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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MusicWhispertown 2000 @ Captain's Rest, 16 Sep
Morgan Nagler fronts this wonderfully mixed up Californian four-piece who find comfort in wailing woefully and plucking geetars. Taking influence from Bob Dy... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
MusicMonotonix @ Sneaky Pete's, 19 Aug
If you're unconvinced by the attraction of standing directly beneath a wild-eyed, hairy, garage-metalling demoniac with sweat oozing from every pore, accumul... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
MusicCorpses - Half Elvis EP
Corpses feral mixture of Converge and Cancer Bats is a furious spectacle in the flesh and comes highly recommended. Understandably, given most young bands li... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
MusicThe Social Services - It's Nothing Personal, It's National Security
Two-thirds Glaswegian/one-third Swedish indie-poppers The Social Services have a love-hate relationship with drummer Martin Frödén’s home n... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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Lovvers @ Sneaky Pete's, 21 Aug
Having added an extra guitarist into the mix for this tour, Lovvers beef up their wiry studio sound with Hüsker Dü-sized reverb, the result being a... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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Nespresco - Occam's Razor EP
Piano-led rock has rarely flourished of late in Scotland. With their debut EP, Glasgow’s Nespresco go against the grain, doggedly and sometimes success... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009
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Film
The September Issue
The September Issue documents the preparations for the largest ever issue of Vogue, while trying to gain some insight into the woman behind it all, Anna Wint... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
MusicX-Lion Tamer @ National Portrait Gallery, 21 Aug
Nestled into the central alcove of the National Portrait Gallery, in front of a 13ft graffiti mural of Jesus, Tony Taylor and his preppy v-neck is a somewhat... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Books
The Death of Bunny Munro, by Nick Cave
Yes, that Nick Cave, musician extraordinaire. This isn’t his first foray into fiction – he scripted a well-received film, the Australian Western ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Books
Christopher Brookmyre: Creating Pandaemonium
A chat with Christopher Brookmyre about his new book, Pandaemonium, demons, quantum physics, and the nature of reality. Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
Seattle survivors make good with their first studio album in 14 years Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
The second full-length from Brooklyn's Vivian Girls is a bit like a Woody Allen film: the plot has moved on, but the main ingredients remain resolutely the s... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club – Love On An Oil Rig
Wilfully weird, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club are a band that will remain half-hidden in the darker extremities of British indie. No T4 spots, Radio ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Books
Bletherheads, The Electric Circus, 29 Aug
AL Kennedy, Tam Dean Burn and Somerset Maugham award winner Rodge Glass are invited by the organisers of DiScomBoBuLate to show what they can do in a new per... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
Enfant Bastard - Hunks Killing Arm/Accelerated Donkey Song (Leaf Style)
Cameron Watt should be designated a National Treasure. Even in a country so ludicrously teaming with musical talent, Watt's single-minded devotion to the DIY... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009