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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MusicRemember Remember – RR Scorpii
With its twinkling glockenspiels and lazy trumpets there’s a tinge of the twee about new Remember Remember release RR Scorpii, the first release from f... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
MusicDan Korn – Dustbowl EP
Opening with the playful title track - well as playful as one can expect from a supposed tribute to the doomed lives of the Joad family in John Steinbeck&rsq... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
Comedy
New Act of the Month: Matthew Winning
In between work for his PhD in the Economics of Renewable Energy, Matthew Winning is steadily making a name for himself in the Scottish comedy scene Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
FilmFrozen
Chipper college kids Joe (Shawn Ashmore), Dan (Kevin Zegers) and Parker (Emma Bell) head for the ski slopes. They grease a chair-lift dude to let them on one... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
Film
The Hunter
Having just been released from prison Ali Alavi (Rafi Pitts) attempts to settle into family life by taking a job as a night watchman and spending time with h... Read more »| 23 Oct 2010 -
MusicBadly Drawn Boy @ Old Fruitmarket, 20 Oct
“Not exactly playing the hits am I?” notes Badly Drawn Boy after airing tracks from 1997’s EP1. That’s not quite accurate – in ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010
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Music
aM – Belong To Galaxy
The array of adjectives offered to describe Japanese electronica duo aM on the press release to their debut album is enjoyable enough on its own. Anyone up f... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Music
Iain Shaw – Milk Teeth EP
Milk Teeth is an apt name for this collection as the four songs on offer sound somewhat deciduous, like a prelude for something more permanent and greater to... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
MusicThe Sexual Objects – Cucumber
The Sexual Objects play Freudian games on debut Cucumber. The onanistic connotations of the band/album name combination, along with tracks entitled Full Pene... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Film
Peeping Tom: 50th Anniversary
Fifty years after its notorious debut, Peeping Tom returns to cinemas in all its creepy and lucid Technicolor glory for audiences' voyeuristic pleasure. It&r... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Music
Sharon Van Etten – Epic
You can’t argue with statistics: if the bland outweighs the good, disappoint beckons. Quality ratios can be kind to the lengthy – an opus like Th... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Gaslamp Killer – Death Gate EP
While psychedelic and Eastern music have all made an impact on hip-hop's sampladelic soundscape in some limited way, few have made the combination sound so n... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Film
The Secret Of Kells
The polished work of Pixar and its peers has left a large void for alternatives, and The Secret of Kells, basing both visuals and storyline on the famous Cel... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Theatre
Tailor of Inverness
Tailored to fit Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Music
Nosferatu D2 – We’re Gonna Walk Around This City With Our Headphones On To Block Out The Noise
Thrashing frenetic guitars, and hectic jaw-drop drumming, with what sounds like Zed from Police Academy on vocals - this is a win, win, win situation! Tighte... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010