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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MusicAndrew Bird @ HMV Picture House, 23 Aug
An expert in both violin and verbosity, Andrew Bird is cut from a peculiar musical cloth. His idiosyncratic stylings make him the perfect accompaniment to Ed... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
Art
Lilah Forever
I meet up with the artist Lilah Fowler at a café in Crouch End, London, to discuss her forthcoming show at the Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh. The o... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
TheatreOnly Beggars Will Understand
The Future Past: Vanishing Point Theatre Company drags John Gay's 18th Century satire The Beggar's Opera kicking and screaming into the 22nd Century Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
MusicPeasant - On the Ground
Some albums are one night stands that blaze away momentarily before burning out, leaving a hollow aftertaste and rueful self-reflection (why did you like the... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
Music
Popolo: The Great Northern Trendkill
Come on now, admit it: since the dawn of time there has existed an unspoken elitism which decrees that any act hailing from further north than Kilsyth can't... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
ArtTrongate 103: Creating Space
Discussed for 20 years, planned for 9, Trongate 103 brings together a host of Glasgow's East End art institutions under one specially designed roof. Read more »| 01 Sep 2009
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Music
Mayer Hawthorne: Don’t Call it Retro
Mayer Hawthorne and the County have reinvented vintage soul and count Mark Ronson amongst their famous following. David McNamara catches up with Hawthorne in Manchester to find out how it all started. Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
Music
Gary War - New Raytheonport
Psychedelic music may have hit its commercial peak around the time of Sgt Pepper's, but that hasn’t stopped a succession of space cadets from setting o... Read more »| 31 Aug 2009 -
Art
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard @ CCA
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard is a grandiose pantomimic exploration of speculation: speculation and projection as they relate to both economic predictions a... Read more »| 31 Aug 2009 -
Clubs
Keep Your Eye On The Ballers: Social Club Celebrates Its 2nd Birthday
One of the most eye-and-ear catching club nights in Glasgow's club scene celebrates its second birthday this month. Read more »| 31 Aug 2009 -
Music
Mimes Of Wine - Apocalypse Sets In
It figures that these songs were written in winter. You can just imagine the claustrophobic scene; freezing cold fingers tinkling across a piano, so cold tha... Read more »| 31 Aug 2009 -
Theatre
Bane vs Odyssey
Return to the seventies with a story teller gone grindhouse, then go back to the roots of epic story-telling with Lecoq Read more »| 30 Aug 2009 -
Music
Tori Amos: Reclaiming Sin
Tori Amos' glittering career has been a personal crusade, one which shows no sign of abating Read more »| 30 Aug 2009 -
Music
Kid Harpoon – Once
Here follows a warning to aspiring singer-songwriters. If you want to hold on to any hard-fought credibility on your debut album, it’s probably not a g... Read more »| 29 Aug 2009 -
Theatre
This One's Optimistic
A marvelous couple of hours can be spent laughing at how bad the world can be. Read more »| 29 Aug 2009