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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MusicBwani Junction – Fully Cocked
Edinburgh quartet Bwani Junction have been standing out from their peers due to their world-traipsing influences for a while now. Obvious connotations have p... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
FilmTaking Off
Between the bittersweet brilliance of A Blonde in Love and the Oscar glory of Cuckoo's Nest, Milos Forman made this riotous 1971 oddity about America’s... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
ClubsDeath Disco Presents Jacques Lu Cont
The last monthly Death Disco at The Arches will go out on a high with the multiple personalities of Jacques Lu Cont and the offbeat wackiness of The 2 Bears.... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Clubs
Killer Kitch Presents: Visions Tour 2011 @ The Buff Club, 29 November
The European leg of this tour featuring three of the most hotly tipped young DJs, each playing different variants of bass, arrives in Scotland for the first ... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
MusicBwani Junction: “Everyone wants to think that their music is so fucking original...”
With their bastardised name, ‘playful’ artwork and fresh Afro-Caribbean sounds, Edinburgh quartet Bwani Junction have been brightening up the musical underbelly of Auld Reekie and beyond for some time. With their debut album now on the horizon, the time felt right to take stock of their story Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Music
Kono Michi @ The Caves, 27 October
As a virtuoso violinist and regular collaborator with Yo Yo Ma, there is an expectaiton amongst the small audience in The Caves this evening for Michi Wianck... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011
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Music
Tom Vek's Desert Island Discs
Tom Vek spills the contents of his emergency musical medicine cabinet, should he find himself shipwrecked Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Film
The Grand Master: Terence Davies in interview
The UK film industry has committed some heinous acts — Revolver, Rancid Aluminium, Richard Curtis — but perhaps its worst crime is failing to support Terence Davies, its great visionary. We spoke to the Liverpudlian about his latest feature Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ The Usher Hall, 27 October
Six years ago, a guitarist walked off this very stage with the band he will forever be synonymous with. Since then he has become a husband again and a father... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
The Black Dog – Liber Dogma
While The Black Dog’s early-90s IDM peers tend to have pursued either bewilderingly expansive realms in their later releases (Autechre, Aphex Twin), or... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Joker – The Vision
Joker's foray into longplayer territory mirrors that of fellow dubstep pioneers Skream, Benga and Artwork's Rubicon-crossing debut of last year, Magnetic Man... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Clean George IV – God Save The Clean
Enigmatic Edinburgh citizen Clean George has busied himself with a classical music degree, a lawsuit from Kraftwerk and myriad projects since we last heard f... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Clubs
Derrick Carter & Luke Solomon Classic Records Tour
Back in the mid 90s, Chicago house stalwart Derrick Carter and his English compatriot Luke Solomon, acknowledging that supply and demand were ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Atlas Sound – Parallax
Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox retains the mid-tempo groove of his band's more recent output on this third officially released LP as Atlas Sound. A s... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
Billed as “an electronic song cycle based around lo-fi audio procured from television advertisement compilations,” Replica plays out like an... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011