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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MusicTrash Talk – Eyes & Nines
Screaming out of Sacramento, Trash Talk arrive at their second full-length in five years with experience and venom. Aided by the capable hands of producer Jo... Read more »| 27 May 2010 -
MusicStag and Dagger 2010 @ Various Venues, Glasgow, 22 May
While not as dependent on the weather as its field-based brethren, wandering between city-festival venues is infinitely more pleasurable on a balmy, pre-summ... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
MusicRadar Brothers – The Illustrated Garden
A new Radar Bros album is as welcome as a cooling breeze from an open window amidst a room otherwise full of obnoxious, clamouring musical wannabes, throwing... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Music
Islet – Celebrate This Place
Little is known about Welsh quartet, Islet, a band which eschews the postmodern trappings of MySpace, Twitter and the like in favour of a low key – but... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Art
Chicks on Speed @ DCA
Multidisciplinary and intimidatingly prolific, Chicks on Speed are popping up in Dundee for their first UK solo show Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Music
Far – At Night We Live
Any subsequent releases by Far were always going to face tough comparisons to their 1998 masterpiece Water And Solutions. With twelve years of altern... Read more »| 26 May 2010
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Music
Nina Nastasia – Outlaster
Despite being blessed with a name that sounds like a major label’s riposte to Christina Aguilera, Nina Nastasia is much vaunted in indieland. T... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Theatre
Kursk Review
Be immersed in a submarine: but is it good theatre? Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Clubs
Ceephax Acid Crew (Live), JD Twitch & Sean Matthews @ Noise Pollution, 5 Jun
After his debut, 1998’s Bainted Smile EP, Ceephax Acid Crew aka Andy Jenkinson, brother of Squarepusher, quickly became known for using vintage drum ma... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
FilmJune Film Events
Between 13-20 June, Scotland celebrates its annual Refugee Week, with both the GFT in Glasgow and the Filmhouse in Edinburgh screening films that offer insig... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Art
Summer Graffiti
Scotland may not have a Poster Boy but we’re doing pretty well when it comes to street art. Whether you’re into prints or graffiti, there’s enough to keep you busy until July. Here are our favourties Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Music
The Kays Lavelle – Be Still This Gentle Morning
Edinburgh boys The Kays Lavelle open debut album Be Still This Gentle Morning with the cinematic sweep of The Hours, and in doing so make a bold statement of... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Music
Soulfly @ Studio 24, Edinburgh, 19 May
After an intensely hot 45 minute wait, the crowd are already sweating as the intro to Blood Fire War Hate – from Soulfly's 2008 album, Conquer &nd... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Film
Jack Cardiff: A Life in (Moving) Pictures
We talk to Scottish filmmaker Craig McCall at the Cannes Film Festival on how he came to make a documentary on the legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
Music
The Magic Numbers – The Runaway
The Magic Numbers, God bless them, seem to have created such a blandly benevolent image of themselves that many (especially the paparazzi) will find it diffi... Read more »| 26 May 2010