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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MusicGonjasufi – The Caliph's Tea Party
Sumach 'Gonjasufi' Ecks is an esoteric vocalist whose excellent debut album A Sufi And A Killer, released earlier this year, saw him link up with major playe... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
ComedyIn Profile: Zoe Lyons
Introducing a new series profiling some of the best acts gigging around Scotland in the coming month Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
FilmSouth of the Border
Leading with footage of Fox News and its right-wing cohorts acting foolish, South of the Border seems to aim for populist agitprop a la Michael Moore. But Mo... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
Art
Studio Projects 22 & 23 @ Market Gallery
The two concurrent studio projects at Market Gallery this autumn address how we represent reality. There is something of the slavish will to reproduce our su... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
Music
Grinderman: Nick Cave
In the fourth and final installment of our Grinderman series, we get up close and personal with the prolific author, screenwriter and musician that is Nick Cave. Perhaps too personal! Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
Music
Enfant Bastard – Master Dude EP
In some ways chiptune is like a Lamborghini Countach: fun, dizzying and nostalgic for 80s cool – but it's tough to think of either as a daily way to ge... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010
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MusicDillinger Escape Plan @ The Garage, 29 Oct
Boasting one of the best-reviewed heavy metal albums of 2010 and a name synonymous with the mathcore subgenre, Dillinger Escape Plan will come packing a noto... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
Music
The Psychedelic Furs @ O2 ABC, 29 Oct
Forever immortalised by the John Hughes film of the same name, Pretty in Pink became the best known (and to most the only known) release of The Psychedelic F... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
TheatreBlood Sweat and Tears Event Preview
Bloody children Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
Music
Badly Drawn Boy – It’s What I’m Thinking Part 1: Photographing Snowflakes
It would be unjust to say that Damon Gough has fallen foul of the Mercury Music Prize curse since his inspired debut album scooped said accolade a decade ago... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
Music
Esben and the Witch – Marching Song EP
Brighton trio Esben and the Witch may still be fairly fresh out of the box, however they’re already carving a niche for themselves between the baroque,... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
Music
The Morlocks – The Morlocks Play Chess
“The Morlocks Play Chess isn’t some teeny bopper karaoke bullshit”, affirms the press release accompanying this garage-punk cover album of ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2010 -
Music
Grinderman: Jim Sclavunos
New York drumming royalty Jim Sclavunos comes on strong in the third of our Grinderman interviews Read more »| 23 Sep 2010 -
Music
Naive New Beaters - Wallace
For David Boring, Martin Luther BB King and Eurobelix of this Parisian electro-hip hop trio, the tongue – not content merely within the cheek – h... Read more »| 23 Sep 2010 -
Music
Clinic – Bubblegum
Way back in the Britpop days there was always something vaguely sinister about Clinic: a gang of Liverpudlians in surgical masks who wanted to do twisted thi... Read more »| 23 Sep 2010