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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MusicPanda Su - Sticks and Bricks
What’s that Sooty? You can’t decide whether Panda Su is a breath of fresh air or a stale sigh of nothingness? That’s quite a pickle, my yel... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010 -
MusicField Music Bring on the Double
Maybe it's an innate northern English buoyancy, or the fact that the country's cold snap is finally starting to thaw, or maybe it's genuine enthusiasm at the... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
Clearing up the Clutter: Birds of Pardise
Davey Andeson/, author of Birds of Paradise's latest production Clutter Keeps Company is clear about what makes the company stand out. With the show hitting Tramway next week, he unravels some of the secrets behind the chaos Read more »| 14 Feb 2010 -
Music
The Prodigy @ Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, 30 Jan
Guaranteed to knock it out of the park every time, Prodigy gigs have unquestionably become a bankable night out since they first tumbled onto the fledgling a... Read more »| 12 Feb 2010 -
Books
Keep Carrying Your Poems...
Carry a Poem has been going on since the start of February - and there's plenty more goodies to come. Read more »| 12 Feb 2010 -
Film
Mark Kermode: It's Only A Movie
Amidst speculation that he is to succeed Jonathan Ross for Film 2010, outspoken film critic Dr Mark Kermode is on usual self-deprecating form tonight, regali... Read more »| 12 Feb 2010
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Film
The Wolfman
Limping into cinemas after a notoriously protracted and problematic shoot, The Wolfman seems to be defeated almost before it has begun. Having lost o... Read more »| 11 Feb 2010 -
MusicPolar Bear - Peepers
While you don't need credentials to review an album (shhhh, don't tell anyone), a familiarity with the genre at hand usually pays dividends. So I'll come cle... Read more »| 11 Feb 2010 -
Music
Brian Jonestown Massacre: In The Court Of King Anton
The volatile frontman of the Brian Jonestown Massacre talks conspiracy theories, being ahead of the curve and defiling The Beatles on his band's new album. Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
Art
Annie Lennox Joins Union Terrace Gardens Debate
What a difference a voice makes as Aberdeen's 'angel' spreads word on city centre proposals Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
Music
Emma Pollock - The Law of Large Numbers
After a couple of relatively quiet years Emma Pollock redefines herself on her second album, her solo career no longer relying upon residual goodwill earned ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
MusicRM Hubbert - First & Last
El Hombre Trajeado are lost icons of Glasgow DIY. I say this as someone who had never heard of them prior to this review commission, but whose excitement has... Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
La Bohème Preview
It took me a while to appreciate opera. Completely lacking the necessary aesthetic sophistication, or historical knowledge that it seems to demand, I expected it to be too abstract, too formal, to really engage my tastes. Even the modern interpretations, which insist on updating the action or underplaying the glamour had aftertaste of desperation: was an Italian opera set in a television studio anything more than a cheap gimmick? Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
MusicSt Deluxe @ Stereo, 6 Feb
It's always a shame when an audience is tardy, leaving a band like Licker (***) to play to the walls. However, the band themselves don't seem too fazed and m... Read more »| 09 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
Absent Friends
Oldham Coliseum has produced another high quality production Read more »| 09 Feb 2010