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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MusicSlash - Slash
It’s not hard to look humble next to Axl Rose, but Slash takes it to new heights by making a bit-part player of himself on his own solo album. Typicall... Read more »| 15 Apr 2010 -
MusicThree Blind Wolves - The Sound of the Storm
Ross Clark’s first album You Brought Evil (2009) was one of significant promise: a spacious, nebulous record, built around the Glaswegian singer’... Read more »| 15 Apr 2010 -
MusicGrails @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 14 May
From their early self-financed EPs to the release of The Burden of Hope onwards, the lush instrumental rock of Grails has been revered by fans of Dir... Read more »| 15 Apr 2010 -
MusicFoals @ O2 ABC, 2 May
Remember nu-rave? Four posh white boys with keyboards come to save us all from other white boys with guitars? Yeah, it’s a bit hazy for me too,... Read more »| 15 Apr 2010 -
Music
Meursault @ Cabaret Voltaire, 10 April
Conquering Animal Sound spend half of their time on-stage crouched, and if you're at the front you can see why: pedals and knobs, wires and cables, gizmos an... Read more »| 13 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
You Only Sing When You're Drinking
Scottish Opera's latest production is very much a tale of two halves. Read more »| 13 Apr 2010
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Film
The Ghost
Playing out impressively like a dark Hitchcockian thriller, The Ghost – directed by Polanski and taken from a Robert Harris bestseller &nd... Read more »| 13 Apr 2010 -
Art
New Contemporaries
Now in its second year, the RSA’s graduate show learns fast. While 2009 marked a dramatic change of pace from the previous everyone’s-a-winner st... Read more »| 12 Apr 2010 -
Film
Crying with Laughter
“If you want to be a stand up comedian, Scotland’s the place to be!” So says lead character Joey Frisk, and he’s got a point.... Read more »| 12 Apr 2010 -
Music
Vacuum Spasm Babies - Science EP
While music journalists aren’t inherently mischievous (honest), it’s hard to shake the feeling that Vaccum Spasm Babies – led by the former... Read more »| 12 Apr 2010 -
Music
The Futureheads - The Chaos
“Art”, novelist John Cheever reckoned, “is the triumph over chaos.” With a title track that lyrically rails against political apathy ... Read more »| 12 Apr 2010 -
Film
Clandestinos
One of very few films released on these shores addressing the Basque conflict, Clandestinos is an engaging if slight drama. Xabi (Rodríguez) pulls off... Read more »| 12 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Linder
It doesn't get much better than this. Linder takes over The Arches for thirteen hours. Read more »| 10 Apr 2010 -
Music
Eyehategod @ Ivory Blacks, 5 Apr
Prior to kicking off their downtuned set of dejected anthems, band members wholeheartedly encourage the crowd to both “smoke drugs now” and &ldqu... Read more »| 09 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Hitting a Brick Wall
Of course the Wall is the star. Built in 1988 by Peter Brook, aged by the the unwilling builders, who were upset that their craftsmanship should be hidden, it has loomed over Tramway 1; hidden behind drapes, dominating performances and often being the only thing worth watching Read more »| 08 Apr 2010