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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MusicHar Mar Superstar - Dark Touches
You may be aware that the position of principal white-skinned disco-funkster has recently been vacated by MJ’s passing, leaving the field wide open for... Read more »| 06 Oct 2009 -
MusicPixies @ SECC, 4 Oct
Last time Pixies played the SECC, punters got Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits and Cud as support before the stage belligerently collapsed. There’s only on... Read more »| 06 Oct 2009 -
Music
The Mountain Goats: Songs and Scripture
The Skinny waxes with head Mountain Goat John Darnielle to talk ambition, God and Santa Claus Read more »| 06 Oct 2009 -
Music
Miike Snow - Black and Blue
This Swedish three piece (ok, singer Andrew Wyatt is American) have previous in that two of them (as Bloodshy and Avant) wrote and produced Britney Spear's 2... Read more »| 06 Oct 2009 -
Music
Frank Turner @ QMU, 15 Oct
Former Million Dead vocalist tours in support of third solo LP Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
MusicFanfarlo @ King Tut's, 30 Sep
Resembling slap-dash Texan carnies, Woodenbox With A Fistful of Fivers immediately appeal. They’ll possibly balk at the comparison, but imagine the Rum... Read more »| 05 Oct 2009
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Film
Lords of The Wing
Michael Gillespie talks to the makers of the visually breath-taking documentary The Crimson Wing Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Clubs
Torture Garden: No Pain, All Gain
Get exotic and erotic with Torture Garden's happening of burlesque beats and beautiful bodies. Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Music
Japanese Voyeurs - Sicking & Creaming EP
One of the oft-forgotten facts about 90s grunge is that quite a lot of the bands involved weren't actually any good [presumably you're talking about the wave... Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Music
Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
A soundtrack to a highway – Stevens' races toward brilliance. Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Music
Offshore – Aneurysm EP
Despite clocking in at under 15 minutes in length, Aneurysm still manages to display significant stylistic breadth. The title track brings together c... Read more »| 04 Oct 2009 -
Music
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
In making an album with a limited palette of sounds, you tread a fine line between producing something stark and something monotonous. Whilst Declaration of ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2009 -
Theatre
About A Goth
About a Goth: must we insult vibrant sub-cultures in this way? Read more »| 03 Oct 2009 -
Music
Thavius Beck – Hip-Hop: Louder, Faster
You might recognise Thavius Beck as Saul Williams' right hand man of recent years. This month he prepares to strike out on his own with a masterclass in rhyme and rhythm. Read more »| 02 Oct 2009 -
Music
Franz Ferdinand: The Heather's On Fire
In the five years since they shook up British indie rock, Franz Ferdinand have become one of Scotland's established acts. But, as Alex Kapranos tells The Skinny, they've still got the hunger and the vision to change the game all over again Read more »| 02 Oct 2009