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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MusicOcean Colour Scene - Saturday
“Hundred mile high city” croaks Ocean Colour Scene’s Simon Fowler seconds into ninth album Saturday, delivering a message interpretable two... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
Film
A Prophet
French director Jacques Audiard beats Scorsese at his own game in this remarkably assured and confidently crafted prison drama. A Prophet begins with Muslim ... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
MusicFirst Aid Kit - The Big Black and the Blue
As befits a duo who first captured hearts with a Fleet Foxes cover (one million Youtube views and counting…), and whose live shows are dominated by a ... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
MusicAstrosoniq - Quadrant
All things considered, stoner rock should be relatively easy to pull off. Black Sabbath riff worship – tick; psychedelic blues fixation –... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
MusicD.P. - Bar Tab Blues
As modern hip-hop disappears up its own arse in a self-indulgent fug of Auto-tune, medallions, slick whips and giant egos, it’s refreshing to find some... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
Art
Meat Hook @ ECA
Forget Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and the rest of the middle-aged ‘Young British Artists’. If you want to know what the rising stars of the art wo... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010
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Music
Motley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles
Inspired by the band's 2001 autobiography, The Dirt, Motley Crue's ninth studio album, Saints Of Los Angeles - repackaged and re-released here to coincide wi... Read more »| 17 Jan 2010 -
Music
Punch And The Apostles - Punch And The Apostles
Debut album from theatrical Glasgow seven-piece. Read more »| 16 Jan 2010 -
Music
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Hendrik Weber aka Pantha du Prince has always operated at the accessible, super-melodic end of the techno spectrum and Black Noise is being touted by many as... Read more »| 15 Jan 2010 -
Music
An Evening with Henry Rollins @ O2 Academy, 13 Jan
“I’m a maniac. And the older I get, the more pissed off I am,” growls Henry Rollins. With his fevered tones, and his bulky frame poised lik... Read more »| 15 Jan 2010 -
Clubs
The free party people don't mind paying for...
No big name DJs just good tunes for good people - and loud Read more »| 15 Jan 2010 -
Music
Nacional @ King Tut's, 8 Jan
With red noses onstage and a crowd clad in cosy winter clothes, The Social Services (***) have their work cut out restoring circulation to a shivering Tut's ... Read more »| 14 Jan 2010 -
Music
Oh No Ono - Eggs
Already named fifth best Danish album of the decade at home, Eggs arrives in the UK at the best possible juncture. With the musicianistas and opinio-bloggers... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
Art
New Work Scotland 09: Rachel Adams
Stepping into the gallery space at the Collective is much more like setting foot into an extremely contemporary living room than the white cube, empty galler... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
Music
The Mary Onettes - Islands
Few nations have embraced the indie-pop aesthetic like the Swedes. From the outlandish kitsch of Jens Lekman, to the chart-bothering efforts of Peter, Bjorn ... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010