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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MusicThe Pictish Trail – Secret Soundz Vol. 2
Many artists develop signature sounds; rarer is the musician who accrues several. Johnny Lynch is one of the few to do so successfully, with a palette as d... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Art
Choose life. Choose economy
A major group show at Stills and CCA explores how the economy impacts on every aspect of life. We stepped off the treadmill briefly to chat to curators Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
BooksMaement by Various
Maement is a nifty new writing journal, named for an old scots word for 'moment'. No star rating here, because we let the Maement writers review their own bo... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Art
Own Art @ Ingleby Gallery
Few city galleries are set against as beautiful a backdrop as Edinburgh's Ingleby Gallery. Tucked behind the sprawl of Waverley Station, Ingleby is a sleek w... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Music
L. Pierre – The Island Come True
Aidan Moffat’s fourth LP as L. Pierre is perhaps the most boldly ambitious and abstract yet: eschewing the electronica which supplemented the field r... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
MusicYo La Tengo – Fade
It must be a relief to indie obscurists and what few record shop assistants remain that Hoboken trio Yo La Tengo have remained so prolific and consistent ove... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013
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Music
Lazy Habits – Lazy Habits
Lazy Habits are one of those bands that don't need radio play, press coverage or internet hype to build their career – which isn't to say that their su... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
MusicYour Move, Raincloud – This is What's Left Over From Nothing That's Happened
Your Move, Raincloud – the project of 28-year-old Samuel Francis Cain – practise a kind of fragile, wilfully sentimental indie, which aims at th... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Comedy
Opinion: I Was A Misogynist Comedian
Comedian Michael J Dolan takes himself to task for allowing himself to write misognystic jokes Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
Film
Forbidden Games
When five year old Paulette, traumatised by witnessing the violent death of her parents only a short time before and still clutching the corpse of her little... Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
MusicPere Ubu – Lady From Shanghai
Few bands can claim the sort of hard-earned respect accorded to Pere Ubu. The Fall are one example that spring to mind; and as with that outfit, a new LP f... Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
Theatre
Venue of the Month: The Citizens
The Skinny speaks to Dominic Hill, artistic director of the Citz Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: January 2013 Horoscopes
ARIESThis month a fully-operational Death Star moves into your chart while searching out remaining Rebel bases in the Hoth system, inadvertently detecting ... Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
Film
The Impossible
Cinema’s great trick is that it lets us live more lives than a sack full of Hindu cats. From the safety of a darkened auditorium we can go to war, batt... Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights – January 2013
January's clubbing highlights, including Afrocentric Black Acre star Romare at Highlife, Hans Bouffmyhre at Trash!, Alex Smoke at Oddio, the Weatherall-approved Crimes of the Future, Riton at Bleep, and RL Grime at Winess Read more »| 01 Jan 2013