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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BooksGenesis by Bernard Beckett
Genesis by Bernard Beckett manages to express an idea of what the future could be like. Set in the late 21st century, protagonist Anaximander is bein... Read more »| 22 Aug 2010 -
Music
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan @ O2 ABC, 8 Sep
There has always been something mildly perverse when it comes to the sight of the innocently framed Isobel Campbell sitting side by side with the vag... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
Music
Joanna Newsom @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 20 Sep
Having tempered her pixy-toned tendencies for this year’s epically ambitious, masterfully executed third album, Have One on Me, Joanna Newsom has remov... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
MusicZola Jesus – Stridulum II
These are dark days we live in right enough – what with cuts, crashes, crises and the return of Skunk Anansie – but do we really have to add a Zo... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
Books
At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew Greig
Norman MacCaig’s request to Andrew Greig at their last meeting was a simple one: catch a fish for him at his favourite spot; the Loch of the Gr... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
MusicThe New Pornographers @ Òran Mór, 7 Sep
The other Canadian supergroup – which is in no way to say inferior, just less omnipresent – The New Pornographers’s fifth album Tog... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010
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Music
Miyagi – Electrosaurus
Christening your second album Electrosaurus and adorning the cover with axe-wielding thunder-lizards and a drumming diplodocus is undoubtedly awesome... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
Music
The Zephyrs – Fool of Regrets
By the time most bands make it to five albums they’ve usually gone one of two ways: either they’re tackling their evolving musical tastes with il... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
Music
Cancel the Astronauts – Funny For A Girl EP
Despite being one of Edinburgh’s most underrated bands, Cancel the Astronauts like to sound mighty triumphant. EP number two, Funny For A Girl, finds t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
Music
Wilco @ Barrowlands, 16 Sep
Last Year saw Wilco (the band) release Wilco (the album) to typically effusive acclaim. I wonder if even Jeff Tweedy gets tired of being so good some... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
MusicFang Island @ Captain's Rest, 5 Sep
Fang Island describe their sound as "everybody high-five-ing each other", a feeling which pretty much covers the stadium-sized guitar-shredding, clat... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
MusicBear in Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth: Remixed
Following on from its UK release this May, the Brooklyn disco hipsters latest album Beast Rest Forth Mouth became the party album of the summer, albe... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
Clubs
CloakXDagger presents Scratcha DVA, The Blessings, The Hidden Orchestra, Profisee/Simba @ The Caves, 17 Sep
For those who’ve been sleeping, CloakXDagger are rapper Profisee, and singer / producer Ema J. They’ve been mainstays of the Edinburgh hip-hop an... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
Theatre
Kunt and The Gang
Potty-mouthed Playground Poetry Read more »| 17 Aug 2010 -
Music
Baths – Cerulean
In a year where Flying Lotus has delivered one of the most talked-about releases with his sprawling, electronic opus Cosmogramma, it seems a new generation o... Read more »| 16 Aug 2010