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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ClubsDJ Chart: Skanky (Bullet Train/Templar Sound) June Chart
London producer Skanky has been making heavy movements in the underground bass music scene in the past 6 months. Having dropped his fantastic 13 EP on B... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
MusicDas Contras – Das Contras
Sounding like the soundtrack to a bandito showdown at a seventies lounge party, opening ditty Reckless Phase may try to be the life and soul of the party but... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
Cults – Cults
The air of mystery surrounding New Yorker’s Cults has had the internet’s blogger brigade in somewhat of a frenzy, but just who are these fuzzy po... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
Elan Tamara - Organ EP
Elan Tamara is a Brit School graduate, but try not to hold it against her. Seems despite the institution’s strong track record for cultivating chart mo... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
The Proposition: The Unbearable Shiteness of Being (...Signed)
Despite being the most coveted and enduring adolescent fantasy since Jessica Rabbit, in reality recording contracts are a minefield. In a contemporary musica... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
MusicBURNINGBeeS – goodseedbadsoil
Drifting and mingling in the nomadic manner, the musical projects of Neil Grant and Stuart Hobbs have been abundant, if short-lived. The former dabbled with ... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011
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Theatre
After the End @ Dundee Rep
After Sweeney Todd, a musical of operatic complexity, and a taut update of the classic Dolls House, Emma Faulkner directs the company in a terse two hander t... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
TheatreMonth of the Venues
When the National Theatre of Scotland defined itself as a company “without walls”, they echoed the discovery of many cash-strapped dramat... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
Juffage – Semicircle
Juffage, the solo project of Leeds’ Jeff T Smith, fits neatly into that category of dreamy indie-pop that Sparklehorse perfected years ago, but rather ... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011 -
Music
Wiley – 100% Publishing
Wiley’s second album for Big Dada sees the rapper hedging his musical bets. A combination of the hardest, sickest underground grime rhythms and more co... Read more »| 04 Jun 2011 -
Music
Driver Drive Faster – Open House
If Open House sounds extraordinarily professional for a self-funded debut, it’s worth noting that three of Driver Drive Faster’s four bodies form... Read more »| 03 Jun 2011 -
MusicWoods – Sun and Shade
Woods have a very suitable name. From the head-nodding, foot-tapping, retro-sounding first chords of Sun and Shade, you realise you're spending time with a r... Read more »| 03 Jun 2011 -
Comedy
New Comic of the Month: James Kirk
Last year's So You Think You're Funny winner James Kirk tells us where it all started Read more »| 03 Jun 2011 -
Music
Samiyam – Sam Baker's Album
The second LP from LA-based instrumental hip-hop producer Samiyam thankfully evinces a far greater breadth of imagination than its title suggests. Sam Baker&... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Music
Sons and Daughters: “It’s the happy clappy bands that are the most fucked up"
With the help of Optimo's JD Twitch, Sons and Daughters explain why they've retreated to their dark corner Read more »| 02 Jun 2011