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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Theatre
Touching Tramway Tongues
Like many Scottish choreographers, Norman Douglas has found as much acclaim in Europe as in his homeland: his work appeared at The Royal Opera House in Londo... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
Music
Give The Balky Mule What He Wants
Life has presented Sam Jones with some very obscure experiences. David McNamara finds out why globe trotting and burnt down venues cannot slow the progress of The Balky Mule Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
Music
John Paul Keith & The One Four Fives - Spills and Thrills
John Paul Keith & The One Four Fives are a psychedelic garage-rock band masquerading as Memphis country-blues. Despite their own insistence that they're ... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
Film
Before Stonewall
The Stonewall riots in 1969 were a turning point for the gay movement in Western society, and lead to the beginning of pride marches and increasing visibilit... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
Film
Terminator Salvation
In the build up to the release of Terminator 3, James Cameron proclaimed the series to be “so last century”. T3 just about worked, but this stal... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
Clubs
Orbital: Turn Off the Bright Lights
After a legendary farewell in 2004, Orbital are back where they belong at the top of this summer's festival lineups. Rosie Davies asks Phil Hartnoll what changed Read more »| 04 Jun 2009
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Art
They Had Four Years @ Generator
They Had Four Years, the annual exhibition of Duncan of Jordanstone graduates a year on from qualification, has by now established itself as a hardy perennia... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
Music
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Sunset Rubdown’s latest LP is pertinently inscribed. The indie-rock psalms of Spencer Krug have long rested on a mythological mantel, but the Montreal ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
Clubs
Funk D'Void: Keeping the Beaches Happy
Scottish techno expat gives back to the European Club Community Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
Music
Golden Silvers - Arrows of Eros
With the likes of MGMT, Late of the Pier and countless others mining '80s synth-pop sounds, it was only a matter of time before a group pursued that period&r... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
Music
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
We Were Promised Jetpacks couldn’t have timed it better. In the post-breakthrough hiatus of Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad, indie aficionados h... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
Film
Last House On The Left
Summer is fast approaching and so is the slew of next generation horrors also known to the studios as reimaginings and known to the rest of us as rehashing. ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
Music
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
Okay, this is how EPs should be done. Five songs in fifteen minutes that serve to remind us just what a freakish talent Bradford Cox actually is. As his gorg... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
Film
The Beautiful Game
Looking for Eric is full of the unexpected. Not only is it a comedy from an unlikely director it also stars the football legend Eric Cantona who demonstrates, among other things, his skill at playing the trumpet. Gail Tolley finds out that what initially sounds like an unlikely premise actually works rather well. Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
Music
The Warlocks: Fevered Dreamers
Before they unleash The Mirror Explodes - their most accomplished album to date - Mark Shukla talks to uncompromising LA outsiders The Warlocks and finds out what keeps them awake at night Read more »| 03 Jun 2009