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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MusicHandsome Furs – Sound Kapital
We’re not exactly short of 80s revivalist electro-pop at the moment, so the prospect of another outfit who wear their debt to Depeche Mode on their sle... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
MusicWild Moccasins – Skin Collision Past
Skin Collision Past combines new material with Wild Moccasins’ previously released Microscopic Metronomes EP (2009). Across the whole, the Texan quinte... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
MusicSeasick Steve – You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
While much of Seasick Steve’s popularity may have come from his good-natured persona and impressive collection of jury-rigged instruments, it can&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Music
Southern Tenant Folk Union – Pencaitland
Folk music’s greatest asset is how well it translates between regions, allowing constant cross-pollination of sounds. Because of this, this Scottish se... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
MusicAtari Teenage Riot – Is This Hyperreal?
In the entire history of alternative music has there ever been anyone with as retarded a sense of irony as Alec Empire? It's a question you'll find yourself ... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Books
Starter for 11: Frank Quitely
All-Star Superman artist Frank Quitely tests his own comic book geek credentials in the never-ending quest for our prized haggis supper Read more »| 02 Jun 2011
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Comedy
Funny's Funny - That's What She Said
Comedy takes back its women Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Electrikal presents Dodge & Fuski
As the outdoor season begins to kick off for the Electrikal collective, it would appear that their taste for indoor events has not soured, booking du... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights - June
Some snakeoil salesmen types would have you believe that Scotland is an electronic music abyss this month: a George Romero dystopia of Hive flyers and swirli... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Books
Sheridan Simove: The Value of Nothing
“Nothing will come of nothing” said King Lear, although Shakespeare shows that plenty did. Plenty came of nothing for author Sheridan Simove too when he wrote a book with nothing in it… Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Music
Milk Maid – Yucca
Having broken away from band duties with latter day grungers Nine Black Alps, Yucca represents both bassist Martin Cohen’s new band Milk Maid’s d... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
MusicPuzzle Muteson – En Garde
There are positive ways to be musically ground-breaking; by pushing things further than anyone previously dared, for example, or innovating something brand s... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Battles @ Glasgow Arches, 7 June
There's precious few bands whose live prowess has managed not only to knock us for six, but to expand our comprehension of what kind of sound a group of huma... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Music
My Morning Jacket – Circuital
On listening to My Morning Jacket’s sixth studio release, it becomes immediately apparent just how significant the shift has been from the country-infl... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Film
127 Hours
It is unlikely that anyone watching 127 Hours will be unfamiliar with the story of Aron Ralston, a hiker who became trapped in a canyon in Utah when ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011