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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MusicOneida - Rated O
As a triple-CD set released as the second instalment of a triptych of albums, Rated O could either have turned out an epic listen or an indulgent d... Read more »| 02 Jul 2009 -
BooksSum by David Eagleman
This slim volume is a cult book waiting to happen. For starters, David Eagleman is described on the jacket as a ‘neuroscientist and writer’, a cu... Read more »| 02 Jul 2009 -
Music
Clark - Totems Flare
Clark’s third album follows a similar path to recent glitch-hop pioneers such as Mark Pritchard’s Harmonic 313 and rising Glaswegian star Hudson ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Clubs
Slabs Of The Tabernacle
Slabs of the Tabernacle present Brighton's Casionova Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
BooksThe Fire Gospel by Michael Faber
Remember The Da Vinci Code? Consider this the antidote. In The Fire Gospel Michael Faber has fun satirizing that book and its horrible ilk. His plot involves... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
MusicMastodon's Dirty Dozen – July, 2009
Our Music Editor sits down with prog metal monoliths Mastodon to devour a box of Tunnock's Tea Cakes and sift through July’s singles Read more »| 01 Jul 2009
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MusicSixty Watt Bayonets - Pounding Hearts, Fighting Words
Vocally similar to an English version of now defunct Glasgow outfit Bad Dancer, the Sixty Watt Bayonet singer's tunefulness is questionable at points, lack o... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Comedy
Jimmy Carr: Joke Technician @ The Alhambra, Dunfermline, 20 Jun
Jimmy Carr is astonishingly unoffensive in his latest stand-up fest, Joke Technician. Well unless you're a Hollyoaks actor or Simon Cowell. Or someone who s... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Film
July Film Events: 2009
June was such a busy month that it seems the cinemas across Scotland are largely on their summer holidays. Perhaps July is the month to relax, take a break a... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Theatre
Cooking With Elvis
“Who could not love The King?” replies Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall, when asked if he is a fan of the legend at the centre of his Cooking with E... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Music
November's Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal
For sure, death/doom is an unusual amalgam of two already esoteric genres. Add to that the grandiose barkings of November's Doom founder member Paul Kuhr and... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Music
Celan - Halo
This was an ambitious project from the off: Ari Benjamin Meyers of legendary Germans Einstürzende Neubauten and Chris Spencer of red-throated New York r... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Books
Bad Boy Drive by Robert Sellers
David Lynch’s 2001 film added much to the surreal and schizophrenic nature of Mulholland Drive, a long and winding beauty spot outside Hollywood, and h... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Music
El Dog - The Lamps of Terrahead
This is a pleasant surprise. Seemingly picking up the torch laid down during the unfortunate demise of Aerogramme, El Dog don't so much wear their hearts on ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Music
Metal Up Your Ass - July, 2009
There are questions that keep me up at night. You're reading this so I'll assume we share some interests and therefore maybe these questions bother you too. ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009