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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MusicThree Blind Wolves @ Stereo, 10 Apr
“Who’s that writin’?” wails frontman Sean Cumming of the John Knox Sex Club, leading the four chanting a capella voices in their insp... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
MusicThese New Puritans @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16 Apr
The dark, cavernous Cabaret Voltaire is an apt setting for a Friday evening in the company of These New Puritans, short of a forest clearing at midnight. Ini... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
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Tigerfest 2010 @ Various Venues, 5-22 May
Returning for its sixth consecutive year, 2010 finds Tigerfest showcasing a rich vein of musical talent along Scotland’s East coast. Setting up camp in... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
MusicDeftones - Diamond Eyes
With long-awaited album Eros on indefinite hold, Diamond Eyes proves that Deftones are still in the game and swinging for the fences – stand-in bass pl... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
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The Peryls - I Have Not Slept One Wink EP
Average English folksy type fail to capitalise on palpable potential. Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
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Conflict Diamonds - Two City Tales
Edinburgh duo Conflict Diamonds' debut album has been a fair while coming, but thankfully it delivers just what we've come to love about their live performan... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010
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Art
Lost and Found @ Street Level Photoworks
Anyone who’s ever attempted to face GI’s opening weekend can attest to the number of shows which, when combined with the Saturday shoppers, can q... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
MusicSongdog - A Life Eroding
Like Nick Cave before him, Songdog frontman Lyndon Morgan’s lyrics sketch life – in all its tragicomic glory and horror – over elegant arra... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Crush Theatre Show Review
Another play, another marriage falling apart. Maybe it is time we brought in that three quid a week tax break for married couples Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
Art
Susan Philipsz: Lowlands @ Clydeside Walkway
When Glasgow-born Philipsz stumbled upon a bunch of flowers marking a suicide by the River Clyde railings, she decided that this would be the perfect locatio... Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Romeo did Juliet
Still Scottish, and still Ballet: but this Romeo is modern and lively Read more »| 19 Apr 2010 -
Music
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Nitetime Rainbows EP
A Sunny Day In Glasgow have some funny ideas about what constitutes an album. Apparently, inclusion on last year’s Ashes Grammar wasn’t enough fo... Read more »| 19 Apr 2010 -
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Rufus Wainwright @ Usher Hall, 16 Apr
A first half where the more extreme examples of Mr Wainwright's pretensions were explored –request for complete audience silence, an overwrought entran... Read more »| 19 Apr 2010 -
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The Big Pink @ The Garage, 9 May
Multi-instrumental London duo The Big Pink are still surfing the wave of success since every trendy kid and sports show montage from here to Hackney ... Read more »| 19 Apr 2010 -
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Fiona Tan @ GOMA
Those who have witnessed Fiona Tan’s subtle, multi-layered and enthralling Disorient, representative of the Netherlands at 2009’s Venice Biennale... Read more »| 19 Apr 2010