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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TheatreSpectacular Debut: Scottish Opera's Manon
Nicole Hepburn looks forward to a season exotic and opulent opera. Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
MusicGrizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Grizzly Bear - not the wildly esoteric beast we took them for then. The Brooklyn (yes, another one) four-piece broke on to the international stage with their... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
FilmTormented
Many of E4’s ‘Skins’ cast are to be found in Jon Wright’s budget Brit flick classroom horror Tormented in which Darren Mullet, a fat ... Read more »| 15 May 2009 -
MusicHey Vampires: Blood Brothers
Hey Vampires - a Glasgow-based trio excelling in making a hefty racket - can currently be found residing in the dark dominion of many, if not all, of the Glasgow's basement venues. Ryan Drever finds them in their natural habitat. Read more »| 15 May 2009 -
MusicGod Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
God Help The Girl is a new project from Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, a proposed musical film whose soundtrack features guest vocals from The Divin... Read more »| 14 May 2009 -
Music
Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
Though hailing from Germany, this five-piece doesn't merely regurgitate the motorik beat that has become synonymous with any dewy-eyed pastiche of the krautr... Read more »| 14 May 2009
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Music
Metric @ Òran Mór, 12 May
Four years have passed since Metric's Last album, Live It Out, but judging by tonight's performance you'd never believe it. Brimming with confidence and shee... Read more »| 14 May 2009 -
Film
Fermat's Room
Spain’s answer to the Saw franchise sees its victims forced to use their brains rather than their bodies to survive the game. In Fermat’s Room, f... Read more »| 14 May 2009 -
Music
Holy Fuck @ Òran Mór, 11 May
With a drummer and a bassist, Holy Fuck are half an indie-rock band - but the other two members create such a spectral swirling racket with knobs, buttons an... Read more »| 13 May 2009 -
Music
Kid 606 - Shout At The Döner
Spanning four equally sporadic and frenetic movements, Shout At The Döner is the tenth full-length from Kid 606. Riddled with the usual glitches and hil... Read more »| 13 May 2009 -
Music
The pAper chAse: Hide the Kitchen Knives
Having produced everybody from Smog and The Thermals through to Marilyn Manson and Celine Dion, John Congleton tells Chris Cusack why they all inspired him to strike out on his own to resume the pAper chAse Read more »| 13 May 2009 -
Music
Amusement Parks On Fire @ Cabaret Voltaire, 6 May
Amusement Parks On Fire roar through an ear splittingly loud set on the opening night of Tigerfest's Edinburgh leg. Jamie Scott peels back the layers. Read more »| 13 May 2009 -
Film
Awaydays
When Paul Carty (Nicky Bell) meets Elvis (Liam Boyle) each sees in the other the chance for escape. For Carty, Elvis is his passport into the violent camarad... Read more »| 12 May 2009 -
Music
Theory of a Deadman - Scars & Souvenirs
It's depressing to think that this band kicked back in the recording studio, cracked open a beer or two, smiled at each other, and thought to themselves: 'th... Read more »| 11 May 2009 -
Music
Lytle, by Lytle
When Grandaddy dissolved in 2005, their lead singer disappeared to the mountains in Montana, essentially turning his back on the industry to reinvigorate his relationship with music. Jason Lytle sits down with Matthew Young to explain how he found the road back. Read more »| 11 May 2009