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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MusicThe 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 -
TheatreLinder
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 -
TheatreHitting 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 -
TheatreAnswered Prayers
"As an atheist, I wanted to explore what it would mean to have a crisis of, as it were, unfaith. Believers have crises of faith: what if an unbeliever suddenly found God?" Read more »| 08 Apr 2010
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Music
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
If, for the sake of your own musical sanity, you've been cherry-picking the finest of The Fall’s twenty-eight album output so far, then Your Future Our... Read more »| 08 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Adminstering Fear
I am usually suspicious of stage adaptations: if I want to spend more time in middle-earth, I’ll watch the movie or read the trilogy, and if a book is good enough to be worth a stage play, won’t the original be enough? Read more »| 08 Apr 2010 -
Film
Bitch Slap
Boobs, bullets and blood burst out of the screen in Xena alumnus Rick Jacobson’s patchy tribute to the Russ Meyer exploitation movies of yester... Read more »| 07 Apr 2010 -
Music
Caribou: Selling Live Water
Doctor of mathematics Dan Snaith, a.k.a. Caribou, talks to The Skinny about trying to make 'dance music out of water'. And a 1, and a 2, and a 1,2,3,4... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Music
Hinterland @ Various Venues, Glasgow, 3 April
Squeezed from two days into one and scaled back from fifteen venues spread city-wide to a half-dozen proximate haunts, Hinterland have reformatted 2009&rsquo... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Music
Son Lux – Weapons EP
Building six tracks from one takes some doing, but that’s the gauntlet Son Lux’s Ryan Lott throws down on the Weapons EP. As the standout... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Music
Peggy Sue - Fossils and Other Phantoms
With a number of name changes – from Peggy Sue and the Pirates through ‘and the Pictures’, to now, simply, Peggy Sue - not to mention three... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Music
Cypress Hill - Rise Up
“In 1991, an artist in Compton picked up Cypress Hill’s debut album. What he heard blew him away; the futuristic funk with a diehard dedication t... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Film
Beyond Happiness: Todd Solondz talks about Life During Wartime
Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime returns to the same characters made famous in his caustic social satire Happiness. He talks to The Skinny about balancing humour with poignancy and why his latest film is not quite a sequel Read more »| 06 Apr 2010