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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MusicLCD Soundsystem @ Barrowlands, 28 April
At times, LCD Soundsystem live feels like the greatest show on earth. The highlights of tonight's Barrowlands set are mesmerising: the raucous second-half cl... Read more »| 06 May 2010 -
TheatreSenior Moments
Òran Mór grows old gracefully Read more »| 06 May 2010 -
ComedyFlight of the Conchords
Flight of the Conchords return to British stages for the first time in five years with two nights in the Clyde Auditorium. Read more »| 06 May 2010 -
Music
Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
Band of Horses’ second LP – Cease to Begin – was largely billed as a response to their changing circumstances; the band had left Seattle to... Read more »| 06 May 2010 -
Books
The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior by Paul Strathern
This is a story to rival most works of fiction. Cesare Borgia, with the backing of his father (the Pope!), is trying to dominate Italy and create a f... Read more »| 06 May 2010 -
Music
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Teenage Fanclub are a reliable bunch, in the sense that even if the overall quality varies from album to album – though even here they’ve... Read more »| 05 May 2010
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Music
Born Ruffians - Say It
With their 2008 debut album Red, Yellow and Blue, Canadian trio Born Ruffians eschewed derivative CYHSY comparisons by injecting some Monks-style silliness i... Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
Music
Track-by-Track: Band of Horses' Infinite Arms
Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell offers an exclusive insight into the heart of their forthcoming third album Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
BooksDoctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter by Russell T.Davies and Benjamin Cook.
Comprising two and a half years' worth of emails between Doctor Who’s outgoing head writer Russell T Davies and fan journalist Ben Cook, readers are gi... Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
Theatre
Entity Preview
Contemporary style arrives from the man behind Royal Ballet's new works. Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
Music
The Mason Manifesto
Ahead of polling day on 6 May, Steve Mason offers a (strictly non-) political party broadcast Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Music
Steve Mason: The End of the Beta Biscuit Affair
Steve Mason explains why he's ditched the myriad pseudonyms to step out of the shadows as, well, himself Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - May 2010: Bronto Skylift Takeover
They're loud, they're fierce and with that we'd have guessed very opinionated. Paul Mitchell hauls May's singles to Bronto Skylift's Glasgow rehearsal room to find the duo endlessly fascinated by the dark art of the press release Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Music
Jim Kroft - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Jim Kroft is likely to be a new name to most readers. That's because the Highland native fled our shores at the first opportunity to be a kind of artist-in-r... Read more »| 04 May 2010 -
Music
Holy Fuck - Latin
Given the rampaging style favoured by electro-noise quartet, Holy Fuck, it’s perhaps unsurprising that their first two albums – whilst tinged wit... Read more »| 04 May 2010