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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MusicBwani 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 -
MusicKono 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 -
MusicTom 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 -
Film
The Grand Master: Terence Davies in interview
The UK film industry has committed some heinous acts — Revolver, Rancid Aluminium, Richard Curtis — but perhaps its worst crime is failing to support Terence Davies, its great visionary. We spoke to the Liverpudlian about his latest feature Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
MusicNoel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ The Usher Hall, 27 October
Six years ago, a guitarist walked off this very stage with the band he will forever be synonymous with. Since then he has become a husband again and a father... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
The Black Dog – Liber Dogma
While The Black Dog’s early-90s IDM peers tend to have pursued either bewilderingly expansive realms in their later releases (Autechre, Aphex Twin), or... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011
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Music
Joker – The Vision
Joker's foray into longplayer territory mirrors that of fellow dubstep pioneers Skream, Benga and Artwork's Rubicon-crossing debut of last year, Magnetic Man... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Clean George IV – God Save The Clean
Enigmatic Edinburgh citizen Clean George has busied himself with a classical music degree, a lawsuit from Kraftwerk and myriad projects since we last heard f... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Clubs
Derrick Carter & Luke Solomon Classic Records Tour
Back in the mid 90s, Chicago house stalwart Derrick Carter and his English compatriot Luke Solomon, acknowledging that supply and demand were ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Atlas Sound – Parallax
Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox retains the mid-tempo groove of his band's more recent output on this third officially released LP as Atlas Sound. A s... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
Billed as “an electronic song cycle based around lo-fi audio procured from television advertisement compilations,” Replica plays out like an... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
Ringo Deathstarr – Shadow EP
It's been said before, but the point remains valid: Ringo Deathstarr, whilst undeniably good, are so overwhelmingly derivative that it surely calls into ques... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Music
David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time
Created with the help of engineer Dean Hurley (Inland Empire), Crazy Clown Time is a Lynchian vision of experimental 'modern blues' that only partially manag... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Theatre
Miranda @ Cottiers
After the physical theatre nightmare of The Red Shoes, a fringe entry which translated the classic film into the daily experience of a ballet dancer’s ... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
Music
Russian Circles – Empros
Post-rock has been painting itself into corners for too long now, as some acts persevere in rehashing the same delay-heavy prog instrumentalism that worked o... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011