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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BooksHit and Run by Doug Johnstone
Doug Johnstone continues his fascination with cliffs and cars in his fourth novel Hit and Run, a story following trainee reporter Billy Blackmore, who, aft... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
MusicHooded Fang – Tosta Mista
To say Hooded Fang are retro is akin to saying Lemmy likes the odd drink. The Canadian outfit are quick to acknowledge their debt to the 60s and the explosio... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Books
Trackman by Catriona Child
Trackman is a novel told from the perspective of Edinburgh-born Davie Watts. Davie is haunted by the traumatic death of his younger brother Lewey, for whic... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Film
Film Event Highlights – March 2012
Write Shoot Cut's inaugural Short Film Networking Night sees the light of day on 12 Mar at the Banshee Labyrinth Cinema, deep in the bowels of Edinburgh's mo... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
MusicTall Firs – Out Of It And Into it
Indie aristocracy all seem to agree that Tall Firs are a bit special. Having spent the last decade sharing stages with and impressing the likes of Shellac, S... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Music
Swound! – Into the Sea
Choosing to package their debut full-length with a 76 minute in-the-studio documentary suggests the four brothers that make up Swound! aren’t lacking s... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012
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MusicMeshuggah – Koloss
Sweden’s – hang on, let’s just make that the planet's – foremost tech-metal architects return with their answer to ‘difficult s... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Books
Wildwood by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
Prue McKeel was babysitting her baby brother, but could do nothing when he was kidnapped by crows and flown away. She has only one choice: to follow his abdu... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Books
Trieste by Dasa Drndic
Many contemporary writers believe that in order to overcome the sense of ineffability surrounding the horrors of the Holocaust one must attempt radical innov... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Art
Arika: Episode 3, Copying without Copying
The final part of Arika's triptych of programmes presents a weekend of four free events dealing with originality and identity Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Music
Soulfly – Enslaved
Anyone even vaguely familiar with Soulfly will probably know the drill by this point in the band's career, and indeed, those who have been following along ov... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Music
Little Doses – Rock Riot Soul
It’s difficult to imagine how Snow Patrol could ever have served as the platform for creative quarrel (not if you dug Songs for Polarbears &ndas... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Books
This Is Life by Dan Rhodes
Misguided but enthusiastic heroine Aurelie Renard is struggling to come up with a project for Art College which will blow the socks off her lecherous profess... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Books
Furnace by Wayne Price
In his debut collection of short stories, Price has done the paring down already. Not even a foreword makes it in. The stories are raw and precise, and ea... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Books
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
Gosh, what a shame. Where The Secret River had a deserved debutante sparkle and The Lieutenant had an adventurous and poetic grace, Sarah Thornhill is an un... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012