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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MusicSixty Watt Bayonets - Pounding Hearts, Fighting Words
Vocally similar to an English version of now defunct Glasgow outfit Bad Dancer, the Sixty Watt Bayonet singer's tunefulness is questionable at points, lack o... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
ComedyJimmy Carr: Joke Technician @ The Alhambra, Dunfermline, 20 Jun
Jimmy Carr is astonishingly unoffensive in his latest stand-up fest, Joke Technician. Well unless you're a Hollyoaks actor or Simon Cowell. Or someone who s... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Film
July Film Events: 2009
June was such a busy month that it seems the cinemas across Scotland are largely on their summer holidays. Perhaps July is the month to relax, take a break a... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
TheatreCooking With Elvis
“Who could not love The King?” replies Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall, when asked if he is a fan of the legend at the centre of his Cooking with E... Read more »| 01 Jul 2009 -
Music
November's Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal
For sure, death/doom is an unusual amalgam of two already esoteric genres. Add to that the grandiose barkings of November's Doom founder member Paul Kuhr and... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Music
Celan - Halo
This was an ambitious project from the off: Ari Benjamin Meyers of legendary Germans Einstürzende Neubauten and Chris Spencer of red-throated New York r... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009
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BooksBad Boy Drive by Robert Sellers
David Lynch’s 2001 film added much to the surreal and schizophrenic nature of Mulholland Drive, a long and winding beauty spot outside Hollywood, and h... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Music
El Dog - The Lamps of Terrahead
This is a pleasant surprise. Seemingly picking up the torch laid down during the unfortunate demise of Aerogramme, El Dog don't so much wear their hearts on ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Music
Metal Up Your Ass - July, 2009
There are questions that keep me up at night. You're reading this so I'll assume we share some interests and therefore maybe these questions bother you too. ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Music
Discovery - LP
Like a bizarre hybrid of slick American R&B and plaintive blue-eyed indie, Discovery is the joint product of Vampire Weekend keyboardist Rostam Batmangli... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Music
Acoustic Ladyland - Living With A Tiger
Persistently overshadowed by their Mercury-nominated sister band Polar Bear (indeed, you may only recognise this band from their drummer's splendid afro), Ac... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
Music
Diamond Sea - Songss
Initially, Diamond Sea seem so preoccupied with constructing a minimalist soundscape that it's difficult not to feel left out from their self-indulgent micro... Read more »| 30 Jun 2009 -
MusicFuture Cinema Presents: All Tomorrow's Parties Premiere
Donkeys, dancing girls and ice cream, an ATP film premiere and a Mogwai show all on one ticket? Ain't no mountain high enough, says the Picture House. Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
Music
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballad of the Revolution
During their creative lifespan, some bands morph from challenging radicals intent on beating their listeners into stunned submission, into fully-fledged pop ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
Music
Peter Parker - Swallow The Rockets
Pastel-approved Glasgow quartet Peter Parker, led by Miss The Occupier frontwoman Roz Davies and veteran riot grrl Jane McKeown, look promising on paper, and... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009