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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MusicVarious Artists – Electropapknit Volume 1
In the first of what will hopefully be a lengthy run, Glasgow-based DIY promoters Electropapknit deliver a stock-take of the Scottish underground, a perfect ... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
MusicThe Phantom Band @ Òran Mór, 21 Nov
It was a no-brainer really. With nary a bad song in their repertoire and playing the superb Òran Mór to an eager, almost ecstatic, homecoming c... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Film
Little Big Soldier
You know where you are with Jackie Chan. He's the lovable king of action comedy who can turn any situation into a whirlwind of martial arts slapstick. You mi... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
ClubsAmbivalent @ Bigfoot's, 3 Dec
Bigfoot's second birthday places M_nus fully paid-up member Ambivalent at the reins Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Books
Sunset Park by Paul Auster
Miles Heller is a one-man gloomfest. He’s haunted by the death of his stepbrother, estranged from his family and facing blackmail for conductin... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
FilmGareth Edwards: British Cinema's Renaissance Man
After a long slog on the festival circuit, Gareth Edwards' Monsters finally goes on general release. The Skinny talks to the talented young director about his genre-blending romance/monster movie, which has been wittily dubbed 'Brief Encounters of the Third Kind' Read more »| 24 Nov 2010
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Music
Franz Nicolay - Luck and Courage
Former keyboardist in Brooklyn rockers The Hold Steady, Franz Nicolay continues his improbable reinvention as a troubadour of heartland America on Luck and C... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Music
Caribou, Four Tet, James Holden @ O2 ABC, 21 Nov
With a line-up of James Holden, Rocketnumbernine, Nathan Fake, Holden again and Four Tet before Caribou, Sunday evening’s ABC lineup has a mini-festiva... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Music
Beach House @ Òran Mór, 20 Nov
Dream pop duo Beach House are a band whose live reputation is always going to be closely tethered to that of their albums; they’re perfectionists in th... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Music
Trash Talk @ Captain's Rest, 19 Nov
With so many under-agers being turfed out, tonight's show isn't quite as mental as it could have been. Still, we're not complaining, and Brooklyn hardcore cr... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Music
The Foundling Wheel – May Day/10:24
May Day sees The Foundling Wheel (AKA Edinburgh-based Ted Koterwas) moving on from an abrasive 2008 debut with perhaps his most immediate offering to date. P... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Film
Easier with Practice
Davy Mitchell (Geraghty) is an aspiring writer embarking, with sleazy brother Sean (O’Neill) in tow, on a self-financed “book tour”... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Books
Delete This At Your Peril by Neil Forsyth
Delete This At Your Peril is a compilation of emails exchanged between fraudsters and a character Forsyth has created (or could he be real?) called B... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Music
Randolph's Leap @ Captain's Rest, 18 Nov
To paraphrase one of their own songs, Randolph’s Leap very nearly had to cut crisps out of debut EP Battleships and Kettle Chips after a scary email fr... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Music
Simian Mobile Disco – Delicacies
As ideas for concept records go, this is one of the more curious: tour the world throwing out 12” records, gritty beats and muscular bass-lines, and wh... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010