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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ClubsHighlife Presents Cut Hands (Live)
Some consider African influences on electronic music to be limited to nothing more than a few sub genres, but anyone who has been schooled by the likes of Gi... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
ClubsO2 Love Music Column – May 2012
Jimmy Cliff O2 Academy, Sat 19 May Doors 7pm followed by reggae DJs until 2am, £22.50 + BF. Remember when pop music was a force for good? Yes,... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Comedy
Kunt & The Gang - Sloppy Seconds
Business as usual for one-man filth factory Read more »| 27 Apr 2012 -
Clubs
Goan With The Flo
The release of Auntie Flo's first mini-album and the second anniversary of his global sound parties, Highlife, both take place this month and, as he tells us, these two events are intricately connected Read more »| 27 Apr 2012 -
Music
Holy Esque – Holy Esque EP
Holy Esque's self-released debut EP is an auspicious start for the young Glasgow-based band. They have a cathartic, transcendent sound that harks back to t... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
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
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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 -
Music
Jesus 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 -
Music
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 -
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