sandglasses. Four cellists are encapsulated within large tulle columns, h... Read more »| 16 Nov 2012 -
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Sonica: Our Contemporaries @ Tramway
Our Contemporaries is dystopian sci-fi pared down to basic components. Mookyoung Shin’s futuristic nightmare mixes automation with bureaucracy. Rows ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2012 -
Film
Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook is a romantic comedy about two bipolar screw-ups trying to win a dance competition. Chris Tucker is in a supporting role. It should b... Read more »| 15 Nov 2012 -
Music
Buck 65 / The Levee Strollers @ King Tut's, 11 November
Tonight's support act are a downhome (although Glaswegian) country and western band called The Levee Strollers. Their enthusiastic but wholly incongruous per... Read more »| 14 Nov 2012 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 14 Nov
The Skinny's latest columnist, the News Badger (meles meles nuntius; Brock to his friends) joins us for the first of a daily roundup of the latest news and gossip from the world of culture! Read more »| 14 Nov 2012 -
Theatre
My Shrinking Life @ Tron
Twelve years ago, celebrated Scottish actor Alison Peebles was diagnosed with the degenerative condition multiple sclerosis. This unsparing show for the Nati... Read more »| 14 Nov 2012 -
Music
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat / Rick Redbeard @ Cottiers, 7 November
After several years of performing solo with next-to-nowt to line his merch stand, Rick Anthony’s Rick Redbeard guise is picking up pace. Debut album Th... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
Music
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti @ Stereo, 8 November
Ariel Pink has come a long way from making music in his bedroom. Hailed as a lo-fi pioneer and championed by the likes of Animal Collective, the Beverly Hi... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
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Dizraeli & The Small Gods – Never Mind
Unlike Scroobius Pip, another artist who made the transition from hip-hop influenced poet to rapper with a record deal, Dizraeli's flow is based on literate,... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012