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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Theatre
Top Five Theatre Events in July
Because July's a quiet month for performance, we've selected a top five of classes for this month, offered at various locations across Scotland. Beginners B... Read more »| 06 Jul 2009 -
MusicEngineers: New Horizons
The second album from Engineers has been four years in the making. Joe Barton talks to bassist Mark Peters to find out what's taken them so long, and how they approach a radically changing music industry. Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
Music
Chic: Good Times Guaranteed
Nile Rodgers' legacy to pop music is astonishing. He tells Ally Brown how ideas evolve, some more obviously than others. Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
FilmPublic Enemies
Michael Mann has always been ahead of his time. From his near-invention of the MTV aesthetic through to his formally audacious feature films, he has continua... Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
ArtGray's School of Art Degree Show 2009
The well ‘oiled’ public was out in supportive mass for the opening night of the Aberdeen Degree Show in the stunning modernity of the Garthdee ca... Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
Clubs
Allien Life
Peter Walker speaks to Berlin based visionary Ellen Allien ahead of her appearance at Kaptial's second birthday. Read more »| 03 Jul 2009
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Music
Hercules & Love Affair - Sidetracked
New York DJ Andy Butler’s Hercules & Love Affair preceded the current disco vogue with first single Classique #2 in early 2007. Their subsequent LP... Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
Clubs
Lost Weekends
Get away from it all with a selection of all day events and weekend long festivals throughout July and August. All designed to treat your ears and save your wallet Read more »| 03 Jul 2009 -
Music
Sunset Rubdown: Krug Life
Once crowned indie rock's most industrious artist, Spencer Krug's eggs are now planted in one basket. Billy Hamilton catches up with the Sunset Rubdown frontman to find out why Read more »| 02 Jul 2009 -
Music
Oneida - Rated O
As a triple-CD set released as the second instalment of a triptych of albums, Rated O could either have turned out an epic listen or an indulgent d... Read more »| 02 Jul 2009 -
Books
Sum by David Eagleman
This slim volume is a cult book waiting to happen. For starters, David Eagleman is described on the jacket as a ‘neuroscientist and writer’, a cu... Read more »| 02 Jul 2009 -
MusicClark - Totems Flare
Clark’s third album follows a similar path to recent glitch-hop pioneers such as Mark Pritchard’s Harmonic 313 and rising Glaswegian star Hudson ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Clubs
Slabs Of The Tabernacle
Slabs of the Tabernacle present Brighton's Casionova Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
BooksThe Fire Gospel by Michael Faber
Remember The Da Vinci Code? Consider this the antidote. In The Fire Gospel Michael Faber has fun satirizing that book and its horrible ilk. His plot involves... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Music
Mastodon's Dirty Dozen – July, 2009
Our Music Editor sits down with prog metal monoliths Mastodon to devour a box of Tunnock's Tea Cakes and sift through July’s singles Read more »| 01 Jul 2009