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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MusicMt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
The most immediate thing about this record is a frolicking yelp, somewhere between Steve Bays and Tim Harrington - high, stabbing vocals which are quite inap... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
TheatreNational Review of Live Art
Gareth K Vile consideres the complexity of this year's performance extravaganza Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
Theatre
A play, a Pie and a Pint Event Preview at Oran Mor Glasgow
Mhairi Graham welcomes a Glasgow institution east to Edinburgh Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
MusicTricky @ The Arches, 19 Feb
His trademark rasp might be buried in the mix, but stadium-aspiring pretenders would do well to emulate Tricky’s panache. Walking on to an instrumental... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
Red Light Company – Fine Fascination
Red Light Company make no bones about the fact that they’re here “to make a huge record”. And with their debut they have fulfilled this aim... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Clubs
Nevereverlandpresent Afrika Bambaataa @ The Arches, 13 Mar
Apologies, I was under the impression that there was some kind of economic crisis gong on and that our culture of gross, tasteless excess would have to stop.... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009
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MusicBronto Skylift - Eagle/Falcon
What with the fashionable rise of happy-clappy dross à la the Knack-pilfering Ting Tings in recent times, it’s not often a two-piece like Bronto... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
Rush - Retrospective III
It's Rush, for goodness' sake Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Clubs
Sound of the Police
Chris Ratcliffe investigates the Metropolitan Police Department's new powers that are smothering music events Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Clubs
Evolution of the Subcity Party
Rosie Davies takes a look at the history of Subcity events as they prepare to host their most exciting guest yet Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
Wavves - So Bored
Music fans of a certain age might remember this guy from the nineties called Beck. He made fuzzy, lo-fi, lazy-sounding stoner anthems that hid a wealth of id... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
Parts & Labor @ Captain’s Rest, 16 Feb
There’s doing it yourself and there’s doing it before the head settles on a bystander’s Guinness; tonight Brooklyn quartet Parts & Labo... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
The Long Lost - The Long Lost
The romantic ideals that hippies espouse are often more appealing than hippies themselves; free love and flower power all sound fine in principle, but they'r... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Theatre
The Mystery of Irma Vep @ The Lyceum Theatre
Even a solid comic duo can't pull Irma back from the brink in The Lyceum's latest production. Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
First Aid Kit @ The Enterprise, London, 23 Feb
First Aid Kit are a pair of Swedish sisters aged 15 and 18. They play enigmatic, stripped-down folk, and much has been made of their seemingly world-weary ta... Read more »| 24 Feb 2009