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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MusicOFF! – OFF!
In a time when even your average beatdown-heavy 'hardcore' band sounds polished, pristine and conventional, OFF!'s self-titled debut in all its 17-minute g... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
MusicHoly Mountain – Earth Measures
A welcome addition to Scotland's heavy rock landscape, Earth Measures' six tracks begin as short, snappy and barbed stabs at punk rock, before evolving int... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
Music
▲AIMON – Flatliner
'Witch house' was never a particularly commercial proposition, so it is unsurprising that many artists are unwilling to be plastered with the term, or have d... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
MusicJesus H. Foxx – Endless Knocking
Seven members comprise this leftfield Edinburgh indie outfit, who mingle strings, cornet, and glockenspiel with more orthodox instrumentation. Yet even th... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
Music
New Order: “Hooky’s not spoken to us in God knows how many years”
New Order’s Stephen Morris explains the Salford legends’ resurgence, their unfinished record, and why he couldn’t find a steady job anywhere else. Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
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It Hugs Back – Laughing Party
As if It Hugs Back’s band name wasn’t misleadingly twee enough, Laughing Party’s title and colourful cover seem like a concerted effort to... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012
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Music
Mothlite – Dark Age
Daniel O'Sullivan's acclaimed Ulver has a tendency to traverse a truly abstract path between the realms of shoegaze, metal and black ambient, while his col... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
Books
Jonah Lehrer: The Science of Creativity
Jonah Lehrer is a writer and neuroscientist whose work bridges the gap between art and science by exploring creativity through science Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
Film
Twice Around the Daffodils
Produced, written and directed by the team behind the Carry On series and set in a tuberculosis ward, Twice Around the Daffodils (1962) presents an awkward m... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Art
Rob Kennedy @ CCA
Is there anything to do here, is there anything to see? The title of Rob Kennedy’s show might be the cry of his audience – tentative, impatient &... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Art
Wolfgang Tillmans @ The Common Guild
You’ll rarely find a lone artwork by Wolfgang Tillmans. His photographs – some of them large, some of them small – are more or less always ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Music
Lower Dens – Nootropics
Nootropics is named after a kind of drug which alters the brain's supply of neurochemicals in order to boost memory and intelligence; and right enough, it ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Film
The Monk
Legendary orator and pillar of the church Ambrosio (Vincent Cassel) has his devotion to God thrown into question by the arrival of Valerio (Déborah Fr... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Clubs
Psychedelic Forest Disco at Kelburn Castle
As summer beckons the prospect of al fresco partying in Scotland becomes a little more realistic and so, after last year’s sell out success, the Psyche... Read more »| 23 Apr 2012 -
Clubs
Tribute & La Cheetah Present Theo Parrish
The first weekend of May is set to get sweaty as Tribute and La Cheetah Club conspire to bring sonic welder Theo Parrish to the cosy confines of Max’s ... Read more »| 23 Apr 2012