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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MusicChew Lips - Unicorn
East London boy-girl-boy trio Chew Lips do a good line in dance-pop, and since forming in early 2008 they've been busy fiddling with the electro template. Th... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
MusicMiike Snow @ Stereo, 4 Feb
Songwriting duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg are responsible for some of Madonna and Kylie Minogue’s latest hits. Hell, they even won Britney... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
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Nitzer Ebb - Industrial Complex
A lot of underground bands spent the 80s trying and failing to change the world. Nitzer Ebb decided instead to change electronic music – and th... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010 -
MusicTom McRae - Alphabet of Hurricanes
Mercury-nomination aside, Tom McRae has never enjoyed the critical or commercial profile that might have been expected. Specialising in moody singer-... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010 -
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Gary Fabian Miller @ Ingleby Gallery
Admittedly some people love them, but this writer finds nothing more tedious than a room full of photographs. So it was with some trepidation that I stepped ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010 -
MusicThe Sunshine Underground - Nobody's Coming To Save You
Despite their protests, The Sunshine Underground’s debut Raise The Alarm was pitched somewhere between Franz Ferdinand and The Rapture. In short, bass-... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010
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The Postmarks - Memoirs At The End Of The World
Florida trio go cinematic on their sophomore effort Read more »| 21 Jan 2010 -
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The Album Leaf - A Chorus Of Storytellers
If you find The Postal Service a bit too raucous, try Jimmy Lavelle’s woozy electro lullabies. In fact, The Album Leaf (previously a solo nom-de-plume,... Read more »| 20 Jan 2010 -
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The Tenebrous Liar - Jackknifed & Slaughtered
If rock stars shared wardrobes there’s only one group that The Tenebrous Liar would split a rack with in its current guise. Brooding with dust-raising ... Read more »| 19 Jan 2010 -
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Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
The reason Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new LP sounds just like a Beck record is because that’s almost exactly what it is. The one-time shearer of Luc... Read more »| 19 Jan 2010 -
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Laura Veirs and the Hall of Flames @ Òran Mór, 17 Jan
With guitar (and later banjo) perched awkwardly over her growing baby bump, Laura Veirs ponders aloud the logistics of embarking on a two month international... Read more »| 19 Jan 2010 -
Comedy
Absolutely Amusing
Everyone’s a comedian, eh? That really seems to be the case at the moment in Scotland, with a booming comedy scene that’s bursting at the seams with wannabes, weirdos and not a little bit of exciting talent. Read more »| 19 Jan 2010 -
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Robin James - Saint Jude
Idiosyncratic folky type's debut album is hugely enjoyable Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
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Hot Chip - One Life Stand
"Now that we're older, there's more that we must do," sings Alexis Taylor on the appropriately titled Slush. Hot Chip have grown up, and it seems what they "... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010 -
MusicArdentjohn - On The Wire
The partnership at the heart of Ardentjohn stretches back to a playground scrap between singer Keiron Mason and bassist Al Shields on the Isle of Bute. Reuni... Read more »| 18 Jan 2010