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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ArtShowcase Shop – Artist Profiles
In December 2011, in the Creative Scotland offices in Edinburgh's Waverley Gate, The Skinny launched the first collection of its Showcase Shop, a collaborati... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen – May 2012
With his two bandmates otherwise engaged, the gargantuan responsibility of reviewing the month’s singles rests squarely on the shoulders of Phillip from Glasgow trio PAWS. Can he withstand the terrible auto-tuned RnB vocals? Will the CDs actually work? Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Music
Will Dutta – Parergon
Though the majority of Parergon is centred on the piano, subtle droning electronic frequencies, echo effects and even schizophrenic Venetian Snares-style... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Film
Summer Preview: Blockbusters v Art-house
We preview a summer of films, pitting the art-house against the event movie using a scientifically proven top trumps system that rates director kudos, fan anticipation, funniness, sexiness and that quintessential summer movie ingredient, explodiness Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
FilmLucky Luke
Though he’s been gun-slinging since the forties, comic-strip cowboy Lucky Luke’s golden age came under the auspices of Asterix creator René... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Books
March Was Made of Yarn by Various
On March 11 2011, Japan’s north-east coast was hit by a massive earthquake, followed minutes later by a fifty-foot tsunami. The subsequent meltdown at ... Read more »| 02 May 2012
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Books
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Anais Hendricks is a fifteen year old orphan who is taken to the Panopticion, a home for chronic young offenders, after she is suspected of putting a policew... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Death Grips: “There's a lot of recycling and destruction in the making of our music”
A full-frontal assault on the musical culture of 2012, Death Grips might just be the most important band to arrive so far this century. Zach Hill discusses raw reality, release and borrowing Simon Cowell's printer Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Theatre
The Captain’s Collection
With its evocative Celtic strains and poetic prose, the opening scenes from Dogstar’s revival of their first production, The Captain’s Colle... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Theatre
Standing Stanes – Besieging Malmaison
Tina Finch explains how Siege Perilous theatre company teamed up with Malmaison to recreate a lost Scottish play Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
TheatreHope Springs Arabian @ Oràn Mór
Working in conjunction with two separate theatres (Dundee Rep and Perth Theatre) would be ambitious enough for any company, but then the people behind A Pl... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
MusicBang On! – [sic]
The debut from 21-year-old Liverpudlian rapper Elliott Egerton expresses the frustrations, tensions and mundanity of inner-city poverty with disarming dire... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Geoff Barrow talks DROKK: "2000AD is as important to me as Public Enemy"
Portishead's Geoff Barrow gives us the lowdown on his new Judge Dredd-inspired synth project, DROKK. Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Taffy – Caramel Sunset
In the UK, Britpop’s spectre – not Pulp or Blur, but the bread and butter bands that once padded out Shine compilations – has kept a penite... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Admiral Fallow – Tree Bursts In Snow
Admiral Fallow are a success story to warm the most jaded of hearts, their measured ascent possessing the kind of slow-burn, grass-roots momentum that can&... Read more »| 02 May 2012