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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MusicThe Scottish Enlightenment – St. Thomas
The Scottish Enlightenment echo winter well, with skeletal guitar lines as brittle and bare as tree branches and a settled pace as quietly insidious as snow ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
ClubsThe Arches Presents: Tiga
Tiga may have started his career promoting raves in the hollows of Montreal’s underground club scene in the early 90’s, but he’s co... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Music
Seafieldroad – There Are No Maps For This Part of the City
Swimmer One’s appeal largely lies in their imaginative genre combinations and ever-varying aesthetic, with this year’s Dead Orchestras an... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Music
Decimal – Lost in a Dark Place
Decimal has been doing his homework. Lost in a Dark Place is as typical a Soma album as you’re likely to hear, from it minimal, bumping start to the ob... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
Music
Dan Mangan – Nice, Nice, Very Nice
According to the NME, Dan Mangan “sings with the soul of Woody Guthrie – if Woody Guthrie had listened to Godspeed,” one of the sillier &ld... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
MusicThe Greenhornes – ****
Comprised partly of The Raconteurs’ rhythm section, The Greenhornes have been producing unashamedly feel good rock n’ roll since 1996. To say the... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010
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Music
Various 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 -
Theatre
The 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 -
Film
Erasing 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 -
MusicA 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