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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MusicWeezer – Death To False Metal
Having nerded themselves silly over the past decade, Rivers Cuomo and co take stock of their lengthy career with a bastard collection of material that didn&r... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
MusicJC Satàn – Sick of Love
When a band appears with a name like JC Satàn I just want to like them; more so when I discover their tunes come wrapped in the kind of feedback swirl... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Film
Get Him to the Greek
Russell Brand's turn as reclusive rock star Aldous Snow does little to stretch the comedian. The character, first seen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
TheatreHandy on The Keys
Can Musical Comedy be Tragic? Read more »| 26 Oct 2010 -
Art
New Work Scotland 2010 @ Collective
New Work Scotland kicks off again, and first up we have considerably dissimilar Glasgow based artists Shelly Nadashi and Jacob Kerray. Originally from Israe... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
Music
Phil Anselmo's Hardcore Essentials
To celebrate his new band's debut album, Phil Anselmo presents his three point plan to unearthing the roots of hardcore Read more »| 25 Oct 2010
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MusicRemember Remember – RR Scorpii
With its twinkling glockenspiels and lazy trumpets there’s a tinge of the twee about new Remember Remember release RR Scorpii, the first release from f... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
Music
Dan Korn – Dustbowl EP
Opening with the playful title track - well as playful as one can expect from a supposed tribute to the doomed lives of the Joad family in John Steinbeck&rsq... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
Comedy
New Act of the Month: Matthew Winning
In between work for his PhD in the Economics of Renewable Energy, Matthew Winning is steadily making a name for himself in the Scottish comedy scene Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
Film
Frozen
Chipper college kids Joe (Shawn Ashmore), Dan (Kevin Zegers) and Parker (Emma Bell) head for the ski slopes. They grease a chair-lift dude to let them on one... Read more »| 25 Oct 2010 -
Film
The Hunter
Having just been released from prison Ali Alavi (Rafi Pitts) attempts to settle into family life by taking a job as a night watchman and spending time with h... Read more »| 23 Oct 2010 -
Music
Badly Drawn Boy @ Old Fruitmarket, 20 Oct
“Not exactly playing the hits am I?” notes Badly Drawn Boy after airing tracks from 1997’s EP1. That’s not quite accurate – in ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Music
aM – Belong To Galaxy
The array of adjectives offered to describe Japanese electronica duo aM on the press release to their debut album is enjoyable enough on its own. Anyone up f... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Music
Iain Shaw – Milk Teeth EP
Milk Teeth is an apt name for this collection as the four songs on offer sound somewhat deciduous, like a prelude for something more permanent and greater to... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Sexual Objects – Cucumber
The Sexual Objects play Freudian games on debut Cucumber. The onanistic connotations of the band/album name combination, along with tracks entitled Full Pene... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010