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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MusicOf Montreal - Id Engager
Id Engager, whilst a bizarre choice to close Of Montreal's forthcoming Skeletal Lamping, makes for an excellently jilted dance-pop single. Though a little li... Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
ClubsTokyoblu 6th Birthday @ Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 19 Sep
Set to celebrate their 6th Birthday this month, Tokyoblu blurs the lines between club night, DJ duo and seven-piece band. Starting out in Club Ego's Cocteau ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
MusicFence Records: Keeping it Surreal Since 1996
From small beginnings, Anstruther-based label Fence Records has deservedly grown in stature over the last decade or so, and now boasts a dedicated fanbase and an impressive roster of artists whilst very much retaining its down-to-earth DIY ethos. Milo McLaughlin caught up with label lynchpins Johnny Lynch and Kenny Anderson, otherwise known as The Pictish Trail and King Creosote for a chinwag just before they played a blinding gig as part of the Retreat! mini-festival in Edinburgh last month Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Music
The Black Box Revelation - Live at the AB EP
Lands a little too close to derivative rockers Jet in its sound, but in that line of thinking these Belgians could have a hit on their hands Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
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Serj Tankian @ ABC, 1 Sep
"Who likes the Beatles?", asks an upbeat Serj Tankian halfway through tonight's set. The sweaty masses packed into the ABC roar with approval as Tankian and ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Music
NiYi - I Love You All / Poached Eggs
St Martin’s drop-out in arts-meets-pop collision Read more »| 09 Sep 2008
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MusicUnder the Influence: Mogwai
Mogwai's Barry Burns walks us through five of the bands who have helped influence and sculpt the Glasgow quintet into the aural beast we fear today. Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Music
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Bloc Party have learned how to use a lot of new toys Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
MusicThe Pictish Trail - A Powerhouse of Funk
Perfectly representing the organic mix of traditional and electronic instrumentation with quality songwriting and unselfconscious experimentation that characterises the output of the Fence Collective is Secret Soundz Vol.1, the first long-player from The Pictish Trail aka Johnny Lynch Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Clubs
Club Snafu: A Fourtuitous Birthday
Four years has passed since Snafu opened its doors, so with that in mind, it must be time for a four day celebration. Nicol J. Craig looks in on the northern light of music venues Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
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The Coral - The Singles Collection
When the bass of Dreaming Of You bounces out the speakers, it's easy to remember why everyone got so excited in the first place Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Clubs
James Holden @ After Dark, Stereo, Glasgow, 20 Sep
If minimal is the sound of the moment, then James Holden is surely a leading figure of the times. From acclaimed mix albums such as his instalment in the At ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Clubs
Pangea 4th Birthday @ Reading Rooms, Dundee, 19 Sep
It’s been a crazy few years since Pangea first opened its doors and invited crowds to come and bear witness to the sound of Drum and Bass. With residen... Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Music
Yeasayer in Conversation: Chris Keating on Beck, Barack and the Second Album
Yeasayer have been touring their debut album All Hour Cymbals relentlessly for the past year, so have Brooklyn's finest experimentalists had time to even con... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Art
Sandy Christie - Local Hero
Paul Mitchell speaks to Sandy Christie, our Art Local Hero. Sandy presents an altrnative route for artists trying to disseminate their work to a wider audience, eschewing the traditionally proscribed avenues of gallery-approved selection in order to go it alone with a system of open submissions, self-publication and guerilla exhibiting. Read more »| 05 Sep 2008