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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MusicVarious Artists - Limbo Live Volume 01
Limbo is a night promoted by the Black Spring DJs at Edinburgh's Voodoo Rooms, and they are releasing the first in a series of live compilations, showcasing the best that their night has to offer. Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
MusicIsis: More Brilliant than the Sun
After over a decade of playing monstrously heavy art-metal, a genre which many attribute to having been created by them, Isis release their finest yet - a pseudo-best of. Guitarist Bryant Clifford Meyer talks to Ali Maloney about the band's journey. Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
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Star Trek
Following an explosive opening sequence, Star Trek sees director Abrams and writers Orci and Kurtzman neatly introduce a prequel plotline that takes us back ... Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
MusicRe-Enter The Vaselines
After a twenty-year “tea break”, legendary Scottish indie-pop miscreants The Vaselines are back with a reissue, US tour and new material. Gillian Watson talks to Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee about their legacy, Nirvana and next steps Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
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Sparrow and the Workshop – Sleight of Hand EP
The current Scottish music scene is healthily diverse, and now Sparrow and the Workshop bring another genre to the mix: country and western. Having only form... Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
Film
Cheri
The latest from Stephen Frears certainly isn’t timid in referencing his past work Dangerous Liaisons, from a photograph taken straight from the film to... Read more »| 04 May 2009
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Music
British Sea Power - Man of Aran OST
British Sea Power have always courted tangents. In the past they’ve eulogised ice-shelves and greeted immigrants, but their latest effort sees them dig... Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
MusicPost War Years - The Greats and the Happenings
Does the world really need another electro-pop outfit from London cluttering up MySpace and being overplayed on Skins? Well, one more can’t hurt. Compa... Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
Film
Blue Eyelids
Mid-way through Contreras' beautifully photographed, Mexican drama Blue Eyelids the two protagonists, both awkward and accustomed to their individual lives o... Read more »| 04 May 2009 -
Film
Michelle Yeoh: The Big Adventurer
A truly international star, Michelle Yeoh has gone from fight scenes with Jackie Chan to love scenes with James Bond. She’s worked with Oscar winners Danny Boyle and Ang Lee, and turned The Skinny’s Michael Gillespie into the gibbering, giggling schoolboy he was when he first fell in love with her. He spoke to the sensational star about her career and her new film, Far North. Read more »| 03 May 2009 -
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Houses of the Unholy
Plenty of artists trade the luxury of a traditional recording studio in favour of something a little more homely, but not all come with the calm, idyllic san... Read more »| 01 May 2009 -
Music
Bat For Lashes: The Path of Khan
With her second album in the can, Bat For Lashes are the talk of indie town. But what's with the hippy-dippy vibe? And where did that Scott Walker duet come from? Natasha Khan explains all to Nick Mitchell Read more »| 01 May 2009 -
Music
Grizzly Bear: Out Of Hibernation
Flouting conventions, Grizzly Bear’s ‘difficult second album’ is actually their third. But never mind the chronology. Darren Carle gets chatting to singer Daniel Rossen in the here and now as the Brooklyn quartet bare their teeth ahead of the release of Veckatimest. Read more »| 01 May 2009 -
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The Specials @ O2 Academy, 28 April
Too much time has been spent discussing what the Specials aren’t in their 2009 incarnation, and too little on what they are. Sure, they aren’t qu... Read more »| 01 May 2009 -
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Manic Street Preachers at Barrowlands
Fourteen years since the end of Richey-era Manics, only the most blinkered, boa-clad 4realist would persist in crying Judas over the band’s continuatio... Read more »| 01 May 2009