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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ArtMircea Cantor @ The Common Guild
Cantor’s show rises to the occasion of the Common Guild. The viewer is confronted by a catalogue of interconnected fragments of an enigmatic narrative,... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Theatre
The Merry Widow
Making a successful transition from classic to contemporary requires the courage to toy with the boundaries of convention. Director Cezary Tomaszewski gives this formula a satirical twist in his avant-garde version of The Merry Widow. Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
MusicShred Yr Face III @ Stereo, 13 Nov
It’s always nice to catch a gig where each band inhabits a similar universe but ultimately brings an entirely different set of sounds and influences to... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
MusicSunn 0))) @ Stereo, 6 Dec
The presence and popularity of drone-based music has grown considerably over the last decade in an assortment of disparate genres, and these robe-cla... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Music
Night Noise Team - Menolick
Pulsing harmonic arpeggios and a propulsive beat launch Night Noise Team’s debut single; a persuasively vibrant introduction to a song that nev... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Comedy
Eddie Izzard: Stripped @ SECC
King of surrealism Eddie Izzard delights thousands in Glasgow, but the anticipation makes him retreat into safe territory. Read more »| 17 Nov 2009
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Music
Deerhoof @ The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 8 Dec
Over the course of ten albums and countless tours, this band still sounds as unique and singular as they did in the beginning. Their stylistic gambits contin... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Music
Japandroids @ Sneaky Pete's, 13 Nov
Technical problems hold up tonights This Is Music at a sold-out Sneaky Pete's, meaning opening band Bronto Skylift take the stage an hour behind schedule. A ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
Music
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
What do you get when you cross Led Zep’s John Paul Jones with Jimmy Page worshipper and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, and Dave Grohl &nd... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
Music
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
The notion of lineage looms large for many heavy metal subgenres, and probably none more so than that of stoner doom. Consequently, this debut collaboration ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
Film
Harry Brown
One of the most morally debateable films of recent months, Harry Brown is a vigilante thriller which treads dangerously close to empty sensationalism. After... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
Books
David Eagleman in Conversation
The minutiae of life can be boxed down to a list of statistics; 30 years tucked up in bed, 200 days in the shower, five months reading dog-eared magazines on... Read more »| 15 Nov 2009 -
Film
The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winning film The White Ribbon, set in rural Germany in 1913, depicts the disintegration of a small community as viole... Read more »| 13 Nov 2009 -
Music
Mew @ ABC, 5 Nov
Pitchfork may have ridiculously yet somehow quite perfectly summarised Mew as “Queensryche meets Sigur Ros” in times gone by, but No More Stories... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009 -
Music
Daniel Johnston @ Queen's Hall, 4 Nov
From the eerie silence filling the packed auditorium of the Queen's Hall, it’s clear that this is no ordinary gig. The usual pint-holding scrum of atte... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009