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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FilmMay Film Events
There’s plenty to see at cinemas across Scotland this month. The Filmhouse in Edinburgh continues its festival run with the Tibet Film Festival from 8-... Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
Music
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
Black Mountain found substantial success with last year’s proggy opus In The Future, though sixteen-minute psych-jams were never going to be to everyon... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
FilmIs Anybody There?
Following Intermission and Boy A, director John Crowley shows his diversity with his latest venture, Is Anybody There? Dark humour permeates this tale of Edw... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
MusicRoss Clark @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 24 Jun
Native Glaswegian Ross Clark has become a mainstay on the Scottish music scene. Describing his own sound as ‘fucked-up country’, Clark’s a... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
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The Maccabees - Wall of Arms
Brighton based indie kids pull out all the stops on excellent second album Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
MusicAlasdair Roberts @ Cabaret Voltaire, 22 May
Alasdair Roberts returns to tour in support of his forthcoming album Spoils Read more »| 27 Apr 2009
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MusicJon Hopkins - Insides
The line between the polymath (the person who is good at everything) and the dilettante (the person who flippantly dabbles in everything) is treacherous; mus... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
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Peaches - I Feel Cream
Kurupt once said that you can’t make a ho a housewife, but Peaches is giving it a jolly good go. I Feel Cream opens with something of a red herring; su... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
Music
Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - GOK
Despite being 5701 miles apart (thanks, Internet), Scotland and Japan have a long-standing musical affinity, with bands like the BMX Bandits arguably finding... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
Film
How To Be
Currently turning teenage girls to jelly in the Twilight franchise, Robert Pattinson gives a decent stab (or should that be stake?) at another kind of existe... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
Music
Tigerfest 2009 Roars Into Action
The discerning music fan will either need marathon stamina or the ability to pull off a convincing sickie for the month of May, because across Aberdeen, Dunf... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
Music
Hinterland: Edie Sedgwick @ The Admiral Bar, 30 Apr
Edie Sedgwick, according to 'her' bio, is the transgendered reincarnation of the once famous Andy Warhol muse with the same name. Here to save the world thro... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
Music
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
If you’ve come here looking for a helpful soundtrack to some impending suicide attempt in a rustic shack on the edge of a steely lake in the ass-crack ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
Music
Adam Stafford: Do it Yourself (...or Consider Yourself Swallowed)
From his formative days as one half of the Chuck Norris Machine to releasing future classics as Y'all is Fantasy Island, Adam Stafford is not averse to a bit of DIY to get the job done. Here he writes about the genesis of his band and the organic success they've found on the Scottish circuit. Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
Music
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Òran Mór, 17 April
From smashing guitars to plucking sitars; since splitting their fanbase neatly down the middle with the perceived apathy of 2006's So Divided and the lacklus... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009