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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MusicEnablers – Blown Realm and Stalled Explosions
Enablers’ mélange of stream-of-consciousness poetry and juddering math-rock was never going to make them stadium-fillers, but there was always s... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Music
Everything's Getting Older: a track by track guide
To celebrate the imminent release of his collaboration with musical polymath Bill Wells, fellow Falkirk troubadour Aidan Moffat introduces Everything's Getting Older Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
MusicThat Fucking Tank @ 13th Note, 24 April
The proto-industrial clamour of Rollor has plenty of strengths, like a drum machine that’ll make the fillings in your teeth rattle, and Matt Harris&rsq... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Film
Reel Talk: Film distributors love the smell of easy money in the morning
Everyone loves 70s American cinema, right? The scattershot chaos of Altman, the swaggering rock and roll of Scorsese, those DePalma fever dreams; a golden ag... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
MusicAustra – Feel It Break
With a tense phantom-like clasp, Katie Stelmanis’ icy vocals disarm the listener, seeping under one’s skin like anaesthetic. Her operatic procliv... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Music
James Pants - James Pants
James Pants' latest album was recorded in his parents' basement— his parents being two Presbyterian ministers— a fact which is both at home and a... Read more »| 02 May 2011
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Film
Film Events in May
With Ghostface back haunting cinema in Scream 4, it's appropriate to ask the question: do you like scary movies? If so, May is chock-full of films for you. T... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Books
Everybody Loves You When You're Dead by Neil Strauss
Whilst not being the world’s number one pick-up artist, as detailed in his book The Game, Neil Strauss works at his day job, interviewing celeb... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
FilmHanna
Atonement director Joe Wright makes a side-step into the assassin sub-genre with Hanna. It stars Saoirse Ronan as the titular cute-but-deadly teenager who's ... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
MusicCymbals – Unlearn
Cymbals are a strange proposition; their debut is at first listen a disjointed, punk-funk jamming session; sprawling, incoherent and angular. To be crude &nd... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Music
Happy Birthday Cry Parrot!
John Keys tips his hat to the selfless work of DIY Glasgow promoters Cry Parrot, celebrating their fourth birthday this month Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Stag and Dagger
Over the last two years, Stag and Dagger’s Glasgow leg has honed the multi-venue urban festival format into a slick, well-oiled machine. 2011’s e... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Music
Miles Kane – Colour of the Trap
Liverpool lad Miles Kane doesn’t just know how to make friends and influence people –he knows how to get them to appear on his record and all. Th... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Music
Various Artists – OIB Split Series Volume 4
Calories open this split with its most immediately accessible offering, three minutes of rousing rock with hooks-aplenty, an aesthetic continued by Tubelord&... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: May Horoscopes
ARIES It's not you that's a bad loser, it's that everyone else is a bad winner. Will you ever win in the sexual marketplace? The charts say no. The charts a... Read more »| 02 May 2011