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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BooksBah Humbug: A Literary Gift Guide
The Skinny Books team melt celebrity ego before the open fire, looking past inane memoirs to suggest the finest literary offerings to gift the family this Christmas Read more »| 01 Dec 2014 -
FilmEastern Boys
Daniel (Rabourdin) gets a lot more than he bargained for when he spends an afternoon cruising a Parisian shopping centre for a teenage boy to bring home, and... Read more »| 01 Dec 2014 -
FilmBlack Sea
In Black Sea, a muscular Jude Law adopts a Scottish accent and a salty persona to lead a submarine crew looking for lost Nazi gold. The mariners evade Putin&... Read more »| 01 Dec 2014 -
Art
Elizabeth Corkery @ Telfer Gallery
Elizabeth Corkery’s exhibition plays on the surrounding warm coloured MDF floor and other building materials that are exposed in the Telfer gallery, th... Read more »| 01 Dec 2014 -
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Tim Hecker @ Stereo
Björk intermission music is gradually silenced by what sounds like a long electric guitar note. With only accidental light remaining, the aural takes ab... Read more »| 01 Dec 2014 -
Books
Scotland Book Highlights – December 2014
New comics rising and first book awards mean fresh names to note as winter is ushered in by a wine washed evening with the Saltire Society Read more »| 28 Nov 2014
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Books
Owen Jones, Russell Brand and The Establishment
Owen Jones' appearance at Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair allowed The Skinny to engage with one of the UK's most vocal Left Wing firebrands and question his current celebrity endorsement as he questions the corrupt state of the nation. Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
MusicPerfume Genius @ The Caves, Edinburgh, 23 November
When Perfume Genius – the stage name of Seattle-based solo artist Mike Hadreas – unclips his microphone from its stand, you know he mea... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Music
Little Dragon / Nao @ O2ABC, Glasgow, 23 November
Before Little Dragon’s set has even commenced, they’re already demonstrating telepathic awareness of what their fans are in the mood for. Fitting... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Music
Stanley Odd / Tickle & Asthmatic Astronaut @ The Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 21 November
The wonderfully named Tickle & Asthmatic Astronaut provide strong support tonight. The latter is a founder of the Black Lantern Music collective that has... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
FilmStar Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released
The trailer for The Force Awakens, the seventh instalment in the Star Wars saga, has been released online. The latest addition to the Star Wars series is di... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Music
Black Celebration: The Wytches' Kristian Bell interviewed
To listen to The Wytches for the first time is to be transported – picture a vampiric, amphetamine-fuelled 1950s rock and roller playing surf guitar in a graveyard and you’re nearly there. Frontman Kristian Bell says it's no happy accident Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Books
"Women rulers always have a bad press" – Jung Chang on China's notorious Express Cixi
Literary superstar Jung Chang educates The Skinny on Cixi and Mao, controversial parents of modern China and subjects of her past and present biographies Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Music
Villalog – Space Trash
Even if titles like Orange Sunshine and Wall of Echoes signpost the odd slip into motorik-bound pastiche, Austrian trio Villalog are more discerning psych re... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Music
Bird @ Eagle Inn, Salford, 21 November
Oh so cruelly, just as it starts, it ends. After an extended prologue that saw them cycle through lineups, Bird's opening chapter exceeded expectations by so... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014