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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MusicSecret Cities – Strange Hearts
Always Friends; Ice Cream Scene; The Park – just reading the names of the first three tracks of Secret Cities’ second album might cause seizures ... Read more »| 27 May 2011 -
MusicKing Post Kitsch – The Party's Over
“You’ve gone and found yourself a friend,” sings Charlie Ward aka King Post Kitsch on the Rhodes-driven Closing Time, and if friendship is ... Read more »| 27 May 2011 -
MusicJoseph Arthur – The Graduation Ceremony
Returning with his first solo offering since the release of 2006’s Nuclear Daydream, Ohio-based raconteur Joseph Arthur’s sixth studio album char... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
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Indian Red Lopez – Empty Your Lungs and Breathe
Taking the polar opposite approach to the movie Sleepers (7.4 on IMDB! - ed) from which they borrowed their name, Aberdeen's Indian Red Lopez have delivered ... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
Art
Edinburgh Art Festival Announce 2011 Programme
Ranging across 42 arts spaces from museums to galleries to gardens to Old Town stairwells, Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) returns for an eighth year of visual ... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
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Interview: Ladytron's Helen Marnie
With their fifth album on the neon horizon, Ladytron show no signs of putting their feet up. Singer Helen Marnie takes time out to talk "electro music with heart” Read more »| 26 May 2011
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BooksThe Boys: Highland Laddie by Garth Ennis, John McCrea and Derrick Robertson
After the events in the last collected edition of The Boys comic, our sort-of hero, Simon Pegg lookalike Hughie, retreats to his home town for a bre... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
Theatre
Dunsinane
Scotland: alien nation or fratricidal brother to English? Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
Music
Eddie Vedder – Ukulele Songs
Fronting grunge survivors Pearl Jam for over two decades has earned Eddie Vedder the right to indulge the odd whim; that solo sophomore release Ukulele Songs... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
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The Travelling Band – Screaming Is Something
Manchester’s The Travelling Band have horizons both narrow and broad: musically, they’re content to operate within parameters so well-est... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
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Stag & Dagger @ Various Venues (Glasgow), 21 May
From its origins in Hoxton’s pokiest sweatboxes, the export of the Stag & Dagger festival to Glasgow has proven to be so successful that it’s back for a third consecutive year. As before it’s a mixture of big international names, hyped acts from down south and the cream of local talent. Read more »| 25 May 2011 -
Art
Cara Tolmie @ DCA
Cara Tolmie's new show at DCA, Read Thou Art and Read Thou Shalt Remain, marks a welcome return to Dundee after graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2005. Ben Robinson catches up with the artist to discuss what it's all about Read more »| 25 May 2011 -
Music
Mini Mansions – Mini Mansions
Michael Shuman is best known for his role as bassist in Queens of the Stone Age, but this side-project – also incorporating Tyler Parkford and Zach Daw... Read more »| 25 May 2011 -
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Dustin O'Halloran – Vorleben
Vorleben will be a tough nut to advertise: “If you buy just one new Dustin O’Halloran album this year” the hyperbole will confidently begin... Read more »| 25 May 2011 -
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Kronos in Glasgow: Finale @ City Halls, 15 May
Back in the 1980s, Kronos’ link to popular music was awkward: cover versions of Jimi Hendrix made them one step away from Hooked On Classics abominatio... Read more »| 25 May 2011