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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MusicRandolph's Leap @ Captain's Rest, 18 Nov
To paraphrase one of their own songs, Randolph’s Leap very nearly had to cut crisps out of debut EP Battleships and Kettle Chips after a scary email fr... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Simian Mobile Disco – Delicacies
As ideas for concept records go, this is one of the more curious: tour the world throwing out 12” records, gritty beats and muscular bass-lines, and wh... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
MusicThe Coral @ O2 ABC, 19 Nov
First up tonight is Neville Skelly, cousin to James and Ian of The Coral, presenting his brand of gentle, country-inflected acoustic rock to an appreciative ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Idlewild – 100 Broken Windows: Special Edition
The release of second full-length album 100 Broken Windows caught Idlewild at the sweet spot of its career; in the scuzzy pop of Little Discourage, Roseabili... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
MusicJimmy Eat World @ Barrowland, 19 Nov
Tonight’s topped with two cuts from Bleed American and tailed with three more: you certainly can’t accuse Jimmy Eat World of misreading their fan... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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The Scottish Enlightenment – St. Thomas
The Scottish Enlightenment echo winter well, with skeletal guitar lines as brittle and bare as tree branches and a settled pace as quietly insidious as snow ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010
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ClubsThe Arches Presents: Tiga
Tiga may have started his career promoting raves in the hollows of Montreal’s underground club scene in the early 90’s, but he’s co... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Seafieldroad – There Are No Maps For This Part of the City
Swimmer One’s appeal largely lies in their imaginative genre combinations and ever-varying aesthetic, with this year’s Dead Orchestras an... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
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Decimal – Lost in a Dark Place
Decimal has been doing his homework. Lost in a Dark Place is as typical a Soma album as you’re likely to hear, from it minimal, bumping start to the ob... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
MusicDan Mangan – Nice, Nice, Very Nice
According to the NME, Dan Mangan “sings with the soul of Woody Guthrie – if Woody Guthrie had listened to Godspeed,” one of the sillier &ld... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
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The Greenhornes – ****
Comprised partly of The Raconteurs’ rhythm section, The Greenhornes have been producing unashamedly feel good rock n’ roll since 1996. To say the... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
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Various Artists – Forest Records Presents...
Whether you’re a patron of the place or not, the news that Edinburgh’s Forest Cafe might be on the ropes is surely cause for concern. The... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
Theatre
The Marriage of Figaro
Opera for the masses? Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
Film
Leaving
Unfulfilled playing the part of a bourgeois housewife to her husband Samuel (Yvan Attal) and two children, Suzanne Vidal (Kristin Scott Thomas) decides to re... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
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David E. Sugar – Memory Store
There was a buzz around this young producer’s first few releases – as early conduits of the 8-bit sound, singles Oi New York, This is London and ... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010