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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Music
Max Shire - Love Lost Again
Pass the absinthe, will you Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Music
The Explorers Club - Freedom Wind
If you want a dose of meticulously produced So’Cal sunshine pop, it’s right here Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
MusicTigerfest 2008, Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, 14-18 May
Remember, the Forth Road Bridge is toll free now Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
MusicBlack Mountain, Stereo, 14 May
A night big on damn fine facial hair, riffs and melodies Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
MusicIron and Wine, ABC, 12 May
Don't judge this particular book by its cover Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
ClubsEstelle: Stirring up the Atlantic
The Skinny is pleased to feature one of the most happening female stars currently making music, the smoothly cool Estelle: here to shake up the urban scene on both sides of the Atlantic with her new album Shine Read more »| 21 Apr 2008
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Music
Guru Jazzmatazz - Jazzy Wayz
The new single from Guru Jazzmatazz, Jazzy Wayz, is a sample-laden hip-hop track trying to take on a soulful vibe, but not quite cutting it. In short, this i... Read more »| 14 Apr 2008 -
MusicBulleit Sessions @ Maggie May's, 10 Apr
It is in the way that each act veers between the functional and the dysfunctional that the drama is created, and the contrast between each of their styles only heightens the effect Read more »| 13 Apr 2008 -
TheatreAnimal Night - The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks' fantasy classic The Wasp Factory is stunning in its own right. If Director Ed Robson can meet the challenge of the text, this new production should be spectacular... Read more »| 11 Apr 2008 -
ClubsJames Pants: Hot Licks
When James Pants’ new album Welcome dropped into the office, we were well impressed by his take on mixed-up funk. We asked around, and it turned out Alex Burden was already on the case Read more »| 11 Apr 2008 -
ClubsRZArecting Bobby
Is he a producer? Is he a film star? This month he'll be neither as Robert 'RZA' Diggs assumes the persona of Bobby Digital, flying in to drop a fat stack of futuristic funk and a flare for kung-fu film philosophy on Scotland at the last Triptych Read more »| 08 Apr 2008 -
MusicLupe Fiasco - Paris, Tokyo
If you like your hip-hop lazy, feel good and unashamedly commercial, this’ll be right up your street Read more »| 05 Apr 2008 -
MusicWitch - Paralyzed
Five grown men so indebted to proto-70s metal that 'Black Sabbath' is written through them like a stick of rock Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
MusicFarewell to Triptych
The end is nigh for Scotland's premier showcase in avant-garde music. Paul Mitchell talks up a swansong for one of the more innovative festivals to grace these isles in the last decade Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
MusicSergeant @ The Doghouse, 30 Apr
Yeah, there's a faux Mancunian twang in there, but if it's as fresh as a Scottish glen, then fuck it, who cares? Read more »| 01 Apr 2008