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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BooksThe Shard Box by Liz Niven
In a new collection of poems about her experiences in China, Liz Niven seems the perfect traveller. She’s adventurous in confronting the cultur... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
FilmGFF 2011: Holes Where The Heart Is
Winner of the inaugural Margaret Tait Award 2010, Torsten Lauschmann invites Jac Mantle to his studio for an insight into his forthcoming screening at Glasgow Film Festival 2011. Words: Jac Mantle Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Music
Wild Palms – Until Spring
Although we are assured that London's Wild Palms subsisted on “a diet of Beefheart, The Fall, Can, and Wire” while working on the songs that comp... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
MusicVessels @ Captain's Rest, 21 Feb
It’s rare to see the Captain’s Rest dancefloor filled out like it is tonight and, given the warm reception, it’s apparent that at least a f... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Film
Wake Wood
Recently resurrected British studio Hammer's latest film is a new addition to the folk horror genre, in which a couple move to rural (fictional) Irish town W... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Film
GFF 2011: Dave Gibbons
Before his special appearance at GFF, acclaimed comic book artist and writer Dave Gibbons meets the CineSkinny to discuss his extensive career, the Watchmen adaptation, and Mark Millar. Read more »| 24 Feb 2011
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FilmGFF 2011: Griff the Invisible
From an unfinished synopsis, it feels natural to compare Griff the Invisible to fellow self-styled superhero Kick-Ass (plus there's also a slither of&nb... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Music
Bloodlights – Simple Pleasures
Say what you will about Norway, but they know how to make exceedingly good rock’n’roll. Perhaps the reason for this is that they believe, deep in... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Music
Trapped Mice – Portrait of a Great Father EP
Edinburgh’s Trapped Mice open their new EP quietly before stomping to a crescendo, a familiar but effective trick reminiscent of, amongst others, Okker... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Music
Wagon Christ – Toomorrow
Luke Vibert's Wagon Christ project has been ploughing a deceptively narrow furrow for well over a decade now. It's a breezy, upbeat sound: jazzy breaks, trip... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Music
Port-Royal – 2000-2010: The Golden Age of Consumerism
Genoa's Port-Royal have been mining a vein lying somewhere between symphonic, free-floating post-rock and melodic electronica for over ten years now; The Gol... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Music
Come On Gang! – Strike A Match
The foreword to Come On Gang!’s story was penned in a tiny music room at Edinburgh College of Art, where the band met in 2007; from there they have bee... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
MusicFOUND – Factorycraft
With their recent win of Creative Scotland's Vital Spark award and third album Factorycraft being given a leg-up by the ever daring Chemikal Underground, Edi... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Books
The Celestial Cafe by Stuart Murdoch
The Celestial Café is the first book by Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch. Written in diary-form it gives the reader an insight into the min... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
Film
Easy A
When Olive (Emma Stone) tells her best friend a white lie about losing her virginity (her “V-card”) she finds that her “terminological inex... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011