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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MusicT-Break 2010 Line Up Announced
T in the Park may have morphed into a monolith on the festival circuit over the past sixteen years, however the folks behind the curtain have never forgotten... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Film
First Look: Get Him to the Greek
Russell Brand returns as the demented musician and partyboy Aldous Snow in a Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin-off… and the only common denominator withi... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Music
Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle
Eugene Hutz and his band of merry men and women return with this Rick Rubin produced, Brazilian influenced collection of gypsy-punk anthems. Pala Tute sets t... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
MusicThe Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Blood and Fire
Sometimes it must be easier for a band that starts out average. Spare a thought for The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster who, from the word go, have utterly... Read more »| 19 May 2010 -
MusicA Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Nice'N' Sleazy, 15 May
Sadly, the A Sunny Day In Glasgow founding member who would be most excited about playing with his band on an actual sunny day in Glasgow has left the group,... Read more »| 18 May 2010 -
Theatre
Peter Pan
Peter Pan moves north and perhaps even grows up a little Read more »| 18 May 2010
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Theatre5:15 Sublimation and 74 North
Scottish Opera might be selling out the venues, but not the aesthetic: these two short operas are unashamedly serious Read more »| 18 May 2010 -
Music
Funki Porcini - On
Sampled-based music is, too often, a case of mere archaeology. As fascinating as layers of sound and history being laid atop one another might be, it’s... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
Music
Trummor & Orgel - Visions
The Hammond organ is a funny old beast; capable of conjuring forth ocean storms of electricity one minute, and sounding like elevator muzak the next, they ne... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
Theatre5:15 Zen Story and The Money Man
Two of the Five "New Operas Made in Scotland" use classic forms for original expressions Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
Music
Asaf Avidan & The Mojos - The Reckoning
Straight out of Jerusalem, via a record collection that dot-to-dots Seattle grunge, seventies metal and Delta blues, Asaf Avidan & The Mojos present a pe... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
Music
Mother Mother - O My Heart
O My Heart is the sophomore album from Canadian twee darlings, Mother Mother, offering some vibrant compositions that play with all the classical complexity ... Read more »| 13 May 2010 -
Music
Gil Scott-Heron @ HMV Picture House, 26 April
"I did not disappear…wish I knew how." And so poet, novelist and self-proclaimed 'Bluesologist' Gil Scott-Heron shrugs off troubled times and goads hi... Read more »| 13 May 2010 -
Film
The Lair: Season 3
A new series is a welcome chance for gleefully supernatural cheesefest The Lair to clean house and sort out the problems that plagued the previous year. At i... Read more »| 13 May 2010 -
Clubs
The Wee Chill @ The Glasshouse, Queen's Park, Glasgow, 29 May
Forget numerous bank holidays, losing an hour of sleep and increasing amounts of sunshine. For clubbers, The Wee Chill festival is the true herald of the Sco... Read more »| 12 May 2010