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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MusicSpectrals – Sob Story
Spectrals – the nom de plume of Yorkshire singer-songwriter Louis Jones – introduced his brand of lovelorn guitar pop on 2011’s p... Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights Scotland: June 2013
This month's highlights include faceless future funk from Ultradyne, New York re-edit legend Danny Krivit and Canadian newcomer, Ryan Hemsworth Read more »| 30 May 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 29 May
Edinburgh International Film Festival launches; Trent Reznor shocks fans with new Nine Inch Nails album announcement; music from CHVRCHES, Gold Panda, Glass Candy and Sparrow & The Workshop; plus the latest festival and tour news Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
BooksThe Professor of Truth by James Robertson
In The Professor of Truth James Robertson again proves himself to be one of Scotland’s best writers and one of the best writers in the world at explori... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
MusicBob Mould @ Òran Mór, 18 May
With his compelling autobiography, acclaimed solo albums, and comprehensive Sugar reissues in the last few years, interest in Bob Mould is as high ... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
MusicMykki Blanco @ Islington Mill, Salford, 16 May
The DJ's beats instigate little more than gentle foot-tapping among the audience; but there is an undisclosed buzz in the room that hints at electric anticip... Read more »| 29 May 2013
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Music
Young Fathers – Tape Two
Young Fathers' lo-fi take on 90s R&B, classic soul and old-school hip-hop is increasingly experimental, and that's no bad thing. Their recent excursions ... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
Music
Quickbeam – Quickbeam
Although Quickbeam is their debut release, this Glasgow-based quartet have been honing their ethereal, meditative folk for three years, and their d... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
Music
Camera Obscura – Desire Lines
For those unfamiliar with the term, ‘desire line’ is the poetic name given to those winding dirt trails that appear when people walk a certain ro... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
MusicThese New Puritans – Field of Reeds
Billed as a suite in three instalments of three tracks each, These New Puritans' third LP is a studious affair, as absorbant as it is absorbing (among its ma... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
Music
Icky Blossoms – Icky Blossoms
It’s sometimes tough to distinguish between maverick eclecticism and plain old muddlement, with Icky Blossoms' exhibit A. The pedigree of its... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
Music
Magic Arm – Images Rolling
Magic Arm is more or less the work of one man, who uses magic hands (plus a heap of helpful gadgets and instruments) to craft impressively full-bodied record... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
Music
Pasadena Napalm Division – Pasadena Napalm Division
Pasadena Napalm Division's membership should speak volumes for fans of thrash and hardcore: D.R.I frontman Kurt Brecht joins forces with members of 80s heavy... Read more »| 29 May 2013 -
Music
Melt Yourself Down – Melt Yourself Down
The second track on pyretic jazz-punk collective Melt Yourself Down’s eponymous debut is titled Release!, but in truth the whole shebang is one great b... Read more »| 28 May 2013 -
Books
Unhappy Go Lucky by Ian Pattison
Years ago the fact that Rab C. Nesbitt had to be subtitled in England made quite a few folk smile. From the writer of all ten series of that programme, Un... Read more »| 28 May 2013