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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ArtFIELD: By Means of Matter @ Generator Projects
Field is a London-based artists’ collective united by circumstance and a common interest in space and materiality. This eight-strong unit journeyed fro... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
FilmGainsbourg
Joann Sfar has subtitled his film about iconic figure Serge Gainsbourg 'Vie héroïque'; whether the subject's life deserves that desc... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Music
Women – Public Strain
The static storm cover for Public Strain is as good an entrée for its unsettling brilliance as the damaged symphony of first single Eyesore. The obtus... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Music
The Burns Unit Present Side Show, Track-by-Track
Side Show – the anticipated debut from eight-piece Scottish-Canadian supergroup The Burns Unit – is bound for release this August. We invited the players involved to introduce it with a track-by-track guide to the writing process Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Music
Endor – Endor
If timing’s everything then Endor should have set their watches. While Frightened Rabbit were flaunting their winsome jangling across the globe, their ... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Music
Wu-Tang Clan: Like Voltron
As Wu-Tang Clan get ready to swarm on Glasgow, Raekwon mentally prepares us for the hip-hop gig of the summer Read more »| 26 Jul 2010
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Music
Boris & Ian Astbury – BXI EP
Having lent his bellowing pipes to everybody from UNKLE to Slash since ending his tenure at the helm of The Doors and reconvening The Cult in recent years, I... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Music!!! – Strange Weather, Isn't It?
In which DancePunk ™ seems to have metamorphosed into disco funk as curated by George Clinton and Chic. !!!’s first album since 2007’s broo... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Music
Aberfeldy – Somewhere To Jump From
Not that we want to encourage Aberfeldy’s pathos, but being dropped by Rough Trade, losing several band members and potentially being remembered for so... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Music
Yu(c)k – Weakened EP
Coveting their underground credentials, emerging noise-pop 90s revivalists, Yuck, have opted not only to release their Weakened EP under alter-ego Yu(c)k, bu... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
FilmStray Dogs and Samurai: Celebrating 100 Years of Akira Kurosawa
In celebration of the centenary of acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa we select five of his films which are essential viewing Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Music
RPA & The United Nations of Sound – United Nations of Sound
Having walked in the shadow of his self-assumed messianic status since the release of The Verve’s critical and commercial haymaker, Urban Hymns, Richar... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Theatre
Naked Ambition
In the past year, Julie Laidlaw's Blonde Ambition has become one of the most important - and adventurous - companies in cabaret Read more »| 23 Jul 2010 -
Art
Martin Creed @ The Fruitmarket Gallery
Martin Creed has a penchant for order. He likes to stack things according to their size, for instance. A stack of chairs, one on top of the other, might not ... Read more »| 23 Jul 2010 -
Books
A Game of Sorrows by Shona MacLean
The year is 1628 and Alexander Seaton of Aberdeen finds himself called to Ireland to break a curse that has been placed upon his estranged family. Th... Read more »| 23 Jul 2010