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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TheatreKill Your Timid Notion
For years, Barry Esson and Bryony McIntyre, creative directors of the Arika organisation, have been asked whether their festivals are “experimental mus... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: Pachamama
A father and son tread the old trade route through the Bolivian Andes, bartering salt from the Uyuni flats near their home for regional produce - the corn, q... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Pavement - Quarantine the Past
Emerging amidst the Seattle-centric music scene of the early nineties, Pavement’s breakthrough album, Slanted and Enchanted, eschewed the guts and grit... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Bringing Up Baby
Filmmakers, critics and cineastes alike can’t give anything but love to this baby, but that wasn’t always the case. Released in 1938, it bombed a... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
MusicPoostosh - Herbarium
Herbarium could be a forgotten gem of eastern European cinema; a three-hour epic about one old man's day-to-day struggles in a cold, unforgiving, Com... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: Things That Go Bump in the Night
Parisian electro duo Zombie Zombie talk about their love for the great horror filmmaker John Carpenter. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010
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Music
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Following 2007’s The Midnight Organ Fight can hardly be described as a pressure-free endeavour. Frightened Rabbit’s often stark, heart-on-sleeve,... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
Music
The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year
This radical opera crackles with genius and creativity, even if it does upset the traditionalists. Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
What We Wish Was True
Watching What We Know, I am fascinated by the central scene, where the grieving Lucy is confronted by a baleful youth who demands food and dispenses gnomic w... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
Music
Bomb The Bass - Back To Light
Tim Simenon, former poster boy of the DJ sampling revolution in the 1980s, has reinvented himself under the Bomb The Bass moniker with each successive album.... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
Art
Julian Oliver @ Hannah Maclure Centre
For any gallery-goer justifiably wary of safe, cutesy painting, the process behind Julian Oliver’s solo show Back Buffer reveals a welcome hyper-violen... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
Music
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Socio-political funk pioneer, revered poet, arguably one of the godfathers of the hip-hop scene, Gil Scott-Heron has suffered at the hands of addiction and i... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Music
RockNess 2010 @ Clune Farm, Dores, 11-13 Jun
Only five years have passed since Fatboy Slim first engaged some witty word play and introduced Loch Ness to camping for the beat-loving hedonist under the b... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
MusicYeongene - Bonnie Gene
Two worlds collide on this first European release from South Korean chanteuse Yeongene. So there's the far eastern element, and there's a flavour of Glaswegi... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Music
Spoon @ King Tut's, 14 Feb
It pays to have influential friends. First White Rabbits acquire the production skills of Britt Daniel for second album It’s Frightening, then the Spoo... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010