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 Disrupters – Generation Retard
It seems only fitting that Norwich’s Disrupters would wait for a Tory government to return before releasing a new album: it’s what punk’s a... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
FilmSenna
In The Warrior and Far North, Asif Kapadia displayed his strength as a visual storyteller, and those same instincts are at work in Senna, the director's firs... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
Music
The Metal Column – June 2011
It’s been a hell of a month, hasn’t it? The world’s number one posh couple finally tied the knot and got off our tellies, our number one ba... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
Music
White Denim – D
White Denim have always seemed better in theory than in practice. Omnivorously squeezing as many diverse influences as possible into every track, the Austini... Read more »| 27 May 2011 -
Music
Sons and Daughters – Mirror Mirror
Sons and Daughters’ third full length release sees the Glasgow four-piece abandon the glitz of 2008’s This Gift, and step back into a familiar da... Read more »| 27 May 2011 -
Music
O'Death – Outside
Initially, O’Death’s third full-length on City Slang comes across as an uncharacteristically conventional release for the label. The New York qui... Read more »| 27 May 2011
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Music
Secret Cities – Strange Hearts
Always Friends; Ice Cream Scene; The Park – just reading the names of the first three tracks of Secret Cities’ second album might cause seizures ... Read more »| 27 May 2011 -
Music
King Post Kitsch – The Party's Over
“You’ve gone and found yourself a friend,” sings Charlie Ward aka King Post Kitsch on the Rhodes-driven Closing Time, and if friendship is ... Read more »| 27 May 2011 -
MusicJoseph Arthur – The Graduation Ceremony
Returning with his first solo offering since the release of 2006’s Nuclear Daydream, Ohio-based raconteur Joseph Arthur’s sixth studio album char... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
Music
Indian Red Lopez – Empty Your Lungs and Breathe
Taking the polar opposite approach to the movie Sleepers (7.4 on IMDB! - ed) from which they borrowed their name, Aberdeen's Indian Red Lopez have delivered ... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
Art
Edinburgh Art Festival Announce 2011 Programme
Ranging across 42 arts spaces from museums to galleries to gardens to Old Town stairwells, Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) returns for an eighth year of visual ... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
Music
Interview: Ladytron's Helen Marnie
With their fifth album on the neon horizon, Ladytron show no signs of putting their feet up. Singer Helen Marnie takes time out to talk "electro music with heart” Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
Books
The Boys: Highland Laddie by Garth Ennis, John McCrea and Derrick Robertson
After the events in the last collected edition of The Boys comic, our sort-of hero, Simon Pegg lookalike Hughie, retreats to his home town for a bre... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
Theatre
Dunsinane
Scotland: alien nation or fratricidal brother to English? Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
Music
Eddie Vedder – Ukulele Songs
Fronting grunge survivors Pearl Jam for over two decades has earned Eddie Vedder the right to indulge the odd whim; that solo sophomore release Ukulele Songs... Read more »| 26 May 2011