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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MusicMelvins – Everybody Loves Sausages
What better way to ring in Melvins’ 30th year than this snapshot of what was going on inside the impressionable minds of a young Buzz Osborne and Dale ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Music
Ghost Capsules – Ghost Capsules
On the face of it, Ghost Capsules should work a treat, given that they are masterminded by venerated UK music producer and electronic innovator Tim Simenon o... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
MusicPhoenix – Bankrupt!
Phoenix's first LP in four years promises more experimentation than on their breakthrough, 2009's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and sure, there's a few chan... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
MusicLetherette – Letherette
Fitting nicely into the genre of smooth, immaculately realised, emotionally-driven electronic music from which so many strong albums have emerged in recent m... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Theatre
Rory Mullarkey & Michael Longhurst: Physical Theatre
Playwright Rory Mullarkey and director Michael Longhurst discuss the challenges of bringing Cannibals to life Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Music
Interview: Casual Sex on the benefits of winging it
With a new single out on Moshi Moshi and an album on the horizon, we sit down with Casual Sex to discuss the Glasgow band's past, present and why winging it can yield the best results Read more »| 02 Apr 2013
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Music
Depeche Mode – Delta Machine
There's nothing worse than a band who plough on for too long. Witness Paul Morley's critical mauling of the Rolling Stones over their Glastonbury booking for... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Music
Umberto / Hausfrau / Leaf Wrist @ Kinning Park Complex, 30 March
Opening proceedings, Leaf Wrist plays a hypnotic performance of experimental electronics, running the gamut from dusted, dub-influenced loops to something ap... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Music
Lapalux @ Broadcast, 28 March
After a DJ set from Mirrors and a live set from Edward Organ, covering bases from garage and house to electro, Stuart Howard aka Lapalux&... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 2 April
In today's Bulletin: Queens of the Stone Age debut new track, Paul Morley vs. Baby Boomers, new music from Tyler, the Creator, Hey Colossus, S-Type, Hawk Eyes, Life Coach and Ed Harcourt, plus: Game of Thrones Profanity Bingo! Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Film
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Aimed squarely at Middle America but with no audience in mind, The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a modern Pinocchio story so boring it makes We Bought a Zoo l... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Art
Tom Varley: The Sound of Silence
For New Work Scotland Tom Varley is getting back to basics with words and pictures. We chat to him about violins, lemons and what silence sounds like Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Theatre
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg @ Liverpool Playhouse
Oldham-born actor Ralf Little comes to the Northwest stage for the first time this month. Best known for his television roles in shows including The Roy... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
ArtOwn Art: RSA New Contemporaries
A grand and stately building on Edinburgh’s Mound, the Royal Scottish Academy looks every inch the beacon of intellectual brilliance that the term &lsq... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Music
Tyler, the Creator – Wolf
First things first – at least six of the sixteen tracks on Wolf are easily up there with the best of this year's hip-hop crop so fa... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013