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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BooksRyan Van Winkle: A Work In Progress
Ryan Van Winkle, reader in residence at The Scottish Poetry Library, Editor of The Edinburgh Review, and used to write reviews for The Skinny. So when he said his first book of poems was being published, our Reading Editor was so sure it’d be great that he thought it be best to get him to critique it himself… Read more »| 20 Dec 2010 -
FilmBill Bailey: Dandelion Mind
If you’re still scrabbling around for that last minute Christmas present, Bill Bailey’s new DVD is a pretty good bet for, well, almost anybody; y... Read more »| 17 Dec 2010 -
ComedyHero Worship: Dylan Moran
The Skinny's Travel editor tries to make amends with his hero Read more »| 17 Dec 2010 -
MusicDelta Mainline – In a World of Madness, the Simple Joy of Melody Can Pull You Through EP
Don’t let the title put you off, this EP isn’t nearly as sappy as the moniker suggests and not to get too hung up on it but it’s also rathe... Read more »| 17 Dec 2010 -
Music
The Green Door Kids – Musikal Yooth
What a delightfully skew-whiff record this little creature is. If you’ve ever wanted to hear a bunch of kids ripping up The Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Do... Read more »| 17 Dec 2010 -
Clubs
The VEGAS! Grand Hogmanay Ball
Hogmanay is an event often subject to over-hype. What’s set to be one of the most uninhibited social events of the year can be reduced to a som... Read more »| 17 Dec 2010
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Film
The Last Exorcism
The “found footage” horror movie has become a staple of low budget film-making. But they’re hard to get right and for every hit like REC or... Read more »| 17 Dec 2010 -
MusicCeltic Connections @ Various Venues (Glasgow), 13-30 Jan
The biggest celebration of Scottish music and talent gets even bigger in January, with an eclectic selection of acts to please even the fussiest of palates. ... Read more »| 16 Dec 2010 -
Music
Laeto – III
In case you haven't heard of them – and if that's true, you're Scottish and consider yourself a fan of quality rock music, shame on you – this Du... Read more »| 16 Dec 2010 -
Music
Admiral Byrd – Goodbye Cruel Worldview
Do we need any more epic, dreamy, shoegaze rock at this point in music history? Probably not, but Admiral Byrd – a four-piece based in Copenhagen, Denm... Read more »| 16 Dec 2010 -
Music
Ben Butler & Mousepad – Infinite Capacity EP
BB&MP is one Joe Howe, previously known for his work with electronic terrorists Gay Against You and Germlin, but whereas those acts were renowned just as... Read more »| 15 Dec 2010 -
Music
Texture – Synaesthesia
“Scottish hip-hop is a non-sequitur,” rhymes Edinburgh based emcee Texture (of The Chemical Poets) on the track by the same name, before going on... Read more »| 15 Dec 2010 -
Music
Krapp's Second Tape: Fordell Research Unit – Heavy Petting
Released as part of the cassette-only Krapp Tape series from Wounded Knee (whose sonic experiments are effortlessly accessible by comparison) Fordell Researc... Read more »| 15 Dec 2010 -
Art
Tacita Dean @ The Common Guild
The Tacita Dean exhibition in The Common Guild is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Scotland in over a decade and it’s worth making the trip ... Read more »| 15 Dec 2010 -
Music
Arcade Fire @ SECC, 12 Dec
In a venue known to take no prisoners, Arcade Fire’s flop-haired frontman Win Butler sensibly asks tonight’s bulging SECC crowd to meet the band ... Read more »| 14 Dec 2010