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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Music
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballad of the Revolution
During their creative lifespan, some bands morph from challenging radicals intent on beating their listeners into stunned submission, into fully-fledged pop ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Peter Parker - Swallow The Rockets
Pastel-approved Glasgow quartet Peter Parker, led by Miss The Occupier frontwoman Roz Davies and veteran riot grrl Jane McKeown, look promising on paper, and... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions
Tinariwen wandered the deserts of North West Africa for almost twenty years before Westerners detected their Tishoumaren mix of electric blues and traditiona... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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That Fucking Tank - Tanknology
Let's not beat about the bush: track three on Tanknology, Mr Blood, is surely the best thing put to tape by this Leeds two-piece. It's a throbbing expulsion ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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The Minus 5 - Killingsworth
The Minus 5 remain relatively obscure, which is astonishing when you consider that past line-ups have included members of Sonic Youth and Wilco, as well as E... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Cast Spells - Bright Works and Baton
Better known as Maps & Atlases’ chief guitar-noodler, David Davison’s Cast Spells project is the sonic antithesis to his math-based day job. ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009
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Live Music Roundup - July, 2009
St. Vincent boasts some of the most impressive and unique guitar skills this side of a Battles gig Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
Film
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts
The general rule is that style or form should always match subject matter, but by that logic, a documentary about composer Philip Glass would amount to an on... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
Books
Lennox by Craig Russell
Lennox is, we are promised, the first book in a series about a ‘fixer’ in 1950s Glasgow, by author Craig Russell who once served as a police offi... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Telegraphs - We Were Ghosts
It would be too easy to dismiss We Were Ghosts as an emo record released by a band full of pretty people who fool no one with the heavy eye make-up. There's ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
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Life on Mars
Having already danced with the supernatural on their last album, 2009 finds The Mars Volta dogged by another old ghost. But Omar Rodriguez-Lopez tells Dave Kerr that he won’t be press ganged into reforming At the Drive-In. Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
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Silversun Pickups: Gonna Make You Swoon
Although still paying dues on these shores, LA’s Silversun Pickups are becoming a big name in their home country. Nikki Monninger tells Darren Carle they're all the happier for it. Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
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Apostle of Hustle - Eats Darkness
Hailing from the Arts & Crafts stable, Apostle of Hustle are a suitably patchwork ensemble of artists, most notably Andrew Whiteman of Broken Social Scen... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
Theatre
Latitude 2009
Gareth K Vile shows his age once again: rather than going to a festival for drugs and relentless partying, he can't wait to see the opera. Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
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Spinnerette - Spinnerette LP
After a marriage, a child and a whole mess of label problems, Brody Dalle's new outfit has finally landed. Featuring fellow ex-Distiller Tony Bevilacqua, Ala... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009