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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TheatreDancin' across the Country
Both Ballet West and Curious Seed, who are touring this month, are reminders of dance's versality. Ballet West are staging the romantic classic, Swan Lake, w... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012 -
Music
Mull Historical Society / Washington Irving @ O2ABC, 3 February
Tonight is Washington Irving’s second visit to ABC as part of Celtic Connections 2012. The first occupied the smaller ABC2, but the band seems undaunte... Read more »| 09 Feb 2012 -
FilmThe Ozu Collection: The Student Comedies
This box set of four of Ozu's early silent comedies is part of the BFI's ongoing project to release all of the master director's work on dual-format Blu-ray/... Read more »| 09 Feb 2012 -
Music
Mystery Juice – Eye For An Aye EP
Big in Russia: an idiom not as often heard as ‘big in Japan’. Despite their successes in the former Soviet Union - they've released two Russian-o... Read more »| 07 Feb 2012 -
MusicVarious Artists – SID Chip Sounds: The Music of the Commodore 64
Fans of chiptune artists like DJ Scotch Egg will be aware of the central role played by Commodore 64 music in 90s and 00s gabba/breakcore; more recently, con... Read more »| 07 Feb 2012 -
Art
Luke Fowler @ Inverleith House, 12 Feb - 29 Apr
Artist Luke Fowler is best known for his documentary films about radical thinkers on the fringes of society. Made using largely found footage, his 2006 film ... Read more »| 07 Feb 2012
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Music
Muscles of Joy: Room of Their Own
Glasgow’s Muscles of Joy, an all-female vocal-led septet, talk about building their own instruments and jamming away rather quietly Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Music
We Are Augustines: Back from the Brink
Having penned a concept album based around family bereavement, The Skinny is surprised to find a New York trio happy to be just making music Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Music
The Big Pink: "We needed to create a different energy"
As The Big Pink trade in their explosive debut's distortion, Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze tell us why their live show will be all change on Valentine's Day Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
MusicWild Flag / Peggy Sue @ Òran Mór, 30 January
Both of tonight’s acts, while ostensibly steeped in well-trodden approaches to rock, manage to infuse their music with bursts of startling vitality. ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Music
Damien Jurado – Maraqopa
Damien Jurado’s last album was a game changer. Having spent 15 years churning out folk/folk-rock albums that were sometimes excellent, but otherwise sh... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Music
Lapalux – When You're Gone EP
Recent Brainfeeder releases, such as the superlative funk and jazz of Thundercat and the forceful Paradise Garage tribute of Martyn's Ghost People, have adde... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Film
A Dangerous Method
Where is the danger in A Dangerous Method? This exploration of the relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) sh... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Film
Urbanized
With smutty infographs and high-rise money shots, Urbanized slips the panties down on modern city living. This documentary has no sexy Grand Designs narrator... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Errors
It’s one thing to be a great band but it’s quite another to make a great record. Definitive statements can become something of an albatross aroun... Read more »| 03 Feb 2012