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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MusicAdam Stafford and the Death Bridge Convention – Music In The Mirabel
Covers albums can be risky: on the plus side, the artist gets to release versions of songs his listeners may already love; on the negative, well-known songs ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
MusicThemselves: Return of the Boom Bap
With CrownsDown, Themselves came full circle, delivering an album of straight-up hip-hop. Adam "Doseone" Drucker says it's all about avoiding rap Hell Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
MusicNotes on The Mirabel
Falkirk troubadour Adam Stafford lays out the liner notes for his curious new album of covers Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
ClubsLight My Beyer
Shortly before the Slam Tent hosts its strongest line-up in years, Adam Beyer talks about his plans for the Drumcode label and 'dance music fashion' Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
Film
Hierro
Plumbing the depths of psychological horror, Hierro takes us on the genuinely disturbing journey of single mother Maria (Elena Anaya) and her frantic... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
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Carlton Melton – Pass It On
Recorded inside a Geodesic Dome off the coast of Northern California, Pass It On is an album of live, improvised, experimental, psychedelic jams. If that las... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010
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Music
Mitchell Museum: National Treasures
The road to their brilliant debut album has been a hard but worthwhile one for Mitchell Museum. Ahead of its release, the Glasgow quartet square up to rival museums, set the record straight on Nigel Godrich and cast aspersions on Bono's feet Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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Eminem – Recovery
It's sad what a few years of personal problems and patchy albums have done for Marshall Mathers, alias Eminem, a guy who once turned out some of the most ski... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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Tango In the Attic – Bank Place Locomotive Society
When fresh-faced newcomers identify Paul Simon as a chief songwriting inspiration, cynics might well read between the lines and translate the citation to &ls... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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Kid Canaveral – Shouting At Wildlife
Kid Canaveral have four self-released seven inches to their name, lyrics that rhyme Smash Hits with Brad Pitt, and debut album artwork adorned with doodled c... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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Live Music Highlights – July 2010
Having made the leap from fascinating bedroom project to full-on psych-pop ensemble with excellent recent album Pigeons, Luke Temple and Here We Go Magic loo... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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The Metal Column – July 2010
In an attempt to cover everything metal in Scotland, we do our best to unearth all the upcoming gigs that take place across the entire country. But it’... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
Film
White Material
Despite the threat of violence from rebel militia growing ever closer, coffee plantation owner Maria (Isabelle Huppert) refuses to leave the unspecif... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
Music
Jammer – Jahmanji
Even though grime got glam and captured the ears of everyone from ringtone-buying teens to contemplative middle-class listeners since being commandee... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
ArtGray's School of Art Degree Show
This year Gray’s School of Art celebrates its 125th Anniversary in spectacular style. At the heart of any celebration of the School’s history is ... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010