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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MusicVersus: Meursault vs The Foundling Wheel vs Dead Boy Robotics @ The Voodoo Rooms, 10 Sep
This September stimulate your auditory senses with the return of VERSUS to Edinburgh’s award-winning Voodoo Rooms. The evening promises live music pack... Read more »| 08 Sep 2009 -
MusicThe Gullivers - Legerdemain EP
A Wall Against The Noise kicks off this second offering from Oxford four-piece, The Gullivers, creeping in with a wash of keyboard ambience and skeletal, gui... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
FilmDorian Gray
Oscar Wilde’s gothic classic about the perils of yearning for everlasting youth, has been updated by director Oliver Parker (An Ideal Husband, St Trini... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
MusicShannon Stephens - The Breadwinner
If you’re looking for musical credentials, Shannon Stephens has ‘em- former bandmate of Sufjan Stevens in Marzuki , songs covered on critically a... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
TheatreA Faustian Diaspora
The International Festival provides great shows in form, but what about the content? Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
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A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
From rapid-boil kettles to omnipresent wireless broadband, the 21st century has proven itself to be one of instant gratification - much to the detriment of u... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009
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The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Like the original ‘shoegaze’ tag in the early 90s, ‘nu-gaze’ is not a genre bands seem that happy to be burdened with. The Big Pink a... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
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Noah and the Whale - The First Days Of Spring
Charlie Fink is miserable. Very miserable, actually. From the first tender notes of colossal opener The First Days of Spring there is a monumental whiff of d... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
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GusGus: - 24/7
This Icelandic electronic outfit have metamorphosed considerably since their formation in 1995 as a multi-faceted, eclectic group who aside from their musica... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
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Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard @ Cabaret Voltaire, 31 Aug
Following support from his brother Jack (sounding not a million miles away from Jonathan Richman) and Edinburgh's own Withered Hand, Jeffrey Lewis and band t... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
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Get Born Again: Alice in Chains resurface with Black Gives Way to Blue
17 years to the day that Dirt propelled Alice in Chains skywards, the Seattle survivors prepare to release their first studio album since the loss of frontman Layne Staley in 2002. Sean Kinney and William DuVall explain how they picked up the pieces. Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
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Strike The Colours - Seven Roads
To strike the colours at sea is to accept defeat, to surrender, to give up. As far as nom de guerre’s go, Reindeer Section alum Jenny Reeve has picked ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
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Kaito - Trust
Kaito, aka Hiroshi Watanabe, has long been a DJing stalwart of the US East Coast trance scene, playing in clubs like Twilo (in which Sasha and Digweed held a... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
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Anti-Pop Consortium – Fluorescent Black
Fluorescent Black opens with a tumult of punk guitars and drums, coalescing into the electro-inflected bounce of Lay Me Down. From the offset, it’s cle... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
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Damon & Naomi - The Sub Pop Years
Following the demise of Galaxie 500, Damon (Krukowski) & Naomi (Yang) stuck together, lowered the volume and continued in a similarly dreamy mould. Speci... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009