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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MusicWake The President - You Can't Change That Boy
There’s a familiarity to Wake the President’s debut album, partly due to its relative belatedness - some songs have been in record collections an... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
MusicInstal 09 @ The Arches / CCA, 20-22 Mar
Despite the demise of Triptych, the experimental music scene in Scotland has gone from strength to strength in recent years. This is in no small part attribu... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
ComedyLaughing Horse New Act of the Year Competition
Credit crunch be damned. The Laughing Horse New Act of the Year Competition has more entrants than ever, with four heats taking place in Edinburgh this weekend. Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
Music
XRABIT & DMG$ - Hello World
Rap producers are often guilty of selling their souls at the altar of the recording studio, gladly embracing the mixing desk as a means to tweak their artist... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
Music
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
The most immediate thing about this record is a frolicking yelp, somewhere between Steve Bays and Tim Harrington - high, stabbing vocals which are quite inap... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
Theatre
National Review of Live Art
Gareth K Vile consideres the complexity of this year's performance extravaganza Read more »| 26 Feb 2009
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Theatre
A play, a Pie and a Pint Event Preview at Oran Mor Glasgow
Mhairi Graham welcomes a Glasgow institution east to Edinburgh Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
Tricky @ The Arches, 19 Feb
His trademark rasp might be buried in the mix, but stadium-aspiring pretenders would do well to emulate Tricky’s panache. Walking on to an instrumental... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
MusicRed Light Company – Fine Fascination
Red Light Company make no bones about the fact that they’re here “to make a huge record”. And with their debut they have fulfilled this aim... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Clubs
Nevereverlandpresent Afrika Bambaataa @ The Arches, 13 Mar
Apologies, I was under the impression that there was some kind of economic crisis gong on and that our culture of gross, tasteless excess would have to stop.... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
Bronto Skylift - Eagle/Falcon
What with the fashionable rise of happy-clappy dross à la the Knack-pilfering Ting Tings in recent times, it’s not often a two-piece like Bronto... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
MusicRush - Retrospective III
It's Rush, for goodness' sake Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Clubs
Sound of the Police
Chris Ratcliffe investigates the Metropolitan Police Department's new powers that are smothering music events Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Clubs
Evolution of the Subcity Party
Rosie Davies takes a look at the history of Subcity events as they prepare to host their most exciting guest yet Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
Wavves - So Bored
Music fans of a certain age might remember this guy from the nineties called Beck. He made fuzzy, lo-fi, lazy-sounding stoner anthems that hid a wealth of id... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009