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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MusicSkeletonwitch @ Ivory Blacks, 30 Nov
Tonight is proof positive that the thrash resurgence continues to gain momentum, with mobs of younger fans wholeheartedly embracing the sounds of vintage met... Read more »| 07 Dec 2009 -
ClubsSubculture vs Sensu Detroit Weekender @ Sub Club, 18 & 19 Dec
Sensu and Subculture lock horns across two evenings with guests Octave One and Derrick May. Read more »| 07 Dec 2009 -
Film
The First Day of The Rest of Your Life
Rémi Bezançon's second feature is a variegated portrait of the Duval family, each of whom we follow for one day, spanning 12 chaotic years of t... Read more »| 07 Dec 2009 -
FilmUnmade Beds
Unmade Beds is a beautiful and sensitive account of a handful of 20-somethings living in a squat in East London. We follow wide-eyed Axl (Fernando T... Read more »| 07 Dec 2009 -
ClubsM_nus one
After a successful night at Sensu and a well received new mix for the world famous Fabric compilation series, the first lady of M_nus opens up about Detroit, Poland under communist rule and her listening habits changing with the season. Read more »| 04 Dec 2009 -
Clubs
Death 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
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MusicMy 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 -
Art
Happy 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 -
Music
The 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 -
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