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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FilmPublic Enemies
Michael Mann has always been ahead of his time. From his near-invention of the MTV aesthetic through to his formally audacious feature films, he has continua... Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
Art
Gray's School of Art Degree Show 2009
The well ‘oiled’ public was out in supportive mass for the opening night of the Aberdeen Degree Show in the stunning modernity of the Garthdee ca... Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
Clubs
Allien Life
Peter Walker speaks to Berlin based visionary Ellen Allien ahead of her appearance at Kaptial's second birthday. Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
Music
Hercules & Love Affair - Sidetracked
New York DJ Andy Butler’s Hercules & Love Affair preceded the current disco vogue with first single Classique #2 in early 2007. Their subsequent LP... Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
ClubsLost Weekends
Get away from it all with a selection of all day events and weekend long festivals throughout July and August. All designed to treat your ears and save your wallet Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
Music
Sunset Rubdown: Krug Life
Once crowned indie rock's most industrious artist, Spencer Krug's eggs are now planted in one basket. Billy Hamilton catches up with the Sunset Rubdown frontman to find out why Read more »| 02 Jul 2009
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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 -
Books
Sum 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 -
Books
The 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 -
Music
Mastodon'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 -
Music
Sixty 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 -
ComedyJimmy 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