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 Gothenburg Address - A Lesser Coming Home
These days, the 'post-rock' label seems to be bandied around in much the same way as 'prog' used to, acting as a lazy shorthand for long instrumentals with o... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
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Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin
Trying to quantify a Tori Amos record is a fairly redundant endeavour. She's pretty much the standard-bearer for contemporary female soloists and thus asking... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
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Jarvis Cocker @ ABC, 12 Jun
Out of the ashes of Pulp, the '90s ambassadors of Sheffield Sex City for whom the Britpop label felt more like a noose, rises the awkward phoenix of Jarvis C... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
MusicDe La Soul @ Picture House, 5 Jun
Pioneering hip-hop trio De La Soul return to our shores, and woe betide anyone still foolish enough to call them hippies. In the two decades since their dayg... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
TheatreSpectacular Debut: Scottish Opera's Manon
Nicole Hepburn looks forward to a season exotic and opulent opera. Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
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Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Grizzly Bear - not the wildly esoteric beast we took them for then. The Brooklyn (yes, another one) four-piece broke on to the international stage with their... Read more »| 18 May 2009
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Film
Tormented
Many of E4’s ‘Skins’ cast are to be found in Jon Wright’s budget Brit flick classroom horror Tormented in which Darren Mullet, a fat ... Read more »| 15 May 2009 -
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Hey Vampires: Blood Brothers
Hey Vampires - a Glasgow-based trio excelling in making a hefty racket - can currently be found residing in the dark dominion of many, if not all, of the Glasgow's basement venues. Ryan Drever finds them in their natural habitat. Read more »| 15 May 2009 -
MusicGod Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
God Help The Girl is a new project from Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, a proposed musical film whose soundtrack features guest vocals from The Divin... Read more »| 14 May 2009 -
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Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
Though hailing from Germany, this five-piece doesn't merely regurgitate the motorik beat that has become synonymous with any dewy-eyed pastiche of the krautr... Read more »| 14 May 2009 -
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Metric @ Òran Mór, 12 May
Four years have passed since Metric's Last album, Live It Out, but judging by tonight's performance you'd never believe it. Brimming with confidence and shee... Read more »| 14 May 2009 -
Film
Fermat's Room
Spain’s answer to the Saw franchise sees its victims forced to use their brains rather than their bodies to survive the game. In Fermat’s Room, f... Read more »| 14 May 2009 -
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Holy Fuck @ Òran Mór, 11 May
With a drummer and a bassist, Holy Fuck are half an indie-rock band - but the other two members create such a spectral swirling racket with knobs, buttons an... Read more »| 13 May 2009 -
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Kid 606 - Shout At The Döner
Spanning four equally sporadic and frenetic movements, Shout At The Döner is the tenth full-length from Kid 606. Riddled with the usual glitches and hil... Read more »| 13 May 2009 -
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The pAper chAse: Hide the Kitchen Knives
Having produced everybody from Smog and The Thermals through to Marilyn Manson and Celine Dion, John Congleton tells Chris Cusack why they all inspired him to strike out on his own to resume the pAper chAse Read more »| 13 May 2009