The Cure album review: Songs of a Lost World - The Skinny
Oct 29, 2024 · Songs of a Lost World is a true return to the desolate beauty of their 80s heyday. The opening pair of songs, Alone and And Nothing Is Forever, could've fit neatly onto Disintegration with their lengthy introductions (vocals rarely appear earlier than two minutes into any song), the cinematic sweep of the keys and guitar, Smith's languishing laments, the way beauty is eked out of the darkest ...
Edinburgh Film Festival: The 2024 award winners - The Skinny
Aug 22, 2024 · The curtain came down on the 2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival last night with the world premiere of Carla J Easton and Blair Young’s vibrant documentary Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands, and the Festival could hardly have chosen a better closer.. It's a joyous and fierce celebration of the girl bands from Scotland who have fallen through the cracks of ...
Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes album review: The Skinny
Nov 12, 2024 · Mercury Prize recipient Michael Kiwanuka, Sault’s resident maestro Inflo and the inimitable Danger Mouse reunite on Kiwanuka’s fourth album, Small Changes.The album angles to circumvent the temporal; a confident stride in classic songwriting and craftsmanship that gives way to yet another example of Kiwanuka and his collaborators upping their creative ante.
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The Great When by Alan Moore: book review - The Skinny
Sep 30, 2024 · Not content with being the undisputed king of comics, Alan Moore kicks off his new series of ‘Long London’ novels with The Great When. 18-year-old Dennis Knuckleyard (bearing a name which, he explains, must have been the fanciful invention of his estranged father) works for a second-hand bookseller in 1949 London.By accident, he buys a book that doesn’t – or rather, shouldn’t – exist.
Anora review: razor-sharp and humanist romance - The Skinny
Oct 28, 2024 · Early in Anora, exotic dancer Ani (Mikey Madison) is chatting with a colleague outside the New York strip club where they both work, with her friend lamenting the generic dollar-signs tattoo she has on her hand.“No, but you’re manifesting with those,” Ani assures her pal, though it’s she who will soon be whisked off to a world of wealth by an unexpected suitor.
Yasmin Williams - Acadia album review: The Skinny
Sep 30, 2024 · Earlier this year, Yasmin Williams raised the hackles of the Beyhive when she criticised Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter in an op-ed for The Guardian.She accused the Texan superstar of sidelining the Black musicians she claimed to celebrate, arguing that “Beyoncé has put the Carter before the horse.”
Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Our Ultimate Comedy Recs - The Skinny
Jul 30, 2024 · Works-In-Progress. Last year’s Best Newcomer, Urooj Ashfaq, returns with a short-run WIP (Assembly Roxy (Downstairs), 16-25 Aug, 12.30pm, £8).Her endearing stage presence will add sparkle to this show’s new beginnings. Glenn Moore (Monkey Barrel (MB1), 30 Jul-12 Aug, 11.05am, £10) also has a Work-in-Progress at Fringe. One of the master joke crafters in UK comedy, it’ll be a densely ...
The Skinny on…Tricia Reid from Sophisticated Boom Boom
Oct 8, 2024 · Carla J. Easton and Blair Young's new film, Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands, is a sparky music documentary celebrating some of the Scottish girl bands who should be on every Scottish teen’s wall but aren’t – bands like Strawberry Switchblade, The Ettes, The Twinsets, The McKinleys, The Hedrons and Lung Leg. Also featured in the doc are excellent 80s Glasgow ...
Duncan Cowles on mental health doc Silent Men - The Skinny
Nov 7, 2024 · Manly Tears: Duncan Cowles on Silent Men Ahead of his debut feature Silent Men, documentarian Duncan Cowles talks to us about getting blokes to open up on camera, the archivist impulse to capture memories and crying as a cure