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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BooksTop Gear Drivers' Handbook by Richard Porter
Following on from Haynes, the Car Manual publisher who branched out into novelty books – The Star Trek based U.S.S Enterprise Manual, Dad Manua... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Witness presents: Sinden @ Sneaky Pete's, 13 July
It would seem that the Witness crew can't get enough of Grizzly artists, having booked Brenmar last month for a sweaty packed out show, this month sees head ... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
T in the Park 2011 – The Dancing
The time is approaching when thousands across Scotland will dust down their bucket hats, string up their acoustic guitars and try to track down that tent the... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
MusicCrystal Antlers – Two Way Mirror
After a favourably received debut album and EP it was uncertain as to whether these Californian acid-revivalists could ever best it. But, in attempting to do... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Barrowland, 22 July
The downside of a band achieving greatness is most usually to be found in the legions of mediocre imitators that spring up in their wake. Yet despite the so-... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Film
July Film Highlights
On 25 July the Filmhouse in Edinburgh is offering a rare chance to see notorious 1932 film Freaks. The director Tod Browning (Dracula), inspired by his own c... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011
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Music
Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell – Ghosts Outside
For those baffled by seemingly endless bass culture sub-genres (hello UK post dub-step), Steve Mason’s collaboration with Dennis Bovell is refreshingly... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
ArtBritish Art Show 7: It’s Time
The British Art Show is sprawling across Glasgow with more art than you can shake a stick at. The Skinny finds it operates across time as well as space Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
Music
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm
Two warmly-received EPs aside, Benjamin Francis Leftwich is best known for an appearance on Dermot O’Leary’s Saturday Sessions, the radio slot re... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
Books
This is Not the End of the Book, by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere
There have been too many hand-wringing discussions on the future of the book. This is not one of them. Author and academic Umberto Eco and his friend... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
Music
Wolf Gang – Suego Faults
Suego Faults, the debut from Max McElligott's Wolf Gang outfit, was produced by Dave Fridmann (he of Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips fame), and it sounds like i... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Music
The Blood Arm – Turn and Face Me
As one would expect of Franz Ferdinand's favourite band, an endorsement which may or may not be decreasing in value with each passing year, Los Angeles quart... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Music
Alex Skolnick Trio – Veritas
By their fourth album, most bands would already have the bottom of the barrel well and truly scraped, but for Alex Skolnick’s jazz trinity this is prob... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Music
Shonen Knife – Free Time
Despite multiple line-up changes, Shonen Knife’s set up and style has been unswerving across their thirty year existence: three girls, three chords, an... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Books
Beauty and The Inferno by Roberto Saviano
Gomorrah, journalist Roberto Saviano’s exposé of the Neapolitan Camorra crime organisation, quickly became an international bestsel... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011