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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FilmCarry on Killing: Director Ben Wheatley on Sightseers
Ben Wheatley was kind enough to take some time out from editing new picture A Field In England to be quizzed by The Skinny on this month’s Sightseers, and what he’s got coming up next Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
BooksThe Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard
Showcasing short fiction with transgender themes, The Collection differs from its predecessors through its prioritisation of the perspectives of transgender ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
MusicJohn Paul Jones talks touring with Supersilent and the possibility of reconvening Them Crooked Vultures
The subject of Led Zeppelin's new concert documentary might be impossible to ignore, but this month John Paul Jones bids farewell to the past and looks forward to an impending tour with Norwegian improv group Supersilent... Read more »| 09 Nov 2012 -
Music
The Unthanks – Diversions Volume 3: Songs from the Shipyards
Views of the wasted ghost ships at Seaton and the tankers chugging out of Tees dock typified every trip to the coast for those of us living in the sha... Read more »| 09 Nov 2012 -
Music
On the Road: The Hazey Janes take Europe with Wilco (Part Four)
As the band rolls into Seville, the end of tour blues start to kick in Read more »| 08 Nov 2012 -
Art
Scottish Art: Own Brand?
Hailing from Oz, Peter Drew shares his first encounter with the Scottish art scene Read more »| 08 Nov 2012
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Music
Zombie Zombie – Rituels d'Un Nouveau Monde
On Rituels d’Un Nouveau Monde, this French electro/neo-prog duo progress from their previous work – reinterpreting John Carpenter soundtracks &n... Read more »| 07 Nov 2012 -
Music
Snow Palms – Intervals
With his work in the London instrumental trio State River Widening from the late '90s to the mid '00s, David Sheppard helped to create a pastoral, folk-infle... Read more »| 06 Nov 2012 -
Music
Hero Worship: Johnny Ramone
Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd says that, for all Johnny Ramone's controversial politics, the New York punk pioneer was like an uncle figure to his band Read more »| 06 Nov 2012 -
MusicThe Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know – The Remixes
With No One Can Ever Know showcasing a cold electro minimalism, The Twilight Sad confidently stepped outwith their self-imposed confines earlier this year.... Read more »| 06 Nov 2012 -
Music
Distance and Meaning: Jacob Bannon explains the cult of Converge
Converge's Jacob Bannon explains why, the older they get, the heavier the Massachusetts hardcore kings become Read more »| 06 Nov 2012 -
MusicFrank Eddie – Let's Be Frank
The new project from Lemon Jelly’s Fred Deakin feels uncomfortably like a novelty record, and a rather dated one at that: Let’s Be Frank is a col... Read more »| 06 Nov 2012 -
Art
Carpets of Distinction @ Dovecot Studios
From the mid nineteenth century into the early twentieth, the Arts and Craft Movement stood for artistic craftsmanship over the increasing superfluity of ind... Read more »| 06 Nov 2012 -
Music
Poliça @ SWG3, 2 November
It has been observed that Poliça is a band having to go through its adolescence on the road. Started as a studio project by singer Channy Leaneagh a... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
Art
Ugo Rondinone @ Common Guild, Until 19 November
The first few sculptures in Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone's debut Scottish exhibition, primitive – hand-made birds cast in bronze, be... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012