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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ComedyCrystal Baws: June Horoscopes
ARIES In June jam jar-spectacled physicists at the LHC discover the elusive graviton and its anti-particle. Don’t shell out for those Nike Airs. In 6 ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
ArtLeithLate: Art on the Walk
On 16 June, for one night only, ten galleries, pubs and shops on Leith Walk will open late to host a series of free events, gigs and exhibitions ending with an afterparty. We've got the route map, and here LeithLate event organiser Morvern Cunningham introduces the programme Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Music
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
For a band prone to misinterpreting the spirit of rock and roll (examples abound online – being jerks isn’t the same as being rock stars, guys), ... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
MusicThe Coathangers – Larceny & Old Lace
Taking its scuzz from late 60s proto-punk and the snarl from early 90s riot grrrls, The Coathangers offer a record of near-hits and some legendary misses. Le... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
MusicBattles: "I don't think quitting ever crossed our minds"
Battles drummer John Stanier steps out from behind his ride cymbal to explain the uneasy genesis of Gloss Drop Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Film
June Film Highlights
On 14 June the CCA in Glasgow, in association with the Glasgow Science Festival, is showing George A. Romero's classic zombie flick, Night of the Living Dead... Read more »| 31 May 2011
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Music
Copy Haho – Copy Haho
Having served time on the Scottish circuit for the better part of a decade, the debut album from Stonehaven’s Copy Haho is a long-awaited, suitably ant... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Music
Bangers – Small Pleasures
Bangers are a three-piece hailing from Cornwall – about as close as Britain gets to Californian surf culture – and sound more like a US 90s West ... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Music
Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
What’s in a name? In the case of Patrick Wolf’s fifth record, quite a lot. The Bachelor disappointed, its harsher edge simultaneously ali... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
MusicBon Iver – Bon Iver
Finding overnight fame through his wildly romanticised, critically embraced debut For Emma, Forever Ago, Justin Vernon’s sudden elevation to folk ... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Books
Where The Bodies Are Buried by Chris Brookmyre
Christopher Brookmyre’s latest novel is something of a departure from his previous work – the ‘satirical crime’ genre –... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Music
Indian Red Lopez: Against The Tide
Getting a dressing down from a pop diva and narrowly avoiding a small-town punch up? These have been just some of the pitfalls that have helped make Aberdeen quintet Indian Red Lopez all the more determined Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Books
The Great Night by Chris Adrian
Chris Adrian has reworked A Midsummer Night's Dream into a novel that is beautifully written and acutely observed. He says this story, only his third... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – Fucked Up Takeover
Though a lion on the stage, Fucked Up's Damian ‘Pink Eyes’ Abraham takes to the June singles with the gentle demeanour of a lamb – albeit a lamb with a mild contempt for clean production and a loathing for rhythmic movement Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – June 2011
The church of lo-fi psych has seen both its congregation and its clergy swell dramatically over the last couple of years but Julian Lynch and Matt Mondanile ... Read more »| 30 May 2011