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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MusicThe Brian Jonestown Massacre @ O2 ABC, 18 May
Newcombe and his band dispatch the hits with relentless purpose Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
BooksFilmish #1 by Edward Ross
This nifty little comic is something of a labour of love by writer/artist Edward Ross. It presents 3 lectures by him on film theory in graphic form, and in t... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
MusicDapayk Solo – Decade One (2000-2010)
The first part of this two-disc retrospective of Dapayk Solo is subtitled ‘For Headphones, Couches and Cars’, and accordingly contains a selectio... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
Theatre
Hand Me Down
An insight into the women of one family is brought onto the stage Read more »| 23 May 2010 -
Music
Dinosaur Jr / Built to Spill @ O2 ABC, 13 May
As double-headers go, seeing slacker rock brethren Built to Spill and Dinosaur Jr share a bill feels well-matched like a Hansel vs Zoolander walk-off. Tonigh... Read more »| 21 May 2010 -
TheatreCoconut Badger Sniffing Out Success
Mark MacNicol, the premier playwright, producer and director of the play The Coconut Badger shows that if you want to make something happen, be honest, be gutsy and be proactive Read more »| 21 May 2010
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Music
Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
With 18 studio albums, half a dozen EPs, seven live albums and literally scores of other odds and ends scattered across the musical landscape, for Melvins th... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Music
Hole @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 3 May
From America’s Sweetheart to Nobody's Daughter, Courtney Love shouldn’t need Billy Corgan’s advice to know that partial band reformations n... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Music
Wolf Parade @ Òran Mór, 19 May
“Where’s Spencer?” shouts a hil-arious (or possibly just confused) member of the crowd. “Er, he’s there” deadpans Dan Boe... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Music
T-Break 2010 Line Up Announced
T in the Park may have morphed into a monolith on the festival circuit over the past sixteen years, however the folks behind the curtain have never forgotten... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Film
First Look: Get Him to the Greek
Russell Brand returns as the demented musician and partyboy Aldous Snow in a Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin-off… and the only common denominator withi... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
MusicGogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle
Eugene Hutz and his band of merry men and women return with this Rick Rubin produced, Brazilian influenced collection of gypsy-punk anthems. Pala Tute sets t... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Music
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Blood and Fire
Sometimes it must be easier for a band that starts out average. Spare a thought for The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster who, from the word go, have utterly... Read more »| 19 May 2010 -
Music
A Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Nice'N' Sleazy, 15 May
Sadly, the A Sunny Day In Glasgow founding member who would be most excited about playing with his band on an actual sunny day in Glasgow has left the group,... Read more »| 18 May 2010 -
Theatre
Peter Pan
Peter Pan moves north and perhaps even grows up a little Read more »| 18 May 2010