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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MusicBattles @ The Arches, 7 June
Battles' stock continues to rise, and the Arches is already nearing capacity for openers Thank You. The Baltimore post-rockers take full advantage, presentin... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
MusicMatthew Dear @ Captain's Rest, 6 Jun
“Is it Monday today? Doesn't feel like Monday,” muses Matthew Dear rhetorically, midway through a triumphant set at a packed-out Captain's Rest. ... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
Music
Over the Wall @ Nice 'N' Sleazy, 3 Jun
It’s day 78 of Over the Wall’s ‘Around the Isles in 80 Days’ tour, and there’s a suitably congratulatory atmosphere building. J... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
MusicJames Blake @ Òran Mór, 2 Jun
Unluck opens tonight’s headline set with such bold, crisp precision it instantly silences the room. The same courtesy wasn’t extended to touring ... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
MusicTellison – The Wages Of Fear
Now that our, admittedly feeble, Scottish summer is in full bloom it’s only right that shelves begin to fill with bright’n’breezy emotional... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
Art
Venice Biennale: Karla Black & Mike Nelson
For those who don’t know, the Venice Biennale is a massive international contemporary art exhibition that takes place every two years in the city of Ve... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011
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Film
Teenage Daydream: Interview with Gregg Araki
Gregg Araki, director of new queer cinema freak-outs Totally Fucked Up and The Doom Generation, talks to The Skinny about his latest pop-art paean to teenage sexual liberation, Kaboom Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
Film
Howl
Allen Ginsberg was the fiery voice of a whole generation of disaffected American intellectuals and never more so than in his first published work, the poem H... Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Xplicit – June Chart
Edinburgh's legendary drum and bass night Xplicit compile their top tracks for June with the help of Taz Buckfaster and ENO. SPY - Pressure Drop - Shogun Au... Read more »| 09 Jun 2011 -
Comedy
John Hegley @ The Stand, 12 Jun
What is John Hegley? Poet? Comedian? Rock star? Read more »| 09 Jun 2011 -
Music
Dennis Hopper Choppers - Be Ready
There are fundamentally two sides to Ben Nicholls’ latest incarnation of DHC: that of the lonesome wanderer, singing forlorn desert-bleached odes to lo... Read more »| 08 Jun 2011 -
Music
Hero Worship: Ian Mackaye
Divorce's Andy Brown salutes a musician who refuses to compromise Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
ComedyIn Profile: Michael Redmond
He was once described as the "possessor of comedy’s most mournful moustache" and Stewart Lee affectionately called him an "anonymous weirdo", but most people will know Michael Redmond as Father Ted's Father Stone, the most boring priest in the world Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Film
Armadillo
Armadillo’s approach to the war in Afghanistan is nominally non-political, but the film was nonetheless the subject of much debate in Denmark d... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Music
We Are Enfant Terrible – Explicit Pictures
The debut from this French electro-indie trio comes across like a vaguely grumpy, morose version of Bis. Boy-girl vocals, shuffling disco beats, cheesy casio... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011