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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MusicAkron/Family @ Captain's Rest, 22 May
Freak-folk trio Akron/Family bring their lucky rabbits foot to the Captain's Rest. Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
Theatre
Balgay Hill
Anna Fenton looks at a study of one of Dundee's most famous sons. Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
MusicWavves: Surfing the Zeitgeist
Setting the blogosphere ablaze with pure sun-drenched euphoria in recent months, Nathan Williams has endured – rather than enjoyed – an unlikely ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Frank Zappa: A Mother of Invention
There are many artists who are praised as being ‘ahead of their time’, but in Frank Zappa’s case, you begin to wonder whether the man possessed some kind of time-machine, so eerily prophetic were his musical innovations. These are just a few of the ways in which Zappa was a composer way avant of the garde Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
MusicThe Colourful Band - The Colourful EP
The Colourful Band is primarily the work of Ian McKelvie, an Edinburgh resident inspired to song by six months travelling in Australia. If the gap-year biogr... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
MusicBroken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part
Since Broken Records first emerged in Edinburgh in 2007, Scottish music fans have awaited their debut album with huge anticipation. The Skinny has featured or positively reviewed them several times, but does their debut deliver? Ally Brown places Until the Earth Begins to Part under the microscope. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009
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Music
Astrid Williamson - Here Come The Vikings
Astrid Williamson branches out into new textures and timbres. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Patrick: The Boy Cried Wolf
Erstwhile prodigy Patrick Wolf attempts to get to grips with the driving forces and internal demons that have shaped his latest release. Paul Mitchell unravels The Bachelor's enigma Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Theatre
Al Seed: Splinters
Agata Maslowska observes Al Seed spread his wings and educate the people Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Music
Meursault - Nothing Broke EP
Amongst the 'bigger' songs on Meursault's debut album, A Single Stretch of Land showed that songwriter and vocalist Neil Pennycook can do pared-back and rest... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Music
Zappa Plays Zappa
In an increasingly homogenised musical climate, how do you approach maintaining the legacy of a man who was, and still is, ahead of his time? Joe Barton talks to Dweezil Zappa, band leader of the Zappa Plays Zappa project, to find out how he’s keeping the memory, and music, of his father alive Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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The Dirty Dozen - June, 2009
Plenty of new music in the D-12 sack this month, but Nick Mitchell finds that there's just no keeping a few Britpop veterans down Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Matteah Baim - Laughing Boy
Previously half of Metallic Falcons with Sierra Casady (of weird dream-pop eccentrics CocoRosie), second album Laughing Boy reveals Matteah Baim to be more g... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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The Ghost of a Thousand - New Hopes, New Demonstrations
At a certain point, hardcore kids got sick of just mashing trap kits and chugga-chugga riffs. It seems Brighton-hailing The Ghost of a Thousand were some of ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Bellini - The Precious Prize Of Gravity
Albini-produced discordance on Italian/American Collective's third offering Read more »| 01 Jun 2009