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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MusicColdplay - Life in Technicolor II
Unless you've only recently been unearthed, you’re already well acquainted with Coldplay. But the blunt chances are that Life in Technicolor II won&rsq... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
MusicOkker: Chords Before Style
Who needs a strategy when you can resign yourself to drinking meths in a ditch? Okker's Scott Wright tells Ewen Millar why five-year plans are overrated Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
Art
Charles Avery @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Charles Avery’s Islanders is an astonishingly good exhibition. ’Good’ is necessarily too facile a term: it is fascinating, entrancing, a tr... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
MusicEasy Rider: Max Cavalera
Watch it, Europe: all your Yakult and croquettes belong to Max Cavalera. The ex-Sepultura and Soulfly legend dropped us a fax with the rider he needs while h... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
MusicPopular Workshop - Her Birthday
With Albini slapped all over it like a Nike badge, there's no escaping what Popular Workshop are going for on this single: danceable indie but with the alter... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
Music
Helene - Heliotrope
Formed in 2001, London-based collective Helene's career is in danger of beginning to plateau. It's to be hoped instead that Heliotrope, their dusky beauty of... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009
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Music
Manu Chao - La Vida Tombola
Singles about football often show themselves to be clunking and embarrassing affairs, so Manu Chao has given himself quite a task here. Ostensibly a tribute... Read more »| 23 Jan 2009 -
Film
Valkyrie
What do Bryan Singer and Spinal Tap have in common? They like it loud. Really loud. Valkyrie turns it up to 11 as it opens with a deafening mix of explosi... Read more »| 23 Jan 2009 -
Music
Animal Collective @ Glasgow School of Art, 13 Jan
If you’ve steadfastly purchased Merriweather Post Pavilion or invested in the unamimous proclamations of the music press in recent weeks, you might wel... Read more »| 23 Jan 2009 -
Music
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
Despite their own denials, Franz Ferdinand make much more sense as a pop group than a rock band. With pop, they don't have to 'progress their sound' or 'add ... Read more »| 22 Jan 2009 -
Comedy
Upstanding Comedy
Upstanding Comedy tutors complete novices to get up on stage and be funny. Read more »| 20 Jan 2009 -
Music
Fancy Volunteering in Ghana? Sergeant Show You How This Thursday
Fife indie-rockers Sergeant are "Officially the most exciting band in Scotland" according to the NME, and who are we to argue [actually....oh never mind]. Th... Read more »| 20 Jan 2009 -
Music
Paul Goodwin - Scars
Before Everett True departed Britain for Australia, he was championing a collection of shambolic musicians who were labelled 'British anti-folk', all based i... Read more »| 19 Jan 2009 -
Music
Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
After a seeming eternity out of the spotlight following the artistic sideways move that was You Could Have It So Much Better, the pressure is on Franz Ferdin... Read more »| 16 Jan 2009 -
Music
Cuddly Shark - Woody Woodpecker / Bowl Of Cherries
Elgin-bred punks deliver prime chunks of raw, spluttering rock. Read more »| 16 Jan 2009