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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MusicBrian Eno – Drums Between the Bells
Drums Between the Bells is the latest in Brian Eno’s long list of collaborative works, kick-started in 2003 with poet Rick Holland and featuring a revo... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
ArtRudimentary Perfection: Birth of a Movement
Mark Lyken says Rudimentary Perfection is the UK’s first ever Graffuturism exhibiton. But what is this Graffuturism? And what exactly is happening? Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Music
Chilly Gonzales – The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales
“It’s entertainment but if you listen the genius is in the arrangements,” our virtuoso pianist and aspiring rapper takes to critiquing hims... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
ArtGlasgow School of Art Degree Show 2011
Perusing the offerings of tomorrow’s art stars is always overwhelming. We make our annual pilgrimage to the Central Belt degree shows, hoping to emerge with some senses intact Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Numbers is 8: Floating Points & Spencer
Manchester’s Floating Points, aka Sam Sheppard, has already made a huge mark on the electronic music scene in a shockingly short time. His numerous rel... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
MusicCats and Cats and Cats – Mother Whale
Much like label-mates Shield Your Eyes, there is an underlying core of almost classic songmanship to Cats and Cats and Cats, but it lies so deep beneath the ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011
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Art
ECA Degree Show 2011
Perusing the offerings of tomorrow’s art stars is always overwhelming. We make our annual pilgrimage to the Central Belt degree shows, hoping to emerge with some senses intact Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
Music
Junior Boys – It's All True
It’s All True was written and recorded in Shanghai, Berlin and Hamilton, Ontario. Hamilton goes without saying; it’s the town the Boys call home.... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
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Gardens & Villa – Gardens & Villa
Gardens & Villa’s debut album is frustratingly half-baked, rendering successes such as Thorn Castles’ Shins-esque ditty and opener Black Hill... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
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The Wrong Boyfriends – Wrong Fucking Century Darling
With a packing-crate full of irreverent, if oddly relevant, lyrics and a sound that doesn’t know whether it’s worshipping Nick Cave or The Clash,... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
Music
Hey Colossus – RRR
Despite churning albums out at a startling rate, the quality control on Hey Colossus’ assembly line of acid-doom rarely dips below the magic mark... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
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Richard Anthony Jay – Imperfect Beauty
During the recording of Imperfect Beauty, Richard Anthony Jay apparently had “music theory textbooks never far from his side”, which anecdotally ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
Music
Las Kellies – Kellies
There are few words more abhorrent than ‘sassy’, loaded as it is with US sitcom clichés, but it’s difficult to find a more appropria... Read more »| 23 Jun 2011 -
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Various Artists – The Tolbooth Sessions 2011
Bono and Lars Ulrich no doubt remain unimpressed with the impact of new patterns of music consumption on their LP sales; for new bands, however, the heighten... Read more »| 22 Jun 2011 -
Music
tUnE-yArDs @ Captain's Rest, 15 Jun
Thousands’ dual acoustic lullabies evoke gentle breezes, sun-dappled lakes, and other lovely things that unfortunately, placed against the abundant per... Read more »| 22 Jun 2011