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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Music“Depression, alienation, sexual frustration, anger, violence, black comedy – Fat Goth has it all!"
As seasoned players from Dundee's alternative rock fraternity, Fat Goth aren't exactly shy of riffs on their startling second album, but they're not scared of rolling out the ballads either. Turns out they're taking sexy back Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
ArtFrom Death to Death and Other Small Tales
Following the success of last year’s The Sculpture Show, the National Galleries continues to break brave new ground with another sprawling behemoth of ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
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Boduf Songs – Burnt Up on Re-Entry
Mat Sweet’s first Boduf Songs LP for Southern – following four on Kranky – marks an appropriate shift in direction. Where the earlier reco... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
ArtThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 7 January
In the first Bulletin of 2013, new music from Factory Floor, a 2012 'best of' from Ghostly, the latest on the Creative Scotland shakeup, DJ Shadow's infamous 'too future' mix, rumours of a Twin Peaks reboot, and a new online archive of Scottish painting Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
FilmUnder the Influence: Django Unchained
Cinema magpie Quentin Tarantino's dipped his toe in blaxploitation, samurai, kung-fu and war movies. It was only a matter of time before he tried the spaghetti western. We cast our eye over the sub-genre's dark underbelly Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
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Rick Redbeard – No Selfish Heart
Rick Anthony’s intentions with his piratical alter-ego Rick Redbeard were laid out earlier this year via his split single with Adam Stafford, another w... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013
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The Joy Formidable – Wolf's Law
“Oh wow!” exclaimed Withered Hand when he recently guest reviewed The Joy Formidable’s lead single Cholla in these very pages. “That&... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
FilmBad Movie Night: Showgirls Revisited
Released to a storm of ridicule and notoriety in 1995, Showgirls is often held up as the epitome of a bad film. With it due to screen to a baying audience at Glasgow Film Theatre’s monthly Bad Movie Night!, The Skinny reassesses its legacy Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
Film
Les Misérables
Les Misérables, Tom Hooper’s follow-up to Oscar-bothering Heritage bromance The King’s Speech, offers all the pageantry of the 8... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
Music
Satellites – Satellites.01
Satellites.01 originally touched down in early 2011, in a limited run that was evidently too niche for such an ambitious-sounding record. Though imperfect,... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
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Roots Manuva – Banana Skank EP
The Banana Skank EP is a departure for Rodders, with two of the four tracks comprised of raps by Smith and collaborator Kope over four-to-the-floor beats. Th... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
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Wounds – Die Young
Though the bold album cover and title strongly suggest that an extreme brand of hardcore is on the cards, Dublin's Wounds actually tread much more palatabl... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
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Funeral For A Friend – Conduit
Welsh post-hardcore outfit Funeral for a Friend aren't exactly known for their consistency; in tandem with multiple lineup changes, the band's track rec... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013 -
Film
The Woodsman and the Rain
When a film crew arrives in a small town in rural Japan, Katsu, a recently bereaved lumberjack, is initially unimpressed. But, after he is drafted by the ass... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Books
Spinach Soup for the Walls by Lynn Harkes
There is no doubt this book has good intentions: beautifully written and graciously told, Spinach Soup for the Walls is a memoir of one woman’s travels... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013