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 Peryls - I Have Not Slept One Wink EP
Average English folksy type fail to capitalise on palpable potential. Read more »| 20 Apr 2010 -
MusicConflict 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 -
ArtLost 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 -
Music
Songdog - 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
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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 -
Music
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 -
Music
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 -
Art
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 -
Music
Wooden Shjips @ Stereo, 17 April
Another sold-out Saturday night at Stereo, and a nice way to launch a short European tour, notwithstanding volcanic ash and aviation after-effects. This San ... Read more »| 19 Apr 2010 -
BooksThe Pacific by Hugh Ambrose
It's a horrible irony that the OED defines “pacific” as “characterized or tending to peace; tranquil”; between 1941 and 1945,... Read more »| 19 Apr 2010 -
Music
This Morning Call - All Quiet at 4AM
This Morning Call – a.k.a. Ben Heyworth – has been described as “Portishead on anti-depressants” and “LCD Soundsystem with a ha... Read more »| 17 Apr 2010 -
Music
Clogs - The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton
Not only would it be unfair to call Clogs a National side project, it’d be inaccurate too, since they predate them and are arguably a larger influence ... Read more »| 16 Apr 2010