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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MusicBorn Ruffians - Say It
With their 2008 debut album Red, Yellow and Blue, Canadian trio Born Ruffians eschewed derivative CYHSY comparisons by injecting some Monks-style silliness i... Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
Music
Track-by-Track: Band of Horses' Infinite Arms
Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell offers an exclusive insight into the heart of their forthcoming third album Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
BooksDoctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter by Russell T.Davies and Benjamin Cook.
Comprising two and a half years' worth of emails between Doctor Who’s outgoing head writer Russell T Davies and fan journalist Ben Cook, readers are gi... Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
Theatre
Entity Preview
Contemporary style arrives from the man behind Royal Ballet's new works. Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
MusicThe Mason Manifesto
Ahead of polling day on 6 May, Steve Mason offers a (strictly non-) political party broadcast Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Music
Steve Mason: The End of the Beta Biscuit Affair
Steve Mason explains why he's ditched the myriad pseudonyms to step out of the shadows as, well, himself Read more »| 04 May 2010
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Music
The Dirty Dozen - May 2010: Bronto Skylift Takeover
They're loud, they're fierce and with that we'd have guessed very opinionated. Paul Mitchell hauls May's singles to Bronto Skylift's Glasgow rehearsal room to find the duo endlessly fascinated by the dark art of the press release Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
MusicJim Kroft - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Jim Kroft is likely to be a new name to most readers. That's because the Highland native fled our shores at the first opportunity to be a kind of artist-in-r... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Music
Holy Fuck - Latin
Given the rampaging style favoured by electro-noise quartet, Holy Fuck, it’s perhaps unsurprising that their first two albums – whilst tinged wit... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Music
Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry
Meursault’s brilliant debut Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues surprised us all by striding into the spotlight in 2008. Inevitably, follow-up L... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Art
Air Iomlaid
Air Iomlaid, or ‘On Exchange’, is a collaborative project involving primary school pupils from both Edinburgh and Skye who underwent intensive ar... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Music
Swimmer One - Dead Orchestras
Shirking expectations multiple times, Swimmer One are as difficult to pin down as a greased-up eel with a mysterious past. What starts in a vaguely disco-Edi... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Art
Call yourself a filmmaker?
The fifth edition of the Leith Short Film Festival will this year take place from 10-13 June at Duncan Place and Iso-Lounge in Leith. As in previous years, t... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Music
Gayngs - Relayted
Gayngs’ roots lie in, of all places, 10cc. Producer Ryan Olson started the project – which features members of Megafaun, Bon Iver, Doomtree, and ... Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
Theatre
A Heart of Glass
In the context of the credit crunch, The Glass Menagerie is more than just nostalgia Read more »| 03 May 2010