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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FilmEncounters
This new collection from the BFI presents four classic short films of gay cinema, rescued from obscurity, cleaned up and given some love. The 1960s and 70s w... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
MusicOrbital – Wonky
Orbital’s first LP since reforming in 2008 initially strikes out into familiar territory: the opening bars of One Big Moment revisit the combin... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
Film
Mother and Child
Mother and Child steps into the lives of middle-aged Karen (Annette Bening), once a teen mother, her estranged, solitary, and fiercely independent daughter E... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
MusicTrembling Bells featuring Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Marble Downs
Trembling Bells bring a marked departure from recent Will Oldham-involved projects, with a sound that’s a brimming-over the cup of baroque. Their infu... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
Music
Amadou & Mariam – Folila
For a visually impaired husband and wife duo from Mali, Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia have an impressive knack of befriending international superstars... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
Music
AU – Both Lights
AU’s latest album is typically arcane, yet it crackles with access points. As always, a casual cadre of guests expand upon Luke Wyland’s intric... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012
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MusicSeamus Fogarty – God Damn You Mountain
Rita Jack’s Lament, the centrepiece of Seamus Fogarty’s startlingly good debut album, features a recording of a County Kerry native on her first... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
Music
Quakers – Quakers
At 41 tracks, Quakers is a behemoth of a record. It's hip-hop to the core: samples and crisp beats clashing violently beneath a roll call of emcees who r... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
Music
Haight-Ashbury – Haight-Ashbury 2: The Ashburys
There is absolutely nothing in Haight-Ashbury's second album to suggest they are a three-piece from Glasgow that make music in 2012. This is a band that un... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – April 2012
Let’s not fuck about, people; Helmet in their prime could wipe the floor with your favourite band. A bit jazz, a little hardcore, and very metal, their... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
Film
Edinburgh International Science Festival: Future Human – the movies
What does it mean to be human, past, present and future? The sci-fi films in the Future Human strand of Edinburgh International Science Festival attempt to answer this question Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
Music
Lightships – Electric Cables
Most Teenage Fanclub albums contain at least one standout penned by bass player Gerard Love: Star Sign, Sparky’s Dream, Ain’t That Enough, I Ne... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
Music
Eric Chenaux – Guitar & Voice
Its title gives Chenaux’s fourth album for the Constellation label a rather orchestral air. And Guitar & Voice is perhaps best considered as an orc... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
Clubs
The Big Beach Ball
The salty shores of the granite palace are set to be smashed to bits this May, by way of a unique and unseen-in-Aberdeen all day party, The Big Beach Ball. C... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
Music
La Sera – Sees the Light
'Kickball' Katy Goodman – better known as one third of the surf-punk group Vivian Girls – returns with this second solo album under the La Se... Read more »| 29 Mar 2012