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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MusicAlbums of the Year (#10): Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
Our Music team cried and dragged their heels at the idea of ranking favourites, then remembered that everybody loves a bloody good list. For your delectation, The Skinny humbly presents a document of the fine records you might have missed in 2011 Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Music
Hero Worship: King Creosote
Fence Records boss Johnny Lynch, AKA The Pictish Trail, applauds his best pal Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Music
White Denim – Last Day Of Summer
As numerous box sets and compilations of outtakes testify, collections recorded in unusual contexts – external to official sessions – can often r... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
MusicDan Mangan – Oh Fortune
With Oh Fortune – the follow up to 2009’s Nice, Nice, Very Nice which largely brought the Canadian singer songwriter to the attention o... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
MusicThe Cure – Bestival Live 2011
There are several excellent live documents of The Cure, from the classic 1988 film The Cure In Orange to the more recent reissue of Entreat (which solely rel... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Music
Machine Head: "We feel like a new band in this line-up”
As Machine Head mark their 20th anniversary, Dave McClain talks fresh starts, critical missteps and diabolical cocktails Read more »| 29 Nov 2011
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Music
Butcher the Bar – For Each a Future Tethered
For Each a Future Tethered does everything a second album should, evoking its predecessor’s blueprint whilst comfortably improving on it. On his follow... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Books
A Book Gift Guide
Whether it's someone you know well or someone you find hard to buy for, books are always a good gift solution, because they're cheap(ish), portable and usually available in all good book shops. Here are a few suggestions Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Clubs
Huntleys & Palmers turns four
Huntleys & Palmers main man Andrew Thomson talks about the four years of running nights in Glasgow, relocating to London and starting his own label Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
MusicThee American Revolution – Buddha Electrostorm
Although active since 2004, this frazzled psych duo – comprised of Craig Morris, and The Apples in Stereo’s Robert Schneider – didn’t... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Music
Pusha T – Fear of God II: Let Us Pray
Pusha T, the younger half of seminal Virginia hip-hop duo Clipse, has been making a conscious move towards the mainstream arena in his own right, as even a c... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Music
The Metal Column – December 2011
The Skinny likes its metal like we don't like our weather – harsh, uncompromising, brutal – and although we're unlikely to be kept pleased by the... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Art
Jamie Johnson: Sunshine on Leith
Artist and Illustrator Jamie Johnson contributes regularly to Skinny and will soon be selling limited edition prints through The Skinny Shop on CultureLabel.com. Here he discusses his unique style and how living in Leith inspires the characters he depicts Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Comedy
Phil Kay: "You get completely wasted and end up naked"
Has age made Scottish wildman Phil Kay calm down? No, it hasn't Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Music
Dead Boy Robotics: Tales of the Future
Edinburgh trio Dead Boy Robotics count Blade Runner as a pivotal influence, enjoy a bit of Xbox Live and have written a funk ode to the Jaffa Cake. A band with these credentials should be celebrated – we have a word as their debut finally touches down Read more »| 28 Nov 2011