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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MusicEaters – Shouting At The Wind
“We had a first class delivery, like the Royal Mail,” spits Eaters' emcee Laughing Gear on Burn, a track which details the Edinburgh hip-hop coll... Read more »| 13 Dec 2010 -
ArtJonathan Horowitz @ DCA
For the screening of Jonathan Horowitz’s 20-minute film Apocalypto Now, the audience is seated in a chamber that’s declared entirely carbon-neutr... Read more »| 13 Dec 2010 -
MusicFrightened Rabbit @ Barrowland, 6 Dec
A two night sell-out at the Barrowlands is the stuff dreams are made of round these parts, and Scott Hutchison isn’t hiding his glee tonight. It’... Read more »| 13 Dec 2010 -
FilmBattle Royale: Limited Edition
This limited edition release of one of contemporary Japanese cinema's key releases comes with enough extras to make even the most ardent completist swoon, bu... Read more »| 10 Dec 2010 -
Music
Under the Influence: Tim Burgess
As The Charlatans dust down their arsenal of baggy anthems for Edinburgh's Hogmanay ho-down, frontman Tim Burgess gives us his desert island discs Read more »| 10 Dec 2010 -
ArtMidnight Clear @ Frame Creative
Another art gallery is exactly what Edinburgh’s New Town doesn’t need. However, Frame Creative marks an exciting departure from the stuffy, often... Read more »| 10 Dec 2010
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Music
Hog The Stage - Live Final @ HMV Picture House, 21 Nov
On reflection, it's easy to see why this quintet of acts was chosen to participate in the final of Hog The Stage, beating out hundreds of other entries to vi... Read more »| 10 Dec 2010 -
Music
Metropak – The Singles Collection
The late 70s spawned a vastly varied pool of talent within the UK, one hotbed of which was undoubtedly Edinburgh. From here came Metropak, four lads and two ... Read more »| 10 Dec 2010 -
Film
Skirt Day
Highlights from the French Film Festival 2010 Read more »| 10 Dec 2010 -
Art
Be the Hammer or the Anvil @ Generator Projects
There’s an all new, all female, committee at Generator Projects, Dundee. Their first show, Be the Hammer or the Anvil, is a similarly all female affair... Read more »| 09 Dec 2010 -
Music
Kabanjak – Tree of Mystery
As one half of German production duo Ancient Astronauts, Kabanjak's credentials are well established; that Tree Of Mystery deals in soulful hip-hop should co... Read more »| 09 Dec 2010 -
Music
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: 'When you dig up the past, the bones are just toys'
With a back-catalogue out of circulation and everyone from Grinderman to the Jim Jones Revue biting their style, Jon Spencer says it was time to unearth, dust off and put the Blues Explosion back in the oven Read more »| 09 Dec 2010 -
Music
Hookah the Fuzz – Hookah the Fuzz
In music, there are innovators and there are followers: Birmingham’s Hookah the Fuzz are firmly in the latter camp, though this is by no means a dispar... Read more »| 09 Dec 2010 -
Clubs
Death Disco: XXXmas Mayhem
The Arches Burns into a Zombie Nation just in time for the holidays Read more »| 08 Dec 2010 -
Music
The National @ O2 Academy, 26 Nov
A steady ascent is a rare thing in the contemporary indie rock landscape, but from the humble success of Alligator onwards The National have become an increm... Read more »| 07 Dec 2010