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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FilmApril Film Events
After the success of Crazy Heart, American country, folk and blues is celebrating a film revival. In Edinburgh, the Cameo is showing The Roots and Branches o... Read more »| 26 Mar 2010 -
Music
White Belt Yellow Tag – Methods
White Belt Yellow Tag’s martial art-themed name connotes an experience level one step above novice, and as such the three-piece fit the billing... Read more »| 26 Mar 2010 -
MusicRobin Guthrie – Sunflower Stories EP
It feels a strange observation to make, but former Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie appears to have mellowed over the years. Somehow the Grangemouth multi-instrume... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
Books
The Lilac Thief by Young Dawkins
The Lilac Thief is a collection of Young Dawkins’ spoken word beat poetry. Normally that description would indicate two strikes against –... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
Music
Dropkick Murphys - Live On Lansdowne, Boston, MA
With so many tours rattling through nearly every town with a PA these days - combined with the relentless collection of live clips and streams at our digital... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
ArtRSA New Contemporaries 2010
The RSA selection panel has travelled the length and breadth of the land to scope out the degree shows and bring together the cream of the crop to make and present new work for the stately surrounds of the gallery on the Mound. The Skinny has put together a short guide to some names to look out for this year Read more »| 25 Mar 2010
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MusicNice Nice - Extra Wow
Jason Buehler and Mark Shirazi, a.k.a. Nice Nice, make their Warp debut with a collection of sound so rich and triumphant that it absolutely deserves its tit... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
Books
The Nigger Factory by Gil Scott-Heron
It’s an incendiary title, but that’s just because it’s making an angry political point about the state of education for black Ameri... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
Music
WHY? @ Stereo, 18 March
“We’re from here,” chuckles Yoni Wolf as he climbs up on the pulpit of Stereo’s dank basement. The WHY? frontman belies his shy, nerd... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
Books
J.D. Salinger: A Life Raised High by Kenneth Slawenski
When J.D. Salinger died earlier this year, a glut of rushed, cash-in biographies could have been expected. However, A Life Raised High is much better... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
Music
Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra @ Glasgow School of Art, 19 March
With his left hand flowing over the fretboard while the right rattles his acoustic's wooden body and glances over strings, RM Hubbert is one hell of a guitar... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
Art
Euan Taylor @ ROXY Art House
Last year The Skinny selected our favourite artist from the New Contemporaries exhibition and gave him a prize. It was a tough selection in a strong field, b... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
Music
We Were Promised Jetpacks - The Last Place You'll Look EP
The Last Place You'll Look reprises two standout tracks from We Were Promised Jetpacks' underrated debut LP These Four Walls – Short Bursts and This Is... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
Music
Super Adventure Club's Avoid Zombies: Track-by-Track, By the Band
Hip Hop Hot Pot Pot Noodle Tales, circumstances and quips from three people living on Bread Street in Edinburgh for three months in a tiny two bedroom flat &... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Music
Various Artists - Shank OST
The producers of the dystopian Brit-flick Shank obviously buy into the argument of grime as a handy expression of urban decay, as its official soundtrack bra... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010