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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MusicMiaoux Miaoux tackles January's singles pile
Requesting we keep the identities of the artists secret (“I’m going to try and guess”), Julian Corrie aka Miaoux Miaoux slips on his critic’s hat. “This reviewing gets harder as you go along,” he laughs. “I’m feeling my brain starting to melt a little..." Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Gerry Blythe (New Life / Kill Yr Idols)
New Life and Kill Yr Idols resident Gerry Blythe brings us a DJ chart full of the kind of upfront, sexy, classic house and disco tracks that have been turning heads at Bar Bloc and the Berkeley Suite, including tracks by Andy Stott, Todd Terje and Adult. Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
FilmFilm Event Highlights – January 2013
What better way to kick off the new year than with one of the worst films ever made, Showgirls (14 Jan, GFT)? Paul Verhoeven's 1995 tale of a girl's rise to ... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Film2013's Coming Attractions
What's a fanboy to do? With Batman swanning around Florence drinking Fernet Branca and Iron Man, Thor et al. back to making mediocre movies on their lonesome, things are looking grim. But don't despair: here are some films that might be great in 2013 Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Music
The Pictish Trail – Secret Soundz Vol. 2
Many artists develop signature sounds; rarer is the musician who accrues several. Johnny Lynch is one of the few to do so successfully, with a palette as d... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Art
Choose life. Choose economy
A major group show at Stills and CCA explores how the economy impacts on every aspect of life. We stepped off the treadmill briefly to chat to curators Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd Read more »| 03 Jan 2013
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BooksMaement by Various
Maement is a nifty new writing journal, named for an old scots word for 'moment'. No star rating here, because we let the Maement writers review their own bo... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Art
Own Art @ Ingleby Gallery
Few city galleries are set against as beautiful a backdrop as Edinburgh's Ingleby Gallery. Tucked behind the sprawl of Waverley Station, Ingleby is a sleek w... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Music
L. Pierre – The Island Come True
Aidan Moffat’s fourth LP as L. Pierre is perhaps the most boldly ambitious and abstract yet: eschewing the electronica which supplemented the field r... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Music
Yo La Tengo – Fade
It must be a relief to indie obscurists and what few record shop assistants remain that Hoboken trio Yo La Tengo have remained so prolific and consistent ove... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Music
Lazy Habits – Lazy Habits
Lazy Habits are one of those bands that don't need radio play, press coverage or internet hype to build their career – which isn't to say that their su... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Music
Your Move, Raincloud – This is What's Left Over From Nothing That's Happened
Your Move, Raincloud – the project of 28-year-old Samuel Francis Cain – practise a kind of fragile, wilfully sentimental indie, which aims at th... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
ComedyOpinion: I Was A Misogynist Comedian
Comedian Michael J Dolan takes himself to task for allowing himself to write misognystic jokes Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
Film
Forbidden Games
When five year old Paulette, traumatised by witnessing the violent death of her parents only a short time before and still clutching the corpse of her little... Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
Music
Pere Ubu – Lady From Shanghai
Few bands can claim the sort of hard-earned respect accorded to Pere Ubu. The Fall are one example that spring to mind; and as with that outfit, a new LP f... Read more »| 02 Jan 2013