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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MusicCheval Sombre – Mad Love
Cheval Sombre has friends in high places. The second album from upstate New Yorker Christoper Propora features both members of MGMT and was co-produced by Sp... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
FilmRust and Bone
Switching gear again after the brilliant yet very different The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet, writer/director Jacques Audiard comes slightly unst... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
Music
Sparks @ HMV Picture House, 21 October
For their 2 Hands 1 Mouth tour, Sparks have kept their overheads low: the voice of Russell, the key-playing hands of Ron, and nothing else. It’s bold, ... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
Film
The Master
The Master opens at the close of WWII with sailor Freddie Quell (Phoenix), our perpetually horny hero, caressing a crumbling female sand sculpture. The rest ... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
Music
Ogre – 194
Ogre, also known as Monster! Monster! has established a reputation as an unmissable live performer, sharing the bill with bass music legends such as Caspa, P... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
James Dowdeswell and Vladimir McTavish: The Grain And The Grape
Booze and comedy go well together, but James Dowdeswell and Vlad McTavish are setting out to get you off the lager and onto something with more class Read more »| 28 Oct 2012
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Music
Prince Rama – Top 10 Hits of the End of the World
At first glance it would be rather easy to lump Prince Rama (aka sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson) in with the plethora of pseudo-mystical culture vultures ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Music
Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament – The Violence
For the concluding instalment of his ‘Essex trilogy’, Darren Hayman rewinds the clock a few hundred years. The first two parts surveyed the songw... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Music
Monokle – Saints
St. Petersburg-based producer Monokle's fifth album, his first for Ki, a boutique label set up in 2009, is a glorious trek through glitch, IDM and experiment... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Film
Un Certain Regard: Interview with Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément
Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément sit down with The Skinny to discuss working with Quebecois filmmaking prodigy Xavier Dolan on his latest effort, Laurence Anyways, and portraying a ten year relationship on the film Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Music
My Dying Bride – A Map of All Our Failures
Best known for pioneering modern British doom alongside bands like Anathema and Katatonia in the 90s, My Dying Bride have softened their approach in recent r... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Books
Books: One Whole Week of Them
Book Week Scotland will take place from 26 Nov to 2 Dec, during which time hundreds (literally hundreds) of events will take place. Some even look pretty good too. Here's a brief selection of some we like the look of Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Theatre
Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut @ The Macrobert
Straight from this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Gilded Balloon and the Tron Theatre companies present Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut. Jimmy Chisholm... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Theatre
Sonata For A Man And A Boy @ The Macrobert
A well-dressed man in a grey suit and bare feet sits on a black workbench. As the audience - consisting mainly of schoolchildren - shuffles in, he ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Music
Hero Worship: Alice Cooper
Before a Halloween Night of Fear descends on Auld Reekie, Duff McKagan explains why Alice Cooper's influence on rock'n'roll cannot be overstated Read more »| 25 Oct 2012