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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Film
Telstar
Telstar is the biopic of legendary 60s music producer Joe Meek, who from a tiny studio above a shop in London’s Holloway Road, produced the top-selling... Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
Music
I Hear a New World - June, 2009
Unusual and innovative music from Scotland and beyond Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Music
Mastodon @ ABC, 7 June
Tonight it's business up front, party at the back Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Clubs
Death Disco: New Heights
Yuksek: Remixer, DJ, studio hermit and unintentional hero of teenage stoners from Istanbul. Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Film
Electra Glide In Blue
Electra has that Lynchian effect of making you wonder exactly what drugs the director was on. Nothing about it makes much sense, but it looks good, in a CHi... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Music
Halt Bar Hijack @ The Halt Bar, 12-14 June
Three years in and the Halt Bar on the student Mecca that is Woodlands Road continues to gorge itself on some of Scotland's finest underground acts once year... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009
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Music
Goes Cube - Another Day Has Passed
This thunderous three-piece from NYC are keen to play up their lack of concern for image, industry parties and becoming players on the Big Apple scene. True ... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
Music
Laroca - Valley of the Bears
Laroca claim to make music like nothing you’ve heard before, which isn’t strictly true. A more accurate claim would be that they make music like ... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
Music
Divorce - Divorce EP
Glasgow label Optimo Music unleash ten inches of pure, inky-black, tightly-wound noise with the release of Divorce's self-titled debut EP. The five-piece inc... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
Film
Belle Toujours
Hollywood philistine William Goldman once said that all directors lose their touch at 60, but clearly he’d forgotten that Luis Buñuel was 67 whe... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
Music
Let's Tea Party - Hot Chip/Emmanuella
Double A-Side from 'pop bounce' Bristol trio. Read more »| 08 Jun 2009 -
Comedy
Virtually the best comedy gig in the world?
It started as a joke: why don’t you just do it online? But after gigging in front of a poor turnout, it got comedian Tiernan Douieb thinking. Why not d... Read more »| 08 Jun 2009 -
Music
Lissy Trullie - Self-Taught Learner
Lissy Trullie is the stage name of former model Lizzie McChesney, the face of Chloë Sevigny’s clothing line. As a front woman and vocalist, the 25... Read more »| 07 Jun 2009 -
Music
Patrick Wolf @ Classic Grand, 29 May
Cooler-than-cucumbers Yacht (**) might sound awesome at one a.m. in a sweaty Optimo, but as early-doors support they're exposed as no-substance nonsense. The... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
Clubs
Herve @ Alternative, Cabaret Voltaire, 12 Jun
Glasgow's Alt club night makes a hop, skip and jump from the V Club to Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh for the launch of its bi-monthly presence in Auld Reekie... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009