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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MusicCharlotte Gainsbourg – Stage Whisper
‘Brave’, ‘searing’, ‘extraordinary’: Charlotte Gainsbourg’s acting has quite rightly prompted many a critic to splu... Read more »| 04 Nov 2011 -
MusicSpotlight Kid – Disaster Tourist
Spotlight Kid, AKA former Six By Seven drummer Chris Davis, joined by Bent and Mylo contributor Katty Heath and cohorts, delve into the back catalogues of My... Read more »| 04 Nov 2011 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: The Skinny Showcase Shop
From late november you will be able to buy limited edition prints online courtesy of The Skinny Showcase in collaboration with Culture Label (www.culturelabe... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
MusicBob Dorough – The Devil's Best Tunes
Known most famously for an educational ode to multiplication (Three Is A Magic Number), The Devil’s Best Tunes gathers together work spanning Bob Dorou... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Music
Marcel Dettmann – Conducted
Invoking the spirit of Europe's favourite techno fortress for the second time since his inaugural Berghain 02 mix, Marcel Dettmann's Conducted offering is an... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Music
Seafieldroad – Seafieldroad
Released almost exactly a year after his debut as Seafieldroad (itself released a mere six months after Swimmer One’s Dead Orchestras), Andrew Eaton-Le... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011
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Music
Hero Worship: Thurston Moore
Idlewild's Rod Jones tips his hat to the man who inspired him to pick up a guitar in the first place Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
MusicKing's Daughters & Sons – If Then Not When
Chemikal Underground welcome members of Shipping News, Rachel’s, The For Carnation, and Shannon Wright in the form of new band King’s Daughters &... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Music
Bwani Junction – Fully Cocked
Edinburgh quartet Bwani Junction have been standing out from their peers due to their world-traipsing influences for a while now. Obvious connotations have p... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Film
Taking Off
Between the bittersweet brilliance of A Blonde in Love and the Oscar glory of Cuckoo's Nest, Milos Forman made this riotous 1971 oddity about America’s... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Clubs
Death Disco Presents Jacques Lu Cont
The last monthly Death Disco at The Arches will go out on a high with the multiple personalities of Jacques Lu Cont and the offbeat wackiness of The 2 Bears.... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Clubs
Killer Kitch Presents: Visions Tour 2011 @ The Buff Club, 29 November
The European leg of this tour featuring three of the most hotly tipped young DJs, each playing different variants of bass, arrives in Scotland for the first ... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Music
Bwani Junction: “Everyone wants to think that their music is so fucking original...”
With their bastardised name, ‘playful’ artwork and fresh Afro-Caribbean sounds, Edinburgh quartet Bwani Junction have been brightening up the musical underbelly of Auld Reekie and beyond for some time. With their debut album now on the horizon, the time felt right to take stock of their story Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Music
Kono Michi @ The Caves, 27 October
As a virtuoso violinist and regular collaborator with Yo Yo Ma, there is an expectaiton amongst the small audience in The Caves this evening for Michi Wianck... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Music
Tom Vek's Desert Island Discs
Tom Vek spills the contents of his emergency musical medicine cabinet, should he find himself shipwrecked Read more »| 02 Nov 2011