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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ClubsDeath Disco: Band of Brothers
At the first of two Death Discos this month, We Have Band bring their Kitsune sponsored sound to the Arches. Read more »| 03 Dec 2009 -
Music
My 2009, by Alison Mosshart
After tasting success with her "day job" last year, Alison Mosshart of The Kills and The Dead Weather tells The Skinny how 2009 was for her... Read more »| 03 Dec 2009 -
ArtHappy Birthday New Work Scotland
In celebration of a milestone tenth birthday, we've taken a closer look at the Collective Gallery's visionary artist-development programme to see exactly what everyone's raving about Read more »| 03 Dec 2009 -
Film
The Girlfriend Experience
The Girlfriend Experience is a fragmented, detached, yet revealing exploration of contemporary consumerist society. We follow high class escort, Che... Read more »| 02 Dec 2009 -
MusicThe Stark Palace - The Stark Palace
Thank God there are still people making albums like this. Straddling the divide between avant-garde lunacy and controlled madness in a way that would make Ca... Read more »| 02 Dec 2009 -
Music
Various Artists - The Tolbooth Sessions
Did the Large Hadron Collider trigger some kind of quantum boson explosion while we weren't looking? Has some mad scientist retrofitted a DeLorean with a flu... Read more »| 02 Dec 2009
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Books
A Bookish Christmas Gift Guide
Stuck for something to buy a friend for Christmas? Info-packed, entertaining, and easy to get hold of, you can hardly go wrong with a book. Here are some possible choices, all fresh and on the shelves of your local vendor now! Read more »| 02 Dec 2009 -
Theatre
The Corstorphine Road Nativity
This year everyone can enjoy the school nativity with Tim Firth’s show. Read more »| 02 Dec 2009 -
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #1: Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
When placing Idlewild’s sophomore album 100 Broken Windows into the context of Scottish albums of the decade, it becomes all too clear how much the mus... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #2: The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
The world is set up wrong. We know this now. While Glasvegas gallivant around the globe, filling stadiums with their sing-along dogshite nonsense, another gr... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #3: Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
It's easy to cast the mind back to the dawning of the millennium and perhaps fondly recall a pre-9/11 sense of optimism and renewal – I mean, the bug d... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
MusicScottish Albums of the Decade #5: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
If 1998's Music has the Right to Children was the record that opened up modern electronic music to whole new vistas of possibility – both in terms of i... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #4: Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
On the face of it, their product is hardly revolutionary. Yet, for the past year and a half, The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit has been the album... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Music
Various - A Sort of Homecoming: The Best of New Scottish Music
Billing itself as an alternative take on this year’s Homecoming celebrations, Fourtrak’s opportunistic collection of new Scottish talent is disap... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Music
Scottish Albums of the Decade #6: King Creosote - KC Rules OK
Not even King Creosote's mother owns everything in his discography, as it's filled with dozens of rare Fence Collective releases and CD-Rs. But if this isn't... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009