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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MusicPlayer Piano - Into The Dark EP
The reputation of piano-driven balladry may never recover from the pummelling it suffered at the hands of Keane and Coldplay, but Jeremy Radway is at least d... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
FilmSummer Scars
If you go down to the woods today, be sure to watch out for nasty surprises. Julian Richards’ semi-autobiographical award-winning horror tale has been ... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Music
Future Cinema Presents All Tomorrow's Parties @ HMV Picture House, 24 June
Ever drunkenly pumped coins into a 2p machine to the sound of Deerhunter playing Butlins, or spotted Steve Albini fleecing fans at poker while watching Eurov... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
MusicFranz Ferdinand - Blood
Franz Ferdinand’s third album Tonight was a muted success, despite the pre-release talk of afrobeat rhythms and experimental electronica largely turnin... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Music
Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals
With its slow chord changes and floating beats, Arrivals at times sounds as though it is being played underwater. Crackly glitches and beeps are smoothed of ... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Music
TV21 - Forever 22
A fine exhumation of '80s ‘indie’ that existed before the term became embarrassing and meaningless Read more »| 25 May 2009
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MusicIron Crease - Eye Increase
Thanks to an extended period of collective inactivity, the scattered members of cult Dundonians Laeto are gradually re-emerging into the world with new bands... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Music
The Aliens @ Cabaret Voltaire, 31 May
Rising from the psychological wreckage of the Beta Band, Gordon Anderson has successfully emancipated himself from his past, while retaining just enough of t... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Music
The Breeders @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 20 May
The concert equivalent of a cocktease is surely going to see The Breeders and not being able to catch a glimpse of the sisters Deal. Lucky, then, that this w... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Music
Passion Pit – Manners
In the wave of acclaim that met Passion Pit’s Chunk of Change EP earlier this year, the critical consensus was, ironically, that this was music to be r... Read more »| 25 May 2009 -
Clubs
Diplo & Boy 8-Bit @ Cabaret Voltaire, 21 May
Being the avant-garde encyclopaedia of all things Mad Decent is, seemingly, not as easy as it looks. Diplo’s languid Floridian drawl apologetically pe... Read more »| 23 May 2009 -
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Kristin Hersh @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 18 May
Intensity is the watchword tonight at King Tut's. The tone is set by opening act Beerjacket (***), the nom de rock of self-effacing singer-songwriter Peter K... Read more »| 22 May 2009 -
Music
Maximo Park - Quicken The Heart
"What are we doing here if romance isn't dead?" So demanded Paul Smith, Maximo Park's frontman, on the Tyneside quintet's exhilarating debut single Graffiti.... Read more »| 22 May 2009 -
Music
Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move
In four years between 2002 and 2006, Dirty Projectors went through 27 band members. That’s a turnover to put even your most harried of rock supergroups... Read more »| 21 May 2009 -
Clubs
Kelburn Garden Party: If You Go Down to the Woods Today...
Chris Duncan takes a look at one of the most exciting additions to this year's Scottish festival line up, The Garden Party. Read more »| 21 May 2009