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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MusicYeasayer: Wait for the Winter
Yeasayer have kept us waiting on their second album, but their fans' patience is about to be rewarded. Guitarist Anand Wilder gives The Skinny a progress report Read more »| 30 Sep 2009 -
MusicMudhoney: Here Comes the Fuzz
After a 20 year absence, Seattle scuzz progenitors Mudhoney finally make their return to the capital this month. Read more »| 30 Sep 2009 -
Theatre
About a Boy
Better known for his one man quip-filled specials, Martin O'Connor is bringing on the family in a Glasgay commission. Read more »| 30 Sep 2009 -
MusicEfterklang & The Danish National Chamber Orchestra - Performing Parades
When orchestras and pop (in the loosest sense) collide, the results tend to be either peculiarly misjudged (say, Metallica’s S&M) or pleasant-but-p... Read more »| 30 Sep 2009 -
Music
Electric Eel Shock - Sugoi Indeed
Cards on the table: Electric Eel Shock are a technically excellent rock and roll band... but so what? Were this a band of three dumpy, middle-aged guys from ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Clubs
Soulwaxmas @ Braehead Arena, 18 Dec
Ghent's premier export ride in on a sleigh for an extended evening of festive fun. Read more »| 29 Sep 2009
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Music
St Deluxe: Cutting the Slack
They've been hailed by Alan McGee as a "Scottish Nirvana for the twenty-first century", but don't let that put you off. Glasgow's St Deluxe insist they're a different breed altogether Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Music
In The [Big] Pink
The Big Pink have produced one of the most talked about debut albums in ages, but on the day of its release, is the pressure beginning to show? Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Music
Citizens: A Spoonful of Hardcore
Glasgow trio Citizens prove that there's much more to hardcore punk than the BPM Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Music
2004: A Franztastic year
In honour of The Skinny’s first proper chat with Mr Alex Kapranos and to get the jump on next year’s inevitable Channel 4 ‘nostalgia trip’ I Heart the Noughties, our dedicated team of historians peer through the mists of time and try to decipher what - if any - meaning 2004 A.D. has on our lives today. Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
TheatreBursting with Pride
Glasgay! is controversial, dynamic and taboo-busting and this year's theatre line-up is no exception. Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - October, 2009
Ally Brown is gonna let you finish, but Nick Mitchell wrote some of the greatest Dirty Dozen single review columns of all time! Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
ComedyScottish Comedian of the Year Final 2009
Hamilton father of three John Gavin wins the fourth grand final of the Scottish Comedian of the Year contest. Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Music
Live Music Highlights - October, 2009
Carpet-bombing Scotland in early October, Cats and Cats and Cats deploy super-inventive post-rock(ets) that explode with punk energy on impact. They aren't a... Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Books
Simon's Cat by Simon Tofield
Simon’s Cat started off life as an internet animation that developed a cult following. The short films featuring a hungry cat on Youtube gained enough ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2009