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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MusicSt Deluxe – Born Into Flame
Welcome back St Deluxe, the well-connected Glasgow scuzz rockers with a penchant for pop hooks and heavy guitars. Their 2009 debut attracted some celebrity... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012 -
MusicVarious Artists – Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Having cycled through theatre and film iterations, Cora Bissett, David Greig and Swimmer One’s multimedia Whatever Gets You through the Night project a... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
MusicSteve Adey – The Tower of Silence
It’s taken Edinburgh-based songwriter Steve Adey six years to follow up debut album All Things Real, for reasons ranging from tropical maladies to obs... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [Deluxe Edition]
As is fitting for one of the most ambitious and indulgent commercial rock records of the 1990s, this extravagant reissue takes Mellon Collie's greatness as ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
MusicMelanin 9 – Magna Carta
Magna Carta is the debut album from Melanin 9, although he has already gained a great deal of acclaim and recognition for his three mixtapes, Orion's Stencil... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
Music
Sunbutler – Sunbutler
Made using just five sounds from an old FM synthesiser, and worked on remotely by Joe Howe (aka Ben Butler & Mousepad / Germlin / Gay Against You) and ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012
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Music
Menagerie – They Shall Inherit
Lance Ferguson has already demonstrated the eclecticism of his influences, in projects ranging from Lanu’s lounge-pop to his main concern, funk outfi... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
Books
The Poetry Club: Neu Reekie @ SWG3, 22 November
Neu Reekie's reputation as one of Scotland's poremier spoken word events is well deserved and hard-earned, and after making a huge success of their Edinburgh events, they have begun carving out a niche for themselves in Glasgow Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
The Fall / Red Stars @ The Arches, 21 November
Mark E Smith's choice of support act – fellow Salford band Red Stars – is execrable tonight. Performing to a backing track, the duo consist of a ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Art
Sonica: Tales of Magical Realism Part 2 @ Tramway
Sven Werner’s participatory installation is the follow-up to his highly successful Tales of Magical Realism Part 1. It is an immersive embodiment ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
Fairhorns – Doki Doki Run
Matt Loveridge of Team Brick and BEAK> is a veteran Invada player, one of the core constituents of the label run by Portishead's Geoff Barrow. On this sol... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
Various Artists – Some Songs Side-By-Side
Jointly assembled by a trio of labels, with 22 tracks across four sides of vinyl and artwork from eight different artists, this endeavour is evidently more... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
Martin Rossiter – The Defenestration of St Martin
Eight years since the curtain came down on Gene, Martin Rossiter has lost none of his earnestness or theatricality. Grandly opening the grandly titled The ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
Waves of Fury – Thirst
It doesn’t take long to get a handle on Waves of Fury. A few seconds of distorted piano ease you in to opener Death of a Vampire, then BAM! – a ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Film
Polisse
A vérité-style drama based on the daily work of Paris’s ‘Brigade de protection des mineurs,’ Polisse’s treatment o... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012