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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MusicThe Spinto Band - Moonwink
There’s twee, there’s psych-pop, and if they had a baby, it’d be Delaware’s The Spinto Band. They manage both seasick rhythms and fra... Read more »| 24 Sep 2008 -
MusicSomeone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin @ The Captain's Rest, 14 Sep
Tonight, We Are Trapped in Kansas (**) channel the spirit of the Mars Volta away from the excesses of jazz obscurantism and towards the relative safety of po... Read more »| 24 Sep 2008 -
MusicGuy J - Esperanza
Released on Digweed’s label and backed by Sasha, it seems pretty clear what kind of crowd Guy J’s Esperanza might appeal to. It’s pleasantl... Read more »| 24 Sep 2008 -
Film
Smart People
University professor and widower Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) ekes out a self-centred existence, blind to his children's problems and students' questio... Read more »| 24 Sep 2008 -
Music
James Murphy @ The Caves, 21 Sep
The innovative collaborative programme of the Tennent's Mutual kicked off with two headlining DJ sets by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy. Ally Brown reports on his Edinburgh Caves show, bolstered by the appearance of one of Scotland's best bands of the moment, Frightened Rabbit Read more »| 23 Sep 2008 -
MusicTV on the Radio - Dear Science
It could have gone horribly wrong of course; the widespread acclaim and subsequent confidence given to TVOTR by 2006’s seminal Return to Cookie Mountai... Read more »| 23 Sep 2008
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Music
Keyboard Choir - Mizen Head to Gascanane Sound
Debut albums are tricky. Sometimes the music is ripe. But more often than not it’s still ripening, and debuts can serve as a testing ground for ideas t... Read more »| 23 Sep 2008 -
TheatreScottish Ballet, We Dance to Radiohead Too
Scottish Ballet look to broaden their audience - but does this triple bill pull in three different directions? Read more »| 23 Sep 2008 -
Music
Pumajaw - Curiosity Box
A triumphant example of music's ability to move the listener Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Music
Aidan John Moffat @ SWG3, 27 Sep
An evening of Chemikal melodies Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Theatre
Catherine Wheels: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Michael Cox seeks out the evil that children will love. Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Music
Dartz! @ The GRV, 17 Sep
Dartz! can take their myriad reference points and distill it into two minutes of down-tuned punk funk. We came looking for little more Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Music
New Kids On The Block - The Block
The ‘Kids, all pushing their forties now, present their mature, grown-up side Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Music
Weezer - Troublemaker
Classic Read more »| 22 Sep 2008 -
Music
Kat Flint - Dirty Birds
Kat Flint is a guitar-strumming singer-songwriter with a beautiful voice. Yes, another one. Bur maybe not. To be fair, there are several things at work here ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2008