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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MusicMetronomy @ Òran Mór, 23 September
It’s a risky strategy to have Edinburgh’s Discopolis opening the show tonight: the trio’s high-energy synthscapes threaten to raise the pit... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
MusicThree Trapped Tigers @ Captain's Rest, 21 September
There’s a reason Three Trapped Tigers’ ‘IDM played live’ sound is a rarity: it looks bloody difficult. All three members possess ston... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
MusicSlow Club @ Cabaret Voltaire, 19 September
As Slow Club herald the arrival of their tasty new album, Paradise, with a show packed full of messy energy, articulate banter and exquisitely stripped-down ... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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Mastodon: “It's refreshing to be a little childish"
Having conquered the elements, Troy Sanders tells us what’s next for Mastodon Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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The Green Wave
Using a vivid collage of animations, interviews and source footage, The Green Wave explores the pro-Mousavi protests that followed Ahmadinejad’s &lsquo... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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DJ Shadow – The Less You Know, The Better
Abandoning the goodtime crunk and tombola-plucked guests of 2007’s die-hard riling The Outsider, Josh Davis returns with a jukebox album, bound to at l... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011
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ArtResident Easel
RESIDENT: 11 brings together ten of the artists who've taken part in residency schemes across Scotland in the last year for an exhibition in Edinburgh's RSA. We caught up with two of them, Cheryl Field and Erica Eyres, to hear about their new work Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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Patria O Muerte @ Such and Such
Patria O Muerte (Homeland or Death). The subtitle, A Photographic Exhibition of Cuba, explains the seemingly simple premise behind this solo exhibition by Du... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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Stephin Merritt – Obscurities
Stephin Merritt has described curating Obscurities an ‘agonising’ and ‘depressing’ experience, with most candidate tracks decreed obs... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
M83’s last album, Saturdays = Youth, was their biggest critical and commercial success to date. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, then, is a curveball. W... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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Keith Top Of The Pops & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band – Fuck You! I'm Keith Top Of The Pops
Clearly saturated in ramshackle influences such as Half Man Half Biscuit, The Fall and Carter USM (who feature here), Keith TOTP can't quite shake off the co... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Film
Drive
Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn (Pusher trilogy, Valhalla Rising) teams up with Ryan Gosling to produce a taut, ferocious and glossy homage to the seedy c... Read more »| 23 Sep 2011 -
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Fruit Tree Template
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Music
Martyn – Ghost People
Dutch producer Martyn's Brainfeeder debut isn't the 'statement' record that some observers might have anticipated, nor does it represent a wholesale paradigm... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Film
When China Met Africa
Napoleon once said, “China is a sleeping giant but when she wakes she will shake the world.” Capturing this rising titan’s strides into Afr... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011