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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ArtThe Annuale 09
What to expect of the Embassy-run art festival as it turns six this month? A super reliable internet source profiles the developmental milestones of a six-ye... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
ClubsHoly Ghost @ Dirty Hearts Club, Snafu, 4 Jun
Hailing from Brooklyn, Holy Ghost! are Nicholas Millhiser and Alex Frankel. The pair were formerly part of the live rap group Automato whose debut was produc... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
MusicMeet E: A Werewolf in LA
Life rarely rained for Mark Everett, but it frequently poured. The man known as E has spent the past four years searching for answers from his heartbreaking past. Now he tells Finbarr Bermingham that he just might have found them Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Film12 Rounds
The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky recently lamented the decline of the action movie muscle man. But with the recent comebacks of Willis, Stallone and Va... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Music
goNorth 2009 @ Inverness (Various), 11-12 Jun
And so it seems the festival season has crept back upon us, sidling up with all the stealth and dexterity of a hungry cat, almost eerily unnoticed. First the... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Music
Acoustic Ladyland @ The Voodoo Rooms, 24 Jun
Acoustic Ladyland are the antithesis of the anodyne listening experience provided by the common-or-garden ‘mellow sax trio’. Instead, London&rsqu... Read more »| 29 May 2009
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MusicManic Street Preachers at Barrowlands, 25 May
Another dreich night in Glasgow fails to dampen the spirits outside the Barrowlands as the hordes bay for the live premiere of Journal for Plague Lovers. Pla... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Clubs
Pat Mahoney @ Let It Bleed & The Deep End, Snafu, 6 Jun
The hip sounds of Brooklyn and the Death From Above label continue to infiltrate the Granite City throughout June with a night of the finest disco ever to em... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Music
Jack Peñate - Everything is New
When Jack Peñate spasmodically sidestepped on to the scene like an epileptic crab in 2006, detractors quickly lumped him in with the jangly Mockneys d... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Music
Unicorn Kid @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Jun
Not many 17-year-olds from Edinburgh can say they’ve collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys...or played a live session on BBC Radio 1...or featured in NME... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Music
Lord Cut-Glass - Lord Cut-Glass
No one could accuse Alun Woodward of rushing things. Lord Cut-Glass is the alias under which the former Delgado has slowly been unveiling his solo material s... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Film
Drag Me To Hell
Contemporary American horror has fallen under a curse: it either sates a juvenile bloodlust for sex and torture, or lazily remakes derivative Asian shockers ... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Music
Cass McCombs - Catacombs
US singer-songwriter Cass McCombs returns with his second album for Domino, Catacombs, a musically melancholic but lyrically sharp record. McCombs is a drift... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Clubs
Glitter Klinik @ Confusion is Sex, Studio 24, 5 Jun
Despite having only two nights under its belt so far, Confusion is Sex is already making a name for itself as one of the most diverse club nights in Edinburg... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Music
Adam Franklin - Spent Bullets
Too strong for shy shoegazers, Adam Franklin’s old band, Swervedriver, were often lumped in with labelmates Ride or My Bloody Valentine, but in reality... Read more »| 28 May 2009