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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ArtMin Angel @ Corn Exchange Gallery
Exploring the grey areas of life, language and perception through a mixure of drawings, sculpture and collage, artist Min Angel delves into the art of making... Read more »| 07 Jan 2011 -
ArtEllie Harrison @ Market Gallery
Looking through the wide windows of Duke Street’s Market Gallery the interior more resembles a shop window display than an art exhibition. The main att... Read more »| 07 Jan 2011 -
ArtChildish Things @ Fruitmarket Gallery
Pin-pricking the nostalgic bubble that surrounds our memories of childhood, the Fruitmarket Gallery’s latest show presents our formative years as an un... Read more »| 07 Jan 2011 -
Music
Alain Weber – Hoover Cover
Hoover Cover is Swiss composer Alain Weber’s attempt to soundtrack the bleakest scene in everyone’s life, that moment where hope is just the fain... Read more »| 06 Jan 2011 -
FilmA Serbian Film
Milos is a retired porn star who is lured out of retirement for one last skinflick by the promise of a paycheck that will set his family up for life. The cat... Read more »| 06 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Proposition: We Need a New National Anthem
Scotland needs a new national anthem. In fact Scotland needs any national anthem. We don't have one. Honestly. We're pretty unusual that way. Instead we've g... Read more »| 06 Jan 2011
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Music
The Whigs – In The Dark
The Whigs have been nothing if not consistent on their two albums to date; turning out amped-up power-rock with their fists in the air like it never fell out... Read more »| 06 Jan 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: 2011 Year Planner
ARIES Shat into being by the Big Bang. In and out of great supernovae we were flung in our aeon-long paths in our various pieces across the vacuum; pulled, ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2011 -
Film
Tron: Legacy
When Steven Lisberger’s Tron first hit cinemas in 1982 the world was a very different place. Cutting edge computer technology had only just allowed for... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Theatre
New Year, New You: Video Dance
From contemporary to commercial dance: Dance House's latest craze is more than just fashionable Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Music
Earth's Dylan Carlson shines a light on Angels of Darkness
Defying life-threatening circumstances and a personnel crisis to bring Earth's impending seventh studio album to life, who better to give an insight than guitarist and principal member Dylan Carlson? Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Music
Earth: Versus The World
Despite his role in birthing a genre, unassuming Earth founder Dylan Carlson never set out with any master plan Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Music
Joan As Police Woman – The Deep Field
Following on from 2008’s emotionally super-weighty ode to her recently passed mother, To Survive, NYC’s Joan Wasser returns with her third album.... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Music
Helmet @ Cathouse, 17 Dec
Mad, bad and dangerous to be in the vicinity of, DeSalvo’s vocalist P6 is a fearsome creature and as he sets to work harassing the crowd, they play the... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Theatre
A View From the Bridge
In their capability to unite and divide there is something compelling about bridges that encourage writers to build stories around them. And as seen in The B... Read more »| 05 Jan 2011