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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MusicRegina Spektor - Laughing With
Spektor has a lot to answer for. Begin to Hope’s full scale assault on the popular consciousness drove so many breathy derivatives out of the plinky pl... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
MusicThe Thermals @ Sneaky Pete's, 16 Jun
Kill Rock Stars’ Death Cab-bothering gems The Thermals bring their brand of “no-fi” indie to Auld Reekie in support of fourth full-length N... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
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Eels - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire
Virginia's tragic hero returns with a lo-fi, tuneful offering Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
ArtDegrees of separation: Dundee Degree Show 09
The decision to move the Duncan of Jordanstone degree show out of the college itself and into a building designed as a commercial office space is necessarily... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Theatre
Quadrophenia
Clare Sinclair anticipates the arrival of a rock opera for the ages. Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Music
You Already Know - Stop Whispering
Since home studios revolutionised the recording industry, more and more bands have been taking matters into their own hands when it comes to capturing and re... Read more »| 26 May 2009
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Music
Player Piano - Into The Dark EP
The reputation of piano-driven balladry may never recover from the pummelling it suffered at the hands of Keane and Coldplay, but Jeremy Radway is at least d... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Film
Summer Scars
If you go down to the woods today, be sure to watch out for nasty surprises. Julian Richards’ semi-autobiographical award-winning horror tale has been ... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Music
Future Cinema Presents All Tomorrow's Parties @ HMV Picture House, 24 June
Ever drunkenly pumped coins into a 2p machine to the sound of Deerhunter playing Butlins, or spotted Steve Albini fleecing fans at poker while watching Eurov... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
MusicFranz Ferdinand - Blood
Franz Ferdinand’s third album Tonight was a muted success, despite the pre-release talk of afrobeat rhythms and experimental electronica largely turnin... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Music
Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals
With its slow chord changes and floating beats, Arrivals at times sounds as though it is being played underwater. Crackly glitches and beeps are smoothed of ... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
MusicTV21 - Forever 22
A fine exhumation of '80s ‘indie’ that existed before the term became embarrassing and meaningless Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Music
Iron Crease - Eye Increase
Thanks to an extended period of collective inactivity, the scattered members of cult Dundonians Laeto are gradually re-emerging into the world with new bands... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
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The Aliens @ Cabaret Voltaire, 31 May
Rising from the psychological wreckage of the Beta Band, Gordon Anderson has successfully emancipated himself from his past, while retaining just enough of t... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
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The Breeders @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 20 May
The concert equivalent of a cocktease is surely going to see The Breeders and not being able to catch a glimpse of the sisters Deal. Lucky, then, that this w... Read more »| 25 May 2009