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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Theatre
SHADOWPLAY
This month's puppetry festival Manipulate at Dundee Rep relocates the marionettes art into an adult, more shadowy realm of exitential terror and nightmarish otherness. Gareth K. Vile meets the man pulling the strings. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Theatre
It's A Wonderful Life
As much as The Skinny really wants to unequivocally like this show, there are things that just don't work. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Books
The Golden Hour Book, by the Forest Cafe Writers.
Fine writing, fine CD attached. What more d'you want? Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Art
Smith/Stewart- Enter Love and Enter Death
SF: Art doesn't have to be packed with signification to provoke a reaction, as Rosamund West discovers at an installation in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens
PQ: It is refreshing, in an art world of assemblages and installations overloaded with iconography and signifiers, to witness the potentially overwhelming effect of work seemingly so simplified Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Clubs
Freq Residents DJ Chart
The Freq residents Brian and Murray kick off the first of twelve new DJ charts for the year with their top five favourite tracks of 2007. Freq looks set to return to the Sub Club in Feb 2008 so contain your excitement and hunger for house and techno until then! Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Clubs
Ripping Up Fabric - Caspa & Rusko
SF: Think you know dubstep? Not until you've heard the in-your-face drops and mutant subs of Caspa & Rusko...
PQ: ""In Edinburgh they were HAVIN' IT! There was some moshing, someone got headbutted outside, there was beer all over the decks..."" Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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Music
The Hurricanes @ Winter Dance Party
The Hurricanes are sure to blow you away when they take to the stage Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Books
Free Books! Or, The Strange Return of Jekyll and Hyde.
Stevenson's skill as a writer is still abundantly clear today Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
ClubsRobert Owens - Night Time Stories
Perhaps due to his impressive canon of past collaborations it was always going to be tough to deliver comparable efforts Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Music
Pelican & High on Fire @ Oran Mor
There's no denying the entertainment value of a band who use the catchline: 'The blood we bleed is black indeed' Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Music
Sons and Daughters - This Gift
This is pop that's been led astray, casting off its superficial skin to reveal a dark, sexual core Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
MusicBlack Mountain - In the Future
Black Mountain knock one clean out of the park Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Clubs
Shy FX, Noisia & more, Xplicit's 3rd Birthday, Potterrow, Edinburgh, 25 Jan
For what stratosphere are they next destined? Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Clubs
Marshall Jefferson: The Stuff of Legends (print version)
SF: For the last DJ profile in our Bacardi series, we end on a definite high - an interview with the godfather of house as we know it, Marshall Jefferson. Read on to find out how a pushy salesman sparked production, what genre clubs are doing for dance music and where the industry goes from here.
PQ: ""You always think that you can step in and shake things up a bit, I think that was my intention."" Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Clubs
LTJ Bukem: Logical Productions
SF: The Skinny tracks down LTJ Bukem amidst increasing production work and gigs across the world to talk about his new mix album and DVD.
PQ: 'It's just going back to the way it was before, putting out lots of new stuff for people to hear on 12"".' Read more »| 06 Jan 2008