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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MusicVarious Artists – Forest Records Presents...
Whether you’re a patron of the place or not, the news that Edinburgh’s Forest Cafe might be on the ropes is surely cause for concern. The... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
TheatreThe Marriage of Figaro
Opera for the masses? Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
Film
Leaving
Unfulfilled playing the part of a bourgeois housewife to her husband Samuel (Yvan Attal) and two children, Suzanne Vidal (Kristin Scott Thomas) decides to re... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
MusicDavid E. Sugar – Memory Store
There was a buzz around this young producer’s first few releases – as early conduits of the 8-bit sound, singles Oi New York, This is London and ... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
Music
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Upside Down: The Best Of...
The whopping 44 track beast that is Upside Down: The Best of the Jesus & Mary Chain prompts that age-old question – can you have too much of a good... Read more »| 19 Nov 2010 -
Film
Splice
Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) are two genetic scientists in the employ of a medical research company. They create strange creatures th... Read more »| 19 Nov 2010
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FilmErasing David
Legitimate concerns about privacy and misuse of personal information have no place in director David Bond's bonkers documentary, which firmly sides itself wi... Read more »| 19 Nov 2010 -
Music
A Night to Remember... Remember
The Twilight Sad's James Graham elbows his way down the front to see Remember Remember blow the roof off Stereo Read more »| 19 Nov 2010 -
Books
Teenage Revolution by Alan Davies
This cheekily charming sweep through a decade does not say anything new yet makes for compelling reading. Davies uses portraits of wide-ranging heroe... Read more »| 18 Nov 2010 -
Music
Torche @ Stereo, 24 Nov
Perhaps one of the only bands in history to attempt to bridge pop and metal – doom metal, for that matter – and not completely fuck it up, Torche... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010 -
Music
Jimmy Eat World @ Barrowland, 19 Nov
Having spent the bulk of last year celebrating the tenth anniversary of Clarity – arguably their finest and most influential album to date – Temp... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010 -
Music
Instal 2010 @ Tramway, 12-13 Nov
Since its inception in 2001, Instal has established itself as one of the most important events in the UK’s sound art/avant-garde music calendar. This y... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010 -
Music
Nina Nastasia @ Electric Circus, 8 Dec
New York’s Nina Nastasia will be bringing her lilting, delicate brand of folk-rock to Edinburgh’s Electric Circus on 8 Dec. Her latest album Outl... Read more »| 17 Nov 2010 -
Music
Les Savy Fav @ Òran Mór, 14 Nov
Hats off to Wichita for finding supports capable of cordoning off their own patch of memory tonight. They might not share the headliner’s carnivalesque... Read more »| 16 Nov 2010 -
Music
New Blood: Haight-Ashbury
Pledging their love for a bygone era, Glasgow trio Haight-Ashbury aim to take the baton from their spiritual fathers across the pond Read more »| 16 Nov 2010