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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MusicK-X-P @ Captain's Rest, 24 Jan
Glasgow quintet Pyramidion’s brand of wailing psych-rock is a confusing proposition for a dreary Monday night in Glasgow. There are encouraging moments... Read more »| 26 Jan 2011 -
BooksWartime Notebooks by Marguerite Duras
The posthumous publication of a writer’s early notebooks and drafts can often feel like a cynical opportunity, or a desk-clearing exercise of little in... Read more »| 26 Jan 2011 -
ArtJohn Goto @ Edinburgh Printmakers
John Goto’s exhibition at the Edinburgh Printmakers may be small but it certainly evokes an intense response from the viewer. His collection of Mosaic... Read more »| 26 Jan 2011 -
MusicSleigh Bells @ Stereo, 22 Jan
As far as karaoke jams go, Sleigh Bells are up there with the greats tonight. On record these guys are teetering on brilliant, but a comprehensive backing tr... Read more »| 26 Jan 2011 -
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Living Today @ Mackintosh Gallery, GSA
Sporting a title of almost limitless possibility, the group show Living Today at the Mackintosh Museum assembles works by contemporary artists who explore as... Read more »| 26 Jan 2011 -
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Beans – End It All
Anti-Pop Consortium’s Beans, now happily ensconced on the Anticon roster, bring us his fifth album proper. A departure from the largely self-produced T... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011
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Dirk Bell @ The Modern Institute
What starts with a bitten apple, is followed by a star, proclamations of freedom, love and freelove? Apparently, not just the Bible but also Dirk Bell's new ... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
Books
Treblinka by Chil Rajchman
Chil Rajchman’s memoir of mass extermination in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka is unhysterical in tone, but harrowing in effect. Its spare, unsensati... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
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The Breakers by Claudie Gallay
Villages at the end of the earth share a degree of uniformity in that through their inhospitable settings and eccentric communities, they have an ability to ... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
MusicGruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
A career of over fifteen years recording music has provided irrefutable evidence of one thing – Gruff Rhys knows his way around a tune, and Hotel Shamp... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
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The Streets – Computers and Blues
The Streets’ Mike Skinner has been on a downer ever since releasing Original Pirate Material in 2002, but then no-one bothered. His melancholic parable... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
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Zoey Van Goey – Propeller Versus Wings
Expanded to a four-piece since debut The Cage Was Unlocked All Along, Zoey Van Goey’s launch Propeller Versus Wings with the atypically serious Mountai... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
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Conquering Animal Sound – Kammerspiel
The sight of woodland shards in the artwork, and the sound of Maschine trickling into life via stuttering bells, syncopated handclaps and double-tracked voca... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
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Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Live
Any discussion of Tom Tom Club is inevitably presaged by acknowledging that the band were essentially a side-project of Talking Heads, having been formed dur... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
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The Tall Ships – On Tariffs and Discovery
The Tall Ships sophomore album sees the US three-piece continue to hone their indie-art-rock compositions with explorative arrangements and understated produ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011