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
The Big Pink - Dominos
Until now, The Big Pink’s creepy crawly atmospherics seemed an unlikely target for industry hype: too weird, too esoteric and too light on direct pop t... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Taken By Trees - East of Eden
Victoria Bergsman's second album as Taken By Trees is born of admirable intentions: seeking to break free from her comfort zone, she travelled with a sound e... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Faith No More @ Corn Exchange, 25 Aug
By their own admission, Faith No More are old men in rock ‘n’ roll circles, and a fair portion of tonight’s audience are marching unquestio... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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A Year of The Mill @ Òran Mór, 27 Aug
The Mill’s anniversary shindig gets off to a disappointing start when it transpires that illness has spirited away Jill O’Sullivan from Sparrow a... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Pastels/Tenniscoats - Two Sunsets
The evocative title of this collaboration between Glasgow’s Pastels and Tokyo’s Tenniscoats neatly summarises its scope, cleanly articulating the... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Rebellious Jukebox - Another Precious Day
Beck tried and failed to recreate the spirit of Odelay when he reunited with the Dust Brothers for 2003’s Guero. Judging by this rollicking effort, M... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009
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The Hot Melts - The Hot Melts
The Hot Melts recently got nobody hot under the collar with their “ultra-controversial” video for single Red Lips. It features semi-naked, cavort... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Trashcan Sinatras - In The Music
Despite pre-dating contemporaries such as Teenage Fanclub and having more than their fair share of seminal moments tucked away in their unjustly niche back-c... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
Art
Nine Trades of Dundee
It is a widely known yet little discussed fact that most art school graduates are going to end up working a job that has nothing to do with art. A new project in Dundee has taken this as a starting point, recruiting artists with other jobs to make work bringing the two sides of their lives together. One of those artists, Ben Robinson, describes the project. Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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The Dirty Dozen - September, 2009
This month a rock star's nephew gets in on the act, a historically named new Scottish band emerges, and Nick Mitchell gets an education from Ian Brown Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Joe Kalamo
1. Hudson Mohawke - Fuse (Forthcoming Warp Records) Nightcrawlers, Timbaland and Quincy Jones ain't got shit on this one! 2. Tiago Andrade - Babel Fish (For... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
Clubs
Holy Trinity
Ahead of their debut performance in Glasgow this month, Moderat's Gernot Bronsert talks about the musical project that could just have easily been called Appelektor. Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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McIntosh Ross - The Great Lakes
Deacon Blue have been relatively quiet since 2001 - a gig here, a best-of there. It's tempting, therefore, to imagine Ricky Ross and co spending their downti... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Hockey - Mind Chaos
Showing some admirable self-awareness, Oregon's Hockey use the first song on their first album to pre-empt what they know is going to be a recurring criticis... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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The Hornblower Brothers - Adventures In The National Geographic EP
The Hornblower Brothers are cursed before they’ve even started: they come with the recommendation of patron saint of borecore Steve Lamacq. But as this... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009