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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MusicAlice in Chains @ Barrowlands, 12 Nov
It’s fitting that Alice in Chains’ first European tour with new material in 16 years should begin within the dusty climes of the Barrowlands. Hav... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
MusicTegan and Sara @ HMV Picture House, 15 Nov
Given the unbelievable difficulty I had in persuading someone to come see Tegan and Sara with me, I began to fear that I was missing something. However, I wa... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Music
Shield Your Eyes - Shield Em
There is something to be said for bands who put significant effort into making music that doesn’t follow the generic 4/4 verse-chorus-verse structure o... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
Music
Cosmo Jarvis - HUMASYOUHITCH/SONOFABITCH
Everyone loves to hate a gifted progeny, those savants who are way too successful, way too young. This charge could well be levied at 20 year old multi-instr... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
MusicBEAK> - BEAK>
Passive readers of certain mainstream music publications may have noticed an increasingly recurring namedrop recently: 1970s krautrock daddies Neu! are cool ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Music
Schwervon! @ Henry's Cellar Bar, 5 Dec
Nan Turner and Matt Roth began recording together as Schwervon! soon after they "met and fell in love amidst the fertile gutters of NYC". Their Low Blow alb... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009
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Art
Mircea Cantor @ The Common Guild
Cantor’s show rises to the occasion of the Common Guild. The viewer is confronted by a catalogue of interconnected fragments of an enigmatic narrative,... Read more »| 18 Nov 2009 -
Theatre
The Merry Widow
Making a successful transition from classic to contemporary requires the courage to toy with the boundaries of convention. Director Cezary Tomaszewski gives this formula a satirical twist in his avant-garde version of The Merry Widow. Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Music
Shred Yr Face III @ Stereo, 13 Nov
It’s always nice to catch a gig where each band inhabits a similar universe but ultimately brings an entirely different set of sounds and influences to... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Music
Sunn 0))) @ Stereo, 6 Dec
The presence and popularity of drone-based music has grown considerably over the last decade in an assortment of disparate genres, and these robe-cla... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Music
Night Noise Team - Menolick
Pulsing harmonic arpeggios and a propulsive beat launch Night Noise Team’s debut single; a persuasively vibrant introduction to a song that nev... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Comedy
Eddie Izzard: Stripped @ SECC
King of surrealism Eddie Izzard delights thousands in Glasgow, but the anticipation makes him retreat into safe territory. Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Music
Deerhoof @ The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 8 Dec
Over the course of ten albums and countless tours, this band still sounds as unique and singular as they did in the beginning. Their stylistic gambits contin... Read more »| 17 Nov 2009 -
Music
Japandroids @ Sneaky Pete's, 13 Nov
Technical problems hold up tonights This Is Music at a sold-out Sneaky Pete's, meaning opening band Bronto Skylift take the stage an hour behind schedule. A ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
MusicThem Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
What do you get when you cross Led Zep’s John Paul Jones with Jimmy Page worshipper and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, and Dave Grohl &nd... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009