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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FilmThe Queen of Spades
Based on a short story by Aleksandr Pushkin and championed by Martin Scorsese (who provides an enthusiastic introduction to this DVD), this obscure 1949 fant... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
MusicDanton Eeprom - Yes Is More
Electro eccentric Danton Eeprom has been around for a few years now, wildly switching directions every so often through his varied solo singles, remixes for ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Music
Icons of Elegance - Dancing Is Easy
Part of the reason that Scandinavian indie-pop seems to have such an easy journey across the North Sea to our cynical shores lies in the fact that they're so... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
MusicFour Tet - There Is Love In You
Dogged by the ‘folktronica’ label since his 2001 album Pause, Kieran Hebden should, with any justice, be able to escape that particular straitjac... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Music
Yeti Lane - Yeti Lane
Comfort zones make things easier to swallow, but familiarity in music needn't always breed contempt, as Yeti Lane quite carefully remind us. As with ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Clubs
Death Disco: Looking Forward
The folk behind Death Disco give their recommendations for the best live acts to look out in 2010. Read more »| 07 Jan 2010
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Music
The Seventeenth Century - The Notes EP
The Seventeenth Century are a baroque folk pop collective threading strings and things through dramatic songsmithery. As such, they’re far from groundb... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Books
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
The Children’s Book begins in 1895, when a young runaway is discovered in vaults below the South Kensington Museum. Author Olive Wellwood, adop... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Theatre
A Wee Home from Home
A pleasure from the past explains by omission how Glasgow has grown. Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Music
Everybody Was In The French Resistance... Now! - Fixin' The Charts, Volume One
In some of the more glowing appraisals of his work with Art Brut, Eddie Argos has been compared favourably to Craig Finn, barroom bard and Hold Steady’... Read more »| 06 Jan 2010 -
Music
Delphic - Acolyte
If New Order ever left you cold, this will give you hypothermia Read more »| 06 Jan 2010 -
Music
Diarmaid O Meara - Structured Noise
Structured Noise is the sort of thing Amnesty International would seek to make illegal under human rights laws. Sitting through the 72 long, long minutes of ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2010 -
Theatre
Get Animated!
“The Festival was created to help promote the art form of puppetry, all its many different styles and techniques – to adult audiences interested in innovative visual theatre.” Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Theatre
High Tease and Rockaburley
Rockaburley and High Tease both continued to push the boundaries of the current burlesque movement begging the exciting question; where will things lead in the coming year? Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
MusicGrounds for Divorce
Uncompromising and inspired they may be, but something tells us that Divorce's incessant gigging is holding back one hell of an album. Read more »| 05 Jan 2010