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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MusicDirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors' last album, Rise Above, was an attempt by New Yorker Dave Longstreth to recreate Black Flag's Damaged despite not having heard it for 15 ye... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
MusicFuture of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another
New musical maxim: “In the land of the three-piece, tone is King”. To support this bold new truth, Future of the Left squeeze every drop of juice... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
MusicLive Music Highlights - June, 2009
You'd have to take a lethal dose of sleeping pills to block out the noise that The Drones are making at the moment Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
FilmSounds Like Teen Spirit
Prior to seeing Sounds Like Teen Spirit, I was oblivious to the existence of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Two Eurovisions a year? That’s just spoiling... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Theatre
A Rank Outsider: Peer Gynt comes South
Michael Cox looks at the East Coast's force from the frozen north. Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Music
The Metal Section - June, 2009
As seasons go, summer really isn't the most conducive to sullen misery and angry, clenched-fist misanthropy. It must be hard to stay mad at one's parents whi... Read more »| 28 May 2009
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Music
Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers - Hang the Noose
Woodenbox's second single, Hang the Noose, is a country tinged tale of death and remorse, and is released on the King Tuts label. Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Clubs
It's Time for Den Haan
Search for Den Haan on Myspace, but beware of straying too far. Nick DenHaan, an overweight drummer from the Deep South, is the unfortunate second hit on the... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Music
Spare Snare - I Love You, I Hate You
"I don't care what you thinks." Hissing electronics snatched from early Grandaddy records and distorted with the scuzz of the Probe Plus back catalogue: this... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Music
Willem Maker - New Moon Hand
Given his sinister backstory, there were few career paths, other than that of the gruff, contemplative blues singer, which were realistically available to Wi... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Music
Aqualung @ Reid Concert Hall, 22 Jun
Somewhere in the darkest depths of your mind, there may lurk the faint memory of Strange and Beautiful, Aqualung's dreamy piano-led lament that in 2002 was v... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Film
Boccaccio '70
Buttoned down Catholicism and the resulting itch to unbutton everything: 60s Italy is the setting for Boccaccio ’70, with four of the country’s m... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Music
Bronto Skylift: In Bronto We Trust
Bronto Skylift are a two-headed beast currently residing in the darkest reaches of the Glasgow underground 'scene'. Creating a crushing noise that's impossible to ignore, the duo are slowly but surely turning heads and shattering ear drums. Ryan Drever has a word as they prepare to record their debut full-length Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Music
Regina Spektor - Laughing With
Spektor has a lot to answer for. Begin to Hope’s full scale assault on the popular consciousness drove so many breathy derivatives out of the plinky pl... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Music
The Thermals @ Sneaky Pete's, 16 Jun
Kill Rock Stars’ Death Cab-bothering gems The Thermals bring their brand of “no-fi” indie to Auld Reekie in support of fourth full-length N... Read more »| 26 May 2009